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What’s Aged the Worst?

Michael Rapaport as a likable friend; extravagant courtship; assaults; tabloid office; pacing and allergy sequence.

Flex pick · Mina Kimes

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  • Michael Rapaport playing a likable friend is selected by Mina under an explicitly cued flex. — Mina Kimes
  • The luxurious, unrealistic tabloid office is criticized.
  • Hitch’s elaborate first-date planning and walkie-talkies are criticized as potentially creepy now.
  • The response is defended as depending on whether the recipient already likes the man.
  • The seven o’clock meeting time is judged stranger than the jet skis.
  • Women striking men and the food fight are criticized as conduct contemporary movies would avoid.
  • Hitch choosing Sara rather than the Paula Patton character is criticized.
  • The middle of the movie drags when Kevin James is absent.
  • The food-allergy comedy is criticized.
  • The extreme portrayal of Albert as a man who could win Allegra is judged less believable now.
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Will Smith and Eva Mendes’s chemistry; the extended kiss lesson.

In the discussion (6)
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  • Will Smith and Eva Mendes’s romantic chemistry is criticized as merely adequate. — Van Lathan
  • Their chemistry is compared unfavorably with Smith and Margot Robbie and with Mendes and Ryan Gosling. — Van Lathan
  • Will Smith and Kevin James are judged to have the movie’s strongest chemistry.
  • The extended kissing lesson is criticized as overlong.
  • The kissing lesson is defended as iconic and not bothersome.
  • Another view says there are no weak links because the core actors are solid.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Hitch is Will Smith’s fourth-best film; it may be his purest star performance; Eva Mendes should have remained in Fast & Furious.

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  • Hitch is ranked as Will Smith’s fourth-best movie behind Men in Black, Independence Day, and Bad Boys.
  • Focus is ranked above Hitch by another participant.
  • Hitch is proposed as Will Smith’s best or most representative pure movie-star performance.
  • Eva Mendes leaving the Fast & Furious series after 2 Fast 2 Furious is called its biggest mistake.
  • Replacing Michelle Rodriguez with Mendes from the first film is proposed and disputed.
  • Keeping both women in the franchise is offered as the preferred alternative.
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Casting What-Ifs

Patton Oswalt as Albert; Alexander Skarsgård’s cut role; Ali Larter as a fictional celebrity.

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  • Patton Oswalt is reported as the second choice for Albert and rejected by the panel for this role.
  • Alexander Skarsgård’s scenes as Allegra’s boyfriend were reportedly cut, leaving only a photograph.
  • Ali Larter reportedly supplied images for the fictional celebrity.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Ellis Island ancestry; Smith’s inability to swim; Eva Mendes in Miami; soundtrack; proposed Jets stadium.

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  • Will Smith reportedly resisted Ellis Island because Black Americans generally did not enter there; his producing partner’s family record changed his mind.
  • Smith reportedly could not swim and wore a large life vest for the jet-ski work.
  • Eva Mendes appearing in the Miami music video and Smith not remembering her are reported.
  • The soundtrack’s Amerie and Beyoncé comparison is discussed as music lore.
  • Albert’s reference to the proposed West Side Jets stadium is retained as period research.
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Apex Mountain

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  • Will Smith is placed below his late-1990s apex.
  • Eva Mendes is placed at or near her apex.
  • Kevin James is placed at his breakthrough apex.
  • Benadryl is debated and rejected.
  • Jet skis are rejected in favor of Eastbound & Down and Miami.
  • Amber Valletta is selected.
  • Hair waxing is rejected because The 40-Year-Old Virgin did it better the same year.
  • Ellis Island is rejected.
  • Post-9/11 New York comeback movies are proposed, with Spider-Man as competition.
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