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What’s Aged the Worst?
The mishandled sequel/prequel franchise, opening typography, profiling pseudoscience, political appropriation of Lecter, Foster’s accent, and trans implications
In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:21:38Read transcript
- The Hannibal novel’s Clarice–Lecter relationship repelled Jodie Foster; the later film rewrite and aging Hopkins prequel are treated as franchise mistakes. — Bill Simmons
- The large opening-credit typography blocking faces is criticized as an early-1990s aesthetic problem. — Bill Simmons
- Criminal profiling is described as much less reliable than the film assumes. — Chris Ryan
- Donald Trump’s 2024 references to Hannibal Lecter are identified as a degrading later association. — Bill Simmons
- Jodie Foster’s accent remains an explicit weakness. — Chris Ryan
- Serial killers communicating through neat anagrams is judged dated, though the panel misses the puzzle theatricality.
- The film’s failure to make Demme’s intended distinction between Gumb and trans identity clear enough is preserved as a serious contemporary criticism. — Bill Simmons
Half-Assed Internet Research
Alternate story concepts, visual effects, Glover’s lawsuit and the film’s props.
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Approx. transcript time · 00:26:53Read transcript
- An early sequel concept used 1967 and protesters, rejected partly because George and Lorraine were too old for the hippie roles. — Bill Simmons
- Bob Gale reportedly based the wealthy 1985 Biff on Donald Trump. — Bill Simmons
- ILM's compositing let Michael J. Fox appear as three characters within a scene more easily than older techniques. — Bill Simmons
- A $40 million budget and $332 million gross are cited, ranking third for 1989. — Bill Simmons
- Glover's lawsuit led to likeness provisions in the Screen Actors Guild agreement. — Bill Simmons
- The Cafe 80s Wild Gunman game was made for the film; the Oh LàLà cover used a 1955 Swank photograph of Venetia Stevenson. — Bill Simmons
- Lea Thompson kept the breast prosthetic; the rejuvenation-clinic explanation spared Lloyd heavier old-age makeup. — Bill Simmons
- The film is described as MCA Universal Home Video's first videocassette release, followed by recollection of expensive early tapes. — Bill Simmons
- Antique-store objects include Jaws 2 and Animal House tapes, Roger Rabbit, Perrier, a Bee Gees album, Pac-Man lunchbox, Carter peanut bank, radio and video-game packaging. — Bill Simmons
What’s Aged the Best?
The premise; future-setting graphics; gun cabinets; 85-minute runtime; “Release the beast”; refrigerator reveals
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Approx. transcript time · 00:28:16Read transcript
- The one-sentence legal-crime premise is compared with Carpenter films and 48 Hours. — Bill Simmons
- Opening future-setting graphics work well, and passing the predicted dystopian date is satisfying. — Bill Simmons
- A hypothetical Donald Trump presidential cameo is imagined as a striking missed coincidence. — Bill Simmons
- Secret-code gun cabinets are praised, though the children were not trained and weapon-class restrictions are unexplained. — Bill Simmons
- The concise 85-minute runtime is preferred to long modern films or a Purge television series. — Chris Ryan
- Release the beast and the other ritual slogans are memorable; refrigerator-door surprise shots remain effective. — Chris Ryan
What’s Aged the Worst?
'Nailed them both' pun; overlong love story; Donald Trump reference; Riggs's dive-and-roll bullet dodging; villains having killed Riggs's wife; rule-breaking police propaganda; Mel Gibson
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Approx. transcript time · 01:01:30Read transcript
- The nail-gun scene's shoehorned 'nailed them both' is the worst version of bad 80s action puns.
- The love story runs maybe three minutes too long, though the movie is under two hours. — Bill Simmons
- A random Donald Trump reference. — Bill Simmons
- The number one choice: Riggs's bullet avoidance of diving and flipping, which would still get him shot, especially by a machine gun. — Bill Simmons
- The South Africans having killed Riggs's wife is unneeded: the girlfriend's death is motivation enough to pull down the stilt house. — Chris Ryan
- Agreement, likened to the New Jack City reveal that Nino Brown killed Scotty's mom. — Van Lathan
- Perhaps it gave Riggs closure, but the wife dying in a random accident on the one night he didn't drive her is more affecting. — Van Lathan
- The movie is classic propaganda: Riggs has no warrant and they break every policing rule now being reformed. — Van Lathan
- Mel Gibson himself, again: 'Why, Mel?', spoiling his other movies. — Van Lathan
- The wife-killing reveal could have been saved as the plot of Lethal Weapon 3. — Van Lathan
Half-Assed Internet Research
The shooting's inspiration, cast backgrounds, deliberate isolation of Rapaport, and Kristy Swanson's politics
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Approx. transcript time · 01:18:35Read transcript
- The campus sniper sequence is reported as based on Charles Whitman's 1966 University of Texas shooting. — Bill Simmons
- Cole Hauser and Michael Rapaport are reported as Jewish. — Bill Simmons
- Cole Hauser's family connections and early Affleck-Damon circle are noted. — Bill Simmons
- Singleton reportedly asked Rapaport to avoid much of the cast so he would feel isolated during production. — Bill Simmons
- Rapaport recalled feeling jealous while Omar Epps, Busta Rhymes, and Ice Cube listened to an early copy of Nas's Illmatic. — Bill Simmons
- Kristy Swanson is reported as a vocal Donald Trump supporter on social media. — Bill Simmons
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Approx. transcript time · 01:44:10Read transcript
- The research says the real Walken called Biggie's hotel room in the mid-90s and left a message as the real King of New York; possibly apocryphal. — Bill Simmons
- The research says Lawrence Fishburne and Nicholas St. John were booed off the stage at the second New York Film Festival showing. — Bill Simmons
- The research says the first cut ran almost two hours and was edited to 106 minutes to avoid an X rating. — Bill Simmons
- The director is quoted as saying Donald Trump let them film at the Plaza free on condition that Walken pose for a photograph with Ivana Trump. — Bill Simmons
- The director claims Snipes was living in his car during production, which seems conceivable from his credits. — Bill Simmons
- The research says the opening was shot partly at Sing Sing, the first time the prison was used in a movie. — Bill Simmons
- A guess of 90 is offered for how many times 'fuck' is said. — Sean Fennessey
- It is noted that Abel directed a porn film under a pseudonym. — Bill Simmons
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Approx. transcript time · 00:19:11Read transcript
- The candidates are all the bank robbers, the parachute scene, Swayze versus Keanu (compared with Cage versus Travolta, two actors at relatively the same spot), and the concept of a 50-year storm, which a host still enjoys and once tried to Google the next occurrence of.
- The last candidate is whoever came up with bank robbers in ex-president masks, called great and the number one movie mask; the film could be made now with Donald Trump and George W. Bush masks.
- The president masks are unquestionably better than the Halloween Michael Myers mask or the Scream mask; the runner-up masks are the nuns in The Town and the painters in Dead Presidents.
- Pick: the Swayze-Keanu thing, from a host who came late to Point Break three or four years ago after watching other Keanu and Swayze movies and realizing Gary Busey was in it too; the second answer is the Richard Nixon impression, with a wish to see the audition tapes.
- Another agrees the Swayze-Keanu pairing is the hook and has aged like a fine wine ('fine line' as transcribed): tell a stranger Swayze, Keanu, surfers, bank robbers and Gary Busey and they are in; it is like Bird and Magic finally meeting in the 84 finals.
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