I started cheering for the bay guys when…..
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Shuttle
leemariejr — 16 years ago(May 25, 2009 05:24 PM)
.that 'lil fool didn't shoot him when she got the chance on the bus. I don't care how chicken hearted you are, for Christ sakes after what he put them through. She got exactly what was coming to her. The other girl knew what to do she should have taken the gun and finished the job.
They would have eventuallly have had to deal with the other bad guy but would have stood a much better chance. -
HippieDrillSealOfApproval — 14 years ago(October 26, 2011 09:39 PM)
I don't understand all the complaining about this scene. They thought they had the situation under control and could just deliver him to the police. Sure they could have shot him just for vengeance, and some people would do just that, but not everyone would.
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nursequinn — 14 years ago(February 07, 2012 03:31 AM)
Exactly. It's not about vengeance when your life is still in danger. As long as that guy was alive, he woud be considered a threat.
There was NO reason for her not to shoot him. They were in the middle of nowheresville. It's not like the police station was just two minutes away and they could drive on over to it and send him into the arms of justice.
Why would you want to drive around with a maniac who wouldn't think twice about killing you if need be? Dumb dumb dumb. -
General Comment — 14 years ago(March 21, 2012 12:37 PM)
Hmm I'm not so sure this is right. It isn't easy to take a human life if you've never done it before, not when there are other alternatives available. At this point in the movie the victims were in control, had the gun, and apparently outnumbered the villain 4 to 1. I didn't find the character's decision in that scenario too far fetched, as she was a rational type, rather than a Charles-Bronson-style vigilante, and was no doubt considering the consequences of just shooting someone in cold blood.
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Augustus_Octavian — 12 years ago(May 05, 2013 03:23 AM)
The negative consequences were minimal, if not non-existent.
More importantly, she made a considered choice. She weighed her options and she felt that she was willing to risk dying/being raped, that that was something she was willing to live with. And she will have to live with that. -
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drrclavan — 13 years ago(January 17, 2013 03:55 PM)
That was a very lousy thing to do indeed. She even got the knife from the dead guy and could have very easily just slit the throat (or stab in the back or whatever) of the main culprit and it would all have been over. Instead she ran away, ditching the knife. Women!
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iainhammer — 13 years ago(June 21, 2012 12:22 PM)
Or in the 'warehouse' when she could have, should have, taken the glass and cut the bad guy's throat instead of doing the cliched thing of dropping to her knees sobbing and NOT paying attention. Despite its attepts to appear vaguely feminist, the movie still traded on the stereotyped behaviors/tropes of woman-in-jeopardy without re-thinking them.