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What’s Aged the Best?

Tabloid culture, outsiders’ difficult LA adjustment and interest in morally complex genre stories remain pertinent.

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  • Tabloid culture, outsiders’ difficult LA adjustment and audiences’ interest in morally complex genre stories remain pertinent.
  • Brief characters who become stars of their own scene are praised, including the coroner and Stensland.
  • Patchett’s blackmail recalls Epstein; Dudley’s instruction about shooting criminals in the back pays off in his own death.
  • Corrupt cops and departments shunning one of their own remain effective dramatic material.
  • Having someone cut to resemble a star and dated slang such as swish and AC/DC are enjoyed.
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The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot

The layered interrogation reflection with Jack, Dudley, Exley and the waiting suspect

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  • The layered interrogation reflection with Jack, Dudley, Exley and the waiting suspect is selected.
  • The split-diopter DA shot, Exley raising his badge in shadow, and police cars cresting the hill are praised.
  • The zoom framing Bud and Exley facing off in the street is nominated.
  • The moving camera contrasts the group comforting Stensland with isolated Exley; Bud above Patchett on the putting green visually divides them.
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Chest Rockwell / Brock Landers Award for Best Character Name

Hollywood Jack, the Big V, Pierce Morehouse Patchett’s initials, Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland are nominated.

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  • Hollywood Jack, the Big V, Pierce Morehouse Patchett’s initials, Buzz Meeks and Dick Stensland are nominated.
  • Unnamed councilmen and the police chief are jokingly considered missed naming opportunities.
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The Amanda Dobbins Award for Best Piece of Real Estate

Lynn’s Hancock Park house

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  • Lynn’s Hancock Park house is favored; a personal open-house visit and later reported $7.5 million sale are discussed.
  • A flex selector chooses Patchett’s house, identified as the Lovell house by Neutra; another participant wanted a larger interior.
  • Bob’s Market in Echo Park is additionally mentioned as a recognizable Fast and Furious location.
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Sean Fennessey Award for Stealth Homage That Gives Every Movie Nerd a Criterion Orgasm

Roman Holiday plays on the couple’s date; The Bad and the Beautiful appears on the Pantages marquee beside the Frolic Room, linking to an acknowledged influence.

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  • Roman Holiday plays on the couple’s date; The Bad and the Beautiful appears on the Pantages marquee beside the Frolic Room, linking to an acknowledged influence.
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Jesse Eisenberg “That’s good. You should be proud of that right there. Don’t worry if you don’t make it any further” Award for Best Line Reading

Jack asking why Exley wants to dig deeper into the Night Owl killings is the flex selection.

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  • The flex choice is the line asking why anyone would dig deeper into the Night Owl killings.
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Basinger, reluctantly and without a firm argument

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  • Basinger is written down reluctantly without a firm argument.
  • DeVito is criticized as an unconvincing Italian actor playing a Jewish character.
  • The unclear passage of years and heroin plot are raised, though the time issue is partly withdrawn.
  • DeVito’s familiar comic persona and broad acting distract, although his opening narration works.
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Recasting Couch

Buscemi and Kevin Pollak are suggested for Sid.

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  • Buscemi and Kevin Pollak are suggested for Sid.
  • Billy Crystal is preferred if casting a famous star; Larry David is a dream choice because his face was less familiar in 1997.
  • Billy Crystal is rejected as too famous; the counterargument prefers him if the part requires a celebrity.
  • A Sid alternative transcribed as Panow is suggested; the actor identity remains unresolved.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Spacey’s reputation and reported conduct toward Pearce are raised; Ellroy’s shifting opinion of the adaptation is noted.

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  • Kevin Spacey’s reported behavior on set toward Guy Pierce is discussed alongside James Elroy’s shifting assessments of the film.
  • Patchett’s house is again criticized as insufficiently extravagant.
  • The opening promise of abundant jobs, cheap land and homeownership, plus downtown-to-beach travel in twenty minutes, feels dated.
  • Bud’s beating should have killed Exley or caused more damage.
  • Using photos of Lynn and Exley to provoke Bud seems unnecessarily elaborate when the villains could simply kill Exley.
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