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What About Bob?

What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Bob’s local shirt, Leo’s puppets, the Wagoneer, and the Lake Winnipesaukee house are the choices.

In the discussion (5)
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  • The game-worn Bill Murray local shirt is one choice.
  • Leo’s therapy puppets are another choice.
  • The mentioned Waggonier is praised as a great car memorabilia choice.
  • The lake house is the final aspiration and strongest lifestyle choice.
  • The panel imagines a shared timeshare and participation in the town’s local culture.
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What About Bob?

Who Won the Movie?

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

All three participants choose Bill Murray.

In the discussion (3)
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  • Bill Murray receives the first immediate winner choice.
  • Two further participants agree without qualification.
  • The performance is compared with a unanimous MVP season.
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What About Bob?

Producer review

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Producer Craig’s sole added point is that Leo’s July 31-through-Labor-Day vacation seems too long for a psychiatrist with patients.

In the discussion (3)
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  • The producer introduces the vacation length as an omitted Picking Nits answer.
  • The period from July 31 through Labor Day is estimated at about thirty-five days.
  • The hosts agree that a month away from active patients seems unusually long.
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Predator

Most Rewatchable Scene

Predator The Rewatchables

No consensus: the slaughter run, jungle gunfire, Dutch–Predator finale, and wardrobe arrival all received strong support.

In the discussion (12)
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  • Dutch and Dillon’s arm-wrestling greeting was nominated.
  • The discovery of the skinned bodies was nominated.
  • The compound rescue was nominated.
  • Billy sensing that something is wrong in the jungle was nominated.
  • Blaine’s death was nominated.
  • Mac’s grief response after Blaine dies was nominated.
  • The team’s indiscriminate sustained gunfire into the jungle was nominated.
  • Dutch discovering that mud hides him from the Predator was nominated.
  • The helicopter-arrival wardrobe breakdown was introduced as a “Zapruder scene.”
  • The slasher-style sequence where the team is hunted one by one was nominated.
  • Dutch’s final one-on-one trap sequence against the Predator was nominated.
  • One host chose the jungle firing; another chose Dutch versus Predator; another chose the slasher section.
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Predator

What’s Aged the Best?

Predator The Rewatchables

Arnold’s iconography and battle cry, Old Painless, one-liners, production mythology, Sunny Landham, Jesse Ventura, Poncho, the creature fix, structure, score, and heat vision were praised.

In the discussion (16)
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  • Arnold’s first cigar shot remains effective action-star iconography.
  • Dutch’s battle cry remains effective.
  • Old Painless remains an iconic action-movie weapon.
  • The movie’s compact one-liners remain effective.
  • Arnold plays the escalating threat with unusual seriousness.
  • The cold, wet jungle shoot became durable production mythology.
  • Van Damme’s firing from the original creature role became durable production mythology.
  • The cast’s dawn workouts and physical competition became durable production mythology.
  • The reshot final third created a cleaner creature confrontation.
  • Sunny Landham was praised as a uniquely authentic and unpredictable screen presence.
  • Jesse Ventura’s wrestling persona translated into an unusually memorable supporting action role.
  • Poncho’s reactions and supporting presence were praised.
  • Stan Winston’s replacement creature design was treated as essential to the film’s success.
  • The shift from ensemble combat movie to slasher and then one-on-one duel was praised.
  • Alan Silvestri’s score was praised.
  • The thermal-vision effect was praised as both legible and durable.
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Predator

What’s Aged the Worst?

Predator The Rewatchables

The mud-disguise continuity, Anna’s thinly explained role, and contrived cleavage were the main concerns; Predator 2 was also dismissed.

In the discussion (4)
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  • The amount of mud covering Arnold changes implausibly between shots.
  • Anna’s political or guerrilla role is never clearly explained.
  • Anna’s survival function never fully coheres, though her fear exposition was defended.
  • Her costume loses buttons without story justification.
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Predator

Casting What-Ifs

Predator The Rewatchables

Jean-Claude Van Damme’s failed Predator casting dominated; the much shorter original suit and contradictory firing accounts were preserved.

In the discussion (2)
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  • Van Damme was reportedly too short for the creature concept and may also have passed out or objected to the suit.
  • The finished Predator actor Kevin Peter Hall also appears as the helicopter pilot.
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Predator

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Predator The Rewatchables

Carl Weathers won after debate with Sunny Landham and Jesse Ventura.

In the discussion (4)
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  • Carl Weathers was praised for playing an unfamiliar compromised, physically vulnerable version of his Apollo persona.
  • Sunny Landham was the passionate early pick.
  • Jesse Ventura fit the classic low-minute heat-check definition.
  • The group’s final spoken choice was Carl Weathers.
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Predator

Recasting Couch

Predator The Rewatchables

Ideas included Apollonia or Elisabeth Shue as Anna and Bill Paxton, Damon Wayans, or an early Chris Rock as Hawkins.

In the discussion (5)
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  • Apollonia was proposed for the hostage role.
  • Elisabeth Shue was proposed for the hostage role.
  • Bill Paxton was the most enthusiastic Hawkins proposal.
  • Damon Wayans was proposed for a sharper wisecracking Hawkins.
  • An early Chris Rock was proposed for a sharper wisecracking Hawkins.
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