The Rewatchables - A 2025 Rewatchables Mailbag

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons opens up the mailbag for the first time in 2025 and reads listener questions and submissions for new categories with Chris Ryan and Craig Horlbeck. Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Video producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We came up with our listeners sent in Cruz v. Hanks. That's where we got that. Was that before or after I got the vaccine? Jesus. I don't remember anything after the vaccine. Is this fire bill? There's no longer no longer back. 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 Horlebeck. CR, Chris Ryan, we've been doing the rewatchables. We had like, was the eight, nine, nine year anniversary. Is that right? 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 end. A guy shouted out from the crowd, for heat. That was it. That was all he brought to the table. And that was Victor Wenbanyama. Wembe loves it. For he? Yeah.

And he's like, Neil! I said to 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. Okay. We have a 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 mailback. I have a lot of mailback questions. Thanks to everybody who mailed them into the rewatchables 33 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 correct that 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 smoke?

Yeah. It's a good idea. So I've been thinking a lot big picture about the categories because 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 Big Kahuna Burger or something like that.

And I have a spot where it's like you can take any of the extra categories you want. Right. Yeah. So if it's like. In a flex position. Yeah, it's a flex spot. Maybe there's two flex spots in the pot. And then we have like 20 possible.

And obviously what's age the best, Dionne Waiters, all those stay in. But then when we talk about like Great Shot Gorda. How many of these 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 PAC Award for Excellence in onscreen smoking. Which I like, is Sean Penn the right person for that? Or would you go Jimmy Conway? I think I would bring Sean Penn because Sean Penn also insists on smoking in every on-screen green interview he does where he's like I think that's part of the the barrier to entry is like you got to let pen smoke American spirits on camera well I remember when he came to the our old studio to do the BS pod with me and it was like a Sunday 1 o'clock and he stunk a cigarette stand and I was like

I really admire this guy this guy's this guy's on brand at all time so you would you're okay with the Sean Penn I brought my own packer I like in general just like knowing what actors did for real in the movie I think that's a fun I got to you know, this is an obsession of ours and especially of mine. I always look for it and when I watch the, 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, that 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 Landman? No. They had a gasoline scene in the season finale. I don't spoil it, but he's covered in gasoline, and then somebody offers him a cigarette. He's covered in gasoline. He's really careful where you ask. Be careful. He's like, I'm already, whatever, and he just starts smoking. So then Dan White also suggests, conversely, you have the champagne 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 on what's age, the best, what's age of worst. But maybe smoking needs a bigger platform. Yeah, let's put more attention on smoking. Let's promote it.

Especially right now. Who is our Mount Rushmore for cigarette smokers? For just actually good ones or the Tom Cruise one. To me, Jimmy Conway is Jordan. Sean Penn, Jimmy Conway, I think. So this is most believable smokers. Gabriel. Byr?

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? No, I've 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 cigarette. Yeah, I love to have it.

They all stink of cigarettes. Edie Falco and Copeland Which I was thinking that maybe is an award to The Edie Falco and Copeland Award for this character Somehow became three times hotter because she smoked Blake Lively in the town We need to start adding visuals to these categories too on YouTube Like whenever time we introduced 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 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 website. All right. So we're going to step up the smoking stuff for 2025. Good start. This is from Cindy Hollenbeck.

Bill, you are my spirit animal, which my kids say is no longer politically correct. Ha, ha, ha. I love the bad news. Bears slap shot Animal House Cindy Hollenbeck is my mother by the way This is great

She loves bad news Bears slap shot Animal House Cattyshack 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 Cruz versus Hanks Can you find two female actresses Or she said two

female actors Which I probably should have That's why you're not The Spirit Animal Can you Can you find two And two female actors as well. I'm thinking of Sandra Bullock versus Nicole Kidman

or Michelle Pfeiffer versus Ellen Barkin. Meg Ryan versus Goldie Hawn. You see where I'm going. All right. So I put real thought on this. I like this idea. Okay. I like this Fallen 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 Julie Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfefer, 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 Fyfer we always talk about anyway Kidman's got a little more drama appeared in a lot of casting what ifs yeah so I think if those were the four is there anybody else you would put in there Julia Sandra Bullock, Pfeiffer Kidman

because Demi Moore probably a little too limited There's got to be somebody more recent right? Well I was thinking so somebody like under 40 like Emma Stone or Jennifer Lawrence or something Yeah Oh, Jennifer.

So maybe Jennifer Lawrence replaces Julia. Julia's fine. They almost have to be the same age, though. It's going to be hard to do. Because you're basically looking at these movies, and you're like, Billy Crystal's girlfriend and running scared, but that have been better if it was Goldie Hawn. Yes.

Yeah, so. I almost think we just need, it needs to be two people. Cruise 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. Cruz and Hanks are perfect equals. and they're opposite in a great way.

It's really hard because Cruz and Hanks works for super bad and it works for like, yeah, it works for like Howard's end. I can't figure out who it is then. Because you can go more modern and you can go J-Law versus Emma Stone. Yeah.

But I don't know if that's Cruiser Hanks worthy. I mean, Cruz has been in 15 rewatchables already. There's a... Julia Roberts versus Sandra Bullock? There's also a humor to Cruise versus Hanks that I just don't know if it's there for Julia Roberts for Sandra Bullock.

It wouldn't be funny to be, would you rather have Sandra Bullock or Julia Robertson, 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 neck, eating the ground, eating the donut off the ground, 75% Dan Campbell, etc. And then he says, best wishes. Thanks for all 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?

shit they're really going for this. I really like the idea of 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 Eadie, or no, goes back for Waingro, even though he's clear and away free. Oh, that's Dan Cammo.

That's fourth and nine. Yeah, that's like, I'm faking a punt up nine. It's fourth and nine from the ten. Yeah. But then there's something that it's like, it's a tush push. It's a lock. It's a guarantee. All right.

That's good. 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 dialogue things. 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. I've finally doing Pulp Fiction after teasing it for so long. But to quote the wolf, quote the wolf, let's not start sucking each other's dicks yet.

