Dropping the truck on a helpless victim unable to move, even if he is a villain. Ebert didn't like that. What do you think? Do you see his point?
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Give me a break. This woman was kidnapped, it's implied that the SOB raped her, and they tried to MURDER her by suffocating her in a deep freezer. I personally would have shot out his knee caps and balls when they pulled me out, but I would have been quite satisfied with dropping a truck on him also. I'd like to see Ebert turn the other cheek in that situation. What he was asking for is unrealistic.
shareI don't know what movie you all were watching, but there was NEVER an implied rape. If anything, the movie went out of its way to distance itself from that possibility.
shareBaconbit, during the part when he was describing his wife to Kurt Russell, he makes a comment about her having curly brown hair upstairs AND down. How would he know that if a rape hadn't occurred.
Also, I would like to know how you feel the movie went out of its way to distance itself from this possibility? Just because he didn't come out and scream that it happened, doesn't mean that the implication wasn't there.
Well he could know that from simply looking down her pants...no rape required, but yes when the guy said that he did it to rile up Russell's character and make him think she was raped.
shareYeah, I think the dude said it just to get under his skin. It is very possible, that maybe they DID do something to her other than kidnap her (and later try to kill her). But I got the feeling he wanted to rile the dude up, and/or scare him as much as possible.
Besides, her hair wasn't really curly, nor was it very brown (more red/auburn). Kind of a moot/dumb point, but still.
Saying the color of her pubic hair was intended to insinuate rape, or at least the threat of it. I do no think it happened, but I think the piece of cr*p wanted to make the husband think it did and took a peek just to make sure he knew the color.
shareI totally agree! Nothing they could have done to those animals would have been too harsh after the terror and rape that was inflicted on that couple especially the wife. I actually would prefer a blow torch and pliers to JT and the old guy and a shot gun blast to the sons balls - just don't kill him.
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Oooooo, that's cold, man!
Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers! But if you could show us something in a nice possum...
There is no implied rape. What she went through was awful but nothing suggested she was sexually assaulted. It was purely business for these guys.
That said, being cooped up in that small container fearing for her life, I can entirely understand why she dropped the truck, even if she was wrong to do so.
Didn't bother me.
What I thought was unworthy of the movie was that contrived car chase sequence, lol.
I got news for 'em. There's gonna be hell to pay. 'Cause I ain't Daddy's little boy no more.
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What do you think?
I dont know who ebert is but he is wrong, the ending is def a feel good moment and is well deserved
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Moving or not, he was not going to survive that fall onto rocks. And the fact that it was the wife who did it..the one who had been put through hell by that guy for so long...yes, it was a normal reaction.
shareHe got exactly what he deserved.
Isn't it implied that he helped kill more people before Amy?(some of those people on the missing persons posters in the police station)
Even if he didn't help kill anyone else he planned on killing Amy. If anything she did him a favor by dropping the truck on him because it would have taken him a while to die if she didn't and I would imagine he was in an imense amount of pain after a fall like that.
It is more than implied he killed others...did you not see the tons of license plates, cameras, etc in the barn loft?
shareI agree. The ending upset me. What a waste of a good truck.
shareDo not see it at all...the kid (if the wife had any soul) would not have had contact with his piece of crap dad (hopefully) rotting in jail, and is traumatized anyway, so what the heck. Hell I kept yelling at Russel to take the kid hostage (not hurt him physically though) so clearly my moral line with piece of sh*t criminals is not similar to Ebert.
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