Game / activity
Movie awards
How this one works
Rules
- So just like last week, we're breaking the movie into six sections, and we've got six awards to give out.
- You can substitute it with an award of your own invention.
- To keep things from going completely off the rails, each person can only use the wild card once.
- But you already used your punchy uppie.
Recorded activity context
highlight low light punchy hottie punchy uppy MVP
RESULT STATUS
This one was not a competition.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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Normally, we wouldn't linger here, but I do want to hear just because this is your guys' introduction to Sly Stallone in the Rocky franchise. Like, what did we think?
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- Important beats: He's sort of only seen from a distance in a mirror and you hear the voice first, really. And about halfway through, I realized I needed to switch it to the cinema setting. But no, the man had to linger and he lingered the whole time.
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- Important beats: I watched it on my phone because it's easier. I did put it up 1.5x speed.
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So this block's going to take us up to the cemetery scene right around the 18-minute mark.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Each one of us will present one award per section.
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- Prompt item: We open to Victor Drago, a small-time boxer in Ukraine. In contrast, Creed hits it big, winning heavyweight champion of the world. Then he proposes marriage and a move to L.A. So this block's going to take us up to the cemetery scene right around the 18-minute mark.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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Is it the proposal scene or just the proposal sex scene?
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- Answer qualification: The punchy uppy is just more time in the actual sex scene. It has nothing to do with the proposal itself.
- Action: At the very least, he could have changed up the goddamn venue. Just have it be a really bad speech. And he's like, come on, look him at me.
This block ends with the pregnancy test roughly around 42 minutes.
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Prompt
Each one of us will present one award per section.
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- Prompt item: Ivan Drago lost everything when he lost to Rocky. He wants a Victor versus Adonis rematch and campaigns for it aggressively. Fearing Creed will lose everything. Rocky drops him as a coach rather than condone the fight. Creed's mom is a human pregnancy test. This block ends with the pregnancy test roughly around 42 minutes.
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- Important beats: Another low-light for me was just a lot of spoiler stuff for you. And then another low-light around that is Creed watching his dad literally die. But also we shouldn't be watching it.
So this section is going to take us to the hour and three mark where I looked very much like Adonis died.
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Prompt
Each one of us will present one award per section.
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- Prompt item: Creed and Drago train, then fight. It does not go well for Creed who winds up bloodied and hospitalized. He only clings to his title because Drago landed an illegal move disqualifying him. So this section is going to take us to the hour and three mark where I looked very much like Adonis died.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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2002, he was still an orphan at that point or was he already Apollo's son?
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- Important beats: I think air is a big part of it. Water is much more dense. The difference is that it was Felix in the ring the first time, not Creed, but it's almost the same circumstance. The underwater workout, jazzercise or whatever you call it, it did not work out. There is not a shortage of money in his upbringing once he's adopted.
So this is going to take us up to about hour 23 where Bianca leaves Adonis just totally alone crying with a baby.
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Prompt
Each one of us will present one award per section.
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- Prompt item: As Creed slowly recovers, Bianca grows ever more pregnant. Ivan is happy to be welcomed back into polite Russian society. But Victor chafes at these bellwether bitches. Just as Rocky reenters Creed's life, Amara arrives too. So this is going to take us up to about hour 23 where Bianca leaves Adonis just totally alone crying with a baby.
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- Important beats: So, for me, I, there was no suspense in this for me. Imagine that Creed was learning that his cat was going to be deaf. I wanted to punch Rocky, too, but I wanted him to call his son. It's a concussion thing.
So, yeah, this is going to take us to about the hour 38 where we're just going toe-to-toe in the desert with a guy.
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Prompt
Each one of us will present one award per section.
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- Prompt item: Bianca and Creed come to some kind of understanding about him fighting again. Rocky gets to training, and it ain't in no strip mall. We going to the desert for this montage, boys. So, yeah, this is going to take us to about the hour 38 where we're just going toe-to-toe in the desert with a guy.
- Rules: I need you to start with your award, and then you can get into it.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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So, there's no upper limit. You have to be at least 200 pounds, which I doubt Michael B. Jordan ever is, but as long as you're 200, you can fight for the heavyweight.
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- Question: I do have a question about boxing regulations.
- Action: So I feel like this was a great moment where they could have emphasized Rocky as the killer trainer who like knows what he's doing. Like, we need him to be like, I'm in charge and this is what you need to do.
- Important beats: I gotta tell you though, like going back to Sneha's original point, like I don't think there is any single criticism we could make that is better than they're going to Russia. Why are you in the desert? It does sort of fall flat because it does seem like Adonis is still the one with, other than size, all the advantages.
Round context
- Rules: I need you to start with your award, and then you can get into it.
It's fight night and Victor has height, weight, and home field advantage. Creed says hi to dad's grave and Rocky says goodbye to this franchise.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Each one of us will present one award per section.
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- Prompt item: It's fight night and Victor has height, weight, and home field advantage. But Rocky's got Creed fighting smart. Unaccustomed to fighting past four rounds, Victor goes down and Ivan waves the white flag. Creed says hi to dad's grave and Rocky says goodbye to this franchise.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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I'm curious for both of you, calling this an MVP moment, a highlight, does this feel like a really satisfying ending climax of this film?
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- Important beats: The question is, does Drago throw in the towel for his son because he loves him and he sees danger and he wants to be a protector? Or does he see that he's already lost the high society he wants, so no sense losing the son. And we get the bonus bit of them running together at the end of the movie. And I think I think from a fight standpoint, it's not a satisfying climax to the fight. But from like a movie arc standpoint, I thought it was very, for exactly the points that Sneha brought up. He wants his dad's love and he knows it now forever. It's the turning point.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Activity request: Each one of us will present one award per section.
- Rules: So just like last week, we're breaking the movie into six sections, and we've got six awards to give out. You can substitute it with an award of your own invention. To keep things from going completely off the rails, each person can only use the wild card once. But you already used your punchy uppie.
- Method: highlight For a moment or scene that was particularly good low light For a moment or scene that was particularly bad punchy Awarded to someone we wanted to punch in the face. And the moment that inspired it hottie For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take punchy uppy For a moment or scene that made us think something better the movie could have done. MVP the person who earned most valuable player status. In the moment they locked it in.