I feel like every fifth episode, Bill is itching and 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? These are 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. I did that.

Bill is so handsome. him. Where will you let him do rollerball? You are my son's spirit animal. I think 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. I've never seen that movie. You 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 on this schedule. It's 75. Jimmy Con July?

Jimmy July? Well, unfortunately, we've done most of his close of his movies. That's the problem. Well, look, can we find three other jimmies to put in July? Sure. Actors named Jimmy.

Yeah. Jim Barry. Which current athletes would succeed at playing rollerball? Josh Allen. So, roller ball, they're skating around a rink. It's like a fake extreme sport, right?

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 that one. Cooper DeGine. New category idea from John Higaman.

Here it is. Was there a porn parody of this movie? He just wants to know. Could be a quiz-style format that would generate some surprising results. I'm pretty sure the answer is yes for the Blair Witch Project. I immediately thought about how bad this would be for

Google and viruses. I'll have a buy a second. I did find a Reddit thread 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. I would 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, the sperminator. Come and Comer? You know that existed. What about boobs? die hard on Yeah, good

When Harry Fucked Sally Legs wide shut Goodwill Humping My Best Friend's Wedding With Two T's And then glad he ate her That was a gladiator We should make you guys

Come up with the porn title For every movie There's something there I do think it is gonna be When we're doing one now We're doing one going forward I will check to see if there was a porn parody So like for Manchester by the C

What would be the porn parody? They probably didn't do that one. Do they still make porn parties? Now it's just like, now they just do scenes. Do they even make movies anymore? That's why I was asking Craig, he's younger, you know. Craig's like, no comment. Category idea from Jordan Grimmer. Best, worst, five-word summary of the movie. Oh, yeah. Somewhere 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. Bank, Keist 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. I'm not against this. Or if I haven't seen the movie, you guys text me your five-word summaries before I watch it. Yeah, we're explaining to Craig with the movie is in five words. Godfather, Italian-American family goes through decades. No, that's six words. Yeah.

I don't know. I like the game of it. We may try it for a couple of things. 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... Clearly, that has not bothered us. Also, what movie have you always wanted to do and are scared nobody would listen, but you're doing it anyway? Sierra, 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 17 people listen to this. And then I feel like culture met us kind of where we were. And a cruising had like a little bit of a revival.

Blu-ray 4K cruising coming out in March. Seriously. The 4K. The Re-Len cruising. 4K. Yeah. Are we doing the re-cruising 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 stream. 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 TV? 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 rewatchable's fan and they watch every movie that we cover. And she was asking how she could find the vanishing with that. It's gone?

You can't find it. The American vanishing is gone? The American vanishing is impossible to find. You can't stream it anywhere. Craig. Drink the coffee. Eddie and the Cruisers needs to come back. Tubey, you greedy motherfuckers, you're making so much money right now.

You got the Super Bowl red carpet. We haven't noticed. We watched football the other day, and it was just like, Tooby this and Tooby that. I was like, oh, look who's come out and decided to play with the big boys. Oh, you think you're better than us, Tooby. Just put Eddie and the cruisers on there. Or else we're declaring war on. So, wait, yours was cruising.

That was the one that I was like, this will be our last pot if we actually go for it. But what's your one you want to do now, but you're scared nobody would listen? I mean, you've certainly sent me a couple. Why can't you just know on top of your head? Pre-vaccine, you would have been able to come up with it. So this is just 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. Cruising would just like be, like if you can do cruising, if you can do proof of life, you can do anything. If you can do pump up the volume when pump up the volume's not available to be seen,

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 of you always want to do

and are scared nobody would listen, but you might do it anyway? I want to do Jim Cotta at some point. What's that? It might be a me and Kyle Branter. Jim Cotta? 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 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 pommel horse where he fights a guy, but he swings in the pommel horse. I can't even describe how often. awful this movie is.

And I was thinking Jim Cada might be mine. All right, next one. This one's for you, CR. It's from Bobby Sleeth, two ease. I listened to the

There Will Be Blood episode and laugh my fucking ass off when C.R. did the Jackson main line from Starsborn in Daniel Plainview's voice. I'd forgotten. I did, though.

I'd like to have another look at your face, please. Turn around! I'd like to look at your face! I'd 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 sent some of the other candidates away for a very long time. I love adding Daniel Plain View to that. That's a great idea. Do you feel like there should be

a promotion and relegation system for the... We've already got rid of a couple of people, right? Yeah, but we also... We got rid of one and added three. But there needs to be like five or seven. Yeah. And you get...

Do you feel like you have some plain view in you in 2025? Yeah. All right. So we'll add him. Yeah. What else are you working on at home? There's another one coming up that's even better than this. 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 question. Like what Black Panther would be improved of Jerry Jones? It's just like, here's how I bought the scalpel. Sit in front of a cue card for three minutes. Yeah. When that happened, at what point they're in 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 on drugs or is this really good? I also think that when they cut away to Billy Bob and Ham and the various

reaction shots, they seem legit impressed. Yeah. I did. I asked Ham and Ham said there was some editing. Oh, yeah. I think Ham felt upstaged. 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

would Denip Thieves 2 out now and heat tube being worked on? Have you asked Affleck what the town too would look like? The answer is yes. I bring it up probably every time I've ever talked to him. He suggests...

Does Affleck suggests? No, this is the emailer. Would Shine, who has strong gem, 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 Dane. How old is Shine in the movie? Shine's a little kid. So that's... She's like 20 now, okay. Shine 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 wanted 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 Old had been in true romance. Yeah.

Wash up in Florida. She's like, we got to get our revenge on in the Florida. key and then it becomes this Florida Keys cross with 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 again. Is there another iconic Boston landmark that could be robbed? Beyond Fenway Park. Yeah. The Boston Garden's gone. Not like Fenway. No. I don't think so.

Maybe they could rob Harvard. Oh, yeah. Goodwill hunting. Crossed. Yeah. He's fucking spoiled brats, rich kids, going to have it. Get that money back. Rob Harvard.

