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Kindergarten Cop The Rewatchables
Kindergarten Cop

What’s Aged the Best?

Astoria, the poster and ponytailed villains stand out; the cameo, beard and child-abuse discussion also receive attention.

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  • Astoria is praised as an idyllic-looking place to raise children and compared with the appeal of Notre Dame in Rudy and its appearance in The Goonies. — Bill Simmons
  • Jason Reitman’s kissing-child cameo and Schwarzenegger’s beard are listed. — Kyle Brandt
  • The abuse plot triggers a sarcastic contrast with present-day intolerance and memories of issue-driven sitcom episodes teaching children about danger. — Kyle Brandt
  • The strong poster and surname-only star billing are praised; Project Hail Mary’s Gosling billing and uncluttered Sports Illustrated covers are comparisons. — Bill Simmons
  • Ponytailed villains are celebrated: Crisp, Ben Kingsley in Sneakers, Julian Sands in Warlock, Sam Jackson in Jackie Brown and Terry Silver in Karate Kid3/Cobra Kai. — Bill Simmons
  • A ponytail’s ability to change someone’s perceived personality leads to a roommate anecdote. — Bill Simmons
Swingers The Rewatchables
Swingers

Half-Assed Internet Research

Script origins; table reads for buyers; music budget; real party scene; Vegas casinos; original ending; Sundance rejection and Miramax sale; Jaws theme and Spielberg; bear speech origin

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  • Favreau is quoted that his dad gave him a screenwriting program and he wrote Swingers as an exercise, in two weeks. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts say Livingston and Favreau became friends early in LA, Favreau knew Vaughn from Rudy, and Adam Scott lived downstairs and they all hung out. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts say that after the script they held full-cast readings for potential buyers for a year, compared with Jason Reitman's readings. — Bill Simmons
  • Vaughn is quoted that buyers missed the universality: a breakup, coming of age, a journey with friends, wanting to meet someone. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts say they paid most for Dean Martin, with half a million dollars in music licensing against a quarter-million production cost. — Bill Simmons
  • The party scene is said to have been a real party they threw for friends without explaining; Adam Scott and Mike White of Chuck and Buck were there. — Bill Simmons
  • The Vegas exterior is said to be the Stardust and the interior the Glitter Gulch; gulch never works. — Bill Simmons
  • Favreau is said to have taught Heather Graham to swing dance. — Bill Simmons
  • Favreau is quoted that the script ended on the Lorraine phone call and an unaffordable helicopter shot; Liman added the new ending, seeing a platonic love story between Mikey and Trent, and they scrambled to find a baby for it. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts say Sundance rejected it; a screening at the Fairfax $2 theater for about 500 people, 490 friends and 10 possible buyers, crushed, and it sold to Miramax for $5 million, premiering at the Vista. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts say they got the Jaws theme by sending scenes to Spielberg for approval, who asked about Vaughn and cast him in The Lost World. — Bill Simmons
  • Vaughn apparently really gave Favreau a version of the bear speech, and the story of leaving a girl behind is autobiographical for Favreau. — Bill Simmons
Dave The Rewatchables
Dave

Half-Assed Internet Research

The Oval Office set was reused more than 25 times; Bill Clinton gave Gary Ross an autographed script and a photo with a Dave mug; Barack Obama told Kevin Kline he loves Dave; a musical opened in 2018; Nelson Rockefeller's 1979 death with his assistant; Woodrow Wilson's 1919 stroke and his wife running the presidency; the impersonator scene was added late in the shoot; Ivan Reitman's wife and son Jason play Vice President Nance's family

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  • The film's Oval Office set was reused more than 25 times, including for The Pelican Brief, Hot Shots Part Deux and Absolute Power in the 90s, which makes sense since everyone has seen a million pictures of the Oval Office; a nerdy aside notes the residence here is like no other White House residence on film, with a president's bedroom totally different from the identical Sorkin bedroom in The American President and The West Wing, this one quite large and full of red velvet with the bed really far from the other furniture; Hot Shots Part Deux will never get a Rewatchables.
  • Bill Clinton surely approved of a film that gives hope and optimism to the presidency: he gave Ross a framed autographed script calling it a funny, often accurate lampooning of politics, plus a picture of himself holding a Dave mug, though a host adds you can't really trust Clinton saying he likes something.
  • Barack Obama once told Kline he loves Dave and watches it when depressed because it makes the job look fun and easy; the hosts debate whether the line about the current president rooting for Mitchell was Obama's or Kline's, a punctuation issue, and find it weird for Obama, who did that job for eight years, to care what a movie says about it.
  • A musical based on the movie opened in 2018, and President Mitchell's stroke apparently really happened: Nelson Rockefeller, the former vice president and New York governor, died in 1979 at 70 during an encounter with his 22-year-old assistant, though the hosts think he probably wasn't in office at the time and nobody found a Rockefeller lookalike to bring out in front of the people of New York.
  • Woodrow Wilson, two years into his second term in 1919, had a stroke that left him semi-paralyzed, partially blind and mentally incapacitated, and since the 25th Amendment had not been ratified his wife took the presidency for the last two years; a century later it is still not known how bad it was, and a host feels like being in history class with Dr. Bill.
  • The Wilson story is pitched as the greatest hundred-years-ago Hulu series, the First Lady in 1919 taking things over, with a joke about ending the pod to open Final Draft.
  • The scene where Dave and the First Lady are presidential impersonators was added late in the shoot because Reitman didn't buy that those two would click and felt they needed something leading to that scene; the hosts agree you can't go from 'I hate you' to 'you're a stranger' to 'hey'.
  • Ivan Reitman's wife and son play the wife and son of Vice President Nance as he is sworn in at the end; the son is Jason Reitman, who became a famous director, so look for him in the Nance scene.
Mad Max: Fury Road The Rewatchables
Mad Max: Fury Road

Apex Mountain

The Doof Warrior (iOTA); George Miller (one host, vs. The Road Warrior); Charlize Theron (1 yes, 2 no)

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  • George Miller is weighed first, with a joke that Happy Feet was easily better and Babe and Babe 2 called excellent; The Road Warrior is named his best film, the one that laid the carpet for him to become a Spielbergian director who could do action and drama, and Lorenzo's Oil, about Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte trying to cure their child and drawn from Miller's experience as a doctor, a fine tearjerker; because he never worked at the volume needed to stay in the mix, one host answers no for this film and names Road Warrior as Miller's apex.
  • Tom Hardy is called really complicated: Inception, with the Ames (as transcribed) character, is rated higher than Fury Road, Dunkirk and The Revenant come up, and Warrior is picked as the best he has ever been as a performer if not in fame, Tommy Conlon being a better version of Max in a largely silent physical performance.
  • Charlize is put to the table: two voices say no, then one says yes, placing this over the Oscar win for Monster, the Jason Reitman collaborations and A Million Ways to Die in the West; her shaved head meant she wore a wig in the Seth MacFarlane western comedy.
  • The dissent on Charlize is that Monster is her Apex Mountain, so her yes does not carry the table.
  • For Miller, a second host answers yes, this is Apex Mountain, even while agreeing The Road Warrior is the better film in story, characters and pacing: as an achievement it is almost unparalleled, a movie where you feel the physics in a near-fully-CG era, made from non-Marvel IP after all the struggles to get it made, a top-five action film that, like The Fugitive, grabs you and cannot be switched off once it starts; this yes stands against the earlier Road Warrior answer and is not resolved.
  • The Doof Warrior is easily at Apex Mountain, agreed with several 'easily's.
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