Good morning Earful fans, and what a morning to take in "Vantage Point" (2008). Chills, spills, snipes, and viewpoints are underway!

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Hi, I'm Alan and I'll be commenting on this film. Excited to see some great vantage points. #vanpoint08

Hi, Hervey here and I'll also be commenting; a bit early for me, but I expect the excitement of "Vantage Point" (2008) to get my blood moving #vanpoint08

This intro feels like a video game intro. #vanpoint08

We are already seeing vantages in the opening credits; also this Original Film is looking beautiful in 2.35:1 #vanpoint08

This movie is already *very* 2008, in that it is obsessed with terrorism. #vanpoint08

Exciting to see the inner workings of famous news organization GNN. #vanpoint08

We're recapping the post 9/11 era, which has apparently been characterized by ever-mounting deaths at the hands of terrorists

(But we're also learning this is classic GNN propaganda) #vanpoint08

This movie is full of so much unearned drama already. #vanpoint08

Despite all the extremely intricate directing, these camera shots look very shaky and off-angle. #vanpoint08

Thomas Barnes is the greatest of all the presidential-assassination heroes, insofar as he's a lunchpail hero, not one of these hotdogging hip-hop style heroes #vanpoint08

President William Hurt has been shot #vanpoint08

This movie has taken a sudden, dark, and unexpected turn. #vanpoint08

Angie absolutely messing this one up. Get it together, Angie. #GetItTogetherAngie #vanpoint08

Angie is fucking up her news spot just because she saw an assassination and an explosion #badworkangie #vanpoint08

Someone had quite the vantage point on this one. #vanpoint08

Angie got blown up. Great, just great #badjobangie #vanpoint08

Angie will be mourned and remembered for her failed attempt to report on the assassination. #vanpoint08

Extremely powerful "rewind" vibe, I actually *understand* what it means to go back in time now #vanpoint08

The Secret Service crew are *extremely* catty #vanpoint08

It's Racer X! #vanpoint08

The Spanish crowd is asserting that President Hurt is the "#1 Terrorist"; there is a very enthusiastic man with a huge boom mike #vanpoint08

Good setup where the President needs to walk through the angry protestors outside the venue before getting inside. #vanpoint08

We're seeing it from a different vantage point now! Genius film conceit! #vanpoint08

It should have been called "Vantage Points" then imo #vanpoint08

Flutter on the second floor! #vanpoint08

Beautiful era for consumer-grade cameras and camcorders #vanpoint08

President William Hurt has been shot #vanpoint08

Dennis Quaid has extremely good eyesight. #vanpoint08

Dennis Quaid's eyesight is nothing compared to the power of a consumer-grade camcorder from 2008, however. #vanpoint08

The resolution on the Sony camcorder Forrest Whitaker used to record local windows has come in handy; it apparently is better at revealing bombs than reality #vanpoint08

We're stuck in a time loop. Gotta get out of this loop. #vanpoint08

Letting a guy with a gun be in the surrounding building is bad, but worth underlining just how bad the Secret Service did at securing the perimeter wrt bombs #vanpoint08

Control is down! Not good. #vanpoint08

The Spanish police are apparently wholly in charge of the perimeter for this space, and they're doing a very laid-back job #vanpoint08

Good security protocols at this venue, where a police badge is enough to get you in with a weapon. #vanpoint08

Enrique does not seem to be working in a police capacity

I'm worried about the health of the Spanish leader Vladimir Lenin #vanpoint08

President William Hurt has been shot #vanpoint08

Enrique should be saying "there's a bomb" instead the vague "there's a danger", etc #vanpoint08

If Dennis Quaid's character was triggered by the still shot of his previous incident, imagine how he'd respond to watching this movie. #vanpoint08

Lot of chaotic storytelling in the saga of Enrique and his various bomb-throwing female associates #vanpoint08

I'm genuinely having trouble trying to understand whether they're coding Enrique as someone to root for or against, but not in an interesting way, just a very muddy way #vanpoint08

Indiscriminate shooting into a street full of people seems like an extreme tactic to catch this guy. #vanpoint08

Oh hell yeah! New viewpoint: the Sony handicam vantage! #vanpoint08

FINALLY we get to see Camcorder Guy's perspective. And it's presented with flowing Spanish guitar behind it. #vanpoint08

It's easy to make friends when you have a cool Sony Handicam recording in immersive 1080i #vanpoint08

Camcorder Guy is everybody's friend. #vanpoint08

I want to see more of camcorder guy having low-stakes interactions with locals, and much less about the whole assassination thing

This is delightful #vanpoint08

Oh no, Camcorder Guy only has 58 mins of battery left. Seems risky IMO. #vanpoint08

President William Hurt has been shot #vanpoint08

Camcorder Guy got *everything*. What a stroke of luck. #vanpoint08

It's not luck, it's @sony #vanpoint08

The ULTIMATE revenge call to the soon-to-beex-wife here. #vanpoint08

Confused why Camcorder Guy said that Enrique "was telling the truth" about Veronica (I assumed about her throwing a bomb), but clearly had no worries about the bomb himself #vanpoint08

I'll say it right now: I have no interest in spending 36 hours analyzing this film. #vanpoint08

