The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Cameron’s best directing; blockbuster inflation; Fortnite; You’re fired counterfactual
In the discussion (4)
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- The film combines Bond, a large action blockbuster, De Palma-style voyeurism, and Naked Gun-style visual comedy. That range supports an early hottest take that this is Cameron’s finest directing work.
- A hottest take argues Cameron helped break the blockbuster business model by pushing budgets and spectacle so high that profitability requires extraordinary success.
- Another hottest take proposes that the opening action anticipates Fortnite; the causal claim is challenged because earlier war films already contain similar action.
- A counterfactual hottest take imagines copyrighting You’re fired preventing The Apprentice’s success and Trump’s presidency.