Nighthawk

I'd go back to fifteen minutes before you asked this question and punch you in the face.

A magazine cover. A poster or a marquee. A shirt. Do you move about freely within the town you live in? I don't know what they look like or who they are either, but I could easily discern it from context. Don't play dumb, now.

Surly?

That's true, I often don't extrapolate as to where the story goes after it ends, just his one time aversion of nuclear war.

You're an idiot, Cheech.

Man, I still don't like how Adrian always gets called the "villain". He was totally in the right. The story has no villain. If it's anyone, it's Comedian, and he, as a government agent, was also in the right, in a more direct sense. This is a lot of the key dynamic, the way I interpret the story.

Pbone. We're done with you. Go back to the golf course and work on your puts.

You idiot. If a small portion of the audience got it, it would have a small point. Completely pointless would mean that it had no point at all.

What is this from? What it's parodying, I mean.

Fuck each and every last one'a ya'll.

Well, since a comic read would recognize that, wouldn't that make it not completely pointless? TSM posters and their adjectives... do you ever consider what they mean?

Fuck it (spoiler tagging). But yeah, that's why he had to kill millions of people, presumably. In any case, this was a more urgent situation, signified by the doomsday clock... nuclear war was metaphorically right around the corner. Averting that was the primary function. PS: fuck Smues.

It never inspired any reverence or sorrow in me, so I personally wouldn't have seen reason to tip toe around it in any movie, but I acknowledge that's the exception.

"Now" is not a time, what time do you close?

Solution would be to show it prominently earlier in the film, but it's the fault of the audience. They were clearly visible during Adrian's introduction, where he's looking out his office windows. I even noted that as a good moment to show them. I'd venture to call them NY's most prominent landmark, while they were around, but I don't think they had any particular significance here, and you can't have them destroyed in the attack, for political reasons, so there you go. They're going to have to be there, so may as well place them front and center ("won't this look neat"). And I agree... I never cared about 9/11, but by this point, I won't even grant them the courtesy of politely sidestepping it.