That's brilliant, Eel.

The best I can do is http://www.amazon.com/Where… which is about an FBI agent who goes after bank thieves. It's breezy and a little bit cynical and a really fun read. Has a great, weird scene involving J. Edgar Hoover acting like a medieval pope.

No Country for Old Men had very realistic gun sounds as well. That, and Mann's movies all capture the metal hammering sound, instead of just the bang noise.

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Helicopters would have had a hard time navigating the skyscrapers downtown. If the cops were up against guys who knew how to layer fire and use organized retreat tactics, it is a stretch, but not really unbelievable that they would have gotten away.

…jesus wallflower, that sounds like a perfect meal.

Also, Hanna is a…not fully rational guy. He wants to CRUSH these guys, not just send them away for a few years. It isn't because he's a dedicated guy who believes that they are serious thieves who deserve a serious sentence. Hanna is a hugely competitive, Type-A personality who needs to win, and win in a serious…

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Mann is supposedly a trained gun instructor and uses full loads on the set, which is why the guns sound loud and terrifying. The shootouts in PUBLIC ENEMIES are similar. They make it seem like just being AROUND a gun battle would be exhausting from the sound alone.

Black Sunday is fantastic! And Barbara Steele is fantastic.

Too true. Kennedy seemed to have 1.) Firm decision-making skills, in that he wasn't a terrible waffler and 2.) A real eye for talent, both political and administrative. His cabinet was a murderers row of Guys You Want In Government, and his VP choice was brilliant, in that it ensured him Texas and got Johnson out of…

I always think the same thing, Jordo! He's able to pull some outstanding performances from nearly everyone. And particularly with any female actress, who just go incredibly far in his movies.

Glad you like. I have a hard time thinking of a worse fate than being trapped with Anthony. It's a hell so bad you force yourself to BELIEVE it is good.

It's not….extremely bad. The inference of what you are seeing is much worse than the footage. It's a helicopter that lands on on three people, but it isn't very gory or even very close.

Just a great short horror story. You get all the background, the crucible of immediate drama, and then the end, and there's nothing more to say. Brilliant!

I wont rest until I post a link the short story in every thread.

It's really necessary to post the original story here. It is unbeleivably creepy.  http://www.fys.ku.dk/~thoeg…

Oh man! He does a great job of cartoony "scared beyond shitless". Whenever I play Call of Cthulhu, I always imagine this is what happened you badly fail a sanity roll and immediately become a screaming, howling maniac of a human.

Yeah! I can't remember exactly what the camera and Lithgow do, but it absolutely hammers the viewer that THINGS ARE BEYOND CRAZY from this point forward.

"Hey, who wants this lighter?"
Oh Kit, you doofus. I imagine that guys like James Holmes and Jared Laughner have the same center-of-the-world complex and similar tendencies to imagine their crimes in self-aggrandizing ways.

Maybe my favorite thing that Kit does, in the whole movie, is record that absurd monologue of advice into the Rich Man's dictophone. He is so blithe about the whole thing and so certain that his murder spree must have a larger meaning.