The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Gavin’s conspiracy; overrated house; dog should really die
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- Gavin is theorized to engineer the conflict for career advantage; losing the client at the end and his actual advice challenge the conspiracy.
- The Roses house is said not to rank among twenty desirable movie homes; seventeen initial alternatives and numerous additions are discussed, explicitly unranked despite initial numbering.
- The dog should truly have become pâté to fulfill the darkness is argued against needing equal culpability and preserving fear over reality; a test-audience insert reportedly established survival, perhaps to protect the fatal ending.
- Desirable movie-home alternatives: Father of the Bride; Home Alone; The Royal Tenenbaums; Something’s Gotta Give beach house; Parasite
- Desirable movie-home alternatives: The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 vacation house and brownstone; The Game; The Holiday cottage. Numbering explicitly does not mean ranking; the California Holiday house is criticized.
- Desirable movie-home alternatives: Call Me by Your Name villa; Phantom Thread townhouse; Cameron’s Ferris Bueller house; Mr. & Mrs. Smith before destruction; Boogie Nights; restored Notebook house; Godfather Part II Lake Tahoe house; Singin’ in the Rain villa
- Desirable movie-home alternatives: Ex Machina; Saltburn; Downton Abbey; Ordinary People; Amityville Horror. The count is called twenty despite side suggestions.
- Desirable movie-home alternatives: It’s Complicated; American Gigolo beach house; Wall Street Hamptons house; Tony Stark’s Iron Man mansion; Anatomy of a Fall house; To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday Nantucket house
- Desirable movie-home alternatives: Fatal Attraction; The Big Chill; Sleeping with the Enemy beach house and later hiding-place house; Unfaithful house and admired apartment; Forrest Gump