Rhinestone

Choice: Punchy Freddy Since the opening scene, the entire where he's just trying to manipulate Dolly and just is a real, everyone he's around, he's just a douche.

Choice: punch Freddy and Jake The weird homeless bit where they're like, they already made their bet. Answer qualification: a quick jab to her, knock him out.

Choice: highlight MVP The MVP easily goes to Jake and Dolly because she's a charming delight in this entire movie. There are two kinds of people in this world and you ain't one of them. Result qualification: Curt broke the rules.

Choice: punchy uppy It's got to be improving the scene with the homeless people and trying to find possible candidates. Maybe they should have tried to do the Japanese tourists. But I think it would have been even funnier to also have them audition as like their first time in New York, like getting thrown into a singing audition. Answer qualification: But if I'm doing one award per section, which I didn't know we could do multiple.

Choice: highlight A highlight, and it would be the funeral scene because it was just ridiculous. Answer qualification: I feel like it had a more interesting story going on.

Choice: highlight That's going to be one of my highlights is the funeral scene and the father having the hots for Dolly or Jake. And then I don't know if you guys noticed as much Nick's shirts.

Choice: punchy Nick Completely inappropriate. While an active funeral is happening.

Choice: punchy-uppy Like we could have went whole hog country montage and it would have been amazing. I want it in the country montage. Maybe like sing once or twice also.

Choice: punchy Barnett And I just thoroughly enjoyed Dolly knocking him out because she's a badass. Answer qualification: But I'm going to be giving it out again.

Choice: Punchy uppie. There needed to be a training montage ending with Nick running up the steps of the Grand Old Opry in a rhinestone tracksuit. Adjudication: That's what I was trying to do, but you did a better one.

Choice: wild card Title: ambiguously gay weirdo award Barnett Answer qualification: Like that is kind of how it's written and how it's played later. But then the way he goes about it seems a lot more flirty.

Choice: low light He's like, you sound like baby Hitler.

24:09–24:10: Ryan, what about you?

24:10–24:12: I'm going to close out this section with a low light.

24:12–24:15: Jake's giving Nick the business, teaching him how to eat peas or whatever.

24:15–24:17: And then he's like, you got to lay off me.

24:17–24:19: He's like, you sound like baby Hitler.

24:19–24:20: What?

24:20–24:21: What the hell does that mean?

24:21–24:22: Yes.

24:22–24:23: Yeah.

24:23–24:24: He does say that.

24:24–24:26: I was so confused by that.

24:26–24:27: My jaw dropped on that one.

24:27–24:29: Why does she sound like baby Hitler?

Choice: Punchy-uppy. I think they could have lost the entire breakup in the final act and been fine. that could have been the moment where he kind of bails and she thinks she loses the bet. Like you could still do the ending, but just cut out like 20 minutes of them fighting for no reason.

Choice: low light I just don't feel like it fit the characters.

29:12–29:16: Barnett's still like in a bar in hometown Tennessee.

29:16–29:17: Like, right.

29:17–29:19: I think she still got the better end of that deal.

29:19–29:21: Not with Freddie, but yeah, no, I agree.

29:21–29:23: I can't remember exactly what all she said.

29:23–29:27: She said something like he'll be like go down in the slums, become a wino and stuff.

29:27–29:32: Basically, she described what happened to Barnett when she was talking about what she thought would happen to Nick.

29:32–29:32: Yeah.

29:32–29:34: And that's why she said all these mean things.

29:35–29:38: But that's why this is a low light for me.

29:38–29:40: I just don't feel like it fit the characters.

29:41–29:41: No.

29:41–29:44: I can see where they were coming from, but those were throwaway lines, right?

29:44–29:47: It wasn't part of like a big thing of the story.

29:47–29:48: I didn't feel like.

29:48–29:52: So when that, when she started saying all of that, I was like, this is very out of character.

29:52–29:55: They also like just got it on like four minutes ago.

29:55–29:56: Like they.

29:56–29:57: Exactly.

29:57–29:58: They were romantic seconds ago.

29:58–30:00: This now she's like regretting it, I guess.

Choice: low light Answer qualification: I was going to go haughty because I thought this was more like negative towards Nick, at least from the notes. But it sounds like everyone agrees that Jake was kind of being a dick here. And she kept building up, building him up, building him up and then just embarrasses him in front of his family.

30:03–30:05: Danny, you tacked on a low light there.

30:05–30:05: All right.

30:05–30:06: Frank, what about you?

30:06–30:07: What do you got?

30:07–30:13: I was going to go haughty because I thought this was more like negative towards Nick, at least from the notes.

30:13–30:17: But it sounds like everyone agrees that Jake was kind of being a dick here.

30:17–30:19: So I mean, it's basically just low light.

30:20–30:22: I mean, Jake spent this entire movie building him up.

30:22–30:24: He he didn't want to do it.

30:24–30:25: He kept thinking it was bad.

30:25–30:30: And she kept building up, building him up, building him up and then just embarrasses him in front of his family.

30:30–30:36: I mean, I get that he was getting a little bit confident, but that didn't feel like the time or place or even needed to do that.

30:36–30:38: The whole scene was just kind of painful.

Raw respondent mention: Brian Choice: wild card Title: the unsexiest line in movie history And then he just starts talking about horny moths.

31:30–31:31: So was my award.

31:31–31:33: I'm going to go wild card here.

31:33–31:37: I'm going to give it the unsexiest line in movie history, I think.

31:37–31:43: Stallone's leaning in to kiss Jake and like he's just starts doing like a sort of Stallone-y ramble.

31:43–31:44: He's been doing that throughout the movie.

31:44–31:47: It's been ramping up as we've been getting closer to them making out.

31:47–31:50: And then he just starts talking about horny moths.

31:50–31:50: Moths?

31:51–31:52: Some of them had great technique.

31:53–31:54: It's like, what are you doing?

31:54–31:54: What?

31:55–31:56: Why are you talking about this?

31:57–32:00: And then as a real knock to her character, she still kisses him.

Choice: hot take My hot take is that I buy that this performance by Nick would have won over the crowd. Answer qualification: I acknowledge that this is a stretch and it may not be the universal experience, but I bought it. Adjudication: Maybe it's not a hot take.

Choice: hot take We should have got another hour of just audience reaction. Answer qualification: The audience reactions in this film are the best part of the movie. Adjudication: That is the hot take right there, Ryan.

Choice: punchy wild card It has to go to Freddy now because I can't stand this guy. Title: the earplug award Because all I freaking wanted to do was put in earplugs while Nick was singing. Answer qualification: So this is where I'm giving my second punchy award. Just, I guess at any point, he just deserves the award in general.

Choice: MVP Dolly / Jake Just like he wasn't needed the entire movie because Dolly carries the movie and saves herself once again. Answer qualification: MVP to Dolly or Jace.