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Police Station questions I need answered.


Does anyone know why that police station did not have any security cameras. This movie is in the 80's so I would think that the station would have at least one camera somewhere on the property. The second question is how could he kill all those cops without one of them getting at least one shot off of their guns. Definitely one of those scenarios where the audience would like to of seen how that whole thing went down.

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They could have had cameras, John Ryder was just enough of a crazy badass that he managed to kill them all even with them. And in the "making of" documentary they mention there are gunshots in Jim's dream while he "sleeps" (whether he is literally or figuratively asleep is up to interpretation) so presumably guns did go off.

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" Definitely one of those scenarios where the audience would like to of seen how that whole thing went down."

no no no no no
Whilst i can see you want to see all the shooty shooty, bang bang , cos it would be like all awesome and shit...
it would totally detract from the mood and style of the story.

I'm going to imagine the Hitcher found a big can of sleeping gas , pumped it in the station , then went in ans executed them all.
Whereas all you have to do is pause the film , go watch the police station invasion scene from T1 , then resume ...

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Couldn't agree more mark. Having all that off screen only added to the tension. Leaving it to the imagination of the audience did far more for the movie. Showing would have been a detraction. I do have to admit I sometimes like those movies that have flashback scenes at the end that show how things were accomplished. That is if it was so engaging you just had to know "how". This wasn't one of those movies.

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