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She's the One The Rewatchables
She's the One

Recasting Couch

Talia Shire as the sisters’ mother; Leslie Mann in Maxine’s role.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:52:04Read transcript
Rocky The Rewatchables
Rocky

Casting What-Ifs

Caan/Reynolds/O’Neal/Redford; Norton; Keitel; Snodgress; Strasberg

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Approx. transcript time · 01:18:29Read transcript
Blow Out The Rewatchables
Blow Out

Recasting Couch

Keep Allen disputed; Sarandon, Winger, Close, Lange, Kidder and Fisher proposed

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Approx. transcript time · 00:11:26Read transcript
  • Redford or Hoffman are imagined in a 1970s version, but neither would supply Travolta’s particular lightness and finesse. — Wesley Morris
  • Travolta is imagined in Tom Hanks’s 1980s roles, Romancing the Stone, Beverly Hills Cop and Amadeus, praising his combined dancing and everyman abilities. — Wesley Morris
  • Purple Rain is jokingly floated and doubted, while Manhunter receives enthusiastic support as a hypothetical Travolta vehicle.
  • Gere is imagined in Urban Cowboy’s Scott Glenn role but not Travolta’s lead. — Wesley Morris
  • Travolta in No Way Out and Field of Dreams is imagined; Field of Dreams versus Bull Durham suitability is disputed, including whether he looks like a baseball player.
  • Travolta in Die Hard is enthusiastically supported; missing an action vehicle around 1986–1988 is considered a lost opportunity.
  • Travolta is imagined as Danny in Prince of the City.
  • Nancy Allen is the recasting target despite admiration for Dressed to Kill and Carrie; repeated casting of a romantic partner is compared to Sondra Locke, while Allen is said to improve in the second half. — Bill Simmons
  • Susan Sarandon, Debra Winger, a young Glenn Close and Jessica Lange are proposed for more star power. — Bill Simmons
  • Lange is initially considered the only proposed actor suited to the character’s ditziness; Allen’s apparent dullness is defended as manipulation plus genuine hospital sedation.
  • Allen is defended through her attentive eyes in the bar scene; the alternatives might project too much intelligence and professionalism, including Lange’s light rather than ditzy Tootsie performance. — Wesley Morris
  • Sarandon remains a possible alternative, but Allen’s Bronx background makes her believable as Philadelphian in a way Lange may not. — Chris Ryan
  • Margot Kidder and Carrie Fisher are proposed then rejected as different or too smart; Allen’s lightness is defended as exactly right, while the desire for a new actress persists.
  • Harrison Ford is proposed as capable of the lead but acknowledged to produce a different performance. — Wesley Morris
  • Roy Scheider could make it work as a more 1970s film; Redford is doubted as too beautiful and insufficiently East Coast, while Pacino and Gere remain conceivable. — Wesley Morris
  • Stallone is jokingly the worst case because he would rewrite the material.
  • The invited producer agrees Allen works better by the end despite disliking her early performance. — Bill Simmons
The American President The Rewatchables
The American President

Casting What-Ifs

Michelle Pfeiffer as Sidney

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Groundhog Day The Rewatchables
Groundhog Day

Casting What-Ifs

Tom Hanks and Michael Keaton as Phil; Tori Amos as Rita

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  • The hosts say Ramis originally wanted Tom Hanks rather than Bill Murray but decided Hanks was too nice; Eddie Murphy is guessed first, and Hanks would have been great. — Bill Simmons
  • Michael Keaton is said to have turned it down as too confusing, regretted it, and ended up in Multiplicity with Ramis and Andy McDowell. — Bill Simmons
  • Eddie Murphy would have wanted the part in the mid-to-late 80s but not by 1993 after Boomerang; a circa-1990 Murphy would have been really good, Keaton also would have been good, but Bill Murray ended up perfect. — Bill Simmons
  • The hosts say Andy McDowell almost did not get the role because it was going to Tori Amos, amid a groundswell, before they played it safe; Sex, Lies, and Videotape is named as her breakthrough. — Bill Simmons
  • Asked who instead, the answer is not Tori Amos but Susan Sarandon. — Sean Fennessey
  • The Sarandon case: more mustard on the fastball playing off Bill Murray, the right age, and believable as an ambitious TV producer. — Sean Fennessey
  • The Sarandon idea draws pushback that she always feels older and was probably too old in 1993. — Sean Fennessey
  • Meg Ryan is floated and described as very sweet and so blonde. — Issa Rae
  • If Eddie Murphy were the lead, Whitney Houston is floated; the early 90s are called a tough era for actresses, Sandra Bullock too young though great, and Julia too big a star; the role is called a prop. — Bill Simmons
  • After the break, the guest's Eddie Murphy idea is revisited as an awesome 80s Eddie Murphy, with doubt he pulls it off in the 90s. — Bill Simmons
Mad Max: Fury Road The Rewatchables
Mad Max: Fury Road

