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Jeremy Renner
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Recasting Couch
Adam Driver as Hathaway; Jon Bernthal as the hacker villain; Hemsworth with Australian accent
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- DiCaprio is considered too old by 2015, while keeping Hemsworth with an Australian accent is defended. — Bill Simmons
- Hathaway could have entered prison thin and built his physique there; the role still needs physicality. — Bill Simmons
- Jeremy Renner around 2009 is an appealing possibility, but he might already be too old for the 2015 film. — Bill Simmons
- Miles Teller is considered too young for a character presumed to be in his mid-thirties; Gyllenhaal is floated. — Bill Simmons
- Adam Driver emerges as the preferred alternative because he can plausibly be both a hacker and physically formidable. — Bill Simmons
- Jon Bernthal is proposed as the hacker villain, though the discussion acknowledges his negative experience with Mann and questions his plausibility as a hacker. — Bill Simmons
Who Won the Movie?
Split: Jeremy Renner; Ben Affleck; Boston
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- Jeremy Renner is selected by one host without hesitation. — Bill Simmons
- Ben Affleck is selected for directing and launching his next career phase.
- Boston is selected as the third answer. — Ryen Russillo
- A long Revolutionary-era anecdote argues that the city’s combative identity spans centuries. — Ryen Russillo
Probably Unanswerable Questions
Uniforms, the rink, Shine’s future, Fenway cash, role swaps, and Doug’s hockey ability
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Approx. transcript time · 01:42:43Read transcript
- Where did the gang get all the official uniforms?
- How did Claire establish the rink with stolen money? — Bill Simmons
- What happens to Shine Coughlin as a teenager?
- Why would Red Sox ownership show Fenway as easy to rob?
- Would swapping Blake Lively and Rebecca Hall improve the film?
- Would swapping Affleck and Renner improve the film? — Bill Simmons
- How good at hockey was Doug? — Bill Simmons
- Would a local Bruins draft pick be too recognizable to become a bank robber?
Picking Nits
Chris’s DWI timing, heist disclosure, sibling casting, Claire, voices, uniforms, hockey, and rink funding produce distinct nitpicks.
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- Chris is thrown out of the Fenway hotel and gets a DWI almost immediately.
- Chris knowing and disclosing the Fenway plan is confusing without deleted scenes. — Bill Simmons
- Renner and Lively’s physical mismatch as siblings is questioned. — Bill Simmons
- Jim not killing Claire is questioned.
- Claire’s exposure to the investigation should make her a larger police target. — Bill Simmons
- Claire should recognize Doug’s voice from the robbery.
- Doug’s abrupt end as a third-round Bruins pick is questioned.
- The ice-rink donation funded with stolen money is questioned.
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- The panel keeps the Dion Waiters name rather than changing it to Fred VanVleet. — Bill Simmons
- Blake Lively is selected for extraordinary impact in roughly four scenes. — Bill Simmons
- Jeremy Renner is ruled too central.
- Fergie is offered as an alternative.
Casting What-Ifs
Adrian Lyne nearly directed; Mark Wahlberg was wanted for Jim before Casey Affleck suggested Jeremy Renner.
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- Adrian Lyne was considered as director. — Bill Simmons
- Affleck originally wanted Mark Wahlberg for Jim. — Bill Simmons
- Wahlberg was unavailable while making The Fighter. — Bill Simmons
- Casey Affleck suggested Jeremy Renner after working with him. — Bill Simmons
- Renner had completed The Hurt Locker before The Town’s release.
What’s Aged the Best?
Charlestown detail, accents, Lively, the theatrical ending, Renner, the cop looking away, and local texture
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- The Jack Clark Red Sox line is praised as specific local humor.
