Who won the movie
Jeff Bridges
Roger Ebert
Just one Oscar
Jeff Bridges
Dion Waiters Award
Sandra Bullock
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 47:15
Bill Simmons: The take is willingness to remake a foreign film that the participant would otherwise never watch.
Bill Simmons: Vanilla Sky is contrasted with Open Your Eyes as a remake of a foreign movie already worth seeking out.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 58:32
Chris Ryan: The practical lesson is to refuse Barney’s coffee.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Split: the Barney-to-coffin stretch; Jeff discovering Diane missing at the gas station
“Your obsession is my weapon”
The coffin escape, whether Diane ditched Jeff, the missing family search, Rita’s job and sudden sobriety, failure to call police, Barney’s exposure, family behavior, drug timing, grave logistics, and Jeff’s honesty with police
Barney’s setup, the anagram, Jeff’s pathetic obsession, smoking as instant trauma shorthand, the villain name, early Bullock and Sutherland, and odd relationship lines
Copacabana
Barney’s repeatedly served black coffee
The boathouse coffee meeting and the North Bend gas station
Jeff waking in the coffin
Rita staying after discovering Jeff’s command post and Rita’s permissive diner friend
Hacky sack, answering-machine plot devices, Rita’s diner job, the missing digital trail, Jeff’s behavior, drinking while driving, old gas stations, reviews, the appended ending, reused titles, and fragmented streaming libraries
The book-publisher pitch and Rita questioning the eccentric neighbor
The neighbor who reports a dancing Lucky Charms leprechaun
American remakes of less-accessible foreign films can work when they add something; full-service gas stations should return
No historical casting what-if found
Lynn Hamilton as the eccentric neighbor
Keep Sandra Bullock as the missing woman and Nancy Travis as the partner
Seattle-area locations, the Ted Bundy arm-cast method, Kubrick’s praise for the original, and immediate missing-person reporting
Nancy Travis, characters named Barney or Cousins, full-service gas stations, and Seattle
Infinity Bracelet and The Vanishing
Do not drink the coffee
A prestige series
Wayne Jenkins as the cop
Extended universes; Barney’s family and death; Jeff’s recovery; police attention; Diane’s remains; the book; Rita’s contribution; a stranger ending
Barney’s family faces the loss, and the murder cabin is unlikely to sell.
The thermos
The producer watched the wrong similarly titled movie first, then liked the remake, its premise, Bridges, Bullock, and the final expansion of the thriller idea.
