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Miami Vice The Rewatchables
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:01:55Read transcript
  • The bearded boss is the only tentative initial overacting candidate, with uncertainty about whether the performance is simply his manner.
  • John Ortiz is praised but said to overdo Yarrow at times.
  • The overall view is too much underacting and under-enunciation, leading to a joking alternative award.
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Pete Berg Award for Underacting, a.k.a. the Ambien Award for the Sleepiest Actor

A joking proposal for a new underacting award, without a recipient.

The panel proposes a new category here.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:02:29Read transcript
  • A Miami Vice award for most underacting is proposed in response to the general underacting.
  • The proposal is rephrased as the Mark Ruffalo Foxcatcher Award for underacting, followed by dislike of Foxcatcher.
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Possible reunion, failed task forces, shootout survival, Trudy consequences and a prestige-TV revival.

In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:02:46Read transcript
  • A future Sonny and Isabella reunion is imagined, with a return within a year or a birthday visit suggested.
  • Interagency task forces are viewed as predictably unsuccessful in movies.
  • The final shootout seems as though it should kill more good guys; none die, despite earlier destructive bullets.
  • Leaving Trudy in the safe house may have nearly killed her and could cause a later breakup.
  • A ten-episode, $200 million Netflix series by Michael Mann is proposed to bridge television and film, although Sicario and Narcos occupy similar ground.
  • A reportedly planned conventional NBC version disappoints the speakers.
  • Mann returning with a Blackhat series instead is a joke.
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Who Won the Movie?

Colin Farrell receives two explicit choices.

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:05:45Read transcript
  • The first choice is Colin Farrell.
  • Michael Mann is considered but rejected in comparison with earlier achievements in The Insider, Heat, Manhunter and The Last of the Mohicans.
  • A second explicit choice is Farrell, followed by the explanation that the rundown had only one candidate and a renewed apex claim.
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Most Rewatchable Scene

The bus jump leads; Hopper’s decapitation is another pick

In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:12:50Read transcript
  • The elevator rescue is nominated despite its resemblance to Die Hard.
  • The stretch from the first bus explosion and payphone call through meeting Annie is nominated.
  • The bus-driver rescue, the older passenger’s failed escape, the bus jump, and Hopper’s decapitation are nominated.
  • The bus jump is preferred for everyone hugging and screaming after surviving, before the next crisis.
  • The jump feels underwhelming on rewatch; the film works through sustained tension rather than isolated scenes. Donnie Kwak
  • The decapitation is an alternative choice; Ned Stark’s death is offered as a leading comparison.
  • The light-fixture decapitation is admired for its brutality, though more blood would have made it stronger.
  • The bus jump is selected for the buildup, map error, and decision to accelerate. Jason Concepcion
  • The claim that an interchange might supply an incline is questioned.
  • The bus jump is also chosen for the ridiculous upward flight; a MythBusters demonstration is said to show a real bus falling instead.
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Casting What-Ifs

Reported casting alternatives and declined directors are discussed; Bullock and de Bont are judged successful choices.

In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 00:17:11Read transcript
  • Stephen Baldwin reportedly declined because the script resembled Die Hard; the decision is mocked.
  • Jeff Bridges and Johnny Depp reportedly passed; Depp is considered capable of playing the part.
  • An earlier, more comic-relief version of Annie was reportedly written with Ellen DeGeneres in mind.
  • Halle Berry reportedly declined the rewritten Annie role; she is considered a promising alternative.
  • Bullock is preferred because her charm develops over the film instead of relying on immediate glamour.
  • Berry reportedly thought the role would have reduced her to a black bus driver; the discussion both detects bitterness and concedes she might have been right.
  • John McTiernan, Renny Harlin, and Quentin Tarantino reportedly declined to direct; Tarantino’s potential version is admired.
  • Hiring the Die Hard cinematographer to direct is judged to have worked out well.
Speed The Rewatchables
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Approx. transcript time · 00:19:33Read transcript
  • Young Bullock and Reeves’s crew cut, physique, and progressively dirty white shirt are nominated.
  • Reeves reportedly arrived with a shaved head and spent two months getting into shape.
  • The stay-on-or-get-off exchange is nominated and suggested as an alternative title.
  • The bus going under fifty and exploding is a great, simple movie premise; the action moves faster than Die Hard.
  • Die Hard on a bus is nominated; Money Train and another Denzel train film prompt comparisons.
  • Young Bullock is selected as a star whose potential becomes unmistakable, with an athletic-breakthrough analogy.
  • Annie’s kindness toward Sam and her easy joke about not driving next time make her especially appealing.
  • Reeves is selected for trustworthy, decisive command that contrasts with his earlier stoner and surfer image.
  • Reeves’s haircut is chosen because it would still work today.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Stereotyped passengers lead the criticism; traffic, missing phones, and police behavior are also debated, with de-escalation defended.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:25:33Read transcript
  • Missing cell phones and the bus jump are raised as aged-worst candidates.
  • Criticism of Hopper’s excessive performance is rejected; prolonged driving above fifty in Los Angeles is considered implausible.
  • The stereotyped passenger ensemble is selected, especially the uptight tourist and the armed passenger who assumes the cop is after him.
  • Jack putting down his gun and badge to reason with the armed passenger seems implausible for a Los Angeles cop.
  • That calm response is contrasted with commandeering the Jaguar at gunpoint and the earlier shoot-the-hostage strategy.
  • The passenger types are mocked as box-checking; a stand-up routine and Daylight provide comparisons.
  • A reported passenger-cast oral history says backstories and arcs were cut, disappointing the actors.
  • Frightened people acting realistically can be the most irritating screen characters; Skyler in Breaking Bad is offered as a parallel.
  • Not shooting the armed passenger is offered as a criticism, answered by the defense that Jack defuses situations as well as bombs.
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Picking Nits

