Picking Nits
Ages; moving-car shooting; rooftop fight; affair clarity; news photo; fugitive/napkin/pool logistics; arson; voiceover
In the discussion (11)
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- The actors do not look like contemporaries despite their characters growing up together.
- Superboy landing so many shots into a moving car is doubted, with the collision offered as part of what confused responders.
- The rooftop fight’s rounds, assistants and prolonged brawl look like a boxing match or comic-book-villain encounter rather than an arrest.
- Whether Ray’s deliberate failure to save Randone clearly communicates retaliation for the affair is debated; the producer says he understood it.
- The conveniently published, sinister-looking photograph of the corrections officer is too obvious.
- Superboy is an incompetent fugitive who cannot stay hidden beneath the blanket.
- The drink-and-napkin warning is questioned because the glass could smear the ink; simply taking him aside seems easier.
- A remote murder would make more sense than killing Superboy in Ray's backyard pool.
- Burning his own house down seems an unnecessarily difficult way for Figgsy to raise money, with debts offered as context.
- The opening voiceover lacks an ongoing point-of-view function; the hosts reconsider whether the ending actually uses a title card instead.
- Figgsy’s abrupt full-stop freeway turnaround is criticized as a movie trope that would be dangerous and implausible in ordinary driving.