What’s Aged the Best?
The prison fight; the concept itself; the 3D-printed ear at Walsh Industries; the magnetic boots; working the title into a scene; Joan Allen going along with the switch
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- The magnetic boots and the concept itself, going undercover by switching faces with a guy in a coma, still hold up.
- Joan Allen plays Travolta's wife, and after the switch she and Cage wearing Travolta's face live as husband and wife, which raises the eternal twenty-year question of whether the surgery extended below the neck; the hosts imagine the conversation with CCH Pounder (as transcribed Bounder) and conclude there was no time, he had to go undercover now.
- When did she know? Probably immediately, there is no way they were the same; one host returns to whether his own wife would know, and the joke turns on whether she would recognize that detail of his enemy Neil.
- Walsh Industries, where the procedure is done, convinces him because a guy is 3D printing an ear when he walks in; they were also doing chest hairs, removing double chins, moving scars and hairlines, and they take a shot at Travolta's love handles; Travolta could have worked out before filming, since Cage is noticeably skinnier and ready to go.
- A clip of the title worked into an actual scene is played, 'I'd like to take his face off', which the movie then says six more times; all action movies should do this, with the imagined Mufasa line to Simba, 'you are the Lion King'.
- Polled on what aged best, one host goes with the fight in the prison, sticking with that one as the best magnetic-prison-boots fight ever, a scene you could put in every movie; another likes the idea of the actual face-off part and would watch a new Face Off every year.
- After the choices are run through again, magnetic boots, the concept, the title in a scene and Joan Allen realizing early that it is not her husband but going with it, the concept itself is picked and echoed, since it could be a Netflix series everybody would watch, with an expanded face-off universe where he spends three seasons trying to get his old face back.
- Picks the moment they walk in and are 3D printing the ear, which seemed so amazing then and can just be done now. — Jason Concepcion
- Whether you can really make an ear at home is argued: you can make a sculpture of an ear, not attach it to a person's head, which is the important part.