Picking Nits
Back-and-forth chronology; fantasy set in the real hotel room; the report she couldn't have written; Foley going back for the maid; Ripley bragging about diamonds
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- Never seeing the scenes of Clooney's loyal buddy calling his sister, only hearing about them secondhand, is flagged as a picking-nits item.
- The back-and-forth chronology was a little confusing on first viewing, though time stamps might have broken the flow.
- Lopez's bathtub fantasy cheats by being set in the exact hotel, in the same color scheme, where Clooney and Rames are actually staying, though she has never been there.
- A high-angle hotel shot after the Lompoc flashback signals the return to the present; the Mad Men fever dream is cited as a delicate case.
- One speaker is anti-dream sequence and anti-narrator unless proven to work.
- A nitpick read online: when did she write the report her boss is reading if she was unconscious after the crash?
- Would Jack Foley really go back for the maid? He is fundamentally not a good guy, so the moment may not be earned.
- Why would Albert Brooks's titan-of-industry character tell these guys about $5 million in diamonds?
- Returning to the maid point: the movie takes pains to show Foley won't hurt anyone, knocking out the guard with a vase rather than killing him.