Picking Nits
Yoast and Boone never connect outside football; a live TV crew at a 1971 high school final; no prevent defense on the last play; Boone discussing Lastik's test scores in front of the room; the last play not shown; advanced fumbles; the single grape on Denzel's spoon; the Gettysburg death toll; the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis introduction
In the discussion (7)
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- A producer would have had the most notes on Yost and Denzel, two ships passing in the night who connect only through dropping off the daughters, though that may be how dads become friends; a TV crew broadcasting the championship live in 1971 is doubted; and the other team should have been in a prevent defense with 20 seconds left instead of leaving nobody for 50 yards.
- Picking nits is always the worst part of the Rewatchables for him. — Shea Serrano
- The nits are out of love, since the hosts have seen the movie so many times they have to pick it apart; another nit is Coach Boone telling Lou Elastic (as transcribed) to send his test scores in the middle of a dead-silent room, which is where Disney went too far.
- Agrees the last play was shot badly, since he wanted to see the run down the sideline and expected a penalty callback; in Texas a fumble could not be advanced and the film advances a couple; and in the camp cafeteria Denzel talks holding a spoon with one single grape and no fruit cup. — Shea Serrano
- A historical nit: 8 million people did not die at Gettysburg; and Denzel calling Bertier and Ray the Racist Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in front of everyone would have started a race riot, or one of the racist dads would have shot him.
- The last play is absurd: from their own 24 they run a double reverse and Ronnie Bass blocks two people on his own; every final play in these movies is absurd, from Little Giants' annexation of Puerto Rico and the knuckle puck in Mighty Ducks 2 to Varsity Blues and the hook and ladder in Friday Night Lights.
- Earlier, while still on the championship, the hosts question the strategy: up by four with a minute twenty, the Titans had timeouts since one was called to get Rev in, and the runner carried the ball straight up like a deer in headlights before fumbling, which, like the leading team in Hoosiers running plays while ahead, is a sports-movie trope.