Picking Nits all-of-them joke/Bill top10intro but no formal ten-item ranked list: Bullock shouting racist locksmith claims within earshot, implausible recurring encounters across giant LA—Dillon/Newton, Phillippe/Howard then Cheadle brother.
Interconnected vignette films rarely work, Magnolia and Playing by Heart defended; latter cast/architecture monologue appreciation.
Nit Dillon might let assault witness die to avoid lawsuit/job loss; darker cigarette-drop murder imagined as better movie.
Nit carjacking aftermath cops fail search car for slouching Ludacris; discussion distinguishes neutralizing advancing Howard first versus searching once controlled, no full agreement on procedural timing.
Nit Cheadle collision where brother killed coincidence, rebuttal he may have been responding to scene.
Nit van keys left12hours untouched, chop-shop operator instant expertise selling trafficked people despite earlier blood-spatter caution; joking chop shops most evil.
Bullock, Fraser, L.A. race relations and undercover cops shooting each other are floated without a clear affirmative conclusion.
Howard’s 2005 with Hustle and Flow has a strong case, challenged by Empire’s first season.
Dillon is rejected; St. Christopher statues and human trafficking are floated without affirmative resolution.
Cheadle, Peña, Phillippe, Newton, Tate and Esposito are rejected; Cruel Intentions and Westworld or Mission: Impossible II are alternatives for Phillippe and Newton.
Ludacris’s peak is placed in an unspecified Fast film.
Bullock is called the original Karen, despite earlier disagreement.
A short film consisting of Ludacris’s scenes could work; the movie needs more of him.
The film is called the least effective effective anti-slavery movie: freeing trafficked people with forty dollars while stereotyping and abandoning them.
The freed person viewing video-store choices prompts a question about intended symbolism and a reply about stories transforming people.
