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Disappointed with the new portrayal of Chucky as a human.


Granted, in the first Child's Play movie, we only see Chucky in human form for about 5 minutes, but during that time, he comes across as a ruthless street thug and a serial killer. He more or less keeps this persona as a doll in all 6 films, sometimes coming across as more sadistic, sometimes more mellowed out. But during the flashback scenes in this one where it shows him as a human, he comes across as a family obsessed, love stalker with mental issues rather than a criminal and a killer. It made him feel more like he needed mental help, like Norman Bates, rather than a vicious killer as he's been portrayed in all his doll incarnations and his human appearance in the first one. I don't know, I just had a real hard time identifying human Chucky with doll Chucky in this film, the two just seemed so different.

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My only question is...where was Tiffany when all that Sarah stuff was happening?
I would think she'd have something to say about it hehe.

Hmm maybe she didn't know about it...


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I'd like to think that in the maybe five minutes we see of Charles Lee Ray in the first movie we saw him in a terrified, wounded, and angry state. I felt this movie gave him a little depth, we got to see who he is when he's not running from the cops, and in his words, "bleeding like a stuck pig"

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I hear ya on this.

I always assumed that the beginning of Child's Play 1 began with Chucky fleeing the cops after a bungled robbery with his partner, 'Eddie Caputo' or whatever his name was.

Or Chucky was on a job, solo, and the cops were waiting for him. Hence, Caputo selling him out.

*shrugs*

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Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.

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exactly what i thought. i enjoyed the twist and learning much more about CLR.

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That was probably the original intent. But this movie kind of makes it seem like a rush from when he leaves and the chase begins. Although I assume there could have still been enough time for him to try to get Eddie's help and have Eddie leave him high and dry.

It's not for sure stated how long the chase was. Just that we see how it started and how it ended.

Also wasn't he at the time known for multiple crimes, as to why he was the Lakeshore Strangler? So he's probably killed plenty of people before he even met the family here.

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The more absurdity he experienced in the Good Guy's body, the more sarcastic he got. He just wasn't that guy yet as a human. Being killed multiple times over in elaborate deaths would give one a sense of humor after a while, I have to imagine.

I mean, come on. Remember Freddy Krueger wasn't a wise-cracking joker either before A Nightmare On Elm Street and its sequels. He was a filthy, greasy child-killer/molester (depending upon who you ask).

Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips.

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Well we really don't know Chucky's entire
back story when he was alive as Charles Lee Ray.
All we know that he was a serial killer known as
The Lakeshore Strangler who was obsessed with voodoo
and now supposedly revealed he had a thing for terrorizing
families which is pretty much disturbing and sick in itself
as that does happen a lot in real life with crazy stories
on the news just about everyday. We only know so much about
Charles. Who knows he might of already had that dark sense of humor
when he was human. He could of been a real wise ass to the people he
came across in the streets of Chicago or wherever he was
at probably before killing somebody or he might of cracked
perverted crazy jokes with his friends like anybody else would.
Plus making his girlfriend Tiffany laugh. Who the *beep* the knows though
but that's the idea I get from it. Charles was just a man like any other man expect
the fact that he was a sadistic serial killer behind everyone's backs.
Same as Freddy Krueger before he was burned known as The Springwood Slasher,
he probably already had that sick sense of humor or was making jokes around
his family and friends despite he was butchering, doing these
horrible things to small innocent kids. I'm not saying I'm right
but just giving my input on it. Also we don't know exactly how many
people he killed but in Part 2 was said he murdered at least a dozen people.
But their could have been more than that.

Plus what I learned from Wes Craven on the commentary of
The Last House on the Left saying something like
in real life that situations can be funny, hilarious
and then sometimes turns into something really scary, dark
and horrific. Which is true I believe it that's how life is.




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