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The Ruins — One Map, One Stranger, Zero Survival Instincts · Two Cents: We See Scary Movies

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Welcome back to Two Cents. We see scary movies where bad
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decisions are analyzed, questioned and usually made
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worse the longer we talk about them.
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I'm Talon, the one who would be like, come on, it'll be fun.
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It's just a quick hike and then gotten us both killed.
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And I'm here with Christopher, who would have looked at that,
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Jungle said. Absolutely not ordered.
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Two shots of Jameson have been the only one to make it home
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alive. And today we're talking about
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The Ruins, a movie that really takes the idea of let's go
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exploring something cool, because apparently all it takes
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is 1 map, 1 random guy, and 0 survival instincts.
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Christopher is leading this one, so I'm just here to question
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every decision made both in the movie and possibly in this
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episode. So let's get into it.
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I am at a guest location spot at my father's house.
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I'm dog sitting for the weekend, but I've got my new computer
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setup and I'm ready to rock'n'roll.
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So the movie opens with a brief prologue, A woman alone in the
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dark screaming, and something just drags her away.
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Then the movie immediately cuts to four Americans having the
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time of their lives in Pool and Cancun, which is maybe the most
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Whiplash introduction transition in horror history.
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Right? You're having fun, stop.
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OK, so our four main idiots are Jeff and his girlfriend Amy, and
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Eric and his girlfriend Stacy. I think I liked Stacy less than
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the two personally, but that's just my opinion, right?
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They're exactly who you think there are.
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Jeff is a responsible pre Med guy who thinks he can handle
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anything. Amy's trying to have a good
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time, Eric's kind of just there and Stacy is going to have a
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very, very bad weekend. She is.
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So they're hanging by the pool when a German tourist, total
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stranger, Mattheus, I think, is what he said it is.
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Yeah. Comes over because Amy dropped
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her earring and he found it at the bottom of a pool.
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I thought he was going to come over and, like, start hitting on
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her when he was, like, eavesdropping that hard.
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But that's not how it went. That's what I thought too.
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So she thanks him, they invite him for a drink, and within 45
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seconds of knowing this man, they've agreed to go with him
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and his friends, Dimitri into the jungle to find an ancient
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ruin where his brother Heinrich was last seen.
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So pretty quick friendship building right there.
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But yeah, they were totally down to just be like, Oh yeah,
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stranger, you know, unmarked location, 100%.
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That'd be a great way to end the vacation.
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Right. I mean, it'd be a cool thing to
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do, but typically I think you would do that with a guide or
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someone that you know has some sort of credentials, not just
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some. Random stranger, Yeah.
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He's not even from there. Stranger, you don't know either,
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let's go fuck. And I'd be pushing it to be
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like, let's go to like a bar. We both don't really know, let
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alone let's go in the middle of the fucking jungle.
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We're not. And we have to catch the taxi
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out there, but we'll get so either way.
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Now Heinrich went missing as the whole RE and Mateus is there.
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It's unrevealed At that point, his brother went to this place
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and disappeared. And these people heard that and
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went, sounds fun, we'll come. That's disappeared too.
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Yeah, fuck it, let's go. Great time.
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So the next morning they hire a truck driver to take him to the
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edge of the jungle, because great sign #1 nobody showed up
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to give him a ride. They find Heinrich's truck
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abandoned on a dirt Rd. which is another great sign.
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Mateus looks confused, which is a great sign #3 and then they
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just keep walking into the jungle after all that like, no
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red flags here, let's just great.
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They find the rear ends great. And I'll give the movie this.
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The ruins look legit pretty cool.
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It's a big ancient pyramid just sitting in a clearing,
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completely covered in this dense green vine growth, like every
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single inch of it. And for about 35 seconds,
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everyone's in awe, doing the whole wow, we're the first
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people really appreciating this cool, beautiful thing.
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Then the villagers show up, armed bows and arrows, knives,
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guns, and they're not happy, right?
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They're shouting at the group. None of them speak English or
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Spanish because they were in South.
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They were in like Mexico, right? That's what I was assuming they
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could have been. They didn't.
