The Rewatchables: ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Reservoir Dogs' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan. Guests: none.

Subject films: Reservoir Dogs (1992).

On the transcript: Speaker labels absent; attribution inferred from context (Bill reads production trivia and runs categories; Sean and Chris respond), so many speaker_confidence values are low. A producer named Craig is addressed but not a speaker of note.

Awards and segments (62)

Most rewatchable scene

pick The opening diner scene: the Madonna theory and the tipping argument.
“lets start with the 1st one, the opening diner scene.”
Bill Simmons · 0:30:35
pick Keitel versus Bushemi over the bleeding Tim Roth: 'We ain't taking him to the hospital.'
“Another most rewatchable, Kaitel versus Bushemi, with the Bleeding Tim Roth.”
Bill Simmons · 0:36:22
pick The ear-cutting scene, followed by Mr. Blonde gunning down the cops.
“Another rewatchable scene, the air cutting scene.”
Bill Simmons · 0:38:04
pick Tim Roth performing the commode story, the second half where he gets it down.
“Next one is Tim Roth performing his background story.”
Bill Simmons · 0:40:30
pick Bushemi arguing about the color names (Mr. Pink: 'Who cares what your name is?').
“Bushemi arguing about the name selections.”
Bill Simmons · 0:43:33
pick Chris Penn doubting Mr. Orange's story and slowly going mad dog.
“And then Chris Penn doubting Mr. Orange's story.”
Bill Simmons · 0:44:07
pick Vic Vega coming back from prison and talking about Scagnetti, then the wrestling in Eddie's office.
“Vic Vega 1st coming back to from prison and talking about Skegnetti.”
unknown · 0:44:18
pick The commode story.
“Commode story.”
Chris Ryan · 0:44:40
pick The ear-cutting scene and the whole Blonde/White showdown leading up to Nice Guy Eddie's arrival, about 25 minutes, plus the ending.
“So that whole sequence together, which is like 25 minutes of the movie is by far my favorite part of the movie.”
Sean Fennessey · 0:45:10

Ebert review · The hosts read Roger Ebert's review of the film.

pick Reservoir Dogs: Ebert gave it 2.5 stars out of four; the hosts object.
“Tarantino's script does not have much curiosity about the characters, gave it 2.5 stars out of four.”
Bill Simmons · 0:22:05

Nerd Corner · Films that influenced Reservoir Dogs, with a quick take from the hosts on each.

pick The Killing: Praises the Sterling Hayden performance and the final shot, and the film as Kubrick's leap.
“One of the all-time great Sterling Hayden performances, one of the very best final shots in movie history.”
Sean Fennessey · 0:47:12
pick The Big Combo: A shrug on it, and Django is the better rewatch now because of Django Unchained.
“Big combo's fine.”
unknown · 0:47:58
pick Le Cercle Rouge: Offered as a recommendation for anyone who loves Reservoir Dogs: Jean-Pierre Melville's tough-guy French movies.
“Can I can I just throw out a person that people should check out if they like Reservoir Dogs is the movies of Jean-Pierre Melville.”
unknown · 0:48:28
pick City on Fire: Says huge parts of City on Fire are Reservoir Dogs, which is the complicated thing about Tarantino.
“This might make you mad to watch this movie because City on Fire is Reservoir Dogs.”
unknown · 0:49:12

Ages the best · What about the movie has held up best as the years pass.

winner The opening credit sequence, the slow-motion strut: Fun to watch after Swingers ripped it off; still influential.
“go with the opening credit sequence for me.”
Bill Simmons · 0:56:50
pick Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde: Young Madsen as a top-five-lottery-pick kind of presence, with a little Newman and Dean Martin.
“Young Madson was a top 5 lottery pick.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:28
pick The juxtaposition of music with violence (the ear-cutting scene to easy listening): Now so copied that we have lost our ability to detect it.
“The idea of this guy listening to easy listening soft rock while he cuts somebody's ear off was fucking mind blowing.”
unknown · 0:55:23
pick The who's-the-mole, who's-the-leak device
“I also have, I like who's the mole and who's the leak or 2 of my favorite movie things.”
unknown · 0:55:30
pick Reservoir Dogs as an LA movie
“Also, thought it was a pretty good LA movie.”
unknown · 0:56:01

