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Three dumbest things that keep making me laugh


1) The whole massage-the-semen-out-the-hooker-and-inject-it-into-another-woman-to-frame-a-rape plot.

2) The killer keeps reminding Pacino that he's going to be killed in 88 minutes, but nonetheless tries to kill Pacino every 10 minutes.

3) The casually mentioned age difference between Pacino and his sister. I believe the line is "She was 12, I was 28." That line has been making me crack up for days.

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Although not so ridiculous as your number 1 and 2, the thing with the fax machine bugs me.

Scene: Lelee Sobieski comes into Al Pacino's apartment with some papers, says that the fax machine was broken so she delievered those papers herself. Pacino's female coworker calls and also says the fax is broken.
20 min later: Al is rushing into the school and tells his coworker to fax him everything she has on a lawyer named Lydia, then hangs up. Dude, she just said the fax machine is broken.

"It´s not the dress that makes you look fat, it´s the fat that makes you look fat."

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I don't get the comment about the age difference. One of my siblings and I are even further apart than that. So, he was 16 when she was born; it happens. She had to be young enough for the story and he had to be old enough to be defending his dissertation.

I always liked the way a scraped knee looks on a girl. - Mrs. Harker

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4. That the forensic psychologist continually picks planted evidence up without gloves on.

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"Tic Toc Doc".....with the voice modulation it makes me die every time.

"Mr.Purple is another guy on another job, you're not Mr.Purple!"

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LMFAO tic toc doc was sooo frigging cheesy that that line alone ruined the film!

How about the evidence to frame Pacino was ridiculously over the top cos why would someone in the forensic field leave soooo much evidence???
This film was dumb,and IMO has ruined Pacino's career..LMAO

I wanna be a soap star...

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I just keep laughing at a girl set up this whole stupid mystery this whole time. Wow, what a *beep* shock, the suspicious looking girl was the one and only involved.

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I really like that when the FBI agent confronts Pacino about being the killer, Al even says "yeah, i also burned down my own apartment, ran myself over with a motorcycle, and shot at myself". And when his students confronts him about leaving evidence Pacino says something about leaving it laying around for everyone to find even though he would know how to prevent such a slip up. Even the characters within the movie are pointing out how silly it is...

Also if the killer was a student in his class, and was receiving grades/paying fees, she would have had to use her real name, so the whole "I figured out her real name" ending is pretty useless. Add it to the list of mistakes in this flick...so bad...

"Look, it's not that i'm lazy, it's that I just don't care..." - Peter Gibbons

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"This film was dumb,and IMO has ruined Pacino's career..LMAO"

No, that already happened with "Scent of a Woman." Possibly one of the worst movies ever and killed my love for Al Pacino, which had been burning brightly since 1972.

Love the quote from the poster in another thread about this movie being so bad he/she turned off the TV and walked out their own house!

Best line ever about a movie, any bad movie.

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Jack&Jill ruined his career for sure now..

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Don't forget that the FBI agent knew that it was Pacino's DNA inside the dead woman even though DNA tests take weeks, if not months, to complete and Pacino's DNA had only been on the loose for a couple of hours.

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You are living in the eighties.

Now it takes 2 hours maximum.

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Not only that, but if the sperm was in the prostitute then that means he didn't wear a condom. Which makes no sense. I don't know much about prostitutes, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have sex with you if you didn't wear a condom. Catching a VD would be bad for business.

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RIGHT, because hookers always do things right and never get forced to do something they don't want to do

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How would they know it was Pacino's, unless it was on file........which I doubt

What's brutal to one person might be entirely reasonable to someone else.

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Funniest thing for me was the killer aiming their gun at the end, almost poked their tongue out with concentration.

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My favorite part was how he payed $100 "plus tip" to rent the cab rather than just pay for a ride, and so in the last half of the movie, while all these crazy twists and revelations are coming to light as he's on the phone and driving around, I kept remembering the cabbie sitting in the backseat, probably wondering wtf was going on.

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This film had so many plot holes and ridiculous 'twists' that I couldn't help get the feeling that they were making it all up as they went along. His hair, his disinterested acting turn...embarrasing for Mr.Pacino and nearly everyone else involved.

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How nice of the cabbie to risk his career by letting some stranger use his car for a mere $100 plus tip. lol

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