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Post by pinkarray on Oct 16, 2019 13:33:34 GMT -5
I'm talking about the part where he takes the bs-usb out of the and it shuts off for a while. Flint put his head down, dejected. But why would he be sad over something that wrecked his town and created food monsters? He should be happy if he thought it actually did shut off and it was no longer causing anymore trouble. Like in the first film, he was happy killing it, so why would he be sad in the second film? I shouldn't be surprised though considering how wrong they got Flint's character in the sequel.
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Post by Alice on Oct 16, 2019 16:55:32 GMT -5
The evolved in the second part becoming a sentient AI that learned to be creative (and this was said in the commentaries of the DVD), Flint realized this almost too late when he was about to put the BS-USB on it. Without the machine, there would be no more foodimals which weren't actually evil (let's remember how Chester pretty much twisted everything and how Sam was right about them, being only hostile towards anything related to Live Corp.), and also let's remember he ended up realizing how wrong his actions were as the machine itself showed him how it creates the foodimals. In the first part the food machine was going to destroy the rest of the world with the falling food so there was an actual reason to turn it down, and it also was Flint finally facing his mistakes; while in the second movie, the footage of that cheespider trying to swim could be also an out-of-context video and how it's been shown way too many times that Chester was the one behind the entire scheme of the "evil foodimals trying to swim" and destroy what remained intact while in reality the was fairly innocent. In short: he pretty much felt guilty because a lot was his fault, if the machine didn't turn on again it'd mean the extinction of the foodimals. To add something: The second movie is not my favorite either because I agree that it feels they ruined the personalities of some characters and how it could be better (I still enjoy it even if in the Latin American dub barely no one could say the name of the machine which still surprises me to this day), but there is also a lot going on too, and as Flint is someone who pretty much lived by himself for so long and the concept of (real) friends was pretty new to him, he was always quite... gullible, even in the first movie: Shelbourne tested his ethics when Flint was told by Tim to turn off the machine. Chester basically exploded his -- I really dare to say innocent personality by abusing of his admiration, manipulating him to push his friends away and finally, get ridden of him by tossing him to the river after getting what he wanted.
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