Ages the worst · What about the movie has held up worst.

pick The N-word dialogue and an all-white crew of racist crooks: Hard for a white director to make now, though the hosts say the film is about bad people and is self-conscious about it.
“The N-word stuff didn't was even a little bit controversial in the 90s that I think has gotten worse and seems this movie and pulp fiction.”
unknown · 0:56:54
pick Lawrence Tierney as Joe Cabot: Called a bad actor; another host disagrees and says he brings a presence.
“Another would say the worst is Lawrence Tierney is Joe.”
unknown · 0:59:20

Ewing Theory Award for best theory · The best theory spoken by a character in the film.

nominee Tarantino's theory that 'Like a Virgin' is about John Holmes
“Tarantino's theory about Madonna's like a virgin, that it was actually about this John Holmes motherfucker”
Bill Simmons · 1:00:49
nominee Madsen's theory that Ladera Heights is the Black Palos Verdes
“Madson's theory that Ladera Heights is the Black Palos Verde.”
Bill Simmons · 1:01:03
nominee Keitel's theory on which finger to cut off
“Kaitel's torturing theory on which finger to cut off first.”
Bill Simmons · 1:01:08
nominee Bushemi's theory on not tipping
“And then Bushemi's theory on not tipping.”
Bill Simmons · 1:01:41
winner Bushemi's theory on not tipping: Picked because Madonna herself negated the Like a Virgin theory.
“I'm going to go not tipping because Madonna herself has negated the like a virgin theory.”
unknown · 1:01:46
pick The Madonna theory: Also loves the Keitel finger theory.
“my favorite there is the Madonna Theory, but I think all of the... I love the Kitel cut the finger off”
unknown · 1:02:26

Casting what ifs · Actors who were considered or almost cast in the film.

pick James Woods as unnamed role: Tarantino made him five offers that his agent never passed along; online guesses say Mr. Orange, but another host likes him as Mr. White.
“Tarantino wanted James Woods made him 5 different cash offers.”
Bill Simmons · 1:02:46
pick Tom Sizemore as Mr. Pink: A finalist for Mr. Pink.
“Tom Sizemore was a finalist for Mr. Pink.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:37
pick George Clooney as Mr. Blonde: Read for the role.
“George Clooney, read for the role of Mr. Blonde.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:17
pick Tony Scott as director of Reservoir Dogs: Scott wanted to direct Reservoir Dogs and was given True Romance instead; the hosts imagine his version.
“Tony Scott, read both scripts of True Romance Reservoir Dogs.”
Bill Simmons · 1:05:24

Iron Meg Sharper Award for best recasting · Recast any key role in the movie with an actor you like, as long as it makes sense for 1992.

pick Caruso as Mr. Orange: Because of the hair.
“Could Caruso have been the Tim Roth character?”
unknown · 1:16:17
pick Gandolfini as Nice Guy Eddie: Instead of Chris Penn; another host says he has the physical bearing of Joe Cabot.
“Also, I think Gandalfini as either as nice guy.”
unknown · 1:16:34
pick Schwarzenegger as Mr. Pink: A joke pick.
“I'll probably go Schwarzenegger's Mr. Pink.”
unknown · 1:16:50
pick Dennis Farina as Joe Cabot: A little older, so it is realistic that one of his sons would be there.
“Dennis Farina as Joe.”
unknown · 1:17:01
pick William Petersen as Mr. Blonde
“Would you do like William Peterson as Mr. Blonde?”
Sean Fennessey · 1:17:21
pick Daniel Day-Lewis as Joe Cabot: Gains 70 pounds and shaves his head.
“What about Daniel Day-Lewis as Joe Cabot?”
unknown · 1:17:38

Dion Waiters Award · A small role that makes a big impact.

