Most Rewatchable Scene
The sound-based route reconstruction leads the choices; Kyle prefers the final fortress heist, with Joanna also praising the Scrabble decoding.
In the discussion (16)
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- The 1969 prologue divides the panel: one participant would omit it, while the casting of the younger leads earns praise.
- The supposed NSA agents confronting Marty is nominated.
- The password-surveillance scene is nominated for Carl and Crease both wanting a look at the seduction.
- Marty getting caught in the mathematician’s office is preferred to the preceding surveillance gag. — Bill Simmons
- The Scrabble-code breakthrough is nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Cosmo’s return and his financial-equality monologue are nominated.
- Redford’s restrained reactions make an effective counterpoint to Kingsley’s large performance.
- The discussion questions why the film treats Cosmo’s equality rhetoric as madness and compares its aging radicals with other films. — Bill Simmons
- Reconstructing Marty’s journey through remembered sounds is selected for its suspense. — Bill Simmons
- The sound deductions are enjoyed despite doubts about concussion and implausible memory; the apparent missing Bay Area bridge is defended geographically.
- Cosmo addressing Marty over the intercom and revealing Liz as a hostage is nominated. — Bill Simmons
- James Earl Jones’s surprise arrival gives the ending an extra burst of excitement.
- The team’s requests for rewards make the final negotiation especially funny. — Bill Simmons
- Praises the entire Warner Brandes operation, from identifying him to the restaurant ruse. — Kyle Brandt
- Chooses the final fortress heist as his most rewatchable sequence. — Kyle Brandt
- Chooses the cocktail-party sound reconstruction and also praises the simultaneous Scrabble decoding and box testing. — Joanna Robinson