Aged best begins with casting Dennis Miller and allowing a comedian to perform his own style, alongside affection for his HBO show and The Net role.
Dennis Miller's brief appearances and familiar comic voice are an aged-best choice.
Tom's small chair, mocked tie, and steadily diminishing confidence effectively undercut his expected promotion over the course of the day; weekday title cards reinforce the progression.
The dehumanizing corporate culture, embodied by Dylan Baker’s automaton-like executive, is an aged-best choice.
The discussion of consent that can begin or end at any moment is an aged-best choice, recalling later Me Too debates and the long history of this conversation.
The film's clumsy but substantive treatment of social issues is compared with Philadelphia; its anxious straight-white-male rhetoric is seen as anticipating later public discourse.
Meredith’s going-down elevator entrance is praised.
Sneaking into a hotel room while its occupant approaches remains an effective suspense device.
Tom's sudden shower after the encounter is both suspicious and compelling filmmaking as he hides scratches and his wife mentions Meredith's call. A DeRay Davis routine about habitual showers is used to explain the attempted cover.
Scene-stealing location: the office building, reportedly constructed for the film because Levinson wanted glass walls that let people observe one another.
Meredith receives both the Elisabeth Shue Oxford electrochemist award and the Vincent Chase job-competence award. Her pageant background seems a stretch for a senior technology role, though unspecified later education is offered as a possibility.
Meredith receives both the Elisabeth Shue Oxford electrochemist award and the Vincent Chase job-competence award. Her pageant background seems a stretch for a senior technology role, though unspecified later education is offered as a possibility.
Meredith is seen as an operator who surpasses more qualified colleagues, but her cost-cutting product failure and elaborate, recorded attempt to frame Tom make the case that she is bad at the job.
Weak link: the harassment scheme is unnecessary to framing Tom for the failed CD-ROMs, although it is necessary to the movie's premise and marketing.
One participant names the wife as weak link, arguing that she adds little and inconsistently supports Tom; another participant had her under aged worst. The suggestion that Tom should instead partner with Meredith begins here.
The wife is criticized for insufficient anger and inconsistent characterization, unlike Jeanne Tripplehorn's Basic Instinct character, who continually exposes the protagonist's nature.
A defense reads the wife's doubt as showing how harassment victims are questioned even by loved ones. Dennis Miller's response is compared with victim-blaming arguments heard in the 1990s; the hosts explicitly reject those arguments as excuses.
The wife is still judged too forgiving, with a proposed scene of renewed anger over mundane requests such as coffee.
An early hottest take favors Moore in St. Elmo's Fire and Disclosure because they use her distinctive sexuality; Striptease is criticized for treating nudity as a stunt without dramatic heat.
The earlier hottest take is repeated: St. Elmo's Fire and Disclosure are Moore's two best roles.
Two further hot takes interpret Douglas's convincing sexual screen persona as exceptional coolness and speculate about his private life. These are host conjectures, not established biographical facts; they also imagine an erotic-thriller version of The American President.
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