Tires, payphone timing, gasoline, bus stops, cameras, the bomber’s home, the jump, and Annie’s driving (several disputed)

In the discussion (13)
Approx. transcript time · 00:30:38Read transcript
  • Could Jack shoot the tires before the bus reaches fifty?
  • The counterargument is that Hopper could detonate remotely and watch on camera; the reply distinguishes the unarmed speed-trigger phase.
  • Answering a payphone after the explosion is questioned, along with how the caller knows Jack will be there; a video-game side-mission analogy defends answering.
  • Stabbing the fuel tank to hang onto the bus is questioned, and the missing consequences of the lingering gasoline smell are mocked.
  • Stopping for Annie after departing is questioned, then defended through a bus-driver father’s habit of waiting for regulars and bringing tacos.
  • The blast that kills Helen seems likely to destroy a tire and cause an accident.
  • The airport tire spikes appear to damage a tire, yet the bus continues without consequences.
  • An unnamed participant describes accidentally driving over Staples Center tire spikes without tire damage, challenging the assumption that spikes always work.
  • Hopper’s repeated Wildcat clue is interpreted as deliberate taunting rather than a slip.
  • A 1994 onboard camera is questioned, then defended through recollections of early school-bus cameras; an uninterrupted feed still seems implausible.
  • Entering a bomber’s home without anticipating explosives is criticized, while Daniels’s death expression is admired and compared to Dumb and Dumber.
  • The bus could not survive the landing even if it somehow completed the jump.
  • Annie’s ability to drive the bus is questioned; replies suggest parking is the hard part and much of the task is going straight.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Oscars, stunt stories, script changes and the bus jump

In the discussion (12)
Approx. transcript time · 00:31:18Read transcript
  • The film reportedly won Oscars for sound editing and sound mixing.
  • Reeves reportedly performed ninety percent of his stunts, including a secretly practiced Jaguar-to-bus jump that surprised the director.
  • The surprise-jump story is challenged as publicity exaggeration because a shot requires coordination; doing the jump itself remains believable.
  • Going under the bus is rejected as something Reeves did himself; even at five miles per hour, he could die.
  • An original script reportedly revealed Harry as the villain; the betrayal is enthusiastically welcomed as a remake possibility.
  • Joss Whedon is credited with script-doctor dialogue, including Gigantor.
  • Bullock reportedly learned to drive a bus and is praised as convincing behind the wheel.
  • River Phoenix’s death during filming reportedly led to easier scenes being scheduled while Reeves grieved.
  • The highway filming is placed on the 105 and 110 freeways.
  • Early visual effects reportedly supplied the freeway gap; footage of the actual stunt shows the bus collapsing on landing.
  • The bus jump reportedly was absent from the script until the director saw unfinished freeway and proposed it.
  • The practical jump reportedly rose twenty feet, traveled 109 feet, and overshot onto a camera.
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Approx. transcript time · 00:37:49Read transcript
  • Hopper would win if eligible, but is treated as a star rather than a role player.
  • Glenn Plummer’s Jaguar driver is nominated, with appreciation for his run of supporting action roles.
  • Alan Ruck, the older woman, Sam, the construction-worker passenger, and Joe Morton are nominated.
  • Ruck is chosen for complaining that he has already seen the airport after repeated near-death experiences.
  • Morton is selected for his chief-like authority and rapid delivery.
  • Helen is chosen for trying to abandon the bus and suffering a particularly brutal death.
  • A second Morton choice praises his calming influence, though another response finds his celebrations excessive.
  • Morton walking up to Traven and Annie at the end is enjoyed as the perfect time for a joke.
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