Picking Nits
Buick travel time; stopping near L.A.; burned waffles; Raymond's routine in Vegas; the brothers' age gap; the hotel bath; the route through old Vegas; casino overreaction; too little cocaine; anti-EPA attitude
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- It is ridiculous that the two are supposed to be brothers, joked about as the nitpick done early.
- A 1949 Buick Roadmaster at 35 mph from Cincinnati to L.A. in three days doesn't work, especially losing a day in Missouri; the distance is looked up as 2,173 miles.
- Passing through Vegas they are about 240 miles from L.A., so why stop at a hotel; the reply is that Raymond needs to sleep in a bed.
- How does Ray burn toaster waffles so badly that the kitchen fills with smoke like the Malibu fires?
- In Vegas Raymond's routine, Wapner, Wheel of Fortune and bedtime, stops mattering; the counter is that time vanishes in Vegas.
- The age gap looks more like 10 or 12 years in the photo, and there should have been a middle sister.
- Why does Charlie run an instantly hot bath in a crappy hotel with Ray in the room; it is also defended as the skeleton-key scene where he learns he is the Rain Man.
- Why drive through old Vegas on the way to L.A.; many shots are at dusk or dawn on roads chosen to look cool.
- No way the casino gets that angry about 89K.
- Cocaine should have been more involved; Charlie seems high in the first Lenny scene.
- The movie is dismissive of the EPA.