Still taking our sweet time in this sleepy summer, we return with a (relatively) in-depth look at a single film. Obviously, spoilers, but c'mon. If you've not seen this, then I don't even feel sorry for you being spoiled. It's your own fault for avoiding such a good movie for this long.

00:10 Intro
1:27 Recapping the lost first attempt
3:07 The deliberate homage to serial films
6:08 An Alfred Molina discursion
7:18 The good stuff
12:24 Museum nostalgia
14:36 Film as icon; sequels
17:20 Moichandising!
21:16 Casting...Alfred Molina!
28:36 Playing the heavy
30:55 Recycled sound effects
31:25 More movie connections
35:02 The implausibilities increase
38:06 Keeping it light
40:31 Influencing other movies
44:20 Denholm Eliot in brief
45:35 Summing up

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Music:
Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode