More Friday

I guess I can't stop with Friday the 13th Part Four. I issued a massive critique of the script's curiously expansive cast of characters, and a smaller one on the way in which they half-ass the perverted coroner who is about the first to die. There are a lot of things wrong with the film of course, and there's another little thing that doesn't make much sense at all. It's not the absurdly gifted at everything character of Tommy Jarvis, though I could (and maybe will) write half a dozen posts complaining about that.

Another early moment in the film sees the party contingent heading to the lake for skinny-dipping. They are walking down the road on foot, probably because if they had driven their car over it would have prevented the encounter they have with two beautiful twin women on bicycles (and doesn't a thing like that happen all the time? One can't help but wonder if they managed to squeeze a Doublemint Gum commercial shoot in in addition to their minor responsibilities to the film).

Now, these twins are riding in the opposite direction of the partiers. The partiers inquire about the way to the lake. The twins advise them that they are headed in the right direction for the lake, and add that they themselves are headed there. This obviously runs counter to the fact that the twins were riding their bikes one way and the partiers were walking in the other. The twins actually turn their bikes around while explaining that they were going that way the whole time.

It drives me out of my mind that the dialogue and the blocking of that scene would be so at odds with each other. Like I said, the movie has a lot of problems and that is probably among the least of them, but I feel like it was such an avoidable one that it defies explanation how it happened in the first place. What is there to? It's just another one of those things where I stand alone in being bothered, so I'd better just learn to live with it.