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verdict (verdict): Spike Jonze → Her. Her was the critics' top film of its year; Griffin now fears it has an incel quality.
“I think it has like an incel quality to it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:29:36 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Her: Critics' top choice: five of six Film Spotting panelists named it number one.
“Five out of the 6 had her as their number one.”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:17 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Her → Lost in Translation. A Spike Jonze episode would involve the he-said-she-said around Coppola's Lost in Translation.
“he said, she said quality of her with lost in translation”
Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:30:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Her. Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one.
“Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Her. Derek Thompson's male-loneliness podcast ties the 1985 premise to today: kids who cannot meet anybody would not leave the house.
“Derek Thompson just did a podcast for us about male loneliness”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:15:07 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)