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

Adam; the adult children

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Approx. transcript time · 00:43:37Read transcript
  • The children’s talented performers have little to do.
  • Steve Martin’s Adam is underwritten and cannot compete with Baldwin’s charisma.
  • The adult children appear unrealistically undamaged and too invested in their divorced parents reuniting; a contrary reading that they oppose reunion is argued down.
  • The children’s group-bed scene, excessive graduation celebration, local residence and expensive bungalow are implausible; their oddness is also defended as funny and peripheral to the adult story.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Overrated roast chicken; more older leads; Santa Barbara’s screen weather; Reeves in Something’s Gotta Give

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:03:28Read transcript
  • Roast chicken is overrated, especially the ordinary home-cooked version; great restaurant or Ina Garten versions are allowed exceptions.
  • More genres should feature leads over fifty because seasoned actors and lived-in characters are compelling.
  • Santa Barbara’s relentlessly sunny screen image is challenged by coastal fog; others defend its beauty, retirement appeal and surrounding destinations.
  • Keanu Reeves is better in Something’s Gotta Give than The Matrix; the closing discussion again supports funding Meyers while questioning the reported $180 million budget.
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Hottest Job for a Male Love Interest in a Romantic Comedy

Architect

Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck

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Approx. transcript time · 01:16:32Read transcript
  • Architect, pediatrician, journalist, chef and a grounded rich heir are attractive romantic-comedy jobs; architecture combines creativity and practicality. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Advertising evokes Don Draper’s womanizing; lawyer, businessman and widowed stay-at-home dad are considered, but unemployment is a barrier.
  • Chef, vet, urban planner and sports doctor are considered; plastic surgeon is too vain. Architect remains favored, with oil billionaire dismissed.
  • Realtor and marine biologist are added; marine research risks romantic unavailability.
  • Female sportswriter examples lead to sideline reporter as the best ESPN rom-com job; Trainwreck’s sports-doctor role enabled comic athlete interactions.
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Apex Mountain

Alec Baldwin; this kitchen (disputed)

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Approx. transcript time · 01:20:07Read transcript
  • Streep is rejected here; her mid-eighties work and Devil Wears Prada through Iron Lady represent possible peaks, with no real career fallow period.
  • Baldwin possibly qualifies alongside 30 Rock and SNL.
  • Steve Martin’s late-seventies success is preferred; his-and-her sinks receive a positive discussion without a firm peak judgment.
  • Meyers’s peak shifts from The Holiday to Something’s Gotta Give based on film quality, nominations and box-office discussion.
  • Divorced-couple romances have earlier screwball peaks, including His Girl Friday and The Philadelphia Story.
  • Krasinski’s A Quiet Place and marriage to Emily Blunt displace this performance as his peak.
  • The Holiday’s British cottage is preferred for Meyers houses; this kitchen receives a best-kitchen vote but Something’s Gotta Give is defended for space, storage and island layout.
  • Lake Bell, Caitlin FitzGerald and Zoe Kazan receive no Apex endorsement.
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