Picking Nits
Thin plot; instruments IOU; orphanage taxes; uninjured shoppers; beer bill; missing hours
In the discussion (10)
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- Removing the chases and music would leave little plot; the objection is countered as removing the essential ingredients of the film.
- Ray’s $1,400 instrument IOU seems generous; wildly high modern-dollar conversions are explicitly uncertain rather than verified values.
- Closing a church-owned orphanage over $5,000 property taxes seems implausible because it might be tax-exempt.
- Nobody being struck in the crowded mall chase is questioned; the real filming location is distinguished as an already closed mall staffed with extras.
- Fisher’s access to a rocket launcher is questioned, prompting arms-dealing jokes.
- The Soul Food Cafe appears full of health violations, with an unattended live grill and a saxophone on the counter.
- The Good Old Boys arrive hours late to their own gig; road closures from the chases are a comic explanation.
- The $200 beer bill seems enormous at imagined fifty-cent prices, implying about four hundred beers for the band.
- Twiggy waiting at a motel for the odd stranger after paying him $94 seems implausible, with his magnetism offered as the defense.
- The nighttime post-concert escape becomes a morning downtown arrival, leaving many hours unexplained.