Anyone else wished Clyde would win?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Law Abiding Citizen
josephson — 9 years ago(April 06, 2016 07:00 AM)
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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TheHiawatha — 9 years ago(May 21, 2016 12:19 PM)
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.
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Ohio9 — 9 years ago(June 09, 2016 11:29 AM)
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 — 9 years ago(June 11, 2016 05:23 PM)
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 — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 07:14 PM)
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.
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dma007 — 9 years ago(September 30, 2016 03:38 PM)
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).
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darksusan50-8-754143 — 9 years ago(December 28, 2016 11:50 AM)
I would have loved him to win. Clyde is a fantastic character and really relatable. I mean how many people would want to do exactly what he did in the same circumstances. There is a big difference between a vigilante and a killer, look at Batman he took out criminals too all because he lost his parents. Unlike Batman though Clyde was trying to make a point. He was trying to improve the system and change the way things were done. By comparisons Nick who should have been the good way was a smarmy, lazy ass lawyer who was more concerned with his conviction save rate than he was whether he was putting a bad guy away or not. I felt a little sorry for Ames, while he most assuredly deserved to be punished for his crime, he never actually committed the murders and was already got the death penalty, the extent of his death was a little much maybe. Darby however deserved everything he got and more. I would have loved to see Nick learn his lesson and Clyde get away. It would have been much better an ending.
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BakedEel — 9 years ago(January 30, 2017 04:34 PM)
Funny that you say all that, and your signature says 'live and let live'. Clyde murdered innocent people. It would've been a better ending only if he crawls out the escape tunnel and immediately Frank Castle puts a gun to his head.
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