Akazora

I guess it's more of Gosho's way of putting in a set of foil characters. Foil characters are characters that are opposites of each other, and they can either be great friends or worst enemies, depending on the situation. This can be seen in literature a lot when you look closely. It isn't anything that special.

Thanks Chekhov and User 4869! Helped clear up those parts for me.

They were involved because they needed the SD card (which the culprit had taken from the lady), so they sent Irish to act as a policeman so when they did catch the culprit, they could quickly retrieve the SD card and destroy it or delete the data. And as for your second question, I guess they just did that because they were partners in crime. One could also ask why Chianti and Korn both had to be there to shoot out Sato's and Tagaki's tires. One sniper would enough. Like I said, it's probably just to make it seem like there are more people involved.

I personally couldn't bear it either, and I'm not too sure what it was about either (though I forced myself to watch it twice), but I'll try my best. In a nutshell, the whole movie was some stupid thing about these thugs looking for some "treasure". They don't know what the treasure is, they just know it's a treasure. Also, there's this fat museum owner who wants the treature, too, I think. So he somehow has a riddle map thing that one of the two pirates ladies had (Forgot whether it was Mary Reed or Anne Bonnie. In fact, I don't even know if I spelled their names right), and he has a treasure hunt involving the map so he can lay claim to the "treasure" when someone finds it. Those are the main "antagonists", so to speak, of the whole movie. It's pretty apparent from the start, and a few red herrings were thrown in there that really didn't even make a difference. Somehow, the movie managed to stretch for a whole 1 hour and who knows how long it's been (everyone's just about asleep by now anyway), the thugs kidnap Ran and Sonoko (Ran somehow lost her karate powers from this point forward), force them along in a cave in an island, force them to unlock doors and test rooms for poison, and then finally they reach the treasure. And guess what? The treasure isn't a real treasure, it's a ship! Gasp! Wow, I didn't see that coming... So yeah, now the thugs are angry but then it's Conan to the rescue before Ran and Sonoko become shark bait. Then they run into the fat museum owner who somehow managed to follow them in the cave. Conan talks for a while, but no one can really understand what he's saying because half the stuff he talks about the audiance missed while they dozed off. After that, the cave starts flooding for no apparent whatsoever (what a coincidence), and Conan kicks a metal chain into the ceiling to ignite some gunpowdered rock I think. Everyone uses the oxygen tank thing, but Conan doesn't have one, so as the ship (with Ran, Conan, Sonoko, fat museum man, and the thugs in tow) rises out of the cave and into the open ocean, Ran gives Conan her air tank (this scene lasts 3 seconds, so be sure not to blink or else you'll miss it). After that, the movie is over, the ship collapses and sinks to the bottom of the ocean (just because they had no better way to end it), and it's the end. I know I didn't explain very well, but that's about all I got from the movie. If you don't get it, who cares? It's not worth understanding.

Part of me wants it to end soon (5 years or so) but part of me also wants it to end later (10 years or so). Since I'm a big fan of the movies (for entertainment puposes, since most of the actual episodes and chapters are boring), I'd like to see at least 25 total movies. I just can't accept the fact that there may be only 5 more movies and then that's it. I'd say 10 more would be nice. And if they have to end it soon, then have a 10 movie marathon, with one movie every half year if need be. I just want to see a 25th movie. I don't know why, that's just my opinion.

Agreed. He sort of reminds me of T.M. from our school for some reason... And T.M. can get on my nerves...

I just find the whole first episode to be extremely strange. Most of it has to do with Gin and Vodka and their actions. First off, why were they on the roller coaster? They're supposed to make a transaction, yet they find time to take a ride on a horror roller coaster. Secondly, why did they choose to make a transaction in an amusment park anyway? Out of all the places they could have used, they chose Tropical Land, where you have to pay to get in and where security lurks around. Third, Gin has a small reaction to Shinichi's name when the whole crowd at the roller coaster finds out he's the great detective. He obviously recognized it then, so why didn't Shinichi Kudo register as being the detective in future episodes? True, Gin may not remember he killed a guy named Shinichi Kudo, but he could at least remember Shinichi was the detective. Fourth, Gin hit Shinichi on the head with a bat. Where in god's name did the bat come from?! I expected Gin to have a gun, not a bat. Fifth, when Gin decoded to use poison to kill Shinichi instead of a gun because he was afraid of leaving a bullet trail, why did he shoot Pisco in a future episode? Wouldn't police obviously find his body and see he was murdered? Sixth, why was Gin carrying a huge box full of APTX-4869? If it was a prototype, why would Gin have it with him and why would there be so many? I guess some of these things were just used to move the storyplot along, but it doesn't really seem to fit with the whole picture of the BO and the rest of the series. I guess I shouldn't think too much about it, but that's just my two cents.