A 2025 Rewatchables Mailbag

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All right, I'm not sure if this is the first rewatchables mailbag. Have we ever done this before? We did a categories mailbag.

Oh, that's right. We did, but we refreshed them.
We came up with our listeners sent in Cruz vs. Hanks.
That's where we got that. Was that before or after I got the vaccine?

Because I don't remember anything after the vaccine. Is this fireball? They look no longer in Max? Yeah.
Fuck it.

We have no idea how long this is going to be. It could be one part, it could be two parts.
That's producer Craig right there, Craig Horlbeck, CR, Chris Ryan. We've been doing the rewatchables.

We had like it was the eight, nine, nine-year anniversary

of when we did the heat

20 years of heat, which, by the way, in 2025, 30 years of heat. I was at the Lakers Spurs the other night, and a guy shouted out from the crowd, Four Heat.

That was it.

That was

all I brought to the table. That was Victor Wembanyama.

Wemby loves it. For he, then he's like, Nil!

I sent you that thing where the backup keeper for Liverpool is a big Rewatchables fan. Really? Yeah.
How do we get him the starting job?

We have to.

Well, I don't want him to get the starting job. We have the best keeper in the world.
He's really good, but Allison is the best. Well, Craig's been our producer since for how many years? Since 2018?

Yeah, 2018. We had Zach Mack initially, then Craig moved in and we've woven him into the podcast.
He's hosted a couple.

We decided he had to be involved in the mailbag. I have a lot of mailbag questions.
Thanks to everybody who mailed them into the Rewatchables33 at gmail.com. I'm going to go through these.

Is it mostly new category suggestions or just broad questions? What is it? It's all kinds of things. Yeah.

Some constructive feedback. So

I think I organized this correctly. We're going to go through them.
I'll try to stop after each question. First one, a new category idea from Matthew B., the Chris Ryan Award.

Would this movie be better if a main character smoked? Yeah.

It's a good idea. So I've been thinking a lot big picture about the categories because we had we had a bunch from the last thing too.
And maybe the move is

going forward where it's like, let's say you and I are hosting. Yeah.
I have a spot. Maybe we get rid of like Bakahuneberger or something like that.

And I have a spot where it's like, you can take any of the extra categories you want, right? So if it's like a flex position.

Yeah, it's a flex, it's a flex spot maybe there's two flex spots in the pod and then we have like 20 possibles and obviously what it what's age the best down waiters all those stay in but then when we talk about like brain shot categories are related to smoking of the flex well that's tough because the answer is always yes

well yeah matthew b had it dan white suggested the sean penn i brought my own pack award for excellence in on-screen smoking which i like is sean penn the right person for that or would you would you go jimmy conway uh I think I would bring Sean Penn because Sean Penn also insists on smoking in every on-screen interview he does where he's like, I think that's part of the

barrier to entry is like, you got to let Penn smoke American spirits on camera. Well, I remember when he came to the Our World studio to do the BS pod with me.

And it was like a Sunday, one o'clock, and he stunk a cigarette stand. And I was like, I really admire this guy.

This guy is on brand at all times. So you would, you're okay with the Sean Penn.
And I brought my own pack order. I like in general, just like knowing what actors did for real in the movie.

I think that's a fun. I gotta, as you know, this is an obsession of ours and especially mine.
I always, I always look for it. And when I watch the guy, usually it's actors smoking.

I always wonder, like, are they smoking fake ones? I was wondering if Billy Bob's smoking real cigarettes. In Landman, I was thinking about that in the season finale.
Yeah, because

I feel like

he's just like, you guys need another shot. You guys need another angle because I'll spark up again.
because they had do you watch the landman?

No, they had a gasoline scene in the season for now I won't spoil it, but he's covered in gasoline and then somebody offers him the sick he's covered in gasoline. Yeah, he's still covered in gasoline.

He's really careful with be careful. He's like

I'm already whatever and he just starts smoking.

So then Dan White also suggests conversely you have the Sean Penn I brought my own pack award the Tom Cruise Which End Do I Light award for terrible on-screen smoking. I like both of those.

So I think maybe we just keep it in mind. That's what I really want to do with the pod going forward.
It's like conditional categories, depending on where we are.

Because a lot of times we just put that in what's age the best, what's age the worst, but maybe smoking needs a bigger platform. Yeah, let's put more attention on smoking.
Let's promote it.

Especially right now.

Who's our Mount Rushmore for cigarette smokers? For just actually good ones or the Tom Cruise? To me, Jimmy Conway, Jordan. Sean Penn, Jimmy Conway, I think

because

he's believable smokers.

Because De Hero did this thing, he'd flip it.

Just, it was these two fingers, but the way he did it.

Do you respect it less if they were real smokers in real life? Is it respected more if you were able to act that well?

But I feel like the assumption is that all actors are either recently quit, still secretly, or smokers. I think when you act, you're just in a trailer and somebody's like, you want to have a saga?

Yeah, I would love to. You're just like in a trailer.
they all stink of cigarettes uh edie falco and cop land

which i was thinking that maybe is an award too the edie falco and copland award for this character somehow became three times hotter because she smoked right lively in the town we need to start adding visuals to these categories too on youtube like whenever time we introduce that category we got to show edie right yeah well Sean sent us, what was that Twitter account, the smoking account?

It was this Twitter account where they measure how many cigarettes were smoked during during the movie. And that's the entire Twitter account.
That's fun.

It's like how many F-words, but how many cigarettes? Yeah. That's good.
So this guy went through and this was just his thing. I think cigarette smoking in movies.
How many cigarettes?

It's at cigarette movies on X. Yeah, there you go.
That's you. That's actually my legacy.
All right, so we're going to step up the smoking stuff for 2025. Yeah.
Good start.

This is from Cindy Hollenback. Bill, you are my spirit animal, which my kids say is no longer politically correct.
Ha ha ha.

I love the bad bad news bears snapshot

animal house cindy hollenbeck is my mother by the way this is great she loves bad news bears slapshot animal house caddyshack fast times find myself nodding along your perspectives i enjoy everyone's knowledge senses of humor dirty jokes and analysis okay category recommendation in line with cruise versus hanks can you find two female actresses

Or she said two female actors, which I probably should have said. That's why you're not the spirit animal.

Can you find two female actors as well? I'm thinking of Sandra Bullock versus Nicole Kidman or Michelle Pfeiffer versus Ellen Barkin, Meg Ryan versus Goldie Hahn. You see where I'm going.
All right.

So I put real thought on this. I like this idea.
Okay. I like this fall in Cruz Hanks, but I also think Cruz and Hanks are one-on-one as a combo.
We don't have the actress version of that. Yeah.

But what I do think we have.

I think you could do Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, and make it a foursome. then we could keep track of that as well.

Because I think those are like Julia Roberts versus Bullock is fun. Pfeiffer, we always talk about anyway.
Kidman's got a little more drama. He appeared in a lot of casting what-ifs.
Yeah.

So I think if those were the fours, there anybody else you would put in there? Julia, Sandra Bullock, Pfeiffer, Kidman.

Because Demi Moore, probably a little too. He's got to be somebody more recent, right? Well, I was thinking, so somebody like under 40? Like an Emma Stone.

Emma Stone or Jennifer Lawrence or something? Yeah. Oh, Jennifer Lawrence.
So maybe Jennifer Jennifer Lawrence replaces Julia.

Julia's fine. They almost have to be the same age, though.
It's going to be hard to do, Jennifer Lawrence.

Because you're basically looking at these movies and you're like, Billy Crystal's girlfriend in Running Scared, which I'd have been better if it was Goldie Han. Yes.

Yeah.

So I almost think we just need, it needs to be two people. Cruz versus Hanks is iconic because it's two.
It's got to be. So is it modern people or old people?

It's whoever makes the most sense.

Cruise and Hanks are perfect equals and they're obviously hard to create. create.
Cruise and Hanks works for Superbad and it works for like, yeah, it works for Ella Howard's end.

I can't figure out who it is then.

Because you could go more modern. You could go J-Law versus Emma Stone.
Yeah.

But I don't know if that's Cruz or Hanks worthy. I mean, Cruz has been in 15 rewatchables already.
There's a, there's a. Julia Roberts versus Sandra Bullock.

There's also a humor to Cruz versus Hanks that I just don't know if it's there for Julia Roberts versus Sandra Bullock.

It wouldn't be funny to be, would you rather have Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts in Den of Thieves? Yeah, it's like, oh, you know. All right.
We'll keep workshopping that one.

There's no right answer yet. There's something there.

I like the idea of Michelle Pfeiffer just being involved because, as you know, I love her. All right.
New category idea from Will Hanselman.

As a long-suffering Lions fan, Dan Campbell is my hero and number one anxiety inducer.

I suggest a category called the Dan Campbell scale, given to a character or scene that makes you think, holy shit, are they really going for this? As it's actually happening.

For instance, the Illuminati orgy and eyes wide shut is a 100% Dan Campbell. Gerard Butler's Big Nick eating the ground, eating the donut off the ground, 75% Dan Campbell, et cetera.

And then he says, best wishes. Thanks, Raleigh.
You're awesome. That's how I felt when they started singing in Amelia Perez.
I was like, wow, fourth and 18. We're going for it.

Wow, they pulled golf and they're going Wildcat fourth and 18. What is the all-time holy shit they're really going for this? I really like the idea of the eating the donut off the ground.

It's a perfect Dan Campbell. Maybe there should be a fourth and a certain amount of yardage scale for the Dan Campbell scale.
Yes, it's like, was this a fourth and two or was it a fourth and 12?

Yeah, so when Neil goes back for Edie or no, goes back for Wingro, even though he's clearing away free. That's Dan Campbell.
That's fourth and nine. Yeah, that's like I'm faking a punt up nine.

It's fourth and nine from the 10. Yeah.
But then there's some that it's like, it's a tush push. It's a, it's a lock.
It's a guarantee. All right.
That's good. I think we worked that one in somehow.

Good one. Congrats to Will Hanselman.
Here's a question from Kevin O'Connell.

Because he's got some diamonds. He's out of work now.
Yeah.

I think no relation. Why the hell haven't you done a rollerball episode? I was sure you'd do it during 70s Sports Movie Month.

The mustaches, the lapels, the bonkers sport, the more bonkers plot, Jimmy fucking con.

I know you're all right in the high of finally doing pulp fiction after teasing it for so long, but to quote the wolves, quote the wolf, let's not start sucking each other's dicks yet.

I feel like every fifth episode, Bill is itching to let the rollerball discussion loose. Is he the only one who wants it?

I would love to get into which current athletes would succeed at rollerball, how a rollerball fantasy would work. What the hell is the point of that scene of those rich people blowing up trees?

When you're all great comments, when we finish this pod, Craig and I are going to do sort of a footnote pod about which emails we think you secretly sent.

Bill is so handsome. When will you let him do rollerball?

You are my son's spirit animal.

I think faking faking mailbag answers and questions is one of the worst things you can do as a host i would never do it now what's funny is kevin o'connell wrote like four or five different rollerball emails over the he really wants it okay um i've never seen that movie i have no relationship to it i think it should have gone in probably 70 sports but i'm sure we'll find a spot for it it might be the 50th anniversary i think i had it what about scheduled 75 jimmy con july

jimmy july what well unfortunately we've done most of his

movies

Could we find three other Jimmies to put in July? Sure. Actors named Jimmy.
Yeah, Jim Carrey. Yeah.