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Really say, I don't think, but wherever the Mayan temples are,
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I guess, which would be somewhere in Mexico I think.
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But for some reason they did not speak Spanish and they don't
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speak English. I guess they have their own
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language within their village they don't really explain.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't Myanese. They could be descendants of
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Mayans, I don't know. The Lions all wiped out.
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Yeah, 'cause they, they, their calendar ended, so they're done
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in. 2012 they were off the earth.
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They're gone now, which was another thing while I was
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watching this movie 'cause I assumed it was in Mexico now,
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like we're going to go and deep in the jungle outside of the
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resort. That's OK, Totally good on that,
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actually. So anyway, they, the villagers
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show up. They're pissed.
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They don't speak English or Spanish.
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The group's trying to explain through, like, panic gestures.
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They just want to look around. Dimitri, this fucking guy.
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He walks towards the villagers to hand over Amy's cameras like
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a peace offering. They think, he thinks that's
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what they're pissed about. And they shoot him.
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Yeah. They want a camera.
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They're out there in the middle of the jungle.
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We really, really want a camera. I figured like they didn't want
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it 'cause they didn't want their picture taken.
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They all of them are ugly. They don't need to be on
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Instagram or whatever. Whatever she's going to do with
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it. Even though it was this was
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clearly a while ago. She had one of the click like
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and they had to twist it. This is a older one, but Myspace
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I don't know, but and dudes even like hey, Amy quit, but she's
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like. Yeah.
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Click, click. Other than like, dude.
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So they shoot him. Yeah, they shoot him with an
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arrow and then the like the ringleader guy or whatever
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shoots him right in the forehead falls out.
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With that, the group bolts up the steps of the ruins.
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Kind of thought I don't know if that would be my move.
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I guess you have the high ground, but also like where are
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you going to go? Right.
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Well, that's when I was first watching it because it's been
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I've seen this movie before and it was a long, long time ago.
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So I don't remember the details. So when I'm watching and I'm
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like, why are you running up? Like those people can't follow
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you up there. And then once you're up there,
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what then? They're you're trapped.
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If these people follow you up, you're not getting away.
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It's like, what are you doing? But yeah, but then they didn't
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follow them. So I was like, OK, they're not
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following them. I guess this is a good idea.
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Maybe. Maybe some kind of instinct,
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because I'm thinking like they they have the bows and arrows
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and guns and as you're taking your time hiking your ass up
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this pyramid, they're just Pew. Pew.
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Pew, right. Seems like it's easier because
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you're a little slower, but I don't know.
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Yeah, and your back's to them. So it's like, you don't know,
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like they could easily shoot you.
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I do understand that if the villagers had just because I
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don't understand why the villagers didn't just shoot them
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and kill them right then and there, just be done with it.
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But then of course, that would end the movie.
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There'd be nothing else. But that would have been that
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would have made more sense. Yeah.
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I mean, I figured, yeah, because they clearly don't understand
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each other and there's we're not getting anywhere with this bang,
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bang, bang. Yeah.
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And then they go about their dad.
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They're not leaving anyway. So they just, they do, they
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decide to run up the ruins. And here's the key thing they
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figure out real quick, the villagers aren't following them,
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like you said, right? They set up a perimeter around
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the base of the ruins and they just stay there, which means the
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group's not being chased, Find out they're being quarantined.
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It's a very different problem they're dealing with.
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So they get to top of ruins, they find an abandoned campsite,
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tents, equipment, food, all that kind of stuff.
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Signs of people who were here and are now not here is
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basically where they got that. And from somewhere deep in the
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shaft in the center of the ruins, they can hear a cell
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phone ringing, which was a whole thing previously about how they
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won't get cell phone service. And of course now they need it.
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Right. Yeah.
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So Matthias at this point is fully running on hope that his
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brother is alive and down there, volunteers to go down there on a
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rope. As he's doing so, the rope
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snaps. Matthias falls to the bottom.
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Very poor judgement call on his end.
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If I can say that thing was janky and old, didn't check the
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road, just hops on and just I'd be like it's just not my, not my
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idea. But no, that's what happens.
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Well, you wouldn't be there anyway.
