Was Eyeball really gonna let Ace kill his brother?
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spidergags — 13 years ago(June 22, 2012 07:05 AM)
This part of the movie always disturbed me the most. When Ace starts to attack Chris with the knife but is started by the gunshot, Eyeball did not do anything to stop him. As big of a jerk as Ace is, I always pointed the finger at Eyeball as well because he was also a jerk and let Ace bully his brother and his brother's friends.
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gabby_bm — 13 years ago(June 23, 2012 04:03 PM)
Ace was the "leader". Eyeball would feel crappy about letting Ace stab his brother, but he'd let it happen anyway because peer pressure allows for so much chickensh^t things to happen.
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SuperNostalgicBrother — 13 years ago(August 22, 2012 12:25 AM)
Sorry, but if I were Eyeball, I would've AT LEAST try to stop Ace from killing my own flesh and blood. Nothing is worth having your sibling dead especially if your "friend" tries to kill him/her.
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SuperNostalgicBrother — 13 years ago(August 28, 2012 12:03 AM)
I'd still say you're gutless if you don't save your brother, with or without cobra tattoo.
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SammySoprano — 12 years ago(February 26, 2014 01:24 PM)
He was scared! watch the scene again and you can clearly see he wants to get involved but it's happening so quickly and he's petrified of Ace. Anyway I don't think Ace was going to kill Chris, probably just carve up his face.
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zoolzool — 13 years ago(January 14, 2013 09:24 PM)
This was an interesting scene because Ace was going to slit Chris' throat with his switchblade. The thing is, a switchblade has a pointed tip for stabbing, not a sharp edge for slicing, cutting, chopping, dicing, etc.
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Ace broke his own brothers arm in the book. Can't expect much from a guy like that.
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milesaugust — 13 years ago(January 20, 2013 07:15 PM)
Keep in mind. These are Stephen King bullies. they are a special kind of sociopathic. More sadistic than the average movie bully or even real life bullies. they stab little brothers in the nuts, beat girls with baseball bats, dump pigs blood on prom queens, destroy a nerds car because it's nice, murder the neighborhood gay kid, with in Stephen King stories is standard bullying.
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ponyboycurtis456 — 13 years ago(March 18, 2013 03:18 PM)
I think the relationship between chris and eyeball didn't really exist eyeball treated chris as an enemy to keep his status alongside ace,chris i think tried to remain indifferent towards his family but i think chris had too much feelings of affection and sympathy towards people and therefore i believe he loved his brother and even though he wasn't a good role model like younger siblings oftenly do they try to seek awareness off there older siblings.If your question is would eyeball let ace kill chris if the senario was real i think because eyeball did say "come on ace." he would probably intervene but none the less ace may have still killed chris with his friends holding eyeball back probably this is speaking so without gordie with the gun.I understand how you would be disturbed i would be too but i guess i didn't really think much of it,thanks for highlighting the point.
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GirlwonderReturns — 12 years ago(January 17, 2014 07:02 AM)
Didn't Eyeball say something to Ace? I haven't seen the movie in a while but I'd swear that when Ace started toward Chris with the knife, Eyeball said something like "Ace, come on, man", like he was trying to reason with him. Or am I totally off?
I need to watch it again, I guess.
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