What are you going to rob? I don't know. 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 it out.

Yeah. 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 are these guys in Boston are going to kill me because my boyfriend's gotten us in trouble. Shine shows up. And Doug is like, I'll do one last job for you. Shine shows up, it seems good initially. How'd you find me?

We have a How'd You Find Me scene? Then we have, I'm just drifting around, blah, blah, but then she Do you bring Blake lively back? Oh, yes. We absolutely bring Blake Labby back. Is she allowed to work still? Sure. Yeah.

Yeah, she's back. think? Right? We just won't cast Baldoni in it. He's out. Baldoni is the bad guy. This is it. This is how we heal the loss of.

We bring all the five families together. Baldoni is the drug lord in Florida Keys. I will say, I think the Florida Keys is one of the great underrated movie TV locations. I'm always in. There could be a Florida movie month probably, right? Oh, yeah. What was the movie, what was the TV show we liked on Netflix? Bloodline, Bloodsport?

Bloodline. That was set in the movie. Keys. I watched that. Was that? Kyle Chandler. Yeah. Yeah.

Jesus. Where'd this come from? I don't know. That's a running bad. You just did like, the other day, you did like, here are the last 25 years of NBA history. You're like, oh, I can't remember Baldoni is in this. Bloodline had the guy Mendelssohn who ended up in, in Ozark.

Uh-huh. It had our guy, Kyle Chandler. Ben Mendlson's not in Ozark. Wasn't he in all? He was season three season. Oh, maybe he wasn't. No. I'll get on it.

Who was the brother and O'O's brother in Ozark? Tom Helfrey. 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 call out

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 was Vail Day and I said it. For example, in old school, when Will Ferrell goes streaking,

he says, come on, Snoop a loop. or isn't super bad when Joan Hoke calls out Dave Franco and Jim Socker for pissing himself as a kid. Who says no to this category? You? You editorial director, Ryan? I'm not against it. We can 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 most unexpected, like, drive-by shooting of somebody else in the movie? Yeah. All right. I don't mind that one. 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. It's some interesting names. The Jules Winfield, That Guy, Graduation Award. when a that guy gal so on's a role that they go from becoming that guy to an actual name it was this role this movie that elevated them yes so like I think Giammati and 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 motherfucking L. motherfucking Jackson other examples he had

Bradley Cooper in 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 film? So I thought then Boogie Nights had two. Wahlberg? Cheetah. No, it had John C. Riley and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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. 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 to ringer.

I can't believe you guys can spend so much time on the woman Vronders and not cover the fact that Gretchen Moll's real-life husband, Todd Williams, used to be married to Fomke-Janson. The guy pulled off the real-life reverse Mike McD. Didn't know that. Didn't come up with the half-assenerate research. How is it that that's it? We've done rounders twice.

We've done rounders twice. never came up. This is really good. New category from Rob Shire. The Steven Segal, hard to kill a word for did the sex scene in the movie need a better intimacy coordinator. Yeah.

I was thinking about this, Roadhouse would have this maybe basic instinct. Sure. Yeah. I just like having a Steven Segal 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. Stephen Seagal heard about no intimacy coordinator in a Nora, and he was like, I respected. We didn't have one on art to kill either. Good move. Way to go, Sean Baker.

Category idea from Mark in 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 one listened to the Sixth 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 towers, was a 1 out of 10. I don't know what that means. Aragorn. Aragorn? Lord of the Rings. So that's a 1 out of 10 twist?

I guess so, yeah. There's not a lot of twists. So next time we do a movie of the twist, I think maybe we bring in the scale. But then... Is Twin Towers coming in 2025? It's not. Okay. But then, this is the end of the email.

Late period, Bill, getting into Tolkien would be amazing. I've also got a related entertaining story about another plot twist movie, Star Trek, the wrath of con. 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. And the 7 p.m. show lets out. One of the guys yells out, Spock dies at the end. parentheses. Personally, I'd rate this in 8 out of 10. Some large guy who is the line next to us for the 930 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's Society came out. I had already seen it in theaters and was going back for the second time with a bunch of friends, but 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. He goes, excuse me! I haven't seen the movie yet. I just like melted.

You're like, I'm never talking to line again. I had a college professor. I took a film class and he was talking about movie spoilers and how if you haven't seen these certain movies, there's like a, there's a certain amount of time where if you haven't seen it,

he didn't care. He asked the class, there was a big class. two, three hundred 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. Why did he do that? That's so weird. That guy sucked.

I forgot. I forgot 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's guy for so say.

There's nothing worse. There's nothing worse than spoiling a movie for somebody. Category suggestion from George in the UK. The Forest Gump Premature Ejaculation Award. What do you think this is? A 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, they went on for another 20 or 30 minutes longer than I thought. The Viagra? Yeah, it's just like the one more pump. Like, 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 Diggler. Yes. Jack. Yeah. I can do it again.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. A request from Michael Brassard. 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 that 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'd do a hunt for October. You can fucking watch it all of 2024. This guy, Michael Broussard, sitting there waiting for us to do a hunt for a October.

Nope. There's a... 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 rewatchables. That's a category coming up. But just so you know. That's what's, that's what's, that's

what we're hanging on. The greedy overlords at Tooby. I will put it on. Selfish Chris Ryan. And meanwhile, Inside Moves on Tooby, 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's your watch tonight. Theme month suggested from Logan Van Winkle. These names are like nuts. That's because they're all from you.

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 the 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 Tomato scores before Raj. And fantasy would get super upset about it. And it was just like, as usual. But now you do Roger Ebert as chat, GP. 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 chaty T's? Is that possible? Probably. Yeah, we're a couple years away. I don't mind the idea of Rot month.

I'd have to look to see what movies. There's definitely been some movies. I would like to see the stats on the movies we've done. Like how many sub-50% are we done? A decent amount, I bet. do we need like a like a billy who's the guy in moneyball billy beans assistant paul d puttester no but the fake the fake the fake composite character yeah Jonah hill's fake character we need like a Jonah hill for the rewatchable a stats guy advanced analytics yeah just like an

advanced analytics there's some really good spreadsheets out there people people do the work we have to I just have to look them up yeah we would be fun to know the worst rated movie we've ever done well the most dislike movie ever done was country strong people are still upset but we did that for your wife, Liz Kelly. The movie'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 or 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. So I like this one. This is good. Really solid. I have a couple. They're pretty obvious, though. 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.