winner Tim Roth's boss, the guy with no shirt: Does a lot with a little.
“He does a lot with a little.”
unknown · 1:06:45
nominee Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde: Compares Madsen in the ear-cutting scene to Vinnie Johnson in Game 5 of the 1990 Finals.
“I think Madsen in the air cutting scene is like Vinnie Johnson in game 5 of the 1990 finals.”
Bill Simmons · 1:06:56
nominee The man Mr. Pink bangs into running from the bank: Probably an extra or one of Tarantino's acting buddies making the most of it.
“I'm just like, that just seems like an extra or like one of Tarantino's acting buddies who was like, I got to make the most of this one opportunity.”
unknown · 1:07:33
nominee The earnest cop in the commode story who keeps telling the motorist to put his hands on the dash: Great mustache.
“so earnest. Great mustache on that guy. Great mustache.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:16

Joey Pants Award · Best that guy.

winner The mustached cop in the commode story: Bill did not know the actor's name.
“We can give him the best that guy a word.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:20
nominee Baltz as Marvin Nash, the cop: Never seen him since.
“I had balls targeted for that because I've never seen balls since.”
unknown · 1:09:27

Apex Mountain · Where this performance sits on the actor's career mountain.

pick Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde: Argues this was his apex mountain.
“I think this was his apex mountain.”
unknown · 1:13:40
pick Tim Roth as Mr. Orange: His apex is Pulp Fiction, not this movie.
“I think pulp for him.”
unknown · 1:13:49
pick Chris Penn as Nice Guy Eddie: Somewhere between this and Shortcuts; others say Footloose.
“Chris Penn, it's somewhere between here and Shortcuts.”
unknown · 1:13:57

Saul Rubinek Award for overacting · Best overacting.

winner Chris Penn as Nice Guy Eddie: Can't give it to Lawrence Tierney because he is such a bad actor, not overacting.
“It's got to go Chris Penn.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:19
nominee The last 30 seconds of Keitel, climbing on Roth
“Is is the last 30 seconds of Keitel.”
unknown · 1:15:12

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The crew eating breakfast together in costume before the heist: Shouldn't they not be seen together in public? Another host says it is pre-surveillance state.
“They wouldn't really eat breakfast for a bank heist.”
unknown · 1:18:01
pick The woman driver pulling a gun on the carjackers: Makes less sense with two guys than one.
“The female driver is going to pull out a gun and shoot the 2 scary guys that are carjacking her, she's going to point the other guys.”
unknown · 1:18:04
pick How Keitel gets two shots off in the three-way shootout: Has bothered him for 27 years; explained away as story convenience.
“How did Keitel get 2 shots off at the end?”
unknown · 1:18:34
pick Tim Roth as Mr. Orange: The accent is bad and keeps changing; a pet peeve.
“I just think the accent's bad.”
unknown · 1:27:22

Best quote · Favorite line from the movie.

pick The whole movie: Left the category empty because the whole movie is the best quote.
“I feel like this whole movie is the best quote.”
Bill Simmons · 1:19:55
pick 'I'm hungry. Let's get a taco.': Delivered right after the speech about which finger to cut off.
“My personal favorite is I'm hungry.”
unknown · 1:20:24
pick 'Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy? Or are you gonna bite?': The line that stuck most, partly from the trailer.
“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy?”
unknown · 1:20:46

Netflix series remake · Could this be remade as a 10-episode Netflix show?

pick A 10-episode series with an episode on each character's backstory, mostly about Roth's undercover cop: Makes the case while saying he isn't sure it's a good idea; the others don't want new Reservoir Dogs content.
“You go back, you do like almost lost style where it's like the next guy and now you tell his backstories.”
Bill Simmons · 1:21:47

Unanswerable questions · Questions the movie leaves open.

pick What is happening in Gardenia, where they all meet Joe and Nice Guy Eddie?
“What the fuck is happening in Gardenia?”
unknown · 1:22:23
pick Is it a better movie if we see the heist?: The hosts answer no; the revelation is more effective unfurled slowly.
“Is this a better movie if we see the heist?”
unknown · 1:22:57
pick Does anyone live? Did Mr. Pink die?: They conclude Mr. Pink gets away; they cite Tarantino saying he lived.
“Mr. Pink definitely lives.”
unknown · 1:26:12
pick What would Tony Scott's Reservoir Dogs have been?
“I think also what is Tony Scott's Reservoir Dogs kind of falls into that too, which I think would be interesting.”
unknown · 1:26:29

