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Jurassic Park The Rewatchables
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Picking Nits

Quiet punchlines and simplified science (both defended); late neon colors

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  • Under-the-breath punchlines can be so quiet that viewers miss them.
  • The animated DNA explanation is praised as effective exposition despite the questionable science.
  • The scientist heroes are defended for inspiring curiosity and interest in paleontology.
  • The late neon-color observation is explicitly recalled as a missed nitpick, covering the vehicles and logos.
  • The merchandise display is defended despite a remembered controversy over its commercialism.
Jurassic Park The Rewatchables
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The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

The God/man/dinosaur exchange

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  • The exchange about God creating dinosaurs and woman inheriting the earth is nominated.
  • The theme-park pirates comparison is praised as funny and credible dialogue.
  • The final withdrawal of the park endorsement is criticized as unnecessary, with Hammond’s survival questioned.
  • The creation exchange is preferred; spare-no-expense, clever-girl and future-ex-wife lines are additional memorable choices.
  • Keeping Hammond alive is speculatively linked with Spielberg’s affection for Attenborough and the earlier Gandhi Oscar result.
  • Malcolm’s lechery is funny, though the speakers doubt many actors could get away with it in 2018.
Jurassic Park The Rewatchables
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Whether dinosaur cloning is plausible, whether another director could improve the film, and whether its CGI breakthrough ultimately diminished Spielberg’s distinctiveness

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  • A claimed later DNA discovery is introduced as possibly apocryphal, leading to a question about any plausible dinosaur revival.
  • A hypothetical lab creates dinosaurs and kills them at one day old repeatedly until the process works.
  • Different directors and deliberately varied genres might make interesting alternatives, even if a particular version might be worse.
  • Making the CGI toolkit widely available is proposed as weakening Spielberg’s distinctive spectacle and encouraging similar-looking blockbusters.
  • Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can are defended as later rewatchable counterexamples, qualifying the claim that this was the last such Spielberg film.
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Who Won the Movie?

Split: Jeff Goldblum / Ian Malcolm; velociraptors; the T. rex

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  • Goldblum is the first choice because the part makes him fun and puts him in a position to win; a dinosaur is a close alternative.
  • The next response admires the T. rex’s heroic ending but chooses the raptors for their leap into popular consciousness.
  • An intended Spielberg choice is withdrawn after considering his later legacy, ending with a T. rex choice.
  • DreamWorks is described as a complicated later failure, contributing to the withdrawal of the planned Spielberg vote.
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The Social Network The Rewatchables
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Most Rewatchable Scene

Eduardo discovering his diluted shares

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  • The opening breakup is nominated, and later becomes one participant’s initial personal choice.
  • Stopwatch timing of the dialogue and 99 takes of the opening are discussed.
  • The Henley Royal Regatta sequence is nominated.
  • Sean Parker meeting the Stanford student is nominated.
  • Eduardo discovering his diluted shares and breaking the computer is nominated; the closing decision defers to that group preference.
  • Larry Summers dismissing the Winklevoss complaint is nominated.
  • The final-club party intercut with coding Facebook is nominated.
  • The confrontation gains emotional force from the score and Garfield’s movement through the glass doors and hallway.
  • The coding montage contrasts access to power with creating power, making work at computers feel like a bank heist.
  • The Parker introduction turns exposition into a star-making scene, with added irony from a major-label pop star playing the Napster figure.
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What’s Aged the Best?

The opening, depositions, twin effects, score, and Peter Thiel foreshadowing

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  • The opening scene flowing into Zuckerberg’s walk and credits is praised.
  • The deposition structure works better than expected.
  • The lawyer’s facial expressions are praised.
  • Rashida Jones is praised within an underwritten part.
  • The twin CGI is praised as groundbreaking and initially undetectable.
  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score is selected as the standout aged-best element.
  • The score’s combination of anxiety, melody, and forward pressure is praised.
  • The panel trusts Reznor not to license the score carelessly.
  • The Winklevoss effect is again selected for technical longevity.
  • The Peter Thiel character’s arrival is treated as predictive of Silicon Valley’s future.
  • A reported filming workaround used a mime carrying a light so an archway shot could be captured despite Harvard’s resistance.
  • A reported silent black-and-white Raiders cut uses this score to demonstrate the strength of its visual storytelling.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

The Zuckerberg portrayal, Facemash, Christy plot, and Kevin Spacey credit

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  • Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg is compared with the real Zuckerberg’s public persona.
  • Ranking girls with a hot-or-not app has aged badly and was objectionable at the time.
  • The Christy relationship and bed-fire plot are criticized as poorly motivated.
  • The panel ties the Christy problem to Sorkin’s thin female characters.
  • Executive producer Kevin Spacey’s credit is singled out.
  • Christy is defended as showing the founders newfound glamour and introducing Parker, though that does not justify the bed-fire episode.
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Casting What-Ifs

Shia LaBeouf declined Zuckerberg; Jonathan Groff nearly played Sean Parker; Aziz Ansari also auditioned; Eisenberg and Timberlake preferred

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  • Shia LaBeouf turned down Zuckerberg.
  • The panel believes Fincher’s take-heavy method would have made LaBeouf a poor fit.
  • Jonathan Groff nearly played Sean Parker.
  • Groff’s later Fincher work on Mindhunter is connected to the audition history.
  • Timberlake’s existing stardom is credited with helping the movie reach a wider audience.
  • Ansari reportedly auditioned unsuccessfully for the role played by Minghella; the response is that he was not ready at that stage.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Substitute campuses, the referenced movie star, the second twin performer, weight loss, the opening scene’s takes and an unidentified Gates impersonator

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  • Harvard scenes were filmed at multiple other schools.
  • Natalie Portman is identified as the movie star referenced by a deposition line.
  • Josh Pence played the body double for the second Winklevoss and appears visibly in another scene.
  • Timberlake lost roughly fifteen to seventeen pounds to appear younger.
  • The opening breakup reportedly required 99 takes across eight script pages.
  • The Gates performer is described as an unidentified impersonator; the following aside does not establish the actor’s identity.
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