So 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 be like, I'm really glad I invested

in my Roth. I just get like real... 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 toughed 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 the NBA playoffs right now? Like, chicken. It's April 19th. I wonder who's in round one. Yeah, I think I would have probably attempted what he did with the raft trying to get over way sooner. Yeah.

I'm probably dead within a year. Amity Voharra was another one I was thinking 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 a ghost is chilled out Yeah it's okay

It's the best it's been But did you have like a mediator come in What happened? No it's good The ghost 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 we'll 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. I'm thinking, basically everything before

1920, I'm gone. Oh, like, you couldn't do. I just can't, like. Yeah. Like, yeah. Unforgiven. You're just like, I'm a blind guy. I'm killed in the silent saloon.

I'm like, what's going on? Is that Will Penny? Oh, that's just drunk Billy. You can't see. I'm just drunk and blind. The playoffs are here, and you can predict the action all the way to the finals with Fandul predicts. Follow all the playoff dishes, swishes, wishes, wishes, and misses.

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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. It's just Lord of the Rings one, two, and three. Just every Captain America. I do like this idea. Would you be on these, much to Bill Shibir and Biden? I'm just hosting playing point card, but... But would you be like Julius Randall and, like, ruining the vibe and, like, not passing?

Never do the Julius. 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 Rings. Oh, good idea. Yeah, so... So if it's...

Chris or Sean. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's... It's still the three of you, but just they're hosting. But if Van wanted to do one... Or Van, whoever. So basically, if it's your movie, you have to host the pod.

Yeah, but there's a lot of thought that goes into this because you want to pick one that he would never pick. Right. But that he would still, like, be a good sport and 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, too and... What was the Twin Towers? Twin Towers. Twin Towers, that one. It's the two towers. Two Towers. I haven't seen it either.

Would I have to see the first one before the second one? How prepped am I? Yeah, you should probably see the first one. So maybe it's like no sequels? Yeah, that's good. No sequels. So you do like some sort of UK crime thing that we're just English people. It'd be great.

If you Sean and Van just chose the three Lord of the Rings movies in a row. Yeah, I mean, 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 far out. So I'm just on the pod. I'm like the fourth go host. And occasionally I have a couple points. Right.

But the point is not the tick. Most of the time, I'm just like, oh man, this fucking crime drama in the UK that's like when you invite me on to do that, I think I came on with you guys to do a live, right? Didn't I do that movie with you guys? Yeah. Yeah. You'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. The 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 think Angel Heart. I got to say, Angel Heart works great.

Yeah. I don't love bugs you But I do I don't think it's it's it's basically the flawed Rwatchables concept Yeah yeah But I think we should probably bring that back in 2020 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 and Babysitting Empire Records go

Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead I'm throwing in long Kiss Good Night is like this too. But that shit goes sideways. I would also throw after hours in there. Yeah. Yeah. Decent idea.

So this is from Logan and Hawaii. He says Aloha rewatchables. His category ideas. How would Van Lathen get out of this one? It was a great impromptu moment during Denna Thieves, the Redenna Thieves, when Chris Ryan asked Van Lathen how he'd excuse himself out of an excellent text. Mr. Lathen Jr.'s response was very entertaining.

would be a great addition should opportunity allow them to give him 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. It's 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 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 positions?

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, too disappointed? 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 and... 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 D.A. is outside. Would the toilet really flush that well with all the cocaine in it? 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 ten flushes? Oh, God. It feels like, I don't know. Greg, why don't you go get us a kilo of cocaine? Get us some fake coke. I need 24 hours. Question from Yergan Anderson, two S's.

Hi, have a question for you. Who is Diane Waiters? Do you think you're from the States? I don't. I do not. Okay. This got me thinking, though, we should probably explain who Dion Waiters is. Did he say Diane?

Yeah. Yeah, he said Diane Waiters. That's fair. Because Deion Waiters now has not played for how many years? We've discussed replacing the name Deionn Weathers with a different player, right? Yeah, I mean, I think that Dion 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 Dardell. award that we could give out to somebody who has like an incredible three quarters of a movie.

Oh, and then just falls apart. 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 QVs. 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 Guess movies.

The Sam Darmour War is really interesting. Is that for the movie or a character? 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 with this director. But Sam Donald's a different one. That's like you were doing good for a while and then the wheels came up.

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, D.M. Waiters, he played 418 NBA games. He was a lottery pick for Cleveland. he was a 2013 draft i think it was the fourth or fifth pick he come out of high school no he spent yeah he was at syracuse he was at syracuse he peaked at 15.9 a game on a crappy

2014 calves team before lebron came back bounced around went to o kc miami finished with the lakers but the reason the reason we really we we uh named the he check after him was because sometimes he would just come in and make everything the microwave you come in in like three minutes he would have 10 points. So the idea of Deon Waders was better than Deon Waders because most of the time he would come in and, you know, miss a couple threes. Then everyone's wow, Dion Waders' heat check would happen. So I guess the question is, do we dump Deon Waders for a more modern heat check guy?

Do you feel like there is a comparable modern equivalent to Deon? I feel like this guy has gotten a little bit legislated out of the game. The Deon Waders Heat Check guy? Yeah, like 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 is going to be. Peyton Pritchard's a good one these days?

Because Peyton Pritchard's either three points or 28. I was legitimately like, who's Peyton Pritchard for a second? I don't know. The Dion, though, it feels like we're kind of stuck with it. It's such a staple of the show. 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 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 McCauley 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. Yeah, it's Malibu Colony. When he meets Eid 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. It seems too expensive to be a rental,

also well furnished. And 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 Eadie that are like probably purposely to like lead her astray if she was ever questioned by the police. I think he says he's from the bay, you know, stuff like that 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 Eadie could get, like, a decent place in the hills that had a good view. So that's Eadie's place that he leaves her at. So what part of the hills do we think that's in?