Which current athletes would succeed at playing rollerball? Josh Allen, I was the so rollerball, they're skating around a rink.

It's like a fake extreme sport. It's like football crossed with the roller derby, and it's just incredibly violent.
Okay. So Josh Allen would be kind of amazing at it.
He would be my pick anyway.

Craig's got to see the one. Cooper Dejine.

New category idea from John Hageman.

here it is was there a porn parody of this movie he just wants to know yeah um could be a quiz style format that would generate some surprising results i'm pretty sure the answer is yes for the blear witch project i immediately thought about how bad this would be for google and viruses

i did find a reddit thread of of like 150 porn parody titles that actually happened was that on the bill simmons reddit

it was not it was on some movies reddit There are definitely porn parodies for most popular movies.

Would you still do those?

I don't know. I went through and found some that have actually been done of movies we did on the rewatchables, including Shaving Ryan's Privates,

Titty Slickers. I don't remember that one.
Forrest Hump. Yeah.
The Sperminator. Come and Comer.
Oh, yeah. I didn't know that existed.
What About Boob?

Die Hard On. Yeah.
Good. When Harry Fuck Sally, Legs Wide Shut.
Goodwill Humping, My Best Friend's Wedding with Two T's, and then Glad He Ate Her.

We should make you guys come up with the porn title for every. Well, there's something there.

I do think it is going to be when we're doing one now, doing one going forward, I will check to see if there was a porn parody. So, like, for Manchester by the Sea, what would be the porn parody?

They probably didn't do that one. Do they still make porn parodies now?

It's just like, now they just do scenes. Do they even make make movies anymore? That's why I was asking Craig.
He's younger, you know. Craig's

semen. I don't know.

Category idea from Jordan Grimmer.

Best, worst, five-word summary of the movie. Similar to Bill's movie trailer elevator pitch idea.
Panelists offer their best or worst five-word summary of the movie or their impression of the movie.

Example, Heat, an L.A. Bankheist unravels or a guy reads book about metals.

So I guess before we get in the categories, we would all have to do a five-word summary of the movie. Yeah, I'm not against this.

Or, if I haven't seen the movie, you guys text me your five-word summary.

This is what, yeah, like we're explaining to Craig what the movie is in five words: Godfather, Italian American Family Goes Through Decades. No, that's six words.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know.

I like the game of it. We might try it for a couple of seconds.
Italian American Family Eats Dinner. Yeah.

A big picture question from Captain Jack.

What movie, I'm glad Captain Jack's doing well, by the way. What movie have you always wanted to do, but you were scared nobody would listen?

Also, what movie have you always wanted?

Well, also, what movie have you always wanted to do and are scared nobody would listen, but you're doing it anyway?

CR, you want to go? I mean, Cruising was the movie that I think we had teased for a really long time that we were like, would 70% of it? We'll never actually do it.

And then I feel like culture met us kind of where we were. And cruising had like a little bit of a revival.
Blu-ray 4K cruising coming out in March. Seriously.
The 4K. The 4K.
The Re-Wruising.

Yeah. Are we doing the Recruising when that comes out?

What about you?

All right. So the movie I've always wanted to do, but I was scared nobody would listen is Eddie and the Cruisers, which we've talked about forever.

Which is also hard because Eddie and the Cruisers is not on streaming, correct? It's not on streaming. You and I, you told me it was on TMC.
I have it on cable. It's saved on my thing.

Craig's never seen it. It really hurts my feelings that it's not available.
I don't, everything's available. How is it not on TMC?

We've broken through that barrier before. We got pump up the volume back on streaming.

The only one that was tough, I actually got a text from a friend of a friend who is a Die Hard Rewatchables fan, and they watch every movie that we cover.

And she was asking how she could find the vanishing.

With the, it's gone? You can't find it. The American Vanishing is gone.
The American Vanishing is gone. Really interesting.
You can't stream it anywhere. Craig.

Drink the coffee.

Eddie and the Cruisers needs to come back. Tooby, you greedy motherfuckers, you're making so much money right now.

Don't think we haven't noticed. Rewatch those movies that are on your character.
I was watching football the other day, and it was just like Tubi this and Toobi that.

I was like, oh, look who's coming out.

Oh, you think you're better than us, Toobie?

Just put Eddie and the Cruisers on there, and

or else we're declaring. So yours was Cruising.
That was the one that I was

going to do. This will be our last pod if we actually go for it.
But what's your one you want to do now, but you're scared nobody will listen? I mean, you've certainly sent me a couple.

Why can't you just know off the top of your head? Pre-vaccine, you would have been able to come up with that.

So this is just a niche movie that you love, but nobody else cares about? Or you think it's too controversial?

It would probably be.

I honestly can't. The cruising would just like be like, if you can do cruising, if you can do proof of life,

anything. If you can do pump up the volume, but pump up the volume's not available to be seen.
Yeah, then what can't you do? True. Yeah, so like Carlito's Way is too big.
It's huge.

I mean, I'm dying to do that. So, what movie have you always wanted to do and are scared nobody would listen?

But you might do it anyway.

I want to do Jim Cotta at some point.

It might be a me and Kyle Branter.

Jim's movie. Yeah,

I'm not even going to tell you what it's about. Give me the five-word

so it's after the 84 Olympics, it's Kurt Thomas, this gymnast that was won a gold medal, and they kind of make it. It's an action movie.

He gets he goes to some country and he's got to rescue somebody. But during the movie, the action scenes, there's somehow gymnastics in them.

So there's like a pomo horse where he fights a guy, but he swings in the pommel horse. I can't even describe how awful this movie is.
And I was thinking Jim Cotta might be mine. All right, next one.

This one's for UCR. It's from Bobby Sleeth, Two Ease.

I listened to the There Will Be Blood episode and laughed my fucking ass off when CR did the Jackson mainline from Starsborn and Daniel Plainview's voice. I'd forgotten I did that.

I'd like to have another look at your face, please.

Turn around. I'd like to look at your face.
I'll get another look at you.

Therefore, I'd like to nominate Daniel Plainview.

as consideration for would this movie be better with category and suggest that Wayne Jenkins sends some of the other candidates away for a very long time. Yeah.

Well, so I love adding Daniel Plainview to that. That's a great idea.
We should feel like there should be a promotion and relegation system for

the

we've already got rid of a couple of people. Yeah, but we also we got rid of one and added but there needs to be like five or seven.
Yeah.

And you get you feel like you have some plain view in you in 2025? Yeah. So we'll add him.
Yeah. What else are you working on at home? There's another one coming up that's even better.
Jerry Jones.

Would this movie have been improved with an eight-minute Jerry Jones monologue?

That's a good idea. I'm going to throw that in.

A sequel. Would Black Panther be improved if Jerry Jones was just like, here's how I bunched Galville and sit in front of a cue card for three minutes? Yeah.

What did what would when that happened?

At what point during the scene did you realize it was fucking awesome?

It took about 40 seconds for me, and then I was like, when he got a little misty yeah i was like wow am i am i on drugs or is this i also think that when they cut away to billy bob and ham and the various like reaction shots they seem legit impressed yeah i did i asked ham and ham said there was there was some editing oh yeah

i think that ham felt upstage

calling out jerry he was like settle down well they're like don draper why don't you lie there with some tubes up your nose while the cowboys owner does a 10 minute scene does don draper come back no Okay.

A sequel question from Stephen McDonald.

With Den of Thieves 2 out now and heat 2 being worked on, have you asked Affleck what the town 2 would look like? The answer is yes. I bring it up probably every time I've ever talked to him.

He suggests.

Affleck's not. No, this is the emailer.
Would Shine...

who has strong gem traits, be all grown up running a crew and tracking down Dougie, who may or may not be Shine's pop? That's a possibility.

Would they be in conflict or would Doug come out of retirement to mentor or both? Or is there a whole new storyline with Shine and Krista out of the picture?

My feeling is, so Doug ends up in Florida, right? Florida Keys. Yeah.
Right. He's checked out.
He's got money.

I think Shine has grown up

and

is involved in Charlestown again. And somehow somebody's in danger.
How old is Shine in the movie? Shine's a little kid. So that's like 20 now.
Okay.

Sean would be 20 and maybe her and her boyfriend now are running Charlestown. And somehow Doug, somebody in Doug's life is in danger.
Okay. Right? Yeah.
And he has to go back and save.

So you want it to go back to Boston. You don't want Miami the town.

Well, that could be the other way it goes. Is Shine and her boyfriend, who's basically like Gary Oldman in true romance.
Yeah. Wash up in Florida.

She just beat like, we got to get our revenge on in the Florida Key. And then it becomes this Florida Keys crossing the town.
Yeah. They could go down and get some mojitos.
A little running scared.

Right. Yeah.
Here's the thing. I think the town has to happen.
I think there has to be a heist.

And I think it has to be in Boston.

Is there another iconic Boston landmark that could be robbed?

Beyond Fenway Park? Yeah.

Yeah, the Boston Garden's gone.

Not like Fenway. No.

I don't think so.

Maybe they could rob Harvard. Oh, yeah.
Goodwill Hunting Cross. Yeah,

These fucking spoiled brats, rich kids going to Havan.

Get that money back. Rob Harvard.
What are you going to rob?

Important documents. I don't know.
So you would set it in Massachusetts or the Keys? Florida. I think people try to redo this.

Like when they do sequels, I think they try to just run back the hits instead of like expanding.

And I think it would be really cool if it, like, Shine shows up in Florida and is like, I need a million bucks by next week or these guys in Boston are going to kill me because my boyfriend's gotten us in trouble.

Shine shows shows up. And Doug is like, it's one last job for you.
Shine shows up. It seems good initially.
How'd you, how'd you find me? Yeah. We have a how'd you find me scene? Yeah.

Then we have, uh, I'm just drifting around, blah, blah, blah. But then she do you bring Blake Lively back? Oh, yes.

We absolutely bring Blake Lively back.

Is she allowed to work still?

Okay. Yeah, she's back.
Thank. Yeah.
We just won't cast Baldoni in it. He's out.
Baldoni. Baldoni is the bad guy.
This is it. This is how

we heal the law together. Yeah, Baldoni.
We're bringing all the five families. Baldone is the drug lord in the Florida Keys.

I will say, I think the Florida Keys is one of the great underrated

movie TV locations. Oh,

is it? Yeah. There could be a Florida movie month, probably, right? Oh, yeah.

What was the TV show we liked on Netflix? Bloodline? Bloodsport? Bloodline.

That was set in the Keys. I watched that feedback.

Kyle Chandler, right?

Jesus. Where'd this come from? I don't know.
It's a running back. You just did, like, the other day, you did, like, here are the last 25 years of NBA history, right?

You're like, oh, I can't remember if Faldoni is in this. Bloodline had the guy Mendelssohn who ended up in

Ozark. Uh-huh.

It had our guy, Kyle Chandler. Ben Mendelson's not in Ozark.
Wasn't he?

He was season three, season. Oh, maybe he wasn't.
No, I'll get on it. Who was the brother?

Who was Laura Linney's brother in Ozark? That was Homer.

Oh, yeah, you're right. I'm mixing up my character actors I love.

I like the keys. New category from Jordan G.

