Butler's character is Clyde Shelton and Foxx's is Nick Rice; the hosts say the names flipped along with the roles. — Bill Simmons
Few white men in American history are named Clyde, and Foxx does not look like a Nick Rice; Darius Jackson is joked about as the original. — Bill Simmons
'Eminence Front' by The Who, remembered from Craig's favorite show Entourage.
A tangent covers the recent Jake Paul gambling ad with Piven and Grenier playing thinly veiled Entourage characters, which the hosts describe the Entourage creator objecting to; hosts enjoyed seeing them and would watch a relaunch. — Bill Simmons
The flex list ranks body counts and consequences; Death Wish is fifth, with a joke about its total body count across the series.
The Equalizer is fourth: Denzel's character wipes out a Russian mob over three movies. — Van Lathan
Taken is third; its hero describes his own particular set of skills instead of having someone else explain them, a self-promoter compared with Trautman in Rambo. — Van Lathan
First Blood is second: Rambo was not bothering anyone, and in an alternate universe he runs an Italian restaurant. — Van Lathan
John Wick is first: after the dog and car, he kills 439 people in seven months, one of the worst mistakes in the history of movie organized crime. — Bill Simmons
Clyde could have just killed Darby, the judge and everyone else instead of spending ten years digging tunnels.
A defense: killing anonymously would not make a public point against the justice system. — Bill Simmons
Waiting years let Darby keep living; the distinction between justice and revenge (Batman Begins) explains Clyde's scattershot method. — Bill Simmons
The other weak link is Clyde moving in and out of an elaborate, manicured isolation cell unnoticed, while also working a janitorial job under the name Nomos.
For Philadelphia law movies Philadelphia still holds it; for vigilante movies it is Death Wish; for 'Eminence Front' it is probably still the first episode of Entourage. — Bill Simmons
Del Frisco's Steakhouse: 'definitely'. — Bill Simmons
Clyde opening the door without the peephole; criminals randomly targeting a secret CIA killer's family; Nick shaking Darby's hand on camera; no camera in Clyde's cell; Clyde not noticing the warehouse break-in; a DA and a cop handling bombs; the uninventive final briefcase bomb; beating Clyde back to his cell; a prisoner running an underground base
Moved up from the picks: a master planner opens the door at night to strangers without looking through the peephole.
Two random criminals happened to attack the family of a secret CIA killer; a smarter version would make the crime itself revenge. — Bill Simmons
Nick shaking Darby's hand in front of reporters is the dumbest thing he does.
Nobody puts a camera in Clyde's isolation cell once things start exploding.
Clyde would have noticed the warehouse break-in, and a DA and a cop would not know how to handle bombs.
The final crime, a briefcase bomb under a table with no camera on it, is the least inventive; a purpose beyond carnage or a Bodyguard-style camera twist would have been better.
How Nick and the cops reach Clyde's cell before he does is unclear. — Craig Horlbeck
The biggest nit: a prisoner running a climate-controlled, wired underground base like Bruce Wayne makes no sense.
The blanket-over-pillow decoy is weak next to a favorite Eastwood prison-escape film with molded fake heads, which CR is said to love and which might be done on the show.
The Philly accents are nonexistent; nobody tried. — Bill Simmons
There are no Philly sports references even though the Phillies were, a speaker thinks, in the 2009 World Series; a villain could have mentioned a Phillies game or Chase Utley.
Viola Davis is wasted as the mayor in about three scenes, used as a legitimizer, as in one scene in Out of Sight. — Bill Simmons
Nick: 'every time I watch it... Nick sucks'. — Bill Simmons
The mayor swears Nick in as the new DA while scolding him for all the damage. — Bill Simmons
Nick is called the worst DA ever for shaking a rapist's hand on television; promoting him is like the Jaguars hiring Urban Meyer and then making him GM.
