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Tango & Cash · The Rewatchables ·August 30, 2022

Most Rewatchable Scene

Prison arrival and the prison escape are distinct favorites among opening, torture, nightclub and final-fight candidates.

In the discussion (12)

Approx. transcript time · 00:20:47Read transcript

• The opening highway truck stop is said to borrow from an unnamed Jackie Chan movie, with windshield action, a badge demand and cocaine revealed by gunfire. — Bill Simmons
• The Rambo insult breaks the actor/character boundary; a personal first encounter is compared to Vanilla Ice in Ninja Turtles 2 and Boys to Men on Fresh Prince.
• Jack Palance and his fellow villains drive by; the exaggerated villainy is compared with Brad Wesley in Roadhouse. — Bill Simmons
• The billion-dollar operation’s dark television-filled lair, tiny henchman crew and convenient villain drive-by make little sense. — Bill Simmons
• Desert scenery is compared with Another 48 Hours and Lethal Weapon. — Bill Simmons
• The trial, laundry-chute trip and prison electrocution are nominated; the apparent pain and obligatory Stallone groan are enjoyed. — Bill Simmons
• The prison escape includes apparent betrayal later revealed as help, a dead helper, a villain bossing guards, rain, a fan obstruction and an improbable cable jump. — Bill Simmons
• Huge survivable drops and the lavish strip club with Hatcher drumming lead to Cash evading police in a wig. — Bill Simmons
• The Cockney henchman is recalled from 48 Hours and its sequel; dangling him from a building and grenades echo other action films including Commando. — Bill Simmons
• The simultaneous final fights are praised as a device also used in Double Impact. — Bill Simmons
• The arrival at prison, with litter, fire and relentless jokes despite fear, is a favorite; another selection picks the escape. — Shea Serrano
• Cash being shot, chasing the assailant and confronting him at the station is recalled as an omitted scene candidate. — Bill Simmons

Midnight Run · The Rewatchables ·July 20, 2018

What’s Aged the Best?

The unexpectedly poignant moments and Danny Elfman's score

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Approx. transcript time · 00:27:27Read transcript

• The chemistry between De Niro and Grodin has aged best, even though De Niro reportedly did not like Grodin much, stayed in character through take after take, and Grodin, probably playing close to himself, kept trying to annoy him; that kind of two-guy chemistry is rarer than you would think.
• A list of best two-guy movie chemistry: Travolta and Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction, Gibson and Danny Glover, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, Redford and Newman in The Sting and Butch, Eddie Murphy and Nolte in 48 Hours, with The Rock and Kevin Hart, Farrell and Riley in Step Brothers, Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, and Bill Murray and Harold Ramis added; it gets rarer this century because movies are usually driven by one person.
• There are 119 f-bombs in the movie though it feels like 280, especially in the last call to Eddie; the phone call where Farina has Moron Number One put Moron Number Two on while the other guy shadow-boxes the one on the phone is too short to be a rewatchable scene but slays.
• McCarran Airport, the saddest place on earth when everyone is leaving Vegas, has not changed since 1988 and makes you want to shout that Serrano has the discs; Grand Central Market in downtown LA still looks much the same, though you could not take a payphone call from a restaurant there now.
• Danny Elfman's score (transcribed once as 'Danny Offen's') is like the Bus Boys from 48 Hours doing a soundtrack, one of the best ever despite some people disliking it: it slows down and kicks back in at the right places and sounds like Steely Dan's backing band vamping before Becker and Fagan (as transcribed) walk on; anyone anti-soundtrack is called a moron.
• 'Looks like I'm walking' is one of the better last lines of any movie covered, especially since walking out of LAX is no fun; the visit to the daughter is one of the favorite De Niro scenes: awkward, he has nothing to ask her beyond what grade she is in, she offers him money as he leaves and he cannot take it, and then he holds the door of his wife's station wagon so Grodin's coat does not get caught, every beat graded A plus.
• The weird sentimental moments may be what has aged best, with several unexpectedly poignant beats including the ending; a tangent on the greatest De Niro scenes names the Godfather 2 killing, moments in Cape Fear, the Goodfellas slow-motion smoking shot at the bar, nearly every scene in Heat including the diner, and many in Deer Hunter and Taxi Driver, while Raging Bull is now a tough, one-and-out watch.
• Asked at the end what was said for what aged best, the recap is the poignant moments and Danny Elfman's music; the chemistry, the last line, the unchanged settings and the profanity were raised along the way.

Friday · The Rewatchables ·November 30, 2017

Who Won the Movie?

Chris Tucker

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Approx. transcript time · 00:56:23Read transcript

• Chris Tucker is named immediately, the name coming twice in quick succession with 'come on, man' agreement that it is obvious; one host says it pains them that his career is not in the shape it should be.
• Next Friday and Friday After Next starred Mike Epps, and a Last Friday has been hoped for for years; original cast members say Tucker is why it has not happened, his pay scale rose, and in his defense he probably does not want to play a weed-smoking delinquent at forty, though the character could be evolved.
• A gritty reboot and 'Christopher Nolan's Friday' are joked about; the hosts watched Next Friday but not Friday After Next, and barely the animated series; Tucker has cryptically suggested interest in recent interviews now that his pay scale is down.
• Rush Hour 4 is also in the works with Tucker on the fence and Jackie Chan as the Ice Cube trying to get him there; the hosts would take Rush Hour 4 over Last Friday a thousand percent, since Chan and Tucker could reprise older versions, while Friday is quintessentially youthful and would be weird with 45-year-olds on the porch.
• Questions a sequel would raise, kids, still smoking, or flipping Smokey straight and Craig into the pothead, are floated, but what people want from sequels is an extension of the original, which would have to change too much to work, so leave Friday be; Rush Hour 4 should just avoid the mistakes of Lethal Weapon 4.
• At the top of the show, with no spoilers on who won, Tucker is said to dominate everyone's attention as soon as he appears on screen.

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