How about a best callout or what I like to call the Lieutenant Weinberg Award for a character unnecessarily calling someone out? What did Colonel Jessup have against Lieutenant Weinberg?

Well, it's veiled anti-Semitism.

For example, in old school, when Will Farrell goes streaking, he says, come on, Snoopaloop. Or in super bad, when Joan Hill calls out Dave Franco and Jim Soccer for pissing himself as a kid.

Who says no to this category? You? You, editorial director, Ryan?

I'm not against it. We could throw it into the possibles.
Yeah. I'm going to keep an eye out for it.
I don't know how many movies have this. I think that happens a lot like in spy thrillers.

Like you'll all of a sudden get the Ed Norton, Chris Cooper

character to like start screaming at people who are like, God damn it, I need a secure line. And you're just like, whoa, this guy was just getting coffee a second ago.

So maybe it's like the Lieutenant Weinberg drive-by shooting award for

unexpected like drive-by shooting of somebody else in the movie. Yeah.
All right.

I don't mind that one. This is this is a good one.
We're not going to be able to give it out that often. It's a new category from Jake Oakman.
Some interesting names.

The Jules Winfield That Guy Graduation Award.

When a that guy gal so owns a role that they go from becoming that guy to an actual name. Like it was this role, this movie that elevated them.
Yes.

So, like, I think Giamatti in Sideways is a really good one from this, right? Great one.

So, he says this is named after the greatest that guy graduation in history when Sam Jackson played Jules and went from that guy from Goodfellas or Jurassic Park to Samuel

L. Motherfucking Jackson.

Other examples he had: Bradley Cooper and the Hangover, Glenn Powell, and Top Gun Maverick.

This is a great category, and it can be within the Joey Pants award. Yeah,

is there a graduation day in this in this in this film? So I thought then Boogie Knights had two. Wahlberg, Cheadle? No, it had John C.
Riley and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Oh.

I think before and after, I didn't, I knew John C. Riley, but I didn't.
And then after that, I was like, John C. Riley, I love that guy.
Yeah. So, but Sam is the best one.

So I'm going to keep an eye on this one, too. I like the graduation concept.

Just a fact from Todd A in Dublin, Ohio. Love the rewatchables, big fan, all things the ringer.

I can't believe you guys can spend so much time on the woman rounders and not cover the fact that Gretchen Moll's real-life husband, Todd Williams, used to be married to Fonke Janssen, the guy pulled off the real-life reverse Mike McD.

Didn't know that. Didn't come up with that fascinating research.

How is it that that's we've done rounders twice? We've done rounders twice, and that never came up.

This is really good. New category from Rob Shire.

The Steven Seagal hard to kill a word for did the sex scene in the movie need a better intimacy coordinator. Yeah, remember

that this Roadhouse would have this maybe basic instinct. Sure.
Yeah.

I just like having a Steven Seagal category. Remember when you didn't know who he was and then we brought him into your life? Yeah.
And it was one of the best things we ever did.

Now I watch Under Siege Weekly. Yeah.
Yeah.

Steven Seagal heard about no intimacy coordinator in a Nora and he was like, I respect that.

We didn't have one on Heart to Kill either. Good move.
Way to go, Sean Baker.

Category idea from Mark and Ottawa. This didn't quite get there, but I wanted to hit it.
For movies that have a huge twist, rate any movies, crazy, unexpected twist.

And then he said, I actually thought of this when listening to the Six Sense podcast, which is clearly a 10 out of 10 for a twist. Psychos, 10 out of 10, Darth Vader being Luke's dad.

The Matrix, 9 out of 10, humans are just batteries. Fight Club, 8 out of 10.
You could also have fun when the intended surprise twist is blatantly obvious.

Oregon, still being alive in the two two towers was a one out of ten. I don't know what that means.
Aragorn. Aragorn? Yeah.
Lord of the Rings. So that was a one out of 10 twist.

I guess so. Yeah.
There's there's not a lot of twists.

So next time we do a movie with a twist, I think maybe we bring in the scale. But then is Twin Towers coming in 2025?

It's not.

But then this is the end of the email.

I've got Bill getting into toll camera.

I've also got a related entertaining story about another plot twist movie, Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan. My Trekkie buddies and I went opening night.
The 7 p.m. show sold out.

So we just waited in line for the 9.30. When the 7 p.m.
show lets out, one of the guys yells out, Spock dies at the end.

Parentheses, personally, I'd rate this an eight out of 10. Some large guy who was in line next to us for the 9.30 steps out of line, punches the guy out, and then calmly walks back into our line.

Moral of the story, don't mess with the trekkies.

That would have been an amazing thing to see in person i have a similar story to this which was like spring 96 like whenever menace the society came out yeah i had already seen it in theaters and was going back for the second time with a bunch of friends but like was a kid and couldn't control myself so i was like and then there's just a fucking amazing shot when they go through there and then this guy's like bang and bang and this dude just turns around and goes excuse me I haven't seen the movie yet.

I just like melted.

you're like i'm never talking to lynn again i had a college professor i was in a i took a film class and he was talking about movie spoilers and how if you haven't seen these certain movies there there's like a there's a certain amount of time where if you haven't seen it he didn't care yeah he asked the class it was a big class two 300 people he said raise your hand if you haven't seen the six cents i hadn't yet and maybe 18 20 25 people raised their hand out of 300 and then he goes bruce willis is a ghost And I was just like,

are you fucking kidding me? And then he was like, has anyone here seen Fight Club? And I hadn't yet. And I got up and I left.
Did you really?

Did you go back to the class or did you drop it right there? No, I just left for the rest of the day. I was like, how do you do that? That's so weird.
That guy sucked. I forget his name, but

I told this story in the usual suspect spot.

I told the story when Jacko made me mad and I ruined usual suspects for him. That was the proudest I've ever been.
He was being a dick. I was like, Kevin Space, there's nothing worse.

He's like, oh,

nothing worse than you are spoiling a movie for somebody. Category suggestion from George in the UK.
The Forrest Gump Premature Ejaculation Award.

What do you think this is?

Movie ended too quickly? Yeah. The movie finishes sooner than you'd expected.
I was wondering what the reverse of this would be.

Like, what is the day went on for another 20 or 30 minutes longer than Viagra? Yeah. It's just like the one more pump.
Like,

what is what is the reverse Forrest Gump? That where you're like, oh, wow. So Demethieves, like, we're still going, huh? Now we're in England.
This movie ended four times. Yeah.
Yeah.

Who did that in a movie?

I was going to say Bradley Cooper and Limitless.

Oh, it's the Dirk Digler. Yes.
Jack. Yeah.
I can do it again. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
A request from Michael Broussard. I love your podcast on the Rewatchables.
I'm 44. Enjoy listening to you guys.

Talk about films that I love. I've been waiting a long time for you to do the hunt for red October.

Many fans and I consider this an important film to cover as it was masterfully done with an outstanding cast. Please consider this movie for us raging fans.
One of my favorite films.

So, this is just a request, no question. Just do Hunt for Red October.
There's a reason we haven't done it yet. Chris knows the reason.

Because we're going to go to war with Russia and you're waiting for the right peg.

I told you to watch Inside Moves, and I do Hunt for Red October. You can fucking watch it all of 2024.

See, I think this guy, Michael Broussard, sitting there waiting for us to have Hunt for Red October.

Nope.

We have an opportunity for a fun trend every year where

Chris and Sean have to make you watch a movie that we do in the Rewatchables, and then you have to make the two of them watch a movie that we do in the rewatch. Category coming up.

But just so you know.

That's what we're hanging out. Greedy Overlords of Tubi.
I will put it on. And Selfish Chris Ryan.
And meanwhile, Inside Moves on Tubi, at least for now. I'm going to put it up on Letterbox.

You'll see it when I watch Inside Moves. It's going to be this weekend.
You know what? I won't see it because I'm not on Letterbox.

I'll take a screenshot and send it to you. Oh, one CR watch tonight.
Oh,

theme month suggested from Logan Van Winkle. These names are like nuts.

It's because they're all from you. Yes.

All AI generated.

So this is an interesting theme month. Rotten Rewatchables, a month of rewatchables that deserve better on Rotten Tomatoes and currently hold a score of 50% or less.
Suggestions.

Billy Madison, Ace Ventura, Rat Race. Didn't we do some kind of invert? No, is that on big picture? I can't remember.
Did we do some sort of inverted month or something like that?

No, I used to do the Rotten Tomatoes scores before Raj. Yeah.
And fantasy would get super upset about it. And it would just like,

and now you do Roger Ebert as chat GPT, which is more offensive than Rotten Tomatoes.

Or brilliant.

Depends where you're sitting. Is your dream to replace me and Sean and Craig with actual Siskel and Ebert chat GTP?

Is that possible?

Probably technology? Yeah, we're a couple years away.

I don't mind the idea of Rotten Month. I'd have to look to see what movies.
There's been, definitely been some movies. Oh, I would like to see the stats on the movies we've done.

Like how many below sub-50% of the movie? A decent amount, I bet. Do we need like a, like a Billy, who's the guy in Moneyball? Billy Bean's assistant.
Paul DuPatesta, but the fake

composite character. Yeah, Jonah Hill's a fake character.
We need like a Jonah Hill for the rewatch. A stats guy.
Advanced analytics. Yeah, just like an advanced analytics.

There's some really good spreadsheets out there. People do the work.

I just have to look them up. Yeah, it would be fun to know the worst rated movie we've ever done.

Well, the most disliked movie I've ever done was Country Strong. People are still upset.
But we did that for your wife, Liz Kelly. He's not that bad.
People need to relax.

People can fuck off. Category idea from Connor Cusson.

A suggestion for a new category is, when would I have died?

You're the main character, a member of a team crew. At what point of the movie do you think you actually would have died? Example in Die Hard, Carl's Brother Kills Me in Five seconds.
Yeah.

Oh, I like this one. This is good.
Really solid.

I have a couple. They're pretty obvious, though.
Like, I think I would have swum out after the girl in the first scene of Jaws. Like, I would have just been like.
Oh, so you die in Jaws. Immediately.

First scene. I'm not making any of the leaps and Raiders in the first with the boulder rolling behind me.
The boulder just gets you. Yeah, I just don't have much of a broad jump.

Then there are moments where I might have died as a bystander, which I really like, which is like my financial advisor is right by the bank robbery and heat.

So I can imagine like coming out and feel like, I'm really glad I invested in my Roth.

That's a good one. What about you? This is a good category.

Well, I was thinking about castaway. Uh-huh.

How long I would have tucked it out of the island.

Yeah, not knowing what was happening with sports. Forget about family.
Like, just be like, fuck, what's going on in the MBA playoffs right now? Like, chicken, like, it's April 19th.

I wonder who's in round one. Uh,

yeah, I think I would have probably attempted what he did with the with the raft trying to get over way sooner. Yeah, I'm probably dead within a year.
Um, Amy Valhara was another one.

I was thinking, I, I, I probably would have stayed in the house too late. Yeah, I mean, you're currently doing it, right? Well, no, we're good, we have a good relationship with the ghost.

Yeah, it's okay, it's the best that's been.

Um,

but but did you have like a mediator come in? What happened? No, it's good. Who else likes us? What do you have? Anything good?

Any zombie apocalypse movie? I'm actually probably just ending it myself. Like I am legend.
There's no way I could get anywhere close to where Will Smith got. First 10 minutes, I'm just ending it.

