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The hosts agree it is sincere, funny, and better now than it was on release.

The waterfall is chosen as the scene-stealing location, with the Cliffs of Dover offered as a secondary pick.

They identify the National Mall as the standout location-based scene.

They say Tarkin should have been fired for backing the Death Star despite obvious fatal flaws.

The hosts jokingly conclude that almost everybody in the movie deserves to be fired for incompetence.

They agree Get Out is the best Jordan Peele movie and the strongest rewatch here.

They say Swayze becomes shorthand in hip-hop for exiting the verse, making his name the lasting cultural tag.

They admire its twists, cable rewatchability, and Affleck's performance.

They run through several performances and disagree on which Boston accents work, so no single winner is supported.

They joke through Gene Hackman's personality and fandom history without arriving at a clear good-hang or bad-hang verdict.

They say the Spencers would be a tough couple to socialize with, even if the movie itself is a good hang.

They say Animal House still does the funniest fake-credits gag, beating Stripes’ ending cards.

They settle on the judge being tossed from the helicopter as the best ending/image payoff.

They mostly use this slot to praise Henry’s intimidating physicality, especially the way he stalks and corners people.

They highlight the opening imagery and the bloody hand in the pitcher as the most memorable shots, with praise for the ending montage too.

They pick Barrett's death shot as the best image, while also praising the tarmac shot of Hathaway after he's sprung from prison.

The clearest quoted line is Henry’s “Don’t fuck with me,” which they treat as the standout quote.

The hosts agree the cloud-filled way-station sequence is the big visual surprise of the movie.

They settle on the exterior KGB shot with the steam and city atmosphere as the most cinematic image in the film.

They pick the slow-motion arrow sequence as the movie’s most cinematic shot, though another tower shot is also praised.

They discuss several strong visual moments, but never settle on a single winner.

CR highlights the boat-ride image of Celine backlit on the Seine as the standout cinematic shot, with the ending also praised.

They pick Unstoppable over Striking Distance as the better Pennsylvania action movie.

For greatest quote, the room lands on Jessup's 'you need me on that wall' line over the other nominees.

Bill wins the house debate by choosing Alcatraz from The Rock as the greatest San Francisco screen house.

They pick the final Matrix-Bennett showdown as the movie's funniest accidental comedy beat, especially because of Bennett's performance choices.

The hosts ran through production trivia about improvisation, Maya Rudolph's pregnancy, Hamm's uncredited role, and the film's title history.

They focus on deleted material and background lore as the kind of production-research detail that surfaces in this category.

They rattle through a stack of location and trivia notes without settling on a single winner.

They note this was George Kennedy's last movie and then pivot into production trivia and sports-movie nitpicks.

They like the baseball-Hall-of-Fame analogy and use it to identify the movie most associated with a filmmaker's legacy.

They rate Crisp as the better villain figure on the Hans Gruber scale, with the mother getting a lower score.

They share research notes about the book’s treatment of Janeway and Doc and about the real-life runner in the flashbacks.

Bill celebrates its emotional beats, Keanu performance, and surprising staying power.

They introduce a custom speech award while celebrating Susan’s forceful pep talk to Ricky.

After weighing several awful first-date candidates, they conclude Monster's Ball is the best fit for the category.

They joke that Rudy's lonely cot-room setup and nonstop campus wandering make him an all-time candidate for the college-masturbation record.

They share production facts and background but do not frame a single winner for this segment.

The hosts used this category to talk through the production research and performance prep, especially Noonan's transformation and Cox's audition choice.

This section turns into a fact-dump about the script’s origins, the horses, and the City Slickers production history rather than a single award choice.

The discussion focuses on production lore, led by the story of Disney executive David Vogel buying the script without approval and getting fired.

They note Hughes was allowed to make a wildly weird premise movie while also riding the Breakfast Club wave.

In their improvised crew-building exercise, Neil McCauley is the clear lead and Jem becomes the preferred road dog.

They debated whether the film is apex for popularity-striving high school movies but did not land decisively.

The category centers on the movie’s signature exclamations, with “holy shnikes” treated as the standout phrase.

They treated the scooter as a quintessential piece of the movie’s period identity.

They debated whether killing Ray Merriman was necessary for the sequel and did not settle on a single definitive answer.

They single out Charlie Billingsley as the standout bad sports-movie parent in the film.