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Saturday Night Fever The Rewatchables
Saturday Night Fever

What’s Aged the Best?

Soundtrack; Tony's bedroom posters; Donna Pescow; white-suit poster pose; Annette and Tony dynamic; friend-group chemistry; mid-70s New York locations; Brooklyn versus Manhattan; Airplane parody; Mad Magazine parody; Dance Fever; pork chop dinner

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  • The soundtrack remains great 45 years later; any of those songs will be played in their entirety, even though the band never seemed cool. — Bill Simmons
  • The soundtrack is an all-time murderers row including Yvonne Elliman, Tavares, A Fifth of Beethoven, Manhattan Skyline, Boogie Shoes and Disco Inferno. — Bill Simmons
  • Tony's room has posters of Serpico, Bruce Lee, Wonder Woman, Rocky and Farrah Fawcett. — Bill Simmons
  • The sudden close-up insert on the Farrah Fawcett poster when the father enters is called seriously bad directing. — Jimmy Kimmel
  • The white-suit poster pose was not planned; Travolta did it as a joke at the end of a long photo shoot. — Bill Simmons
  • Donna Pescow's performance and the realistic Annette and Tony dynamic, including her watching him walk down the street, hold up. — Bill Simmons
  • Tony's racist meathead buddies feel like they have known each other for years, which may be why they were hard to picture in other movies. — Bill Simmons
  • Mid-70s distressed New York as a location, alongside Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Death Wish, The Warriors, Dog Day Afternoon and others, holds up. — Bill Simmons
  • The film captures how far Bay Ridge and lower Brooklyn were from the city, from a participant who grew up in Mill Basin; the two places have merged over 20 years. — Jimmy Kimmel
  • The Airplane parody of the dance scene and Mad Magazine's parody are lasting references; Dance Fever is added as a TV attempt to cash in. — Bill Simmons
  • The pork chop dinner, where the out-of-work father rants and Tony takes a second chop, is confusing but very real. — Bill Simmons
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The Rewatchables
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

Manson family woman

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  • The overacting award is renamed for Vincent Hanna ("Give me all you got") after earlier names including Mark Ruffalo and Linda Partridge. — Bill Simmons
  • Nominees: the actor playing Bruce Lee for dialing it up, or the Manson family woman after her face is smashed. — Bill Simmons
  • A counterpoint says her flamethrower scene did not read as overacting. — Chris Ryan
  • Her real overacting is said to be in the car rant; it is then suggested to give it to her anyway. — Sean Fennessey
  • DiCaprio's trailer scene is ruled out; Zoe's character screaming at Pitt is called a little hard, with shades of Robert Shaw in Jaws.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The Rewatchables
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

What’s Aged the Worst?

Murder-twist shock value; Damian Lewis as Steve McQueen; Spahn Ranch tension on rewatch

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  • The shock of the murders not happening only works once; on rewatch you know it is coming. — Bill Simmons
  • Damian Lewis as Steve McQueen does not work because he carries the baggage of Billions and Homeland; another voice agrees he is miscast and written as an exposition character.
  • Whether McQueen would have made a run at Sharon Tate is disputed.
  • The Spahn Ranch scene peaks the first time and is never the same once you know what happens.
  • On what might age the worst, the Bruce Lee scene is floated with uncertainty; the defense of it given earlier is restated as acceptable. — Bill Simmons
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The Rewatchables
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Most Rewatchable Scene

