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Pacific Heights

Who Won the Movie?

Michael Keaton is the repeated winner for following Batman with a memorable villain performance.

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  • Michael Keaton is the repeated winner for following Batman with a memorable villain performance.
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The Good Son

Most Rewatchable Scene

The treehouse-to-rock-throwing-to-well passage, dog chase and killing, Mr. Highway crash, therapist bench, ice-skating attack, Henry’s shed, Mark’s shiv, therapist confrontation, and cliff climax are nominated; Mr. Highway leads.

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  • The treehouse, rock throwing, smoking, and well material slowly reveals Henry testing Mark and discussing death.
  • The Rottweiler chase changes the mood when Henry stares down the dog.
  • Henry kills the dog with his homemade weapon and dumps it into the well.
  • Mr. Highway causes a multi-car crash and is the leading rewatchable set piece.
  • Mark’s bench conversation with the therapist about evil is nominated.
  • Connie on the ice is nominated because the set piece repeats the danger of drowning a sibling.
  • Susan discovering Richard’s duck and Henry’s weapons in the shed exposes how much she has ignored.
  • Mark pulling a shiv on Henry and the father catching him reverses who appears dangerous.
  • The overhead tracking shot of Mark locked in the office is singled out as unusually stylish.
  • Henry appearing at Mark’s therapist is a peak gaslighting scene.
  • The cliff climax is praised for real stunt work, danger, and the choice Susan must make.
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The Good Son

Is There a Better Title for This Movie?

Susan’s Choice, Every Mother’s Son, Bad Brother, and Henry: Portrait of a Future Serial Killer are proposed; Bad Brother is favored.

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  • Susan’s Choice riffs on the cliff decision.
  • Every Mother’s Son captures the competing parent-child bonds.
  • Bad Brother is the favored concise alternate.
  • Henry: Portrait of a Future Serial Killer repeats Ebert’s formulation.
  • The existing title is read through the observed Cane-and-Abel comparison as a question about which child is good.
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The Good Son

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Takes argue this is Macaulay Culkin’s greatest performance, both child stars should already have had supporting Oscars, and Susan should save her own son; another take says Henry could have become an NHL pest.

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  • Culkin’s Henry is argued to be a harder and greater performance than Kevin McCallister.
  • Culkin is hypothetically awarded for My Girl over Jack Palance, and Wood for Radio Flyer over Gene Hackman.
  • Susan choosing blood over truth and saving Henry is defended as the parental choice.
  • More engaged parents could have directed Henry’s skating and aggression into hockey.
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The Good Son

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

The therapist is proposed, Wendy Crewson is called probably the best answer and then challenged because she is best known for this movie; Daniel Hugh Kelly remains debated.

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  • Daniel Hugh Kelly is rejected or debated as too obscure outside Craig’s generation.
  • The unnamed therapist is the leading That Guy because the panel recognizes her but cannot name her.
  • Wendy Crewson is considered via The Good Son and The Santa Clause.
  • Daniel Hugh Kelly’s television résumé fuels a tangent about forgotten shows.
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The Good Son

Apex Mountain

Culkin’s bankability peaks around Home Alone 2 and The Good Son; Wood peaks with The Lord of the Rings, and Shawshank is chosen for Maine.

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  • Culkin could make the film a hit on trailer presence alone and was at a short bankability apex.
  • The discussion argues Spielberg and Scorsese retain elite careers even after removing four top films.
  • Elijah Wood’s apex is The Lord of the Rings.
  • Wendy Crewson’s is guessed as The Santa Clause and Daniel Hugh Kelly’s as Cujo.
  • Shawshank wins the Maine-location apex over Carrie, In the Bedroom, Poison Ivy, Stand by Me, and Lake Placid.
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