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Recasting Couch

Gene Hackman, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore and a Flight crossover

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Approx. transcript time · 01:23:06Read transcript
  • Hackman is considered for Gene but Harris’s performance is defended
  • Pitt is considered as a higher-star-power Swigert without displacing Hanks
  • Cruise as Swigert would be fun, though his crisis of confidence might be hard to believe
  • Moore is imagined delivering Marilyn’s defiant line
  • Bill proposes Denzel’s troubled pilot from Flight in the Swigert part
  • These are hypothetical recasts, distinct from reported casting history
Apollo 13 The Rewatchables
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Apollo 13

Half-Assed Internet Research

Zero-gravity filming, practical sets and the origins of Failure Is Not an Option

In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 01:26:17Read transcript
  • Spielberg is credited with suggesting parabolic-flight filming
  • The actors filmed in brief zero-gravity intervals during long flights
  • Full-size modules and a chilled set are reported
  • The splashdown was reportedly filmed in a Universal lot lake
  • The USS New Orleans substituted for the unavailable Iwo Jima
  • Bacon praises Hanks’s intensive astronaut training
  • Failure Is Not an Option is reported as wording created for the movie, later used by Kranz as a book title
  • Mission-control leadership is said to have been consolidated, leaving Glynn Lunney out; the transcript renders the name imperfectly
  • Marilyn’s lost ring is said to have been recovered in real life
  • Bacon’s repeated Jack/Jackie character names are listed across seven productions
Apollo 13 The Rewatchables
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Apex Mountain

Hanks’s mid-1990s summit, Quinlan’s nomination and Houston’s championship era

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Approx. transcript time · 01:30:37Read transcript
  • Hanks’s Forrest Gump–Apollo 13–Toy Story period is a leading choice
  • Later freedom to direct or take unusual roles is offered as another measure of Hanks’s power
  • Howard’s A Beautiful Mind acclaim is preferred
  • Sinise’s Forrest Gump–Apollo 13 period is accepted
  • Bacon’s Footloose breakthrough is preferred
  • Houston’s back-to-back Rockets titles alongside the film are favored over the Beyoncé-birth alternative
  • Harris’s peak is placed somewhere between this and The Truman Show
  • Quinlan’s Oscar nomination supports her apex
  • Grazer is considered without a firm conclusion
  • Space movies are rejected because of Star Wars and 2001
  • American idealism and ingenuity are debated in relation to 1970 versus 1995
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Picking Nits

Not enough smoking, children watching reentry and floor salad

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:36:40Read transcript
  • The panel thinks a 1970 control room and home would have contained more smoking
  • Changed dialogue and astronauts arguing are acknowledged as dramatic liberties
  • Allowing very young children to watch potentially fatal reentry is questioned
  • Mary Haise is given little to do
  • Women are seen putting spilled salad back into its bowl
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