Rick's trailer meltdown; Cliff on the roof and the Bruce Lee flashback

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  • Pacino at Muso and Franks telling Rick his career is basically over is offered first; Pacino is called a sequel to his Heat performance. — Bill Simmons
  • Marvin's night of brandy and watching movies alone is described as a host's idea of heaven.
  • Pacino's character is said to be based on Dino De Laurentis, who brought actors like Bert Reynolds to Italy; his pitch speech is called pure Tarantino, like Tarantino's Top Gun speech in Sleep With Me.
  • Rick crying in the parking lot after the meeting ("It's official, old buddy") is a favorite; with Cliff driving and Mrs. Robinson on the radio it sets up the whole crisis within five minutes. — Bill Simmons
  • Cliff's return to his trailer at the Van Nuys drive-in with his dog, TV Guide and dog food is praised as a scene that should not work but does on Pitt's charisma, including him talking back to the TV. — Bill Simmons
  • Asked whether he would be okay with that dog on a plane, the answer is no. — Bill Simmons
  • The Bruce Lee scene: Cliff climbs onto the roof, takes his shirt off to fix the antenna, drawing a reaction in the theater, and flashes back to the fight.
  • The fight is read as an exaggerated false memory: the onlookers vanish from the frame, so Cliff is an unreliable narrator, and the outrage over disrespect to Bruce Lee misses that point. — Sean Fennessey
  • Showing Bruce Lee as overconfident is not considered an insult, since that confidence was part of his greatness. — Bill Simmons
  • Sharon watching herself in a movie theater, after picking up a hitchhiker, is a favorite; every driving scene is rewatchable, one of two favorite driving-around movies. — Bill Simmons
  • Using the real Sharon Tate on screen is praised; the idea is said to come from Tarantino's own experience at a theater after True Romance. — Bill Simmons
  • Margot Robbie is called phenomenal here, more than in Bombshell; in a Golden Globes speech Tarantino is quoted as saying she brought the most goodness to any of his movies, a pure essence in an indecent body of work. — Bill Simmons
  • A skipped scene: Rick floating in his pool running lines from a tape recorder while making whiskey sours. — Sean Fennessey
  • Cliff picking up the hitchhiker is an amazing five minutes, with a Neil Diamond song; the soundtrack may be Tarantino's best.
  • Rick's trailer freakout after blowing his lines is said to be going to win the category, and is described as improvised from DiCaprio's idea.
  • Cliff's visit to Spahn Ranch is meant to evoke Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with the dogs playing the role of the Apocalypse Now helicopters; it loses some effect on rewatch. — Bill Simmons
  • Lena Dunham's casting among the Manson family is distracting, and the stunt casting throws the viewer off. — Bill Simmons
  • In the finale Cliff, high on an acid-laced cigarette, does all the work but Rick gets the credit, just like a movie. — Bill Simmons
  • Rick's scenes with the child actor Trudi and the Rolling Stones "Out of Time" sequence with the lights coming on are added. — Chris Ryan
  • One pick is Leo blowing his lines and freaking out in his trailer, including the Oliphon "line!" sequence. — Chris Ryan
  • Another pick is Cliff on the roof and the Bruce Lee scene, the one most looked forward to on a third rewatch. — Bill Simmons
Bloodsport The Rewatchables
Bloodsport

The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie

"Why don't you quit, round eye?"; "Brick not hit back"; "You Jackson? You look like a Jackson"; "I break you, I break your friend"

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  • Nominated: 'why don't you quit, round eye' as heckling of young Frank; 'brick not hit back', an iconic hat tip to Bruce Lee; Victor Lin's 'You Jackson? You look like a Jackson', taken as proof Ray should keep his name; the film has few quotes, so the obvious 'I break you, I break your friend' from Bolo rounds out the best ones.
  • Returning to quotes, only three lines are said to Chong Li all film: his trainer's 'tomorrow we leave for the Kumite', Ray Jackson's 'I'm going to kill you, man', and Van Damme yelling 'Sand!'; everything said to him is fight-related, and a deleted scene where he apologizes to the broken-leg fighter is joked about.
Bloodsport The Rewatchables
Bloodsport

Apex Mountain

Leah Ayres; Bolo Yeung as Chong Li; Frank Dux; Jean-Claude Van Damme's splits

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  • Donald Gibb is proposed as a yes, coming off Revenge of the Nerds and First and Ten into a $65 million film where he is focal, but he was the tenth most important person in Revenge of the Nerds and the hosts settle on that film as his apex, noting this conversation has never happened on a podcast.
  • The actress Leah Ayers (as transcribed) is a yes: her IMDb is a hundred TV shows she was never on full-time, with a good run on Walker, Texas Ranger.
  • Chong Li, aka Bolo Young (as transcribed), is this over Enter the Dragon because he never fights Bruce Lee there, and this character is iconic and spawned countless memes; Kowloon Walled City is floated but Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is suggested as its actual apex.
  • Frank Dukes (as transcribed) hit his apex here, any time before the internet; Forrest Whitaker did not; it is Van Damme's splits apex.
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