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Running Scared The Rewatchables
Running Scared

The most 1986 thing

Honda Elite scooters

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  • Jimmy Smits as the villain and Sweet Freedom shoehorned into the movie open the 1986 list. — Bill Simmons
  • Walter Payton gear, the 1985 Bears, Michael Jordan, and a 1983 White Sox cap make Chicago sports central to the answer. — Bill Simmons
  • Darlane Flugel, Joey Pants with hair, and roller skating are further period markers. — Bill Simmons
  • The Honda Elite scooters win because of their era-specific ad campaign and disappearance. — Bill Simmons
The Devil’s Advocate The Rewatchables
The Devil’s Advocate

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Trump’s alternate acting career; Gator fans; the Antichrist’s lineage; Pacino’s apparent aging

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  • Casting Trump as Cullen prompts speculation about whether an acting career would change his later political trajectory.
  • The film’s implications for Florida Gator fans are jokingly questioned.
  • The hosts debate whether the Antichrist requires incest, specific parentage or markings, compare other films and imagine a reluctant Antichrist comedy.
  • Pacino appears much older than in Heat despite a two-year gap; smoking, cinematography and styling are possible explanations. — Bill Simmons
  • Oversized suits are criticized, with debate about Michael Jordan’s influence on mid-1990s fashion. — Bill Simmons
He Got Game The Rewatchables
He Got Game

Most Rewatchable Scene

The final one-on-one game

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  • The opening playground game is praised for authentic basketball and the players' elaborate names. — Bill Simmons
  • Jake buying the Air Jordan 13s and then meeting Jesus in the park is praised as a compact reunion sequence.
  • The SportsCenter montage is valued as a late-1990s ESPN time capsule with prominent coaches and players.
  • Michael Jordan only saying the title prompts a question about Spike Lee's reaction to obtaining the clip. — Logan Murdock
  • The Big Time warning about temptations is praised as a complete Spike Lee cameo sequence. — Van Lathan
  • Roger Gunver Smith is identified in the transcript as the performer playing Big Time, with uncertainty about the middle name's transcription. — Van Lathan
  • The childhood game is treated as essential because it exposes Jake's severity and the tenderness missing from the father-son bond. — Van Lathan
  • The Earl Monroe walk lets Jake explain Jesus's name and briefly parent his son through shared basketball history.
  • The TechU visit is praised for the escalating parade of recruiting temptations. — Van Lathan
  • The Lala confrontation makes Jesus recognize both her self-interest and his need to leave.
  • The final one-on-one game is a leading choice because the unscripted competitiveness and farewell carry the father-son story.
  • The thrown-ball ending divides the panel, with one participant loving it and others calling it absurd. — Logan Murdock
  • A later choice adds the prison opening because it establishes Jake's discipline and the system using him. — Van Lathan
Above the Rim The Rewatchables
Above the Rim

What’s Aged the Best?

Tupac; Wood Harris; Eric Nies; Shep’s game; marketing; villains; streetball; Tonya Pinkins

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  • Tupac at his peak and Harris’s later Wire connection have aged well. — Wosny Lambre
  • Eric Nies’s Real World and The Grind fame makes Montrose an especially 1990s casting choice; his basketball bearing and passing look convincing.
  • Shep’s twenty-six points in one half in corduroys deserve comparison with famous real basketball performances. — Van Lathan
  • Kyle’s Michael Jordan Aerial Assault poster is exciting nostalgic decoration despite being judged a bad poster. — Van Lathan
  • Shep’s fourteen-year grief is both best and worst: it drives the plot but leaves him implausibly unable to function or accept companionship. — Bill Simmons
  • The Holler If Ya Hear Me trailer is credited with attracting audiences and anticipating later song-driven marketing. — Bill Simmons
  • The entertaining villains make it possible to root for both tournament teams. — Bill Simmons
  • The film’s promotional poster is praised. — Bill Simmons
  • The white big man on Kyle’s team is an enjoyable 1990s type; the idea he is the coach’s son is speculative and challenged by his absence from the school team.
  • Yellow tape and crowds pressing onto the court convincingly capture New York streetball culture.
  • Tonya Pinkins’s mother character is praised for fierce vulnerability, firm parenting and a steadying perspective on college ambitions.
Batman The Rewatchables
Batman

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Nicholson’s most important role; the Dr. J theory of Batmen; most disappointing Batman

