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High Fidelity The Rewatchables
High Fidelity

Casting What-Ifs

Jack Black, David Arquette, Liz Phair, alternate fantasy musicians, deleted performers, and an uncleared Lennon song

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:30:10Read transcript
  • Jack Black initially passing on Barry is reported. — Bill Simmons
  • David Arquette was reportedly offered Dick, a choice judged much worse. — Bill Simmons
  • Liz Phair was reportedly considered for Marie DeSalle, which is treated as a very different version.
  • Bob Dylan and Billy Corgan are considered as fantasy replacements for Springsteen.
  • The Ramis and Beverly DeAngelo deleted scenes are recalled. — Bill Simmons
  • An uncleared John Lennon song is identified as Cusack’s desired choice for Rob’s proposal. — Bill Simmons
The Gambler The Rewatchables
The Gambler

What’s Aged the Worst?

Professor–student romance; Wahlberg’s hair; Dexter disputed; Lange’s tennis; pre-NIL athlete; knee and draft timing

In the discussion (6)
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  • The romance between a fortyish professor and his twenty- or twenty-one-year-old student has aged poorly, including the ending run to her dorm. — Bill Simmons
  • Wahlberg’s long, wrapping hairstyle looks like a 1974 hockey player’s and distracts. — Bill Simmons
  • Emory Cohen’s Dexter divides opinion: the eccentric performance is criticized through a David Arquette comparison, but its oddness is also enjoyed. — Bill Simmons
  • Jessica Lange’s tennis serve, clothing and conspicuous editing are unconvincing; doubles might have hidden the problem. — Bill Simmons
  • The broke college athlete belongs to the pre-NIL era; a modern prospect could receive collective money. — Bill Simmons
  • Lamar’s concealed knee problem seems implausible with modern sports medicine, and a major prospect would likely leave college earlier. — Bill Simmons
Parenthood The Rewatchables
Parenthood

What’s Aged the Best?

Joaquin Phoenix; Kanye West lyric; Keanu Reeves; overlapping young cast; thumb trick; helium grandmother; Phoenix and DiCaprio rivalry; Garry’s room; the boyfriend’s arc; Grazer nude-photo backstory; Cure poster; Kevin’s tense face; Harley Jane Kozak; money realism

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  • Joaquin Phoenix, then credited as Leaf, gives a performance that forecasts an Oscar winner, especially when his face breaks while asking his father if he can live with him. — Bill Simmons
  • One participant did not realize the actor was the boy from Parenthood until after Gladiator, when a sister pointed it out. — Van Lathan
  • A Kanye West lyric from Gone about a new wife and “now you’re Jennifer Aniston” is said to borrow from the film’s line about a new wife and family. — Van Lathan
  • Keanu Reeves in his pre-Speed, Bill and Ted phase is fun and owns the boyfriend role, compared with David Arquette taking it in the TV series. — Bill Simmons
  • The cast captures an era of overlapping young actors, with Reeves and River Phoenix making a Gus Van Sant film and Martha Plimpton dating River Phoenix; Plimpton is also praised. — Bill Simmons
  • Gil’s thumb trick still delights small children. — Bill Simmons
  • The grandmother inhaling helium is favored, as any helium scene is funny. — Bill Simmons
  • Per the research, there was a rivalry in which DiCaprio sought the Garry role, Phoenix got it, and the two competed for parts, with Phoenix measuring himself against DiCaprio. — Bill Simmons
  • Garry’s chaotic room is praised as a horror show compared with a real teenager’s room. — Bill Simmons
  • The boyfriend character as every parent’s nightmare who turns out decent is a favored concept. — Bill Simmons
  • The nude-photo discovery reportedly happened to producer Brian Grazer; developing such photos in the 1980s is joked about. — Bill Simmons
  • The Cure's Boys Don't Cry poster in Julie's room is appreciated. — Bill Simmons
  • Kevin’s tense face became a recurring reference in an early sports column, seen in a head coach during the Super Bowl and in LeBron James. — Bill Simmons
  • Harley Jane Kozak, also Helen in When Harry Met Sally, is appreciated as an actor who never quite broke through. — Bill Simmons
  • The film’s candid treatment of money, including Larry’s debts, Gil’s worries about private school, and summer-school pay funding a vacation, is more relatable than shows where money is no object. — Chris Ryan
  • The car sex-act gag is raised but deferred to Apex Mountain.
Parenthood The Rewatchables
Parenthood

