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What About Bob?
What About Bob?
What About Bob?
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Film credit
Charlie Korsmo
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 2
- Movies in this archive
- 2
Rewatchables episodes featuring Charlie Korsmo’s films
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Apex Mountain
Charlie Korsmo’s acting career and “death therapy”
In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:08:21Read transcript
- Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss receive explicit negative Apex verdicts. — Bill Simmons
- Julie Haggerty also receives a negative Apex verdict. — Bill Simmons
- Charlie Korsmo receives an acting-apex verdict even though his later academic career may be a larger achievement. — Bill Simmons
- The movie’s “death therapy” concept is proposed as an apex. — Bill Simmons
- Good Morning America receives a possible case based on the era’s cultural centrality of morning shows. — Van Lathan
- Lake Winnipesaukee is proposed but left unresolved. — Sean Fennessey
- Patient-therapist movies are compared, with Analyze This favored because it was a large hit and important to De Niro. — Bill Simmons
- Bob being foisted onto Leo is proposed as a Foist Apex candidate. — Bill Simmons
Half-Assed Internet Research
The miniature house explosion, a reported Spielberg Oscar campaign, Murray’s awards history, the Murray-Dreyfuss feud, the Virginia filming location, and Charlie Korsmo’s academic and legal career
In the discussion (12)
Approx. transcript time · 01:00:10Read transcript
- The explosion used a three-quarter-scale replica rather than destroying the expensive real house. — Bill Simmons
- Steven Spielberg is reported to have spent his own money campaigning for a Bill Murray Oscar nomination. — Bill Simmons
- The panel notes Murray has only one Oscar nomination despite his long importance to movies.
- Sean Penn’s win over Murray’s Lost in Translation performance is criticized; the winning film title is unclear in the machine transcript. — Bill Simmons
- Murray is reported to have acknowledged that aggravating Dreyfuss helped the movie. — Bill Simmons
- Dreyfuss is reported to have called the experience unpleasant while still admitting Murray made him laugh. — Bill Simmons
- A Dreyfuss account says Murray aggressively confronted him and threw a heavy glass ashtray. — Bill Simmons
- The panel condemns physical harm but treats Murray’s verbal insult as darkly funny. — Bill Simmons
- The vacation house was filmed at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. — Bill Simmons
- Charlie Korsmo is reported to have chosen What About Bob? instead of the Terminator 2 child role. — Bill Simmons
- Korsmo later earned physics and law degrees, practiced law, taught corporate law, and received a federal board nomination.
- The group calls Korsmo a legend in both acting and his later academic career. — Van Lathan
The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award
The unnamed actor who played Tommy Carcetti
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Approx. transcript time · 00:50:31Read transcript
- The observed “Catherine Irb” is initially proposed before her long Criminal Intent run disqualifies her. — Bill Simmons
- The telephone operators are considered but may be too brief to qualify. — Van Lathan
- The performer known as Tony Soprano’s sister is recognized and rejected as too well known. — Van Lathan
- The performer later known as Tommy Carcetti is the favored That Guy choice, but his name is not spoken in this transcript. — Van Lathan
- Tom Aldredge as Mr. Gutman is recognized from The Sopranos.
- Charlie Korsmo is debated because his child-star run made his name familiar to movie fans. — Van Lathan
Casting What-Ifs
Michael Biehn as the T-1000; Billy Idol; Blackie Lawless; Charlie Korsmo as John Connor; Denzel Washington as Miles Dyson
In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 00:58:54Read transcript
- Michael Biehn was the first choice for the T-1000 in a role reversal, dropped as too confusing for viewers; it would have been too messed up for Sarah, though it could have been cool. — Bill Simmons
- Cameron considered Billy Idol, dropped after a motorcycle accident left him unable to run, and W.A.S.P. singer Blackie Lawless, who was too tall. — Bill Simmons
- Charlie Korsmo from What About Bob? was supposed to be John Connor but was filming that movie; he may not have read as a delinquent. — Bill Simmons
- The Miles Dyson role was offered to Denzel Washington, who passed because all the character does is look scared and sweat; the panel debates whether pre-Philadelphia Denzel was already too famous. — Bill Simmons
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