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What’s Aged the Worst?

Police procedure; the Beth assault; Beth’s college photo; the final investigation; imitation erotic thrillers

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Approx. transcript time · 01:17:05Read transcript
  • Aged-worst discussion argues that modern audiences know too much about police procedure to accept Nick’s shootings, drug use, therapist relationship and unrestricted suspect contact.
  • The Beth assault is criticized as controversial even on release; the unchanged face in her supposedly older blonde college identification photo is criticized as a careless prop choice.
  • The earlier criticism of the sex-scene movement returns as an aged-worst joke.
  • The police’s acceptance of the jacket and conveniently collected evidence against Beth is criticized; Nick ignores a manuscript describing his partner’s elevator death, and Beth’s lack of blood is overlooked.
  • Later imitation erotic thrillers are an aged-worst choice, with Color of Night singled out.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Perverse Gilligan’s Island; San Francisco as best movie city; Catherine as generous murderer; no back-scratching; Nick as worst movie cop

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Approx. transcript time · 01:24:11Read transcript
  • Hottest takes compare the film with a perverse Gilligan’s Island and declare San Francisco the best movie city, with the latter acknowledged as home-crowd pandering.
  • Catherine is jokingly called a generous murderer because she gives her victims pleasure before killing them.
  • A hottest take rejects the sex scene’s severe back-scratching as an immediate reason to stop.
  • Nick is proposed as cinema’s worst cop because of his shootings, addiction, relationship with the suspect, loss of judgment, failure to protect Gus and killing of his girlfriend.
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Casting What-Ifs

Basinger, Ryan, Davis, Barkin, Hemingway, Moore, Thompson, Turner, Berenger, Forman, Fiorentino and Shields

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Approx. transcript time · 01:27:13Read transcript
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The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

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The Vincent Chase Award: Are We Sure This Character Is Actually Good at Their Job?

Catherine Tramell as a killer

Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck

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  • Craig introduces the Vincent Chase flex for Catherine: her planning is admired but excessive stabbing, abandoned weapons and disregard for evidence are criticized; her authorial quality is debated using bestseller and review-blurb clues.
  • The counterargument says Catherine gets away with everything; an ice-pick search before bed becomes a joking hypothetical.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Filming logistics, contractual nudity limits, script-writing accounts and disputed production anecdotes

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Approx. transcript time · 01:33:52Read transcript
  • A reported filming injury says Stone’s stabbing pierced Bill Cable’s blood pack and skin and sent him to hospital.
  • Research reports no sex-scene body doubles, Douglas’s contractual refusal of full frontal nudity and use of a rehearsal for the Beth encounter; Eszterhas’s claim of sleeping with Stone is received skeptically.
  • Research reports Eszterhas writing the script in ten days without an outline while listening to the Rolling Stones; Verhoeven’s mild description of Nick’s misconduct is mocked.
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Apex Mountain

Sharon Stone; Joe Eszterhas; erotic thrillers; Coke and Jack Daniel’s; ice picks; women on top

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Approx. transcript time · 00:28:58Read transcript
  • Verhoeven’s Apex is disputed: Starship Troopers is preferred for its later reputation, while Basic Instinct is defended for its cultural impact, commercial success and creation of a star.
  • Apex affirmatives are Stone, Eszterhas and erotic thrillers; Douglas and San Francisco films receive no, while ceiling sex mirrors are qualified by later MTV Cribs examples.
  • Freeze-frame moments are discussed with a Phoebe Cates counterexample; Tripplehorn’s peak is debated against The Firm, Coke and Jack Daniel’s receives assent, elevator murders loses to Dressed to Kill, and male-star nudity is proposed with Gibson, Costner and Willis comparisons.
  • The resumed Apex discussion endorses ice picks and women on top; sex with a therapist is proposed but compared with The Sopranos and The Prince of Tides.
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