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From: bright@dataioDataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Quick review of "QuickSilver" (mild spoilers)
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 13:08:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 13:08:16 1986
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In article <1368@osu-eddie.UUCP> mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>The female lead (not the girlfriend mentioned above) gets a syndrome familiar
>to most horror-movie buffs towards the end of this movie.  The dreaded
>"backwards walking wimpy woman syndrome" (BW3 for short).  A normally street-
>wise human being who handles herself very well earlier, starts doing very dumb
>things later on that are out of character.  ("Let's see, the axe murderer is 
>behind this door, so I'll turn out all the lights and walk backward through
>the doorway while shrieking."  Makes sense to me.)  In this instance, she is
>being stalked by someone out to kill her.  She is with a group of male friends
>who are defending her.  Naturally, she runs into the dark streets alone so
>the murderer has a better chance of catching her.  You want to scream at her,
>"WAKE UP, IDIOT!"

I found myself rooting for the bad guy here, as the woman was so stupid
she deserved it (natural selection). However, I am used to seeing horror
movies where the
monster can only move at a retarded shuffle. The heroine runs away, and
inevitably trips and falls, and the monster catches up.

At the end, the woman is going into training to be a paramedic. Would you
want a paramedic working on you who becomes hysterical in difficult
situations, and is also terminally stupid?

Why didn't the car blow up when it hit the pavement? 9 out of 10 hollywood
crashes result in an incredible fiery explosion (in real life less than
1 out of 100 car crashes result in fire). In fact, I get really tired
of sequences where the car crashes, the dazed hero wakes up, struggles
out of the car, runs away, and hits the dirt just as the car disappears
in an incredible fiery explosion (yawn).

The bike tricks are the high point of the film. (Though it's obvious that
they are using special bikes, not the ones they use for delivery purposes.)