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Kate Mara
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 2
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Rewatchables episodes featuring Kate Mara’s films
The Martian
2015 film
Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey · Chris Ryan · Van Lathan
Aired October 13, 2020
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Center Jim and Lamar; Wahlberg’s actress collaborators; Larson or Theron chemistry
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:12:23Read transcript
- Remove the Amy romance and center Jim’s relationship with Lamar, including the ethical conflict of point shaving and the athlete’s exceptional talent. — Bill Simmons
- Wahlberg is credited with repeatedly working opposite attractive actresses at notable career moments: Heather Graham, Diane Lane, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Banks, Kate Mara, Amy Adams, Mila Kunis and Brie Larson. — Bill Simmons
- Brie Larson is proposed as Wahlberg’s best chemistry despite the argument for cutting her subplot; Charlize Theron competes. — Bill Simmons
Picking Nits
Abandoned mission; unexplained cooperation; trunk supplies; lone investigator; teacher disguise; stairwell dog; undisguised Eagles gear; late pointing; license plate photo; repeated boasts
In the discussion (13)
Approx. transcript time · 00:29:59Read transcript
- A nit is raised early: a conspiracy-minded recluse agrees at once when an unnamed agency asks him to plan a presidential assassination.
- Aborting the opening mission and leaving the two men behind strains faith in the military.
- The film never explains why conspiracy-minded Swagger helps the government, or why he never realizes he is being framed.
- It is doubtful every FBI car trunk holds blood-clotting supplies; the river escape is also listed.
- Kate Mara's character having no boyfriend for three years in rural Kentucky is not believable.
- Memphis is the only one investigating, despite spotting that CNN had pre-cut footage within 12 minutes.
- A rural third-grade teacher suddenly plays bait in a blonde wig like a movie star, or Holly Hunter in The Firm.
- Swagger foils several cops and a German shepherd, twice pulling the fake-surrender gun grab while the dog falls over the stairwell.
- The most wanted man returns to Philadelphia without a disguise, wearing shiny Eagles gear.
- Online discussion says a straight-on head shot would have been gruesome, explaining why the archbishop's shooting is barely shown.
- Glover starts pointing constantly about 35 minutes from the end. — Chris Ryan
- Glover photographs the car to capture a license plate he could have memorized.
- Glover repeatedly telling people he always wins wears thin.
What’s Aged the Worst?
Runtime; implausible drive times; burned evidence; unaddressed implied assault; wig ponytail
In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 00:53:25Read transcript
- At about 126 minutes the film is a little fat, especially the middle stretch with Kate Mara; about 110 minutes would be ideal.
- Kate Mara's Kentucky accent is praised, though it softens as the film goes on.
- The travel is implausible: a 10-hour drive from Philadelphia to Kentucky while bleeding, and about 26 hours from Tennessee to Bozeman while the most wanted man alive.
- Burning the evidence that could clear Swagger is questioned; a counterpoint says he baited them, knowing the removed firing pins would clear him.
- The film hints that something terrible happened to Kate Mara's character while held by the henchman, then never acknowledges it beyond her shooting him repeatedly.
- Wahlberg's ponytail is too long and looks like a wig; either grow it or skip it.
- Cutting off the ponytail is read as symbolic of returning to military readiness.
- No aged-worst item is offered; this participant loves a ponytail and disagrees. — Shea Serrano
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