What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?
The bloody high heel
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- The high heel is selected. — Bill Simmons
Categories & segments
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson
Screen roommates carefully, protect pets, and accept living alone.
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- The lessons are to vet roommates, pet-proof the apartment, and recognize that living alone is acceptable. — Bill Simmons
Best Double Feature
The Net and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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- The Net and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle are separate participant choices. — Bill Simmons
- Other erotic-thriller pairing logic is discussed.
Who Won the Movie?
Jennifer Jason Lee (two choices); Bridget Fonda (support and an unresolved lean)
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- Jennifer Jason Lee is selected for creating the movie’s most enduring character. — Van Lathan
- Fonda’s career moment is argued as a competing rationale, but another final vote goes to Lee. — Bill Simmons
Podcast choices
- Bill Simmons
- Jennifer Jason Lee
Most Rewatchable Scene
HAL reading the astronauts’ lips; HAL’s disconnection; the Clavius monolith sequence
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- Dawn of Man, including the apes and real-leopard encounter, is nominated. — Bill Simmons
- The ape discovering the bone as a weapon and the ensuing rival-gang fight are nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Floyd and the astronauts inspecting the buried artifact is nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Floyd’s meeting with the Russians is nominated as a second summit of rival groups. — Bill Simmons
- The jogging scene, eating scene, and HAL interview are separate nominations. — Bill Simmons
- HAL reading the astronauts’ lips is selected as one favorite, with the cut to HAL’s red eye called its best moment. — Steven Spielberg
- HAL attacking Poole and Bowman beginning to disconnect HAL are nominated. — Bill Simmons
- HAL saying “Stop, Dave,” expressing fear, and singing “Daisy” is praised as a character moment. — Bill Simmons
- The Stargate approach and Bowman passing through stages of life are nominated.
- The Clavius monolith scene, including the astronauts’ selfie, piercing signal, and cut to silence, is nominated. — Steven Spielberg
- Bowman disconnecting HAL is selected as another participant’s favorite. — Bill Simmons
- The spacecraft landing is praised for its 4K detail, design, and possible resemblance to an Egyptian head. — Steven Spielberg
Gandolfini Butter on My Ass So It Pops in My Mouth Award
The film’s audacity, precision, music, and patient visual rhythms
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- The pleasure discussion centers on the movie’s audacity and willingness to withhold explanation.
What’s Aged the Best?
HAL 9000; realistic space travel; solitary-astronaut stories
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- HAL 9000 is immediately agreed to be the easiest aged-best choice.
- The movie’s influence on later lone-astronaut films and the realism of its space imagery are additional answers. — Bill Simmons
The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
The slow-motion ape discovering weapons and the bone match cut
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- The slow-motion ape with the bone and the bone-to-satellite match cut are the leading shot choices. — Steven Spielberg
- Spielberg credits Douglas Trumbull with teaching him effects techniques and discusses his own use of the dolly zoom. — Steven Spielberg
What’s Aged the Worst?
The vanished intermission, Kubrick’s BBC-channel forecast, the possibility of shutting down AI, and modern inability to disconnect
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- The intermission is named as a theatrical convention that would not survive today. — Bill Simmons
- Kubrick’s forecast of twelve BBC channels is checked against eleven current services and judged one short. — Bill Simmons
- The notion that people could simply shut down AI is questioned, leading to an argument for regular days disconnected from digital life. — Steven Spielberg
The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop
The opening use of Also sprach Zarathustra
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- The opening music is selected without dispute. — Bill Simmons
Sean Fennessey Award for Stealth Homage That Gives Every Movie Nerd a Criterion Orgasm
Later filmmakers’ borrowings from 2001
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- The film is proposed as the inverse-category champion because so many later movies borrow from it. — Steven Spielberg
Steven Seagal shitting on himself award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot
A dead horse painted as a zebra and other production stories
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- A dead horse was reportedly painted as a zebra and had begun to smell during filming.
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