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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-16 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:30:42 -0500
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In article <vhdl63$qmar$1@dont-email.me>, ijball@mac.invalid wrote:
> On 11/17/24 12:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

>>> Trap (Max) - This film has almost as many false endings as "The Return
>>> of the King" film does!!
>>>      I agree that this film is ridiculous (and it's another film partly
>>> ruined by the "twist" last scene).
>>>      But it is variously entertaining along the way.
>>>      Josh Hartnett (it seems like ages since he's headlined a film!)
>>> stars as Cooper, an apparently good dad, with a secret! A big secret!!
>>>      Cooper takes his teen daughter to a concert - think Taylor Swift
>>> crossed with Alicia Keys.
>>>      But the entire concert has got insane security/cop presence, and it
>>> turns out that's because they are all there to catch a serial killer!
>>> Who it turns out is Cooper!!
>>>      With the entire place surrounded, will Cooper be able to figure out
>>> a way out of the concert with his daughter without getting caught?!
>> 
>> I couldn't figure out how they were planning on catching the guy anyway. 
>> The only evidence they had on their suspect was the ticket receipt 
>> indicating he was going to be at the concert. They didn't know what he 
>> looked like, they had no fingerprints or DNA-- not that they could compel 
>> them from random concert attendees anyway-- so what was the point of all 
>> this?
>> 
>> If Cooper had just walked out and then been wrangled into the line with 
>> all the other men they were questioning, how would he have been caught? 
>> He'd just answer their basic questions like all the other guys and then 
>> walk out the other side like all the other guys. At most he'd have to take 
>> into account that he'd now be on an FBI list of guys who were at the 
>> concert, which might make getting away with future murders a little more 
>> complicated for him, but that's about it.

Why didn't they check who bought the seat indicated on the ticket?
Wouldn't it be easier to get a list of attendees and narrow it down?

>>> I did like the mid-credits scene here. Heh.
>> 
>> I don't think I caught that. What happened?
>
>The killer-obsessed shirt-selling dude realized that Cooper was the 
>killer, and that he had inadvertently helped Cooper, and ends up cursing 
>himself, and then says he can never talk about this to anyone!

Why?

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