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The Running Man The Rewatchables
The Running Man

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The screenwriter completed fifteen drafts, Arnold named his campaign bus The Running Man, Paula Abdul choreographed the dancers, American Gladiators drew inspiration from the film, and the body count is thirty-two.

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  • Screenwriter Stephen E. DeSuzza reportedly wrote fifteen drafts. — Bill Simmons
  • Arnold named his campaign bus The Running Man while running for governor. — Bill Simmons
  • Paula Abdul choreographed the game-show dancers during her rise from Laker Girl to pop star. — Bill Simmons
  • American Gladiators is said to have been inspired by the movie’s game-show premise. — Bill Simmons
  • The episode gives the movie a body count of thirty-two. — Bill Simmons
Singles The Rewatchables
Singles

Casting What-Ifs

Depp; Dillon; Cornell; Abdul; disputed Jennifer Jason Leigh

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  • Depp reportedly declined Steve partly because he did not want a character who says I love you; his extreme good looks are also considered a poor fit, though an alternative view thinks he could do it. — Bill Simmons
  • Dillon also reportedly declined Steve; his looks are offered as a reason the decision worked. — Bill Simmons
  • Cornell was Crowe’s intended Cliff but could not fit acting around Soundgarden touring and recording; the idea is appealing but potentially impractical. — Bill Simmons
  • Paula Abdul was reportedly a very close runner-up for Debbie, with excellent audition material still in the archives. — Bill Simmons
  • A Jennifer Jason Leigh–Linda casting story is disputed and left unverified after initial confusion with Janet; a Single White Female reunion produces joking hostility between the characters.
Can't Buy Me Love The Rewatchables
Can't Buy Me Love

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Peterson career; finances; production; dance; cars; reunions; music

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  • Peterson followed the film with the one-season A Year in the Life. — Bill Simmons
  • Listen to Me with Kirk Cameron and Roy Scheider was considered a poor next film for Peterson. — Bill Simmons
  • The discussion reports her parents’ account of a sexual assault during her teenage television work and its lasting harm; subsequent struggles are treated as a tragic story. — Bill Simmons
  • An initial denial that Peterson died from overdose is explicitly corrected to accidental overdose; her acting credits are said to end in 1994. — Bill Simmons
  • The stated gross is$31.6 million against a reported$1.7 million budget, though the independently made film’s budget is acknowledged as uncertain. — Bill Simmons
  • Dempsey reportedly still receives requests to perform the dance. — Juliet Litman
  • The actor playing Kenneth is recalled as Malachi in Children of the Corn and as reuniting with Dempsey in Sweet Home Alabama. — Bill Simmons
  • Gains reportedly said the studio wanted the house accusation removed as too edgy, but the producers defended it. — Bill Simmons
  • Paula Abdul choreographed the film. — Bill Simmons
  • Striking crew members reportedly can be seen picketing during cheerleader scenes. — Bill Simmons
  • Dempsey reportedly spent his salary on a 1963 Porsche 356 convertible that remains meaningful to him. — Bill Simmons
  • The airplane graveyard is located outside Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. — Bill Simmons
  • Dempsey and Green reunited in a two-episode Grey’s Anatomy story. — Bill Simmons
  • Darcy DeMoss was reportedly 23, eight years older than Peterson. — Bill Simmons
  • The project went through TriStar turnaround to Apollo Pictures, was independently made, then sold to Disney for$6 million; it is described as Disney’s second licensed film. — Bill Simmons
  • Chuck Lorre wrote a song heard in the car. — Juliet Litman
  • The production reportedly compensated the school with a football field and stage; whether cash would have been better is debated. — Juliet Litman
Coming to America The Rewatchables
Coming to America

What’s Aged the Worst?