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  • Whether this was secretly Nicholson’s most important movie is recalled as already discussed. — Bill Simmons
  • Dr. J theory: Keaton’s Batman is Dr. J, Bale’s is Michael Jordan, and the Reeves films start a LeBron era; Keaton invented the low Batman voice, and Dr. J was not bad for basketball. — Sean Fennessey
  • Clooney is the most disappointing Batman, saddled with the worst film; he might have been good with a better director. — Sean Fennessey
  • More comparisons follow: Val Kilmer as Hakeem Olajuwon, Affleck as Karl Malone or Kawhi Leonard, Zoe Kravitz as the Steph Curry, Adam West as Paul Arizin, and Cesar Romero as George Mikan.
  • Julie Newmar’s Catwoman and Burgess Meredith’s Penguin are remembered from the TV show, and the 1966 movie featured all the villains. — Bill Simmons
New Jack City The Rewatchables
New Jack City

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

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  • A one-person category: Tracy Camilla Johns, who is "sex, sex, sex" every moment she is on screen. — Bill Simmons
  • Her IMDb is called the weirdest: She's Gotta Have It as Nola Darling, a 1988 Nike ad with Spike Lee and Michael Jordan, a Wild Thing video, Family Ties, a Mo Better Blues cameo and this movie, then no credit for 21 years until Red Hook Summer. — Bill Simmons
  • Research found no explanation; speculation includes marriage and kids, a substance problem or quitting the business, though Spike Lee's patronage could have sustained a career. — Van Lathan
  • Listeners who know what happened to her are invited to reply on Van and Logan's Twitter. — Logan Murdock
  • Her scene turning on music with the remote in another woman's face carries enormous tension. — Logan Murdock
  • Pookie is proposed but rejected as too big a part; Judd Nelson is ineligible because he gets his own category later. — Logan Murdock
Home Alone The Rewatchables
Home Alone

Most Rewatchable Scene

Pizza guy scared off by the movie

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  • Family chaos at the start is enjoyable: Pesci shows up in the cop uniform, the Little Nero's pizza guy is introduced, Kevin is set up as a brat, and the chaos makes it plausible he gets left behind. — Chris Ryan
  • Kevin shopping is a favorite: shoplifting the toothbrush, the coupon trip and sassy cashier exchange at the supermarket, and the Michael Jordan party he runs like a marionette. — Chris Ryan
  • Kate and John Candy's polka king at the airport is a loved moment. — Chris Ryan
  • Kevin's talk with the fake Santa is a low-key favorite; the actor is recognized from Armageddon and Groundhog Day, and the "you work for him" fake-out is praised as great writing. — Chris Ryan
  • The church choir scene where the old neighbor explains his estrangement is the most holiday-centric moment and more affecting than remembered. — Chris Ryan
  • The final robbery is a 22-minute tour de force of physical comedy that prefigures later torture-horror films; the reunion with O'Hara's arrival and the siblings' 30 seconds of interest is note perfect. — Chris Ryan
  • The most obvious choice is the pizza delivery scared off by the movie Kevin plays ("Keep the change, you filthy animal").
  • The opening's child-POV chaos sets the tone, and the setup for leaving Kevin behind (storm knocking out the alarm, the neighbor kid being counted, the pre-9/11 airport rush) is cleverly written and realistic. — Mina Kimes
  • O'Hara and John Heard on the plane working out what they forgot, ending in the scream of Kevin's name, is one of the most iconic moments; the kids flying in coach is funny. — Sean Fennessey
  • Kevin's first day home alone indulging kid fantasies (jumping on the bed, a giant sundae, Angels with Filthy Souls) is a favorite and sets up his parallel with the mom. — Mina Kimes
  • The last robbery with paint cans is called the normie choice; the group leans toward earlier scenes, then goes with the pizza scene, which kids used to copy. — Chris Ryan
Unfaithful The Rewatchables
Unfaithful

What’s Aged the Worst?

Anyone cheating on Richard Gere; over-explained dialogue; pay phones; school-play scenes

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  • A mother's number one nitpick is offered: she is the biggest Richard Gere fan ever, once approached him at a New Canaan charity event, and cannot conceive of anyone cheating on him, likened to dunking on Michael Jordan seven times in a playoff series. — Bill Simmons
  • The mother is joked to be upset that she gets less podcast attention than the dad and sports, even though she taught reading and writing. — Bill Simmons
  • Dialogue where one character asks another "do you love me" is hated, compared with the "tell me I led a good life" ending of Saving Private Ryan. — Bill Simmons
  • The "Are you okay? I'm fine" exchange is singled out; the film walks up to what a marriage with an unspoken secret is like but has people say gibberish and explains too much, such as calling the nail salon, when looks would do. — Wesley Morris
  • Pay phones were a huge part of adultery movies; she has a cell phone in this movie yet uses a pay phone, and lacks one when she needs it most. — Bill Simmons
  • School-play scenes are never idyllic in real life, with parents fighting for seats and holding up camera phones. — Bill Simmons
  • School-play scenes reflect the biases of married white filmmakers with children; the handholding close-ups are noted, and the child playing a rabbit is read as a Fatal Attraction callback. — Wesley Morris
  • School plays, elementary and Little League games in movies are all hated, closing the aged-worst list. — Wesley Morris
Bad Boys The Rewatchables
Bad Boys

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Max; Jojo; the captain

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  • 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
Bad Boys The Rewatchables
Bad Boys

What’s Aged the Worst?

