What’s Aged the Best?
Donnie reveal; alpha confrontations; genre details; opening title card
In the discussion (13)
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- Donnie's reveal ages well because rewatching explains why Merrimen retains an apparently compromised driver: Donnie is essential to the plan.
- Donnie's description of bartending as controlling an environment without people noticing foreshadows his role; One participant connects bartenders' access to information with his own experience.
- The men hanging out at the suit store is praised.
- The silent, testosterone-filled staring contests are praised, with a joke that contemporary men would be on their phones instead.
- The invitation to hug and save a fortune in therapy is a praised one-liner.
- Appearances by actual UFC fighters Max Holloway and Michael Bisping are praised.
- Butler’s leather jackets are praised as matching the character’s leathery quality.
- The police organizational board underestimates Donnie; One participant celebrates the Black mastermind reveal. The discussion compares the hierarchy imagery with The Sopranos moving Junior and Tony on its board.
- Police printing information they could simply view on a screen is a favorite detail.
- Opening with a major crime or set piece that the film must surpass is praised, with The Dark Knight, Sicario, Drive, and The Matrix as comparisons.
- The FBI vegan and tennis insults are praised, with pickleball proposed as a worse insult.
- The opening bank-robbery statistics card is praised and compared with Sicario's opening definition; a Star Wars crawl alternative is dismissed as too long.
- Shooting-range showdowns are praised for the uncertainty over whether the characters will actually shoot each other.