Apex Mountain

The Doof Warrior (iOTA); George Miller (one host, vs. The Road Warrior); Charlize Theron (1 yes, 2 no)

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  • George Miller is weighed first, with a joke that Happy Feet was easily better and Babe and Babe 2 called excellent; The Road Warrior is named his best film, the one that laid the carpet for him to become a Spielbergian director who could do action and drama, and Lorenzo's Oil, about Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte trying to cure their child and drawn from Miller's experience as a doctor, a fine tearjerker; because he never worked at the volume needed to stay in the mix, one host answers no for this film and names Road Warrior as Miller's apex.
  • Tom Hardy is called really complicated: Inception, with the Ames (as transcribed) character, is rated higher than Fury Road, Dunkirk and The Revenant come up, and Warrior is picked as the best he has ever been as a performer if not in fame, Tommy Conlon being a better version of Max in a largely silent physical performance.
  • Charlize is put to the table: two voices say no, then one says yes, placing this over the Oscar win for Monster, the Jason Reitman collaborations and A Million Ways to Die in the West; her shaved head meant she wore a wig in the Seth MacFarlane western comedy.
  • The dissent on Charlize is that Monster is her Apex Mountain, so her yes does not carry the table.
  • For Miller, a second host answers yes, this is Apex Mountain, even while agreeing The Road Warrior is the better film in story, characters and pacing: as an achievement it is almost unparalleled, a movie where you feel the physics in a near-fully-CG era, made from non-Marvel IP after all the struggles to get it made, a top-five action film that, like The Fugitive, grabs you and cannot be switched off once it starts; this yes stands against the earlier Road Warrior answer and is not resolved.
  • The Doof Warrior is easily at Apex Mountain, agreed with several 'easily's.
My Best Friend's Wedding The Rewatchables
My Best Friend's Wedding

Who Won the Movie?

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  • The first answer is Rupert Everett, a lasting, scene-stealing performance, illustrated with his 'maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by God there'll be dancing' clip.
  • The counter-pick is Julia: a case exists for all three, and the film establishes Cameron Diaz as someone who can go toe-to-toe with the top actress of her generation, but this is Julia's comeback A plus list movie that sets up the run to America's sweetheart and her Oscar; the others agree a case can be made for the other two.
  • Cam is great and rules; no other actress went toe-to-toe with Julia in her extended prime, and in Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's 12 she does not interact with any women, as if she learned from Cameron Diaz; Stepmom with Susan Sarandon is remembered as a weird 1998 movie she loses and should not have taken.
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Mission: Impossible The Rewatchables
Mission: Impossible

Casting What-Ifs

Juliette Binoche turned down Claire; Peter Graves and Martin Landau turned down roles after reading the script; Demi Moore floated as Claire

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Approx. transcript time · 00:31:53Read transcript
  • There are not many casting what-ifs because the movie was put together by Cruise and Wagner; Juliette Binoche turned down Claire because she did not want to be known for blockbusters, which worked out for her, and it would have been a funny coincidence with Kristen Scott Thomas in two well-seen 1996 movies in the year of The English Patient.
  • Peter Graves and Martin Landau from the original series turned down roles after reading the script; Graves did not care for Jim Phelps being the villain and Landau thought it got away from what made the show good, though the hosts wonder whether the roles were smaller than they wanted and joke about Landau feeling himself after his 1994 Oscar.
  • Since Claire did not have to be European, Demi Moore is floated as a reunion with Cruise after A Few Good Men; sex scenes between Claire and Ethan were written and cut, a kiss appears in the trailer that is not in the film, and despite the grabbing and handsiness and an implied night together there is not much chemistry.
  • 1996 was the year of Striptease for Demi Moore, so it would have been a left turn; Claire is called an underwritten part and one of the weakest aspects, a Russian doll for Jim's motivations in a Hitchcockian way; Susan Sarandon is also mentioned, but the objection is that Moore is too visceral and signals a fight scene is coming, whereas Claire's sphinx-like quality serves the narrative, so maybe Emmanuel Bayer (as transcribed) is right for it after all.
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