Most Rewatchable Scene
The opening twenty minutes
In the discussion (10)
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- The dialogue-light opening uses clothes, seating, gestures, music, and the funeral to introduce the characters and Alex’s death.
- Kasdan’s decision to withhold Costner’s deleted Alex flashback is defended, while releasing it after forty years is also suggested. Filming it first may have helped the cast understand Alex.
- The wake moves from Harold’s broken eulogy into the Rolling Stones and lets the camera track each friend’s reaction.
- Richard’s 3 a.m. sandwich speech accepts compromised priorities and says nobody promised life would be fun.
- The J.T. Lancer screening, dinner, cleanup, and pot-smoking stretch is nominated; teasing Lancer feels like authentic friend-group behavior.
- The Michigan football game shows the group instantly returning to shared habits.
- Nick’s accusation that they knew each other only briefly collides with Sam’s insistence that their old love still matters.
- Nick’s hug of Sam at the ending is praised.
- The abrupt breakfast ending is debated as intentional incompleteness after the deleted flashback was removed.
- The opening twenty minutes receive the final selection.