Who won the movie
Michael Myers
Roger Ebert
Just one Oscar
Tentatively, the score
Cruise or Hanks
Hanks as Jimmy
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:11:30
Van Lathan: The argument excludes Nurse Alves because her death is offscreen and imagines 1990s court-TV and late-night coverage changing Michael’s politics.
Van Lathan: Later films’ Black victims are presented as the invented evidence for the transformation.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:42:06
Bill Simmons: When a homicidal maniac is loose, find your children, check in, and organize a phone chain.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Laurie’s absent adoptive parents may be worse than the Home Alone parents; Brackett and every Haddonfield adult also fail to protect children.
No casting what-ifs found
Tom Hanks as Jimmy; Heather Thomas as the blonde nurse; Catherine Bach as Karen (no final vote)
An abandoned high-rise sequel, Carpenter’s sibling explanation, the demolished hospital, Shoop’s ear infection and cold set, Carpenter’s reshoots, Warlock’s dual role, and the TV ending
The elastic timeline, Michael’s bodily needs and unexplained skills, unguarded Laurie, odorless burned body, Karen’s attraction to Bud, workplace rules, scalpel physics, scalding water, and survivable headshots
Brackett’s marriage, police consequences and Ben Tramer litigation, Laurie confronting her parents, unused Dana Carvey comedy, hospital youth, and Michael’s impossible knowledge
