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Rocky III The Rewatchables
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What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?

The choices are the Thunderlips-fight Polaroid, Rocky’s yellow beach shorts, and the original LeRoy Neiman painting, with the statue and other props considered.

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  • The category opens with the pinball machine, painting, Apollo trunks, gym sign, limousine, and Rocky statue as possible objects.
  • The Thunderlips-fight Polaroid is one participant’s final choice.
  • The yellow beach-training shorts are another participant’s final choice.
  • The original LeRoy Neiman painting is the third final choice because it could hang as art in a home.
Rocky III The Rewatchables
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Who Won the Movie?

Mr. T receives two winner ballots and Talia Shire one; Hulk Hogan is a strong alternate, while Stallone is recognized as indispensable but already established.

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  • Mr. T wins one ballot because his life went from being a bouncer into the stratosphere through this movie.
  • Talia Shire wins another for transforming Adrian from a quiet earlier character into the forceful beach-scene partner.
  • Hulk Hogan is considered but judged likely to become a wrestling star even without the film.
  • Mr. T receives the final ballot because Clubber is called the best sports-movie villain and led immediately to his television role.
  • Stallone is acknowledged as essential, but his success was already secure before this film.
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A League of Their Own The Rewatchables
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A League of Their Own

Most Rewatchable Scene

Game Seven; no crying in baseball

In the discussion (18)
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  • The Oregon opening is selected for establishing Dottie and Kit's rivalry and Ernie's recruiting pitch.
  • The tryouts and roster reading are selected for introducing the players, showing their athletic credibility, and revealing that Shirley cannot read.
  • The league newsreel is proposed as a rewatchable sequence.
  • Jimmy's no-crying-in-baseball confrontation is proposed as a rewatchable scene.
  • Jimmy's managerial debut, including his extended urination, is proposed as a rewatchable scene.
  • The team-success montage is proposed, including the Black woman's powerful throw and Marla's marriage.
  • The telegram delivery is proposed as an affecting scene.
  • Jimmy confronting Dottie about quitting is selected for his argument that difficulty is what makes baseball great.
  • Game Seven and the home-plate collision are selected for resolving the sisters' rivalry while leaving the dropped-ball question open.
  • Dottie and Kit's farewell is proposed as a rewatchable scene.
  • The Hall of Fame reunion is proposed, with an explicit objection that parts of it are corny and that grown-up Stillwell is unpleasant.
  • Jimmy's managerial debut and Ira's response are proposed as a comic exchange.
  • The Suds Bucket dance sequence is proposed.
  • Marla meeting and marrying Nelson is proposed.
  • Both nighttime bus rides are proposed as rewatchable sequences.
  • One participant remains torn between Dottie trying to quit and the no-crying-in-baseball scene.
  • One participant's final choice is Game Seven because the whole game holds up on a channel flip and renews the dropped-ball debate.
  • A different participant's final choice is the no-crying-in-baseball scene.
A League of Their Own The Rewatchables
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What’s Aged the Best?

Performances, baseball, friendship, and period craft

In the discussion (6)
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  • Geena Davis and Lori Petty are praised as believable baseball players.
  • Madonna as All the Way Mae is the leading answer because the star casting and character unexpectedly work.
  • Rosie O'Donnell's performance and her partnership with Madonna are praised.
  • The Dottie-Kit arguments and Jimmy's small pieces of advice remain effective.
  • The baseball settings, vendors, clothes, and Cynthia Flynt's costume design are praised.
  • The ensemble's credible play, including Marla's switch-hitting power, is central to the movie's durability.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Failed series, fading context, deleted kiss, Marla's exit, and Kit

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  • A six-episode TV series, with only five broadcast, is said to have died quickly.
  • Madonna's historical impact on the casting is expected to diminish for younger viewers.
  • The opening song is considered overly early-1990s and corny.
  • The deleted Dottie-Jimmy kiss is rejected because it would change Dottie's motivation and violate the character's marriage.
  • The older-Dottie actress is criticized for not quite bringing it, and the original actresses in aging makeup are preferred.
  • Marla leaving the team immediately after marriage is rejected as inconsistent with her love and talent for baseball.
  • Kit is criticized as resentful and insufficiently accountable despite being rewarded at the end.
  • A proposed repair gives Kit a late acknowledgment that Dottie's trade helped her build an independent life.
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Casting What-Ifs

Geena Davis succeeds Debra Winger

In the discussion (4)
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  • Demi Moore was reportedly considered before pregnancy made her unavailable.
  • Debra Winger left after Madonna was cast and later maintained that objection; the discussion considers Geena Davis the clearly superior Dottie.
  • It is reported that Tom Hanks sought the role because some recent movies had not done well.
  • Garry Marshall replaced the unaffordable Christopher Walken as Walter Harvey; the final casting is preferred.
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The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

Mark Holton and Joey Slotnick

In the discussion (3)
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  • The announcer played by David Lander is considered through his Squiggy recognition.
  • Adult Stillwell, recognized as Chubby from Teen Wolf, is selected; his Hall of Fame remembrance of his mother is praised.
  • Joey Slotnick as Doris Fan Number Two is another selection.
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Recasting Couch

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  • Sandra Bullock is proposed as Kit to increase the character's likability.
  • The objection is that Bullock might be too inherently sympathetic and Lori Petty's performance is difficult to replace.
  • Courteney Cox is considered but doubted as a convincing player.
  • Marisa Tomei's reported audition is discussed, including the possibility of her as Mae, but Madonna is retained.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Injuries, locations, history, effects, and production accounts

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  • Anne Ramsay reportedly broke her nose, while other cast members sustained bruises, damaged skin, broken fingers, and a broken foot during baseball work.
  • Wrigley Field, League Stadium in Huntingburg, and Evansville supplied the tryout, home, and championship locations.
  • Madonna's song was excluded from the soundtrack for contractual reasons, and Lori Petty described the period uniform as difficult to play in.
  • Several cast members reportedly shared a house, socialized together, and received wine from Francis Ford Coppola.
  • Petty reportedly hit the home run herself, ran the bases repeatedly, and became sick after the final take.
  • The real league began under Philip Wrigley as softball; the film's switch to baseball is endorsed.
  • Jimmy Dugan is described as drawing principally from Jimmie Foxx, with Hack Wilson also mentioned.
  • A stunt double performed the split catch, Penny Marshall created the urination effect, and Tom Hanks gained weight for the role.
  • Madonna was moved from third base to the outfield because she struggled with ground balls.
  • Brenda Feigen accused Penny Marshall of taking the project from her.
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Apex Mountain

Geena Davis, Penny Marshall, Lori Petty, and women's sports films

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  • Geena Davis is judged at Apex after Thelma & Louise and this film in consecutive years.
  • Penny Marshall is judged at Apex because this became her most commercially successful film.
  • Lori Petty is judged at Apex because Kit remained her defining role.
  • Cow-milking scenes and long urination scenes are debated without a firm affirmative selection.
  • David Strathairn, Madonna, Jon Lovitz, Bill Pullman, Rosie O'Donnell, and Tom Hanks are rejected or left below other career peaks.
  • Women's baseball, women's sports movies, and baseball movies receive affirmative Apex judgments; sister movies do not.
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