I see one zombie. It's over.
I was thinking, I was saying to my wife, because I told her about this category, because I can't see unless I have contacts or glasses.

And I was thinking, basically, everything before 1920, I'm gone. Oh, like you couldn't see it.
I just can't. Like

unforgiven. You're just like, yeah, I'm just

killed in the silent saloon. I'm like, what's going on? Is that Wolf Henry? Oh, that's just drunk Billy.

I'm just drunk and blind.

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Theme month suggestion from Josh Lento.

This goes to what we talked about earlier.

A different host selects the movie of their choice, co-host. Each week could be a specific selection of one of the rotating hosts other than Mr.
Bill Simmons. Bill has no veto power during this month.

I was thinking the theme could be referred to as Much to Bill's Chagrin. Yeah.
I think this is a great idea. What do you do if on Much to Bill's Chagrin month we put up like insane numbers?

Because we do Lord of the Rings. Which is Lord of the Rings one, two, and three.

This is every Captain America. I do like this idea.
Would you be on these Much to Bill's Chagrin? Yeah,

I'm just hosting playing point guard. But would you be like Julius Randall and like ruining the vibe and like not passing it? I'll never do the Julius Randall Randles.

I don't think you should host if you haven't seen it, though, right? Somebody else has to host it. No, I'd have to watch it.
Right, but then it should be still Chris hosting Lord of the Good idea.

Yeah, so

if it's Chris or Sean. Yeah.
Yeah.

Yeah, that's that's. It's still the three of you, but just they're hosting.
But if Van wanted to do it. Or Van, whoever.

So basically, if it's your movie, you have to host the pod. Yeah.

But there's some, there's a lot of thought that goes into this because you want to pick one that he would never pick, but that he would still be a good sport watch and be into.

Or you could make him watch. But there are a bunch of movies that I know you want to do but you're like pacing yourself for right

yeah but it would be i mean twin what was the twin twin towers twin towers that one it's like that is the two towers two towers i haven't seen it either would i have to see the first one before the second one like how prepped am i yeah we should right yeah you should probably so maybe it's like no sequels yeah yeah that's good no sequels so you do like some sort of uk crime thing that it'd be great if you sean

just chose the three lord of the rings movies in a row. Yeah, I mean, I, I would probably pick something like,

I would probably pick something like Hot Fuzz or

Ex Machina or something like that. Like, they're not that, that far out.
So I'm just on the pod. I'm like the fourth, fourth co-host and occasionally I have a couple points.
Right.

But the point is that. Most of the time I'm just like, oh, man.

This fucking crime drama in the UK bought that. That's like when you invite me on to do, I think I was, I came on with you guys to do Alive, right? Didn't I do that movie with you guys?

Yeah, yeah, it'll be like that. I hadn't seen it before.
That movie changed your life. It did.

Altruistic cannibalism. Another theme month idea from Mitchell Moore,

who says, Thank you for the rewatchables and all the laughs and insights you provide each week. We really appreciate all the emails, by the way.

My suggestion for a new category is Unwatchables Month, a group of movies you've mentioned multiple times that you know don't work,

but you can't help watching. The list is as follows: Bugsy, Indian Summer, another 48 hours, Angel Heart.
I really resented that he didn't do Angel Heart. I got to say, Angel Heart works great.

Yeah, I'd like, I don't love Bugsy, but I do. I don't think it's, it's, it's basically the flawed rewatchables concept.
Yeah. Yeah.

But I think we should probably bring that back in 2025. I think we need to do the canceled rewatchables month.
That's the, that's

such a good idea. Yeah.

Another theme month idea from Amy Fleischer. She's calling it shit goes sideways very quickly.

Adventures in babysitting, Empire Records, go. Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead.
I'm throwing in Long Kiss Goodnight is like this too, but that's shit goes sideways.

Yeah, I would also throw after hours in there. Yeah.
Yeah.

Decent idea.

So this is from Logan in Hawaii. He says Aloha Rewatchables.
His category idea is, how would Van Lathan get out of this one?

It was a great impromptu moment during Den of Thieves, the re-den of thieves, when Chris Ryan asked Van Lathan how he'd excuse himself out of an accidental text.

Mr. Lathan Jr.'s response was very entertaining and would be a great, great addition should Opportunity Allow in a given rewatch.
I like that. Yeah.

Like, how would you get out of, if you were Karen Hill, how would you get out of flushing all the cocaine when Henry comes home from jail? Right. Just like, that was all the money we had.

Would you be like, Karen? You know, it's like, I don't want to live in a world where we have to sell cocaine just to make ends meet, you know? Yeah.

What was the right move for for her there?

Probably just to be like, what do you want? The cops were searching the house. Did you want to go away for like federal drug possession? The move is she should probably just leave.
Yeah.

How good would you be at flushing cocaine down the toilet? What is the best way to dispose of it? Like to dispose of it. Well, because they always

shake it and then the cocaine just gets everywhere. You really got to like, it's more about how you open the bag.

No one's ever flushing cocaine down the toilet in a patient way. You know, like it's usually if you're flushing it down the toilet, I think it's because you have seconds.
I think the DA is outside.

Would the toilet really flush that well with all the cocaine? Where else are you going, though? You can't go sink or shower. This is a great YouTube series.

Is Chris and Bill try things that they've seen in movies? Well, I worry when I like put gum in the toilet. I'm like, is that thing going to flush? But like two kilos of cocaine just in 10 flushes?

Oh, God. It was like, I don't know.

Greg, why don't you go get us a kilo? Yeah, Greg. Get us some fake cocaine.
I need 24 hours. Question from Jürgen Anderson, two S's.

Hi, have a question for you. Who is Diane Waders?

Do you think Jürgen's from the States? I don't. I do not.
Okay.

This got me thinking, though, we should probably explain who Deion Waders is. Did he say Diane? Yeah.
Yeah, he said Diane Waders. That's fair.

Because Deion Waiters now has not played for how many years?

We've discussed replacing the name Deion Waiters with a different player, right? Yeah, I mean, I think that Deion specifically works for the movies that we love to talk about, and it's a celebration.

I was thinking that there is like a Sam Dardold award that we could give out to somebody who has like an incredible three-quarters of a movie. Oh, and then just

vanishes. Yeah.
Or it's like they're only good in this movie, like Michael Madsen and Tarantino films or something. Yeah, that's good.

I'm only good in this system, like system QV.

System roles. It's like people who are only good in sorkin or only good in Paul Thomas Anderson movies or whatever.
Yeah. Like John Michael Higgins and the Christopher Guest movies.

The Sam Darn Bar is really interesting. Is that for the movie or it could also be for their career?

I think it's character who only works in this movie or actor who only works in this movie or whatever. Sam Darn's a different one.

That's like you were doing good for a while and then the wheels came off. Unless you just want to treat it as he was great with Kevin O'Connell in this system.

And then we would have to do the Kevin O'Connell press conference afterwards where he's just like, I just wish him the best on his journey.

Anyway, DM Waiters, he played 418 NBA games. He was a lottery pick for Cleveland.
He was

2013 drafted. I think it was the fourth or fifth year.
Did he come out of high school? No, he spent

at Syracuse. He peaked at 15.9 a game on a crappy 2014 Cavs team before LeBron came back.
bounced around, went to OKC, Miami, finished with the Lakers. But

the reason we really, we, we named the heat check after him was because sometimes he would just come in and make everything. The microwave.
He'd come in in like three minutes. He would have 10 points.

So the idea of Deion Waiters was better than Deion Waiters because most of the time he would come in and miss a couple threes. But then every once in a while, Deion Waiters' heat check would happen.

So I guess the question is, do we dump Deion Waiters for a more modern heat check guy? Do you feel like there is a comparable modern equivalent to Deion?

I feel like this guy has gotten a little bit legislated out of the game. The Deion Waiters heat checks.
Yeah, the Lou Williams, I came in and I dropped 21 in 18 minutes, but I can't play defense.

And, you know,

I mean,

so Cam Thomas is one, but I don't know what his shelf life's going to be. Peyton Pritchard's a good one these days because Peyton Pritchard's either three points or 28.

That was legitimately like, who's Peyton Pritchard for a second?

I don't know.

The Deion, though, it feels like we're kind of stuck with it. It's such a staple of the show.
It's also,

he's an icon of our pod. Yeah.

all right i think i agree but we can add sam darnold just to mix it up i do like the the system

system actor idea

here's a heat question from harley i don't know if harley's last name or first name how many houses does neil macaulay have and where are they so he writes down the house with no furniture where chris sleeps is clearly modern sleek and by the water maybe malibu and it's malibu colony

When he meets Edie at the cafe,

he says he lives up here. So maybe that's Hollywood Hills.
They go to the house, stand on the balcony, great view. Seems too expensive to be a rental.
Also well-furnished.

Then he leaves her that morning. So was he leaving her alone at his house? Was that her rental or his? Chris Ryan, I gave you a heads up on this question.
So what's the real estate?

Neil lives in Malibu.

He lives

on the beach. When he says, I live up here, he's joking because she goes, that's really funny.
I think he's alluding to the idea that he lives upstairs from the restaurant.

There's a couple of times where he says things to Edie that are like probably purposely to like lead her astray if she was ever questioned by the police.

Like he, I think he says he's from the bay, you know, stuff like that, which that he did time in the bay, but he's not from there.

And so I think that the house that they sleep in that first night is a rental. And A, it's movie magic.
So like obviously people's houses are usually nicer in the movies and TV. And B, it was the 90s.

So maybe Edie could get like a decent place in the hills that had a good view.

So that's Edie's place that he leaves her at. So what part of the hills do we think that's in? I like thought maybe Beechwood for like kind of like that area.
Okay.

And then where do we think the guy who fucks them over and then he shoots him through the TV when he's watching a hockey game? What's that guy's name? Oh, yeah. Van Zant? Yeah.
Van Zant.

Where was his house? Cause he's climbing up a canyon on that one. That had to be where he goes.

Yeah.

So we only think one house for Neil. Yeah.
Probably renting. He probably rents a year and a half.
Does he need an apartment in the South Bay? Kind of get away?

I could see him having a safe house, like a Torrance. Yeah.
Think he has a burner room, like Raheem.

Definitely. What's the burner room? Raheem has a burner.
He talks about it in Vegas. He has a burner room.
It's his hotel room and then a burner room.

I don't know what that means. What is a burner room? It's a second room.
For what?

Whatever you need.

If you want to take somebody back. My apartment has three burner rooms, then, I guess.
Burner room. He needed a library.
Oh, man.

They say Joe House has been talking about it ever since.

New category from Matt Hennessy. This is wonderful.

In honor of Alec Baldwin's Captain George Ellerby from the departed, it's the two weeks with pay award for the movie character who should have been fired from their job.

This is the Vincent Chase award, right? Yeah.

Are we sure this character is good at their job?

Yeah, so we'd have to lose Vincent Chase for this. I think we could put George Ellerby in for Vincent Chase.
Yeah. Is it time? Vincent Chase, 20-year anniversary? I don't know.

Entourage is coming to Netflix. I feel it.
We might have to keep it around. He had examples, the mayor from Jaws, the Italian detective team and the talented Mr.

Ripley and all the employers, employees of Empire Records. Empire Records coming up a lot in this mailbox.
Wow.