Who won the movie · Who came out of the movie best.

winner Quentin Tarantino: Compared to Orson Welles, and he topped his debut with Pulp Fiction.
“Quinn Tarantino.”
unknown · 1:26:41
nominee Tim Roth as Mr. Orange: Runner-up because of his performance, despite the accent.
“I mean, I would do Roth because I love his performance so much.”
unknown · 1:27:11

Films that came up

Claims (81)

industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Sex, Lies and Boys n the Hood are the two festival-born indie films that Reservoir Dogs continues.
“indie-minded festival entries from young people who are going to basically take over Hollywood”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Reservoir Dogs → Do the Right Thing. Chris argues Do the Right Thing is a 1989 film that feels like a 1990s one from its influence.
“the influence that movie had for everything that happened in the 1990s makes it feel like it was a 1990s movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Reservoir Dogs → Pulp Fiction. Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals.
“After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Reservoir Dogs → Guardians of the Galaxy. The soundtrack was a cultural moment of the kind Marvel and Guardians of the Galaxy are for kids today.
“They may feel that way about Guardians of the Galaxy”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Sleep with Me. His cameo in Sleep With Me, riffing on Top Gun, is the same kind of theory talk.
“It was like that movie we talked about on a previous pod about his cameo and sleep with me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Boys n the Hood. Paired with Sex, Lies as signals of the early-90s indie wave.
“we have a 91 Boys in the Hood.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:13:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Video Archives. Tarantino distilled the video-store aesthetic into the film; he programmed shelves like a film festival.
“he talks about how he used to program shelves at the video story worked at as if it was like a film festival.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Quentin Tarantino → Antonioni and Kurosawa. He married high and low: exploitation plus Antonioni and Kurosawa plus yakuza movies.
“It's the marriage of the high and the low.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:48 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Reservoir Dogs → Natural Born Killers. The deluge: Natural Born Killers, True Romance, and this, then Pulp Fiction.
“Natural born killers, true romance and this and then pulp fiction shortly after.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Quentin Tarantino → Lawrence Bender. Bender's acting teacher's wife passed the script to Harvey Keitel, which got it financed.
“Bender gives the script to his acting teacher, whose wife gave the script to Harvey Keitel.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Harvey Keitel → Reservoir Dogs. Keitel signed on as co-producer and paid for casting sessions that found Buscemi and Madsen.
“Signs on as a co-producer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Reservoir Dogs → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave it 2.5 of 4, saying the script lacked curiosity about the characters; the hosts call it a miss.
“But Tarantino's script does not have much curiosity about the characters, gave it 2.5 stars out of four.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Roger Ebert → Gene Siskel. Siskel and Ebert later had a big turnaround on Tarantino after being critical.
“He and Cisco famously had a big turnaround on Tarantino, where they were a little bit critical.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Harvey Keitel → Thelma & Louise. The hosts list Keitel's run of 91-94 films.
“Yeah. Thelma and Louise.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Harvey Keitel → Bad Lieutenant. Bill relates to Keitel's Bad Lieutenant character via listening to Mets games.
“Bad Lieutenant is amazing if you haven't seen that movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Steve Buscemi → Miller's Crossing. Buscemi was known from Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and Billy Bathgate before blossoming here.
“he was that guy who was in Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink and Billy Bathgate.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Chris Penn → Short Cuts. Chris Penn's three-movie run: Reservoir Dogs, Short Cuts, True Romance.
“Chris Penn had a nice little 3 movie run here, Reservoir Dog, shortcuts, and true romance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Madsen → The Doors. Madsen played the John Holmes-type character in The Doors.
“Manson was the John Holmes character in the doors.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Madsen → Species. Madsen's run culminates in Species, a great performance with Marg Helgenberger.
“All culminating in species, where he gets one of the great performances of all time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Tim Roth → My Beautiful Laundrette. Roth was a Brit Pack star; the group is discussed with Oldman and Day-Lewis.
“Roth, Oldman, is DDL in there?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:25:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Reservoir Dogs → Quentin Tarantino. He cast himself in his first film and became a rock-star director unlike any since.
“He put himself front and center in the 1st movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:26:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Quentin Tarantino → Steven Soderbergh. His press presence lifted him beyond being just a cool indie filmmaker like Soderbergh.
“propelling him out of just being like Soderberg or like a cool interesting indie filmmaker”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:10 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Quentin Tarantino → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg would not do a talk-show couch turn the way Tarantino did.
“That is Steven Spielberg doesn't do that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Spike Lee. Spike (via Jordan) is named as a rare comparable in sought-after notoriety.
“Maybe Spike. It's like, because of Jordan.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Reservoir Dogs → Terry Gilliam. Gilliam saw the movie at Sundance and admired the diner camera work (as Chris relays).
