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.
The It Follows sports-trade jokes; the Disasterpeace score; the pick-someone game; Paul as the supportive friend; the simple premise; the unobserved followers; the supportive group of kids; the repeated water imagery
Early, one participant had it for this category (transcribed 'one stage the best'): a legacy of the movie coming out in 2014 is that it became a joke, for a player traded to a team that goes downhill and then traded again, so it follows sports trades, with Corey Brewer and Jeff Green offered as the 2014 hoops examples; in the category itself the nomination returns, with the jokes about It Follows named again as that participant's pick.
The phenomenal score was done by Disaster Peace, picked because the director was a huge fan of the video game Fez, and it pounds in a loud theater; a track maybe called Detroit has about 8 million streams, and it and Drive are the synth-y soundtracks that went.
Detroit again, and the pick-someone-in-the-room-you'd-want-to-be game, which adds to not knowing when the movie takes place, since people now would be on their phones on the date.
A tangent recalls a name game played to pass the time, and an actor, movie, actor version.
Paul, the supportive friend of the final girl who is secretly in love with her, is a favorite horror trope, a real Justin Long type played by Keir Gilchrist, angling for sex early.
The simplicity of premise: the director never said it out loud when pitching because it was too embarrassing, yet it is a perfect elevator pitch, three words, sexually transmitted demon, unlike Barbarian.
The unobserved followers: the guy outside the restaurant on the date, the lady in white at Jeff's high school and the guy following Jay and Paul in the last shot leave it ambiguous whether they are free; the soccer girl coming home flips it, recalling the background ghosts of Haunting of Hill House.
The group of kids gets along and everyone believes her, a nice hangout vibe set up when the girl farts in the first 40 seconds; she graduated and stayed at the JC, hanging out with her younger sister's friends while everyone else left.
The consistency and repetitive imagery: all the water, the pool, the woman peeing, the lake, the swimming pool at the end.
Peter is criticized for apathy, uncollected fees, accepting a bribe, sexual harassment, drinking and letting others push his car; the gym seems unsafe and worthy of foreclosure.
The defense is that he gives misfits a welcoming place, but the criticism remains that he says the right things without being a good person to spend time with.
Long is proposed as a possible generational Broderick: Accepted gives him Ferris Bueller-like charisma, Jeepers Creepers shows range, and his physical comedy improves every movie. — Craig Horlbeck
Stiller is proposed as Hollywood’s best nepotism beneficiary on his own merits; Ellison’s wealth, Bronny James, Shanahan, Curtis and Please Don’t Destroy prompt distinctions between opportunity and demonstrated ability. — Craig Horlbeck
Justin Long reportedly suffered temporary vision loss from repeated real dodgeball impacts; the filmmakers said hits required actual thrown balls. — Craig Horlbeck
The film reportedly triggered a nationwide dodgeball-league boom. — Craig Horlbeck
Training produced ankle injuries and possible concussions; Stiller hit Taylor in the face, and machines fired balls at actors. — Craig Horlbeck
Torn reportedly needed coaxing, was mean to Long and repeatedly left set despite a handler; his distracted final encouragement is debated as either funny or insufficiently in character. — Craig Horlbeck
The tournament was shot at Cabrillo High School with sports camera operators, making the elementary-school game feel genuinely exciting. — Craig Horlbeck
Average Joe’s uniforms were modeled on Hoosiers. — Craig Horlbeck
Audience extras reportedly included work-release or halfway-program participants; Vaughn bonded the cast through late strip-club outings and reportedly paid Williams to stay out. — Craig Horlbeck
Fran was originally conceived as a Fembot-like robot. — Craig Horlbeck
Bill Duke's three quick opening scenes, mid-80s malls and Arnold's secret gun shed are loved. — Bill Simmons
Bill Paxton's out-of-nowhere cameo ('We lost them, sir') is praised; Paxton had a scene with Arnold in The Terminator, and the guess is Arnold wanted him around.
Arnold's one-liners are top of the game: 'I'll be back, Bennett', the Sully 'kill you last' and 'I lied' callback, 'I let him go', 'We'll take Cook's car' and 'Let off some steam, Bennett'; he reportedly had more ad libs in deleted scenes; the cliff scene was considered for this list and called more of a what's-aged-the-best item. — Bill Simmons
Commando unapologetically lifts the 48 Hours steel-drum theme; for a devoted 48 Hours viewer it is jarring but also a reminder of that film. — Bill Simmons
Rae Dawn Chong is the pick: funny, doing fight commentary during the Bill Duke fight and freaking out in the car, a great balance for Arnold; Justin Long in the Die Hard franchise is cited as a later version of the idea. — Shea Serrano
Seconding the pick: she fires a rocket, there is no romance with Arnold, and the director says they auditioned widely, including Sharon Stone; a planned romantic scene was cut over concerns about southern audiences reacting to a Black woman and a white man. — Kyle Brandt
The Golden Child's love scene with Charlotte Lewis was cut for similar reasons; casting Chong rather than the white girl du jour was inspired. — Bill Simmons
In the mid-80s it was a novelty that she was Tommy Chong's daughter; some once assumed Chong was Mexican because of Cheech. — Bill Simmons
Her career illustrates old Hollywood: Soul Man, then within five years a Melrose Place arc, and it never happened for her.
Keir O'Donnell won Todd, but Vince Vaughn really pushed for Justin Long, whose interpretation of the character was Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs and who thought he had the job; the hosts call it a phenomenal what-if that would have made the character more acceptable by being so ridiculous, instead of a gay art school kid who is also a psycho and is mocked homophobically by his grandmother.
The black sheep character can be awesome, with Spalding in Caddyshack (as transcribed) the greatest example, and Christopher Walken himself played one as the brother in the Minnesota scene of Annie Hall.
Asked whether he would rather have had Raquel Welch, the answer is that it is hard to see anybody but Jane Seymour in the role now, and he loves her. — Chris Ryan
Seymour was great stunt casting after Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman; Nicolas Cage was the next call after Ferrell's no, which the hosts would like to see, though Cage reportedly gets called for parts like this and it never quite comes off, as in a Seth Rogen story, because he still thinks it is 1999 and must be the star, with tax liens against his Scottish castles.