A lot of people like Empire Records. 30th anniversary coming up.
Might be on the schedule. A theme month from Jen Ducks, who says she's a longtime listener and loves the podcast.

She had a quick category idea. Best fan to align odds as we're doing something.

I guess it would be what were the fan to alive odds for,

you know

oh yeah what are the odds that that deal is about to kill wain grow yeah that he just gets stays it's just to use heat as the prism for all these possible categories best fan duel line odds how long does chris stay together with the ash what were the odds charlene was just gonna let chris enjoy this night

right

anyway he asked when is uh philly month or she asked when is philly month going to happen you've teased some philly movies silver lining's playbook last year was great i think there's plenty of meat what's on what's on the philly mount rush Rushmore that hasn't been done yet?

Well, we've done a bunch. Jen suggested Witness, which I think is in, it's being scouted.

At Close Range is Lancaster, but it's still an awesome movie.

And then after that, we pretty much just have 12 monkeys left. So we did Philadelphia, we did Trading Places, we did Blowout,

which I think were three of, and then Silver Lining. So we've done some already.
And Rocky. Well, we haven't done Rocky 1 and we haven't done Rocky 2.
Oh. Yeah, only 1 and 4.
Yeah.

Keeping people guessing. Yeah, we did Creed.
Yep. Did Creed Live? There's probably a couple others we forgot.

What was that Vigilante movie with

Tom Scarrett fighting back? That was in Philly. Was it? Yeah.
Tubi.

Greedy motherfuckers of Tubi.

Fun idea from Andrew Rowan, two Ace. I think a good category to add when you're doing a crime heist cop movie is where does the inevitable, are you a cop scene rank

compared to Den of Thieves, departed fast and furious um

in general i think the next time we do one of these movies we really have to they had need a bunch of special categories it would be fun to apply this to like grand budapest hotel though are you a fucking cop

i was thinking of the heist movie staples they're on to us yeah are you a cop Nobody's ever broken in this bank before. Yeah.
We're here for the bank's money, not yours.

And I need to know right now, are you in?

Also, five things that have to be in every I do this job and then I'm out. Yeah, one last job for sure.
Yeah. One last job.
Yeah. Still feel like we can write one of these.

Reader idea from Ryan McCabe.

Rewatchables is the best podcast available. He praises us for a little bit here.
One of the categories that needs to be improved is the CR Thinks Luke Wilson hottest take.

You all have great ideas, but as a longtime Simmons fan, thank you, and supporter of mailbags. They've consistently taught me that your fans have the craziest and best hottest takes.

That's legitimately how every great mailbag was built in the old days. He's correct.
The emails were great. Tie this to the old fans.
Call it the mailbag hottest take.

Solicit hot takes from readers and present those for commentary. Y'all do a fine job, but I know readers and listeners would kill this.
I'm not against this idea.

There's only one, you do have to release the movie. This really weekly advances comes down to one man.
Yeah.

Well, one thing we could do. I don't think you could leak the movie ahead of time because then we're getting all these ideas that would fuck up the podcast.

So one thing we could do after the fact on the next show.

as a special like Wednesday YouTube thing, we could read out the reader Luke Wilson hottest. Maybe that's what we do.
I like the idea of hot takes from readers about movies we've done.

I think is a good idea.

Yeah.

You don't want anybody getting in your airspace when you're thinking about well, you could have them email me and I can go through them.

I'm always like really hesitant of like going on like if there's like a 500 post Reddit read about the movie.

I want to like like come up with my own ideas on the movie, and I always feel like that screws me up. And then I'm like, that was a red.

It's like, fuck.

From James Rowe. He's a day one Rewatchables fan.
His, his trilogy, Holy Trinity is Godfather Armageddon in the town.

I have an idea that while I don't think it works as a rewatchables category is perfect for a Bill and CR segment. A fantasy draft between Bill and CR of

heist movie crew members to build your own crew for heist. Five-round draft, snake order, one crew leader, best friend Road Dog, two role players, fifth pick is the first to die.

Did you prep this? Well, we decided we would, instead of doing a draft, we want to challenge ourselves. Yeah, we're going to try to come up with a heist crew together.

So the ringleader has to be Neil Macaulay, right?

He's all-time number one. Are we just doing Michael Mann movies or is this from anything? I think we do anything.
I think we do everything. Okay.
Macaulay's number one. Yeah.
He's the signal caller.

Okay. Which is funny because he honestly does not live through his heist ultimately uh-huh you know so it's like he is 0-1 as far as there is a mccraig case

uh

who would you rather take orders from neil macaulay yeah i feel like he's knows his yeah i think you need somebody who's less about the violence and more about the smarts let's make a rule that you can only draft one guy from a movie

Or all the guys from one movie.

Then who's the fucking size for? Well, who's

the number two guy, I think, has to be Jem, right who's your road dog is definitely jem yeah yeah who's kai with so now we have a movie with neil mccarthy i will make

an argument road dog could be uh rust from the oceans movies

really really good road dog wow

maybe even more fun than jim jem gets you in a lot of fights jem gets you in a lot of trouble um

what do we do about like can merriman

not be the lead guy, but also be in the crew anyway? Well, in truth, not to spoil Den of Thieves. He's not really the lead guy in Den of Thieves.

It just gets revealed at the end that that was always Donnie. Right, true.
So, yeah, Merriman could be third. All right, so so far we have Neil Macaulay and Jim.

You want to throw Ocean's 11 in there too?

Yeah, let's do let's do Rust and Merriman for three and four.

I really need Size Moore in here from Heat. Kind of a wild card.
I just need him. What was his name in the movie? I'm blanking.

Chris Schaherl. No, not Shahurlis.
That wasn't whatever his name was. It was Chorito.
Chorito. Yeah.

Who blew it all by just calling one guy slick when everybody had just been blown up, but somehow remembered that little detail. Yeah.
You need to get the phone book. Do it anyway.
Because

he needs to be in this so he can have his

one big scene. He's blanking.
I need a one big scene for my number four guy. I need some size of them.
Okay, so let's lose Merriman for Chorito then.

Yeah, I don't know how Merriman and Chorito would interact.

It feels like there'd be some alpha dog stuff with them. Yeah.
Little Russell Wilson, Justin Fields. It's like, whose corner is that? Rust is good because he'll keep everybody calm.

He's kind of been annoying. He's doing

nachos in the back and kind of hanging out. So he's in a great suit.
Do we need, is there a wise cracking guy for like the fourth spot? Yeah, I was thinking maybe Buscemi from Reservoir Dogs.

Oh, that's good. Yeah.
That is good. Just to bring a little firecracker energy.
Yeah, guys, I think that that's what some of these movies miss is the one funny.

I was trying to make this case with Denote's, but somebody is keeping it late. And then the driver is who?

Gosling from Drive.

That's pretty good. Yeah.

Baby driver, Ansel Elgert. I'm going to go Gosling.
Yeah. Can we take cops and put them in the heist? Sure.
You want them to be on the wrong side of the law or you just want this crazy

thieves? I don't know if you've seen this movie, but it's Miami Vice. It came out in 2006.
I have.

I really like Jamie Foxx's performance in that movie, and I feel like he could have been a good guy or a bad guy with the way he plays it.

I almost feel like he could have just been the driver, like the Haysberg character. Yeah.
Do we have any room for Gong Li, for Isabella, to be in here? For Miami Vice? Like, the love interest?

So who's like your number one highest love interest?

Gong Li is basically just saying over and over again that there wasn't enough time's left. I got to be honest, man.
Lively? I got to say lively.

Yeah, now we're talking.

If I'm being completely real, it's lively. Who's lively dating out of the crew?

We just well, that's the fun part: is that she maybe she's like got something with one of the guys, but Neil's always loved her, and she gets eyes on Rust, yeah, and it's over.

All right, we'll keep workshopping this. I, I, the important thing is that Neil has wait, did we pick a first guy to die?

Oh, that's a good one, yeah, we get Belushi from Thief

always had that energy, you know.

It's big doofus. There's no way this guy's making it to the 50-minute mark of the movie.
Yeah.

Well, the guy in the town, the guy who gets his head shot off

when he's driving the tattoo guy, but he lasted, I guess, till the end.

Theme months from Josh Brill.

Comeback month. Much needed hits that brought a star back into the conversation, like the wrestler, the 90 professor.
Underrated month. The other guys, great wedding, outside Providence, pop star.

Comedy classics, that's easy.

In honor of SNL's 50th,

maybe do something for that. That might be on the agenda.
And then Oscar movies, I thought was interesting. Yeah.
Best pictures. Best picture winners.
Best picture winner month. Yeah.
Best picture.

Yeah. Best picture winner month.
Because when else are we doing like network or one flow over the cuckoo's nest, like that? I would do network whenever. In terms of endearment, did that one?

Out of Africa.

New category from Eric Ritvo.

This is great. This is going right in.

The Don Dawson Sasha Jenkins award from Dazed and Confused for the actor in the film that you cannot believe didn't become a bigger star. Yeah.
So you would have

Dana Willer Nicholson.

Yeah. Be your number one.
My uncle, Lisa Elbecker. Yeah.
Wow. That's a good one.
But I like naming a category after Don Dawson. It could also be the, who's the guy in Swingers who we never saw again?

Oh, yeah, the third guy. Sue.

Oh, yeah. Not Braun Livingston, but the other guy.
Patrick McKinley is Sue. Yeah.
And he was just never in another movie. It's like, what happened to that guy? I do like capturing.

It feels like a cousin of the, that guy. Like, why weren't you more of a thing? Yeah, it's Link Later movies are really good for that.
Yeah.

Because he's so good at casting, but then those people are not always like super professional.

I think we add that to the hodgepodge where somebody could agree to do that. A plea from Felix K.
It's come to this.

I'm a 50-year-old man emailing a podcast to request a movie that should have been done a long time ago. Sorry.
Scarface. what am i missing seems like a no-brainer this is not my fault

you can save 100

there's some that are just you know

on ice in the in the refridge waiting to be done it's we're doing scarface movies that we've done say in 2024 that you were like i wish we had done that earlier

to open the door for doing it yet again yeah later

We probably should have done pulp earlier. You let it build up in your head.
I also think there are so many movies that you guys did in like 2017, 18 that were so good.

You came out so hot for the first 15, 20 movies. There was just banger after banger after banger.
The number of badges. But a lot of those, you didn't have the categories for those.

You could bring all those back. Yeah.

Yeah, there's some good ones like Point Break and Speed.

New category from Josh Ramshaw. The Kyle Bran award for is this movie better as a Menachem Golan production?

Really solid.

Probably not added categories, but a great show. champion.

Yeah, I would like to add that I would love to do the 80s action trailer voice for movies that would like, what would be the most inappropriate use of 80s action trailer voice on to like we're doing Philadelphia like remains of a day.

He's just a butler. But what if like Manchester by the Sea? Yeah, that's good.
He's lost everything, but he gained it all back.

Maybe that should be added to the director's commentary of the sports announcers. Like, should 80 action voice be there? From Eric Hoover,

this isn't a suggestion. It's more a fact, but I thought it was interesting.
After listening to the Friday Night Lights episode, I would love to submit a nominee to dethrone the

undisclosed truck stop coin toss. He's a lifelong racing fan.

