Should have ended after the Chicago song

That is true, Guy is still around, (and I do like the scene where we find out what actually did happen to him), still there's not a big showdown with him as is, it all happens off screen.

I do actually always turn the movie off after the Chicago song, there's a nice black screen for a couple of seconds, it's perfect for it. And it feels a lot like a finale since everyone is singing. Frankly the Guy thing doesn't bother me all that much, the only thing that makes turning it off there problematic is Little John. The last you see of him, he's getting ready to work with Marian (a plot line that has never made sense to me, since the exact next scene he shows up in, he does a complete turn around and no one ever seems mad at him for it, it feels far to fake a plot line for me, just being set up to bring about the ending, anyways). But it's still very vague, and you never 100 percent *hear* him say he's going to work with her. So, turning it off at the Chicago song, is still my preferred way of watching it.

At that time, no one could ignore the code, movies did not get released at all without approval, not major ones in big houses. Bad guys just could NOT win, even on t.v. Consider all the twisting Alfred Hitchcock had to do with his t.v. show even to explaining after the criminal succeeds on film, to explain that later they got caught out.

Oh yes! We were in grade school and it was kind of an adult movie for us. And to see bad guys that were cool! Plus we lived in Chicago. This movie was about our hometown. To add to it we went with the kid across the street, he left early and mom used that as evidence we were fooling around somewhere. We were banned from going to the movies for a long time after that. R7 was Worth it!

My 'garbage' opinion happens to be wikipedias opinion as well.... and I think you only hate me because I am right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code


The production code between 1930-1968 sought not only to determine what could be portrayed on screen but also to promote traditional values.[32] All criminal action had to be punished, and neither the crime nor the criminal could elicit sympathy from the audience,[8] or the audience must at least be aware that such behavior is wrong, usually through "compensating moral value".[28][33] Authority figures had to be treated with respect, and the clergy could not be portrayed as comic characters or villains. Under some circumstances, politicians, police officers, and judges could be villains, as long as it was clear that those individuals portrayed as villains were the exceptions to the rule.[34]