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It Follows

year 2014decade 10sdirector David Robert Mitchellgenre Horror
host Bill Simmonshost Chris Ryanhost Joanna Robinson
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 59:50

One night with the It Follows girl is worth it

Rolling the dice for a one-nighter with the It Follows girl: at every point from age 18 to 27 the answer would have been fuck it, worth the demon STD.

It goes straight into the doctrine of bet on yourself, counting on scoring again in the next couple of nights; there is no time limit to pass it along.

The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:35:56

Don't have sex with a guy named Hugh

Don't have sex with a guy named Hugh, though his name could secretly be Jeff, a stealth Jeff, and you can't take all Jeffs off the table.

The film

It Follows (2014)

Directed by David Robert Mitchell · Horror

100 minutes

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1:09:40

Casting What-Ifs

Mike Lanier as the very tall It

Mike Lanier as the very tall It

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  • Mike Lanier plays the very tall It: a 7 foot 7 Detroit resident who designed engines for General Motors and was one half of the world's tallest twins.
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1:11:33

Recasting Couch

Jennifer Lawrence; a Boston version with Robin Williams; Justin Long as Paul; Taylor Kitsch; Neve Campbell as the lead

Jennifer Lawrence; a Boston version with Robin Williams; Justin Long as Paul; Taylor Kitsch; Neve Campbell as the lead

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  • Going bigger than Micah Monroe (as transcribed), this is the kind of movie Jennifer Lawrence should have made in the 2010s instead of the David O. Russell area; Winter's Bone made people want this, a contract thing transcribed as The Last House on the Left came early in her career, and she would have been good in one elevated horror.
  • The actual answer moves it to Boston: she is at Bunker Hill Community College with Robin Williams, running around Charlestown, reciting the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock in a Boston accent.
  • Justin Long as Paul is raised but he was too old; a time machine would put Taylor Kitsch and Justin Long in this movie, and then Neve Campbell could have been the lead.
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1:13:02

Half-Assed Internet Research

Wide-angle lenses; Carpenter, Romero and Hitchcock as influences; The Idiot; teenage problems as props

Wide-angle lenses; Carpenter, Romero and Hitchcock as influences; The Idiot; teenage problems as props

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  • The film used wide-angle lenses for an expansive look; Carpenter, George Romero and Hitchcock were big influences, as was The Idiot, and Atlanta in 2022 is asked about as having a parody of it near the end.
  • Some people read teenage problems as props: the grass on her thigh as self-harm cutting, uneaten food as an eating disorder and the pill on the napkin as drug dependency; only the grass is bought.
  • A line read from The Idiot: your soul will leave your body and you will no longer be a person, tied to wanting to give up like Annie at the beach.
  • Mitchell has said that when Jay wakes up on the roof of the car she is close to where Annie was, before she sees the guys in the boat and maybe buys herself some time; a joke imagines those guys coming home.
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1:18:46

Picking Nits

A movie date while being followed; romancing her instead of a random woman or sex worker; the naked guy on the roof; ...

A movie date while being followed; romancing her instead of a random woman or sex worker; the naked guy on the roof; whether gunshots stop it and why it bleeds; no further police involvement after she reported the kidnapping; the shell phone's video function

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  • Would you go on a movie date if you were being followed, and why is Jeff Hugh romancing her when he could find a random woman in a bar or a sex worker.
  • Jeff Hugh is called the biggest scumbag in the movie, taking her to a diner like an Applebee's after the date.
  • Why was the naked guy standing on the roof without going to the house; asked in a Reddit AMA how he got on the roof, the director answered very carefully.
  • Do gunshots kill them or slow them down: it disappears and comes back in some other form, as Yara got back up, and why it bleeds that much in the pool has the answer that it looks really cool.
  • At some point they should let law enforcement know more, though she is nervous nobody will believe her; the hosts correct themselves that she did tell the police at first that Paul (as transcribed) kidnapped her, and the police said they could not find him; the nitpick is why there is no further police involvement once guns are involved and Greg is killed across the street.
  • Does the shell phone have a video function to record the entity, given good video cameras on phones by 2014.
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1:27:53

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Where does Jay's date rank among the worst movie dates? Was naked guy on the roof an It? Does it work for all kinds o...

Where does Jay's date rank among the worst movie dates? Was naked guy on the roof an It? Does it work for all kinds of sex? Did Paul wear a condom? How does the entity choose its form? What if everyone had sex at once? Could you isolate the person? Does its touch kill, and could having sex with it reverse the curse?

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  • Where does Jay's date with Hugh rank among the worst movie dates in movies: Ellen Barkin and Mickey Rourke in Diner, and Jada Pinkett and Omar Epps at the premiere of Stab, where she gets stabbed to death.
  • Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson at the theater in The Departed, and the family outing in Cape Fear with a cigar in the theater, are added.
  • What if Naked Guy on the Roof wasn't an It but a neighborhood creep, grandpa out again; the movie is called a bellwether for old people being scary.
  • Does it work for all kinds of sex: David Robert Mitchell has answered in interviews that it works for queer sex and condoms don't work, and the hosts debate non-penetrative sex between two women.
  • Does digital penetration count, the kids could have tested the limits, and the demon is on its own clock, since Greg is sure he beat the system before his own mom gets him.
  • In a threesome all three people get it, which raises whether she had sex with all three boat guys.
  • Did Paul wear a condom with the sex workers: probably not, since he would want it spread, so Paul probably got a real STD.
  • Is Jay off sex for a while; she does not enjoy sex with either Paul or Greg.
  • Does the entity choose a person to get to who it wants to kill: the answer is it shows up as what will unsettle you, a loved one or a seven foot Romanian basketball player, with naked Aaron Rodgers, Mike McCarthy and Ben Roethlisberger imagined.
  • What if everyone in Detroit had sex at the exact same time; it's just one entity with a clear path, so whoever you have sex with is next.
  • One human sacrifice in government solitary confinement, a block of ice, burial 500 feet underground or outer space like the Martian, but it can get on a plane or a space shuttle, and when that person dies it comes back to Jeff Hugh.
  • Earlier, flagged as an unanswerable, the hosts argue whether Jay had sex with the boat guys at the lake to buy herself time before the pool and Paul.
  • One more idea after the double feature: when the It touches you, do you just die, and could you reverse Uno it by having sex with the It; since it grabbed Jay by the hair and her ankle without killing her, the touch is not enough, and it has to have sex with you, grinding against you, as seen once with the mom.
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1:36:25

Best Double Feature

The Guest; Longlegs; Barbarian; 8 Mile

The Guest; Longlegs; Barbarian; 8 Mile

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  • The options are The Guest, Long Legs, or Barbarian for the double Detroit, and 8 Mile, starting with 8 Mile and ending with It Follows.
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