There wouldnt be no problem if he killed those boys pointing at him
It looked like a gun, so it would be justified, this is one of my most favorite films, but after many years i started thinking about this.
shareHe was driving while drunk, his tire blew out, he fired half of a magazine into them. On paper this doesn't look like he'd get away with anything.
shareI was a little confused about this bit - were the teens killed by the other corrupt cops when they arrived on the scene?
I can't see how Bababitch could have put the bullets into them during the chase (unless he got out after the crash and shot them point blank.
Real life bullets go through cars easily
shareYeah but the title of this thread is "There wouldn't be no problem if he killed those boys pointing at him", indicating he (Babitch) didn't kill them.
Or is it the double negative in the sentence which is confusing me?!
He meant IN REAL LIFE there wouldn't be no problem if he killed those boys. So yes it's the double negative. But he's also wrong because Superboy was drinking and driving, and his tire popped, a lot of investigators would look at him to be responsible because of his impaired state when shooting 2 unarmed black teens who had a steering wheel lock, that he arguably could have discerned wasn't an actual gun if he weren't drunk.
shareLOL! Thanks for clarifying that, I think my initial thought after watching this was about this scene so it was playing on my mind. If you see during the chase he fires into the side of the car and it looks like nothing hits. But the aftermath shows the teens with gunshot wounds in their chest.
Nevertheless, I agree with you about the original post, very very unlikely that in real life he would've got away with this.
I really enjoy the scene for how realistic it is, in real life bullets hit the vehicle like that and they go through, and it's very anticlimatic in how sudden it all is. I loved how in normal movie rules those bullets wouldn't have made it through (some movies have a tendency to use the rule if they can't see you, the bullet can't hit you) while in this one, all of his bullets riddle and kill them, and they spin out, despite it looking unstylized and completely realistic
shareAlthough I still maintain it looked like they were both shot from the front on rather than the side, I agree it was well done secene up to this point. I thought everything leading up to it was excellent - the pacing with a sense of foreboding danger from the moment Babitch left the bar was spot on.
The way it built up this tension reminded me of the bus scene in the Sean Penn film, The Interpreter.
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