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The fictionalized treatment of Jack Swigert is singled out as the film's most troubling dated choice.

Hopper’s running was the clearest visibly dated performance choice.

The group identifies several dated elements but reaches no clear choice.

Several dated elements are debated without a final selection.

Chozen’s full-force punch to Kumiko is singled out as brutally dated.

They criticize the Blumhouse logo tag-on and mention the rating debate as the main things that aged poorly.

The score receives the strongest praise among the film's enduring elements.

The practical stunts, locations, and grounded production still give the film unusual reality.

The group praises several elements without settling on a single winner.

The shop owner’s prediction of the coming financial collapse wins the category.

Peter Cetera’s song has become the movie’s most durable cultural calling card.

They praise how impressive the movie feels once you learn how little money and infrastructure it had behind it.

They think the miscarriage subplot and the clunky final aftermath have aged very poorly.

The hosts say the biggest aged-worst issue is that the sequel came too late and lazily repeats the first movie's Roxanne business, even as the plot remains a mess.

They treat the immediate post-release box-office doom posting as the element that aged worst almost instantly.

They single out the youngest son as the most awkwardly functioning part of the movie.

They land on John Boy as the most 1977 element, with the 70s TV reference carrying the discussion over other period details.

They decide the most 1977 detail is how TV functions as a constant information source and how public, shared neighborhood life feels everywhere in the movie.

They point to the handmade effects, models, and other analog filmmaking touches as the most distinctly 1977 element.

They decide the teen hangout culture, beach cruising, and the film's summer-beach montage have aged the best.

They say the movie ages best because it is sex-positive, playful, and still works in the Trip and Kenny/Denise material.

The hosts agree the film's fashion is the strongest element that has aged well, especially Gere's clothes and the overall styling.

The hosts single out the bogus punch sound as the clearest thing that has aged badly, with Claire's portrait also drawing criticism.

They call Roger Ebert’s swipe at Madden and Summerall the worst aging element, while retracting an old take on Favreau.

They discuss several age-worst items, led by the odd poster/casting details and then the inexplicable casting of notable older actors.

The specific Air Jordans are judged to be the movie's strongest time capsule.

The wall of Panasonic televisions and Fame viewing feel especially locked to 1986.

They agree Brie Larson feels especially emblematic of 2014 in this movie.

The hosts settled on Adrian Palicki/Miss Perkins as the most 2014 element, with the cast feeling very early-2010s.

They point to the jive translation problem abroad as the most awkward part, while noting a few other rough moments.

They call fake interceptions in sports movies the worst recurring flaw, then add Rudy's courting montage as another weak spot.

They joke that the soundtrack's heavy R. Kelly presence is the worst element, while also teasing the Ali-Jada subplot as an alternate answer.

Jamie Lee Curtis' wig is called the worst visual element, and the elderly drunk doctor gets a separate complaint as well.

They agree the intensely organized, tea-drinking boyfriend is the strongest lasting joke in the movie.

They settle on Vince Vaughn's apathetic philosophy as the thing that still works best for them.