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Country Strong The Rewatchables
Country Strong

What’s Aged the Best?

Unraveling-star comeback premise; "Kelly Canter and Jesus Christ" line; Gwyneth crying while talking; Kelly's death set to "Timing Is Everything"; fan's rock-bottom line; country music's celebrity crossover; Tim McGraw's side-stage face

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  • Pre-listed for aged best: stars get a finite number of chances to win back the public; Britney Spears had a limited comeback tour after her 2007 breakdown, and in 2020 it keeps happening, e.g. Demi Lovato. — Liz Kelly
  • The Britney Spears-type premise of an unraveling star whose team pushes her to stay famous. — Bill Simmons
  • The line "Who's your idol? Kelly Canter and Jesus Christ," delivered by Meester. — Bill Simmons
  • The speaker's wife's pick: nobody is better than Gwyneth at crying and talking at the same time; the other example offered was The Talented Mr. Ripley. — Bill Simmons
  • Kelly's death easing into the "Timing Is Everything" song with the hospital scene really works. — Bill Simmons
  • A fan interviewed before the Dallas concert says she has hit rock bottom and sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to realize what you have, an idea never explored again. — Bill Simmons
  • Country music's crossover with celebrity has aged well: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton, country artists hanging out with the Kardashians and treated as general celebrities, Stagecoach and Bachelor Nation; Taylor Swift paved the way starting in 2010. — Liz Kelly
  • Tim McGraw's side-of-stage "so psyched she's killing it" half-smile face; he has one face in this movie. — Bill Simmons
Tommy Boy The Rewatchables
Tommy Boy

What’s Aged the Worst?

Sandusky, Ohio setting; Bo Derek stunt casting; Flashdance jokes; sneaking onto a plane as flight attendants; Herbie Hancock joke; rushed brake-pad reversal

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  • The Sandusky, Ohio setting is a tough beat that jumps off the screen; the sign and a few spoken mentions could have been changed, as films have done with the Twin Towers. — Bill Simmons
  • Bo Derek's stunt casting was a big deal in 1995, when she had been like Marilyn Monroe for two years; the equivalent now would be a long-absent Britney Spears, and it no longer translates. — Bill Simmons
  • Jokes about Flashdance have become progressively less funny; producer Craig is joked not to know what Flashdance is. — Bill Simmons
  • Sneaking onto a plane as flight attendants is impossible post-9/11; where they were flying from and to is unclear. — Bill Simmons
  • Too few cameos from the SNL universe is raised, but rebutted: not overloading it makes a better, weirdly sincere movie, and Aykroyd's part drives the story. — Sean Fennessey
  • The Herbie Hancock joke is lost on kids who did not get it. — Cousin Sal
  • Unsure about Aykroyd's character, with a Coneheads voice and a Mel Kuyper Jr. look, the country-club lunch invite at the end, and the finale where a presumed robber with flares gets to a camera crew. — Cousin Sal
  • Everyone watching local news during a workday and a fake bomb being shrugged off are nitpicked, but it's a comedy.
  • After the whole road trip to sell brake pads, the reversal back in Sandusky happens too quickly to process. — Sean Fennessey
  • A reply adds that drunk Lowe presses two buttons on a computer and everything goes to hell immediately. — Bill Simmons
The Notebook The Rewatchables
The Notebook

Casting What-Ifs

Jessica Biel, Britney Spears, Reese Witherspoon and Ashley Judd were in the mix for Allie; Justin Timberlake was rumored as Noah; Steven Spielberg wanted to direct with Tom Cruise

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  • Quite a few actresses wished they had gotten Allie; Jessica Biel is the most vocal, having called it in an interview the film that got away, though one host no longer acknowledges Jessica Biel.
  • Britney Spears would have been terrible, and with Justin Timberlake rumored as Noah a Justin-and-Britney Notebook was probably considered; she is a really bad actress who has never had chemistry with anyone, said with respect; Reese Witherspoon may not be a true rumor, and Ashley Judd would have been too old.
  • Timberlake is not a good actor but fun in The Social Network; he later worked with Nick Cassavetes in Alpha Dog with Emile Hirsch, a time capsule of 2006 that nobody saw.
  • Steven Spielberg apparently wanted to direct this with Tom Cruise starring, which prompts a wish to ask Spielberg what attracted him, with the war part the guess, and a joke that Kevin Connolly would have fared better; the timing is first placed right after Jerry Maguire, then corrected to around 2002, after Eyes Wide Shut and the Nicole divorce, coming off Minority Report and Vanilla Sky.
  • Cruise's Noah would be a different take that would not make the movie work, though possibly accurate to the script, and not the romantic movie we know; the what-ifs are fun because where they landed is so perfect, Gosling was famously cast first, and a DVD extra shows McAdams coming in for her read looking even younger.
Titanic The Rewatchables
Titanic

Unintentional Comedy Award

Kathy Bates's dialogue; 'draw me like one of your French girls'; the sound Gloria Stewart (as transcribed) makes throwing the heart of the ocean into the water

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  • The award goes from one host to Kathy Bates, some of whose lines are absurd and dumb; another thinks that is partly intentional but agrees.
  • Another goes with 'draw me like one of your French girls', a favorite internet meme.
  • A third nominee is small: the sound Gloria Stewart (as transcribed) makes when she throws the heart of the ocean into the water; the whole heart of the ocean plot line is called unintentional comedy, recalling a Britney Spears video built around it.
  • The true gift of unintentional comedy is the memes of the last three or four years, which Cameron could never have foreseen, including a genre of innuendo jokes about the sinking ship, one of them read aloud.
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