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The Den of Thieves Benihana Award for Scene-Stealing Location

San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck

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  • Chooses the location flex category and praises San Francisco’s varied landscape and cinematic range. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Other Bay Area films, recognizable landmarks, and the city’s advantage over Boston are discussed as support.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

The intelligence-agency prank, phone-phreak inspirations, and the mathematical consultant.

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  • The director was reportedly fooled by a prank claiming naval intelligence wanted script changes.
  • Phone phreakers and Apple’s blue-box origins are discussed as context for the characters.
  • The panel reports that mathematician Len Adleman supplied authentic lecture material and was persuaded by the chance for his wife to meet Redford.
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Apex Mountain

Scrabble tiles and evading motion sensors qualify; the major actors mostly do not.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:33:18Read transcript
  • Redford is rejected for Apex Mountain here.
  • River Phoenix is probably rejected; Stand by Me, My Own Private Idaho, and Running on Empty are alternatives.
  • Poitier is rejected, with 1967 identified as his stronger period.
  • Aykroyd is rejected, and Species is preferred for strange Kingsley performances.
  • The slow walk to evade security sensors is accepted.
  • Scrabble tiles are accepted.
  • Seinfeld wins for the name Cosmo.
  • Geese sounding like a cocktail party is discussed, but its use in another unidentified film prevents a clean claim of originality.
  • Sneakers is preferred to Blue Chips for a Mary McDonnell character being pursued by an old flame.
  • Dances with Wolves is preferred for McDonnell herself.
  • Braille Playboy is suggested as an Apex candidate.
  • Helium-voice humor is enjoyed but not given its Apex here.
  • A later tangent awards ceiling-vent crawling to John McClane after considering Jurassic Park.
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Picking Nits

Convenient vents, Cosmo’s motivations, Liz exposing the operation, and Crease’s incomplete travel request.

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  • Carl’s access through ceiling vents seems to make the elaborate voice-password operation unnecessary.
  • Movie vents are criticized as implausibly spacious, clean, and accessible.
  • Marty is questioned for never checking what happened to Cosmo; his fugitive status is offered in defense.
  • Cosmo’s redistribution plan seems inconsistent with his wealth, threats, and violence.
  • Redford and McDonnell’s nearly identical feathered hair is mocked.
  • Liz’s computer-dating remark unnecessarily exposes the operation, although it fits her irritated cover persona.
  • Crease requests first-class airfare but neglects lodging and other travel expenses.
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

The NSA’s eventual surveillance powers, San Francisco status, hypothetical rewards, and Redford’s hair.

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  • The panel questions the heroes’ victory in light of later real-world NSA surveillance.
  • Sneakers is called a top-tier San Francisco movie, with a wish for still more recognizable city footage.
  • Geographic discontinuities in other movie chases lead to questions about Giants-ballpark appearances on film.
  • Liz declining a reward prompts hypothetical requests, including stopping Jordan’s baseball retirement.
  • Access to private screenings of new films is proposed as a reward.
  • Bill speculates about whether Redford wore a wig; others suggest hair dye, and no conclusion is established.
  • The speculation becomes a joking proposal for a podcast about actors’ hair, wigs, and cosmetic changes.
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