Who won the movie
Robert Redford.
Just one Oscar
James Horner’s score.
Dion Waiters Award
James Earl Jones
Scorsese or Spielberg
Steven Spielberg.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:20:47
Joanna Robinson: Calls Sneakers Redford’s best 1990s film and his last great acting movie, excluding Marvel appearances.
Kyle Brandt: Rates Bish’s slow walk across the sensor-protected room above any Ethan Hunt stunt for its sustained concentration.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:58:54
Bill Simmons: Looking at a stranger’s shoes is the preferred clue to how important the interaction may be.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
The sound-based route reconstruction leads the choices; Kyle prefers the final fortress heist, with Joanna also praising the Scrabble decoding.
Redford’s clothes, computer dating, answering machines, car phones, and the Bay Area setting
Information-age paranoia, Redford’s car, comic dialogue, and James Horner’s score
The visible dim sum
Marty’s sunrise drop-off and the code reflected in Whistler’s glasses.
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and Chain of Fools.
Whistler
Flex pick · Joanna Robinson
The magical black box and Ben Kingsley’s performance divide the panel.
William Hurt, Jon Voight, and Willem Dafoe as Cosmo; Kevin Costner as Marty.
Redford’s age mismatch, the seduction scene, and Whistler’s dancing; Scrabble’s datedness is disputed.
Mary Steenburgen reportedly considered for Liz; the panel discounts the significance.
Carl and Mary should have had a sex scene.
Flex pick · Kyle Brandt
Redford’s last great starring film; Bish’s slow walk surpasses Ethan Hunt’s stunts.
Stephen Tobolowsky; Donal Logue and Eddie Jones also considered
San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck
The intelligence-agency prank, phone-phreak inspirations, and the mathematical consultant.
Scrabble tiles and evading motion sensors qualify; the major actors mostly do not.
Tom Hanks as Marty; an older Tom Cruise as Cosmo
Carl preferred for a young Hoffman; Mother initially proposed
Convenient vents, Cosmo’s motivations, Liz exposing the operation, and Crease’s incomplete travel request.
A sequel or Crease CIA prequel
Scott Hanson calling the surveillance operation like NFL RedZone.
James Horner’s score.
The NSA’s eventual surveillance powers, San Francisco status, hypothetical rewards, and Redford’s hair.
The Scrabble tiles, black box, and red 49ers hat.
Check a stranger’s shoes to judge the encounter.
