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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

The swimming pool plan; Greg; Paul

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Approx. transcript time · 00:52:08Read transcript
  • If Paul were a little older, would his rivalry with Greg feel more tense; Daniel Zavato (as transcribed) is called Riggins-lite when full Riggins was wanted, and Paul is a number two choice.
  • The number one choice is the swimming pool plan, loved as a scene but so stupid; Mitchell has said it's a kid movie plan Scooby-Doo might think of, and they bring one TV and hairdryer at a time, giving it rockets to throw.
  • Greg needed something more, Tim Riggins in 2008, since he treated her badly in high school and worms his way back into the inner circle; Craig Grobeck should have played him.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

The peeping Tom kids; bad reads as an STD allegory; audiences judging the characters' intelligence

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  • The peeping Tom kids are never understood: she is the leftover prom queen the neighborhood boys still stare at, and in 2014 climbing up to look through her window is criminal activity, though that's how George McFly met his wife.
  • Bad reads of the movie: the number of people who think this is just an allegory for STDs or the perils of AIDS, which it's not.
  • Contemporary audiences focus way too much on the intelligence of the characters and whether they make the right call; if it came out today people would call these kids idiots over the hair dryer plan.
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Van Lathan Award for Did This Movie Need More Black People?

Yes

Flex pick · Joanna Robinson

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  • The flex category honors Van Lathan: did this movie need more black people? — Joanna Robinson
  • It's set in Detroit and it did: the community college teacher, maybe one of the sex workers and the two cops are about it, and Naomi Aki (as transcribed) is second billed in the sequel.
  • The category ran with Van for Friday the 13th, where he did his movies that didn't need black people; this one at least had a couple.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

One night with the It Follows girl is worth it; better than Obsession, Hereditary and Weapons; it would make $180 million today; Maika Monroe holds the Scream Queen belt; the sequel should be a comedy

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  • Rolling the dice for a one-nighter with the It Follows girl: at every point from age 18 to 27 the answer would have been fuck it, worth the demon STD.
  • It goes straight into the doctrine of bet on yourself, counting on scoring again in the next couple of nights; there is no time limit to pass it along.
  • Changing the Catherine Trammell would you throw your life away award to the would you have sex with the It Follows girl award, or the Bill Simmons I would award, is floated.
  • Another take: this movie is better than Obsession, Hereditary and Weapons, the elevated horror of the last 15 years, because it has a lot on its mind and peels back more every time, down to her broken hand holding Paul's at the end.
  • Piggybacking, if it came out right now with a big studio it would make $180 million, at least 100, and it is very similar to Obsession.
  • Part of what people respond to with horror is newness and surprise, so for the sequel no trailer is wanted, just the title and one second.
  • The sequel's title is argued as They Follow or They Follows, and Paul is not in it.
  • Micah Monroe (as transcribed) still has the Scream Queen belt, with competition from Jessica Roth (as transcribed) and Samara Weaving, after Jamie Lee in the 80s, Neve Campbell in the 90s and Naomi Watts in the aughts for Ring, Ring 2, the Funny Games remake and Mulholland Drive.
  • Funny Games is not a rewatchable because it's not a fun hang, and the dad, Tim Roth, is a zero out of ten on the protect my family scale.
  • The last take is that the sequel should change genres into a straight comedy, just Paul trying to get laid as people come towards him, made by the This Is the End crew.
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The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

The tall It guy; Daniel Zovatto

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  • Greg's mom or the tall It guy are offered, and it goes to the tall It guy (transcribed 'all it guy'), with a shout-out to Naked Grandpa.
  • Naming Daniel Zavato (as transcribed) pushes the limits of the award, but he is really liked in this and great in Station Eleven.
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Recasting Couch

Jennifer Lawrence; a Boston version with Robin Williams; Justin Long as Paul; Taylor Kitsch; Neve Campbell as the lead

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Approx. transcript time · 01:11:33Read transcript
  • Going bigger than Micah Monroe (as transcribed), this is the kind of movie Jennifer Lawrence should have made in the 2010s instead of the David O. Russell area; Winter's Bone made people want this, a contract thing transcribed as The Last House on the Left came early in her career, and she would have been good in one elevated horror.
  • The actual answer moves it to Boston: she is at Bunker Hill Community College with Robin Williams, running around Charlestown, reciting the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock in a Boston accent.
  • Justin Long as Paul is raised but he was too old; a time machine would put Taylor Kitsch and Justin Long in this movie, and then Neve Campbell could have been the lead.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Wide-angle lenses; Carpenter, Romero and Hitchcock as influences; The Idiot; teenage problems as props

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  • The film used wide-angle lenses for an expansive look; Carpenter, George Romero and Hitchcock were big influences, as was The Idiot, and Atlanta in 2022 is asked about as having a parody of it near the end.
  • Some people read teenage problems as props: the grass on her thigh as self-harm cutting, uneaten food as an eating disorder and the pill on the napkin as drug dependency; only the grass is bought.
  • A line read from The Idiot: your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person, tied to wanting to give up like Annie at the beach.
  • Mitchell has said that when Jay wakes up on the roof of the car she is close to where Annie was, before she sees the guys in the boat and maybe buys herself some time; a joke imagines those guys coming home.
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Apex Mountain

Everyone in the cast except Michael Monroe (as transcribed); David Robert Mitchell; backward leg murders; the Playpen magazine

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Approx. transcript time · 01:15:24Read transcript
  • Everyone in this cast is first called a no, then immediately corrected to a yes, except for Michael Monroe (as transcribed).
  • Monroe hasn't hit her apex yet; probably Long Legs, which vaulted her to another level, and she stars in these movies, like Watcher.
  • No above-ground pool scenes come to mind, though the pool becomes a symbol in the movie.
  • David Robert Mitchell is a yes for sure, with a lot of stock bought after this movie, after a joke about David Robert Marshall pitching for the Brewers.
  • High school horror movies are a no, that's Scream and Halloween; backward leg murders get a yeah, though this one is not as good as the first death in the Ring.
  • Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn is a no; the Playpen magazine gets a yeah for the tissues on top and the photo of his high school girlfriend.
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