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Rollerball The Rewatchables
Rollerball

What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?

Jonathan's number-six jersey, glove, motorcycle, and a used ball

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:27:58Read transcript
  • Jonathan's orange number-six jersey is the primary memorabilia choice. — Bill Simmons
  • A glove is proposed as another collectible. — Bill Simmons
  • A motorcycle used in the sport is proposed as another collectible. — Bill Simmons
  • A battered Rollerball is proposed as another collectible. — Bill Simmons
Rollerball The Rewatchables

Best Double Feature

Rollerball
Network
Enter the Dragon
The Longest Yard
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:28:38Read transcript
  • Network is selected as the highbrow pairing because it connects media with sports and entertainment. — Brian Koppelman
  • Enter the Dragon is selected as a less-highbrow pairing associated with the same era. — Brian Koppelman
  • The Longest Yard is considered as a pairing of early great sports movies. — Bill Simmons
RoboCop The Rewatchables
RoboCop

Most Rewatchable Scene

The ED-209 boardroom demonstration

In the discussion (12)
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  • Murphy arriving at the chaotic police station is an opening choice. — Bill Simmons
  • ED-209 killing Mr. Kinney in the boardroom is the declared number-one scene. — Bill Simmons
  • Clarence Boddicker’s warehouse pursuit and Murphy’s murder are considered despite the execution being hard to watch. — Bill Simmons
  • RoboCop’s first day includes the convenience-store arrest and shooting through the woman’s legs. — Bill Simmons
  • RoboCop returning to Murphy’s house supplies the human core but is also a pee-break candidate. — Bill Simmons
  • Bob Morton’s apartment combines cocaine, sex, and Clarence’s grenade attack. — Bill Simmons
  • The cocaine-factory shootout includes falling gunmen firing as they collapse. — Bill Simmons
  • Toxic-waste Emil and Dick Jones’s final death are late alternatives. — Bill Simmons
  • ED-209 wins even though RoboCop is absent from the scene.
  • The recurring dollar-buying television joke is treated as a central satirical catchphrase in RoboCop’s first-day sequence. — Bill Simmons
  • RoboCop ending the Mayor Gibson hostage crisis is another first-day scene candidate. — Bill Simmons
  • Clarence leaving a futuristic video disc behind prompts a question about whether its evidence could be recovered. — Bill Simmons
RoboCop The Rewatchables
RoboCop

“OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch

Murphy’s brutal execution

In the discussion (3)
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  • Murphy’s hand being blown off changes the movie from comic spectacle to a brutal execution. — Bill Simmons
  • The shot through the woman’s legs is another jump-out-of-your-seat escalation. — Kyle Brandt
  • Toxic-waste Emil being hit by the car is treated as a final extreme escalation. — Bill Simmons
RoboCop The Rewatchables
RoboCop

Marion Cobretti Pizza Cutting Award: Why Didn’t They Stop This on Set?

A drug lord carrying estate Cabernet around the cocaine house is the inaugural example.

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  • The greasy drug lord walks through the cocaine house holding an estate Cabernet. — Kyle Brandt
  • The new award is named for something that should have been stopped because it would never happen. — Bill Simmons
RoboCop The Rewatchables
RoboCop

The most 1987 thing

Leza Gibbons

In the discussion (4)
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  • ED-209’s stop-motion effects are charming and linked to Phil Tippett. — Bill Simmons
  • Over-the-top street thugs and watching banks of televisions through a store window are very 1980s. — Bill Simmons
  • Falling backward out of a building is another period image. — Bill Simmons
  • Leza Gibbons wins as a defining 1987 celebrity presence. — Bill Simmons
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