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The bad guy was ridiculous


He ends up killing two innocent people and a possibly more just because Colin Ferrel was talking to another girl on the phone that wasn't his wife. Was the bad guy even trying to do good in this world?

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Well he does have sort of good motives, but obviously he is a psychopath who likes to play with people.

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well that's the thing, this guy isn't so much some kind of viglante as he is a murderer who likes to play sick games...do you REALLY think he cared THAT much that stu was cheating on his wife?

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He was, in his mind anyway, trying to get Stu to acknowledge the bad he did in his life. But he was a psychopath and he killed the poor pizza guy for nothing (or you could say that he killed him to so the police and Stu would believe that he was the pizza guy.

"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit' me!" Hudson in Aliens.

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maybe the pizza guy was a wanker aswell

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Haha i like this.

Maybe the pizza guy was indeed a wanker.

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Agree with the OP. The bad guy is a *beep* loon.

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he kills one innocent person. the pimp came out after Ferrel with a bat for talking on the phone too long. this cannot be a sign of sane person.

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No. He was trying to make a point to Stu, which is the point of the whole film. the point is that everything you do has consequences, both good and bad.

There are trade-offs to everything, and what you do matters in life. If you are cheating and lying to people in order to maintain a mendacious facade about yourself to others, that affects people. They waste their precious time and lives dealing with that facade rather than the real you. As a result, lives are ruined, and the world is that much more horrible due to the evil that you've wrought all for your vanity.

There is a belief that somethings that you do, knowing how immoral and base they are, doesn't matter so long as you confine it to yourself and possibly one other person. That what you do in secret is nobody's business. But, the problem with that is that nobody is an island. Everything you do, or do not do, has an influence.

Why do people smoke? It's clearly not good for you. Most people who take up smoking do it because they were influenced by someone else. Someone they admired, or wanted to fit in with, because we crave companionship and comaraderie. It's part of the clique mentality; in order to accept others into that clique they have to do what we do, accomplish what we've done. You know it's bad for you, you know it's wrong, and it's expensive, but you do it anyway.

Life is all about the choices we make, and there is a great movement going on right now and for the past, oh, 80-90 years to make us forget all that. To divorce what we do from their consequences. And people will do this, because of vanity. People, in general, prefer the pretty lie to the ugly truth.

That was the point of this villain.

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Maybe the caller was pissed off because a former girlfriend or wife cheated on him. Hence why he took it out on people like Stu.

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Ask the writers

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