“Terry Gilliam when he saw this movie at Sundance was like, I love how...”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:33:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → Goodfellas. The close, over-the-shoulder, handheld opening camera feels Scorsese-ish; Goodfellas' tracking shot comes up as a flex.
“It is very Scorsese.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino's opening scenes: the Christoph Waltz opening in France is also up there.
“That whole opening where you meet Christoph Waltz's character in France is also way up there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:36:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → John Woo. The Mexican standoff was the first visual reference the speaker caught: like a John Woo Hong Kong action movie.
“It was very like John Wu Hong Kong action movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Hard Boiled. The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo.
“I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead → Reservoir Dogs. Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era.
“kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Very Bad Things → Reservoir Dogs. Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends.
“Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → The Killing. Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff.
“but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): The Killing → Stanley Kubrick. The Killing let Kubrick leap from B-picture craftsman to the most significant film artist of his time.
“the movie that allowed Kubrick to take the leap from very crafty photographer trying to make his way doing B pictures”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → The Big Combo. Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic).
“Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Django. Corbucci's 1966 Django is credited as an inspiration for the torture scene.
“Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Django → Django Unchained. Django is a better rewatch now because Tarantino later made Django Unchained.
“Django is a better rewatch now because he made Django unchained.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Django → Franco Nero. Tarantino has a relationship with Franco Nero, who played the original Django.
“he has like a relationship with Franco Nero, who played Django?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Django Unchained → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also has Django-esque flourishes.
“There's some very fun Django-esque flourishes in that movie too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Jean-Pierre Melville. A recommendation for Reservoir Dogs fans: Melville's tough-guy French movies.
“if they like Reservoir Dogs is the movies of Jean-Pierre Melville.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Le Cercle Rouge. Speaker's favorite Melville tough-guy movie is the one to watch if you love Reservoir Dogs.
“my favorite is Le Circle a Rouge.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Army of Shadows. A second voice adds Army of Shadows to the Melville recommendation.
“Army of Shadows. Army of Shadows.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The color-name aliases were first seen in Pelham; called a great homage.
“It's just a great homage, great Walter Mathow in taking Pelham one, 2, 3.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → City on Fire. City on Fire contains huge parts of Reservoir Dogs, which raises the homage-versus-theft question.
“This might make you mad to watch this movie because City on Fire is Reservoir Dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Quentin Tarantino → City on Fire. Tarantino was accused of ripping off many movies while he called it homage.
“He was saying he was doing homages and other people were saying, you just ripped off all of these 7 movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Swingers. Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino.
“The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → The Farewell. The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential.
“And that shot is still really influential.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Madsen → Pulp Fiction. Madsen not being in Pulp Fiction is explained by the Vega-brothers plan.
“the plan, long term, was to do the Vega Brothers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:53:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Michael Madsen → The Hateful Eight. Madsen's voice has gone raspy, hard to understand in The Hateful Eight.
“He's got the raspiest, darkest, most difficult to understand voice and the hateful eight.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:54:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Reservoir Dogs → Jackie Brown. The language debate: Jackie Brown drew Spike Lee's criticism and Sam Jackson's defense.
“Sam Jackson came to his defense.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:57:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Reservoir Dogs → Jackie Brown. Tarantino's adoration of black culture and the Pam Grier tracking shot.
“Jackie Brown is just a 2.5 minute tracking shot of Pam Greer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:58:55 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Reservoir Dogs → Lawrence Tierney. Bill thinks Tierney is the worst performance: Mike Francesa if he could not act.
“He's basically Mike Francesa.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:42 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Reservoir Dogs → Top Gun. Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna.
“Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): James Woods → Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino made Woods five cash offers; the agent refused them; the role is rumored to be Mr. Orange.
“Tarantino wanted James Woods made him 5 different cash offers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:46 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Michael Madsen → Reservoir Dogs. Madsen first auditioned for Mr. Pink.
“Michael Madson originally auditioned for Mr. Pink.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Vincent Gallo → Reservoir Dogs. Reported to have turned down Mr. Pink.
“Vincent Gallo turned down the role of Mr. Pink.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:28 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Tom Sizemore → Reservoir Dogs. Sizemore was a finalist for Mr. Pink.
