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The most "year the movie came out" thing

The portable Sony television; young Michelle Williams was an earlier nominee

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  • Young Michelle Williams is nominated as a 1995 marker, followed by discussion of her reported disavowal of the film.
  • The short-lived portable Sony television is favored as the most 1995 object.
  • The finale’s effects, paper credit-card authorization machine, and the actors’ thin and young appearance are additional 1995 markers.
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What’s Aged the Best?

Molina’s Species-to-Boogie Nights career stretch

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  • Molina’s Species-to-Boogie Nights career stretch is praised.
  • Madsen watching hockey with beers before receiving the call is admired; the exact game cannot be identified.
  • Dan’s obvious observations and inconsistent empath powers are treated as funny, including his response to the dead woman and alien cocoon.
  • Dan’s sympathy for Sil and inexplicable characterization are part of the movie’s appeal.
  • Whitaker is praised for playing weird, off-kilter, soft-spoken characters, with Ghost Dog also cited.
  • Laura and Preston’s sex scene is praised as especially frisky, with Laura’s initiative and private fist pump singled out.
  • More scenes of Natasha shopping in downtown L.A. are desired, including buying weird things or headphones.
  • Learning culture from hotel-room television is admired as a recurring device shared with Borat and Big.
  • Dan surviving is noted as unusual in the genre, while the friendly woman on the train supplies a counterpoint; infected rats are called a frightening device.
  • The surviving creature material and rat suggest a sequel direction considered more promising than the poorly regarded actual sequel.
  • A commentary anecdote says Madsen antagonized Kingsley by interfering with his guarded chair, including putting garbage on it and hanging it from a crane.
  • The ragtag team of specialists assembled for a hunt is praised as an appealing genre setup.
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The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot

No single choice: Sil emerging from the train cocoon; the tongue through Robbie’s head

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  • The cinematography is praised, and Sil emerging from the train cocoon is nominated, with the train reportedly inverted to achieve the effect.
  • The Biltmore’s appearance is praised.
  • The tongue emerging through Robbie’s head is considered the defining and most memorable shot, even if not conventionally cinematic.
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The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop

No firm standout is selected; the club music is tentatively identified as Crystal Method, with earlier Moby or Tricky imagined as alternatives.

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  • No firm standout is selected; the club music is tentatively identified as Crystal Method, with earlier Moby or Tricky imagined as alternatives.
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Did This Movie Need a Random Sports Scene?

Sil stops at the Venice courts to attract a player, hustle a game, or destroy a ball; beach volleyball is another option

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  • Sil stopping at the Venice courts, attracting a player, hustling a game, or destroying a ball is proposed; beach volleyball is offered as another setting.
  • A Lakers or cheaper Clippers game is proposed, with Sil studying and replacing a cheerleader or meeting a player.
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Flex pick · Chris Ryan

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  • Fitch is nominated for excessive autonomy, inadequate containment and killing plans, and hiring civilians instead of military specialists.
  • Plainclothes special forces are proposed as a better response, and the absence of supervisory scrutiny is criticized.
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  • Species 2 is nominated, citing Madsen’s reported description of it as lousy and a paycheck job.
  • Long Island iced teas are criticized as unfashionable, caloric, and potent, with the claim that nobody drinks them challenged.
  • The discussion questions whether Dan avoids alcohol for religious reasons and criticizes slipping alcohol to him on that possibility.
  • Missed Hollywood mating encounters are criticized, with the Viper Room, Swingers locations, and Canter’s proposed as opportunities.
  • More Santa Monica and outdoor-pool locations are desired; Fitch’s assumption that Sil will return to the same club is questioned.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

The hottest take imagines an alien rated a six struggling to find a mate, turning the movie into a rom-com.

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  • The hottest take imagines an alien rated a six struggling to find a mate, turning the movie into a rom-com.
  • The movie is said to need more sex, including on the train once she becomes a grown-up woman, and a hard-R or stronger-rating approach.
  • An HBO series beginning in 1995 is proposed as a potentially transformative early cable drama, expanding the pursuit and giving the investigators further cases.
  • The TV show idea prompts concern that aliens would be too expensive; showing them once a year and continuing with Madsen and Marge are suggested.
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