Wesley Snipes

Also referred to as Wesley, Snipes

Stats

Episodes featuring their films: 2
Movies in this archive: 2

Mentioned in discussions

Major League The Rewatchables April 10, 2019

Major League

Who Won the Movie?

Rembert Browne votes for Wesley Snipes, while Bill Simmons votes for Charlie Sheen; the episode records two distinct ballots rather than a consensus winner.

In the discussion (2)

Approx. transcript time · 01:22:27Read transcript

Rembert Browne says, 'I say Snipes,' for his ballot. — Rembert Browne
Bill Simmons chooses Charlie Sheen for Wild Thing's efficiency, baseball credibility, style, and final-game payoff. — Bill Simmons

Podcast choices

Rembert Browne: Wesley Snipes
Bill Simmons: Charlie Sheen

Major League The Rewatchables April 10, 2019

Major League

The research covers rejected roles, alternate endings, Milwaukee production logistics, baseball-player casting, injuries and stunts, Wild Thing history, sequel tensions, cast friendships, and Margaret Whitton’s dispute with Ron Shelton.

In the discussion (23)

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Wesley Snipes reportedly turned down Do the Right Thing, although the role is not identified in the discussion.
Tom Berringer reportedly turned down the Crockett role on Miami Vice.
An alternate ending exposed Rachel Phelps as secretly supporting the team, but test audiences preferred her as a straightforward villain.
Milwaukee stood in for Cleveland during filming, including County Stadium and local crowd scenes.
About 20,000 extras were recruited for the Yankee-game crowd scenes.
Dennis Haysbert recalled being emotionally overwhelmed when the team ran onto the field as the crowd roared.
Former player Steve Yeager was the technical adviser, played the third-base coach, and doubled for Tom Berenger at catcher.
Former major-league player Willie Mueller played Yankees pitcher Duke Simpson.
The discussion says Chelcie Ross had pitched in college, although twenty years had passed since he had thrown a ball.
Steroid use reportedly helped raise Charlie Sheen's fastball for the movie.
A filming shoulder injury led Charlie Sheen to stop for cortisone shots and anti-inflammatories on the way to work.
Mitch Williams adopted Wild Thing with the Cubs, and the movie sequence is credited with creating the closer-entrance-music tradition.
Wesley Snipes complained about repeated sliding after getting strawberries, and Steve Yeager answered that he had done it for twenty years.
The fictional owner plans to move the team to Miami, and the discussion connects that premise to later Cleveland and Florida baseball history.
The hosts find Willie Mays Hayes’s wall of dirty black gloves creepy when imagining him bringing a date home.
A Jake-and-Lynn marriage scene intended to follow the Yankee game was filmed and deleted.
Dennis Haysbert's Yankee-game home run reportedly traveled 315 feet down the left-field line and hit the top of the wall.
In Dennis Haysbert's account, the close cast went to bars together and joined James Gammon’s poker games.
Charlie Sheen recalled James Gammon arriving badly hungover and called him an absolute warlock.
The oral history says Sheen coordinated women flying into Milwaukee, and Sheen compared it with women passing each other on the road during Young Guns.
Burnson mistakenly punched Charlie Sheen while filming the ending and left a welt.
Stacey Carroll's limited acting career and departure from the business are discussed in connection with Dorn's wife.
Margaret Whitton’s work on Major League and a settlement involving Ron Shelton and Bull Durham are discussed at the end of the research block.

Major League The Rewatchables April 10, 2019

Major League

What’s Aged the Worst?

Charlie Sheen’s later baggage is the named vote, with Jake Taylor’s stalking and Wesley Snipes’s running called honorable runners-up, before the hosts qualify the result as a nine-way tie for first. The almost entirely white setting, later Bob Uecker imitators, Snipes’s throwing and sequel distance, the Lynn-centered freeze-frame, the ‘off the reservation’ phrase, and Pedro Cerrano’s stereotyped characterization are also among the criticized elements.