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Well, that's true. Yeah, I don't and I'm gonna
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should be completed cause every step of the so far I'd be like,
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guys, do you know, do we really? No, So he does.
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Falls all the way to the bottom of the temple, breaks his back.
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He's paralyzed from the waist down, and now he's at the bottom
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of a big hole. Awesome.
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So they have to go get him. Amy and Stacy go down, go to get
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him, make a makeshift backboard. They haul him up.
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Jeff examines him and he confirms.
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Yeah, it's it's bad. It's not good.
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Jeff and Amy try to go down and reason with the villagers again.
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Another bad fucking move. Another thing I would have said,
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don't do that, right? Yeah 'cause once wasn't good
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enough so let's try again even though we don't speak any of the
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same language and they are clearly still mad, But either
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way. So in the process, pure
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frustration. Amy grabs a clump of the vines
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of the ruins and chucks it at the villagers.
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She hits a little kid and the villagers, without hesitation,
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they shoot the kid and I was like, way to go Amy, you fucking
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bitch, you're so weird. He.
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Just killed his poor little kid. Oh, my gosh.
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And I can't think I've. I've never gotten so mad to the
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point where I've thrown anything at someone.
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I don't think I'd loved it. Especially a little bushel of
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vines. That's what's gonna let me feel
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better. To let out my anger is to throw
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my this little Bush at them. They Yeah, right.
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So this kid they shot, it's it's one of their own kids.
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They do it to stop the vine from spreading.
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And that's that moment everyone goes back up on the ruins and
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they're like, well, this is it, this is what it is.
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They'll kill their own child before they let any of those
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plants leave the hill. These people know something the
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group doesn't, and what they know is get away from the
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fucking plants, right? But too late.
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They've already touched them, climbed on them, done
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everything, and now nobody's letting them leave.
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So Amy and Stacey go back down the shaft again.
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Second time they want to find the phone.
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They hear it ringing still. They hope it's still working.
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What they find down there. They go in this little access
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tunnel and there's another room full of binds and there's a body
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of a young woman, Heinrich's colleague, I reckon.
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Yeah, it's probably the woman from the beginning.
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Yeah, and dude, that I will say one part of this movie that was
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a sketchy, scary looking dead body.
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Yeah, they did a good job on that, 'cause I was, I was like,
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don't let that thing move. That thing is yucky.
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But sure enough, the dead bodies holding the phone and I would
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have been like, bro, you, you grab it, I don't want that.
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But the phone's not ringing. Once they pick it up, they
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realize the vines are mimicking the sound of a phone ringing to
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get people to come down there and trap them.
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Kind of like AI thought of like a Venus fly trap, right?
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I guess they they don't ring but.
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Yeah, yeah, they have these flowers on the vines and the
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flowers are what mimic, and they mimic sounds and they mimic
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voices. They mimic everything.
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So they were basically mimicking the sound of a cell phone to get
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them to come down there and it. Worked.
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Yeah, 'cause the vines are super smart and know Yeah.
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What? What the people are after.
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These are smart fucking plants. Y'all don't, Yeah.
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Don't bring one home. Don't do that now.
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If he goes, touch one of the flowers and the vine immediately
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lunges at both of them and they barely get out.
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So now they know what they're dealing with to an extent.
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Carnivorous vines that can mimic sounds that have already eaten
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at least one person, and they're slowly making their way into the
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open wound of one of their group members.
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Then this tripped me up. When they wake up the next
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morning, the vines have eaten their ways through Mattheus his
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legs, because they were concerned about him getting
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infection from the fall. Sure enough, they unload the
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blade. The vines are covering his legs,
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just eating him down to the bone right.
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There's nothing left below the knee.
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Jeff the not doctor. But doctor decides the only way
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to prevent the infection from spreading is to amputate.
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And he does, just right there at the top.
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Gnarly scene. It's got a hunting knife, a cast
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iron span to cauterize it, and a rock to break the bones.
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He says Matthias can't feel anything below the waist because
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he has a broken back. And he tells him to do it.
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And the girls go into tent, like, cover their ear.
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He's he's he's like, y'all should probably shouldn't watch
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this. You know, it's gonna be gross.
