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The Replacements The Rewatchables
The Replacements

What’s Aged the Worst?

Old Ebert/Bill reviews; Gary Glitter; Michael Jace; coaches’ suits

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  • Ebert’s criticism of Madden and Summerall is rejected as an aged-worst take. — Bill Simmons
  • The earlier review calling Favreau’s performance career-ending is retracted; his later success and this performance are now appreciated. — Bill Simmons
  • The Gary Glitter song is an aged-worst choice because of the performer’s history. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts discuss Michael Jace’s murder conviction as a disturbing contrast with his character’s fear of returning to prison. — Van Lathan
  • A host recalls recognizing Jace while he was serving as an usher at an Oasis church on Wilshire. — Van Lathan
  • Thick as Thieves is recommended in a tangent recalling Alec Baldwin, Michael Jai White, Janeane Garofalo, and Andre Braugher; some character details are tentative. — Van Lathan
  • The host recalls having spoken with Jace and then learning of his arrest while working at TMZ. The segment’s proposed fun-fact title is rejected as inappropriate to its subject. — Van Lathan
  • Coaches wearing suits is added as an aged-worst observation, with Mike Nolan's unsuccessful revival blamed for ending the look. — Van Lathan
The Dark Knight The Rewatchables
The Dark Knight

Most Rewatchable Scene

The Joker's fundraiser party appearance; the underground chase transporting Harvey Dent; the Joker's first meeting with the mob bosses

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  • Nominees open with the bank robbery, maybe the best opening of a movie this century: note for note a recreation of elements of Heat, called an annoying homage, but with the hairs-on-the-neck feeling of zip lines across skyscrapers that look real and robbers in clown masks shooting each other; the clip is played.
  • Asked whether all the bank-robbery dialogue was recorded in post, a research tidbit is offered: not much went wrong on this set, but there were problems with the IMAX cameras in this scene and a couple of out-of-focus shots, so audio fixes would not be surprising.
  • The robbers' performative, unnatural dialogue about the Joker wearing makeup sets a comic-book tone the rest of the movie does not have; with everyone in clown masks and not quite speaking to one another it is a perfect microcosm of the film, where you do not know who these guys are but do not care because Hans Zimmer violins are playing and this is Heat again.
  • Further nominees: the Joker's meeting with the mob and the disappearing pencil; the Lau kidnapping in Hong Kong, which one host is not a fan of; the Joker's fundraiser party appearance with the champagne and Senator Patrick Leahy; the police funeral assassination, interestingly staged but also confusing; and the game of chicken between the 18-wheeler and the motorcycle, one of a host's favorite movie scenes ever.
  • One pick is the Joker's party appearance: he is obviously deeply damaged but also lying about everything, tells a different story about his scars than the one he told the gangsters, controls the room and the screen, and brings a crazy clown force into the locus of Gotham's economic power; the second scar story is when you realize he is an unreliable narrator who is either messing with everybody or having a break from reality.
  • Another pick is the entire chase through the underground after Harvey Dent turns himself in as the Batman and is transported in the truck: Nicky Katz (as transcribed) plays the exposition cop with the funny 'once he gets to county, he's their problem' line, the driver turns out to be Gordon in a gas mask after faking his death at the attempt on the mayor, and the Joker and his escaped Arkham lunatics pursue with a lot of grenade launching.
  • The flipping 18-wheeler, end to end, is called the single best car-flip in movie history and the hair-on-the-neck moment; Batman's decision not to kill the Joker there is a character note that pushes the psychology forward while exciting you about what comes next, which only Nolan does in these movies.
  • That moment exposes Batman's inherent sadism: how many people have died because he will not kill the Joker, the fundraiser gun-disarming looks like a hollow moral victory, and he knows the Joker and the other villains always break out of Arkham; a lonely billionaire whose only friend is an old British man keeps going because he likes the fights and wants to feel something.
  • The third pick is the Joker's first meeting with the mob bosses, both the best and the worst scene: Lau is on a little Sanyo TV beamed from a plane to China with no wireless internet, and the group is Richie Costner (as transcribed) as the Chechen, Eric Roberts as the Italian mob boss Sal Maroney, and Michael Jai White's Gamble with his crew, holding a quorum in what seems to be the back room of a restaurant.
  • The Joker's entrance should be stupid, but he kills a guy with a pencil and then narrates the flaws of the room, which is what differentiates good Nolan from bad Nolan, as with Gordon-Levitt and Hardy voicing how insane things are in Inception; the 'wind the clocks back a year' speech is played.
  • Favorite small moments include his 'I'm not' when called crazy and the varied laugh when he opens his coat to show the grenades; the hosts joke about demarcating five minutes for Ledger impersonations and note the Oscars might as well not have been held.
  • The Joker's long-term plan is parked for later because it is really hard to tell what it is; the segment closes with various winners, three different picks, which is judged a good thing.
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