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Miracle The Rewatchables
Miracle

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Al Michaels

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:03:54Read transcript
  • Dion Waiters had been forgotten; the nominees were O.C. or the Russian coach, who has no lines but three expressions, and his eyebrows are nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • Asked whether Al Michaels would count, the reply is "Oh, that's amazing." — Bill Simmons
  • O.C. may be in too much of the movie; his two best scenes are learning he made the team and Jim Craig's bench confrontation. — Chris Ryan
  • The answer goes with Michaels (transcribed "let's go without Michaels" after a contrast with the O.C. case), and it is accepted. — Chris Ryan
Thief The Rewatchables
Thief

Most Rewatchable Scene

Diner scene

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Approx. transcript time · 00:27:11Read transcript
  • First pick: Caan going to the plating company to demand his $185,000 within three hours; it is the first time Farina is seen, and the eight horrified 1981 office workers are a highlight. — Bill Simmons
  • A joke that Chris used to enter the office the same way, moving the chair to see what was on the desk.
  • Willie Nelson's big prison scene is complicated but fascinating, an intense staring contest with the faces a foot apart; Mann seems to have few friends but insanely intense connections with the ones he has.
  • The Nelson scene is not obviously working at first but pays off with "I don't want to die in here, Frank"; his line readings are sometimes odd, but his open, empathetic face makes it work.
  • Willie Nelson on Frank's postcard collage is briefly puzzling on a rewatch until you remember he is Frank's best friend. — Chris Ryan
  • Praski's (Prosky's) first scene: his first movie at 51, dressed like a grandfather in a golf shirt tucked into pressed slacks. — Bill Simmons
  • Mann auditioned dozens of New York actors for Leo; Bruckheimer advised that the right person had not walked in the room yet, and Prosky, a theater actor, was found, leading to a That Guy career. — Bill Simmons
  • Peak Prosky is this role: an avuncular, warm, familial sensibility with pure evil right under the surface. — Sean Fennessey
  • The Natural is raised as close but too evil; later roles such as Last Action Hero and Mrs. Doubtfire made him the favorite uncle. — Sean Fennessey
  • Prosky originated Shelley Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross. — Sean Fennessey
  • Caan lays out what he won't steal: just diamonds and cash, no coin collections. — Bill Simmons
  • The diner monologue is the reason for the episode after it was caught while flipping channels and texted to Chris; it is called the best moment of Caan's career, better than any Godfather moment, laying out the character's spine in four minutes. — Bill Simmons
  • It is called a favorite first date in movie history: Caan is two hours late, they scream at each other on the drive, and he tells a woman he just met about his prison fight with Morphus. — Bill Simmons
  • Caan called it the scene he was most proud of; it was filmed at a Howard Johnson's in Illinois that Mann had a connection to, and the wide shot is Heat DNA, though Heat never shows the two men together. — Bill Simmons
  • An amazing piece of filmmaking; the underrated part is the car speech before the diner, two people who have looked at each other for eight months cutting out the games. — Sean Fennessey
  • Caan cracking the love affair like a safe ("cut the mini moves and the bullshit and get on with this big romance") while being impatient with the woman he plans to marry is hilarious. — Sean Fennessey
  • One-last-job movies raise the question of why not ask her out after the job; the woman complicating the last job is a Mann recurring thing. — Chris Ryan
  • Mann's top restaurants are ranked: diner, Chinese restaurant, Musso and Frank-style steakhouse, a close-booth place like Dan Tana's, and hibachi for the glimmering blades. — Chris Ryan
  • The Chinese-restaurant waiter gives a borderline Dion Waiters performance and is nicknamed David. — Bill Simmons
  • The elevator-shaft scene is weirdly harrowing and shows Mann's precision; it is liked more than the safe crack, though the opening keyhole-camera drilling sequence is great. — Sean Fennessey
  • A first-time viewer at home was riveted by the talking but hid behind an iPad during the drilling; Fincher's Panic Room is imagined as a response to Thief. — Sean Fennessey
  • Prosky lays down the law in an incredible monologue ("I run you", whacking out the whole family, wimpy burgers), shot upside down from Frank's POV, ending with Belushi dropped in acid. — Bill Simmons
  • Belushi's death scene could have used another minute of setup. — Bill Simmons
  • The ending is fun to watch but has issues: it hinges on Attaglia getting a glass of milk, Mann's written ending reunited Frank with Jessie, and seeing the girlfriend again would have been more satisfying.
  • Burning the postcard reads as Frank giving up the idea that he could be happy or emotionally available. — Chris Ryan
  • Biggest nit here: he should have gone back in the house and stolen things, though sparing Leo's wife is a purposeful choice by a man with a samurai code.
  • Mann repeatedly sends the wife packing, as in a two-part season-one Miami Vice episode and Heat's walk-away with Amy Brenneman in the car, which is called weird given the question of whether Mann himself hasn't been married to the same woman for about 50 years.
  • Final answer: the diner scene with Tuesday Weld, met with "Me too." — Sean Fennessey
  • One more honorable mention is deferred to What's Aged the Best. — Bill Simmons
Coming to America The Rewatchables
Coming to America