“Tom Sizemore was a finalist for Mr. Pink.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Tom Sizemore → Natural Born Killers. Sizemore plays Jack Scagnetti there, called one of the most fucked-up characters in movie history.
“characters in movie history is Sizemore's character in natural board killers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Steve Buscemi → Reservoir Dogs. Buscemi first auditioned for Mr. White.
“Bushemi originally auditioned for Mr. White.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:14 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): George Clooney → Reservoir Dogs. Clooney read for Mr. Blonde, later did From Dusk Till Dawn.
“George Clooney, read for the role of Mr. Blonde.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Robert Forster → Reservoir Dogs. Forster auditioned for Joe Cabot, then played Jackie Brown; Bill thinks he would have beaten Tierney.
“I never thought Robert Foster was that great, but he would have been better than Lawrence Kierney.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:50 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Reservoir Dogs → True Romance. Tony Scott wanted to direct Reservoir Dogs; Tarantino gave him True Romance instead.
“Tarantino said, you can have true romance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:33 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Reservoir Dogs → Tony Scott. The hosts imagine a Tony Scott version: the heist shown, electrified score, more cop stuff.
“Probably would have had more cop stuff.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Reservoir Dogs → Hans Zimmer. Imagining Tony Scott's version, a host wonders if it would have had a Hans Zimmer score in place of the 70s songs.
“Would it have been like a Hans Zimmer score instead of the 70s songs?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Gary Oldman → Reservoir Dogs. In Tony Scott's version, Oldman would be Mr. Blonde with dreadlocks and gold teeth.
“Gary Oldman would have been Mr. Blonde, but with like a dreadlocks and gold teeth.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:05:55 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Gary Oldman → Léon: The Professional. Oldman in The Professional is described as Mr. Orange's cousin.
“Gary Oldman pretty much plays like Mr. Orange's cousin in the professional.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Mr. White → Alabama. Mr. White says he used to work with Alabama, an echo of True Romance.
“White, Mr. White says he used to work with Alabama.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Wes Craven. Wes Craven and Rick Baker walked out of a screening.
“Wes Craven walked out of my movie, the guy who did last house on the left, walked out of my movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:03 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → Stealers Wheel. A host reports Tarantino said the whole soundtrack budget went to securing 'Stuck in the Middle with You'.
“Tarantino said in 14 that the entire soundtrack budget was spent on securing, stuck in the middle with you.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:05 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Pulp Fiction. Vic Vega and Vincent Vega are brothers; Tarantino wanted a prequel before Madsen and Travolta aged out.
“Vic Vega and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fictions were brothers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Reservoir Dogs → Inglourious Basterds. The Inglourious Basterds spelling is a Tarantino flourish; Reservoir Dogs' title is also odd.
“It's my flourish.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:11 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Caruso → Reservoir Dogs. Bill's recast: Caruso as Mr. Orange, because of the hair.
“Could Caruso have been the Tim Roth character?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:16:17 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): James Gandolfini → Reservoir Dogs. Recast of Nice Guy Eddie; he also has the bearing of Joe Cabot.
“Also, I think Gandalfini as either as nice guy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:16:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Dennis Farina → Reservoir Dogs. Recast as Joe Cabot, a realistic older father with a son there.
“Dennis Farina as Joe.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:17:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): William Petersen → Reservoir Dogs. Recast as Mr. Blonde.
“Would you do like William Peterson as Mr. Blonde?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:17:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Daniel Day-Lewis → Reservoir Dogs. A joke recast as Joe Cabot, gaining 70 pounds and shaving his head.
“What about Daniel Day-Lewis as Joe Cabot?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → Heat. A line delivery is called borderline Pacino in Heat.
“I think you're kind of borderline doing pachino and heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:20:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Reservoir Dogs → Lost. Bill argues a Netflix series could use a Lost-style backstory episode per character.
“You go back, you do like almost lost style where it's like the next guy and now you tell his backstories.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:21:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → No Country for Old Men. Not showing the heist works as in No Country; slowly unfurling beats showing.
“No, we've learned this from no country for old men.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:23:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Westworld → Westworld (series). Bill's felony land idea vs. the show; a speaker notes the film and book came first.
“Westworld was a movie in the 70s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:24:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Quentin Tarantino → Orson Welles. After the debut he was compared to Welles, but unlike Welles he topped it with Pulp Fiction.
“The the person, the number one person that he was compared to after this came out was Orson Wells.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:26:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Reservoir Dogs → Orson Welles. Win of the pod: Tarantino won the movie; debut compared to Welles but he topped it.
“And unlike Orson Wells, topped it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:26:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

