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- Alien is repeatedly selected
- Platoon is an additional suggestion
Categories & segments
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Podcast choices
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Trade Hanks’s earlier Oscars for his Apollo 13 performance
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- Amanda calls this the essential and best Hanks performance
- She praises the silent communication of ambition, loss, fear and dignity
- The moon-landing reaction and navigation anecdote support her case
- Cast Away is offered as a harder solo performance
- A compromise gives Oscars to Apollo 13 and Cast Away
- The panel believes Hanks deserved at least a nomination here
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- The panel reports Ebert’s four-star rating
- They discuss his praise for technical clarity and extraordinary work under pressure
- They discuss his sense that reducing space ambitions cost America part of its vision
Most Rewatchable Scene
Reentry and the CO2-filter solution divide favorite and most-rewatchable choices
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- Hanks watching Armstrong land is nominated
- Jim’s explanation of the Apollo 1 fire to his son pays off later
- Mattingly being removed from the mission is nominated
- Swigert’s failed simulator attempt and retry are nominated
- The launch and Harris’s introduction build excitement
- Docking gives the rookie a success
- The oxygen leak and sudden silence establish the crisis
- Clint Howard’s explanation sets the stakes
- The loss of the moon and the astronauts’ argument are discussed
- The improvised CO2 filter initially gets broad agreement
- The manual burn with Earth in the window is nominated
- Mattingly restoring power is nominated
- Reentry’s extended wait and the control-room celebration are praised
- Final choices distinguish a favorite CO2 sequence from the most-rewatchable reentry
- Lovell giving Swigert the pilot seat completes his confidence arc
Todd Parker Award for Best Character Entrance
Ed Harris entering mission control
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- The film waits roughly thirty minutes before introducing Harris
- His cigarette and immediate command of the room are praised
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- Opening graphics and Hanks’s period look are alternatives
- The panel argues a modern production would notice the near-exclusively white speaking cast
- The lone Black orderly and his treatment are criticized
Gandolfini Butter on My Ass So It Pops in My Mouth Award
Gene’s white vest, Lovell declining to look at the moon and the man left behind
In the discussion (4)
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- Amanda enjoys the mission vest and Harris’s gestures with it
- Lovell’s inscrutable hesitation to look at Mount Marilyn is admired
- Mattingly’s left-behind role is compared with Ralph Cox in Miracle and Rudy
- The prompt is explicitly explained as something you simply enjoy
What’s Aged the Best?
Houston, we have a problem; the score; and collective problem-solving
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- The famous line’s cleaned-up wording and lasting use in sports are discussed
- The film’s use of the number thirteen leads to a superstition debate
- Paxton’s rhinoceros line is enjoyed and its Busey/Point Break connection is reported
- James Horner’s score and Annie Lennox’s vocals are praised
- Supportive spouses are discussed
- Harris’s hairpiece and military haircuts are enjoyed
- The Hanks–Sinise reunion and Clint Howard’s role are praised
- Walter Cronkite’s archival reactions give history emotional weight
- Astronaut longevity is discussed with reported fitness and continuing medical monitoring, not verified health conclusions
- Slingshotting around the moon is admired as comprehensible science
- Lovell’s polo shirts are praised
- Switching equipment on in the right order remains relatable
- Gathering to watch a non-sports world event is missed
The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
The wide shot of the control-room celebration
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- The panel agrees on the shot
- The angled camera position captures the whole room erupting
- The set is reported as purpose-built instead of using NASA’s offered room
The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink
Jell-O floating in space, with zero-gravity vomit as an inversion
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- The playful food during the televised broadcast is nominated
- Food avoidance and water rationing are discussed
- The vomit is suggested as a striking effects showcase
- A production anecdote describes a crew member vomiting onto Paxton during a zero-gravity flight
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- The song is selected without a competing nomination
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