What’s Aged the Best?
Bad sports takes; counterfeiting; amigo; cover identities; artist villains; paper; defense lawyers; retirement trope
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- Realistically terrible sports opinions are an enjoyment choice; Chance’s Quinton Dailey praise prompts questions about his hometown, Steelers jersey and how he learned the game’s outcome after the chase. — Chris Ryan
- The Dailey line’s chronology conflicts with the film’s December setting; the panel debates improvisation versus deliberate characterization, connecting the troubling sports preference with Chance’s corruption.
- The cited Dailey performance is compared with Andrew Toney; the continuing relevance of Middle East conflict is raised as both aged-best and aged-worst.
- Aged-best choices include the counterfeiting sequence and calling people amigo. — Bill Simmons
- The unexplained Dr. George Victor cover identity is enjoyed while its needless complexity is questioned. — Chris Ryan
- Aged-best discussion values remnants of the 1960s and implied Vietnam-era backgrounds, Masters as a bisexual artist and his tobacco-spitting enforcer. — Chris Ryan
- Aged-best choices include glove-box receipts establishing a cover identity, calling money paper, Dafoe’s villainy and Stockwell’s beer-drinking defense attorney. — Sean Fennessey
- Stockwell’s career, bungee jumping and Leeves’s screen presence are aged-best topics; insane characters with artistic hobbies are an enjoyment choice compared with The Shining, Hereditary and The Professional.
- Aged-best choices include villains speaking in third person, leisurely-looking lawyers, Petersen’s reaction instead of the corpse, losing a released witness and the nearly retired partner trope. — Bill Simmons