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fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Finished at about $1.2M; grossed only about $3M domestically but was a huge hit on home video and in the UK.
“it only made like $3000000 at the box office, but it was a huge home video release.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Original plan: a $30,000 black-and-white 16mm shoot with friends, Lawrence Bender playing the cop chasing Mr. Pink.
“He originally planned a shooter with friends on a budget of $30,000 and 16 millimeter of black and white”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Ebert's 2.5-star pan is the show's running joke (Bill: 'God damn it, Roger Ebert').
“God damn it, Roger Ebert.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Quentin Tarantino: Bill's Jimmy Kimmel story: Tarantino picked his audience-theater parody script, gave notes, and directed it on air.
“So he picked my bit.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:30 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Opening diner scene: Mr. Orange snitches on Mr. Pink about the tip, subtle foreshadowing of the rat.
“When Joe demands to know which crook didn't contribute to the tip, Mr. Orange snitches on Mr. Pink?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:31:50 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Beer-drinking at breakfast: a recurring Tarantino move where morning scenes behave like night (the Wolf at dawn).
“people will be behaving like it's the night.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Nitpick: a crew in matching suits meeting at a diner an hour before a robbery, under pseudonyms, is terrible opsec.
“Good Opsec.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:33:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Madsen: The ear scene cuts away to the 'watch your head' graffiti for about 10 seconds; the hosts like that Tarantino rarely shows violence.
“they pan and they just show the watch your head graffiti above the doorway for about 10 seconds.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Tim Roth: The accent: dialect coach on set all movie, yet he sounds Dutch, Rhode Island or Minnesota: 'rare, bad accent, great performance.'
“it's a rare, bad accent, great performance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:43:08 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Most rewatchable scene pick: Roth's commode story, with its cut between the practiced script and the set; 'I didn't know you could do that with writing.'
“I was just like, I didn't know you could do that with writing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:43:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Nerd Corner (new category for this episode): the film's lineage, with Sean having 30 seconds on The Killing.
“New category just for this podcast, Nerd Corner.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:46:50 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Lawrence Tierney: Bill's rewatch verdict: Tierney is bad and was reportedly fired after day three; you can see him blow a line during the naming scene.
“you can watch him in a take that's in the movie, miss the line.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:57 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Ewing Theory Award for best theory: Madonna, Madsen's Ladera Heights joke, the finger-cutting theory, or Buscemi's tipping. Chris picks the tipping.
“The Ewing Theory award for best theory.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:45 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Madonna refuted the Like a Virgin theory, liked the film, and signed a copy of her album for Quentin.
“She refuted the interpretation, gave him a copy of her erotic album, signed to Quinton.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:02:03 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: No female speaking parts in the theatrical release other than the carjacked woman who shoots Mr. Pink and Mr. Blonde.
