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The Truman Show The Rewatchables
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The Truman Show

Picking Nits

Production logistics; Christof’s plan; Truman’s calm reaction; private bodily life; no visible second shift.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:22:21Read transcript
  • The panel questions 1981 camera quality, permanent jobs for the actors, and the enormous cost of sustaining the show.
  • The plan if Truman simply agrees to stay is questioned because the show remains enormously expensive.
  • Whether Christof meant to kill Truman or only traumatize him into returning is debated.
  • Truman’s calm reaction after his boat strikes a wall is criticized; the speaker says they would lose their mind.
  • The panel questions how the show handles sex, masturbation, and bathroom use when Truman does not know he is filmed.
  • The control room never showing an overnight shift is criticized.
The Truman Show The Rewatchables

Best Double Feature

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The Truman Show
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The Matrix
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Gattaca
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The Game
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The Running Man

Picked by Glen Powell

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Approx. transcript time · 01:34:46Read transcript
  • The Matrix is proposed.
  • Gattaca is proposed for the Andrew Nicol connection.
  • The Game is proposed and strongly endorsed.
  • The Running Man is attributed to the guest as a separate choice.
Halloween II The Rewatchables
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Halloween II

Most Rewatchable Scene

Ben Tramer’s mistaken-identity incineration

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Approx. transcript time · 00:35:00Read transcript
  • The reprise remixes the original ending, Loomis’s “you don’t know what death is,” the opening score, and Michael stealing a kitchen knife into a propulsive first twelve minutes.
  • An elderly couple watching Night of the Living Dead while preparing a huge midnight sandwich creates domestic calm before Michael enters the neighborhood.
  • Ben Tramer is hit by a speeding police car, pinned to a van, and incinerated while Loomis and Brackett immediately leave; its grotesque scale and lack of aftermath make it the unanimous comic favorite.
  • Brackett closing Annie’s eyes and blaming Loomis is unexpectedly moving, while Loomis responds with monomaniacal indifference.
  • Loomis repeats his inhuman-patience speech like stand-up material and grows increasingly frantic as nobody believes Michael cannot die.
  • Karen and Bud’s workplace hot-tub tryst combines unhygienic absurdity, coercive set history, nudity, and the movie’s most iconic scalding murder.
  • The hypodermic deaths, scalpel lift, Laurie’s car hiding, blind Michael, and Loomis’s willingness to explode an occupied hospital are additional set pieces.
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