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- Scorsese is selected over Spielberg, with the tri-state setting cited.
Categories & segments
Best Hang / Worst Hang
Best: Sal, Maggie, Kenny; worst: Sal, Doc
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- Best-hang picks move from Sal to Maggie; worst-hang candidates are Sal and Doc, with disagreement continuing.
- The hang debate adds Kenny as good company and questions why Maggie was omitted from the obvious-stay-away category.
Picking Nits
Disappearance coverage; polished concert footage; conventional Season in Hell; unlikely friendships
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- Nitpicks question the limited attention to Eddie’s disappearance without a body; local news reach and the band’s uncertain fame are counterarguments.
- The polished, multi-camera color footage of the early-1960s college concert is considered implausible.
- Season in Hell sounds too conventional to justify its supposedly shocking avant-garde reputation.
- A complaint that Frank learns piano impossibly fast is corrected: he already plays and Eddie teaches a rock approach rather than the instrument itself.
- The band members are considered unlikely friends outside music, with Sal and Doc the possible exception.
Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake
TikTok rediscovery; a presumed-dead rapper; a female singer; a found-tapes campaign
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- A hip-hop retelling is proposed, while the difficulty of writing genuinely appealing fictional-band songs is emphasized.
- Remake ideas include an older band rediscovered through TikTok, a presumed-dead rapper, a female singer and a found-tapes viral campaign resembling The Blair Witch Project.
Is This Movie Better With…?
Zane Lowe interviewing Eddie and Wendell
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- Zane Lowe is imagined interviewing Eddie about his disappearance and artistic failure, then interviewing the silent Wendell.
Just One Oscar
On the Dark Side — Original Song
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- On the Dark Side is chosen for an original-song Oscar; the actual nominees are discussed and a second Yentl nomination is proposed for displacement, with a Fame digression.
What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?
Joanne’s photograph with two men
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- The photograph of Joanne with two men is the memorabilia choice.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson
Others profit from your discovery; greatness or nothing
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- Life lessons quote Sal’s warning about others profiting from your discovery and Eddie’s greatness-or-nothing view of making music.
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- That Thing You Do! is the initial double feature; winner discussion favors Beaver Brown, with HBO offered and Paré considered then set aside.
- The Legend of Billie Jean is added as a double feature for its regional phenomenon; a comparison with disposable streaming films questions how nostalgia develops.
Who Won the Movie?
Beaver Brown
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- Beaver Brown is selected because the band continues benefiting from the film.
- HBO receives a separate choice and immediate approval.
- An initial Michael Paré possibility gives way to Beaver Brown because the songs still receive play and may still earn money.
Podcast choices
- Speaker not identified
- Beaver Brown
- Speaker not identified
- HBO
- Speaker not identified
- Beaver Brown
Producer review
Likable, compact musical entertainment
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- The first response describes a great time and a very likable movie. — Craig Horlbeck
- An unsuccessful attempt to persuade Liz to join the viewing becomes an anecdote about how much she might have enjoyed it.
- The others joke that sponsorship or Bill appearing in the movie might have persuaded her.
- The compact running time and music are offered as reasons the movie is reliably enjoyable.
- Modest expectations make enjoyment easier; LA Confidential is contrasted as a movie liked less than its reputation led the viewer to expect.
Casting What-Ifs
Hansen wanted unfamiliar leads; McConaughey was reportedly considered, but is doubted as Exley. Matt Damon’s Departed role is compared with the part.
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- Hansen wanted unfamiliar leads; McConaughey was reportedly considered, but is doubted as Exley. Matt Damon’s Departed role is compared with the part.
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