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Allison Dean as Patrice

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:17:44Read transcript
  • Nominees include Frankie Faison, Louie Anderson, and Sam Jackson, then in a rut of playing guys with drug issues or robbing places. — Bill Simmons
  • Patrice, played by Allison Dean, gives a great Dion Waiters performance, including her line about earrings. — Bill Simmons
  • She is super likable, hot and sexually assertive and owns it, matching the late-80s R&B attitude of songs like Ain't Nothing Going On but the Rent and What Have You Done for Me Lately.
Country Strong The Rewatchables
Country Strong

Recasting Couch

New generational-rival character for Kelly; Faith Hill in the role

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  • Going off the board: create a new character, a successful generational rival for Kelly, seen in one or two scenes being condescendingly friendly, played by a famous country star or actress; this would solve the Dion Waiters Award and the recasting couch. — Bill Simmons
  • Objection: Leighton Meester is already the rival; reply: she is the younger rival, while this is the rival from Kelly's own generation. — Bill Simmons
  • Support: the rival must be successful and really mean, e.g. apologizing for not reaching out after the baby died but saying they were praying for her.
  • Aside: the Leighton Meester character is likable, though she could be recast. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Objection: the rival would send Kelly over the edge faster; she already lost it when Chiles took her song. — Bill Simmons
  • Suggestion: a cameo for Reba ten years ago, followed by "I don't know." — Amanda Dobbins
  • Suggestion: Carrie Underwood if you want a country star; objected to as too young, conceded as a thought about remaking it now. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Faith Hill is proposed and seconded: Tim McGraw brings her on set; she looks a bit like Kelly but has her life together. — Bill Simmons
Country Strong The Rewatchables
Country Strong

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

The baby bird

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:11:34Read transcript
  • Pick: the bird. — Bill Simmons
  • In rehab Kelly takes in a baby bird whose mother never came, and keeps it in a tiny lidded box in total darkness with sawdust, cruel for someone with her resources. — Liz Kelly
  • The bird is passed around: Tim McGraw carries it into a loud honky-tonk bar while scouting, with Bo pointing out it seems hungry, and it is thrashed around in the car. — Liz Kelly
  • How long can a tiny bird survive in a box? The speaker is no bird expert and is afraid of birds. — Liz Kelly
  • Gwyneth occasionally pops the box open, gives two pets and pushes it back, when birds need warmth and more to survive. — Liz Kelly
  • The bird is treated like a pet young kids lose interest in within three minutes; the bird gets the Dion Waiters award. — Bill Simmons
The Program The Rewatchables
The Program

Reverse Dion Waiters Award for the Guy Who Does the Least With the Most, a.k.a. the Jimmy Butler Award

Bo Schembechler

The panel proposes a new category here.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:30:27Read transcript
  • A new reverse Dion Waiters Award for the worst heat check goes to Bo Schembechler, on autopilot in the booth without a pulse. — Bill Simmons
  • They likely had little time with him; unlike the fun booth work of Rob Schneider in Necessary Roughness and Bob Euker in Major League, the Schembechler scenes could have been cut, and the boosters crowding one window to watch the game is also called weird.
Easy A The Rewatchables
Easy A

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

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Approx. transcript time · 01:13:12Read transcript
  • Introduced as the Vincent Hanna give-me-all-you-got award for overacting; a controversial pick of Patricia Clarkson, who takes it too far asking whether Brandon is gay, like a slight nod to the Amy Poehler cool mom in Mean Girls.
  • Olive showing her the door acknowledges she is a little much; everyone plays a heightened stereotype so the insults do not penetrate, so Clarkson being extra is okay. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Lisa Kudrow is raised as the unneeded extra one, yelling in the who-would-you-believe scene. — Amanda Dobbins
  • There is a fine line between Vincent Hanna and Dion Waiters; Kudrow arguably has a great heat check. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Kudrow's character, the chlamydia and the marriage plot are unnecessary, as is Thomas Haden Church's teacher; a counterpoint says his character develops Olive as a thoughtful student (the bit about watching a movie version instead of reading the book) though his love life and flirting with Kudrow are weird. — Amanda Dobbins
  • A theory: the script needed a teacher, Church wanted more to do, and that created the subplot; he is called the only non-hyperbolic performance, or instead demure by his standards. — Shea Serrano
  • Another pick is Stanley Tucci, explained as wanting to hurt feelings the way the speaker's own were hurt; no consensus is reached. — Shea Serrano
  • Loving Clarkson while acknowledging she could have done better is defended. — Amanda Dobbins
Dangerous Minds The Rewatchables
Dangerous Minds

