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Robert Duvall

Also referred to as Duval, Duvall

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Episodes featuring their films
4
Movies in this archive
7

Rewatchables episodes featuring Robert Duvall’s films

Days of Thunder

1990 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Kyle Brandt

Aired March 18, 2025

The Godfather Part II

1974 film

Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey · Chris Ryan · Brian Koppelman

Aired December 17, 2019

The Natural

1984 film

Bill Simmons · Mallory Rubin

Aired March 19, 2019

The Godfather

1972 film

Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey · Chris Ryan

Aired January 8, 2019

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Days of Thunder The Rewatchables
Days of Thunder

Who Won the Movie?

No consensus: Roxy (Leilani Sarelle), Tom Cruise, Tony Scott, or Robert Duvall

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:55:05Read transcript
Days of Thunder The Rewatchables
Days of Thunder

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Daytona odds, pace car, Cruise–Kidman timing, and alternate Harry

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:50:51Read transcript
  • Cole's Daytona odds after his crash and in another driver's car are estimated at 100-to-1 or longer. — Bill Simmons
  • The panel doubts it would be good at driving a pace car because of the banking and attention. — Kyle Brandt
  • The timing of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman beginning their relationship is debated as either casting or after the hallway kiss. — Kyle Brandt
  • Jack Nicholson is proposed as Harry if Robert Duvall had made The Godfather Part III instead. — Bill Simmons
  • That substitution is recognized as potentially changing A Few Good Men. — Bill Simmons
Days of Thunder The Rewatchables
Days of Thunder

Apex Mountain

Mello Yello and car-racing movies; several near-apex cases

In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:40:23Read transcript
Days of Thunder The Rewatchables
Days of Thunder

What’s Aged the Best?

Robert Duvall, craft, cast, and racing lessons

In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:03:42Read transcript
Misery The Rewatchables
Misery

Casting What-Ifs

Many actors declined Annie Wilkes and Paul Sheldon; several alternative Paul Sheldons are debated

In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 00:29:38Read transcript
Rain Man The Rewatchables
Rain Man

Half-Assed Internet Research

Two schmucks in a car; the strike-era ending; airline edits; Hoffman's early crisis; the Kim Peek origin; the Hoffman, Hackman and Duvall roommates

In the discussion (16)
Approx. transcript time · 01:02:49Read transcript
  • During filming Hoffman and Cruise called the movie two schmucks in a car and constantly worried it would not work. — Bill Simmons
  • Principal photography happened during the 1988 Writers Guild strike, so the final scene was apparently winged without writers. — Bill Simmons
  • The ending is questioned as unsatisfying for a Best Picture winner, since it lacks a sappy payoff where Raymond stays with Charlie. — Sean Fennessey
  • A sentimental Amtrak scene always lands for someone who spent the 80s riding Amtrak between a mom's house and a dad's house. — Sean Fennessey
  • Card counting is meant to be the climax that brings the brothers close and saves Charlie's business; the ending is neither victory nor defeat, and its ambiguity is liked. — Chris Ryan
  • Jokes imagine a modern version with Raymond as a Marvel superhero, a Wallbrook driveway epilogue, or Lenny killing Charlie.
  • Airline versions deleted the airline-accident scene, except on Qantas. — Bill Simmons
  • Choosing a flight at the airport and hopping on last minute was possible through the late 90s. — Bill Simmons
  • Three weeks in, Hoffman thought the movie was a disaster and told Levinson to get Richard Dreyfuss; Dreyfuss is described as Hoffman on steroids in the asshole department. — Bill Simmons
  • The film was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass; Morrow created Raymond after meeting real-life savant Kim Peek. — Bill Simmons
  • Hoffman beat Gene Hackman for Best Actor and hugged him; they were playhouse classmates who shared Hackman's apartment on 2nd Avenue and 26th Street, where Hoffman slept on the kitchen floor before moving in with Robert Duvall on West 109th Street. — Bill Simmons
  • The three as roommates is pitched as a documentary or original series, compared to LeBron, Wade and Carmelo on one AAU team. — Bill Simmons
  • Asked whose career they would rather have, one voice picks Duvall and Hackman is picked as well; Hackman was the most liked by other actors; Denzel and Will Smith took movies to work with him. — Bill Simmons
  • Hackman won a second Oscar for a supporting part in Unforgiven, something Hoffman never did. — Bill Simmons
  • Duvall is picked as the best storyteller of the three, with Godfather and Apocalypse Now stories.
  • The Replacements is called a top-five Hackman performance, with scenes apparently done in one take. — Bill Simmons
The Rock The Rewatchables
The Rock

Most Rewatchable Scene

Mine cart chase; decontamination chamber; situation room call; cistern scene; morgue scene; shower assault

