Clare's father, whose name I do not know, pops a tire on his way to a gig. But when you look deeper into it and scrutinize it, you realize that it's incredibly stupid and idiotic. Because you can just move on and not even think about it and think 'oh, that was a cool death'. Might be one of the stupidest deaths I've seen in a while when you really think about it. People trip on carpets all the fucking time. You could trip, fall and and, as was the case here, impale yourself or, in the case of a knife, bring the knife down with you. Seriously, no one in their right might would ever make the decision to put a carpet in the same room that something sharp and dangerous is in for that very fucking reason. Why in the FUCK would you put a carpet in the same room that contains a sculpture with tusks? Your interior decorating skills are absolutely horrendous and, honestly, makes me think that Gina deserved to die. Like, think about it for a fucking second. She goes back in her loft and she trips on this furry carpet, which then impales her on a sculpture of an animal with tusks or something. She drops her phone and is unable to finish the voicemail she was leaving. She goes outside, since the power went out in her loft, to call Ryan (her cousin) to tell him what the text meant. Gina, the cousin question, finds out what they mean. They visit this cousin and she needs sometime to figure out some text that she emailed a friend to figure out. Clare is friends with this guy, who has a cousin that knows ancient Chinese, since the music box has some ancient Chinese symbols on it. There's also one incredibly stupid death after she wishes that her father stops dumpster diving. Anyway, he's in the tub struggling to get out and he tries to, but he hits his head on the faucet spout of the tub and there's this 'clang' sound effect used as he does so and it's literally the most Looney Tunes thing imaginable and it was, honestly, kind of hilarious. That's not the funny part, because this shit actually happens and people have died this way. He slips in the bathtub, hits his head on it. The reason I bring this up is because her old Uncle August died in a incredibly comical fashion. Her third wish is that this rich relative that died (as a result of her previous wish) left everything to her and her father. I guess the idea is that this is meant to show you that the music box isn't fucking around, it does fulfill your every wish. This isn't really all that important, but shouldn't these wishes have escalated? Like maybe she starts with the simple shit first and then her wishes get progressively worse. Secondly, I think, she wishes for her crush to be madly in love with her. This girl's face and foot starts to rot away. I put that in quotation marks because Clare wishes that her bully (this mean girl type) would just rot, which, inevitably, starts to happen. Clare's father eventually gives her the music box and she starts to make wishes. It was difficult for me to get into that part of the film, but that's neither here nor there, of course. Perhaps not idiotic, but it's so utterly convenient that Clare's father, while dumpster diving, found this same music box that led his wife to kill herself and, ultimately, scar her daughter for life. So, right from the start, we're into idiotic territory right here. Her dad, while going dumpster diving, finds the same exact music box that Clare's mother threw away years ago. Clare finds her mother as she is hanging so, naturally, she has issues with the lack of closure due to her mother's actions. She throws away the music box and, ultimately, kills herself immediately after. First things first, I guess, Clare's mother used to own the music box.
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What a shame, however, that we got a bad movie in exchange. What would you do? Would you keep making wishes even knowing what you know about the music box in question? While it is a played out concept, again, there was still potential for this to be somewhat interesting. Because it's a movie that, in my opinion, is made so you can ask yourself exactly what you would do if you knew you had seven wishes to make that, ultimately, requires a blood price for those wishes to come into fruition. Seriously though, it's a boring and repetitive concept, to be sure, but that doesn't mean that you can't tell a relatively interesting story out of it. I grew up watching, and loving, The Fairly Oddparents, so for this movie to not follow canon with that show is disappointing. Yes, this is a concept that is played out in all forms of media. That tradition continues here with Wish Upon following up Raw. So, lately, apparently, it has become sort of a tradition that I follow up a very good (or good) movie with one that's, eh, not so good.
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