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Franchise direction, Vietnam comparison and Ripley’s final line

Trade Hanks’s earlier Oscars for his Apollo 13 performance

America needs a rival to recover its ambition

Sean calls Speed the last truly great American pure-action movie

The panel offers two major takes: Zodiac is the greatest American crime film, and the Zodiac killer is the greatest serial-killer brand or legacy.

Michael Myers did not kill a Black person on screen until 2002 and was therefore jokingly radicalized by the O.J. trial.

Two takes were preserved: Rob Morrow should have become a major movie star, and a one-year-later release might have won Best Picture and Director.

Four distinct takes argue that Lecter is a superb therapist, Catherine deserved punishment for endangering Precious, Hopkins’s Oscar category was fraudulent, and The Father is his better performance.

The competing takes read Forrest as Jesus, imagine his modern cancellation, and credit him with the Jets’ only Super Bowl.

Kill Sykes; rethink the one-arm story; defend the marriage

Two takes were preserved: Seagal would improve The Fugitive as Richard Kimble, and Tommy Lee Jones gives essentially the same performance in both movies.

The cross-joint scene is boring, the trailer promises a better movie, the heroes’ decisions mostly make sense, and Dale should abandon Saul are competing takes.