An era-specific Apex for eighties Hanks is proposed as the culmination of his ascent, distinct from his nineties and twenty-first-century phases; the multiple-mountain definition is challenged but the breakthrough is accepted. — Bill Simmons
Perkins receives an unqualified affirmative Apex choice. — Bill Simmons
Loggia is rejected for this-film Apex, with Scarface and Independence Day suggested as stronger possibilities. — Van Lathan
Movie toy companies receive an affirmative Apex choice for McMillan Toys. — Bill Simmons
Playland as a film location is rejected here because Fatal Attraction's visit is the preferred peak. — Bill Simmons
Body-swap films receive a probable but disputed Apex, with Lohan's Freaky Friday and 13 Going on 30 alternatives and disagreement over whether aging into oneself counts as swapping. — Bill Simmons
Mark Gastineau jerseys receive an affirmative Apex choice, while the later Gastineau Girls era is a comparison. — Bill Simmons
Susan's Subaru XT6 is floated without a clear affirmative conclusion. — Bill Simmons
Missing-child milk cartons are rejected as an Apex choice. — Bill Simmons
Zoltar machines receive an emphatic affirmative Apex choice. — Bill Simmons
Amusement-ride height markers are proposed as a possible peak because they trigger the story, but no definitive comparison settles it; their continued use prompts a safety discussion.
Carla's route from Trenton to San Francisco via Spokane; Carla's wardrobe; a tournament ending at 178; the final-match scoring; little visible weight loss; scattered supporters at the final; Elmo smoking in the gym; a pop star in a Spokane bar
A talented pop singer playing a Spokane sports bar is overqualified, and the bar does not seem to check IDs.
Driving or hitchhiking from Trenton to San Francisco would never pass through Spokane; the route was mapped at 31 to 33 hours.
Carla never wears the same outfit twice despite hitchhiking, raising how many suitcases she has. — Chris Ryan
The tournament oddly ends with the 178 weight class.
The championship scoring jumps from 9-9 to 13-9 with points unseen; another participant thought the takedown and scoreboard added up, and a penalty point is floated.
A producer's nitpick asks whether it would be better if he had to gain weight; it is felt that Modine does not visibly lose the weight, which could have been hidden with baggy clothes. — Chris Ryan
At the final match his supporters are scattered across sections, with many cutaways.
Elmo shoves a woman and lights a cigarette in a high school gym, compared with Elizabeth Perkins smoking everywhere in Big.
Debra Winger was cast and got pregnant, forcing the production to remove her and scramble for replacements; one host doubts the movie works with Winger because he had too much history with her from too many 80s movies, whereas Holly Hunter was unknown to him, tiny, seemingly crazy and passionate, unlike any actress he had seen; Harrison Ford could be seen in the William Hurt role, and Luke Wilson is floated as a joke.
Brooks's search for a female heroine brought him to Debra Winger, who probably wishes she had waited nine months, since she would have been nominated again and the hosts would be talking about the Winger decade after Urban Cowboy, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment; Winger and William Hurt are two sides of the same coin, huge 80s stars a moderately interested 2019 moviegoer would struggle to place.
