Renaming the award after Stephen Tobolowski's Ned Ryerson, raised on the Groundhog Day pod, gets support; a George Dzundza Award is also floated, with a pronunciation debate. — Bill Simmons
Matt Craven as Zimmer is offered, though NCIS may have lifted him past that-guy status. — Bill Simmons
Danny Nucci, the Silver Surfer guy, is called a better pick: he has been in a lot but is known only as Danny. — Bill Simmons
Tony Scott makes a two-minute montage of the sub slowly descending riveting with Hans Zimmer's score; only Spielberg or McTiernan, who made Hunt for Red October, might have pulled it off. — Bill Simmons
Denzel's line 'in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself' is one of about seven such Denzel lines. — Bill Simmons
Viggo lights a cigarette when he decides to refuse the launch, and many sailors smoke Marlboro Reds underwater with no smoking section. — Bill Simmons
George Dzundza's IMDb highlights include The Deer Hunter, No Way Out, Basic Instinct and Law & Order; a lowlight is co-leading the 1985 TV movie The Rape of Richard Beck with Richard Crenna. — Bill Simmons
The Richard Beck plot summary is read, a 35th-anniversary episode is joked about, and early-80s cocaine is blamed for bad decisions. — Bill Simmons
The last 60 minutes play basically in real time, with Weps doing the clock; it may have inspired Snake Eyes. — Bill Simmons
The EAMs are cinematically great, with messages three people must read aloud and confirm and run down the hallway; it is also disturbing that nuclear war hinged on them. — Chris Ryan
The opening title card names the three most powerful people in the world, including a nuclear submarine captain, and the closing card says captains lost launch authority on January 1, 1996; Bruckheimer pitches the card almost word for word in a featurette. — Sean Fennessey
The actor known as Eddie Harris from Major League, the Hoosiers bad guy and Hard Bob from Billions, is called an iconic that guy and agreed to be amazing, with uncertainty over his name. — Bill Simmons
The guy Nick feuds with who gets shot in the head is probably the winner; he is identified as Daniel von Bargen as Marty Nilsen.
Nilsen has some of the best lines, notably "You fucked yourself, Shooter, you hear me? You are out," and the idea of an internal affairs guy tailing Nick is loved. — Chris Ryan
Dr. Lamott (Stephen Tobolowsky), beginning every declaration with "You're dealing with," is proposed.
