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John Wick · The Rewatchables ·September 17, 2024

What’s Aged the Best?

Baba Yaga; Continental; Perkins; lean plot; flash-forward; body blow; Jonathan; bartender; Winters; watch; Allen; Viggo; human shield

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• Baba Yaga is praised as a nickname, despite pronunciation jokes and its failure to become a sports nickname. — Bill Simmons
• The Continental remains a strong element. — Bill Simmons
• Perkins’s fearless rule-breaking and willingness to insult Wick make her memorable. — Shea Serrano
• Omitting a police-investigation subplot keeps the film lean and focused on revenge. — Chris Ryan
• Opening with a later scene before circling back is praised. — Bill Simmons
• The son vomiting after a stomach punch effectively sells the blow. — Bill Simmons
• Winston calling Wick Jonathan suggests history and weight. — Bill Simmons
• The attractive bartender with a romantic history is recognized as a familiar action trope, with jokes about how soon she flirts after the wife’s death. — Bill Simmons
• Dean Winters’s battered adviser is compared with his insurance-ad persona, correcting the company to Allstate. — Bill Simmons
• Wick turning his watch inward is admired as a small practical detail; a military explanation is also offered. — Bill Simmons
• Alfie Allen is praised as a thoroughly unlikable son, strongly associated with his television persona. — Bill Simmons
• Viggo’s speech turns John’s wife dying into a story about himself; the speech is praised as awesome.
• The son using a woman as a human shield is moved from an aged-worst thought to an appreciated villain trope. — Shea Serrano

Good Will Hunting · The Rewatchables ·January 25, 2018

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

Clark, the ponytail guy in the Harvard bar

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• A new category suggested by a reader, whose name the host cannot remember: the Mark Ruffalo They Knew overacting moment of the movie; watching for the first recipient, there is no overacting in this movie, and the only case, which the host does not agree with, is Chucky going in to do the job interview for Will, a comic relief scene everyone likes.
• Devil's advocate: does Damon broadcast the cracking in it's not your fault, or is it just familiarity after 25 years; it is one of the only times Robin Williams blows Damon off the screen, and if you look closely the crinkled-up face when he starts to cry is kind of bad until the hug hides him, which is why people have picked on the scene over the years; the rebuttal asks how else he should play a man melting down and trying not to.
• Given the final say, the answer is that Damon does a good job in that scene; also, Mark Ruffalo's they knew line is the best part of Spotlight. — Shea Serrano
• The others love the Spotlight moment too, having waited Ruffalo's whole career for him to raise his voice in a movie of people reading phone books for two hours; the category is tweaked to the overacting scene they also love to death, achievement in overacting, and given to Clark with the ponytail, exactly over the top perfect, even his ponytail a little frazzled.
• Agreement that Clark is the pick, given his look. — Chris Ryan
• Shout-out: the Clark actor became more famous in Oz as Ryan O'Reilly's brain-damaged brother, and is Dean Winters's real-life brother; Ryan O'Reilly is a forgotten all-time great TV character, and Winters is now the beeper guy from 30 Rock and the insurance ads.