I never liked it,
But it’s not a terrible movie.
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Imagine a movie where the "hero" beats women, murders people, and stages crime scenes; yet gets the girl at end and drives off in a car like the end of Grease because he's the good guy to whom we're supposed to relate.
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You're too picky. It's still a great movie with some excellent acting.
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He’s a police captain, he’s not going to be interrogated and arrested, he was going to be protected and at worst allowed to retire. Even after he dies and the evidence comes out, they still paint him as a hero to protect the police departments image.
They killed him so he wouldn’t escape punishment for his murders, which is tbh a pretty good reason to shoot someone in the back after they just tried to kill you.
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Only in a movie, maybe. Ed and Bud both survived so they’d confirm each other’s stories. With James Cromwell living, he’s be interrogated. There’s no way he’s getting out of it at that point.
Still not an excuse to kill someone unexpectedly via cheating.
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They killed him because they knew he’d get off on the charges and be protected.
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But it's supposed to be one of the great movies of the 90s, even in the Top 250. I didn't see that at all. It's glorifying police brutality and domestic abuse.
Suspects are already as a severe disadvantage when in feuds with police officers. They lack the weaponry, manpower, resources, and lawful options.
The thought of a police officer murdering a suspect with their hands up, surrendering, from the back, where he had no possible chance to defend himself, is a harrowing and disturbing image that deserves an explanation.
There's no excuse for that, ever, no matter how evil the surrenderer is. And the film was somehow saying, this is okay.
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Yeah the movie has a few turn your brain off moments, and is very Hollywood, but it’s still a good action/crime thriller.
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He was a brutal man with brutal responses, but also some kind of honour and capable of change - which she recognised. I think limping off into the sunset with her was a good ending - though I've no idea what their future would be.
And why not have our two very flawed and totally unromantic heroes survive - it would almost have been too cheap a Hollywood trick to kill one off just to make the ending more poignant.
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A physically broken Bud and his girl set off to find a new life waved off by the man who raped her.
Bud wasn't much different. His response to anger is physical violence, with both men and women. He hit her in the face.
I felt like the movie was absolving Bud. Ed should have ended up with Veronica Lake.
Bud didn't need to survive that shooting. We had Ed. It works better if Ed's the sole survivor. Bud was a morally gray character so his death would've been fitting. The two good guys happen to survive that shooting? Come on. One of the two had to go.
It's very Hollywood ending. Hero survives and drives off with girl in a car in last shot. It's straight from Grease.
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Nope, I've never found this film has dated badly. Most films do at some point but for me this one has not. The whole point is they were using gangster tactics to fight gangsters - who in turn
accepted
this level of violence as usual business practice.
And just killing/executing the villein seems fair given the circumstances and knowing that he will probably talk his way out of everything and carry on as a corrupt and murderous official.
I certainly don't find the ending
cliche American romantic comedy
. It's bitter and poignant. A physically broken Bud and his girl set off to find a new life waved off by the man who raped her.
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No one said it was a regular practice you idiot. But it DID HAPPEN. Go crawl back into your safe space.
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Police officers in the 50s did not reguarly hold men they were questioning (who were not detained) out of a 10+ story window where there could realistically be a 40/60% chance of the guy slipping and dying.
I'm supposed to believe that an officer can demolosh a police station by assaulting another officer, and there're no consequences stemming from that?
It went into Last Action Hero terrority in that scene.
More importantly, it's what the film is saying about it. The message comes across as if it's supporting police brutality.
Bud consistently engaged in unlawful conduct as an officer of the law. He unlawfully assaults innocent civlians to get answers. He stages murder scenes. He hits women. All of this, and never answers for any of his crimes. He gets the girl in the end. He's painted as the hero of the story with a happy ending. He didn't deserve that ending.
Police are bad enough on bodycam, doing their normal jobs. Now, we're going to paint two officers abusing their power like this, including murder?
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Correct. You didn’t think. It happened.
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Intimidation tactics during interrogations were not frowned upon in the 50s.
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I don't think officers in the 50s were hanging people outside of windows by their ankles to get answers. It went full Commando at that point.
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It is a fantastic, gritty movie. Shit like that happened. Go crawl back into your safe space.
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This is a Hollywood movie from the 90s, idiot
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have you done any research into what hollywood was like in the 50's?

It's not what Hollywood was like 1953 I'm judging; it's the message the film is sending about Hollywood in 1953 from a 1997 perspective (when the film was made).
Hence, it's dated.
If the film were made today, it would be better, and officers would be more accurate.
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your entire post was judging Hollywood in 1953 by present standards from your personal bubble in the present.

So just don't watch it then ******.