He says the 1969 coin toss between Ogden Phipps, Claiborne, Clairborne Farms Oner, Horse Racing Royalty, and Penny Chenery was the most important in sports history. And what happened was

the 1969, I'll skim it through, but the 1969 breeding season, this horse called Chicada did not conceive Cicada Chicada. Cicada, yeah.
Cicada? Do you know this story? No, I know I know cicadas, the

insect.

Only one foal was due in the spring of 1970. The winner of the coin toss would receive one foal, the first choice in 69.
The loser would get second choice in 69, the lone full of 1970.

Ogden Phipps wins the toss. This is how we'll decide who gets to pick the movie the other people have to watch.
We'll do a coin toss live on camera.

Ogden Phipps wins the toss, gets something royal, 1969.

Chennery

gets the second choice in 69 in the 1970 full secretariat.

And he says, imagine losing a coin toss and ending up with Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Babe Babe Ruth, and Secretariat.

That's got to be the best coin toss. I always thought it was Neil Walker, Kareem, Abdul-Jabbar in the 1969 NBA draft, but no.
New category from Patton, Wisconsin.

Best application to a high school lesson plan.

And he says, for years, my colleagues, former colleagues, and I have utilized movie clips or entire movies into our instruction as social studies teachers. Examples, U.S.

history, there will be blood, U.S. oil boom.
Argo, Iranian hostage crisis. Pulp fiction, Jewels and the Robbers and the Diner is a metaphor for U.S.
and German tensions following the Zimmerinman note.

Is that true? I don't know, but it just seems like this guy wanted to show pulp fiction to his closet.

Crime and justice. Catch me if you can.
White collar crime. Psychology, Rainman, What About Bob? Memento, Mean Girls, the Strawberry Daiquiri Scene.
Philosophy, Groundhog Day.

I don't think this works as a category, but I really appreciate the spirit behind it. Yeah.

Using movies to connect with high school kids who don't want to be in your class and are probably on their phone. That's right.

I used to have a eighth grade history teacher who would show like movies from different historical eras than the ones that we were studying. And it was clear that he just needed a class off.

He'd be like, we're doing the colonial American Revolution. Let's watch Spartacus.

Yeah, throw on the rewatchables for the students, you know? This is the best idea of all the ideas. And sadly, we probably won't be able to do it.
It's a new category idea from Colin W.

A few years ago, it was jokingly brought up to have a category where you call Rosillo and ask what he thinks of the film being discussed. Just live on air.

I feel like we as listeners have missed out on more than a few gem takes from RR by this having been implemented in the podcast. This would be an incredible category.
Does Rosillo like this movie?

What's Rosillo's take? Calling Rosillo unprompted and unannounced. If he doesn't answer, he doesn't answer.

I don't know why we don't do this. This is my favorite idea we've had.
By far, the best idea. So we just put him on speaker.
You're just calling if he answers the answers.

I'm like, hey, Friday Night Lights, what are your thoughts?

Does Rosillo have the highest batting average on the root on the rewatchables in terms of like appearances to the amount of yeah, it's almost like we don't want to book him anymore, right?

It's it's he's town vision quest wolf of wall street. Is that it? Deliverance.
Yeah. Oh, my margin call.
I think he's done like five or six.

That was his choice.

I like this Rosillo idea, though. We're going to have to try.
Yeah, so good. So we'll shoot it right now.
It's big. So if we do before sunrise later this month,

and he'll just call him, it's like, ah, Ethan Hawk, fucking movie sucked.

New category. I thought Jesse could have done better than her, man.

I really like this next idea, too. New category idea from Thomas P.

Is this movie perfect in that does it accomplish its stated goal? For example, Dazed and Confused. Attempts to capture the beginning of summer in 1976 in a small town.

Can you imagine a better version including the soundtrack? Does the actor playing Mitch take it from perfect to almost perfect? The answer is yes.

Other perfect movie candidates, Stand By Me, Devil Wears Prada, Die Hard. Not necessarily the best movie ever, but movies that perfectly achieve their goal.
Love this. I love this idea.

It's a great idea. And my wife.
It's a better way to rate movies.

Yeah, my wife had Devil Wears Prada on, which we've watched a bunch of, it's one of the most rewatchable movies the last 20 years, I think.

And I was watching it. I was like, this is like

a no-hitter of a movie for whatever it was trying to do. Yeah, I wouldn't change a single thing.
The plot makes sense. Even Adrian Gurnier as the boyfriend is hilarious because he's so bad.
Yeah.

So I like the idea of did this movie achievement. It's also cool for like movies that are like

B plus, B minus movies generally, but like for what it was doing. Yeah.
You can't, you couldn't have improved it really. No, like the sand lot is a 10 out of 10.

It was, it did exactly what it needed to do. So do you think this is, where would we put this in the, in the episode? Is it

after you do it near the end, right? Yeah, yeah, who won the movie and is or right before who won the movie. Yeah, yeah, I like that one.
Top of the pot idea from Katie Mount.

This is another good one. I would love it if you all added a food and drink recommendation to accompany the film we're supposed to be re-watching.

My husband and I plan our weeks around re-watching and listening to your podcast. That's nice.
That's nice. So it would immensely help my meal planning.

I already have a steak on a paper plate planned for re-watching Den of Thieves, but still decided to do a box of wine or champagne of beer to go with it. Oh, man.
I would go.

That's an interesting one. Yeah.
So what's the, what's heat? We got to go back to heat. So what's the food and drink for heat?

The chicken? Because remember, he's like, I'm sorry if the chicken

got overcooked. Overcooked.

So overcooked rotisserie chicken for heat. So were you just picking an item from the movie, or is it whatever you feel like is the perfect?

I took it as like the mood for the movie. Oh, so yeah, because that's interesting.
Because for like, for instance, for Blair Witch, you would do basically like gas station snack banquet, like

jerky, Doritos, you know, Dr. Pepper, everything that they get out of the gas stations, which you would eat during that.
You'd feel like shit afterwards, though.

I think the problem with this category, which I really liked, is it's really up to the person. Yeah.
They know what the movie is.

Take it from there. 60% of them are also, should I be smoking during this?

This never got, quite got here, but Luke B thought we should do a Brad Stevens award for the best basketball lineup you could possibly make from the movie. Oh, that's fun.
Yeah.

Guys, you slap five characters into royals positions in a starting lineup. He said, for instance, Neil's crew from Heat.
Neil's the point guard. He's a Chris Paul type.

Chris is the gunslinging shooting guard. Treyo's the bruising meta-world piece.
Corey McGetty type. And Sizemore is a Horace Grant, Sergeibaca, David West, traditional Swiss Army Knife Power Forward.

I like that this dude stopped watching basketball in 2011.

You know, just like a baka in David West. He's like a Lou L Day.
Trending topics today. I threw a Court McGetty in there.

This is a good one for an ensemble movie to put together a basketball team. So like Friday Night Lights, we just did.
Yeah.

So Riggins was what? Riggins is like a...

He's like a banger. He's like a rebounder.
He's like an understreaker. Strike four.

Yeah.

Saracen's like under, like a 5-9 5-9-point guard. He's like a Jose Alvarado.
Boobie Miles shooting guard. Booby Miles is like the Kobe.
He goes down.

Category tweak from John Wolf.

This is great. A cousin of the Mallet Rubin did this movie need a better sex scene.
I thought of this during the redent of Thieves pod.

Didn't we need a scene where Pablo, 50, and crew play a pickup basketball game against Butler and the Sheriffs? Then he asked, didn't Shot Collar need a better sports scene? We get no prison ball.

Couldn't good fellas have fit in a softball scene? Like they're playing for the deli team.

Basically,

how would you have shoehorned a sports movie, a sports scene into this movie for no reason? The best version of this is American History X when we have the Helter Skelter pickup basketball game.

I was watching Maverick again the other day, and the football scene with two footballs is just like in the movie theater. You're like, what are they doing?

Even though it's basically the volleyball scene for the first one. It's so awesome.
Yeah. It's like, it's just such a chill hangout.
I think we keep this in our back pocket.

Yeah, I think you could work this into every movie. How can we shoehorn a sports scene into this? And you guys have to come up with one.
I think it's great.

So before sunrise.

A little five. Is that soccer?

Yeah, he all of a sudden is.

Yeah, I mean, looking at these movies, like body double.

Is he like going to play racquetball one day?

That's a good one instead of acting class.

Racquetball is claustrophobic.

It's too much. It's too tight in there.
we should test drive that one. That's a good idea.
This should work, I think.

What are they playing in hereditary now?

Oh, man. What would they be in hereditary? And you have to kind of make it work.
That's a school football game where they go and something scary happens.

But I would just love it if Tony Colette was just like, well, why don't we settle this out on the court? Just like dunking on her son.

Well, Great Santane had all those great basketball scenes in that. You've never seen that one.

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A slew of category suggestions from Yale Reardon. These are really good.
He wants us to add the Jason Tatum, He's Only 19, Breakout Star Award. Yeah.
Someone who obviously jumps off the screen.

That doesn't happen enough. The Nick Sabin Offensive Coordinator Referral Award, an open opportunity to give out references of comparable films.

If you enjoyed this movie, I recommend you also watch this. We could just call that recommended if you like.

Well, we could. Double feature similar to that, right? Yeah.
Yeah, but maybe

is that better than double feature? if you like this movie try this or does tobi do that the greedy overlords

evil to be evil to the next recommendation on the algorithm award yeah next algorithmic recommendation and then he says he wants us to change the title of the kid cutty pursuit of happiness needle drop he said the ringer dramatically overestimates the importance of project x and culture today disagree we underestimate it yeah i i disagree too he said uh he he offered the johnny depps black betty airport walk and blow that's It's definitely not happening.

It's really funny that you think Black Betty and Blow is bigger than the Project X one. He did offer the Billy Bats Atlantis beatdown and good fight.
That's fucking incredible. Pretty solid.

But we're not getting ready to kick huddy. New category from James Winston.
I thought this was Jameis Winston for a second.

The I used to fuck guys like you in Prison Award for the wildest, oddest, most fucked up line of dialogue in the movie.

We'll keep it in mind. Yeah.

Can you see some of these? I didn't think I sent some of these to you. I can see them.
How do you see them?

You sent the whole thing to me. Oh, I did.
I didn't mean to. Yeah, I only meant to send you like seven.
Yeah, no, you sent them all to me. Oh,

I really fucked up. I meant to only send you seven.
Well, I'm not like following along. I have no idea where you're going with these

new category from Daniel in Mexico.

How about a category called Would This Movie Work in Another Genre? Example: Tropic Thunder is a survival drama, Rosemary's Baby is a comedy, or Mrs. Doubtfire as a horror throw film.

So they did that with with The Shining with the family dramedy, with the Torrances. I like when they recut trailers.
Yeah.

I often think about how this movie would be different if Curb Your Enthusiasm music was playing.

There's a great one, Mrs. Doubtfire, as a horror film on YouTube.
Oh, is there? Yeah, that's good.

A burning question from Robert G. This is good.
You've given the opportunity to have either Cruz or Hanks on for Rewatchables as your co-host.

You can do a movie they've been in, a movie the other's been in, or a movie of your choice. Who's a better co-host? What movie are you doing?

Is the play for them, one of them to come on a movie you haven't done yet that's theirs like Cruise for All the Right Moves or Hanks for Turner and Hooch?