117-minute runtime; John Amos's once-major presence; Darryl bragging about St. John's tickets; the name Semmi; John Landis's next films; missing hit soundtrack

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  • At 117 minutes it is too long; about 105 would be ideal, cutting the first 20 minutes to get to New York. — Bill Simmons
  • John Amos being in the movie was a big deal in 1988 that is hard to explain 33 years later, like other TV dads such as Robert Reed. — Bill Simmons
  • Darryl being excited and bragging about four tickets to a St. John's game has aged poorly. — Bill Simmons
  • Arsenio's character is named Semmi, like a Celtic (ASR "shemiochile") blamed for the team being 13-13 as they tape. — Bill Simmons
  • Soul Glo hurt Eric LaSalle's career until ER; a counterpoint says he made good there, and Shari Headley didn't get enough work afterward.
  • LaSalle is outrageously handsome even under the curl, unlike Eddie, whose stardom never relied on looks. — Wesley Morris
  • The bearded O.J. Simpson in Buffalo around 1975 as the most handsome man who ever lived is reaffirmed. — Bill Simmons
  • John Landis's next films after this: Oscar, Innocent Blood and Beverly Hills Cop 3, which is called terrible.
  • Beverly Hills Cop 3 was the first movie one participant ever walked out of. — Van Lathan
  • Eddie doing a third Beverly Hills Cop felt sad; it became almost a Disney film.
  • Rewatching Cop 3 on cable confirmed it was bad; after it Landis made The Stupids, Blues Brothers 2000 and Susan's Plan. — Bill Simmons
  • The System's end-credits theme song is called aged worst; others object, calling it a jam played on BET. — Bill Simmons
  • The song wasn't a hit because it wasn't that good. — Bill Simmons
  • The soundtrack is a missed opportunity: the only song heard in full is The Greatest Love of All, with no Janet Jackson or Paula Abdul, while other movies had big soundtracks like the Pointer Sisters.
  • Nile Rodgers did the music and Michael Jackson, his friend, is nowhere on it; "It's a miss."
Clueless The Rewatchables
Clueless

What’s Aged the Worst?

The Christian storyline, though the hosts move it toward aged pretty well; Christian's over-stylized retro persona; how the teenagers interact, such as Elton keeping Cher's photo in his locker; Murray and Elton sharing a popular crew; Cher and Ty doing a home workout video; the fashion computer's monitor

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  • Cher's date with Christian is called the most problematic part of a problematic fave; asked whether falling for a gay man is a rom-com trope, the hosts can only think of the Rupert Everett and Madonna film and agree it is not really a rom-com thing, while finding it funny that the straight guys, Paul Rudd seeing Christian dance with a man and Murray, pick up on it before the ostensibly perceptive Cher and Dion.
  • Murray's reveal, played as a clip, uses 'friend of Dorothy', an old-school gay self-identifying marker from The Wizard of Oz, plus 'cake boy' and the Oscar Wilde, disco-dancing, Streisand-ticket-holding string; the hosts find it hilarious in a good way that Amy Heckerling put those words in Murray's mouth, call the Streisand line remarkable and Pulitzer-worthy, and the 'cake boy' line unfortunate.
  • Christian's analog in Emma, read from Wikipedia in a way Cher would endorse since she loves Cliff's Notes, is Frank Churchill, who courts Emma while secretly engaged to someone else and waiting on an aunt's inheritance, so the storylines are not really the same; the host prefers him being gay to that.
  • GLAAD ('Glad' as transcribed) gave Amy Heckerling an award for the storyline, which was very progressive at the time; Murray pointing out that Christian is gay is not malicious, the joke is that Cher is totally clueless, which one host says has happened to teenage girls and, going by the friends that host still counsels through it, women of all ages, so the item is moved to somewhere between aged best and aged pretty well.
  • What still annoys is Christian's style: the over-stylized guy obsessed with the twenties and thirties, who deserves Cher not knowing who Billie Holiday is, though Billie Holiday deserves better.
  • Discussing a possible remake, the hosts find the way these kids interact foreign to teenagers now; Elton keeping a photo Cher took in his locker is quaint, silly and confusing, which is part of why Elton gets kicked out of the picture because he sucks, and the 'social director of the crew' line is loved.
  • Murray and Elton being in the same crew of popular guys confuses one host, whose high school popular set was uniform in style rather than race; another went to a weird school with a wide range, and a third had a clearly defined cool tier with pressure to look the same, so the kids with sagging jeans and the Eltons would have mutually rejected each other.
  • Cher and Ty doing a home workout video instead of a class has aged badly, though it is set in the nineties when everyone had workout videos; the hosts recall sneaking a mother's 'Tybo' tape (as transcribed), a Paula Abdul video with a routine still remembered, and the Barbie workout video starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.
  • Earlier, during the opening-minutes discussion, the fashion computer's actual monitor is said to look like trash now and not to have aged well, even though the idea was forward thinking.
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