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Cliffhanger The Rewatchables
Cliffhanger

Casting What-Ifs

David Bowie; Christopher Walken; Dana Delany

This discussion recalls a choice from an earlier episode.

In the discussion (4)
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  • Bowie reportedly declined the first offer for Qualen. — Bill Simmons
  • Walken was reportedly cast but left before filming, and Lithgow joined late. — Bill Simmons
  • Walken is preferred hypothetically as a colder villain and more plausible physical opponent; the timing of True Romance is corrected from two years earlier to the same 1993 release year. — Bill Simmons
  • Dana Delany reportedly declined Jesse; Turner is preferred as the eventual choice. — Bill Simmons
The Doors The Rewatchables
The Doors

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

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The Martian The Rewatchables
The Martian

Most Rewatchable Scene

No consensus: the rescue, Rich Purnell explanation, early farming/problem-solving, and the Starman montage were the leading choices.

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  • The opening storm was praised for beginning the plot immediately. — Bill Simmons
  • Watney blowing himself up and deadpanning about the excess oxygen was nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • Watney establishing text contact with NASA was nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • The potato farm exploding was nominated as a heartbreaking reversal. — Bill Simmons
  • The David Bowie “Starman” montage was nominated for making an obvious song choice work.
  • The final rescue was nominated for sustaining suspense even though Watney’s survival was expected. — Chris Ryan
  • The reunion was criticized for ending too abruptly and omitting a needed moment between Watney and Lewis.
  • Watney’s final solve-one-problem-at-a-time speech was praised as the movie’s lesson.
  • The Rich Purnell stapler demonstration was selected by one host.
  • The early water-making, farming, and rationing sequence was selected by another host as the movie’s soul.
  • The rescue was selected by another host.
The Breakfast Club The Rewatchables
The Breakfast Club

What’s Aged the Worst?

Bowie opening quote; Bender joining the dance; Bender's crotch move; Bender's bullying and locker slur; thin writing for Claire and Allison; Allison's nymphomaniac lie; boredom

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  • The David Bowie opening quote is offered, with one host admitting it was his yearbook quote; another doesn't recall having one. — Bill Simmons
  • The window-breaking scene is raised, with a claim that Hughes called it his biggest regret, but deferred to later. — Bill Simmons
  • Bender would not join the dance under any circumstances; the hosts say Ringwald was supposed to dance alone and felt uncomfortable, so the group choreography was added.
  • Bender trying to stick his head in Claire's crotch would not fly in 2020. — Bill Simmons
  • Bender is called genuinely mean, even a sociopath, with a homophobic slur written on his locker among the first images. — Bill Simmons
  • A remake would scale Bender back or strengthen Claire and Allison, whose writing is thin; Allison doesn't speak until about 45 minutes in. — Bill Simmons
  • The made-up nymphomaniac claim is unrealistic, though teen lies were unprovable then, as in jokes about hanging out with Dwight Gooden or Walter Payton before Instagram.
  • Ringwald's New Yorker piece is recommended as a thoughtful look at showing the film to her kids, her relationship to Hughes, and what to do with flawed work, including jokes the hosts describe as racist and sexist. — Wesley Morris
  • Sixteen Candles is called more problematic; one host watched these with his kids and says they must be judged in the context of the decade, wanting his daughter to see what 1985 was like. — Bill Simmons
  • Boredom has aged worst: the kids could just pick up a book in a library, and the only book they touch is the Moliere they destroy. — Wesley Morris
Inglourious Basterds The Rewatchables
Inglourious Basterds

What’s Aged the Worst?

Eli Roth's feel for baseball; Fassbender being in only two scenes; the Cat People needle drop; the slow motion when Frederick shoots Shoshana

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  • Eli Roth's feel for the game of baseball: not a bad swing, but he seems to have learned the baseball vocabulary phonetically with no grasp of who Teddy Williams was or where Lansdowne Street is, and he reads as a New Yorker rather than a Boston guy.
  • The clear winner or loser for one host is Fassbender being in only two scenes; he is such a dynamo that it feels misremembered, but he does not appear until the 50th minute and is in it for about 17 minutes, every second electric, and it is ballsy and disciplined of Tarantino to kill him off so soon after introducing him, though a host would watch 97 hours of him getting whiskey out of a globe and wishes the two would work together again, since Fassbender could use it.
  • Regardless of Donnie Donowitz's origins, Ted Williams in 1941 hit .406 with a .553 on-base and .737 slugging, an OPS of 1.287 (transcribed as 1287), in what is thought to be his last season before enlisting; Mike Trout can eat shit.
  • Asked by name for more, the host has little, is not interested in whether Quentin could have made the movie, and finds nothing that makes him want it to stop, but the Cat People scene is too anachronistic, with David Bowie's voice distracting in an otherwise consistent tone, even if the operatic, expressionistic German style it reaches for is understood. — Sean Fennessey
  • Bowie may connect to Pabst and the artistic flourishing of 1920s Germany before the Reich, with Bowie's 1970s Berlin period as an extension of that bohemian Germany, though that is admitted to be far-fetched; more likely Tarantino just thought it would be cool, which has to be accepted with every Tarantino choice, like the title spelling he said he would never explain, an homage to the 70s movie and a Basquiat-esque flourish.
  • The switch to slow motion when Frederick shoots Shoshana is one of the only pieces of filmmaking in the movie a host dislikes, cheesy and weird and a nod to a different kind of movie, among the literal dozens of homages in the film.
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