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But he does the whole thing afterwards, the legs are laying
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to the side and the vines just fucking slither up and pull them
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back in. Which I've wondered the whole
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time where the mouth is, but yeah, I reckon that's just
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undisclosed for the movie. The vines somehow eat them.
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Now I it's been about a month since I've watched this movie
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and when he goes and cauterizes, well, when he cuts out the legs
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because the guy's back is broken, he's paralyzed.
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But he's also does doesn't he kind of scream when this is all
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going on? He.
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Can. Oh, he's freaking out.
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Yeah. He's losing his mind.
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Yeah, so I'm like, wait, so he he can feel it or what?
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Like I felt like he could feel it or he was either that or he
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was just, he knew what was happening and it made him
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scream. I don't know, but he was
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definitely screaming. The Jeff dude, he, he's like,
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that's his old Jeff. He's like, he won't be able to
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feel it anyway. And then he's like, but bite
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down on this belt just in case, yeah.
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Right. And he's.
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Definitely fucking feel it. And then afterwards he's like,
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it's just 'cause he saw it. I was like, I don't think like
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I. Mean you don't technically know
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that his back is broken. I mean, his legs could just be
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broken, his hips could be broken and then he just can't really
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move them, but doesn't necessarily mean he's paralyzed.
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That's why he's not a doctor, he's only in which they point
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out to him a couple times. I feel bad for the dude.
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So he does seem like the one that has it together the most
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and they're like, you're just a fucking student, what do you
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know? Right.
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Yeah, but he's doing the best he can in the situation that he's
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in. I get that much.
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But I'm pretty sure Matthias felt it.
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I'm pretty sure as well. I think I'd have to agree with
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that. So yeah, the, the plants, they,
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they drag away the legs just sitting there like they ordered
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delivery and it finally arrived, right.
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So the plants are, the plants are patient.
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They're like, they're gonna get their meal, it looks like.
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They know they're gonna get what they want at some point in time.
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So here's where things go from survival horror horror to full
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psychological collapse kind of deal, right?
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Eric and Amy are both sitting outside one night, talking.
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Amy's upset. She leans her head on his
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shoulder, doing like a comforting thing.
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Stacy sees the earth, she hears something from the inside of the
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tent, then comes out and confronts them, decides that she
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heard him having sex right in the middle of all this killer
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plants surrounded by armed villagers, their friend with no
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legs and her brain lands on these two are definitely fucking
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up there like all. This shit's going on.
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We need to fuck right now. And I, I thought the same shit
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and I'm like lady, get the fuck over yourself.
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No one. First of all, y'all look gross.
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Y'all look bad and like stinky. Let alone like the romantic
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scenery of yeah, the amputee, right?
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Fucking yeah, right. This is so hot I'll.
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Be like get back in. But of course it was.
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It was also the plants. The plants were mimicking the
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sounds as she thought, Yeah, so it made her think, Oh my God,
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they're out there fucking. Which is interesting because I
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the movie I didn't see the plants mimic anything they
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didn't hear. Except for that part, I reckon.
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Right? Again, it's been a month, but I
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think they were mimicking what they were saying and they but
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they were like taking it out of context.
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Like these are really smart plants.
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They were taking out a context. They were adding a little oh La
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La to. It right, right.
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And they made it sound like they were having sex or, or like they
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had had sex, and now they're talking about how they had had
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sex. It's basically what it was like,
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'cause they when she went out of the tent, they were just sitting
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there clothed, like they, they weren't on top of each other.
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They were just next to each other.
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Yeah. So it just made it seem that
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way. But to that point, yeah, there's
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definitely like the psychological break there and
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like just lashing out angry well.
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Stacy's definitely losing her shit.
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Which we'll find out that part later, but yeah, she has.
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She has good reason to. I'm not saying she doesn't.
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She's. Right.
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Yeah. She's in a bad spot so the four
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of them get into a full blown screaming match and while
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they're distracted the vines come in and suffocate Mateus.
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Which was also like if they weren't dealing with all this
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they could have like heard Mateus.
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That poor dude added the worst out of anybody.
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Right, yeah, I don't know why they suffocate him to just take
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him, but. I reckon I don't know.
