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American Gangster

Probably Unanswerable Questions

American Gangster The Rewatchables

Questions cover absent actors, Denzel’s persona, ideal length, Trupo, Frank’s wife, and Stevie’s Yankees path

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  • How Mark Ruffalo missed the large ensemble is asked
  • Whether this performance created Jay Pharoah’s Denzel Washington impression is asked
  • The maximum acceptable length is debated; one participant would watch a six-hour event
  • More Vietnam, Jake, Stevie, and Frank-fall material is requested
  • Trupo’s home life and golf club are questioned
  • Whether Frank’s wife set him up by insisting on the fur coat is debated
  • The unexplained fake beard is raised as evidence of missing connective material
  • Whether Stevie could plausibly go from the street to the Yankees in 1974 is questioned
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Rollerball

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Rollerball The Rewatchables

James Caan gives a fascinating sports performance that alternates between athletic charisma and sleepy line readings.

In the discussion (3)
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  • One host calls James Caan's work his favorite performance in a sports movie that can be great in one minute and terrible in the next.
  • Caan is praised for looking like a credible athlete and carrying an elite athlete's mystique and charisma.
  • The sleepy delivery is interpreted as a man lulled by a world that supplies his house, partner, and money while he comes alive during the sport.
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Rollerball

Roger Ebert's review

Rollerball The Rewatchables

Contemporary critics were lukewarm; Ebert gave three and a half stars but the text was unavailable.

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  • Vincent Canby's review is described as dismissing the film as frivolous rather than satire.
  • Gene Siskel is reported to have awarded two stars and called the film vapid, pretentious, and arrogant.
  • Roger Ebert is reported to have awarded three and a half stars, although the panel could not find his review online.
  • James Caan is reported to have rated Rollerball eight out of ten while saying the character gave him little to do.
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Rollerball

Most Rewatchable Scene

Rollerball The Rewatchables

The opening game, dystopian party, Tokyo game, final, and Jonathan-Bartholomew argument form the field.

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  • The opening credits, pregame warmups, corporate anthem, and first Houston-Madrid game are proposed together as a rewatchable opening sequence.
  • The opening game is praised for making the invented sport understandable through wide shots, close-ups, scoring, and Moonpie's swooper role.
  • Jonathan's team lecture and the interview that introduces his scoring and injury records are added as scene candidates.
  • The futuristic party is praised for revealing designer-drug use, assigned relationships, social control, and casual environmental destruction without exposition.
  • The Houston-Tokyo game is nominated for its no-penalties premise, escalating violence, ball-to-the-head impact, and Moonpie's injury.
  • Jonathan erasing Ella's videos during their breakup is proposed as another rewatchable scene.
  • The final against New York is nominated for its no-penalties setup, attrition, strategy, and Jonathan's survival.
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Rollerball

The most "year the movie came out" thing

Rollerball The Rewatchables

The 1975 future lacks phones and internet, features a centralized computer, and lets Caan hit a heavy bag bare-handed.

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  • The women's distinctly mid-1970s styling is proposed as the clearest period marker.
  • The future's lack of cell phones and internet, despite its centralized computer, is proposed as a 1975 conception of technology.
  • Allowing James Caan to hit a heavy bag bare-handed is selected as an unsafe 1970s production detail.
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