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Gandolfini Butter on My Ass So It Pops in My Mouth Award

Will Smith being smooth; Vance Munson; a rom-com playing inside the rom-com.

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  • Will Smith’s smooth moments, especially rescuing Sara from Chip, are selected. — Mina Kimes
  • Vance Munson is selected as an enjoyably pure villain.
  • Sara watching Jerry Maguire inside this romantic comedy is selected. — Bill Simmons
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What’s Aged the Best?

Jeffrey Donovan; Hitch’s respectful advice; teaching people to interact; camera phones.

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  • Jeffrey Donovan appearing in a romantic comedy is praised.
  • The walkie-talkie trick is praised even while acknowledged as implausible now. — Bill Simmons
  • The lie-steal-cheat-drink aphorism is enjoyed as intentional corniness by one side and rejected by another.
  • Camera phones are praised for becoming vastly more capable. — Van Lathan
  • A movie about teaching isolated people to interact is judged more relevant now. — Van Lathan
  • Hitch’s advice is praised for respecting women and countering hostile dating ideology.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Michael Rapaport as a likable friend; extravagant courtship; assaults; tabloid office; pacing and allergy sequence.

Flex pick · Mina Kimes

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  • Michael Rapaport playing a likable friend is selected by Mina under an explicitly cued flex. — Mina Kimes
  • The luxurious, unrealistic tabloid office is criticized.
  • Hitch’s elaborate first-date planning and walkie-talkies are criticized as potentially creepy now.
  • The response is defended as depending on whether the recipient already likes the man.
  • The seven o’clock meeting time is judged stranger than the jet skis. — Van Lathan
  • Women striking men and the food fight are criticized as conduct contemporary movies would avoid. — Van Lathan
  • Hitch choosing Sara rather than the Paula Patton character is criticized.
  • The middle of the movie drags when Kevin James is absent. — Bill Simmons
  • The food-allergy comedy is criticized. — Bill Simmons
  • The extreme portrayal of Albert as a man who could win Allegra is judged less believable now.
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Will Smith and Eva Mendes’s chemistry; the extended kiss lesson.

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  • Will Smith and Eva Mendes’s romantic chemistry is criticized as merely adequate. — Van Lathan
  • Their chemistry is compared unfavorably with Smith and Margot Robbie and with Mendes and Ryan Gosling. — Van Lathan
  • Will Smith and Kevin James are judged to have the movie’s strongest chemistry.
  • The extended kissing lesson is criticized as overlong.
  • The kissing lesson is defended as iconic and not bothersome.
  • Another view says there are no weak links because the core actors are solid.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Hitch is Will Smith’s fourth-best film; it may be his purest star performance; Eva Mendes should have remained in Fast & Furious.

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  • Hitch is ranked as Will Smith’s fourth-best movie behind Men in Black, Independence Day, and Bad Boys.
  • Focus is ranked above Hitch by another participant.
  • Hitch is proposed as Will Smith’s best or most representative pure movie-star performance.
  • Eva Mendes leaving the Fast & Furious series after 2 Fast 2 Furious is called its biggest mistake. — Bill Simmons
  • Replacing Michelle Rodriguez with Mendes from the first film is proposed and disputed. — Bill Simmons
  • Keeping both women in the franchise is offered as the preferred alternative. — Bill Simmons
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Casting What-Ifs

Patton Oswalt as Albert; Alexander Skarsgård’s cut role; Ali Larter as a fictional celebrity.

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  • Patton Oswalt is reported as the second choice for Albert and rejected by the panel for this role. — Bill Simmons
  • Alexander Skarsgård’s scenes as Allegra’s boyfriend were reportedly cut, leaving only a photograph. — Bill Simmons
  • Ali Larter reportedly supplied images for the fictional celebrity. — Bill Simmons
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