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Clifford Scott deserved it

posted 15 years ago by mercury4
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I'm glad the Brute Man got Clifford Scott. Clifford was to blame for what happened to Hal. Not only did he give Hal the wrong answers and make him stay after class. But then he went and rubbed it in even more by going to the window with Virginia. Scott got Hal so pissed off that it made him smash the beaker on the floor and have the accident. Scott is to blame for Hal turning into the Brute Man. Scott sees him and what he's become when Hal is robbing him. Hal is doing it so he can get that operation for the blind girl. It looks like Scott is going to give him the money, but the jerk just pulls out a gun and shoots him. I'm glad the Brute Man got him. I'm also very glad the Brute Man lived in the end of the movie.

[–] Dextrousleftie 14 years ago

Amen. Cliff deserved not only to die, I wish that he'd died more horribly. Brute should have pulled him apart like a cooked chicken.

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[–] xnet95 13 years ago

Mercury 4,
You sicken me. You are everything that's wrong with today's world - always blaming somebody else instead of accepting responsibility for your own actions.
Hal is the one who CHOSE to smash the beaker on the floor. Scott wasn't there with a gun to Hal's head. The whole point of this movie is about accepting responsibility for your own actions, which you obviously missed. And let's not forget that Virginia was Scott's girlfriend, and it was Hal that was playing games and trying to take her away from Scott.

[–] gnome-5 13 years ago

Exactly, Xnet95 -- there are some strange notions of blame and responsibility around here.

[–] mercury4 11 years ago

Clifford Scott was to blame and I'm glad The Creeper killed him. Scott purposely gave him the wrong answers when Hal had the right ones to keep him after class, he tried to really rub it in after that too. This wasn't Hal trying to steal somebody's girl. Scott said that they were "both in love with Virginia." It was uncalled for when Scott went up to the window to rub it in that he had Virginia and not him. He felt no remorse for what happened to Hal. Scott was an *beep* that got what he deserved. Instead of telling him he was really sorry for what happened to him or even offering him help, he shot him. But Hal killed him and I'm glad. Anyone that watched the movie and can't feel sympathy for Hal and can't see Scott was a villain, wasn't watching the same movie. The Frankenstein Monster was sympathetic. Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man was sympathetic. Why not Hal Moffat/The Creeper?

[–] phillipsdan83 10 years ago

Hal Moffat/The Creeper also kills his fair share of UNDESERVING victims. The chemistry professor, killed off screen, was just doing his job.

[–] flimflamkid 9 years ago

Hal did not need to copy those answers. If he had studied like he was supposed to he would not have had to cheat. What he got himself into was his own fault. A real man would have accepted the consequences and not been so careless. And like the previous poster wrote, Hal went about killing a LOT o people, innocent people who never did anything to harm anyone. He was responsible for that. No one else.

"He touched me! He touched me with his serial killer hands!"