Michael Jordan retirement joke; Joey Pants basketball scene; kids snitching on their father; internal affairs character; no OJ joke; Volvo hatchback undercover car

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  • The Jordan joke ('retired like him too') aged worst in five seconds because Jordan had already returned before release. — Bill Simmons
  • Carjacking scenes feel less special than in the 90s, though being surprised by one is argued to have almost aged best; modern cars and phones make them unlikely.
  • Joey Pants shooting hoops with a cigar, his shots sailing over the backboard, is baffling. — Bill Simmons
  • The Club Hell car chase is called shoehorned, with a counterpoint that it is needed so Marcus's family sees him on the news. — Logan Murdock
  • Kids snitching on their father aged worst; the reply is that kids are snitches who sell out dad for mom.
  • The internal affairs character played by Helgenberger, who had a strong career, is a wet blanket like the Lethal Weapon psychologist; a counterpoint says the role is needed for urgency, but it needed someone funny. — Bill Simmons
  • Julie tagging along with her call-girl friend is questioned, with others labeled Julie defenders and a reminder to protect sex workers. — Bill Simmons
  • With no OJ joke, a stealth reference would have pinned the film in early 1995; it was likely filmed in summer 94. — Bill Simmons
  • Martin's outfits, especially the vest over a tank top, are called terrible; a counterpoint says people dressed like that, with an eighth-grade vest story.
  • A Volvo hatchback is too slow for an undercover car, like having a Prius. — Logan Murdock
Draft Day The Rewatchables
Draft Day

What’s Aged the Best?

Cable and streaming rewatch value; Chadwick Boseman as Vontae Mack; the versatile-linebacker profile; ESPN draft-telecast integration; Frank Langella as the owner; the Browns' draft-day chaos; Kevin Costner's throwback performance; NFL media cameos

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  • The movie has aged best as a cable, on-demand, streaming or airplane movie that maybe never needed a theatrical release, like Million Dollar Arm, which the host helped produce. — Bill Simmons
  • In 2020 it would be a Netflix movie released two weeks before the NFL draft. — Bill Simmons
  • Split screen is offered as aged best because so much of the film is phone calls. — Bill Simmons
  • The split screens are countered as aged worst: the logic from the making-of is sound, but the effect is distracting and dated; the first host stays pro split screen. — Mallory Rubin
  • Chadwick Bozeman as Vante Mac comes across super likable and realistic despite limited screen time, though he is the smallest guy in several rooms. — Mallory Rubin
  • His undersized, versatile build is added as aged best for the era of flexible defenders, citing Derwin James and Isaiah Simmons falling in the recent draft. — Mallory Rubin
  • The ESPN telecast is used well, even Berman; filming at the actual 2013 draft at Radio City with real analysts and Goodell captures the event, plus good helicopter shots. — Mallory Rubin
  • Dennis Leary as a head coach is kind of liked and seen as realistic. — Mallory Rubin
  • Frank Langella as the owner is great, his second sports-owner role after Eddie, reunited with Kevin Dunn from Dave, and wearing sunglasses almost throughout. — Bill Simmons
  • The Browns doing crazy things on draft day has obviously aged best. — Bill Simmons
  • Sonny's "don't Twitter" advice is called aged best by one host; the co-host has it as aged worst because the NFL now wants players building online personas, though she backs never-tweet advice. — Mallory Rubin
  • Jacksonville having a terrible GM is offered as aged best; the co-host cites Jalen Ramsey and Josh Allen but notes the real 2014 Jags took Blake Bordell's. — Bill Simmons
  • Costner in a sports movie is the top aged-best item: he is undefeated, the Michael Jordan of sports movies, and the only actor the movie works with; Brad Pitt and Denzel are floated as the only alternatives. — Mallory Rubin
  • The NFL media cameos, including Chris Berman, Rich Eisen, John Gruden and Mike Mayock, are called aged best by both hosts. — Mallory Rubin
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