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Den of Thieves

Picking Nits

Traffic; bank access; money weight; old food; running; hypocrisy

In the discussion (13)
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  • Nitpick: Scottish Gerard Butler as a South Torrance football star is questioned, though his accent concealment and Bill Romanowski-like presence are defended.
  • The fourteen-mile Hawthorne-to-Wilmington ride raises a Los Angeles traffic and distance objection.
  • Donnie's failure to request a lawyer after waking in the hotel is questioned; One participant compares real interrogation videos in which suspects similarly fail to ask for counsel.
  • Merrimen’s access to so much Federal Reserve information is questioned.
  • The Chinese-food courier’s freedom to enter the Fed and roam the cafeteria is questioned; a front-desk handoff would make more sense.
  • One participant objects to Donnie silently accepting Nick's insult about his penis size, proposing embarrassed or defensive replies rather than allowing the conversation to move on.
  • The hosts calculate the weight of thirty million dollars in hundred-dollar bills at roughly 661.5 pounds and question Donnie moving it so quickly in small bags; this is their cited internet calculation.
  • Donnie reconstructing ventilation plans from bar information requires accepting his exceptional intelligence.
  • A defense imagines far more accumulated conversations and incidental information over time than the brief scenes show; no duration in years is specified.
  • The Chinese food stored above the bathroom for days prompts questions about spoilage, temperature, smell, and what dishes the women could plausibly accept.
  • Merrimen's running looks too slow for his football reputation to one participant; others propose past injuries, military wounds, and heavy protective gear as possible explanations.
  • The long escape route and traffic are questioned; a closed lane is defended as quintessential Los Angeles, and the robbers expected to leave undetected.
  • Merrimen's objection to Nick's behavior is called hypocritical because he sends his girlfriend to sleep with Nick as a distraction.