I, like, thought maybe Beachwood or, like, kind of like, that area. Okay. And then where do we do? we think the guy who fucks him 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 Zand. Where was his house? Because he's climbing up a cana on that one. Brentwood? Yeah. So we only think one house for Neil and probably renting. Yeah. Probably rents a year and a time. Maybe he has a... Maybe an apartment in the South Bay. Can I get away?

I could see him having a safe house. Like a... Torrance? Yeah. I think he has a burner room like Rahim Definitely. What's the burner room? Rahim had his burner where he talks about in Vegas.

He's a burner room. It's this 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.

It's a second room. If you want to take somebody back. My apartment has three burner rooms that I guess. Burner room. He didn't elaborate. Oh, man. They just say Joe House

has been talking about it ever since. New category from Matt Hennessy. This is wonderful. In honor of Alck Baldwin's Captain George Elbrey from the parted. 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 L.R. B. in for Vincent Chase, yeah. Is it time, Vincent Chase's 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 employees of Empire Records. Empire Records coming up a lot in this mailbag. I know. 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 dual-al-line odds as we're doing something. I guess it would be

what were the Fandual Live odds for, you know. Oh, yeah. What are the odds? that Neil is about to kill Wayne Grove. Yeah, that he just stays in the car. It's easy just to use heat as the prism for all this possible categories. Best Fandelion odds. How long does

Chris stay together with the Ashley Jack's character? What are the odds? Charlene was just going to let Chris enjoy this night? Right. Right. Anyway, he asks, when is Philly Month? Or she asked, when is Philly Month going to happen? You've teased some Philly movies, Silver Linings Playbook. Last year was great. I think there's plenty of meat left. What's on the Philly Mount 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 Lannis. So we've done some already. And Rocky. Well, we haven't done Rocky one and we haven't done Rocky one.

Oh. Yeah, only three and four. 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 Scarrant? Fighting Back. That was in Philly. Was it? Yeah, Tubey. Greedy motherfuckers of Tooby. Fun idea from Andrew Rowan, two-As. 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? Yeah. Compared to Den of Thieves, Departed, Fast and Furious. In general, I think the next time we do one of these movies, they need a bunch of special categories. It would be fun to apply this to like Grand Budapest Hotel, though. Oh, you a fucking cop.

I was thinking of the heist movie Staples. Derontas. Yeah. Are you a cop? Nobody's ever broken into 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. Re-R. 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 have great ideas. But as a long time, 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 day. 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 have to release the movie. This really is like it comes down to one man.

Well, one thing we could do is... I don't think you can 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 is on the next show. They could also send them to me. next show. As a special like Wednesday YouTube thing, we could read out the reader

Luke Wilson hottest tapes. 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 the email 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 thread about the movie. I want to like come up with my own ideas on the movie and I was like that screws me and then I'm like that was on race. It's like fuck.

From James Rowe. He's a day one rewatchables fan. 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 Sierra of hype moist movie crew members to build your own crew for a heist. Five round drafts, 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 were, 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 McCauley, 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.

McCauley's number one. Yeah. He's the signal caller. Okay. Which is funny. Honestly, does not live through his heist ultimately. Uh-huh. You know, so it's like he is 0-1 as far as the movies go.

Is there a Doug McCraig case? Who would you rather take orders from? Neil McCauley. Yeah, me too. I feel like he knows his shit. 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.

Okay. Then who's the fucking size for? Well, who's the number two guys? I think has to be Jim, right? Who's your road dog is definitely Jim. Yeah. Yeah. Who's Kylie Day?

So now we have a movie with Neil McCauley and Jim. An argument, road dog could be rust from the oceans movies. Ooh. Really, really good road dog. It's a good one. Wow. Maybe even more fun than Jim. Jim gets you in a lot of fights.

Gem gets you in a lot of trouble. What do we do about like can Merriman not be the lead guy, but also being the crew anyway. Well, in truth, not just spoiled 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 far we have Neil McCauley

and Jim. You want to throw Oceans 11 in there, too? Yeah, let's do Rust and Merriman for three and four. I really need Seismore in here from Heat. Kind of a wild card. I just need him. What was his name

in the movie? I go, I'm blanking. Chris Sure. No, not Cherilis. That wasn't, whatever his name was. It was,

Cherito. Chorito. Yeah. Who blew it all by just calling one guy slick when everybody had just been blown up

but somehow remember that little detail. Yeah. You gotta get the phone book. Do it anyway. Because he needs to be in this so he can have

his one big scene. His blinking. I need a one big scene for my number four guy. I need some size of them. Okay. So let's lose Merriman for Cherito then.

Yeah, I don't know how Merriman and Cherito would interact. Feels like there'd be some alpha dog stuff for them. Little Russell Wilson and Justin Fields. It's like whose corner is this? Rust is good because he'll keep everybody calm. He's kind of been a non-violent crime. All he's doing is eating nachos in the back

and kind of hanging out. He's always had a great suit. Do we need, is there a wise cracking guy for like the four spot? Yeah, I was thinking maybe Bushemi from Reservoir Dogs. Oh, that's good. Yeah.

That is good. Just to bring a little firecracker energy. Yeah. I think that's what some of these movies miss is the one funny. I was trying to make this case with Dennetties, but somebody who's keeping a light. And then the driver is who? Gosling from Drive.

That's pretty good. Yeah. Baby driver, Anto 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 them chasing the 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 Fox's performance in that movie. I feel like he could have been good guy or bad guy with the way he plays it. I almost feel like he could have just been the driver, like the Hayesburg character. Yeah.

Do we have any room for Gongley for Isabella to be in here for Miami Vice? It's like the love interest. So who's like your number one heist love interest? Gongley is basically just saying over and over again that there wasn't enough time. Time's luck. I got to be honest. Lively? I got to say lively.

