Hey, thanks for the reply man..
"I mean, those guys were DRUGDEALERS! Why just let them go like that, no punishment, wtf??"
They didn't get away. MacCready told them they were making a big mistake, and gives Slag a "look" and tells him, "Do it." Slag pulls out his gun and walks after the drug dealers. If that is not obvious enough to you, I will spell it out. IT IS IMPLIED THAT SLAG WENT AFTER THEM AND KILLED THEM. THE DIRECTOR ASSUMED WE WERE SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE IT OUT. APPARENTLY HE WAS MISTAKEN.
Well, maybe I missed that part.. either my DVD was cut, or I wasn't paying enough attention. As I recall, when he sent Slag out with a "do it", I think he meant getting ready to encounter Rutger and his pals..
"Oh yeah, and what about the girl with the glasses? Did she die or what?"
She got on the bus with everyone to go to SF. Her glasses were destroyed before when Nick stepped on them. You understand, when she lost her glasses, she didn't cease to exist, she just looked different?
Again, maybe my DVD was cut, or I wasn't paying enough attention here.. didn't notice her at all, but I guess she must've been there.
"First of all, the cop who gets his hand chopped off.. did he just die from that fleshwound or what?"
I would call getting a hand chopped off more than a "flesh wound." Maybe he bled to death before anyone could get there. (He was crawling away, maybe he crawled too far away and they didn't find him in time.) Maybe he had a heart attack. (Being unexpectedly implicated in a killing of an innocent civilian and then getting your hand chopped off by a blind Zorro as a massacre begins - it can put a little bit of stress on the the ole ticker.) Maybe Slag snuck back after Nick left to kill him so he couldn't identify him.
lol, yeah I guess I took his "flesh wound" a little bit lightly.. probably shouldn't have compared him with the Black Knight from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" :P
"And then, in the cornfield, there were at least 3 unaccounted for hillbillies (among them the female one), who just all suddenly dissappear!"
Maybe when they heard their friends dying they ran away. Or were simply lost in the corn or were still looking for Nick somewhere else (is Nick supposed to leave the kid and track them down?) A movie doesn't have to show every detail that is not fundamental to the plot. We never saw Nick use the bathroom, it doesn't mean that he never does.
Well, this I still think is a (minor) plot-hole. The director could at least had shown them running away, or had somebody mention their disappearance at some point. Just leaving them out for the rest of the film with no explanation is a bit sloppy, I think. But this is not something that destroys the movie, just a minor annoyance.
"Later on, Nick and Frank burn up the entire drug-lab, but right before that we saw a small cage with white mice in it, didn't they bother to remove those poor animals before they torched the place?? Doesn't seem so heroic to burn animals alive like that.. "
Well in Nick's defense, those mice were working for the mob. They made their choice.
But seriously, really? You're worried about the mice? I was more worried about the people that might die in a high rise fire.
And really, what were they supposed to do, release the mice in the hotel? They'd still get killed in the fire or by exterminators. Are they supposed to release the mice in the street? They'd be dead in two days - these are lab mice without any street smarts. Or were they supposed too adopt the mice and carry them around for the rest of the film? That would be too goofy.
True. And in the same circumstances, most of us probably would've done the same. It's just dirty rats/mice.. if it were cats or monkeys, however, then they should've released them and given them to the Animal Police or whatever.. but again, no big deal.
"And finally: While Nick and Slag are fighting each other, we see Frank and MacCready fighting for the shotgun on the floor, but after Nick cuts Slag in half and he falls off the cliff, it immediately changes to the scene where everyone is in line to board the bus. How were they able to subdue MacCready and what happened to him?"
I admit that it probably ended up on the editing room floor. But maybe they didn't kill him. They weren't killing people out of revenge, but out of defense. MacCready no longer posed a threat - all his men are dead, he is presumably disarmed, and he is deep in debt and will probably get whacked by the mob. Or maybe they killed him and just left it on the editing room floor. It is story telling, not double entry bookkeeping - not every person needs to be accounted for.
Yes. This is the main reason I came to the board. That ending just appeared so chopped/butchered, and I just wanted to hear if anybody else found it weird, and/or perhaps had an un-edited version of the ending.
I hate it when movies spell everything out (especially by having characters talking to themselves), but I'm also not a big fan of movies that doesn't show what happens to the bad guy in the end.. especially revenge-movies like this one.. although Slag got his, MacCready was the real mastermind, and the audience deserved to see him get his comeuppance.
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