Honestly, having one or several vantages suddenly cut off during the bombing would have been an interesting narrative move; it doesn't feel right to see all our protagonists quickly stir to life seconds later #vanpoint08

Camcorder Guy *always* gets the shot. #vanpoint08

GNN should hire Camcorder Guy to their crew (and fire Angie) #vanpoint08

Pedestrian bridge! The ultimate vantage point. #vanpoint08

Now these are *real* stakes: Camcorder Guy is on a pedestrian overpass, looking over the lives of vulnerable pedestrians #vanpoint08

NEW VANTAGE: President William Hurt himself #vanpoint08

President Hurt's vantage point! The Big Boss, at last! #vanpoint08

The Presidential Double! I like how President Hurt asserts that the previous uses of doubles weren't for "anything this big". It's abundantly clear the stakes have never been higher. #vanpoint08

Morocco is harboring terrorists, and must be unilaterally attacked, according to Bruce McGill #vanpoint08

"We needed someone to sell the double" #classicmovielines #vanpoint08

President William Hurt (double) has been shot #vanpoint08

"I'm done talking." -President William Hurt #classicmovielines #vanpoint08

This is getting interesting now. #vanpoint08

I'm with Bruce McGill, we can't afford to wait a single second to attack Morroco, or else terrorists may start doing attacks #vanpoint08

"We're fine here. We're safe." -President William Hurt #classicmovielines #vanpoint08

President William Hurt is about to get shot #vanpoint08

NEW VANTAGE: the ice cream girl, but also other random Spaniards?

Veronica is showing off a hostage video on some sort of PDA or phone or tamagotchi #vanpoint08

2008 was a huge year for PDAs. #YearOfThePDA #vanpoint08

I guess the vantage is actually Sam, the guy who befriended Camcorder Guy, and who is actually apparently a terrorist; seems cheating to see vantages he can't see #vanpoint08

I'm dubbing this vantage "the bad guys". #vanpoint08

"Let's make ourselves a shooter" #famousmovielines #vanpoint08

TWIST ALERT: The fan was PDA-activated the entire time!! #vanpoint08

The evil mastermind has a really incredible PDA. #vanpoint08

President William Hurt (double) has been shot (by a PDA-controlled gun) #vanpoint08

This is the perfect plan #theperfectplan #vanpoint08

They should've called this movie Collateral Damage. #vanpoint08

When terrorists and governments play cat-and-mouse games of doubles, intrigue, and misdirection, it's always innocent civilians who pay the price #vanpoint08

One man, one PDA, and the element of surprise. The ultimate combination. #vanpoint08

I love how they sent out the Secret Service B-Team who can't even recognize when the president is replaced by an imposter #vanpoint08

I saw all these twists coming #vanpoint08

It was Racer X the whole time! #vanpoint08

Not sure the Secret Service can just commandeer someone's car in Spain. Seems suspect. #vanpoint08

This movie is ultimately about jurisdictional disputes #vanpoint08

They're gonna do a President swap under the underpass #vanpoint08

"Son of a bitch." -Thomas Barnes #classicmovielines #vanpoint08

I was wondering why Veronica was in an ambulance earlier; I should have seen all this coming #vanpoint08

I think it's safe to say that President Hurt is having a very bad day. #vanpoint08

Thomas Barnes just got T-boned, but turned it into a 360-degree powerslide #vanpoint08

This movie has a lot in common with Speed Racer. 2008 was the year of spinning cars instantly regaining forward momentum. #vanpoint08

This movie really underlines how, so long as cars exists, pedestrians are truly safe nowhere #vanpoint08

Reaching "Dear Sister" levels of characters suddenly pulling guns on each other for reasons that are difficult to discern #vanpoint08

Racer X is really good at driving. #vanpoint08

Have we just dropped the whole perspective thing at this point? Whose vantage point are we even in? #vanpoint08

Pretty sure the entire population of Salamanca, Spain has now been shot #vanpoint08

President William Hurt has been shot #vanpoint08

This movie is basically an extended episode of Chicago PD / Chicago Med. #vanpoint08

Ice cream girl has narrowly avoided being killed by the overturned ambulance containing the president #vanpoint08

Thank god the President is alive. #vanpoint08

Thank god Camcorder Guy is alive. #vanpoint08

I was expecting a more grounded movie featuring on minutia within the original stage for the speech, I was not expecting it to go so many *places*, and to be this stupid, I love it #vanpoint08

This movie started with unearned drama and finished with unearned pathos. Incredible film. #vanpoint08

I love "Vantage Point" (2008), a story so badly told, that it keeps going backward to make things more clear, and it just get more and more confusing every time #vanpoint08

There's no way they flew Marine One to Spain. Why is Marine One in Spain? This is the one flaw in the film. #vanpoint08

They did too much hand-holding, I would recut this movie so all the scenes occur simultaneously #vanpoint08

I realized what I knew Bruce McGill from: he was Major Ed Ryan on Babylon 5! It all connects. #vanpoint08

President William Hurt has been shot #vanpoint08

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1503108914254172167

[This is a breaking news bulletin that William Hurt had died. -ed.]