Yeah, now we're talking. If I'm being completely real, it's lively. But who's lively dating out of the crew? Well, that's the fun part, is that 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 workshop in this. The important thing is that Neil has to... Wait, did we pick a first guy to die? Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, we get... Balushi from Thief always had that... 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. Well, the guy in the town, the guy who gets his head shut off. Oh, yeah. 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 on the conversation, like the wrestler or the

native professor. Underrated month. The other guys, great wet hype, outside Providence. pop star. Comedy classics, that's easy. In honor of Estinelf's 50th, maybe you 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 months? Yeah. Best picture winner month? Yeah. Best picture winner month. Because when else were we doing like network or one floor over the cucko's nest? I would do network whenever. But yeah. Terms of Endearment? Yeah. Out of Africa. New category from Eric Ritvo.

This is great. This is going right in. The Don Dawson, 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, Dana Willer Nicholson. From Fletch. Yeah.

Be your number one. My one would be Lisa L. Becker. 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 Ron Livingston, but the other

Patrick Van Horn is Sue. 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 that guy. Why weren't you more of a thing? Yeah, it's Linklater movies are really good for that. 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. Yeah. 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 say Hunt for October is my fault. There's some that are just, you know, on ice in the, in the fridge. We're doing Scarface at some point. Are there any 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 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. They were just banger after banger after banger. 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 Brand Award for Is This Movie Better as a Monacham Golan production? Really solid. Probably not add that categories, but a great chip. I would like to add that I would love to do the 80s action trailer voice for movies that would be the most inappropriate use of 80s action trailer voice. Like we're doing Philadelphia.

Yeah, like remains of a day. He's just a butler. But what if like you know? Manchester by the seat. 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 Friday Night Lights episode, I would love to submit a nominee to the Undisclosed Truck Stop Coin Toss. He's a lifelong racing fan. He says the 1969 coin toss between Ogden Phipps, Claiborne, Clareborn Farms owner, Horse Racing, royalty. And Penny Chenery

was the most important in sports history. And what happened was the 1960, I'll skim it through, but the 1969 breeding season, this horse called Chicada did not conceive saccata, chakata.

Cicada? Do you know this story? No, I know the, I know cicadas. The insect. Only one fall was due in the spring of 1970. The winner of the coin toss would receive one fall, the first choice in 69.

The loser would get second choice in 69 in 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.

Chenery gets the second choice in 69 in the 1974 secretary. and he says imagine losing a coin toss and ending up with Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, 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 1960s, NBA draft.

But now, new category from Pat and 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.

Jules and the robbers and diners a metaphor for U.S. and German tensions following the Zimmerman note. Is that true? I don't know, but it just seems like this guy wanted to show Pulp Fiction to his class. Crime and Justice. Catch me if you can. White-collar crime. Psychology. Rain Man. What about Bob? Memento.

Mean Girls. The Strawberry Dackerstein. 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.

We'd be like, we're doing the colonial American revolution. Let's watch Spartacus. Right. 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 I did from Colin W. A few years ago was jokingly brought up

to have a category where you call Rissillo 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 tags from RR by this having been implemented in the podcast. This would be an incredible category. Does Ricillo like this movie?

What's Ricillo's take? Calling Rissillo 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 never had. So we just put them on speaker and just calling if he answers

and answers and we're like, hey, Friday night lights, what are your thoughts? Does Rissillo have the highest batting average on the rewatchables in terms of like appearances to the amount of incredible ones? Yeah, it's almost like we don't want to book them anymore. Right.

It's town vision quest, Wolf of Wall Street. Is that it? Deliverance. Yeah. Margin call. I think he's done like five or six. Deliverance. That was his choice.

I like this Rissilo idea, though. We'd have to try. So we'll be doing right now. So we'll do before sunrise later this month. Call. We just call him and he'll just call me. It's like, ah, Ethan Hawke, 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. Tempts to capture the beginning of summer in 1976. 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 proud of die hard. Not necessarily the best movie ever, but movies that perfectly achieved their goal. I love this idea. It's a great idea.

It's a better way to rate movies. My wife had Devil Wears Prada on which we've watched a bunch of it. 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 Gernier is the boyfriend is hilarious because he's so bad. Yeah. So I like the idea of did this movie achieve? 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 couldn't have improved it really. No, like the sandlot is a 10 out of 10. It did exactly what it needed to do. So do you think this is, where would we put this in the episode? I think you would do it after.

Do you do it near the end, right? Yeah. Yeah, who won the movie and is this movie? Or right before who won the movie. Yeah. Yeah, I like that one. Top of the pot, I day 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 rewatching. My husband and I plan our weeks around rewatching and listening to your podcasts. That's nice. That's nice. So it would immensely help my meal. planning. I already have a steak on a paper plate plan for re-watching Den of Thee's, but still in the side of between 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've 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.

It's overcooked. So overcooked rotissory chicken for heat. So you're just picking an item from the movie, or is it whatever you've feel like is the perfect... I took it as like the mood for the movie. Oh, so, yeah, because that's interesting. Because, 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 quite got here, but Luke B thought we should do a Brad Stevens award for the best basketball lineup you could possibly make for the movie. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. Guys, you slot five characters in a role's 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 gun-slinging shooting guard. Trey is the bruising meta-world piece, Corey McGettie type, and Seismore is a Horace Grant. Serge Abaka, David West, traditional Swiss Army Knife Power Forward. I like that this dude stopped watching basketball in 2011. You know, just like a Baca and David West. He's like a Lue All day.

Trending topics today. They're Gordon-Megetti 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

he's like a banger. He's like a rebounder. He's like a under size four. Saracen's like under like a five nine point guard. He's like Jose Alvarado. Boobie Miles shooting guard. Boobie Miles is like the Kobe.

He goes down. Category tweak from John Wolfe. This is great. A cousin of the Mallet Rubin did this movie need a better sex scene. I thought of this during the reddened of thieves pod. Didn't we need a scene where Pablo 50,

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 Goodfellas fit in a softball scene like they're playing for the deli team. Basically,

how would you have shoehorned a sports scene into this movie for no reason? The best version of this is American History X when we have the health or skill to pick up 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 seating for the first one yeah 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

little five side soccer yeah he all of a sudden is yeah I mean looking at these movies like body double what is he like going to play racquetball one day You gotta do something. That's a good one instead of acting class. Rack and bike, it's claustrophobic. It's too much, it's too tight in there.

