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Anyone else wished Clyde would win?

posted 8 years ago by josephson
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Since it's just a movie and the point of a movie is to make a point,
I wished that Clyde Shelton had won and killed every single one of those
corrupt senators, law makers, justices, police, etc.... kill em all.

The system beeps everyone and the only people that get justice are the ones
who basically win. That's not real justice. I was rooting for Clyde and
was hoping to see them all die so that they could finally change the system
and put real criminals away and protect the innocent.

It's just a movie, so why not go all the way to make the point instead of
letting the stupid fake good guys win just to show us how the fake good guys
get away yet with another crime.

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[–] diccondawson 8 years ago

Every damn time I watch it.

[–] pillar81 8 years ago

Just watched a real crime story about a guy who shot someone dead, 6 years later gets convicted and got 30 years, then gets a new trial to gets to plead to a reduced sentence of 6 years.
So yes. Definitely.

[–] TheHiawatha 8 years ago

Clyde deserved comeuppance, since he became the monster that he hated, a ruthless, conniving criminal. However, the way they went about bringing about it was outrageous and insulting to the intelligence.

"Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station."

[–] Ohio9 8 years ago

Change the system how? Clyde never did say exactly what he wanted. He criticized the system how it was, but I don't recall him ever offering a viable alternative.

No I don't wish Clyde would have "won". It was already silly enough that his plans were working so perfectly all the way till the last few minutes of the movie. No reason to make it even more absurd.

[–] VanillaLimeCoke 8 years ago

I kind of wanted a stalemate.

This is the type of film where you wish a character like Clyde will get killed but kind of enjoy what he's doing but yet be glad when he's finally killed.

I just wished for a stalemate. Like Nick Rice getting fired and every single award stripped from him.

The fact of the matter is that Nick always cared about his job and was never around for his daughter's cello plays.

It's like the wrong man gets the happy ending whilst the other man got a happy beginning listening to Mr. Tambourine man at the start of the film.

[–] tmhayes83 8 years ago

I agree. To me it would've been the best ending. Jamie Foxx's character never learned his lesson. He was accountable because he decided the law not on right or wrong but what would give him the best chance for advancement. It would've been poetic in my opinion if he realized just what his actions set in motion. By turning a law abiding citizen into a hateful vengeful vigilante.

[–] Good_Citizen 8 years ago

All the corrupt bastards should have died.

[–] dma007 8 years ago

I was routing for him to kill them all. To me, the perfect ending would have been if they never find the tunnel until the last and final scene, after Clyde kills everyone and vanishes from prison, making us wonder how dafuq did he do it (the discovering of the tunnel being the ending of the story and the explanation of the mistery).