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Misery

The Andy and Red – Zihuatanejo Award for What Happens the Next Day?

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Paul’s escape and the ensuing publicity are debated

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Approx. transcript time · 01:24:23Read transcript
  • Paul might crawl to a vehicle and attempt to drive despite his damaged legs
  • Police are expected to retrace the missing sheriff’s route and reach the house
  • A radio in the sheriff’s truck might provide another rescue path
  • An alternate ending has Paul crash again because his legs prevent him from driving
  • His ordeal is expected to become a People cover and major television interview story
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Misery

What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?

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An unfiltered cigarette and the bloodied typewriter are chosen

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Approx. transcript time · 01:26:10Read transcript
  • An unfiltered cigarette is selected
  • The typewriter, specifically with fake blood from the final fight, is selected
  • Brian Koppelman explains that his cigarette choice connects to a day spent with Stephen King, who rationed four cigarettes daily
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Misery

The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson

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Check the weather, avoid a Mustang in a blizzard, own a local home, and maintain check-in routines

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Approx. transcript time · 01:28:11Read transcript
  • “Do not have fans” is offered as the easy but impractical lesson
  • Check the weather and do not drive a 1966 Mustang in a blizzard
  • Mustangs are endorsed for California driving instead
  • A successful repeat visitor should buy a Colorado home
  • Travelers should check in before and after journeys so searches begin sooner
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Rocky III

Roger Ebert's review

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Roger Ebert did not publish a review; the panel instead recalls his television disappointment that Rocky had lost humor and charm.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:22:29Read transcript
  • The discussion explicitly says Roger Ebert did not review the film.
  • On the television program, Ebert reportedly said Rocky had lost his humor and charm.
  • The panel rejects that view and argues that Rocky remains funny and charming.
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Rocky III

Most Rewatchable Scene

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Thunderlips wins one ballot and the opening montage another; the statue confrontation, Mickey revelation, first Clubber fight, beach confession, training, final fight, and freeze-frame ending are also discussed.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:23:40Read transcript
  • The opening montage intercuts Rocky enjoying celebrity with Clubber destroying opponents, making both the story and threat immediately clear.
  • Thunderlips combines credible wrestling moves, comedy, crowd energy, Paulie’s chair attack, and the movie’s role in Hulkamania.
  • Clubber interrupting the statue ceremony turns a celebration into an escalating challenge and insult to Adrian.
  • Mickey’s admission that Rocky fought selected opponents reframes success as comfort and fear of the truly hungry challenger.
  • The first Clubber fight races from the simultaneous ring entrance through a brawl, early Rocky punches, a knockout, and Mickey’s death.
  • The beach confrontation is called Rocky and Adrian’s best scene because she forces him to admit fear without treating fear as shameful.
  • The training montage is energetic despite Apollo appearing to ease up in the race and the beach embrace becoming comic.
  • The final fight uses a large stated weight difference, a rope-a-dope strategy, and slow-motion reaction shots to build its comeback.
  • Stallone claimed that he and Mr. T went all out late in the final round, but the panel doubts it and allows that only some body punches may have landed.
  • The private Rocky-Apollo fight ends on a freeze-frame that felt like a cliffhanger even though later films never show the result.
  • Thunderlips wins one participant’s scene ballot because the nine-minute sequence contains nearly every kind of entertainment the film offers.
  • The opening montage wins another ballot because it immediately establishes the movie’s pace and stakes.
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Rocky III

What’s Aged the Best?

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The score, Thunderlips, Eye of the Tiger, Clubber Lang, Apollo, the pinball machine, Adrian, the supporting announcers, and key Mickey dialogue lead the praise.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:42:09Read transcript
  • The recurring fight overture still signals that Rocky’s comeback is beginning.
  • Thunderlips holds up because the wrestling is authentic and Hogan performs moves absent from much of his later career.
  • Eye of the Tiger remains culturally durable and was central to Hogan’s early crowd response.
  • Clubber Lang remains one of the strongest sports-movie villains because his spare presentation and verbal performance create menace.
  • Apollo’s training role is praised as one of Carl Weathers’s fullest performances in the series.
  • The rare Rocky pinball machine remains desirable and is said to sell for about nine thousand dollars.
  • The ten selected title-defense opponents have absurdly specific credited names that the panel enjoys reciting.
  • Clubber’s slow look into the camera became an iconic Mr. T image.
  • Rocky’s affluent house visually captures how far the family has risen.
  • Adrian’s appearance and confidence plausibly reflect the family’s new wealth while preserving the gradual change from the first two films.
  • Mickey’s warning that Rocky cannot win establishes the template later reused in Rocky IV.
  • Bill Baldwin and Stu Nahan are both said to have aged nicely.
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Rocky III

What’s Aged the Worst?

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The beach embrace, lost surprise, racial framing, Pushing, Rocky’s ingratitude, Paulie, the Rocky II recap, Mickey’s sudden Jewish history, and fight realism draw criticism.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:51:36Read transcript
  • The prolonged beach embrace and close shots are considered inexplicable and comic.
  • Knowledge of Mickey’s death, Rocky’s defeat, and Apollo’s arrival has erased the original theatrical surprise.
  • The discussion accepts Gene Siskel’s criticism that another loud Black antagonist could pander to racist viewers.
  • Frank Stallone’s song Pushing is judged weak beside the series’ better songs.
  • Rocky’s complaint that Mickey never used Apollo’s methods seems ungrateful while Apollo is trying to save his career.
  • Paulie’s racism and the decision to take him into a Black Los Angeles gym age especially poorly.
  • Opening with the end of Rocky II feels redundant on repeated viewing.
  • Mickey’s Goldmill surname and Jewish funeral arrive without prior character grounding and surprised the panel.
  • The women lifting Thunderlips’s robe and the extreme damage tolerated in the boxing scenes play worse after later combat-sports viewing.
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