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I don't know if they eat alive people.
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Oh, maybe. Maybe they gotta be dead before
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they decompose them, I don't know.
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I suppose. But just like that, he's gone.
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Soon as Jeff comes over and, like, tries to take out the
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yeah, he's, he's done. And by the time, yeah, by the
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time they all noticed it was, it was too late anyway.
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The plants were literally, like, instigating, waiting for them to
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fight. And they waited till the group
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looked away. And then they made their move.
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The most tactical house plants in cinema history.
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Yeah, so they go to bed. The next morning, things are
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worse for Stacy. Eric brings Jeff and Amy over
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and Stacy shows them the vines are growing under her skin from
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a cut she got in her knee, like, and the vines are moving around
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and like Slytherin, Jeff sees him.
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He tries to cut one out of her leg and then get one out of her,
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like, midsection in her back. Stacy's talking 'cause she's
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nutty, but she's like, I can feel him in my head, right.
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I was the worst part of the movie to me, 'cause that's like,
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I couldn't imagine that part. That part's yeah, 'cause they
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and they did good effects for the movie.
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It it it looked pretty good as far as I'm concerned for like a.
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I wouldn't figure the movie had a super big budget, but it did
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look pretty good on screen. Yeah.
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Then they all look at her forehead and they see the vine
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just moving under her skin slowly and they all like she
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she's like y'all saw it didn't you?
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And they're like, I didn't see shit.
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Oh. No.
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But they're like, you look great.
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I thought you were just stressed.
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No, I did. I did like how all of them were
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like, no, she's like, we're doing this.
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Like. Poor girl.
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Everybody just kind of stands there staring because there's
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genuinely nothing to do about it, I mean.
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Right. Yeah, they've they've already.
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Like. Yeah, right.
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Like, no, I feel like they were all like kind of their sleep
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schedule is probably off 'cause they were probably like up
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during the day and asleep or they were asleep during day, up
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during night, like it was all messed up.
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So Stacey wakes up and no one everyone else asleep.
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She goes and finds that knife they used and she starts cutting
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herself all up all over the place trying to get those vines
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out. It was, and again, like it was
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very good effects, I think because it looked pretty gnarly,
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right? Jeff?
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Jeff finds her. He tries to help, but she's
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already like, she's gone. She lashes often.
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Yeah. She cuts his hand wide open my
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mind like up, Jeff, your next sucks to suck.
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So then Eric comes out, the boyfriend.
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He's he thinks he's going to have better luck, I reckon.
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She just stabs him right in the chest with the knife.
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And I was like, oh, you didn't learn from fucking other dude
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that she's not good right now, everybody.
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Just stay away, Yeah, Throw down the shaft like she's done.
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Yeah, don't down there. So he's dead.
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Kills him right on the spot. The vine drags Eric away
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immediately, which I I do think they wait for him to be dead or
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something. They must now that you bring
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that up. That's true, 'cause he was dead.
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So yeah. Dead, dead.
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And I felt like I was trying to think about that scene because
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they kind of tried to stop the vines from dragging him, but
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then they were like, I'll just take the knife because we're
22:49
probably going to need. That then I just give up.
22:54
Well, you, you haven't. I mean, they can't save him now
22:56
anyway. He's dead right?
22:58
So at this point, it's just Jeff and Amy left.
23:01
Well, Stacy's still there because Stacy just killed Eric
23:05
and Eric gets dragged away. And but Stacy's like freaking
23:08
out, 'cause she just realized, 'cause she realized she killed
23:10
Eric, so she's freaking out, Yeah.
23:12
So she starts begging. She starts begging him to kill
23:14
her. She's like just.
23:16
Kill me. Yeah.
23:16
She's like Amy, kill me. Kill Amy.
23:17
Kill me. Yeah.
23:18
Yeah, so she's having her meltdown.
23:21
It flashes down to like the people down at the bottom of the
23:24
temple and like, they hear her free and all of a sudden it's
23:27
silent, so it's assumed. Yeah, they're probably keeping a
23:30
tally down there. They're like, OK, that's one.
23:34
All right, that's 20. The third one's about to go.
23:36
We're almost we're almost done here.
