M.c.Boss

Two issues with this movie I could not stop thinking about throughout the entire excruciating experience: 1.) At the beginning of the movie there is a tremendous amount of tension regarding the truck crossing the rope bridge. Ultimately they decide to have short round drive the truck over the bridge and we all get a chuckle out of the expendable life of a child minority. In THE VERY NEXT SHOT the truck comes to a stop and the leader says "I can see on the map that we have to walk from here." THEN WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU TAKE THE TRUCK ACCROSS THE BRIDGE?! JUST FUCKING WALK!!! It's not that much further to walk from the cave back over the bridge. It seems like a crazy unnecessary risk with very little benefit. 2.). My biggest issue was something the gang touched on briefly in the podcast which is the strength of these skulls. The Phantom says that they are 1,000 times more powerful than the most powerful explosive on Earth. At that time the most powerful explosive was TNT. 1 metric ton of TNT puts out 4.184 gigajoules of energy. A metric ton is a shit load of explosive, it's essentially a cube 28 feet on each side. Let's say the skulls are 1,000 times more powerful than that. Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was conceived by Robert Oppenheimer 5 years after this movie exists. That bomb was 21,000 times more powerful than a ton of TNT. So if my math is correct WHO THE FUCK CARES IF HE GETS THESE SKULLS?!?!?! The US is precipitously close to inventing a weapon 21 times more powerful than these skulls. If he gets them and is expedient in his rise to power he gets what, 1 or 2 years before he's blown the fuck up? So to summarize, this movie had dumb villans, a powerless hero and nothing at stake. 5 stars.