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Rick Rossovich
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Rewatchables episodes featuring Rick Rossovich’s films
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What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?
Split: the crawling half-Terminator; Rick Rossovich’s briefs or Ginger’s sandwich; Arnold’s red motorcycle
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:31:47Read transcript
- One choice is the practical upper half of the destroyed Terminator displayed on a living-room couch.
- Another jokingly chooses Rossovich’s briefs and then Ginger’s sandwich.
- The last chooses Arnold’s recognizable red motorcycle, imagined as a perfect conversation piece. — Bill Simmons
The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Rick Rossovich beats Bill Paxton for the heat check through a phone call, sex scene, fearless underwear fight, and unrealized post-Top Gun momentum.
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:13:37Read transcript
- Paxton makes a strong 30-second case, but Rossovich has more material and returns to fight an enormous intruder without hesitation.
- Losin’ It, Streets of Fire, The Terminator, Top Gun, and Roxanne looked like the start of a larger career that did not arrive. — Bill Simmons
The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award
The unnamed-to-the-panel psychiatrist who later returns in Terminator 2
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:11:35Read transcript
- Rick Rossovich is rejected as too firmly known by name and better suited to Heat Check; Paul Winfield and Lance Henriksen are also too established. — Bill Simmons
- Dick Miller is considered, but the returning psychiatrist wins even though the speakers do not supply his actor’s name.
What’s Aged the Best?
The title, Arnold’s casting and dialogue, the gun-shop scene, supporting actors, synth score, romance, practical effects, and the unkillable-villain structure
In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 00:50:27Read transcript
- The two-word title is praised as perfect, direct, sequel-friendly 1980s naming.
- Arnold as a robot is called A-plus casting, and the gun-shop inventory scene turns his delivery, scale, and Dick Miller’s salesmanship into repeat-viewing pleasure.
- Bill Paxton’s brief punk appearance, including his distinction as a Terminator/Alien/Predator victim, is a treasured cameo. — Bill Simmons
- Arnold’s pronunciation of Sarah Connor, Lance Henriksen and Paul Winfield’s overqualified cops, and Cameron’s dark Los Angeles atmosphere remain distinctive. — Bill Simmons
- “Fuck you, asshole,” the address demand, and especially Cameron refusing Arnold’s requested “I will be back” rewrite preserve his signature vocal comedy.
- Brad Fiedel’s synth pulse is picked as an enduring musical trigger despite its inexpensive-sounding era-specific tools.
- Kyle’s claim that he crossed time for Sarah gives the romance enormous stakes, while the explicit hotel scene remains narratively essential because it conceives John Connor.
- Stan Winston’s practical effects and Arnold’s effortless disposal of a visibly strong Rick Rossovich sustain the machine’s threat.
Most Rewatchable Scene
Tech Noir
In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 00:33:10Read transcript
- Early candidates include every Ginger scene, Bill Paxton’s arrival, and Rick Rossovich returning from a plate-glass-window throw to keep fighting in his underwear.
- Tech Noir combines indiscriminate danger, slow-motion club imagery, Sarah recognizing both pursuers, Kyle’s rescue, and the reveal that shotgun blasts cannot stop Arnold. — Bill Simmons
- Kyle’s tunnel explanation of Skynet, extermination, and Sarah’s unborn son is praised as exposition that should fail but succeeds through writing and performance. — Bill Simmons
- The Terminator repairing his arm and eye is remembered as astonishing 1984 practical work whose crudeness now adds charm; sunglasses make the puppet face convincing. — Shea Serrano
- The police-station assault turns flimsy PCP explanations into a brutal crash-and-shootout showcase whose sound improved with later formats. — Bill Simmons
- The oil-tanker chase, delayed explosion, and endoskeleton emerging from fire create a false ending and reset the rules again.
- The Mexico coda completes Sarah’s transformation and pays off the photograph Kyle had carried without explaining away the causal loop.
- Two hosts explicitly choose Tech Noir, and the third centers his favorite quality on that scene’s revelation of how hard the machine is to kill.
Apex Mountain
Kelly McGillis, Rick Rossovich, and Simpson–Bruckheimer: yes
In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 01:23:44Read transcript
- Tom Skerritt is debated against Alien
- Kelly McGillis’s Witness–Top Gun stretch is accepted
- Rick Rossovich is accepted
- The Navy is debated against Zero Dark Thirty
- The Beverly Hills Cop–Top Gun run is accepted for Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer
- Cruise and Kilmer are rejected as being at their apex here
- Beach volleyball is debated against Karch Kiraly
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