The Rewatchables: ‘Collateral’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Published 2019-08-06; 1:15:45 by the feed.

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Most rewatchable scene

  1. floated The first cab ride with Jada Pinkett Smith and Jamie Foxx, Groove Armada playing, the empty 105 into downtown.
    “The 1st cab ride with Jada and Jamie and Groove Armada.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:38:19
  2. floated The body dropping onto the cab in the alley.
    “Fox pulls in the alley. And then a body drops on the cab.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:40:33
  3. floated Everything between the first and second kill: the body falls, Vincent calmly takes over, Ruffalo shows up.
    “My favorite, the most rewatchable scene is everything that happens in between the 1st and the 2nd kill.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:40:56
  4. floated The robbery scene, Fox handcuffed to the steering wheel, Vincent's two to the chest and one to the head.
    “The next one I have for rewatchable is the, uh, the robbery scene when Fox is handcuffed to the steering wheel and the gangbangers show up.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:41:55
  5. floated The jazz club, Daniel's Miles Davis story and Fox getting into it.
    “Next rewatchable scene. They go to see Daniel in the in the jazz club.”
    unknown · 0:43:06
  6. pick The Fever nightclub shootout in Koreatown, ending with Vincent killing Ruffalo's Fanning.
    “The Koreatown nightclub is my most rewatchable scene.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:44:57
  7. floated Vincent at Annie's office building, shot from across the way, the lights cut.
    “Cruise goes to Andy's office building, another rewatchable.”
    unknown · 0:47:18
  8. floated The ending on the subway, Vincent dying without the viewer realizing it at first.
    “And then the very, very ending, the subway shooting and cruises, the MTA scene, yeah.”
    unknown · 0:47:36
  9. floated Fox flipping the cab.
    “The only other one I would consider putting it is when he flips the cab in that whole scene.”
    unknown · 0:48:08
  10. pick The Fever nightclub scene, agreed on by both hosts as the final choice.
    “So most rewatchable, we're going Fever Nightclub?”
    Bill Simmons · 0:49:20

Ebert review · Chris reads Roger Ebert's take on the film.

  1. pick Collateral: Ebert gave it 3.5 out of 4 and called it essentially a long conversation between a killer and a man who fears for his life, with the five stops working like short films.
    “3.5 out of four.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:37:43

Age the best · What in the movie has held up best.

  1. pick White-haired evil Tom Cruise as Vincent
    “White haired evil Tom Cruise.”
    unknown · 0:50:07
  2. pick Javier Bardem
    “Bar Dam, we mentioned him.”
    unknown · 0:50:18
  3. pick Fox driving a cab instead of an Uber: The cab computer and dispatch give the car an intimacy Uber would lose.
    “Fox being a cab driver instead of an Uber driver has aged very nicely for some reason.”
    unknown · 0:50:20
  4. pick Jason Statham's cameo at the top
    “The Jason Statham cameo at the top.”
    unknown · 0:50:56
  5. pick The coyote crossing: Bill read that a coyote crossing your path is a bad omen, and Vincent had already killed three people by then.
    “The coyote is a wet's age the best for me.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:52:16
  6. pick The look of the digital photography: Disorienting in 2004, now a singular work nothing has matched since.
    “Just the look.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:52:44

Age the worst · What in the movie has held up worst.

  1. pick The stretch between the Miles Davis scene and the Fever nightclub: It drags, especially the hospital detour.
    “I think it drags between Miles Davis and the Fever Nightclub.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:54:37
  2. pick Jada Pinkett Smith's directions: Her LA route through La Brea and 6th makes no sense.
    “Jada Pinkett's directions?”
    unknown · 0:55:00
  3. pick Peter Berg: Seemed to be mailing in the performance.
    “Just the mailing by him.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:55:47
  4. pick Mark Ruffalo as Fanning: The goatee and slicked-back hair.
    “I have his goatee under age the worst, right?”
    Chris Ryan · 0:56:44

Weak link · The weakest part of the film.

  1. pick Fox's calm performance in front of Bardem's character: A man terrified a half hour earlier plays the room perfectly within three minutes.
    “The improbability of the Fox Bar Dam scene, I think, is a weak link with this movie.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:58:36

Casting what ifs · Who else almost made the movie.

  1. pick Russell Crowe as Vincent: Crowe was interested and Mann was about to do it with him before he committed to another project.
    “Russell Crowe becomes interested in playing Vincent.”
    unknown · 1:00:08
  2. pick Adam Sandler as Max: An early idea paired Cruise as the hitman with Sandler as the cabby; the hosts doubt it would work.
    “The idea was cruised as the hitman, Adam Sandler as the cabby.”
    unknown · 1:01:16
  3. pick Val Kilmer as Fanning: Said to have pulled out right before filming over a schedule conflict.
    “as Detective Fanning.”
    unknown · 1:02:16
  4. pick Dennis Farina: Was originally the Bruce McGill part.
    “And then Dennis Farina was originally the Bruce McGill part.”
    unknown · 1:03:03

Joey Pants Award · Best that guy.

