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Remember the Titans

year 2000decade 00sdirector Boaz Yakingenre Drama
host Bill Simmonshost Shea Serranohost Rembert Browne
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Most Rewatchable Scene · 27:05

The 'left side, strong side' practice scene

The first five minutes and opening credits are liked for setting everything up and introducing a whole bunch of people, which is actual work; the funeral opening tips its hand that somebody dies and you forget it completely until the string is pulled at the end, though the players look like they aged far more than a decade, with Wood Harris in a bald toupee.

The end-of-film updates make almost everyone a municipal employee, and the cemetery walk is called a rip-off of Saving Private Ryan from two years earlier.

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie · 1:20:37

"You're overcooking my grits, Coach"

The field is narrowed to a great trio: 'you're overcooking my grits, Coach', from the scene demanding a job for Coach Tyrell; 'water is for washing blood off that uniform, and you don't get no blood on my uniform'; and 'I don't scratch my head unless it itches, and I don't dance unless I hear some music'.

The film

Remember the Titans (2000)

Directed by Boaz Yakin · Drama

113 minutes

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Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Denzel Washington Herman Boone
Will Patton Bill Yoast
Wood Harris Julius Campbell
Ryan Hurst Gerry Bertier
Donald Faison Petey Jones
Ethan Suplee Louie Lastik
Nicole Ari Parker Carol Boone
Hayden Panettiere Sheryl Yoast
Kip Pardue Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass
Craig Kirkwood Jerry "Rev" Harris
Kate Bosworth Emma Hoyt
Ryan Gosling Alan Bosley
Burgess Jenkins Ray Budds
Earl C. Poitier Darryl "Blue" Stanton
Neal Ghant Frankie Glascoe
Gregory Alan-Williams Paul "Doc" Hines

Everything from the episode

In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.

1:05:10

Casting What-Ifs

No casting what-ifs found

No casting what-ifs found

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  • No casting what-ifs could be found for the award.
  • While looking for casting what-ifs, one host assumed the producers went to Ed Harris first and ended up with Will Patton, which might have happened.
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1:10:01

Recasting Couch

Ed Harris for Will Patton

Ed Harris for Will Patton

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1:11:29

Half-Assed Internet Research

Director Boaz Yakin knew nothing about football and was sent by Bruckheimer to a two-week football camp; filmed in Ge...

Director Boaz Yakin knew nothing about football and was sent by Bruckheimer to a two-week football camp; filmed in Georgia, not Alexandria, with school interiors at a rival of one host's high school; LeBron James's favorite movie; the real Coach Boone was disliked and players quit; the 1971 Titans went 13-0 and ranked second nationally with nine shutouts; the comeback game was mid-season, not the state final; every opponent was already integrated; Bertier's accident came after the season; Yoast had four daughters; a toilet, not a brick, went through Boone's window

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  • Director Boaz Yakin was hired knowing nothing about American football, so producer Jerry Bruckheimer arranged for him to attend a two-week football camp, after which he resumed full-speed work; the hosts call that full-ass research.
  • The film was not shot in Alexandria but in various locations in Georgia; the high school interiors are at one of a host's rival high schools, Drew Dills (as transcribed), around the corner.
  • Remember the Titans is LeBron James's favorite movie alongside The Hunger Games, making this a black excellence movie destined for Black History Month.
  • Everything big in the film is fake: the real Coach Boone was kind of a dick, people were not fans of him, many players believed his coaching had no correlation to their success, found it too harsh and quit; the film hints at it only in the exchange about his chest-pounding.
  • Watching again, one host has Denzel blindness but thinks Yost was the better coach and tactician while Boone was the better leader; another insists there is no way, since Yost panicked when the opponent came out in shotgun at halftime of the championship.
  • Feels under attack from both sides. — Shea Serrano
  • The 1971 Titans were ranked second in the nation, finished 13-0, won every game by a blowout with nine shutouts, and the big comeback happened mid-season while the state championship was a rout; the hosts compare it to making a movie where the Rams-Chiefs game was the Super Bowl.
  • Boone's line that the other schools are all white and do not worry about race was false, since every school they faced had already been integrated, an unnecessary lie to one host.
  • Gary Bourdier's (as transcribed) accident still hurts every viewing, but in real life it happened after the season, leaving the banquet honoring the undefeated team; that change is the one a host most wishes had not been made, and Yost actually had four daughters, only one used in the movie.
  • The brick through Coach Boone's window was in real life a porcelain toilet; you can tell how much somebody hates you by the size of the object they throw, which is offered as a high school yearbook quote; the $30 million budget made $136 million.
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1:15:20

Picking Nits

Yoast and Boone never connect outside football; a live TV crew at a 1971 high school final; no prevent defense on the...

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

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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.
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1:23:20

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Who is the best sports-movie quarterback of all time? Would a parody of this movie be far off from the actual movie?

Who is the best sports-movie quarterback of all time? Would a parody of this movie be far off from the actual movie?

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  • Everybody has taken a crack at the best sports-movie quarterback; Ronnie Bass is a two seed, with the host still iffy on his pitch, while the Rifleman in All the Right Moves is the best quarterback one host has seen in movies or real life.
  • Across all movies the one seed is Willie Beeman (as transcribed), built by Jamie Foxx studying Aaron Brooks highlights for two years, who foreshadowed where the position went with Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen.
  • Would a parody, like Hot Shots for Top Gun, be far off from the actual movie? No; just change the music, since it is already a hilarious movie and Ray the Racist is comically racist, practically wearing a hood in the locker room.
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