Come anticipate David Fincher's "Zodiac"

I thought this film would have a lingering effect on me when I moved to SF last summer. Instead it's just creeped me out about Vallejo.

― Cosmo Vitelli

belated but lol when i drove thru Vallejo a few years back i kept flashing back to that opening scene w/the wide shot of the city at night, fireworks popping off everywhere.

Exactly the shot I misidentify. Also, I had intended to talk about the supporting cast--I almost put it up there with Godfather II for all the small supporting roles beyond the three principals--and typically forgot.

i've met two people who were in this film in very, very small but specifically memorable roles, one of whom i was kinda pals with through a place she worked, and the other because we were both helping install a mutual friend's front window.

If you don't mind me asking, which characters?

for the former, she came upon Ione Skye on the side of the road after her encounter with the possible Zodiac, and the latter was more memorably the older Mike Mageau

(the former was credited as "woman" so maybe the role isn't that memorable)

Older Mike Mageau is great. Last three lines of the film are his: "It's at least an eight. Only other time I saw this face was on July 4, 1969. I'm very sure that's the man who shot me." The actor's name is Jimmi Simpson, and he was weirdly memorable in a couple of seasons of House of Cards as Gavin Orsay, a hacker being manipulated by the FBI.

Ahem that's MCPOYLE

Pretty prominent role in Westworld too, I like seeing him in stuff

Love him, but he'll never top It's Always Sunny. He really chews up the scenery in those appearances.

Used to be married to Melanie Lynskey too, but she's with Jason Ritter now.

honestly never saw him in anything else! glad to report he was just a remarkably nice guy.

emmy material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7HURhtyHgE

also find it humrous that young Mageau was the nerdy kid from One Tree Hill

way overdue for a rewatch of this movie.

xpost and MINKUS ON BOY MEETS WORLD WTF I NEVER MADE THE CONNECTION