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I could not believe how awful Dwight Yokum looked. I didn’t even know it was him until I saw the credits.
Yikes!
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OK, looks like the thread’s about finished, so I’ll go ahead and hijack it.
The quoted statement really pisses me off. I think that people in the US are so sensitive to racism that it makes them think more racism occurs than it really does.
A black man gets caught red-handed breaking into a white woman’s house in Selma in the '60’s? Yep, he probably wouldn’t even make it back to the police station. But in modern-day New York (or whatever large city Panic Room was set in)? Please. Odds are he’ll get a fair trial and everything will be hunky-dory. Things really are better than some people would like to believe, and Michael Ellis’s dumb attitude actually makes it harder to reach the goal of complete color-blindness.
It was definitely New York City. Among other things, Burnham said that he worked for Manhattan Security.
Glad I’m not the only one who mistook the girl for a boy in the previews. During the first five minutes, I was wondering, “Why the hell did Jodie Foster name her son ‘Susan’???” 
I had a hard time accepting Forest Whitaker as a bad guy – it’s that sweet, innocent face of his. I really was hoping he’d get away at the end; after all, the money he stole didn’t belong to Jodie & her spawn! Watching all those paper bonds blow away in the wind was heart-rending…
And did anyone notice that one extra shot of Jared Leto, lying on the floor dead? It made me think he was gonna come back to live and attack Michael Meyers style. Now that would’ve been the ultimate cliche. 
Damn it, I was being sarcastic!