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The pipe bombs

posted 19 years ago by cecilparks
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To me, this is the movie's weakest point. Why show them making pipe bombs they won't even use and don't even plan to use? That scene had only two purposes: A) to show how driven and methodical the guys were - but several other scenes make that clear, so it was redundant - and B) to make the movie controversial by showing a step-by-step instructional video on making pipe bombs. It was gratuitous and useless and I didn't like it.

Otherwise it's a GREAT movie. The two lead (non-)actors are perfect and the dialogue only has a couple of forced lines. It's a resounding success.

[–] gamer3000 16 years ago

But very few if any actually worked. I can recall reading about one thrown outside and not going off in the actual case.

Not many people have basements in California.

[–] RepublicofE 9 years ago

Having the actors and extras work with real explosives would have been too much of a safety issue. Plus they were renting the library so they couldn't do too much to damage it. I suppose they could have used CGI but 2001 wasn't exactly the golden age of CGI.