What’s Aged the Best?
Emily Blunt as an action star
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- Emily Blunt as an action star is the first answer, with a great two-year run here and in Sicario; the hosts want more, questioning whether Jungle Cruise counts but counting A Quiet Place.
- A Quiet Place's ending, cutting hard to credits after she does something cool, looks borrowed from this movie by Krasinski and again casts her as a Ripley-like survivor against aliens.
- She is tough, cool, funny when needed and no-nonsense, which nobody would have guessed from Devil Wears Prada.
- Smarmy Cruise has aged well, recalling Jerry Maguire, like Daniel Kaffee from A Few Good Men 20 years later.
- The mix of green screen and practical effects, and not being afraid to riff on Groundhog Day, are also cited.
- The sci-fi World War II setting, a Rosie the Riveter, keep-calm-and-carry-on England in 2020 with everyone working for the war effort, is a world worth spending time in.
- Blunt is named as what has aged best and the other host gives her his vote.