Swingers The Rewatchables
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Swingers

Most Rewatchable Scene

Drive to Vegas; blackjack and big-winner stretch; par-three golf; NHL video-game scene; Heather Graham swing dance; late-night diner; Nikki answering-machine calls

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  • The drive to Vegas is a pick: he is talked into going, puts on a suit while the other holds the wheel, they scream Vegas, then the next cut is them driving sadly down the highway.
  • The whole blackjack scene is a pick, ending with the devastated Mike and Trent insisting he is the big winner.
  • That roughly 11-minute stretch runs into breakfast, with the pancakes, the age of enlightenment, and "I'm going to pull a Fredo", humming for 15 solid minutes.
  • Details praised: counting the money before handing it over, an amateur move; the three black chips back; the double down loss you could see coming; the look on Favreau's face.
  • Is it Mike's first Vegas trip? They seem secretly losers; Trent, supposedly worldly, cannot gamble, and doubling down on 11 is his only move.
  • The Los Feliz par-three scene is a pick: not mentioning her like not talking to a pitcher mid no-hitter, and "get there" on a putt six feet short, still funny 150 times later.
  • The par three looks exactly the same, down to the booth attendant, and captures struggling actors with nothing to do; opening a round there with an eight or nine is relatable.
  • Ron Livingston is good delivering the no-hitter line.
  • The NHL video-game scene is called perhaps the greatest video-game scene in movie history; The Wizard is raised, but this is the first to integrate guys playing a sports game so seamlessly.
  • Picking Roenick was essential because he was a god in that game; Vaughn is said to be a huge Blackhawks fan.
  • "The Kings are a finesse team", making Gretzky's head bleed, and messing with Mikey over the delivery guy are all called lights out.
  • A participant who was an only child identifies with Sue: undefeated against the computer, then blaming the controller when friends beat him.
  • Per the Grantland oral history as told on air, they could not make Gretzky's head bleed and had Vaughn come over during editing to keep trying until they captured it.
  • The Heather Graham scene is a pick: he finally uses Trent's lessons, they swing dance, and cutaways show a crying, happy Trent and Sue; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy are said to have been asked on a whim and later played a Super Bowl halftime show.
  • The late-night diner scene is a pick, with "our little boy's all grown up" and Trent jumping on the table, said to be ad-libbed.
  • The whole Nikki run, from the bar and the number to calling her machine repeatedly, is painful but amazingly well done.
  • Watching with a daughter who had never seen it, attention on the TV was about 80-20 versus the usual 50-50 with her phone; she was confused by the answering-machine calls.
  • Maybe the party-to-party bouncing, from the Dresden to Marty and Elaine and the talk of not getting a pilot, felt like a window into an unknown world.
  • The whole movie is rewatchable; for one participant the video-game scene is the favorite.