Half-Assed Internet Research

Failed 1990 NBC series; Blonde Goddess tape; Wiest and Steenburgen friendship; Florida location; Plimpton wig and mohawk; Helen Shaw’s final film; cast murder game; Martin’s late fatherhood

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  • Brought forward from internet research: NBC ordered a Parenthood series from a rough cut, per Bill Carter in The New York Times, and the 1990 show was canceled after twelve episodes. — Bill Simmons
  • The 1990 series cast David Arquette and a young DiCaprio in the Garry role, part of a late-1980s wave of failed movie-based shows such as Ferris Bueller, Working Girl, Uncle Buck and Dirty Dancing. — Bill Simmons
  • The later Parenthood series is considered good by those who watched early seasons; Friday Night Lights is an outlier because it reworked the premise. — Bill Simmons
  • The Ferris Bueller TV show’s joke about a poster of Matthew Broderick playing him is recalled as hacky. — Van Lathan
  • The adult tape Helen finds was reportedly Blonde Goddess, a 1982 film whose opening parodied Indiana Jones. — Bill Simmons
  • Dianne Wiest and Mary Steenburgen were reportedly best friends who worked as waitresses together at the Magic Pan before being cast as sisters-in-law; both won Oscars. — Bill Simmons
  • The film is set in St. Louis but was shot in Florida, with palm trees and a Publix visible. — Chris Ryan
  • Martha Plimpton dated River Phoenix for nearly five years and began the shoot bald from a prior role, wearing a wig until Ron Howard had her shave her head into a mohawk. — Bill Simmons
  • Helen Shaw, who played the grandmother, made her final film here and died in 1997 at age 100. — Bill Simmons
  • During filming the cast became obsessed with a Mafia-like murder game played through eye contact, including during the dinner scene. — Bill Simmons
  • Steve Martin did not become a parent until age 67 in 2012 despite starring in two iconic parent movies of his generation. — Bill Simmons
Scream The Rewatchables
Scream

Unintentional Comedy Award

The Henry Winkler scenes; David Arquette's off-kilter Dewey; Skeet Ulrich's unknowingly satirical performance; the Liev Schreiber cameo

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  • There is not a lot of unintentional comedy except the Winkler scenes, which are funny now, and Arquette, who is just off, funny in retrospect given people thought he might be something.
  • Skeet Ulrich giving a performance he probably does not believe is satire is unintentionally funny, since he was cast as a carbon copy of someone the director worked with fifteen years earlier, which an actor could never be told; Casper Van Deem (as transcribed) thinking Starship Troopers was a drama is the comparison.
  • The Liev Schreiber cameo is thrown in because his voice comes to mind immediately, imagining him testifying at the trial for killing Sidney's mother or narrating Magic vs. Bird.
Scream The Rewatchables
Scream

