Which city do you think is the bank robbery capital of the US or even the world*? Struck by two cities claiming it lately in the openings of films. I actually think the full quotes were longer but this is what I can find online l
There are over 300 bank robberies in Boston every year. And a one-square-mile neighborhood in Boston, called Charlestown, has produced more bank and armored car robbers than anywhere in the U.S.
2400 times a year. 44 times a week. 9 times a day. Every 48 minutes. A bank is robbed here. This is the bank robbery capital of the world. Los Angeles.
Two sets of opening credits for two different films starring two of the worst actors... but which is more impressive and can truly claim the crown?
Is it Ben Affleck's The Town which has way fewer robberies, or is it Gerard Butler in Den of Thieves which apparently had no-one on set who could do basic maths or even operate a calculator?
I'm going for the latter, I love the thought of people going to all this trouble to make a film, getting the script and the crew and the actors. Putting the whole thing together like a really expensive and complex three dimensional jigsaw puzzle - and the very first thing you see or hear, the opening that reveals the culmination of all that work is someone reading stats that simply don't make sense, that are not internally consistent, but are in fact mathematically illiterate. Or just laughably stupid.
OK probably Butler wasn't directly responsible for this but I like to think that he was, that his grizzled Scottish tough guy spirit was standing behind the director saying "Listen here pal - ye can have some a they girly numbers in the film but keep em away from me eh? And make sure they are wrong, right?"
*though I suspect that this latter is creeping hyperbole of the kind that gets winners of US tournaments named as world champions - getting called on that is in the news just now I see
