nilchance | MBV, the Spoiler Edition! (Reply)

- Damn, Jensen is pretty. I think the first shot of him as a teenager made me ovulate. Also, I appreciate the slasher victim running about in a see-through t-shirt. No, rly.
- I want a shot of Jensen with his face covered in blood, with that Blue Screen of Death slack/shocked stare. Is that sick? I think I've been watching SPN too long. But nngh, pretty.
- Dude, Axel pulling the truck out when he SAW Tom, and it was clearly telegraphed that he CHOSE to leave Tom in the mines because of some stupid teenaged grudge? Axel was dead to me from then on, as a character. Horror has a long history of making you love the flawed jackass who saves the day (Ash, anyone? Or Bozo from Feast, who knowingly left a woman to die?), but Axel crossed the line when a) he showed no remorse for leaving Tom behind TEN YEARS LATER, when it became clear that it led to Tom's mind jumping the tracks, and b) he showed no grief or remorse for the pregnant other woman who was slaughtered. Sorry, no, the viewer needs some positive (or at least endearing!) character trait to hang their hat on, and Tom had none. He didn't even really seem to care about his KID being caught in the middle of a murder spree. Ugh.
- That said, Kerr is very pretty when his beard grew in.
- We had probably the best audience to see this movie with: vocal enough to be funny without being distracting. It kept with the mood of the film.
- The naked woman stalking through the parking lot? HILARITY. Best small mining town ever.
- Jensen: he is immune to the ravages of time!
- In that scene where Tom is getting his shoulder stitched with the t-back shirt? Man. Oh, man. *bites fist*
- I didn't really get the hetero longing for Jaime King's character that others saw. Mostly I was distracted by the dueling pretty.
- That scene in the grocery store was a beautiful example of a horror set-piece. I loved that the pregnant chick and Jaime were both babbling and flailing and squeaking at each other, tripping over each other. I love that pregnant chick finally sobbed "stop yelling at me!" And man, Jensen must've broke land-speed records to get back around into the alley to kill the pregnant chick.
- "She settled for you." The whole theater drew in a deep breath at that line, like, OH NO HE DIDN'T JUST SAY THAT. Jensen was perfectly snide and frustrated, and you really got the sense of those 10+ years of hatred between them.
- Yes, folks, anybody who's ever been treated for psych issues? Instantly a murderer.
- I didn't quite understand why Rosa got fried in the washer. Steam cycle? Also, how could they afford a maid/nanny on their salaries? Am I overthinking this?
- Axel's one shining moment of heroism? "Fuck it, shoot us both." And I love Tom's reaction shot, like, SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, HOR.
- Jensen sold the HELL out of Tom's craziness. Despite the killing spree, watching him all wide-eyed and terrified and repeating that warning in a little kid whisper, my heart broke a little for him. Because, as

poisontaster pointed out, Tom was a) a victim and b) the only likeable character in the whole damned movie.
- When Axel was like "is Harry there?" to Tom, Tom's disgusted reaction shot reminded me a lot of Serenity. "Am I talking to Miranda?"
- Wow, that montage of Jensen pulling off the miner's hat, with the blood and the sneer? Breathtakingly pretty.
- I love that Tom Keyser Soze'd his way out. Good for you, you crazy snowflake.