Terrible Movie

I heartily agree! Here's a few more for your list...

11) Virtually empty concourses in the scenes while the game was still going on--not even anyone in line at the concession stands or leaving/entering the restrooms. Very unrealistic.

12) Neither the Baltimore or Los Angeles teams had names (i.e., Colts, Rams) and it's blatantly obvious their uniforms were modeled after Stanford and USC (from whom they gleaned much of the actual football game footage).

13) No way in hell would Beau Bridges' kids have willingly worn those dorky hats he bought for them at the game!

If anything, the sniper shoulda fired at Howard Cosell--he'd have been considered a hero!

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OP,

Let's see:

1) May have been a case where scenes were deleted and the ladder being used was one. Also,the sniper could have knocked other people off of the ladder as well.

2)Flash bangs are best used during house/room entry. Using one might have panicked the crowd and caused what the police were trying to avoid.

3) There are always people in/around the scoreboard. More have noticed the sniper,but thought he was a police officer or security.

4) Ok...they saw police snipers...and? You see heavily armed police officers at most events these days and they attract almost no notice.

5) You are apparently unfamiliar w/ ballistic wounds. See the 1986 FBI Miami shoot out. You can be wounded in the HEART and still function for as long as several minutes.

6) He killed more than a few people,but the police can't take a shot until they have shot. Agreed?

7) If he really wanted to start a panic, he would have brought dynamite,grenades,etc.

8) Ok...let's say they use a flash bang. Then what? A smoke grenade has lingering effects while most flash bangs are transitory. The idea is make him uncomfortable and cover your entrance.

9) Apparently,you have never been in a panic situation.

10) I'll give you that one...LOL


Suspension of disbelief: Yes. Suspension of logical thought? I'll pass.

14) I love at the end when they throw in the smoke grenade, basically giving the sniper cover while they crawl through holes with sunlight shining through them, they would easily be at a disadvantage.

15) The disadvantage would be even worse considering both Cassavetes and Heston both leave their sunglasses on the whole time their inside the darkly lit tower.

1) Wait you mean somebody got butt-stroked?? I must have missed that part. lol j/k

funny how heston appears for about a second in the beginning then disappears about an hour. klugmans acting seemed strange at times, i'm not saying in a bad way, i thought he was amazing in the 1950's twilight zone series, one of the most reoccurring actors in that series, and the episode "passage for trumpet" is a twilight zone radio drama i like listening to. this is one of the most slow going movies i've seen, felt like they could have skipped the first hour of the movie, then it builds up to becoming a bit suspenseful, but overall the movie just felt unnecessary, then i read a review of it even calling it pointless. the blood made it look a bit like a splatter movie at times. i felt bad for paul but eventually you feel bad for about all the people who had been given a parallel story, and by the end you're just shaking your head.



sunny street,
since you said you wanted to be with me,
happy like a dog with a bone,
trapped in magic days of old,
say youll never go,
like a dream i dont wanna wake from,
you left me since i awoke from the dream,
in a dim and empty street.

I actually don't care about any of those things - this is not The Sorrow and the Pity, nor is it The Seventh Seal. We know that when we put it on. Have you done a similar critique of Star Wars? Or X-Men? Sometimes I just want to kick back and be entertained. Two Minute Warning? Mission accomplished.

Bigger problem would actually be that it's terribly corny, unfocused, disjointed and not nearly as suspenseful as it should be.



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