Or is it more interesting to talk about a movie the other one's in?

Personally, I think a recruising with Cruise is the only choice.

So this is a good question. As a co-host, Cruiser Hanks.

So it's almost like like a subcategory for Cruiser Hanks. I think that Hanks would be able to kind of go in different places and riff with you and talk about,

let's be honest, Hanks is a better person. But the sheer curiosity, incredible stories about the production of the films that he's been in.
Even if he hasn't been in it,

just the entertainment factor is so much higher. I've talked about it.
Like Cruise through an Eyes Wide Shut would be the greatest podcast in the history of the world. Hanks is better as a podcaster.

Like he could hang in with all of these. Do we know that Cruise can't hang in as a podcaster? Cruise

from a, I can't believe this is happening standpoint, is better. The upside of Cruz is higher.

If we're doing like Before Sunrise with Cruz and he just fucking goes on a tangent about when he filmed Mission Impossible 5 in France. Yeah.
He's like, I've been to Vienna.

You may remember it from Mission Impossible 1. He's just acting weird and doing Cruise stuff.
It's Cruise. It's not

Cruise. Yeah.
I would feel safer with Hanks. But what does that even mean? That the pod won't be a disaster? No, I just feel like it would be a safer bet to be a good pod.

There's a cruise version of the pod. Yeah, like there's a cruise thing where you make too many cigarette jokes and he's like, cigarettes are poison.
You know, like he gets really mad at you.

We also had Robert G also said, you need to get Bernth on off or on for Sicari or the accountant rewatchable as coast along with CR.

If CR can muster up the courage to do Wayne Jenkins with burnth on the pod, keep it. Otherwise, you got to retire it.
I disagree.

From James McGowan, I'm slightly older than you.

That's my line. But I'm sure you remember the CBS late movie, if the outlaw Josie Wills or Keller's Heroes was playing, I was staying up.
You could do an old school broadcast TV rewatchables month.

I also love the Hollywood Knights. I think that would be tough.
So what would be some examples of movies from that era? It's all the Westerns. Okay.
It's Towering Inferno movies like that.

Poseidon Adventure. Yeah, Poseidon Adventure.
I don't know. Those movies are pretty tough to watch now.
Yeah. I tried to watch Poseidon Adventure.
It's rough. Hackman's in that, right?

Yeah, there's a lot of good people, and it's like, ah, this should be good. And 20 minutes in, you're like,

they can't get Shelly Winters up on a cliff.

I forgot about this part. Oh, man.
They still can't get her up. Oh, my God.

Really rough. A tweak from Mark McGowan, big fan of the pot, he says, on the Reden of Thieves show this week, you throw out drinking milk from the carton for Apex Mountain.

I want to submit the scene from Terminator 2 when the T000 kills John's foster dad through the milk carton while he's drinking from it.

Who knew the T-1000 cared so much about proper hygiene and etiquette?

What did we say? The best one? It was we said Anchorman, right? I haven't beaten Anchorman for milk, drinking milk out of the. We haven't done Anchorman yet.
We haven't. It's on the list.
Was that 04?

Yeah. Yeah.
Missed the anniversary. Category section from Mark C.

Where would you cast Philip Seymour Hoffman? This is a great one.

Honestly, no movie that he couldn't improve marginally. So

maybe every movie, we just try to figure out what part he would have played? Yeah, like Godfather 3. Could he have been a Cardinal? Why not?

I really like this one. That's good.
So maybe it's right after Cruiser Hanks. Yeah.

Yeah, let's

recast Philip Seamer Hall. Yeah, we'll touch Dravid.
It'd be tough to do with before Sunrise.

New category from Kevin Paulman. The sideways.

I'm not drinking any fucking Merlot award for life imitating art presented when something ridiculous in the movie unexpectedly gains a cult following and becomes a bona fide thing. Examples.

Sideways, when Miles's Merlot

tantrum arguably torpedoed Merlot sales for years and counting, which we talked about a lot. Office space, the rise of the red swing line stapler.

Big Lebaski, Jeff Bridges turning into the dude in real life. Rounders, the poker boom, and Empire Records, Rex Manning Day.
Another Empire Records.

There's not enough times this happens, but I like the spirit behind it.

My favorite part is Jeff Bridges turning into the dude, which I think actually happened. Yeah, you could do what should have been trending out of this movie.

Like, what trend should this movie have started?

Right. You know, should this should Goodfellas have started a Layla revival or something? You know what I mean?

Did people did Jaws like significantly affect people going into the ocean? Yes, I was terrified of the ocean. Yeah, it's affected Bill.
It really did.

I remember walking by the ocean then next summer and being like

being afraid to go in. Category tweak from Mike Roylance.
This is great. He says he thinks he's listening to every Rewatchables episode.
He wants to lose Eva laughing Ramon Raymond.

People hate Ramon Raymond. Yeah, we're going to get rewritten.
I saw Andy Garcia out the other night. No way.
Yeah. He's like, are you the fucking asshole who does the Rewatchables?

He wants us to replace Ramon Raymond with Wilford Brimley from the firm. He says it's the hardest he's ever laughed listening to a pod.
I think we need more Brimley.

If we had Daniel Plainview and Wilford Brimley for 2025, we're in pretty good shape. That's good.
Who do we drop, Ramon Raymond? And

have we ever done Philip Baker Hall? No, we can drop him. Okay.
Yeah. It's always funny to say his words last and Philip Baker Hall.

What was Brimley's character in the firm? Did he have a name? Yeah, it did. Tell you what it brings, Mitch.
Heartache.

Random question from Rayleigh F. William Devisher was his name.

Do you think movie theaters should invest more resources in auditoriums and anniversary movies and also feature more old-school re-watchable movies what do you think craig you're a younger guy who likes to go out and do stuff i think do you like own alamo draft house i've actually never been to an alamo draft house they are opening one on the west side i heard um yeah we just saw i mean they put interstellar out last month and it was huge and among like everybody i know people were thrilled to go back and see it but is that an la thing or is that an around the country thing i think it did uh really well like wasn't it like in the top 10 box office or whatever is that true yeah i think they put it out on imacs i think there is a thirst for that, for people to go re-experience what something could have felt like 15 years ago when it came out.

Because I saw 7 is on

IMAX right now. And I was like, oh.
Yeah. Because it's something you can't recreate.

I mean, I don't know about really old movies, but movies like of the 2000s that kids who are 20 years old now wish they could have seen. I think that works.
I think it's a thing.

Chris had a good point about seven.

Probably not a theater you want to be in. But the other people there, it's just you and 17 guys by themselves.

That's a good category. What's like the worst movie audience you'd want to be with? Exactly.

I told you, I think I told this story in the Rewatchables when I saw Henry portrait of a Siriko by myself in Boston at the BU theater. Was there anybody else at the theater?

It was like eight other guys, and we were all kind of like monitoring each other. We're like, what are you,

what are you up to? Everyone like separated perfectly by six seats, kind of watching. Worst movie to see with your parents or your in-laws.
That's another good one. Oh, yeah.

One night we were like in the last week, should we watch Anora? And I was like, no.

Anora's in the top. That would be way up there.
We could skip the first hour and then we could come in. I'd just be the first shot of Anora.
You're like, I'd be like, all right, I'm out.

I don't want to watch this with my mom. Yeah.
I would say number one would be Monster's Ball. Okay.

Make me feel good. Make me know.

Don't open your eyes, man.

So this one caught my attention. Category idea from Michael Morrison.
Would this movie be better if it was directed by Spielberg or Scorsese? Ooh.

Would that be follow Cruz and Hanks? That's good. I like that.

The only problem I had with it is, are there arguments? I feel like each one would be naturally. Well, I think that they've circled each other and enough projects over the course of their career.

They've had like slight overlap here and there. Schindler's was a big one, right? Wasn't that the big one that Scorsese was going to direct and Spielberg took over? Yeah.
Right.

But like any crime action-y thing will go to Scorsese, right? I don't know. I mean, you could make the argument that it would be fascinating to see Spielberg try something like that.

Well, let's test drive it with the last couple we've done.

Home Alone 2.

Den of Thieves, Spielberg or Scorsese.

I mean, probably Scorsese. Scorsese.
Knee jerk it Scorsese. Friday Night Lights, Spielberg or Scorsese.
Spielberg. Yeah.
Home Alone 2. Spielberg.

The Gambler. Well, I say Scorsese really has a feel for New York.

The Gambler?

Scorsese.

Disclosure, definitely not Spielberg. No.

Running scared.

Scorsese. Yeah.

The replacements?

Both of them say no.

What about Meet the Parents?

Probably I could see that being Scorsese just because he's worked with De Niro so much.

Body double?

Spielberg. Oh, interesting.
Yeah, because he's a big Hitchcock guy, too. Yeah, Yeah, it's true.

Yeah, I think Spielberg. Last one, Halloween 4.

What do you think?

Probably score Sazey. That was the last

one of those.

That was great. That was awesome.
Yeah. Category ideas from Johnny L.
The Bill Simmons Hardcore Award for most inappropriate Google search on a work computer inspired by the film.

Really doesn't happen that often, but

it's. I like how it works.
It happens during the pod, and it'll be like, don't Google that. Don't Google that.
Yeah.

The Innocent bystander award for the background character whose life is forever changed due to the actions of the movie but of course it's never acknowledged in the film he says the girl on the girl scouts team in boy in dodgebaugh who tests positive for pds gets her team disqualified beaver tranquilizer

what happens to her down the road that's pretty funny And then last idea, the memorability from this movie you'd want the least. Yeah, that's really,

I think we, maybe we add that. It's like memorability you'd want the most or the least.
And you get either choice, choice, right? Yeah,

like Demi Moore's substance body at the end of the film, right? Absolutely, like the yeah.

Question from Stephen M:

Why would you guys do a rewatchable on Rocky 3 and Rocky 4 before the Oscar winning Rocky 1? It makes no sense.

Belgium,

Craig. I don't know.
I don't know what Craig's doing.

I don't know what he's doing over there.

I we did

Rocky for we did the first. I did Rocky 3.
I got got to go to Rocky with you. Yeah.
Been saving you for Rocky 1. Thank you.
I did Rocky 3 with Sal and Gus

because my buddy Gus, because we had watched Rocky 3 together so many times. And did you do four with Kyle? Rocky 4 was Kyle.
I think that was during COVID.

Yeah, maybe. It was Zoom era.
It was a Zoom pod.

And I just did it in the order of Rocky movies that I like. My favorite is three.
Really? My second favorite is four.

One's slow. Yeah.
And features features the controversial seduction scene. And then two, which really Rocky should have gone to jail for 10 years.
That's really rough to watch.

No intimacy coordinator on that one either. Yeah,

Rocky made some mistakes. But

Rocky 1, we probably do one, and then maybe we do Rocky 2, but it's just the last 25 minutes from her waking up from the coma. Doing some mini rewatchables.

First hour and a half of that movie. Shoot that in the sun.

Oh, movie suggestion from elijah big fan of the rewatchables you've already done alien i'd love to hear you guys discuss aliens me too elijah it's one of the best sci-fi action films ever one of the better sequels it's immensely rewatchable i just rewatched alien last week i have never seen aliens cr any thoughts on aliens i like that movie aliens oh you do yeah i had no idea are you out on aliens No, I really like it.