In the discussion (11)

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Charlie Sheen’s off-screen history changes how his performance and Wild Thing persona play now.
The team and stadium crowd are overwhelmingly white apart from Willie Mays Hayes and Serrano.
The future sports-movie imitators of Bob Euker never reproduce this unique success.
The movie uses conspicuous slow motion and editing to sell Willie Mays Hayes as exceptionally fast.
The writer-director says Wesley Snipes was such an unskilled baseball thrower that the movie omitted scenes of him throwing.
Wesley Snipes’s later distance from the movie and refusal to return for the sequel complicate the affection for Hayes.
Jake Taylor’s pursuit of Lynn repeatedly ignores her boundaries and reads as stalking.
The final freeze-frame centers Lynn in the pennant celebration even though the team barely knows her.
Serrano's shifting Haitian or Dominican identity, voodoo practice, tribal music, and speech pattern are criticized as a racial stereotype.
The home-run phrase 'off the reservation' is separately criticized as poorly aged.
The final call names Charlie Sheen, gives honorable-runner-up mentions to Jake’s stalking and Snipes’s running, then qualifies everything as a nine-way tie for first.

White Men Can't Jump The Rewatchables August 7, 2017

White Men Can't Jump

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

The discussion moves from instinctive opposition to conditional support for a modernized remake, while an unlabeled line about not watching remains rhetorically ambiguous; Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Ryan Coogler, legacy cameos, and NBA players are considered.

In the discussion (8)

Approx. transcript time · 00:50:02Read transcript

Blake Griffin and Kenya Barris are said to be involved, and Michael B. Jordan is immediately proposed for the Sidney Dean-type role.
A participant begins from hatred of remakes but reverses after considering the dated references and a version with roughly twenty-five percent more basketball.
Reversing the outsider dynamic through rural America and using Billy Hoyle Jr. are proposed. The Billy Hoyle Jr. idea first receives a negative reaction; Miles Teller is then named, followed by an apparent reversal back into the idea, but the unlabeled machine transcript does not establish which participant gives either reaction.
Kenya Barris writing and Michael B. Jordan in the Snipes-type role draw an explicit statement of support from a participant who identifies as anti-remake.
The adjacent phrases 'Completely in' and 'I'm not going to watch that movie' are preserved as an ambiguous unlabeled exchange; the machine transcript does not establish a distinct dissenting speaker.
Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes are expected to return as legacy characters, while the film's dated but rewatchable quality supports modernization even though online video makes a present-day hustle harder.
Ryan Coogler directing with Michael B. Jordan is proposed as a darker, better-filmed and less comic version.
Miles Teller and Elgort are assessed for basketball ability as Billy Hoyle candidates; Elgort's dunking challenge is recalled, and the remake is expected to load pickup scenes with NBA cameos.

White Men Can't Jump The Rewatchables August 7, 2017

White Men Can't Jump

Picking Nits

Sidney's implausible basketball technique is called the number-one flaw, and the tournament is said to pass too quickly.

In the discussion (3)

Approx. transcript time · 00:27:10Read transcript

Sidney's $1,700 double-cross after losing $62 is considered excessive and makes at least one participant dislike him.
Wesley Snipes is praised as athletic but criticized as visibly not a basketball player; carrying the ball, theatrical moves, and slow-motion coverage are offered as evidence.
The tournament is said to go by too fast, reaching the final abruptly; one participant explicitly wants more tournament and less Gloria material.

White Men Can't Jump The Rewatchables August 7, 2017

White Men Can't Jump

Casting What-Ifs

Keanu Reeves is reported as a near Billy Hoyle choice who could not play basketball; Denzel Washington is reported as an early Sidney Dean possibility who chose Malcolm X.

In the discussion (2)

Approx. transcript time · 00:08:46Read transcript

Keanu Reeves is described as close to the Billy Hoyle role and wanted by the production, but his basketball limitations are given as the obstacle.
Denzel Washington is described as being in the mix for Sidney Dean before choosing Malcolm X, after which Wesley Snipes received the role.