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What exactly would Travolta's plan have been if Jackman doesn't use the rocket launcher to blow up the helicopter? It seems like he is gambling a lot on the fact that this hacker will not only get the idea to use a rocket launcher, but will have good enough aim to hit the helicopter. Furthermore, what exactly does Travolta gain by faking his death? If he has the wealth to be such a Master of Disguise (btw, does Travolta use Energico?) then it doesn't seem like it would matter if he was alive or dead because no one would recognize him. And the fact that Jackman is still alive and now against Travolta means that Don Cheadle and the FBI would likely either ask or force Jackman to hack back in and get the money back that Travolta stole.

Why do they even bother to spread the stolen money evenly over 5 accounts? It would be understandable if they split it over hundreds of accounts, but $1.9 billion deposits are going to raise red flags just as quickly as a $9.5 billion lump sum.

This movie isn't really good with money. When Ginger gives the hacker the cash, we can clearly see there is only 4 packs of bills each marker $10,000, yet Ginger says it's $100,000. At the other extreme, in order for $400 million to grow to $9.5 billion in 15 years, it would have to collect interest at an average annual rate of 23%. If it grew at the actual rate of inflation, it would have ended out around $650 million.

Without hyperbole you could spend days talking about the opening scene and its monologue and where the scene falls into the timeline of the movie and you'd still only scratch the surface of it. There is so much to mine from it. However the one thing that really gets to me is why doesn't the swat team shoot Travolta? I mean at the end of the scene when he gets up and they point their gun at him he shows them he's holding what I presume is a dead man's trigger to the bombs. Fair enough, can't shoot him while he's holding it. But why didn't they shoot him sooner when he was just talking with his hands? There were great chances when he was lighting his cigar, which he smokes for all of 20 seconds and just leaves which is a total waste, or when checking his watch or drinking his coffee or one of the million actions he does with both his hands! How long were they standing there just doing nothing?

I like that they released this today - which is Halle Berry's birthday!

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I will be billing you for next week's therapy session

The Monticello website actually has a fact check about how Thomas Jefferson never shot anyone on the White House lawn and that the only source for that rumor is this movie! It's now called the Rodney Cox myth. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/execution-white-house-lawn

About Hugh Jackman's towel. (Which was a formative moment for young Elektra). I believe it is a sarong or a longyi, kind of what surfers wear--which is super in character for a hacker nerd. This was only Hugh Jackman's third American film. So if they had an ending like the Prestige, then it would've been the Prestige that copied Swordfish, I guess. (Except Prestige was based on a book that was published before this so it would've been Prestige copied by Swordfish which was copied by the Prestige.) Very meta. I remember very little of this movie but I have some memories of the press tour. It was all about how Halle Berry got paid extra to show her boobs. And I remember and interview with Hugh Jackman where he was very impressed by John Travolta's knowledge of food. Here is a disturbing video that I never got out of my head: ETA: the other thing. To Jason’s point that Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman seemed to know each other. ... they do. They just did X-Men together! And it was such a traumatic experience (see link) so maybe they are just relieved to see the other one survived and forgot to act. Quote: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/bryan-singers-traumatic-x-men-set-movie-created-a-monster-1305081

Regarding Travolta's little bikini wax goatee. They were hip in the early 2000s, plenty of dudes had them, I called it the Nu-Metal goatee.

What - what the-

The tale of a kid and his sentient dirt bike. It contains ridiculous plot points and dialog throughout making this film a great fit for the podcast. Wikipedia IMDB

This movie was a crime against style. No one looked good. Travolta has that landing strip on his face, side highlights, AND A BERET . He goes on about how "clothes make the man" while he's out here looking like a Men's Warehouse reject. High Jackman is playing golf in a bright orange loincloth and has the shittiest earring I ever did see. Poor Halle Berry looks like THAT (IS a goddess not of this world) and they put her in the most God awful fabrics known to man. That blue blousey number?! Did the costume designer just hate everyone on set? I'm not even going to touch on the daughter's clothes

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s575HVIg4Y IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/...ref_=fn_al_tt_1 So I saw this movie with my brother a couple days ago. It was on a dvd movie collection he got at Wal-Mart called "Strange Things" that had eleven horror movies. We knew this movie had to be bad considering it was in a set like this, but even knowing that, I was not prepared. It's honestly one of the most baffling movies I've seen. They try for so many jokes that just don't land, the premise is insane and makes no sense, the characters are so inconsistent, and it has some of the worst looking werewolf costume/make up I've ever seen. And I don't want to spoil it, but the ending is completely crazy. It was terrible, and I was confused but enjoying it the whole way through. Definitely think this one is worth checking out. There are so many moments in this movie that I want to talk about.

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Apparently Vinnie Jones was saved from serious injury in a stunt when Travolta convinced him to let a stuntman do it. Hey, how about if a stunt looks too dangerous, you recommend no one does it, not just the principal cast.

The music in the blowjob hacking scene sounds like a hybrid of the Snatch theme and the music from the Turkey Sandwich/Hubcap vehicle On the Line.

One last quote from that article. Shade was thrown.

On a special improv4humans, Matt Besser is joined by a panel of regular folks (Chad Carter, Sean Conroy, Lisa Gilroy) and Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell (Kenny Stevenson) – all of whom are pro-truth and anti-mask. They’ll break down which medical conditions prevent mask usage, debate the risks of government ‘chin recognition’, and review footage of those brave souls filmed in public refusing to back down and mask up.

Here's a Rolling Stone article with Chris Frantz from 2014.

I will continue to bump this until Hard Target gets its proper due. Once again, Wilford Brimley rocks a Cajun accent and shoots people with a bow and arrow. And that is one of the least bonkers aspects of this minor miracle of a movie.

I watched this a couple of months back for the first time and like yourself I went in not expecting anything but I ended up enjoying it because there is just so many WTAF parts to it. IT is worth a watch for those who have not seen it just don't expect a proper horror film as this is more comedy than anything

Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the worst comic book adaption in cinema history. That's right. Worse than "The Spirit". In an IGN.com interview, Jamie Lee Curtis said the following about Virus: "Rob Reiner for his 40th birthday had a bad show business party where everybody brought [clips from bad movies we were in]. Virus is so bad that it's shocking. That would be the all time piece of shit. It's just dreadful. That's the only good reason to be in bad movies. Then when your friends have [bad] movies you can say 'Ahhhh, I've got the best one. I'm bringing Virus.'"