We should test drive that one. That's a good idea. This would work, I think. What are they playing in hereditary? 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. I would just love it if Tote Colette was just like,

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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 Tooby do that, the greedy overlords? Evil Tooby.

Evil To be. It's 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 pursued happiness needle drop. He said, the ringer dramatically overestimates the importance of Project X

and culture to that. Disagree. We underestimate it. Yeah, I disagree, too. He said he offered the Johnny Depp's Black Betty Airport Walk and Blow. That's definitely not happening. Really funny that you think Black Betty and Blow is bigger than the Project X one.

He did offer the Billy Bats, Atlanta's Beatdown and Goodfellas. That's fucking incredible. But we're not getting ready to kick out of Kid Cuddy. New category from James Winston. Thought this was James Winston for a second. I used to fuck guys like you in prison a word for the wildest,

oddest, most fucked up line of dialogue in the movie. Keep it, 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 him.

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, shit. 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 is a horror film. So they did that with The Shining with the Family Dramity, the Torrance is. I like when they recut trailers. Yeah. I often think about how this movie would be different

if Kirby's 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 cruise or Hanks on for a rewatchable 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? It's like Cruise for All the Way or Hanks for Turner and Huch. Or is it more interesting to talk about a movie the other one's in? personally, I think a recruising with Cruz is the only choice. So this is a good question.

As a co-host, Cruiser Hanks. So it's almost 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... I think, Hank, let's be honest. But the huge... The huge tells 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. Like Cruz's doing eyes wide shut would be the greatest podcast in the history of the world. Hank's is better as a podcaster. Like he could hang in with all of these. Do we know the Cruz 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 in France. Yeah, he's like, I've been to Vienna. You may have remember it from Mission Impossible One. He's just acting weird and doing cruise stuff. It's cruise. It's not even close. 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. He gets really mad at you.

We also had, Robert G. also said, you need to get Berndth on off or on for Sakari or the account rewatchable as co-as along with CR. If CR can muster up the courage to do Wayne Jenkins with Berthal 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 outlawed Josie Wheels or Kelly's Heroes was playing, I was staying up. You could do an old school broadcast TV rewatchables month. I also love the Hollywood

nights. 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, Poseid and Adventure. I don't know. Those movies are pretty tough to watch now. Yeah. I tried to watch Poseid Adventure. It's rough. Hackman's in that, right? Yeah, there's a lot of good people

and it's like, oh, this should be good. And 20 minutes and you're like, they can't get Sheldley Winters up on a cliff. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. She's like, leave me here. Oh, my God. Really rough.

A tweak from Mark McGowan, big fan of the pot, he says. On the Redent of Thieves show this week, you throw out drinking milk from the carton for Apex Mountain. I wanted to submit the scene from Terminator 2 when the T-000 kills John's foster dead 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? We said anchor man, right? Yeah. How'd it be an anchor man for drinking milk out of the... We haven't done anchorman. man yet. We haven't. No. It's on the list. Was that 0-4? 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 party 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. We'll test drive it. Philipsy Moore. Yeah, we'll test drive it. 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 Merleau tantrum,

arguably torpedoed more Merleau sales for years and counting, which we talked about. Office space, the rise of the red swing line stapler. Big Lobowski, 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 Goodfellas had started a Layla revival or something? You know what I mean? Did Jaws 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 next summer and being like, being afraid to go in. Category tweak from Mike Roy Lance. This is great. He says these things he's listening to every rewatchable's episode.

He wants to lose evil laughing Ramon Raymond. People hate Ramon Raymond. Yeah, we're going to. I saw Andy Garcia out the other night. No way. Yeah. He's like, are you the fucking asshole who does the rewatchable? he wants us to replace

Ramon Raymond with Wilford Brimley from the firm. He says it's the hardest has ever laughed. Listen to a pod. I think we need more Brimley. If we had Daniel Plainview and...

Wolford Brinley? For 2025, we're in pretty good shit. Yeah, 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 in Philip Baker Hall. What was Brimley's character in the firm? Did he have a name? Yeah, I did. Tell you what it brings, Mitch, heartache. Random question from Roe 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 on Alamo Draft House? I've actually never been to an Alamo draft house.

There are opening one on the West Side, I heard. 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 really well. Wasn't it like in the top 10 box office or whatever?

Is that true? Yeah. I think there is a thirst for that for people to go re-ex experience what something could have felt like 15 years ago when it came out. Because I saw 7 is on IMAX 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 which 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 with 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 think I told this story in the rewatchable was when I saw Henry Portrait of a Syracore by myself in Boston at the 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 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 Enora? And I was like, no. Nora's in the top, that would be way up there. We skip the first hour and then we can come in. The first shot of Anora. I was like, I'd be like, all right. I don't want to watch this with my mom.

I would say number one would be Monsters Ball. Okay. Make me feel good. Make me a know. Don't open your eye. So this one caught my attention. Category I here from Michael Morrison. Would this movie be better if it was directed by Spielberg or Scorsese?

Ooh. That's fun. Could 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 easy. I think that they circled each other and enough projects over the course of their career.

They've had, like, slight overlap here and their 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 buy something like that. Well, let's test drive it with the last couple we've done.

Home Alone, too. Den of Thedep Thieves, Spielberg or Scorsese? I mean Probably Scorsese Scorsese Friday Night Lights Spielberg or Scoresi Spielberg

Yeah Home Alone 2 Spielberg The Gambler Scalzeze really has a feel for New York The gambler Scambleor

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? Spilberg. Oh, interesting. Yeah.

Because he's a big Hitchcock guy too. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, thanks, Spielberg. Last one, Halloween 4. What do you think? Probably Scorsese. That was the last. That was the last one.

