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Pretty much everyone who deserved to die did lol, great movie!


It was great when be bludgeoned that fat ginger bastard with the priceless artefact, he was asking for it the moment he stepped on screen.

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Did you think Smith-Kingsley deserved to die?

I understand you don't mean to say that everyone who died deserved it, but there's a gray area not accounted for.

Welles, Huston, Kubrick, Lynch and Coen

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Ah good point, i forgot about him :O

Also, it's very annoying that this site doesn't give any separation whatsoever from signatures.

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MaxP779:

Also, it's very annoying that this site doesn't give any separation whatsoever from signatures.
I momentarily thought this was your signature. Perfect illustration of the problem. Four years later, no sign of change on this one.
Isn't life hard?? :)

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I think it would be better if Meredith died instead of Peter.

She was just an annoying airhead

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Why Silvanna?

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meredith didnt deserve to die...she is one of the good guys.
she actually like ripley and kissed him.she gave him a chance.
and when she found that dickie was getting married, she apologized to gwyneth.
she might have been 'in the way' but to want her out of the picture is to want the serial killer to succeed ?

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The only reason Meredith didn't die on that cruise in the final scene was because she was with family. Tom saw them and realized her death would look suspicious.

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The guy who died at the very end did not deserve it; he seemed sweet and genuinely seemed to care for Ripley.

Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!

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I didn't think Peter was bad at all, he seemed like a genuinely nice guy who had fallen for Tom. He was helpful and courteous. However, I loathed both Dickie's and Freddie's personalities, their conversations, everything about them made me cringe every time they were on screen. It showed that they were both snobs who did absolutely nothing with their lives except spending their parents' money and ruining other people's lives. And Meredith too, Miss "when you've had money your entire life and despise it, you're only truly comfortable around people who have also always had it and despise it."

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I know dickie was arrogant and mean, but i dont think the man deserved to die! dont you think thats a bit of a stretch?

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Exactly. If you think that because someone is pretentious, obnoxious, or smug that they deserve to be violently murdered, then you've got a pretty warped concept of the value of life.

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"If you think that because someone is pretentious, obnoxious, or smug that they deserve to be violently murdered"

He/she must want Donald Trump to be violently murdered then.

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Dickie's character and history presaged an untimely death; ie, the violent incident at Princeton the detective described, and his abandonment of Sylvana after impregnating her. Sooner or later his impulsiveness, selfishness and hubris would result in fatal retaliation.

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I thought Dickie was a real jerk, he seemed to only be friends with Tom when his other friends (like Freddie)weren't around. Freddie was an *beep* who deserved what he got. Peter was the only one I felt for.
the saddest thing in life is wasted talent

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Nobody deserved to die! It's a major worry that some people on this thread think that just because someone is a jerk, they deserve to be bludgeoned to death. 

Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

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Sylvana also did not deserve to die.

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"the violent incident at Princeton his father described"

It was actually the private investigator hired by Mr. Greenleaf who described that to Tom.

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