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Bill wants a full-on final brawl between Arnold and Crisp instead of the movie’s gunfight ending.

They speculate about each character’s future schools, but the conversation stays playful and non-consensual rather than settling on one answer per person.

They suggest ranking the classic undercover reveal moment in heist and crime movies, but leave it unresolved.

They agree Hoffman could improve almost any film, but never settle on a single placement.

They chose Jim Ross, imagining his wrestling calls layered over the film’s violence.

They agreed Gandolfini was the biggest dialed-up presence, with his sweaty, overcooked Dan Waiters performance winning out.

At the end, they lean toward Arthur Lee Allen as the likely Zodiac, while acknowledging the evidence remains uncertain.

They agree Lloyd is the dumber of the two characters.

Each speaker answers differently and the segment becomes a self-assessment rather than a single-room consensus.

The hosts ultimately choose Steve Carell as the best overall performance, while acknowledging Gosling as a close competitor.

They leaned toward Linklater for the overall prize, while noting Hawke could also be argued as the key beneficiary.

The group converges on a CIA-and-mob collaboration as the likeliest answer, though they also frame it more broadly as an intelligence-community plot.

They largely agree nobody overacts, with Pantoliano mentioned as the closest thing to an exception in a good way.

They settle most comfortably on Damon and Affleck as the modern pairing, while also floating Pitt, Clooney, Leo, Gosling, Hawke, and Reynolds.

On the code-red confrontation specifically, they end up giving Nicholson the scene while praising Cruise's performance around him.

After debating Tubbs, Crockett, and the music, they land on Russ Ballard as the real winner of the two-parter.

At the end, they vote Anthony Michael Hall as the movie, with Judd Nelson getting support but losing the final call.

They argue Mike is basically impossible to enjoy as a hang, even if the movie asks viewers to like him anyway.

They argue the story hinges on an unnecessarily elaborate third-man defense instead of an obvious insanity defense.

They say the feud between Murray and Dreyfuss is the obvious reason the movie never got a sequel.

They agree Harrison Ford is the ultimate winner because the film restores him as an enduring movie star.

They compare the two Winstons as fixers and lean toward Winston Wolfe as the matchup winner.

They say the repeated wife phone calls are the weakest stretch, though they also criticize the night masseuse/prostitute sequence.

They compare the undermanned Allied side to a bad NBA bench and treat the film’s replacement players as the obvious answer.

They revisit the idea that Brandon's failure to bet his own picks is the clearest bad decision in the movie.

They shift from broad audience discomfort to specific titles and land on Anora as a particularly bad family viewing choice.

After running through a long list, they settled on Jack Torrance as the worst husband on the board.

They decide the movie would not be better as a Netflix series, even while joking about a Jenny-focused version.

They entertain Trejo as a possible fit in a remake, but do not reach a clean yes-or-no consensus that he would improve the movie.

John Bernthal is treated as the most natural modern fit, with JT Walsh singled out as another strong option.

They only speculate about possible Danny Trejo-style replacements and do not settle on a single answer.

The Trejo question is posed as a joke and immediately left unresolved because it would make the movie a different kind of story.

They most strongly land on Catherine Han as the best fit, especially for the family and supporting roles.

They imagined Jon Bernthal’s Wayne Jenkins in Cyclone’s role and immediately decided that version would be better.

They think Wayne Jenkins would be especially perfect in the cop role and treat him as the clear favorite.

Catherine Han is singled out as the most natural upgrade, with the hosts imagining several possible roles for her.

The hosts broadly agree that inserting Wayne Jenkins into movies is the funniest version of the idea.

They decide to revive the general guest-insertion concept and treat Wayne Jenkins as the default answer.

They discuss the idea as a simple yes/no music insertion category and treat Gimme Shelter as the obvious example.

They briefly discuss the reverse recasting concept and joke that Jared Leto and Dakota Johnson would be the obvious answers for the examples raised.

The room agrees the movie would have benefited from having Danny Trejo in it.

The room clearly agrees that Danny Trejo would have improved the movie in multiple possible roles.

The hosts vote no overall, while joking that Trejo could have worked as Peter Thiel or in other small roles.

They like recasting films as different genres, but the category never gets a formal winner.

The hosts joke through the yes/no list and land on Chuck Noland as surprisingly healthy, while Quint emerges as the clearest no.

They default to Lee Grant because she actually won the Oscar for the film and her performance was singled out.

They flex on the mobsters as hopelessly incompetent and basically unusable as gangsters.

For best double feature, they choose The Chocolate War over Dog Day Afternoon.