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Mallory Rubin Award: Did This Movie Need a Better Sex Scene?

Change or remove the Beth assault; show the fireplace and window-nook encounters; add Catherine masturbating

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  • The better-sex-scene discussion recommends removing or changing the Beth assault and showing the omitted fireplace and window-nook encounters; the final scene’s opening-murder parallels are noted. — Mallory Rubin
  • An additional Catherine masturbation scene is proposed during Nick’s conspicuous surveillance, with a joking alternative involving the assistant district attorney. — Mallory Rubin
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Hazel Dobkins; missing forensic evidence; Nick remaining free after Nielsen’s murder

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  • Hazel Dobkins is a weak-link pick; an online theory that she secretly masterminds the plot is raised as speculation, not established fact. — Bill Simmons
  • Hazel’s short imprisonment after killing her family and Roxy’s similarly brief punishment are questioned; the Hazel mastermind theory receives tentative supporting interpretation.
  • Missing forensic evidence is a disputed weak link: DNA, fingerprints and blood should matter, but the counterargument notes Catherine admits sex with the victim and early-1990s public unfamiliarity with DNA.
  • Nick remaining free after publicly attacking Nielsen before Nielsen’s murder is another weak link; an Internal Affairs superior pulling a gun during the confrontation is also considered absurd. — Bill Simmons
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Police procedure; the Beth assault; Beth’s college photo; the final investigation; imitation erotic thrillers

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  • Aged-worst discussion argues that modern audiences know too much about police procedure to accept Nick’s shootings, drug use, therapist relationship and unrestricted suspect contact. — Chris Ryan
  • The Beth assault is criticized as controversial even on release; the unchanged face in her supposedly older blonde college identification photo is criticized as a careless prop choice. — Bill Simmons
  • The earlier criticism of the sex-scene movement returns as an aged-worst joke.
  • The police’s acceptance of the jacket and conveniently collected evidence against Beth is criticized; Nick ignores a manuscript describing his partner’s elevator death, and Beth’s lack of blood is overlooked.
  • Later imitation erotic thrillers are an aged-worst choice, with Color of Night singled out. — Bill Simmons
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Perverse Gilligan’s Island; San Francisco as best movie city; Catherine as generous murderer; no back-scratching; Nick as worst movie cop

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  • Hottest takes compare the film with a perverse Gilligan’s Island and declare San Francisco the best movie city, with the latter acknowledged as home-crowd pandering. — Van Lathan
  • Catherine is jokingly called a generous murderer because she gives her victims pleasure before killing them. — Van Lathan
  • A hottest take rejects the sex scene’s severe back-scratching as an immediate reason to stop. — Chris Ryan
  • Nick is proposed as cinema’s worst cop because of his shootings, addiction, relationship with the suspect, loss of judgment, failure to protect Gus and killing of his girlfriend.
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Casting What-Ifs

Basinger, Ryan, Davis, Barkin, Hemingway, Moore, Thompson, Turner, Berenger, Forman, Fiorentino and Shields

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The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

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