Zodiac
So T and I saw Zodiac today, after some filling blue corn pancakes with bananas and orange honey butter. Unfortunately, the place where we eat them has been discovered...it was much busier today than it's ever been before at that hour.
Zodiac was 2 hours and 40 minutes long, but it felt shorter. I was thoroughly engaged. I thought all the main actors (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo) did a good job, and there were a lot of fun actors in smaller roles (Chloe Sevigny, Ione Skye, Dermot Mulroney and Donal Logue, with his gingery hair toned down for the part).
There were a few inconsistencies that jumped out at me (skip this part if you're anti-spoiler, though I don't think it will give too much away).
1) One part of the movie was set in 1983, but a calendar in the auto repair shop said February 1980.
2) They got a warrant for the key suspect in 1990...22 years after the first murder. They were able to do this because they tracked down the only guy who saw the killer without a mask, and the guy identified the killer from a photo. The guy was living in Ontario, Canada...not that far away. Couldn't they have located him in 1968? They knew about him then, but they said, "He doesn't want to be involved. He skipped town."
Other than these little problems, I enjoyed the movie immensely. It was not too gory, either. And the killings were all near the beginning. Most of it was about the cat-and-mouse game and the suspense and high stakes involved.
Zodiac was 2 hours and 40 minutes long, but it felt shorter. I was thoroughly engaged. I thought all the main actors (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo) did a good job, and there were a lot of fun actors in smaller roles (Chloe Sevigny, Ione Skye, Dermot Mulroney and Donal Logue, with his gingery hair toned down for the part).
There were a few inconsistencies that jumped out at me (skip this part if you're anti-spoiler, though I don't think it will give too much away).
1) One part of the movie was set in 1983, but a calendar in the auto repair shop said February 1980.
2) They got a warrant for the key suspect in 1990...22 years after the first murder. They were able to do this because they tracked down the only guy who saw the killer without a mask, and the guy identified the killer from a photo. The guy was living in Ontario, Canada...not that far away. Couldn't they have located him in 1968? They knew about him then, but they said, "He doesn't want to be involved. He skipped town."
Other than these little problems, I enjoyed the movie immensely. It was not too gory, either. And the killings were all near the beginning. Most of it was about the cat-and-mouse game and the suspense and high stakes involved.
Comments
You're very observant to notice the date on the calendar.
I'll bet you were a good lawyer.
The pancakes are very good. Too good.