23:38
So I reckon I, I, I actually wonder which one killed her.
23:42
It doesn't doesn't have any kind of reveal on that, did it?
23:46
Yeah, it does. Yeah.
23:47
Yeah. She's begging Amy to kill her
23:49
and Amy's like, I can't, I can't, I can't.
23:51
So Jeff just goes over and does it.
23:52
He's like or I'll do it. Is that it?
23:55
And kills her, yeah. I didn't see that.
23:57
I don't. Maybe I wasn't paying attention
23:59
at that part. I felt like it just yeah, well,
24:02
I missed that part. It was pretty quick, like he
24:04
just was like, OK, she's gone. It's just the two of us now.
24:08
I've got a plan. Right.
24:10
Yep. So he comes up with an escape
24:11
plan. Not that bad of an escape plan.
24:14
I will say he smears blood all over Amy, so she looks like a
24:18
corpse kind of done. And he carries her down to the
24:22
bottom of the ruins and lays her on the ground.
24:24
And then he starts mouthing off the locals just like acting.
24:27
Well, I mean, I'm sure he wasn't.
24:29
I'm sure he was actually angry. But he's mouthing off to him,
24:32
walking the perimeter kind of like left her body there and
24:35
taunting him, trying to draw the attention away from the corpse,
24:40
Amy. And then of course, you know, on
24:43
his ramble and anger, he yells at him, you know, that's Amy or
24:48
however he said it. And that was the cue for her to
24:50
get up and book it. So she starts taking off to the
24:55
Jeep. They found the brothers Jeep
24:56
earlier, right? Pops in, Jeep starts, she gets
25:01
in, she drives away. She was hauling ass in that Jeep
25:04
too. I was just waiting for her to
25:05
hit a pothole and just complete. Yeah, I know you're out the
25:10
middle of the jungle on this makeshift Rd.
25:12
It it didn't even seem bumpy. No, she flying right and she
25:17
made it. The villagers do end up shooting
25:19
Jeff like he. Yeah, I mean, it was a decent
25:23
escape plan, but it was only escape plan.
25:24
For one, I'm pretty sure he knew that he was sacrificed himself
25:27
for her. Well, because his hand was cut,
25:29
so the vine is already like in there and starting to grow and
25:32
everything. So he's like.
25:33
And he probably was. Probably rather die. 100% then
25:37
have the fucking greenhouse in my belly, dude.
25:42
Yeah, right. So, yeah.
25:45
And I think we get a little a little bit of a look because the
25:48
the head minded or whatever, he gives him a mercy killing just
25:52
right in the head, right. I don't think they wanted to
25:55
kill him. I think they're just like, do
25:56
not bring that over here. Right.
25:59
Yeah. I mean, if they had spoken the
26:00
same language at the beginning, they probably could have been
26:03
like, OK, you 3 or 4, you guys can leave, but you because by
26:08
that because when they first got there, Amy was all up in the
26:10
vines. So Amy was a goner from the get
26:12
go. They would have been like you
26:14
have to stay, you can't go anywhere and then the rest of
26:18
you can leave because none of you have touched the vines yet.
26:20
If they could have spoken, they probably could have done that.
26:23
But since there was no communication, it was let's run
26:27
up this big temple and they are like, OK, you guys go up there
26:31
and die. And that was that in the DVD
26:35
cut. And I wanna make sure people
26:37
know this because the theoretical ending is one thing.
26:42
As Amy's driving away, the camera holds onto her face.
26:46
Oh, and you can see the vines moving under her skin, around
26:49
her eye. She escapes the ruins, but the
26:52
plants are with. That's a way better ending.
26:56
I don't know why they didn't do that ending in the theater.
26:58
The the theatrical ending was just she left and then but the
27:02
DVD ending is she's, as she's driving away, you can see it
27:05
squiggle under her eye. And I was like, that's such a so
27:08
much better. And it also, of course, gives
27:10
you the option for a second movie if you want one because
27:14
then now these, yeah, Part 2. So now you know, a sequel where
27:18
she's out in, I don't know, Manhattan and everybody's got
27:20
vines all over the, you know, I'm just or whatever.
