The Rewatchables ·
Who won the movie
Tom Cruise
Roger Ebert
Dion Waiters Award
Javier Bardem
“That Guy” Award
Barry Shabaka Henley
Most Rewatchable Scene · 38:02
Bill Simmons: The opening cab ride combines Groove Armada, an implausibly empty 105, chemistry, and a rare narcotic feeling of effortless Los Angeles motion.
Bill Simmons: The corpse falling onto the cab is a terrifying first-viewing shock, followed by Cruise’s calm calculation, Max’s panic, and the darkly comic distinction that the fall killed him.
The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie · 1:10:40
Chris Ryan: “Don’t get me cornered,” “you don’t have the trunk space,” the Amnesty/Oxfam/Greenpeace exchange, and Vincent’s warning about dying in a recliner are preserved alternatives.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
The Fever nightclub
Cruise’s white-haired villain, the film’s digital-night look, the coyote, the cab setting, Statham’s cameo, and the supporting-world possibilities
The hospital slowdown, Annie’s route, Pete Berg’s sleepy part, Ruffalo’s goatee and slicked hair, and Max’s instant confidence before Felix
Russell Crowe as Vincent; Adam Sandler as Max and Edward Norton in either lead (uncertain); Val Kilmer as Fanning
Cruise’s “notes behind the notes” intensity in Daniel’s jazz club
Stuart Beattie’s teenage cab-ride premise, Mann’s character biographies, and Vincent’s sixteen kills
The unusually clear 105 freeway and possibly pre-L.A.-Live Los Angeles are the only plausible apexes; none of the principal artists peak here.
The surviving cab, jazz expertise, open-air double murder, empty station, travel-time certainty, and implausibly unused freeway bridges
“We got to make the best of it. Improvise. Adapt to the environment. Darwin. Shit happens. I Ching. Whatever, man. We got to roll with it”
A ten-episode adaptation
How Felix’s case proceeds, why a major witness visits Fever, whether Max and Vincent should switch roles, and why Mann repeatedly names characters Vincent
