Visible crew/equipment: During the scene when Robert De Niro meets Billy Crystal in his office, there is a flash of what I assume is the cameraman's finger over the frame. I believe it's right after Billy says, "So sorry."
Analyze This (1999)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake
Directed by: Harold Ramis
Starring: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Chazz Palminteri, Lisa Kudrow
Continuity mistake: When Dr Sobel is eating a dish of spaghetti in the restaurant, there is a dish of plain lasagna in the foreground. When Paul Viti's cousin arrives and the camera pulls back, the lasagna has melted cheese on top.
Paul Vitti: If I talk to you, and you turn me into a fag, I'm gonna kill you, you understand?
Ben Sobel: Well, let's define "fag", because sometimes, emotions can come up that...
Paul Vitti: I go fag, you die. Get it?
Trivia: Robin Williams was reportedly the original choice for the part of Ben Sobel. Tom Hanks was also considered before it went to Billy Crystal.
Question: When Nicky Shivers is being held hostage, De Niro is about to belt him in the face with a metal pipe and make him fall into a hole. This most likely would have been fatal. But De Niro has a change of heart and walks away. Then Nicky sardonically comments "Well geez, that was pretty painless." Given that he was just spared from a painful ending, why would he make such a smart-alec comment?
Chosen answer: That's how he dealt with facing certain death and then not being killed. Some would be silently grateful as you suggest, others wouldn't. Everyone reacts differently.
Captain Defenestrator