Apex Mountain

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Approx. transcript time · 00:47:10Read transcript
  • Wes Craven could be argued but Elm Street is still his Apex Mountain; his amazing career spans the three stages of late-century horror, from Hills Have Eyes and Last House on the Left to creating Freddy and reinventing the genre in the nineties, and he is underrated, on a Mount Rushmore with Tobey Hooper (as transcribed), George Romero and John Carpenter; the movie still moves today.
  • Completely agrees, finds the thought sad, and wonders what to do when John Carpenter dies. — K. Austin Collins
  • The coming Halloween remake with Jamie Lee Curtis is asking audiences to forget some sequels, like Rocky Balboa waving off Rocky V, which is what 48 Hours should have done.
  • A confession that Nightmare on Elm Street was a shitty movie meets a fan of the first two and Dream Warriors; Heather Langenkamp is dismissed, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the meta Freddy movie, failed just before this, leaving Scream as a bit of a last gasp for his career.
  • Neve Campbell's nominees are this or the intervention scene with Bailey in Party of Five.
  • Asked to decide, goes with the Party of Five intervention over Scream. — K. Austin Collins
  • Another feels the same way about the intervention, called the saddest hour in television history with Bailey as the rock of the family, and it stands even against Scream's $290 million.
  • Skeet Ulrich is clearly at his Apex, with nothing else competing; he was in As Good as It Gets, went a couple of rounds with Jericho, and is now known to kids as Riverdale's Skeet Ulrich.
  • A tangent on Skeet Ulrich's first name becoming slang, popularized by Dave Chappelle, and whether his stage name was a bad choice slides into a crude callback to the Silence of the Lambs episode's Migs discussion.
  • Reader Howard from Calgary writes that Stuart Rudin, who played Migs, was in Sticky Fingers and has an IMDb of homeless men, winos and patients; Migs was his Apex Mountain, and listeners are invited to the mailbag.
  • Matthew Lillard: it has got to be, with SLC Punk raised; considering how good he is in Scream, this is his Apex.
  • Jamie Kennedy was forced on the culture with an MTV show after this and never took; his Apex Mountain is definitively dating Jennifer Love Hewitt, an achievement rather than a performance, which leads to a tangent on why women disliked her.
  • For David Arquette the reminder is that he held the WCW heavyweight title, a movie tie-in, the belt once held by Ric Flair.
  • Asked to decide, calls this absolutely David Arquette's Apex. — Shea Serrano
  • Eight Legged Freaks is also raised for Arquette; Rose McGowan is a no, her later weirdness and dating Marilyn Manson jokingly called her apex, though she had a cool indie career, the Rodriguez Grindhouse movie with the gun leg, and is now a filmmaker and activist.
  • Courtney Cox is first a no, since it has got to be Friends and you cannot get higher; one voice later counters, unresolved, that the combination is her apex, since this came out during Friends season three when Monica was dismissed as having no personality and showed she could be the bitch too; her later characters are more Gail Weathers than Monica.
  • She reportedly pursued the role to play someone not traditionally nice and to get punched in the face; her later sitcoms were Dirt and the Bill Lawrence show about people in LA drinking wine, whose title nobody can remember.
  • Henry Winkler is joked to have been the mountain itself.
  • Earlier, while praising the cast, Drew Barrymore is followed by the garbled phrase 'I'd heard, like, Mad Love Apex' (as transcribed).
Scream The Rewatchables
Scream

What’s Aged the Worst?

Cell phone reception as a murder prop; the Arquette and Cox courtship given their later divorce; David Arquette's Dewey; the Henry Winkler scenes

In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:32:18Read transcript
  • Landlines lead into what aged worst: after twenty-one years one host is not convinced any 1996 cell phone was good enough to be a murder prop in wine country around Sonoma, with trees and driveways and nobody near anybody.
  • A secret favorite part: Drew Barrymore's character says she will call the cops, the killer says they are too far away, and she accepts it even though her boyfriend is bleeding.
  • A counterpoint cites Michael Douglas's gigantic cell phone on the beach in Wall Street: phones then were for doctors and rich people and may have worked better for that elite group; the hosts wonder whether Wall Street had the first cell phone in a major movie, followed by Zach Morris.
  • Asked how the movie would be received in the outrage culture era, the hosts expect outrage at two guys killing the mother and calling her a whore before people swung around to its tongue-in-cheek intent; one does not find the movie problematic at all and calls everything problematic about it hilarious.
  • The sexualized staging of Rose McGowan's death is read as a deliberate joke on the bimbo-who-dies trope; per IMDb trivia she could have fit through the opening and escaped, and she flips the killer like a pro wrestler, part of a slapstick way of fighting the villain that exposes the killers as high school kids getting beaten by teenage girls and makes Ghostface very vulnerable.
  • The seeds of David Arquette and Courtney Cox falling in love, knowing it ended badly and she went on to date Will Arnett, make their marriage what aged worst, though it is pure in the movie.
  • Part two is that David Arquette is really terrible, playing Dewey as if brain damaged, and it is unclear why he became a phenomenon afterwards; a defender says Dewey is supposed to be extra dumb and is charming, though his 'I was 24 for a whole year' line is too good for such a character.
  • The Henry Winkler scenes had more impact at the time because of his fame; the principal putting two fingers on Sidney's chin would be a real problem today, and together with his scissors threat to the two kids in masks suggests a background worth checking.
  • If Scream were made now, the Winkler equivalent would have to be one of the five biggest TV stars: George Clooney is proposed, Zach Morris rejected as not famous enough, and Kelsey Grammer, David Schwimmer and Don Johnson floated.
  • A Ross tangent: People vs. OJ helped one host like David Schwimmer, but Ross is blamed for turning Friends from a great first season into a rom-com, and another protests that Ross was just a character, a human being sometimes.
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