Eating Noddemix wrote:A few of the scenes really stuck out, most notably the initial interview between the three cops and their main suspect. (The actor who played said suspect did an EXCELLENT job, btw -- he was that character.)

He'll always be Drew's cross-dressing big brother to me.

Oh, that guy was on the Drew Carey show? Ha.

I thought he was the husband "Normy" in Fargo? Same guy? I never watched Drew Carey.

Eating Noddemix wrote:So, NOT CRAP, but with a stack of waffles.

I read this as "Stack o' Wheats" (hello, Sleepkid) because I am currently obsessed with this.

cesb wrote:I thought he was the husband "Normy" in Fargo? Same guy? I never watched Drew Carey.

Yup, that's the guy. He's easy to overlook, but I've always thought a great actor. Did circles upon circles around everyone on Drew Carey.

skatingbasser wrote:

cesb wrote:I thought he was the husband "Normy" in Fargo? Same guy? I never watched Drew Carey.

Yup, that's the guy. He's easy to overlook, but I've always thought a great actor. Did circles upon circles around everyone on Drew Carey.

John Carroll Lynch. Saw him in a zillion plays in Minneapolis.

I watched this on Halloween. Seen it three times since then. Really good.

NOT CRAP.

watching it now. really good. love the period details. not crap.

The thing that got me was twenty reviews that all said "There's no conclusion", which I think might have hurt it in the box office a bit. I can only assume these people were watching a different film. There's a very obvious conclusion. It's not even subtle, there's clearly a suspect who is head and shoulders above the others. There's a scene towards the end of the movie that confirms it. How you could miss it is absolutely beyond me. After seeing this film, I was as convinced of who was responsible for these murders as I was at the end of 'Psycho'.

So good, this film. It isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, namely because it can't help but present itself as a crime thriller. There are relatively lame and over-dramatic scenes with some hammy acting but it is so watchable that I found myself not caring. There's a certain genius to making a mainstream film which is also relatively left-field. Very cool.

Just saw this and thought it was all right.

I once read a book called Times 17, written by a mensa member named Gareth Penn. He claimed the zodiac code contained further secrets that only he had discovered. It went something like if you convert the letters in the zociac code letters to morse code, then the morse code to binary code (dot=one,dash=zero), you got a series of numbers that served as reference points on a map that pointed to locations that were key to the zodiac's sprees. He claimed to have solved the case and named the zodiac as a real individual, then serving on a city council somewhere in Massachusetts. At some later point in time, someone else accused Gareth Penn of himself being the zodiac, offering their own set of proofs.