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Minor scenes that in my opinion perfectly captured the terrible dsmom writing:

- the weird ass memory projection device. Why is it there in this random ass river spot so you accidentally step on it? Why does this exist in the first place and who would want this, especially since the memories seem to be subconscious/random? Flashbacks would have resolved this way better, but honestly neither scenes were actually important to the story at all. The memory device is just there for plot, yet it doesn’t even acomplish that. America‘s parents get brought up again, yet they don’t appear to be any main motivation (considering surviving is kinda ENOUGH). Stephen‘s memory also just feels so… overall unimportant. Yes, yes, the watch, which leads me to:

- the damn tunnel and watch+door scene. Besides the "did she stop? Lets stare at the door for 10 seconds til she breaks through" cliche horror attempt moment which was just so stupid and forced, opening the door to the Book of Ashanti room just... God. You didn’t give us any time to fully make the connection to the watch, Christine just yells "Stephen!" and holds up the watch (that we didn’t even know was in her posession) in the most unnatural way ever, so we can make the connection after she has already solved it. This isn’t how you write puzzles. The setup was terrible, the solution was obscure and outside of the audience’s knowledge. It didn’t feel like a payoff "Ohhh, I see!!" moment, it was a "Oh, they even had that? Wait, why would this work, what is so special about this watch that you‘d have to only use this as a key? Is it magic or couldn‘t you just press down some pressure mechanism then?" . Honestly, I‘m wondering if I misremember this or fell asleep on accident because I can’t understand why you would write this. Just make it a real magic door or even a regular door and nothing would have been different. I get the watch & Christine symbolism they tried going for, but it felt badly executed. Good in theory, not fleshed out.

- very minor, but when Christine used the DIY magic flamethrower against the spirits. I thought that was such a cool idea and could show her wits, but nope, she had to throw in the very obvious 'written by a screenwriter' line of "go back to hell!" or whatever. Just took me really out of the cool moment. I can forgive a lot of cheesy lines, but my god, some screenwriters and especially Waldron need to go observe some humans. You can write cool scenes without needing to verbally remind the audience this is cool. You have Raimi as a director. It‘s gonna look cool, don’t worry.