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Picking Nits

Haircuts, the Pom Pom raid, EM-50 promotion and design, an impossible basketball throw, and a missing double-date scene

In the discussion (7)
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  • Bill Murray and Harold Ramis keeping movie-star hair while other recruits receive crew cuts is questioned. — Bill Simmons
  • The reason military police raid the Pom Pom mud-wrestling club remains unclear. — Bill Simmons
  • The late-arriving recruits being promoted to the military-vehicle project is judged implausible. — Bill Simmons
  • The supposedly advanced vehicle looks too much like a minivan or Winnebago. — Brian Koppelman
  • The indoor-basketball throw through the window follows no plausible shot trajectory. — Brian Koppelman
  • One more double-date scene is requested to deepen the four central characters. — Bill Simmons
  • The bag underneath his head is there and then not there, but that continuity issue is explicitly dismissed. — Bill Simmons
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