Charlie's Angels: The Movie - 2000 Nitpick. Sorry L.L Cool J. you're not that strong. In the opening scene Drew Barrymore in disguise grabs the man from his seat, walks over to an exit, opens the door, and jumps out. In flight when the plane is pressurized, there is anywhere from 7 to 8.5 lbs. of pressure pushing on every square inch of that door (do the math, it comes out to the weight of a large vehicle). When the handle is rotated, it draws the door in slightly then you push it open. The pressurization is also what keeps the handle from rotating. In the movie they didn't even touch a handle, they just walked up to it and it opened. They would have broken the handle off before they got that door open.

also, there was a scene in the test screening that I saw that had Cameron Diaz cutting a hydraulic line to a helicopter trim system. The helicopter in question does NOT have any trim system, much less a hydraulic one!

Wow, what a cheesy movie! I've only seen about twenty minutes of it on Cinemax today, but I can tell it's laughably bad. But even though it's a cheesy movie, my nitpicking has no bounds!

Nit: For some reason, the GSP satellite is able to actually track someone (in both normal visual AND thermal mode at the same time) and home in on them SIDEWAYS. Silly me, I thought Satellites could only look straight down on things. Technology is amazing!

This movie is also another great case of "The Villain explains every little detail of his plan before he kills the hero" disease.

And speaking of which, how come Knox doesn't kill Drew Barrymore's character after he captures her? He tried to kill her once before, but for some reason he just ties her up.

These girls are also remarkably resilient. All three of them are caught in a huge explosion that throws them back at least 50 feet into a parked car. Not a bruise on 'em. Not even from the debris flying all around them.

Drew Barrymore's character falls at least 30 feet off of a building and rolls down a steep hill, but is also fine.

Somehow, an arror is able to remain securely pierced through the plating of a helicopter while supporting three people on a thin wire. Not even taking the drag from flying so fast into account, I doubt the light armor of a helicopter is going to hold an arrow like that.

It's amazing how what appears to be an army helicopter as a "MAIN FLIGHT CONTROLS" wire hanging out the bottom of it. Even more amazing is that it's clearly marked as such.

Lucy Liu's character has the magical ability of all movie characters: Namely, to perform incredibly complex operations with a computer in about three seconds simply by typing quickly.

"Hacking into GSP satellite tracking system....DONE!"

Anyway, there's my nits from watching only twenty minutes.

but I can tell it's laughably bad.

Funny I though it was laughably good.

When Drew Barrymore's character (who is supposed to be nude) rolls down the hill you can tell that she is wearing a flesh colored bodysuit.

What I found enjoyable about this movie was that it seemed that no one involved was taking it too seriously.

Yea, I remember right before it came out a friend of mine said "I don't want to see it. It looks like it's just going to be a bunch of half naked girls doing a bunch of stunts" To which I replied "So explain to me again why you don't want to see it."

Ninety million dollars for a film version of a second rate jiggle show from the '70's. I guess there are no original ideas left.
In my opinion, the '70's was a tremendous void on the TV landscape, with nonsense like "Angels", "Three's Company", "Rhoda" (not to mention the lack of "Trek.")

I loved Three's Company as a kid. It was one of those shows I watched with my parents and sister every week. But yeah, now that I'm older, the writing is really corny and contrived.

I watched this pic on HBO last week, and it started out with some clever self-mockery. However, it was quickly into the porcelain fixture from there.
Most of my current TV watching is of '80's shows-"St. Elsewhere", "thirtysomething", "Hill Street Blues" (all three of which are running on Bravo) and the nightly Next Gen repeats on TNN.
"Three's Company" is unwatchable, in my book (apologies to you and your family, Luigi.) The same one plot, done over and over, with a few John Ritter pratfalls and a lot of jiggle. "Welcome Back, Kotter" is more watchable (and that was pretty bad; 22 minutes of schtick; although John Travolta was better there than he was in "Broken Arrow.")

Nah, don't sweat it, Adam. I was a kid. Looking back at it now the writing is really cheesy. (I didn't tell that to John Ritter when I met him in NYC, of course, but I was polite to him and told him he brought a lot of laughter to us each week when I was a kid.)

Course, my father is still a fan of it, and watches the reruns on cable.

No accounting for taste.

This probably goes on the "Underrated Actors" board, but Ritter is a much better actor than he's been given credit for. He's just tarred with the slapstick "Jack Tripper" label.

For a while, Robin Williams was had the same problem... he was "Mork From Ork", but he was able to break stereotype. His breakthrough film was probably the not-so-stellar "Moscow on the Hudson", but it got him out of the stereotype. He's done some fine work, see Homicide's second season episode "Bop Gun".

You know, I love movies with complicated security systems. This movie has the worst security I've seen since the first Mission Impossible movie (and that's pretty bad-- couldn't they just keep track of whether someone uses the terminal when the technician isn't in the room?).

Let's go through the sequence of going through the vault: the directors (or someone copying their fingerprints and retinas) open the door. They walk into a room monitored by security, where they put on suits that allow them to breathe once the air is apparently pumped out. They walk past the camera and go into the mainframe room itself (which, strangely enough, apparently has pressure plate sensors that seem to be active whether the vault is opened properly or not).

Now, once the Angels open the door, Natalie walks in and puts on an outfit that makes her effectively invisible (while allowing her to breathe). So, in other words, they've just opened the vault and instead of putting on a suit that would disguise her identity anyhow, Natalie walks through so she seems invisible. If you were monitoring a top-security vault that was just opened, wouldn't you be a little suspicious if nobody came through the room, particularly if someone unseen opened up the door at the other end?

Also, there doesn't seem to be any way to access the mainframe itself from inside the room unless you bring your own special hacking equipment with you. Again, that's assuming you don't set off the pressure-plate alarm that's still active when you access the vault under proper protocols. Definitely very user friendly.