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:02:13Read transcript
  • Everyone is in the movie too much to qualify, leaving parents and waiters; the host suggests shifting to who stole the movie, as Chris Ryan proposed last time. — Bill Simmons
  • Under "who stole the movie", Raul wins, but he is in it too much to be eligible for the Dion Waiters. — Bill Simmons
  • The principal played by Courtney B. Vance is offered, accepted as fair since he is in only about four scenes. — Van Lathan
  • The principal is called one of the most vile movie characters, the "whisper daddy" focused on procedure, whose apathy basically gets a kid killed. — Van Lathan
The 40-Year-Old Virgin The Rewatchables
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Most Rewatchable Scene

Poker game

In the discussion (18)
Approx. transcript time · 00:31:55Read transcript
  • The opening store scene does a lot, with Seth Rogen's story about a Tijuana show featuring a woman and a horse, which turned out not as cool as it sounds. — Bill Simmons
  • Paul Rudd accosting Jane Lynch over the Michael McDonald DVD, ending with the 'Yamo burn this place to the ground' line; the speaker's son got bored about 40 minutes in but watched that bit on YouTube over and over.
  • The same DVD played over and over in the store is very real to anyone who has worked retail. — Bill Simmons
  • The poker game feels like an SNL sketch; the line about a breast feeling like a bag of sand makes it the speaker's personal favorite scene. — Bill Simmons
  • The Leslie Mann scene is bonkers, the only unrealistically unhinged scene, but in a good way. — Bill Simmons
  • The body-waxing scene was like Caddyshack's Baby Ruth scene coming out of the theater.
  • The hosts say the waxing was done for real with five cameras and an actress as the waxer, so the nipple was not oiled and his right nipple was ravaged; it was really Carell's chest, and they had to keep waxing it for later shirtless scenes. — Bill Simmons
  • Paul Rudd bringing over a big box of porn and the Boner Jams '03 mix tape, followed by the Everybody Loves Raymond tape; Boner Jams '03 is called the favorite line in the movie.
  • The speed dating scene is really good, with Mo Collins's character flagged to come up later for the Dion Waiters category. — Bill Simmons
  • Andy's first date call to Catherine Keener while the others do 'you know how I know you're gay', which has not aged well in some ways but is Rudd and Rogen cooking. — Bill Simmons
  • The support group scene and Seth with his dad, who berates him about his little Jew fro. — Bill Simmons
  • The ending, where losing his virginity turns into a musical number with the whole cast, is called a really good choice and credited to Gary Shandling because they couldn't figure out the ending. — Bill Simmons
  • A special shout-out goes to the extended version of the Kevin Hart and Malco scene, compared to Clemens and Cecil Fielder going toe to toe; the lister agrees and had it in what's aged the best.
  • Andy following Rogen's character's tips in the bookstore: the just-ask-questions bit, the 'be David Caruso in Jade' advice, then the best line in the movie and the 90-second seduction by Elizabeth Banks. — Sean Fennessey
  • The David Caruso in Jade reference may have aged best or worst, since producer Craig would not know what Jade was. — Bill Simmons
  • Formal pick: the poker game, because it is perfectly written. — Bill Simmons
  • A second voice agrees the poker game is the most iconic now: the chest waxing was, but the bag-of-sand line is the one quoted back. — Sean Fennessey
  • It fits the movie because the other guys' sex talk makes sex seem gross and foreign, so Andy's choice to stay home with his electronic drum kit seems understandable. — Chris Ryan
Bad Boys The Rewatchables
Bad Boys

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Max; Jojo; the captain

In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:10:05Read transcript
  • The class is loaded: Joey Pants, Imperioli as Jojo with the 'you're selling tires' exchange, the liquor store guy, and John Salley, whose standing up is a sight gag. — Bill Simmons
  • Max gets the award: her death hurts every time, and Will Smith is attached to her while juggling many women. — Bill Simmons
  • Chet the doorman is in the conversation but is not the pick. — Logan Murdock
  • Pick: Jojo, the Imperioli character, a dopey informant played by a young actor with great things ahead; Chet was hysterical too, but it goes to Jojo. — Van Lathan
  • The only answer is the captain, who is in about three scenes and kills it every time with the 'you are Mike Lowry... you be you, but not in front of her' routine. — Logan Murdock
  • The captain is felt to be better in the next movie and a bit muted here, though his Michael Jordan reference is a buzzer-beater and no one but Martin goes at Will like he does. — Logan Murdock
  • The captain is conceded as the correct answer, yet Max remains a personal pick; an objection says this is the Dion Waiters Award, not a DJ Banga Award, and the reply is about being as upset as Will Smith every time Max dies. — Bill Simmons
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