re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg

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Stuff like this in horror movies drives me nuts. I was watching one last night and the villain had one of the heroes at gunpoint. Also, the hero had his hands tied behind his back so he was completely prone. Instead of just shooting his target and being done with it, the bad guy hesitates and let the hero ramble on and on and on.

Why? Well, the heros sister had just breached the building where the bad guy was and of course she had to show up to make the big save.

You can’t save a dead person so they make the villain look like an incompetent moron by not taking an easy, clean, wide open shot at someone the villain REALLY wants to kill and who cannot defend themselves.

And that just ruins the whole thing for me.

1. For “realistic” horror movies, you don’t verify the bad guy is dead because then how could you make a sequel? This doesn’t apply when the villain is supernatural (e.g. The Ring or Chucky)
2. An Austin Powers movie mocked the whole standard setup of excessive dialogue or complicated schemes that allowed the good guy to escape.