- Affleck’s Boston accent is praised. — Bill Simmons
- Blake Lively’s “why am I always the one getting used?” delivery is praised. — Bill Simmons
- Lively’s performance is defended. — Bill Simmons
- The decision not to use the ending where Doug dies is praised. — Bill Simmons
- The Old Sully’s and New Sully’s locations are praised. — Bill Simmons
- The “not fucking around crew” phrase is praised. — Bill Simmons
- Hamm’s “national organization” intimidation is praised. — Ryen Russillo
- The Boston dating scene is judged accurately captured. — Ryen Russillo
- Fergie’s bodyguard’s 02129 tattoo is praised. — Bill Simmons
- Doug watching Bones is praised as character detail. — Bill Simmons
- Pete Postlethwaite’s Fergie speech is praised. — Bill Simmons
- Jeremy Renner’s performance is selected as the overall aged-best answer.
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- Ebert awarded The Town three stars. — Bill Simmons
- The review praised Jeremy Renner’s performance and Ben Affleck’s direction. — Bill Simmons
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- Is this Apex Mountain for Tony Gilroy: the only other contenders are the Bourne films; one participant is a fan only of the first Bourne, another a big fan of The Bourne Legacy, which Gilroy directed, with its homoeroticism between Jeremy Renner and Oscar Isaac (less explicit than Skyfall, though they spend a night in a cabin) and an unsung Edward Norton performance, 55 to 60 minutes of a perfect movie before an exhausting hour-long car chase through Manila; the conclusion is that this is easily Gilroy's Apex Mountain.
- Asked whether this is Apex Mountain for George Clooney, the answer is 'I do': there are not a ton of Clooney performances the speaker loves, said through clenched teeth, but there is a precision here, the razzle dazzle without overdoing anything, neither leaning on a hero trope nor playing a dirtbag, riding a line that should make the role ambivalent, and he nails it.
- This is peak phase-two Clooney and a favorite performance of the second half of his career, with Out of Sight as phase one; it kicks off his sad-sack period, playing a man no woman in the film is attracted to, which may not be realistic. — Lindsay Zoladz
- Tilda Swinton is placed at the beginning of her American peak rather than at a summit; her Oscar speech for the film, recommended for rewatching, teased Clooney for wearing his Batman costume with the nipples under his Michael Clayton suit while he laughed in the front row, and the 2007 and 2008 Oscars are remembered as a good era with a great crop of films.
Casting What-Ifs
Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar were up for Cher; Paul Rudd reportedly wanted Christian or Murray; Jeremy Renner was up for Christian and, the host thinks, turned it down; Terrence Howard for Murray; Lauryn Hill for Dion; Owen Wilson tried out for Travis; Leah Remini auditioned for Ty; Zooey Deschanel was up for Amber and Cher
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- The casting names are called almost more fun than Titanic's, which the same three hosts covered two weeks earlier, because people did not want to own up to passing on Titanic; Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar were both up for Cher, the Gellar name recalled through Cruel Intentions.
- A tangent: Cruel Intentions came a couple of years later, Clueless is a G rated movie by comparison, and one host cannot believe their parents let them watch Cruel Intentions all the time.
- Paul Rudd, who played Josh, apparently wanted to be Christian or Murray; the hosts could see him as Christian but are glad he did not do it, and one was deep in Paul Rudd fandom in the nineties through the show Sisters, where he was Swoozie Kurtz's son-in-law married to Ashley Judd's character (names as transcribed).
- Clueless and Paris in Romeo and Juliet are called the peak Paul Rudd run for one host, who says he never gets enough credit for sustained relevance but will never matter more than he did then.
- The best what-if is Jeremy Renner being up for Christian, which the host thinks he turned down; the hosts can see it and wonder whether his career would have looked different, joking about his status in the Marvel movies.
- More names in the mix: Terrence Howard for Murray, Lauryn Hill for Dion (she was acting then, as in Sister Act), Owen Wilson trying out for Travis, Leah Remini auditioning for Ty, and Zooey Deschanel up for both Amber and Cher; a Deschanel Cher is agreed to be a very different and worse movie.
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