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The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson

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The hosts enumerate ten lessons using movie lines and their own addenda.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:31:53Read transcript
  • When you love someone, you have to trust them and give them the key to everything, though the hosts dispute the advice.
  • Have the hole dug before arriving in the desert with a body.
  • For gangsters, Vegas washes away sins like a morality car wash.
  • Casinos are the only winners; players do not stand a chance.
  • In Vegas, everyone watches everyone else.
  • Keep players playing and returning because the longer they play, the more they lose.
  • There is the right way, the wrong way, and Ace’s way.
  • A control freak should avoid dating an attractive grifter who does not love him.
  • Do not give one partner sole access to a two-million-dollar security deposit.
  • Avoid dating someone with an ex named Lester.
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Most Rewatchable Scene

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The cheater punishment and count-room system lead a huge scene field including the whale, Nicky’s arrival, arguments, murders, and old-Vegas ending.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:36:29Read transcript
  • The casino surveillance and count-room explanation is nominated.
  • The Ichikawa whale sequence is nominated.
  • Ginger’s entrance is nominated.
  • The card-counter and cheater punishment is a leading choice.
  • Nicky’s arrival and ban montage are nominated.
  • Ace confronting Ginger about Lester in the diner is nominated.
  • Ace and Nicky’s argument about lost control is nominated.
  • Catherine Scorsese in the wiretap scene is nominated.
  • The desert argument is nominated.
  • The Lester finger-snapping confrontation is nominated.
  • Nicky and Ginger’s affair material is nominated.
  • The murder montage and cornfield killing are nominated.
  • The old-Vegas ending is nominated.
  • The sports-book operations are nominated.
  • Ginger’s wedding phone call to Lester is nominated.
  • Ace giving Ginger the fur coat is nominated.
  • The film’s opening fifteen minutes are nominated as a run.
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What’s Aged the Best?

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Sharon Stone, old Las Vegas, casino systems, music, costumes, and supporting performances dominate aged-best.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:00:03Read transcript
  • Sharon Stone’s performance is praised.
  • De Niro and Pesci’s improvisation is praised.
  • Pesci becoming violent in bars is praised.
  • Ginger tipping service workers is praised.
  • The head-vice sequence and its ratings history are discussed.
  • The old Strip and real locations are praised.
  • James Woods is praised.
  • Ginger’s scenes with her daughter are discussed.
  • Nicky’s recurring oral-sex behavior is treated as a darkly comic character detail.
  • Frank Vincent and Pesci reversing power from Goodfellas is praised.
  • Ginger’s beehive and diamonds are praised.
  • The golf-course airplane landing is praised.
  • The casting of old-Vegas personalities is praised.
  • Aces High is praised.
  • The music choices are praised.
  • The count room is praised.
  • The blueberry-muffin complaint is praised.
  • The explosive opening is praised.
  • The Rain Man dealer is praised.
  • Scorsese’s inventive cocaine imagery is praised.
  • The aged hitmen are praised.
  • Ace’s house is praised.
  • James Woods’s Lester is ultimately offered as another leading aged-best answer.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

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The runtime, narrator structure, mannequin explosion, ethnicity, Gimme Shelter, shootings, and childcare draw objections.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:24:13Read transcript
  • The three-hour runtime is questioned.
  • Repeated Ace–Ginger fights may be redundant.
  • The use of three narrators is debated but defended.
  • The mannequin in the car explosion is visible.
  • De Niro playing a Jewish real-life figure is discussed.
  • The repeated use of Gimme Shelter is noted.
  • Pesci’s physical dominance is sometimes hard to accept.
  • The staging of repeated shootings is questioned.
  • The treatment of Ginger’s child is criticized.
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Casting What-Ifs

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Madonna, Nicole Kidman, Melanie Griffith, Traci Lords, and Sharon Stone’s audition history are discussed.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:27:25Read transcript
  • Madonna says the role came down to her and Sharon Stone.
  • Nicole Kidman was considered.
  • Melanie Griffith was considered.
  • Traci Lords reportedly gave an impressive audition.
  • Sharon Stone’s repeatedly canceled auditions and Scorsese’s personal appeal are recounted.
  • The panel prefers Stone to the alternatives.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

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Research covers real people, costumes, a murder attempt, profanity, improv, sets, ribs, cigarettes, restaurants, and high rollers.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:37:15Read transcript
  • Frank Cullotta served as technical adviser and appeared as a hitman.
  • The costume budget was one million dollars, with 70 De Niro outfits and 40 Stone outfits.
  • Joe Pesci’s then-wife Claudia Haro was later convicted in an attempted-murder scheme against another ex-husband.
  • The film uses the F-word 435 times.
  • James Woods improvised dialogue and the detail that Lester was with a prostitute using cocaine during the wedding call.
  • The count-room set was constructed because productions are not allowed into a real count room.
  • Frank Rosenthal’s television-show guests included Sinatra, Hope, Liberace, O. J. Simpson, and Rickles.
  • Pesci suffered a rib injury during the cornfield sequence.
  • De Niro maintained cigarette length for continuity.
  • Piero’s restaurant stood in for the Leaning Tower.
  • Future Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman appears as an attorney.
  • Nobu Matsuhisa plays Ichikawa.
  • Akio Kashiwagi’s casino debts and murder are discussed.
  • Ace’s house was later bought by Suge Knight.
  • Frank Rosenthal’s later nightclub, online-betting, and family life are summarized.
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Apex Mountain

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De Niro, Pesci, Sharon Stone, golf-course landings, Las Vegas details, and skimming receive distinct apex judgments.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:45:07Read transcript
  • De Niro is judged below his overall apex.
  • Pesci’s apex is assigned to Goodfellas or My Cousin Vinny.
  • The 1981 Cadillac Eldorado is judged at its apex.
  • Kevin Pollak is judged at an apex shared with The Usual Suspects.
  • Sharon Stone’s angry blackjack-table scenes are judged at an apex.
  • Movie oral-sex references are denied an apex.
  • Emergency golf-course airplane landings are judged below other examples.
  • Lester is proposed as an apex scumbag ex-boyfriend.
  • Star 80 is invoked as an alternate scumbag story.
  • Skimming from a casino is assessed.
  • Meetings conducted in code language are praised.
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