Close Encounters of the Third Kind · The Rewatchables ·May 20, 2025 Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson Trusting your gut can justify leaving everything behind, at least within the movie's logic. In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 02:02:29Read transcript The joking lesson says following an extraordinary intuition can justify leaving one's family. The panel debates whether the lesson holds only if the aliens are real or if Roy is delusional.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind · The Rewatchables ·May 20, 2025 Best Double Feature Close Encounters of the Third Kind + Poster unavailable Starman Poster unavailable Asteroid City In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 02:03:50Read transcript Starman is chosen for its shared tone of curiosity and wonder without cynicism. Asteroid City is selected for combining alien contact with family melancholy.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind · The Rewatchables ·May 20, 2025 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Who Won the Movie? Steven Spielberg In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 02:05:18Read transcript The final vote awards the film to Steven Spielberg. Podcast choices Speaker not identifiedSteven Spielberg
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish Dr. Richard Kimble Inappropriate Body Award Charles Bronson’s lean physique as an architect In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:13:24Read transcript Bronson's extremely lean, muscular physique is judged implausible for an architect.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish Roger Ebert's review ☆★☆★☆★☆★ In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:25:18Read transcript Ebert gave the film three stars while calling it a quasi-fascist advertisement presented as slick action. The New York Times review is reported to have called the film irresponsible.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish Most Rewatchable Scene The roll-of-quarters defense and extended Tucson sequence In the discussion (8) Approx. transcript time · 00:29:41Read transcript The panel says viewers troubled by the opening assault can enter the film around the Tucson passage. The roll-of-quarters defense is the first action scene singled out for replay value. The Wild West saloon brawl and the broader Tucson sequence receive explicit nominations. Kersey's first shooting and the later three-on-one alley shooting are nominated separately. The subway double murder is nominated as Kersey grows more deliberate. The subway-platform attack is discussed as Kersey deliberately raising the stakes and exposing himself as bait. The final park-staircase shootout, chase, and police ultimatum form the closing scene candidate. The Tucson passage is preferred as part of the film, while the last shootout is called the iconic choice.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish “OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch The three-on-one shooting marks the moment the movie escalates. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:35:43Read transcript The three-on-one alley shooting is selected as the moment the movie escalates.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish The most "year the movie came out" thing Frightening New York, overcoats, magazine billboards, and long boozy lunches In the discussion (4) Approx. transcript time · 00:40:44Read transcript Frightening New York, a Korean War veteran hero, TWA travel, and the assault are cited as 1974 markers. Wide overcoat collars and magazine billboards used to advance the plot are selected as period details. Long, alcohol-heavy lunches are treated as distinctly 1974. Serving liver with spaghetti prompts a separate period-food discussion.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish What’s Aged the Best? The police-station atmosphere, media machinery, Bronson's physique, and Kersey's addiction to the hunt In the discussion (6) Approx. transcript time · 00:42:53Read transcript The old police-station atmosphere is selected as a durable period pleasure. The film's still-current conflict over guns is judged to have aged well. A study about repeat viewing leads to a discussion of familiar movies as relaxing comfort food. Traumatized characters becoming catatonic and the detective seeing himself on a magazine cover receive separate mentions. Bronson's physique and Kersey becoming addicted to the hunt are separate Aged Best choices. The newspapers, television coverage, and press conferences are praised as a pre-internet media machine.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish The Den of Thieves Benihana Award for Scene-Stealing Location The sex-worker diner and final park staircase In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:45:35Read transcript The sex-worker diner is chosen for its vivid collection of background characters. The park staircase used for the final shootout is a second location choice.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot Wide-angle apartment imagery before the attack In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:45:51Read transcript The distorted wide-angle apartment shots before the attack are selected for creating dread.
Death Wish · The Rewatchables ·May 14, 2025 Death Wish The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop Herbie Hancock's score In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:46:21Read transcript Herbie Hancock's score is the primary music choice. The game-show music Kersey plays while cooking liver and spaghetti is an alternate choice.