The Last Boy Scout The Rewatchables
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The Last Boy Scout

Most Rewatchable Scene

The opening Billy Cole scene

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  • The scene is set at halftime of a Cleveland versus Los Angeles game with Vern Lundquist, Dick Buckkiss and Lynn Swan as sideline reporter, who berates the L.A. owner about ratings, attendance and where all the heroes have gone.
  • The hosts want sideline reporters to ask NBA players like Brandon Ingram and LeBron James where all the heroes have gone.
  • Billy Cole is alleged to take PCP in the locker room, though one host always thought it was cocaine until reading Wikipedia.
  • Early nits: whether he had the gun in his pants the whole quarter, how it did not affect his burst while breaking four tackles, and whether his touchdown would count for gamblers.
  • He says 'Ain't life a bitch' as he shoots himself, and the broadcast presumably cuts to a test signal.
  • Only one spotlight seems to be on in Cleveland Stadium, like a German expressionist film; Tony Scott's football is closer to Zach Snyder's 300 and the rain device returns in The Fan.
  • The scene was a watershed; the movie arguably peaks in the first six minutes, helped by the Bill Medley Friday Night Football song.
  • Other rewatchable scenes offered: Joe finding the guy in the closet, which leads to the first of several car bombs.
  • Jimmy's speech on the NFL stance on drugs and gambling, played back by Craig, reads like Shane Black at 3:30 in the morning.
  • Joe versus Kim Coats, where Joe warns him not to touch him again and then kills him.
  • The quirky hitmen, like Pablo playing piano and Taylor Negron, feel Tarantino-like before Tarantino made a movie.
  • The stuffed-animal scene with the car chase, despite not knowing how the gun fits in the stuffed animal.
  • The big football-game ending: a throw from a wounded hand to the senator's box, Damon Wayans on a horse, and Bruce Willis's fight with Taylor Negron ending in a jig.
  • The Hollywood Hills car chase with cars going down the hill that lands in the pool.
  • The strip club with Corey and the Corey car-chase murder right after it are offered as another rewatchable scene; the other side left it out because seeing Halle Berry murdered hurts, wishing she had just taken one in the shoulder.
  • Asked for a most rewatchable pick, the answer is the opening scene, watchable a hundred times in a row; it is jokingly why football had to leave L.A.