The Rewatchables: A CR Month Mailbag!

Published 2026-03-19; 1:37:01 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “A CR Month Mailbag!”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Craig Horlbeck. Guests: none.

Subject films: none named.

On the transcript: Auto-transcript with no speaker labels; speakers inferred (Bill reads most emails, Craig produces them); Sean is mentioned but not present. 'number 16 Limitless' at the start is ambiguous.

Awards and segments (69)

Anti-Apex Mountain · The lowest point of a star's career (a reverse Apex Mountain); a listener suggested it after the hosts nominated Tina Turner for her GoldenEye theme.

pick Tom Cruise: Oprah's couch and War of the Worlds era.
“Cruz, I think it's Oprah's sofa and War of the Worlds, even though I like War of the Worlds.”
unknown · 0:08:45
pick Robert De Niro: Around 2000 he started taking paychecks, Rocky and Bullwinkle; later the dirty grandpa era.
“But then in 2000, he just started taking paychecks and he did Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
unknown · 0:09:33
pick Al Pacino: Author! Author! bombed in the early 80s.
“Pacino, it's definitely author author.”
unknown · 0:10:10
pick Denzel Washington: The toughest one; no real stinker, so Virtuosity, which people didn't like.
“So I'd have to go with virtuosity, a movie that I love that we probably will do on rewatchables, but he is given VD by John Lithgow and people didn't really like that movie and they're like, Denzel, what are you doing?”
unknown · 0:10:29

Worst on-screen athleticism (flex idea, unnamed) · The actor with the worst athletic skill playing a sport; the hosts hunt for a namesake and plan a vote on a final four.

nominee Tim Robbins as Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Listener's namesake nominee, Bull Durham; one host defends him.
“I nominate Tim Robbins as the namesake for Bull Durham.”
unknown · 0:15:14
nominee Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer: The pitching in Dazed and Confused; they cut around him.
“Mitch Kramer and Dazed and Confused.”
unknown · 0:16:14
nominee Freddie Prinze Jr. as Summer Catch: Stunt-double pitcher cutaways; insisted he be in the final four.
“No, Freddie Prince Jr. has to be one of the four.”
unknown · 0:22:26
nominee Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier: Throwing the ball in War of the Worlds.
“We've talked about Tom Cruise Wore of the Worlds.”
unknown · 0:20:18
nominee John C. Reilly as the catcher in For Love of the Game
“John C. Riley, and for love of the game, which I asked Costner about once, and he is basically like, he was the catcher, and they very carefully cut around him.”
unknown · 0:20:59
nominee Wesley Snipes: White Men Can't Jump and Major League; hosts disagree about how athletic he was.
“Snipes and white men can jump.”
unknown · 0:17:04
pick Final four: Wiley Wiggins, Tom Cruise, John C. Reilly, Freddie Prinze Jr.: They plan a listener vote.
“So Wiley Wiggins, Tom Cruise, John C. Riley, and who's the other fourth?”
unknown · 0:22:20

Vidal Sassoon Award (best homemade haircut) · A bathroom-scissors emergency haircut that comes out stunning, a listener's hairdresser-wife pet peeve; the hosts will monitor it.

pick The Bourne Identity, Matt Damon cuts and dyes Franka Potente's hair
“Born identity, Matt Damon gives Franco Potente, what was her name?”
unknown · 0:23:03
pick Working Girl, Joan Cusack gives Melanie Griffith the hairdo
“Working girl, Melanie Griffith, getting the pre-Harrison Ford meetup hairdo from Joan Cusack.”
unknown · 0:23:13
pick Sicario: Day of the Soldado, short hair for the cartel daughter
“Benicio del Toro giving the cartel daughter. the short hairdo before attempting to cross the border.”
unknown · 0:23:23
pick The Legend of Billie Jean
“We did in Legend of Billy Jean.”
unknown · 0:23:31
pick The Fugitive, Richard Kimble in the hospital room
“Richard Kimble in the hospital room with a pair of like cuticle scissors and a disposable razor coming out looking like fucking Harrison Ford”
unknown · 0:23:35

Apex Mountain of dinner-scene assassinations · A listener's nitpick of the earlier call that Sicario's restaurant killing was the best dinner-scene assassination.

