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Humans Being; Long Way Down
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- Van Halen’s Humans Being energizes the movie; the soundtrack’s specially commissioned songs are appreciated. — Chris Ryan
- The Goo Goo Dolls’ Long Way Down is preferred as a song. — Chris Ryan
- Dusty watching Clapton’s Motherless Child video is considered inexplicable possible product placement. — Chris Ryan
- Omitting hip-hop is called a missed opportunity, with Twista and Busta Rhymes imagined. — Van Lathan
Apex Mountain
Busta Rhymes’s movie career (likely apex)
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- Love & Basketball is favored as Omar Epps's career apex, with The Wood and ER also considered.
- Higher Learning is considered a plausible Michael Rapaport apex, with a later television role also recalled but not clearly named.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer is preferred as Kristy Swanson's apex.
- PCU is favored over Higher Learning as the apex for mid-1990s college-campus culture.
- Higher Learning is considered Busta Rhymes's likely movie apex after Belly is correctly rejected as a film he appeared in.
- John Singleton's apex is debated between Higher Learning's career leverage and Rosewood's stronger filmmaking, while Boyz n the Hood remains his best movie to one participant. — Van Lathan
- Rosewood opening opposite Booty Call is cited as evidence that Singleton had less industry leverage by then. — Van Lathan
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The shooting's inspiration, cast backgrounds, deliberate isolation of Rapaport, and Kristy Swanson's politics
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- 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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- Busta Rhymes is selected for bringing concentrated energy in a small role.
- A dissenting participant accepts the category logic but argues the one-note performance should have been turned down. — Wesley Morris
- The performance is compared with Busta Rhymes's later return in Shaft.
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