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Cruise is favored in several versions: Cocktail or Magnolia era as a picked-up man, current Cruise as Fitch, or Cruise as Lennox; Hanks is doubted for keeping a straight face.

Two votes for Spielberg; one for Scorsese

Philip Seymour Hoffman in the Molina role

Team up with the alien, promise more babies and housework, and start a new world together

The earlier prestige-television pitch is reaffirmed, including as a current adaptation, against the actual poor sequels.

DB is imagined announcing the naked cocoon appearance; the idea of bringing the observed Shack into more movies remains unfinished.

Special effects; Madsen as an affectionate alternate

Forrest Whitaker’s transcript-observed “Coofy”

Lessons warn against underestimating dangerous attractive aliens and treating an immediate demand for a baby as too good to be true; women are not to be used is also offered.

Natasha Henstridge

The invited response calls the film not good but extremely enjoyable, respects the premise, and regards its nudity as justified rather than gratuitous.