Cinema doughnut shops; Ridgely; Hartley’s mainstream acting; Hoffman’s background acting; “The Touch” in movies; movies about porn; movie parties (possible); “Sister Christian” in movies; Hall
Wahlberg no; PTA personal favorite versus career power There Will Be Blood, not equated. Two second-place preferences and another first-place preference are retained; Master prior near-top relative placement uncertain.
Italian leather alternatives Montalban commercial and Sopranos jacket; cinema donut shops yes; Ridgely yes; Hartley mainstream acting yes with broader-career ignorance. — Bill Simmons
Hoffman background acting here over Magnolia; Reynolds no. Thomas Jane alternatives Hung qualified/disliked and 61 preferred. — Bill Simmons
Graham Austin Powers 2 era; West Covina yes with Crazy Ex Girlfriend alternative. Moore uncertain Hours/Still Alice corrected Oscar/Far From Heaven or this film for new access.
The Touch here over Transformers; prosthetic movie genitalia Bruno alternative; Ricky Jay maybe House of Games; movies about porn yes. — Bill Simmons
Guzman How to Make It in America hypothetical Jacoby choice, Out of Sight preferred; movie parties possibly best, Project X comparator. — Chris Ryan
Reilly no: Step Brothers or Chicago, Jerry Bus current work admired. Macy/Cheadle no. — Sean Fennessey
Side-character name Floyd: Gondoli preferred by one, True Romance Floyd another; Penn brothers question and Sean eventual the film transcribed as liquor appearance.
Ridgely emphatic yes; Sister Christian yes here, Jessies Girl original number-one release preferred; Your Love Outfield misidentification corrected; Hall yes. — Bill Simmons
Reseda location here versus Karate Kid (preferred by one), Tom Petty lyric third alternative. — Bill Simmons
Brad Pitt was initially slated to play Leonard; after he passed, the line was that a movie star was not wanted anyway, and Aaron Eckhart and Thomas Jane were considered. — Bill Simmons
A controversial take: this would have been an amazing Brad Pitt movie, catching him after Seven, an uncertain stretch and Fight Club, and before Ocean's 11; this and Moneyball would have been favorite Pitt movies, and the other participant agrees. — Bill Simmons
Radiohead's Paranoid Android was going to play over the closing credits and Nolan was fired up about it, but it was too expensive for a low-budget movie. — Bill Simmons
A digital-release director's cut whose only change adds Paranoid Android over the end credits is floated. — Bill Simmons
Nominees: Nick Cassavetes as Dietrich, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain as the daughter, Alessandro Navola (as transcribed) as the brother Pollux, a choice the host does not condone, CCH Pounder, who gets burned to death along with Robert Wisdom's Bunny Colvin from The Wire, Thomas Jane, Todd Parker in Boogie Nights, as one of the prisoners, and the actor who played Machine in 8mm and Sabaka (as transcribed) in The Wire, who escapes with Cage and is one host's favorite.
Margaret Cho gets an honorable mention; the hosts cannot believe she is in it as comic relief with one joke, a terrible line about a transplant for the stick up someone's rear.
Picks the brother Pollux because of his weird voice, doing the ten million dollars line. — Jason Concepcion
Another host has the prisoner Sabaka (as transcribed), our dude whom the others like too.
Another goes with CCH Pounder because she smokes in every scene she is in, including inside the medical lab during the face transplant, then puts her cigarette out on the comatose patient, which is never okay.
