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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Top-three Scorsese; his eighties as best decade; Fiorentino missing from The Sopranos

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  • After Hours is top-three Scorsese alongside Goodfellas and The King of Comedy.
  • Scorsese’s eighties may surpass his nineties and seventies; decade filmographies are compared, and the eighties argument receives agreement.
  • Fiorentino should have appeared on The Sopranos; several hypothetical roles are offered, followed by uncertainty about why her career stopped.
After Hours The Rewatchables

Best Double Feature

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Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
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Goodfellas
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Into the Night
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Uncut Gems
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Bringing Out the Dead
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Game Night
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The Purge
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  • Pee-wee’s Big Adventure offers another man-child’s strange journey toward home.
  • Into the Night is the favored NYC/LA contrast; Goodfellas, Uncut Gems, Bringing Out the Dead, Game Night and The Purge are other suggestions.
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Recasting Couch

Michael Keaton preferred; Tom Hanks; alternative actors by era

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  • 1985 Hanks is proposed as Paul for stronger awkward-romance comic timing, although his lack of kookiness is questioned.
  • Keaton becomes the preferred recast for chaotic energy, while Dunne’s original performance remains loved; Guttenberg is plausible but less desired.
  • McCarthy is too young, Reinhold is floated, and alternate eras suggest Cusack circa1990, Josh Hamilton circa1996–97 and Hoffman circa2004–05.
  • Eisenberg circa2010–11 and Hader circa2013–14 are proposed; Chalamet seems too handsome and Cooper Hoffman promising but perhaps too young.
After Hours The Rewatchables
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Apex Mountain

Griffin Dunne; Rosanna Arquette in1985; plaster

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  • Dunne and Arquette’s 1985 receive emphatic yeses.
  • Fiorentino’s later Last Seduction and Men in Black compete as peaks; television-first release reportedly barred her Oscar eligibility for the former.
  • Henry Miller is placed nearer Tropic of Cancer; Heard nearer Home Alone or Cutter’s Way; Cheech and Chong nearer Up in Smoke.
  • After Hours is initially the best late-night NYC movie, then The Warriors takes first for geographical range, with After Hours close behind.
  • Unranked additional late-night NYC candidates include Taxi Driver, 25th Hour, Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Ghostbusters, American Psycho, Good Time, Uncut Gems and Bright Lights Big City; Go is discussed as an influence inheritor rather than a NYC candidate.
  • Plaster receives a yes. Garr’s Tootsie era is preferred for her; Soho alternatives are the last fifteen years or the earlier period when Basquiat was painting masterpieces.
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Picking Nits

Paul’s anger; easy routes home; Marcy’s suicide

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  • Paul’s sudden cruelty to Marcy is questioned, with fear of sleeping with a burn victim offered as explanation.
  • Another subway booth or simply walking home would solve Paul’s immediate problem.
  • Marcy’s suicide is puzzling; the stated overdose drug provides a Judy Garland/Wizard of Oz connection.
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