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- The existing title receives agreement as the best option.
Categories & segments
The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
“How come billionaires are always short?”
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- How come billionaires are always short? is the selected line.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Cameron’s best directing; blockbuster inflation; Fortnite; You’re fired counterfactual
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- The film combines Bond, a large action blockbuster, De Palma-style voyeurism, and Naked Gun-style visual comedy. That range supports an early hottest take that this is Cameron’s finest directing work.
- A hottest take argues Cameron helped break the blockbuster business model by pushing budgets and spectacle so high that profitability requires extraordinary success.
- Another hottest take proposes that the opening action anticipates Fortnite; the causal claim is challenged because earlier war films already contain similar action.
- A counterfactual hottest take imagines copyrighting You’re fired preventing The Apprentice’s success and Trump’s presidency.
Casting What-Ifs
Foster rumor; Curtis; Tom Arnold; Lombard replacement
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- A rumor that Jodie Foster declined Helen to make Nell is explicitly unconfirmed and doubted. Cameron’s familiarity with Curtis through Kathryn Bigelow’s Blue Steel is offered as context.
- Schwarzenegger reportedly initially opposed Curtis, then accepted Cameron’s insistence that she was right for Helen.
- Tom Arnold reportedly auditioned mainly to meet Cameron, displayed chemistry with Schwarzenegger, and won the role after joking he could beat him up. His failure to repeat this career peak is discussed; uncertainty about McHale’s Navy is corrected.
- Carrere reportedly said she replaced Karina Lombard after shooting began; Lombard is identified through her role in The Firm.
Van Lathan Award for Did This Movie Need More Black People?
No; Martin Lawrence as Faisil proposed
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- More Black People receives an initial no, including rejection of replacing Trilby merely with a wise Black character. Martin Lawrence is then proposed for Faisil, while the existing casting is defended as potentially offsetting the film’s ethnic optics.
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- Grant Heslov as Faisil is the Best That Guy selection.
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- Bill Paxton’s Simon is the emphatic choice; his performance is considered strong enough to rename the award, but the existing name is defended.
- The fantasy punch and Simon’s desperate confession illustrate his comic impact.
Recasting Couch
Neeson; Malkovich; Bean; Oldman; Schreiber as villain
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- Liam Neeson is proposed as a replacement for the main villain.
- John Malkovich is proposed as a replacement for the main villain.
- Sean Bean is proposed as a replacement for the main villain.
- Gary Oldman is proposed as a replacement for the main villain.
- Liev Schreiber is proposed as a replacement for the main villain.
What Would Tony Romo’s Director’s Commentary for This Movie Sound Like?
Cris Collinsworth; Pat McAfee
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- Cris Collinsworth is imagined commentating on Helen’s striptease, followed by a brief Pat McAfee-style reaction to Harry.
Half-Assed Internet Research
Horse stunt; model jet; Digital Domain; tango rehearsal; hotel; body count
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- An anecdote says a frightened horse nearly threw Schwarzenegger off the roof and a stuntman saved him; the discussion expressly questions how reliable the story is.
- The near-fatal horse stunt anecdote is recalled for research, with explicit skepticism that it has grown exaggerated.
- Cameron and effects supervisor John Bruno reportedly planned to place a model plane on a real rooftop for a more convincing action sequence.
- Cameron’s founding of Digital Domain during this period is discussed as part of his continued drive to invent new filmmaking technology.
- The ice-tray joke is again traced to Tom Arnold’s divorce story.
- The hotel is identified as the Westin Bonaventure.
- The body count is reported as ninety, below the initial guesses.
- The discussion reports a $100 million budget, third-place annual box-office finish, and one visual-effects Oscar nomination. Its gross figure is transcribed as “$378 billion,” an apparent scale error retained as uncertain.
- Schwarzenegger reportedly rehearsed the tango for six months to match Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, with the same music used.
Favorite Kill
Tipping truck; windshield victim; human missile
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- Favorite deaths are the three men tipping over with the truck, a man ejected through a windshield and run over, and the human missile fired into the helicopter.
Apex Mountain
Standalone Schwarzenegger films; Tom Arnold; ice-tray theft; Westin Bonaventure; glass elevators
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- Glass elevators are explicitly affirmed at Apex Mountain, with In the Line of Fire offered as a comparison.
- Schwarzenegger’s overall Apex is rejected, but True Lies is affirmed as the best of his standalone, non-franchise films after debating whether remakes and sequels disqualify other titles.
- Tom Arnold is unequivocally affirmed at Apex Mountain.
- The 1990s tango-scene Apex goes to Scent of a Woman rather than True Lies.
- Curtis’s hottest scenes are compared with Trading Places and Perfect, with Perfect strongly advocated as her best appearance.
- Tia Carrere’s Apex is assigned to Wayne’s World.
- Bill Paxton is rejected for this film.
- James Cameron is rejected for this film.
- Two Dobermans being headbutted together is proposed without a clear response.
- Skiing shootouts are compared with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Inception, and Cliffhanger; Inception is preferred.
- Ice-tray theft is unequivocally affirmed.
- The Westin Bonaventure’s appearances in True Lies and In the Line of Fire are treated as its broader peak.
- Horse cops do not receive a firm affirmative response.
- Truth serum is provisionally affirmed as possibly its best use.
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