  1. nominee Bruce McGill: They joke it should be renamed the Bruce McGill Award and plan a Twitter poll.
    “I have a gill for this.”
    unknown · 1:03:19
  2. winner Barry Shabaka Henley as Daniel: A regular in Michael Mann's casts.
    “I have a Bear Shabaka Henley.”
    unknown · 1:03:51

Saul Rubinek Award · Overacting.

  1. winner Mark Ruffalo as Fanning: Great performance, but his facial hair is in a different movie.
    “I think Ruffalo's facial hair.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:04:23
  2. nominee Tom Cruise as Vincent: In the jazz club when he talks about the notes behind the notes.
    “there's a case to being made that cruise in the jazz club is when is actually overacting when he's talking about the notes behind the notes.”
    unknown · 1:04:37

Pete Berg Award · A new award for underacting, the sleepiest actor.

  1. winner Peter Berg
    “It goes to Pete Berg.”
    unknown · 1:04:56

Dion Waiters Award · A small role, one scene, big impact; a monologue wins automatically.

  1. winner Javier Bardem: Jada Pinkett Smith and Barry Shabaka Henley are in the mix, but Bardem wins.
    “I think the winner's Javier Bardem.”
    unknown · 1:05:20
  2. nominee Barry Shabaka Henley as Daniel
    “Bear Shabaka Henley's in there”
    unknown · 1:05:20

Apex Mountain · Whose career peak this is.

  1. pick Mark Ruffalo as Fanning: Only half-seriously, the goatee, since he shaved it off afterward.
    “Because Ruffalo's goatee could have done so many different things from there and instead he shaved it off.”
    unknown · 1:07:40
  2. pick The 105 freeway: The hosts conclude no one in the film is at their apex.
    “The 105 Apex Mountain for the 105.”
    unknown · 1:08:04

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

  1. pick The cab surviving a body landing on it
    “I mentioned would Fox's cab be drivable after the body lands on it.”
    unknown · 1:08:25
  2. pick Vincent knowing so much about jazz
    “Would Vincent really know everything about jazz?”
    unknown · 1:09:03
  3. pick The second kill happening on a busy Santa Monica street
    “I just don't think you could really double tap, kill 2 people off of Santa Monica without it causing a bit of a stir.”
    unknown · 1:09:53
  4. pick The empty late-night train station
    “There's also some late night train station stuff, like just nobody works at the train station.”
    unknown · 1:10:07
  5. pick People walking across highway bridges in LA
    “I don't know anybody in my life who's walked across a bridge over a highway in LA.”
    unknown · 1:10:32

Best quote · The best line in the movie.

  1. winner Vincent's improvise, adapt speech as Vincent: They say it is not a quotes movie, but this was probably the best one.
    “I don't think this is a quotes movie, but that was probably the best one.”
    unknown · 1:11:01
  2. nominee Don't get me cornered, you don't have the trunk space as Vincent
    “Don't get me cornered.”
    unknown · 1:11:06

Sequel, prequel, TV · The prestige series they would make from the film.

  1. pick A series of side-character episodes: Statham, Bardem, Pete Berg's backstory: The core story does not warrant ten hours, but the glimpses of side characters would make good episodes.
    “Give me the Bardem episode, and what's Bardem doing with his kids and Black Pedro or whatever, and then just what happens to Statham when he flies back to England?”
    unknown · 0:51:24
  2. pick A ten-episode Netflix show about Felix and the investigation
    “Could this be remade as a 10 episode Netflix show? Absolutely.”
    unknown · 1:12:11

What if it were made today · A remake or recast now.

  1. pick Ryan Gosling as the hitman, Michael B. Jordan as the driver
    “I would be fine if they wanted to do something with like Gosling is the hitman, Michael B. Jordan as the driver.”
    unknown · 1:13:28

Unanswered questions · Plot questions the movie leaves open.

  1. pick Did Felix go to trial with all the witnesses dead?
    “Did Javier Badam's character go to trial?”
    unknown · 1:12:28
  2. pick Why is a key witness at a nightclub instead of in witness protection?
    “why is that guy at a nightclub and not in witness protection?”
    unknown · 1:13:02
  3. pick Is the movie better or worse if Fox and Cruise switch roles?: One host says worse but would like to see it.
    “Is this movie better or worse if Fox and Cruise switch rolls?”
    unknown · 1:13:14
  4. pick Why is the hitman named Vincent, as in Heat and The Color of Money?
    “Why name the guy Vincent, when Vincent was in heat, and also Vincent was his character in color of money.”
    unknown · 1:13:44

Who won the movie · Who came out on top, hockey three-stars style.

  1. winner Tom Cruise as Vincent: Also argues for Michael Mann; Jamie Foxx is third star.
    “I'm going to go cruise, one of my favorite cruise performances, but I think you can make the argument for man.”
    unknown · 1:14:10
  2. winner Tom Cruise as Vincent: It is the end of the Cruise era, a run starting with Top Gun.
    “I think Cruise won.”
    unknown · 1:14:28
  3. nominee Michael Mann
    “but I think you can make the argument for man.”
    unknown · 1:14:10
  4. nominee Jamie Foxx as Max: Third star.
    “Fox is really good in this movie.”
    unknown · 1:14:26

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