The opening credits and Sting’s then-high singing range are praised.
The extended cop party establishes the promotion and a warm, teasing social world.
Getting lost in Claire’s apartment and her manner of handling the intrusion are memorable.
Tie shopping, wealthy friends fishing for information, the Guggenheim setting and chase are a favorite sequence.
Ellie learning about the tie and the last-day drink are nominated; the lovers’ connection is understood as present-tense escape rather than shared life histories.

What’s Aged the Best?

Cop parties remain enjoyable.

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The long, familiar, teasing party is enjoyed as a social hang and effective promotion exposition.

Most Rewatchable Scene

Ellie’s confrontation is a final personal scene choice.

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The lunch confrontation and demand to return for her are praised.
The runner disguise, apartment mirrors and farewell exchange are enjoyed.
The hostage ending and opening club are additional candidates; Ellie learning about Claire is the final personal favorite.

What’s Aged the Worst?

The punch sound is badly timed.

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The punch effect lands late and sounds wrong despite Scott’s visual precision.

Most Rewatchable Scene

The Guggenheim sequence is the other final preference.

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The two personal final picks are the confrontation and Guggenheim outing.

The most "year the movie came out" thing

Sting and Steve Winwood evoke1987.

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Sting’s theme and club music by Winwood are period choices, with Gabriel a contemporary comparison.

What’s Aged the Best?

Adult reactions, the child, cop details and domestic texture

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Ellie works through adultery rather than immediately ending everything, which is appreciated as adult complexity.
Tommy’s easygoing kid performance and Kuntz’s surprise stud earring are favorites.
A cop’s daughter marrying a cop and old-lady phrasing are enjoyed as period details, while the phrase is acknowledged as offensive; Bracco’s future Goodfellas role adds pleasure.
Two-way mirrors, the collared Jets sweatshirt, idea pronunciation, cramped homes and the friend’s bachelor-apartment arrangements are enjoyed.

The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot

The subway image

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Behringer standing on the subway with the light hitting him is selected and admired.

The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

The last ten minutes fail to resolve the premise coherently.

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Venza’s knowledge and plan, Mike bringing Claire into danger and the hostage swap are implausible, although Ellie shooting the villain is liked.
The period’s villains are described as unmotivated psychos rather than psychologically explained antagonists.

What’s Aged the Worst?

Claire’s self-portrait, the punch and the captain’s probing conversation

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The commissioned portrait is disliked and the bad punch sound reiterated.
Orbach’s hospital relationship probing is dated workplace behavior and conspicuously acted; fixing the punch is desired.

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

Venza

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His orders and loud demand for silence in the bathroom are nominated, with his unnoticed party access questioned.

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Venza may save the marriage; the film could have been a great erotic thriller.

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The crisis might reinvigorate Mike and Ellie, though divorce within a year is an alternative.
The strong premise could support a much more erotic film, with several additional intimacy scenes imagined.
Buying Ellie a Claire-like dress is suggested as another way to dramatize the triangle; Craig compares the detailed pitching to sports analysis.

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

Andreas Katsulas

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The Fugitive’s one-armed-man actor qualifies and wins despite the hosts knowing his name.
Mark Moses and TJ’s actor, identified via Marked for Death, are additional candidates.

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Orbach and the provocative party woman receive support.

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Orbach is favored for the love conversation; TJ, Scotty and the murder victim are alternatives.
The shooting-makes-you-hard lady is great in only a minute and a half.

Apex Mountain

Rogers and the Guggenheim receive support; other peaks are elsewhere.

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Behringer’s Platoon/1987 period and Rogers’s lead-role/Cruise-marriage moment receive support.
Bracco’s Goodfellas, Katsulas’s Fugitive and Scott’s Gladiator are preferred to this film.
Three title-song versions make a case, but Mr Holland’s Opus is preferred for a more famous rendition scene.
Goodfellas is considered for Queens; Coming to America becomes the preferred answer.
The Guggenheim in movies receives support because no other scene comes to mind.
Claire is considered for rich-socialite characters, but The Talented Mr Ripley’s Marge is a strong alternative.

Cruise or Hanks?

Hanks

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Both choose Hanks, after joking about Cruise’s restrained romantic scenes.

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

One participant wants no extension; another pitches a richer television version.

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There is little desire for more backstory outside Venza, and a series might collapse by episode six.
An Apple-style rich-people show could explore Queens cops and marriages, with an absurd child-killer twist joked about; The invited participant says the pitch seeks more erotic scenes.

Is This Movie Better With…?

Wayne Jenkins and Doris Burke impressions are offered.

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A threatening cop impression addresses the two-armed performer and witness intimidation; the other host praises it.
A brief Doris Burke call of Mike’s marital dilemma follows an initial lack of prepared material.

Just One Oscar

Bracco for supporting actress.

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Bracco is selected and praised as a supporting actress.

What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?

The Jets sweatshirt; the tie

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The sweatshirt is wanted as a gift and the tie another option, while the bachelor-pad bunk bed is unwanted.

The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson

The cynical marriage line and honesty

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Scotty’s claim that marriage is obsolete is nominated; Mike’s admission of feelings is discussed as possible honesty in a close relationship rather than concealment.

Who Won the Movie?

Ridley Scott and Mimi Rogers split the choices.

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Scott is selected after the cast is called a push.
Mimi is chosen because this movie left the speaker wishing she had done more, while Braco got other good roles.

Podcast choices

Speaker not identified: Ridley Scott
Speaker not identified: Mimi Rogers

Apex Mountain

The three lead hairdos are an extra Apex nomination.

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The hairdos are compared to Wade, LeBron and Bosch; the mom hair borders on Marge Simpson.