“The theatrical release contains no female speaking parts.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Walkouts: Wes Craven and Rick Baker left a screening; Tarantino said 'I wanted to be disturbing.'
“I wanted to be disturbing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: The 2006 video game used only one actor's likeness, Madsen, who 'needed the paycheck'; GameSpot called it an out and out failure.
“GameSpot called it, quote, an out and out failure.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Budget trivia: actors wore their own clothes, Chris Penn used his own car, and the soundtrack budget went to 'Stuck in the Middle with You.'
“the entire soundtrack budget was spent on securing, stuck in the middle with you.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:57 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Carjack scene: no police traffic control, so Buscemi could only cross when the lights were green.
“He can only do so when the traffic lights were green.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:22 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Tim Roth: Roth lay in fake blood so long it dried and he had to be peeled off the floor.
“the blood would dry out and he would have to be peeled off the floor”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Tarantino: Pulp Fiction was to follow the Vega Brothers: Vic Vega is Vincent Vega's brother; a prequel 'Double V Vega' never happened because the actors aged.
“And then Tarantino said he always wanted to do a prequel called Double V Vega.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Origin of the title: at Video Archives he recommended Au revoir les enfants and a customer mockingly said he did not want to see no reservoir dogs.
“I don't want to see no reservoir dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Best quote: Bill leaves it blank because the whole movie is the best quote; Chris's pick is 'let's get a taco' after the finger speech.
“I feel like this whole movie is the best quote.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:55 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Unanswerable question: Mr. Pink lives; Tarantino said so, and boosting the volume you can hear 'I've been shot'.
“Tarantino said he lived.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:25:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves the lore of how a movie got made, the lists (casting what-ifs, recasting), and the 'unanswerable questions' category. Has little patience for Lawrence Tierney's acting or for Ebert missing on Tarantino. He remembers the 1992 Boston era of a movie that mattered and is a sucker for a heist.
Sean Fennessey (host): Sean is the one who treats Reservoir Dogs as a film education: the Melville and The Killing recommendations, the 10-year-old rewatcher who rented it. He loves the sound-and-image craft of the opening, Buscemi as the ideal Buscemi, and the commode story. Cannot let a bad accent go.
Chris Ryan (host): Chris Ryan is the movie-nerd historian here: the video-store aesthetic, Sundance, the high-low marriage of Tarantino's influences. He loves the Roth commode scene and the three-way shootout and thinks of Tarantino as a postmodernist. He is a sucker for Madsen's Vic Vega and Chris Penn.

The show's recurring bits

Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Names the transcriber got wrong

'Bushemi'/'Bushchemi' = Buscemi
'Madson'/'Manson'/'Matson' = Madsen
'Kitel' = Keitel
'Kierney'/'Tierney' = Tierney
'Cisco' = Siskel
'Mathow' = Matthau
'Ringo Lamb' = Ringo Lam
'Pam Greer' = Pam Grier
'Sizemore' fine; 'Skegnetti'/'Scagnetti' = Seymour Scagnetti
'Gandalfini' = Gandolfini
'Peterson' = William Petersen
'Gugliata' = Gugliatta? (likely Madsen reference garbled)
'Baltz' = Kirk Baltz; 'balls' garbled
'Mr. Bond' (1:04:25) likely Mr. Blue or Blonde; 'Mr. Wait' = Mr. White
'Quinn'/'Quinton' = Quentin
'Kimmel' reference 'Jimmy'
'Jay Adonde' = Jay Ando? unclear
'Ewing Theory Award', 'Iron Meg Sharper', 'Dion Waiters Award', 'Saul Rubinek Award' are show categories, transcribed approximately
'Bill Pete' = William Petersen
'Wilds' = unknown name
'Luigi' at 1:28:00 unclear