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- The cited three-and-a-half-star review praises the film for treating its love story with thought, respect, and love. — Bill Simmons
Categories & segments
Most Rewatchable Scene
Dive bar scene
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- The dive-bar interlude is the final preferred scene. — Chris Ryan
- Other favorites include the opening credits, quad football, the pool encounter, the Tim Robbins car ride, the accidental cuddle, the Hawaiian party, and the professor reading the final essay. — Chris Ryan
The most 1985 thing
Letters and cordless phones
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- Long mailed letters to friends are selected as a defining 1985 detail. — Bill Simmons
- The cordless-phone phrase, letters to an adult magazine, Culture Club poster, and physical ride bulletin board are additional 1985 candidates. — Bill Simmons
What’s Aged the Best?
Soundtrack and college life
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- The soundtrack is praised as having aged well, with several featured songs named. — Bill Simmons
- The film's vision of 1980s college life, including classes, parties, schedules, and Southern California campuses, is praised. — Bill Simmons
- Young Cusack and the prospect of spending the next 40 years watching him are offered as having aged well. — Bill Simmons
The Amanda Dobbins Award for Best Piece of Real Estate
Malibu dream house
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- The three-story Malibu beach house from Gibb's fantasies is the real-estate choice. — Bill Simmons
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- The reveal of the wallet left in the bed is praised as especially well staged. — Chris Ryan
- The dolly shot following Gibb beside the pool is another candidate. — Chris Ryan
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- ‘Penny Lover’ during the slow dance is preferred, with ‘Infatuation’ and ‘You Might Think’ also considered. — Chris Ryan
The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
Grambling exchange
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- The exchange about Gibb playing football for Grambling is the quote choice. — Chris Ryan
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
The Sure Thing; Allison’s boyfriend
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- The Sure Thing and Allison's boyfriend are criticized as caricatures who function mainly as plot props. — Chris Ryan
What’s Aged the Worst?
Hitchhiking and dated conventions
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- The dated comic accent and using stars and outer space to humanize boys are criticized. — Bill Simmons
- Walter Gibson's name, creative-writing workshops, and hitchhiking are raised as dated elements. — Bill Simmons
- Traveling cross-country solely to pursue sex is considered obsolete in the era of dating apps. — Chris Ryan
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- John Cusack's heightened hitchhiker performance is the choice and is considered necessary to the scene. — Bill Simmons
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Gibb and Allison's future; 1980s teen-movie ranking; Daphne Zuniga's unrealized career path
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- The couple are predicted to have met too early for a permanent relationship because freshman-year changes and academic uncertainty would strain them. — Chris Ryan
- One forecast has the relationship end after he drunkenly kisses someone else and she never forgives him; it may not survive the first summer. — Bill Simmons
- A conflicting forecast says they make it through most of college before he wants to be himself and do something else. — Chris Ryan
- Risky Business and The Sure Thing are ranked first and second among 1980s teen movies, followed initially by The Breakfast Club, The Karate Kid, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. — Chris Ryan
- The Karate Kid is then removed from the teen-movie ranking because it is considered more a sports movie, leaving The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off on the four-film list. — Bill Simmons
- Daphne Zuniga is argued to have deserved Brat Pack membership and to have been preferable to Ally Sheedy in St. Elmo's Fire, The Breakfast Club, and Bad Boys. — Bill Simmons
- One Crazy Summer is used to compare Demi Moore's role with the kind of part Daphne Zuniga played, prompting speculation that Zuniga might have had a career resembling Moore's. — Chris Ryan
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