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The Legend of Billie Jean The Rewatchables
The Legend of Billie Jean

Apex Mountain

Honda Elite scooters and self-haircuts: yes

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  • Helen Slater prompts debate among this film, Supergirl and The Secret of My Success, with box-office failures weighed against the Michael J. Fox opportunity. — Bill Simmons
  • City Slickers is counteroffered; expectations for Slater are compared to Elizabeth Shoe and Kelly Preston, with a hypothetical Working Girl role. — Bill Simmons
  • Christian Slater is rejected. — Bill Simmons
  • Honda Elite scooters are endorsed and Lou Reed’s 1985 advertisement is recalled. — Bill Simmons
  • Billie Jean’s self-haircut is called unmatched and immediately iconic, leading to COVID haircut memories. — Chris Ryan
  • Peter Coyote is weighed against Ken Burns narration and E.T.; E.T. is preferred. — Bill Simmons
  • Billie Jeans prompt comparison of the film, song and tennis player, with uncertainty about the filmmakers’ reaction to the shared name and a Billy the Kid interpretation. — Bill Simmons
  • Fair being fair and short-haired women are proposed; specific haircut memories remain uncertain. — Chris Ryan
  • Sturby Beach and Corpus Christi movies are endorsed; Yeardley Smith’s apex is The Simpsons, Barry Tubb’s Top Gun, and Keith Gordon’s Christine; Joan of Arc has other peaks. — Bill Simmons
Adventureland The Rewatchables
Adventureland

What’s Aged the Worst?

Lou Reed quantity; Scarlet V; religious rejection; music character; slur humor

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  • Too much Lou Reed is an aged-worst choice; the early script reportedly used Neil Young, which would not improve the music for the objector. — Bill Simmons
  • The Scarlet V expression has aged poorly as an unfamiliar relic rather than an offensive phrase. — Bill Simmons
  • Joel’s rejection for being Jewish and the unsuccessful Jack Black-like music character are other aged-worst selections. — Bill Simmons
  • Using homophobic and disability slurs for jokes is identified as conspicuous and dated. — Juliet Litman
Adventureland The Rewatchables
Adventureland

What’s Aged the Best?

Soundtrack; mustache; groin-punch gag; corn dogs; Lisa P; entrances; erection gag; mixtapes; stepmother; Joel’s line; liberal-arts satire; carnival

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  • The soundtrack has aged well, with praise for the Replacements’ Bastards of Young, Bowie’s Modern Love, the Rolling Stones’ Tops, Hüsker Dü’s Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely, Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over, the Cure’s Just Like Heaven and INXS’s Don’t Change. — Bill Simmons
  • The amount of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground music divides opinion, with another listener enjoying the repeated Pale Blue Eyes. — Bill Simmons
  • Repeated Rock Me Amadeus is praised as a running joke that makes the characters hate the park’s music. — Bill Simmons
  • Hader’s period mustache has aged well. — Bill Simmons
  • Frigo’s repeated groin punches are praised as a recognizable period gag. — Bill Simmons
  • The corn dogs remain appetizing despite the less appealing bulk-delivery image. — Bill Simmons
  • Margarita Levieva’s Lisa P performance is praised, with The Deuce cited as her later prominent role. — Bill Simmons
  • Continuing to call her Lisa P after other Lisas have apparently disappeared is an appealingly familiar naming habit. — Bill Simmons
  • Lisa P’s unmediated local celebrity and slow-motion entrance remain appealing, as does the recurring erection joke. — Bill Simmons
  • Mixtapes have aged well because their handwritten selections and fixed sequencing required more thought and effort than an editable playlist. — Bill Simmons
  • The stepmother’s use as a partial villain and her period haircut are praised. — Bill Simmons
  • Joel’s resigned line that worse things have happened to Jewish people is praised as an effective throwaway joke. — Bill Simmons
  • The satire of liberal-arts graduates and Em questioning why travel writing requires journalism school have aged well. — Juliet Litman
  • The carnival is an unusually effective central setting, compared with Big’s partial use, the Knoxville park film and The Way Way Back’s water park. — Bill Simmons
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