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Parenthood The Rewatchables
Parenthood

What’s Aged the Best?

Joaquin Phoenix; Kanye West lyric; Keanu Reeves; overlapping young cast; thumb trick; helium grandmother; Phoenix and DiCaprio rivalry; Garry’s room; the boyfriend’s arc; Grazer nude-photo backstory; Cure poster; Kevin’s tense face; Harley Jane Kozak; money realism

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  • Joaquin Phoenix, then credited as Leaf, gives a performance that forecasts an Oscar winner, especially when his face breaks while asking his father if he can live with him. — Bill Simmons
  • One participant did not realize the actor was the boy from Parenthood until after Gladiator, when a sister pointed it out. — Van Lathan
  • A Kanye West lyric from Gone about a new wife and “now you’re Jennifer Aniston” is said to borrow from the film’s line about a new wife and family. — Van Lathan
  • Keanu Reeves in his pre-Speed, Bill and Ted phase is fun and owns the boyfriend role, compared with David Arquette taking it in the TV series. — Bill Simmons
  • The cast captures an era of overlapping young actors, with Reeves and River Phoenix making a Gus Van Sant film and Martha Plimpton dating River Phoenix; Plimpton is also praised. — Bill Simmons
  • Gil’s thumb trick still delights small children. — Bill Simmons
  • The grandmother inhaling helium is favored, as any helium scene is funny. — Bill Simmons
  • Per the research, there was a rivalry in which DiCaprio sought the Garry role, Phoenix got it, and the two competed for parts, with Phoenix measuring himself against DiCaprio. — Bill Simmons
  • Garry’s chaotic room is praised as a horror show compared with a real teenager’s room. — Bill Simmons
  • The boyfriend character as every parent’s nightmare who turns out decent is a favored concept. — Bill Simmons
  • The nude-photo discovery reportedly happened to producer Brian Grazer; developing such photos in the 1980s is joked about. — Bill Simmons
  • The Cure's Boys Don't Cry poster in Julie's room is appreciated. — Bill Simmons
  • Kevin’s tense face became a recurring reference in an early sports column, seen in a head coach during the Super Bowl and in LeBron James. — Bill Simmons
  • Harley Jane Kozak, also Helen in When Harry Met Sally, is appreciated as an actor who never quite broke through. — Bill Simmons
  • The film’s candid treatment of money, including Larry’s debts, Gil’s worries about private school, and summer-school pay funding a vacation, is more relatable than shows where money is no object. — Chris Ryan
  • The car sex-act gag is raised but deferred to Apex Mountain.
The Last Boy Scout The Rewatchables
The Last Boy Scout

Most Rewatchable Scene

The opening Billy Cole scene

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  • The scene is set at halftime of a Cleveland versus Los Angeles game with Vern Lundquist, Dick Buckkiss and Lynn Swan as sideline reporter, who berates the L.A. owner about ratings, attendance and where all the heroes have gone. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts want sideline reporters to ask NBA players like Brandon Ingram and LeBron James where all the heroes have gone. — Chris Ryan
  • Billy Cole is alleged to take PCP in the locker room, though one host always thought it was cocaine until reading Wikipedia. — Bill Simmons
  • Early nits: whether he had the gun in his pants the whole quarter, how it did not affect his burst while breaking four tackles, and whether his touchdown would count for gamblers. — Bill Simmons
  • He says 'Ain't life a bitch' as he shoots himself, and the broadcast presumably cuts to a test signal. — Chris Ryan
  • Only one spotlight seems to be on in Cleveland Stadium, like a German expressionist film; Tony Scott's football is closer to Zach Snyder's 300 and the rain device returns in The Fan. — Chris Ryan
  • The scene was a watershed; the movie arguably peaks in the first six minutes, helped by the Bill Medley Friday Night Football song. — Bill Simmons
  • Other rewatchable scenes offered: Joe finding the guy in the closet, which leads to the first of several car bombs. — Bill Simmons
  • Jimmy's speech on the NFL stance on drugs and gambling, played back by Craig, reads like Shane Black at 3:30 in the morning.
  • Joe versus Kim Coats, where Joe warns him not to touch him again and then kills him. — Bill Simmons
  • The quirky hitmen, like Pablo playing piano and Taylor Negron, feel Tarantino-like before Tarantino made a movie. — Bill Simmons
  • The stuffed-animal scene with the car chase, despite not knowing how the gun fits in the stuffed animal. — Bill Simmons
  • The big football-game ending: a throw from a wounded hand to the senator's box, Damon Wayans on a horse, and Bruce Willis's fight with Taylor Negron ending in a jig. — Bill Simmons
  • The Hollywood Hills car chase with cars going down the hill that lands in the pool. — Bill Simmons
  • The strip club with Corey and the Corey car-chase murder right after it are offered as another rewatchable scene; the other side left it out because seeing Halle Berry murdered hurts, wishing she had just taken one in the shoulder. — Bill Simmons
  • Asked for a most rewatchable pick, the answer is the opening scene, watchable a hundred times in a row; it is jokingly why football had to leave L.A. — Bill Simmons
Sleeping with the Enemy The Rewatchables
Sleeping with the Enemy

What’s Aged the Best?

