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Rewatchables episodes featuring Barry Shabaka Henley’s films
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The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award
Tentatively, Barry Shabaka Henley
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Approx. transcript time · 01:32:19Read transcript
- The panel calls the cast graduated That Guys and tentatively picks Barry Shabaka Henley. — Bill Simmons
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- Jada Pinkett Smith and Barry Shabaka Henley are alternatives, but Jada is judged slightly too present and Bardem’s one-scene monologue fits the category perfectly. — Bill Simmons
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- The hosts consider renaming the whole award for McGill but decide he may be too recognizable as himself. — Bill Simmons
- Statham is excluded because he is already a star rather than a That Guy. — Bill Simmons
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The Fever nightclub
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Approx. transcript time · 00:38:02Read transcript
- 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. — Bill Simmons
- Vincent’s rapid two-chest-one-head recovery of his briefcase establishes his practiced violence. — Bill Simmons
- Daniel’s Miles Davis story lets Max briefly forget his peril before Vincent kills Daniel, with Barry Shabaka Henley’s expression selling the reversal. — Bill Simmons
- Bardem controls a tiny role as Felix, while Max implausibly but compellingly learns to impersonate Vincent under pressure. — Bill Simmons
- The Fever sequence uses hundreds of repeating extras, physical choreography, and Ruffalo’s abrupt death to produce the clear final choice. — Bill Simmons
- Annie’s dark office pursuit and the subway death use darkness and sound to complete Mann’s preferred confrontation between paired professionals. — Bill Simmons
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