27:25
And they're thinking about Jameson doing all the yard work
27:28
in the back. Part 2 of the ruins, the
27:31
backyard with Jameson and Christopher.
27:34
And I'll be like I told you, we still need to mess with it.
27:40
OK, so that's it. That's basically of that.
27:43
So my thoughts on the movie, I liked it.
27:46
It wasn't, you know, it was your typical, they're movies like
27:50
that. They're kind of formulaic in
27:52
their way of being. They they kind of follow a
27:54
certain formula and you pretty much know where it's going.
27:57
I will say the ending was the ending was surprising because if
28:01
you watch the regular ending, it didn't have, she just left and
28:04
everything was fine, which typically doesn't happen for
28:07
horror movies. There's always some kind of
28:09
thing remainder that shows up, you know, so that was shocking
28:15
in the theatrical release of this movie and it was good.
28:17
I mean, it was, you know, I watched it was entertaining.
28:19
It was there were some things that were like like meeting a
28:22
stranger you don't know just because he found you the back of
28:25
your earring at the bottom of the pool.
28:26
Good eye dude. But am I going to go out
28:30
traipsing through the jungle with some stranger?
28:32
And especially when you're in a foreign country where you don't
28:36
really know anybody or anything and you're not familiar with any
28:40
of the topography or anything that's going on.
28:44
And who knows, a stranger, this guy could be, you know, planning
28:49
on taking you and sex trafficking you out somewhere.
28:53
You're doing some sort of human trafficking.
28:54
You don't know. Yeah.
28:56
Let's just go off tracing in the jungle, OK?
28:59
Well, like you said, yeah, this movie would never would have
29:02
started 15 minutes in this movie.
29:03
I was there. All right, movie's done.
29:08
Yeah. We don't know this guy.
29:10
We don't need. We need to go in the woods with
29:12
him. What are you talking about?
29:14
Right. We better off just doing it by
29:16
ourselves. But you know, but it was
29:18
entertaining. They did have good effects, good
29:21
special effects. The acting was good.
29:24
There was nothing exceptional about it.
29:26
And for some reason, I thought because they reminded me of a
29:31
couple other other movies, because they kind of had that
29:34
similar feeling to them. And that's what I, when I went
29:36
to watch this, I was like, I thought this is what I was
29:38
watching, but it wasn't. There's one I think with Josh de
29:41
Hamel or how do you say his name?
29:43
And I feel like they, they're out in the middle of Brazil or
29:46
something and they go swimming and they're at a resort maybe, I
29:51
don't know, Or they find an old abandoned resort.
29:53
I thought it was going to be like that movie, but it, it
29:56
wasn't that movie. But it has the same feeling that
29:59
there's a lot of movies out there that have the same kind of
30:01
feeling to them. But I don't know.
30:03
It was OK. I'd, you know, I'd, if it were,
30:05
you know, on TV as I switch to channels, I'd probably leave it
30:08
on. It wouldn't be a big deal.
30:10
I'd probably give it. I'd give it five stars or five
30:14
cents. Excuse me, I don't even know.
30:17
I don't even know. My own, yeah.
30:22
So $0.05 for me on this one. I got you.
30:24
What was my last for like 4 cents or something Four and a
30:27
half cents yeah, this one's definitely better.
30:31
I liked it because it it the idea of the vines like in like
30:35
that that got to me and that was like, that's like a so it
30:39
definitely was a it was different than like just a jump
30:42
scare of something that kills you or whatever thing.
30:45
Right, Yeah. And like, yeah, I think, I think
30:47
the visuals. Are good.
30:49
Yeah, like it is more mind stuff.
30:52
Right. I'm gonna go ahead.
30:54
I'm give it cause I've seen this one multiple Times Now.
30:58
I'm gonna give it a 66. I like this one.
31:01
That is a big one. Alright, anything else you'd
31:03
like to add? Nope, I think I covered
31:06
everything that I had. Pretty fun time.
31:08
I enjoyed it. And that is The Ruins, a nice
31:12
relaxing reminder that sometimes the real danger isn't the
31:15
jungle, it's agreeing to go into it with people you just met 5
31:19
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31:36
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