In the discussion (16)
Approx. transcript time · 00:28:34Read transcript
  • The weapons-theft scene is praised: the "bubble face" guy trapped in the vault, the rockets with green balls inside, and David Morris's "sorry, dude"; a take follows that Bubbleface deserved to die for dropping the rocket. — Bill Simmons
  • Connery's first scene, 25 minutes in, with long hair in prison, is called one of the coolest entrances ever; the "lead left in your pencil" line and William Forsy's needlessly cutting insults are singled out. — Bill Simmons
  • The balcony escape (haircut on the balcony, lobster for the Secret Service, flipping John Spencer over the rail with a rope) is everything wanted in a rewatchable action scene: nine things wrong with it, but super fun; it shows a 66-year-old being underestimated, after the quarter cutting the interrogation window.
  • Any San Francisco movie with an out-of-control trolley going down the hills gets a defense of the car chase. — Bill Simmons
  • "Welcome to the Rock" follows Connery remembering the fire pattern; Bay himself pointed out the boiler would not still be working at Alcatraz, and remembering the sequence 30-plus years later is questioned. — Bill Simmons
  • The shower room shootout sets a record for slow-motion bullet deaths with arms-out convulsions; "I cannot give that order / you will give that order" is as good as it gets, and Michael Bean's commander scene is the first test of Hummel's morals, with Harris visibly upset.
  • The mine cart chase is the walkthrough's favorite: it feels like an abandoned Disney World or Pirates of the Caribbean ride, with a cart impenetrable to bullets like a protective bathtub.
  • Connery versus Harris is fun as two preeminent bald actors go head to head, though Connery wears a toupee; a Robert Duvall cameo is wished for. — Bill Simmons
  • Asked whether the mutiny shootout (with Tony Todd killed by a rocket) was Tarantino's one uncredited contribution, the reply is that after Reservoir Dogs everybody wanted every character pointing a gun at one another at the same time, perhaps with Tarantino suggesting a mutiny within the mutiny, as in John Wu and Tony Scott movies until about 2001. — Chris Ryan
  • The mutiny shows who is hardcore: Tony Todd (Candyman) signals he is not fooling around, Boeem Woodbine is softer, and David Morris delivers the ultimate betrayal; Harris should not have chosen new guys for the mission. — Mina Kimes
  • The green flares finale gets slow motion from many angles and green smoke; Bay flashes back to the Chekhov's flares rather than trusting viewers, it is unintentionally funny, Cage does another Christ pose, and it is guessed to be Bay's favorite part, with F-16s under the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • Favorite scene: the decontamination chamber where Stanley Goodspeed is first seen in action ("you want me to stick this into my heart?"), which sets a grittier tone for an R action movie. — Chris Ryan
  • Also rewatchable: the situation room call where Ed Harris calls in, with John Spencer, the White House Chief of Staff and Philip Baker Hall in the room; no movie has ever suffered from a situation room. — Chris Ryan
  • The situation room is felt to be a couple of that-guy types short (where was Robert Ridgely?); Harris announcing "Hummel from Alcatraz" and looking straight into the camera after the shower room scene are highlighted.
  • Favorite is the "Cistern scene" with a "Welcome to the Rock" attempt; second is the morgue scene, with the knife throw ("You must never hesitate"), the air conditioner kill, "that's just about the most awful thing I've ever seen," and the kicking feet. — Mina Kimes
  • A further most-rewatchable answer names the shower assault (SEALs versus Marines in the shower) and the mine cart chase; the answering voice is unresolved. — Bill Simmons
Lethal Weapon The Rewatchables
Lethal Weapon

Recasting Couch

Lisa Bonet as Rianne; Mimi Rogers as the doctor; Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton or Robert Duvall as the General

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:09:01Read transcript
First Blood The Rewatchables
First Blood

Casting What-Ifs

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:53:46Read transcript
  • The film was nearly made in 1975; producers wanted Steve McQueen, then judged him too old, and considered Chris Christopherson before it went into turnaround. — Bill Simmons
  • Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall turned down the Teasle role. — Bill Simmons
  • Hackman would lift the movie a level, but then he might not do Unforgiven; Dennehy is judged the better outcome. — Bill Simmons
  • Duvall would have been good, but Dennehy's use of his body mattered. — Bill Simmons
  • Lee Marvin turned down Troutman; Kirk Douglas was hired and quit over a script dispute, with an uncertain story that he wanted Troutman to become Rambo. — Bill Simmons
  • Crenna, hired within 24 hours, is preferred to Douglas for enjoying every line. — Brian Koppelman
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Films in the archive

Apocalypse Now

1979

Days of Thunder

1990

Network

1976

The Godfather

1972

The Godfather Part II

1974

The Natural

1984

The Paper

1994