The house; the title; Julia Roberts' look; the VersaClimber; the 'reminding' line as a litmus test; the mullet-beard combo; the husband's death scene; the villain-isn't-dead moment

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  • The house is amazing and would be put against any movie house; nobody is wrong for staring at it. — Bill Simmons
  • The house was a fake exterior built in an environmentally sensitive beach-grass zone on condition it be torn down and the land restored; materials were donated to Anderson County, South Carolina, and removal cost another $25,000. — Bill Simmons
  • It seems to pop straight out of the beach because it did, and would never exist in real life; shooting in South Carolina was probably cheaper than Massachusetts. — Bill Simmons
  • The title is way up there with Fatal Attraction as a quality title. — Bill Simmons
  • Julia Roberts has never looked better in a film, called Apex Julia from a look standpoint; the college-age speaker jokes about committing murder to date her. — Bill Simmons
  • The VersaClimber the husband uses early on, later associated with LeBron James and Evander Holyfield's cardio, had a 30-year run. — Bill Simmons
  • 'We all forget things. That's what reminding is for' works as a litmus test: if someone you are dating says it, break up with them. — Bill Simmons
  • The new boyfriend's Jagr (ASR 'Yarmiery Jagger') mullet plus beard only worked in a six-month window around 1991; the mullet is compared to Nickelback, mocked now but hot then, and being saved by a mullet made him an early-90s hero. — Van Lathan
  • Kid Rock is offered as another example of someone insisting how hot he once was. — Van Lathan
  • The husband's death scene is funny if you watch how he reacts to the shot. — Van Lathan
  • The 'is he dead?' horror moment where the villain jerks back up, as in Fatal Attraction, has aged best because movies still do it. — Van Lathan
Unfaithful The Rewatchables
Unfaithful

Picking Nits

Body carried out unnoticed; implausible murder and disposal; bad police work; wiping off prints; the elevator carry

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  • A mother's biggest nitpick after about 330 viewings: nobody notices Gere carrying a body in a rug out of a New York apartment, and a passerby even offers help. — Bill Simmons
  • Everything about the murder is dumb: why, how, and the disposal; Martinez is guessed at 6-2 and Gere 5-9, and a dead body would not fold into a rug that way. — Wesley Morris
  • Dumping the body at a landfill instead of burying it reflects the entitlement of well-off suburbanites. — Wesley Morris
  • The police were bad: DNA, a cleaned-up pool of blood, the wife's fingerprints, her phone number, and parking tickets out front; her parking-ticket lie is called decent. — Bill Simmons
  • Wiping one glass with his hand is a movie cliche; a real killer would need a montage of wiping everything. — Wesley Morris
  • Pushing a 200-pound body up when the elevator breaks down would be an Olympic event, beyond even LeBron James. — Bill Simmons
  • Earlier flag: Connie giving Paul her husband's gift is implausible because it is directly traceable to her. — Wesley Morris
  • Earlier flag: Edward cleans the apartment of blood and DNA for 19 hours but leaves the detective photos in his jacket. — Wesley Morris
Den of Thieves The Rewatchables
Den of Thieves

Who Won the Movie?

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  • Schreiber takes it from two of three because the movie feels real through him, even though Butler is incredible; the third calls Schreiber the too-cool-for-school alternative pick and gets accused of being testy when not hosting.
  • The Butler case: the text that got the holdout to watch was about Butler going for it, nobody else could be sixty to ninety percent as good in the role, Nick Cage and Russell Crowe have sailed, and it is a 98-to-97 call remembered as the Butler movie where he finally came through.
  • Analogies close it out: Butler as Devin Booker at thirty-four finally reaching the conference finals versus Schreiber as LeBron James against Detroit, called one of the great Latino actor moments of all time.
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Remember the Titans The Rewatchables
Remember the Titans

Half-Assed Internet Research

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.
Bloodsport The Rewatchables
Bloodsport

Probably Unanswerable Questions

What happened to the mentor's son? Why was the son so bad at fighting? How does Forrest Whitaker react when you mention Bloodsport? What was in the blinding powder? Where was Ray Jackson from and what was his martial art?

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  • What happened to the mentor's son, whose entry into the Kumite was the whole point before he got beaten up outside school and vanished? He dies, which is why Frank steps in, but the death is never shown, only mourning and a picture on the wall, maybe the military; three minutes of sad walking to a sappy song but no backstory.
  • Why is the mentor's son so bad at fighting with that resource for a father? He was beaten by three older kids at eleven and his fight scenes were poor, though he did put Frank, who was holding a sword, on his knees; he should have looked like LeBron James Jr. highlights.
  • What happens when you mention Bloodsport to Forrest Whitaker at the next table at dinner? He would be thrilled and tell one of his million Kowloon stories about the place being shut down; he is an all-time cool guy.
  • Raised early: where was Ray Jackson from, probably somewhere with a mountain nearby like Wyoming, and what martial art was he trained in, since he does no MMA move in the film.
  • Stepping on the category early: what was in the blinding powder, acid or a salt pill, and why did he go completely blind when the point-of-view shots are only blurry? Maybe he was hamming it up.
  • Asked whether every question was answered, one host has a thousand more but keeps them to himself.
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