That was great. That was awesome. 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... Sometimes 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 the actions of the movie, but of course, it's never acknowledged in the film. He says, the Girl and the Girl Scouts team in Dodgeball, who test positive for PDs gets her team disqualified. Beaver tranquilizers.

What happens to her down the road? That's pretty funny. And then last idea, the memorabilia from this movie you'd want the least. Yeah, that's really good. I think maybe we add that. It's like memorabilia you'd want the most or the least

and you get either choice. Right. Yeah. Like Demi Moore's substance body at the end of the film. Absolutely. 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. Bill would you like that was a gesture at Craig? I don't know. I don't know what Craig's doing. I don't know what he's doing over there. We did Rocky for, we did the first, I did Rocky 3 with you. Yeah.

Been saving you for Rocky 1. Thank you. I did Rocky 3 with Sound Guss. My buddy Gus because we had watched. Rocky three together so many times. And did you do four with Kyle? Rocky four was Kyle. I think that was during COVID.

Yeah, maybe. It was Zoom era. It was a Zoom pie. 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 slow.

Yeah. And features the controversial seduction scene. And then two. Which really Rocky should have gone in jail for 10 years. That's really rough to watch. No intimacy coordinator. They're not on that one either. Yeah, Rocky's, Rocky made some mistakes.

But Rocky won. We probably do one, and then maybe we do Rocky two, but it's just the last 25 minutes. From her waking up from the coma, 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 an 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. C.R. Any thoughts on aliens? I like that movie?

Oh, you do? Yeah. I had no idea. Are you out on aliens? No, I really like. We've been saving it. It's a classic. And just the new conversation alone.

Just be incredible. I saw aliens on a date. Did you? Yeah. It's a long movie for a date. Nothing happened after. I'll tell you. 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 the Anticott 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 that his braid is becoming mud. but damn, either get it right or stop quoting other films.

I disagree. That gives the show its flavor. It's so fun. Yeah. You need that. 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 with you. I know. Yeah. Plus 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 can't believe how good you are remembering characters' names. I'm fine with fucking up occasionally. I fucked up in the, uh, 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. And 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 push through? Yeah, I acknowledge. You acknowledge it. But would you rather somebody correct you Was it? Was it Luke or Owen? Owen was in

the movie you were saying Luke? Yeah, see, I still can't get it right. But Luke's in your head because I'm, like, there's a category named after. Would you rather somebody correct you after the first mistake or kind of let it sit and tell you it? No, I think it's funnier if I don't know. 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 Whittaker 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

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 rewatchable's examples include gem in the town, Buck and Boogie Nights, 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 Alwees and Twister,

Lindsay Krause and Slapshot Dennis Christopher and Breaking Away Any Bad Boston accent What's wrong with Lindsay Cross 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? 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 Goodfellas? 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 that are better. 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 Super Bad, you're never going to say 38 years old is the best time to say Super Bad.

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 Heath and Good Fellows that are great movies I loved anyway. but have like that second layer of people. So fucking funny now when I watch it. Like he 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, the fuck, Spider. That actually, I mean, we did Silence of the Lambs live. Yeah. Mostly as if Silence of the Lambs was a comedy. Uh-huh. So it's, in some ways I think the 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 the 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 kicking and screaming. Like you have to see a movie like that. Coming of age stuff. 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.

Snack shack. Yeah. Yeah. He loves those movies. Stand by me. He's always like, Dad, we're more movies like that. I agree. The summer movies. Movie suggestion from Use Car, 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 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 and Pulp Fiction, Mike Myers and In glorious Bastards, Lena Dunham in Once a Time in Hollywood Award for most jarring casting,

decision. Yeah. Thanks for such a great show. Hope you all stand safe. 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 and Conclave. I'm like, 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 Fines, it 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, and 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 Smith's. Like, that's, like, a pretty...

This is a iconic cop. Like, I think Lena Dunham and Once Upon a Time of 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 Newton 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. Paul always 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 this information.

I'm just passing along because obviously he's been bothering Paul for a long time. And then Danielle pointed out with the hereditary episode, we mentioned it was piano wire. Yeah, so I thought it was a row. Ropes saw. They're used to cut down trees. The only reason I'm really mentioning this detail is to emphasize the details Aari Aster puts in his films. So it was not a piano wire, it was a Ropesaw? Yeah.

I was unaware of that. Ropes saw would make more sense due to the area the family lives in. Oh, yeah. Utah. Lately used to make the tree house. Dave Van Busskirk 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, 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 and 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 the fourth one is. And it seems like you would want to present like a positive... Dogs and a positive way. Well, the Simons family loves dog movies. Marley Me's so sad. Man. Dogs purpose?

Mm-hmm. Really good. Oh, okay. The sled dog movie that... What's his face made? Paul Walker. 8 below? Yeah.

Awesome. What about that Channing Tandem dog movie recently? Oh, the dog. Dog. Dog. Has it 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 given Ethan

in Hawk Angel Dust. He's like, oh, you like to get wet. Didn't know that. Last one from Jackson and 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 to the privates give.

In one scene, he asked 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 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 said X.

Yeah, there's something there. We got some good ones out of that, though. And Glory's Basters, if he does the correct three, does, yeah, do we easily win world-blatt? I can't believe I screwed up. I can't believe I screwed up and sent you the wrong doc. That's okay. I meant to send you a doc that had seven things.

Did you feel like it affected my performance? No, I only had wanted you to prepare for seven things. Instead, I sent you a dock with 70-down. That's fine. We'll use a couple of those. I mean, the most important thing is that Daniel, Plainville, and. Plainview.

Yeah. Daniel Vane Blue. How can you correct me? I don't know. Daniel Plainville is starting to fall forward for Indiana. And Wilford Brimley. What's his character? Davishaw.

What's his kid's name and there'll be blood? H.W.? Yeah. Yeah. I saw an HW. What did we say we could do? Or a family business. Like a 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 things. After the movie. I like, I don't mind. I don't mind having people send

hottest takes and doing a special little mini episode and seeing if it works. All right. Craig Coralbeck, 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 spend,

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