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Snake Eyes

The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot

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Overhead hotel rooms; Julia’s glasses on the floor; the cracked-door party shot.

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:16:27Read transcript
  • The long overhead view through adjoining hotel rooms is nominated.
  • The floor-level image of Julia’s glasses before they are stepped on is nominated.
  • The long view through a cracked door into the party is nominated for its voyeuristic effect.
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Snake Eyes

The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

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Removing the filmed tidal-wave ending.

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:19:24Read transcript
  • The omitted tidal wave is selected because the storm is set up without payoff.
  • A participant says the existing tidal-wave footage would make the ending substantially better.
  • Another explanation is that De Palma decided the movie was about intrigue rather than spectacle.
  • The beach kiss is criticized as too tidy and too much like a romantic comedy.
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Snake Eyes

How Would Van Lathan Get Out of This One?

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Rick separately reframes Kevin’s betrayal to his wife and sets boundaries with his girlfriend.

Flex pick · Van Lathan

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:23:14Read transcript
  • The speaker chooses Rick and tells his wife that Kevin’s betrayal proves her prior suspicions right. — Van Lathan
  • For Monique, the speaker proposes reasserting that their time apart is separate and offering a later hotel visit. — Van Lathan
  • The panel questions why Rick must arrange the late-night pizza and jokes about how both women might resist his framing. — Van Lathan
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Snake Eyes

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

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Restore the tidal wave; De Palma is better with lurid material; swap the leads; Nicolas Cage can play any casino-world role.

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:26:50Read transcript
  • The tidal-wave ending is again argued to be better.
  • The Untouchables is called less interesting than De Palma’s less respectable, more lurid films; others partly disagree.
  • Swapping Gary Sinise and Nicolas Cage is proposed as a more interesting version.
  • Nicolas Cage is proposed as uniquely able to play nearly any Las Vegas or Atlantic City role.
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Snake Eyes

Casting What-Ifs

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Al Pacino; Will Smith; swapped Sinise and Cage.

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:28:41Read transcript
  • Al Pacino is identified as an offered alternative for Kevin Dunne, with the need for an older Rick discussed.
  • Will Smith is identified as another offered alternative, and his choosing Enemy of the State is defended.
  • The panel says Smith as Kevin would have let him play an unusual villain.
  • Swapping Gary Sinise and Nicolas Cage remains an alternate recasting idea.
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Snake Eyes

Cruise or Hanks?

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Tom Cruise as Rick Santoro and Tom Hanks as Kevin Dunne.

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:42:57Read transcript
  • Tom Cruise as Rick and Tom Hanks as Kevin is proposed.
  • The villain reveal and their combined star power are argued to make the pairing especially effective.
  • A Cruise-and-Will-Smith alternative is raised, but their age difference is offered as an objection.
  • The panel invents a hallway sprint for Cruise.
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