We've been saving it. It's a classic.
And just the nude conversation alone

would just be incredible. I saw aliens on a date.
Did you? Yeah. That's a long movie for a date.
Nothing happened after.

Not the future sports gal.

Nothing.

A complete from Scott Murphy. I really hate that these pods are so long, but damn it, there should be a fact-checking category, particularly with Bill quoting other movies.

For years, he's been saying cross the beams instead of cross the streams, Ghostbuster. But he managed to equal that during the longest yard pod.

When Anacott Steel is brought up and he goes to quote Wall Street, he says, Blue Oyster loves Anacott Steel. No, no, no, it's Blue Horseshoe.
Blue Oyster is the bar in the Police Academy series.

I know he's old and his brain is becoming mush, but damn, either get it right or stop quoting other films. I disagree.
That gives the show its flavor. It's super fun.
Yeah.

He's also like, it's always that this pregnant pause where it's like, should we correct? We all look at each other.

It's hard to host. I agree.

Yeah.

Puss the vaccine. Yeah.
Right. Right.
Pre-vaccine. The polio vaccine.
Is that what you're talking about? Pre-vaccine. Half the time you guys bring up a character's name from a movie.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't like it.
I can't believe how good you are remembering characters' names.

I'm fine with fucking up occasionally. I fucked up in the Meet the Parents with Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson for like five solid minutes.
Yeah. And you wanted to be corrected earlier on that one?

No, Kyle eventually. During a break, I told you.
Yeah. An ad break.
That's Kyle was nice enough not to correct me. Do you then say, I can't believe I've been saying that wrong or do you just

move?

Correct you when was it was it luke or owen owen was in the movie you were saying luke yeah see i still see in your head because i'm like there's a category name would you rather somebody correct you after the first mistake or kind of let it sit and tell you it didn't no i think it's funnier if i don't know okay iris you're doing it for the game new category idea for jacob murphy every now and then you guys talk about some great names in the rewatchables movies like mitch mcdeer kelly leak these names should be given the category of the brock landers and chess rockwell award yeah this is up there the whip whitaker award from flight yeah So you could talk me into this just being a standard category.

Best name? Best name? Best character name? Yeah. Because we always talk about it anyway.
Maybe it goes in what's age the best. I don't know.

New category from Daniel C., the Carl from Walking Dead award for what character would survive the longest in the zombie apocalypse.

Classic Rewatchables examples include Gem in the Town, Buck and Boogie Knights, and Tubbs and Calderon's Revenge. This cannot be a category, but I like

the spirit. I like they threw in Tubbs.
Yeah, he was really speaking our language. New category from Zach Smith, suggesting the Barney Cousins Award for Most Inexplicable Accent Work.

Recent winners, Carrie Elwees and Twister, Lindsey Krauss and Slapshot, Dennis Christopher and Breaking Away, Any Bad Boston Accent. What's wrong with Lindsey Krauss and Slapshot? I don't know.

He's drive-by. But then he says Barney could also be a great addition to the Wayne Jenkins category.

I'm not against that one. Hello, Chris.

So we're going to add in a character on a movie that's not

available to stream at all. Hello, John.
Drink the coffee, Chris.

New category idea from Michael Connor. I would love to see a new category called What is the Perfect Age to See This Movie? Love this.
Great one.

Seeing the Breakfast Club at 15 is so much better than seeing it at 10 or 25.

What's the perfect age to see Goodfellas?

One minute from now.

Has Ben seen Goodfellows? Goodfellas is the best. I have to imagine for most movies that are great, it's like 16 to 22, right? I think it's end of high school, beginning of college.
Yeah.

I think there's plenty of films. It'd be weird if it was like 48.

Right. But the movies from that like 95 to 97 era, 99 era are the ones that I still think about the most probably because of what age I was.

I mean, if there's movies about parenthood, maybe you want to be a parent first, but most movies for Superbad, you're never going to say 38 years old is the best time to see Superbad.

I think one thing I've noticed is the movies that are serious, but then have are secretly funny are the ones that have aged the best for me like heat and good fellows that are great movies i loved anyway but have like that second layer of so fucking funny now when i watch it like hey just i was texting you over the break about tommy when uh when he shoots spider and then he gets mad at spider

get up you you the fuck spider actually i mean when we did silence of the lambs live It was mostly as if Silence of the Lambs was a comedy.

So in some ways, I think the movies movies sometimes age where it's actually better, like the 35th time you've seen it than the first time, you know?

Because I feel that way about, I definitely feel that way about Goodfellas. I enjoy it as much now as I ever did.

But I would say sometimes movies hit, we talked about this in the past with like, when we did like the kicking and screaming, like you.

You have to see a movie like that that's about those characters right around the time that you have to be the same age. Yeah.
My son really loves those

kid in the, it's a summer, and the kid who's got the job for the summer and all these people. Yeah, snack shack.
Yeah. Yeah.
He loves those movies.

He's always like, dad, where are more movies like that? I agree. The summer movies.

Movie suggestion from Used Carr Cowboy.

This is just a weird email. I'm going to read it.
The 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers would be awesome. He wants us to do it.
A-plus movie.

Plus, it has Jeff Goldboom playing a character called Belichick,

who ends up completely stoic, stoic, emotionless, and it features the 1978, 79 Golden State Warriors.

I'd like to imagine Brooke Adams' boyfriend was watching Jerry Maxwell and Alvin Martin from Inside Moves taking that team in the playoffs.

Also puts me in mind of finding out how many people in my life were pro-MAGA.

I think you used Car Cowboy just did the whole pod for us.

Stephen and Charlotte from Massachusetts wrote this one together. Hey, everyone, love the show.
My dad and I are big listeners, had an idea for a new category.

The Kathy Griffin in Pulp Fiction, Mike Myerson and Glorious Bastards, Lena Dunham and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Award for most jarring casting decision. Yeah.
Thanks for such a great show.

Hope you're awesome. It's kind of like the casting choice that took you out of the movie, which for me was, and we talked about this, my friends over the last few days, Stanley Tucci in Conclave.

I'm like.

Yeah, Stanley Tucci. Yeah, you're like, I've been watching you make pasta in your home on YouTube for the last three years.
Yeah. But Ray Fien's didn't bother you.
No, no. Right.

This is an interesting category. I'm trying to think of a recent movie that we've done.

This casting took me out of the movie for two minutes. You can overcast a movie.
Like, not everybody needs to be someone. Lena Dunham in Once Upon a Time, you're like, okay.
It's Lena Dunham.

Sometimes it's not the movie's fault. Like, sometimes you'll be watching, like, Running Scared, and you're like, oh my God, that's Jimmy Smits.

Like, that's like a pretty, it's like, this is more like the side. Like, I think Lena Dunham and Once Upon a Time in My Hollywood is a great example of this.

Maybe that was a little bit too much mustard. Yes.
It feels like stunt casting to a degree. The reverse is

Tom Noonan and Heat. Yeah.

It's all out there.

It's a good one, though. A Rocky Ford nitpick from Paul.
On the 39th anniversary of the end of the Cold War, I have one nitpick regarding the greatest movie ever made.

Paulie says, what about the Rose Bowl game? But the fight takes place on Christmas Day, one week before the Rose Bowl. I don't know what to do with this information.

I'm just passing along because it obviously has been bothering Paul for a long time.

And then Danielle pointed out with the hereditary episode we mentioned it was piano wire yeah that's what i thought it was a rope saw they're used to cut down trees and the only reason i'm really mentioning this detail is to emphasize the details ari aster puts in his films so it was not a piano wire it was a rope saw yeah i was unaware of that rope saw would make more sense due to the area the family lives in oh yeah utah likely used to make the tree house uh dave van buskirk wants us to do the sure thing which has been on the list forever but it's another movie that's just not available also a big one I'm a one crazy summer fan and a better off dead fan.

So sure thing just not around. A slew of categories from Brian Greer.
The Jenny Gump Award for the character who seems nice, but is actually a terrible person.

I really like this one. Maybe it's a conditional one.
The Pam Beasley. Yeah.
Mike Wallace in The Insider. Would this movie have been better if someone died?

Yeah. Not against it.
The Ice Storm Award. Would this movie have been better if some of the characters randomly had an affair or fucked?

A little dark.

And then he has monthly themes: Vengeance is Mind Month about characters seeking vengeance, but then Dog Month, Best in Show, Marley and Me, Turner, and Hooch.

You know, I've circled Dog Month for a while. I can't find the fourth movie.
So those are the three? Those three would definitely be in Dog Month. I don't know what's not really.

And it seems like you would want to present like a positive.

Well, Dawson probably loves Dog's dog movie. Marley and Me is so sad.
Man. Dog's Purpose.

Really good. Oh.

The sled dog movie that, what's his face made?

Paul Walker. Ape Below.
Yeah. Awesome.

What about that Channing Tatum dog movie recently? Oh, the dog. Dog.
Dog.

Hasn't gotten there yet. Homeward Bound, big one for me as a kid.

Carl Rice writes in.

For categories, I like the idea of the heat. Okay, motherfucker award for the moment the movie steps up a notch.

Yeah.

Yeah. Not bad.
I like that.

That's like Denzel Washington giving Ethan Hawk angel dust. He's like, oh, you like to get wet.
Didn't know that.

Last one from Jackson in Toronto. He loves the show, listens every week.
He's been thinking about full metal jacket for 30 years.

Sergeant Hartman has a smart-ass response for every answer the privates give. In one scene, he asks Joker, do you believe in the Virgin Mary? And Joker says no.

The response gets a slap in the face, but also Joker gets promoted. Whole pivotal scene built around the response.
What would have happened if Joker said yes?

Would the response be outstanding? There's no way the sergeant could have given a disgust or response for answering yes.

I think there should be a category for what would have happened if they just did or said blank.

Yeah. So like, this is a little bit of a cousin of the online idea of like, diehard, what if he just like leaves in the first five minutes? Or you know what I mean?

Like there's like ways in which movies could be over in 15 minutes.

there's a horror film like what if they just moved out of the house so but if there's like a pivotal line that if this person what if he had said this yeah there's something there like and glorious

ones out of that yeah and glorious bastards if he does the correct three does yeah do we do we easily win world

I can't believe I screwed up and sent you the wrong doc that's okay I sent you I meant to send you a doc did you feel like it affected my performance no I only had wanted you to prepare for seven things instead I sent you a doc with seven things around that's fine

we'll use a couple of those i mean the most important thing is that daniel plainville and plain view yeah daniel van plain view

correct me i don't know daniel plainville is and daniel

forward for indiana and uh and wolfer brimley what's his character uh davishaw what's his kid's name and there will be blood hw yeah yeah my son hw What did we say we could do Family Wednesday rewatchable?

You said that. That was the Luke Wilson mailbag.
So basically, people would write in with their Luke Wilson hottest takes movie hottest movies that we had just.

I don't mind having people send hottest takes and doing a special little mini episode and seeing if it works.

All right, Craig Korlbeck, Chris Ryan. We'll be back next week with an actual movie.
So thanks for your patience. But the Rewatchables will be kicking back in every week after this episode.

Thanks for everybody to speak. Thanks to everybody who's sent in really fun, great email questions.
We didn't get to nearly all of them, but thanks for that.

If you ever want to email us, the rewatchables33 at gmail.com. Good to see you guys.