winner Michael Corleone killing Sollozzo and McCluskey at Louis's Restaurant, The Godfather: Bigger movie, more buildup and suspense; Sicario's Alejandro scene is up there.
“Godfather wins.”
unknown · 0:25:19
nominee Alejandro murdering the man at dinner, Sicario
“I agree Sicar is up there, but how could it not be the godfather?”
unknown · 0:25:11

The Secret Handshake (updated memorabilia) · A prop only a fan who has rewatched the movie too much would recognize; a listener's replacement for the memorabilia category, which the hosts like, and skip if the movie has none.

pick Vision Quest, Louden Swain's red Asics wrestling high tops
“Vision Quest, Loud and Swain's red Asex wrestling high tops, which we talked about on that part for 5 solid.”
unknown · 0:26:38
pick Sicario, the blue and pink cartel money bands
“Sicario, the blue and pink cartel money bands.”
unknown · 0:26:46
pick Fargo, Jerry's salesman of the month picture
“I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo.”
unknown · 0:27:03

Casting what ifs / actor swaps · Almost-castings and recasts; here also Cruise/Hanks swaps and where Cruise would fit in Sicario.

pick Tom Cruise as a lead in Sicario (Brolin or Bernthal part considered): Good at playing innocence; the hookup scene gone wrong would be one of his best moments.
“Well, see, I mentioned earlier in the pod, this is Nick, that many studios wanted the K character to be a guy.”
unknown · 0:31:36
pick Tom Cruise as Chuck Noland, Cast Away: A listener's swap: Cruise's physicality would suit the fire scene.
“Cruise and Castaway would be pretty amazing.”
unknown · 1:25:28
pick Tom Hanks as Charlie Babbitt, Rain Man
“Hanks as Charlie Babbitt.”
unknown · 1:25:57
pick Dennis Quaid as Joe Don Baker's GoldenEye role: Listener recalled a tense Bill and CR exchange; CR defended Quaid as good as Nick Nolte.
“CR says, I think Dennis Quaid is just as good a suggestion as Nick Nolte, and it gets a little testy.”
unknown · 0:11:56

Excellence in mispronunciation (challenge flag) · A proposed award for mispronounced names, usually Bill; Craig would throw a challenge flag.

pick Bill Simmons as mispronouncing Floyd Gondorff: Bill admits he fucked up, then does it again later in the episode.
“I think we're finally at the point to initiate a new rewatchables category for excellence in the field of mispronunciation.”
unknown · 0:32:46

What would make this movie 10% better · A small change that would improve the movie, less drastic than recasting; hosts will fold it into the casting couch.

pick Heat, dropping the Portman storyline or having Vincent snort coke
“like how heat would be 10% better if they either dropped the Portman storyline, or had Vincent doing coke, or gangs of New York, if Cameron Diaz was recast.”
unknown · 0:35:03
pick GoldenEye, the Alps driving-scene music or the theme song
“Golden Eye is a really good example.”
unknown · 0:35:37

Local maximum / I still got it Mountain · A post-prime relative high, a last gasp apex, like Kawhi's before his suspension.

pick Matt Damon as The Martian
“So Matt Damon, the Martians, a great one.”
unknown · 0:41:14
pick Liam Neeson as Taken
“Liam Neeson and Taken would be a good one for you.”
unknown · 0:41:55
pick Keanu Reeves as John Wick
“Is it like Keanu Reeves, John Wick?”
unknown · 0:41:57

Would you accept this character's organ donation · Whose organs from a movie you would accept; hosts back-pocket it as a flex category or draft.

pick Quint (Jaws), the one they would not want: 25 years of drinking and smoking, likely melanoma.
“I think Quint's the 1st pick for the one I wouldn't want.”
unknown · 0:43:42
pick Chuck Noland (Cast Away), clean liver after ketosis
“His liver would be great.”
unknown · 0:44:15

Clint Eastwood Ego Stroke Award · A scene that exists only to stroke the star's ego, named for The Mule; hosts may put it in flex categories.

winner Clint Eastwood as The Mule (two threesomes)
“I might throw it in the flexes.”
unknown · 0:45:23
nominee Vin Diesel as never losing a fight in the Fast movies
“Vin Diesel is a good one, though.”
unknown · 0:45:16

Harvey Keitel Traffic Stop, Bad Lieutenant Award (worst first-date movie) · The worst movie to take someone to on a first date.

winner Monster's Ball
“I think Monsters Ball wins all of this.”
unknown · 0:47:06
nominee To Live and Die in L.A.
“Like to live and die in LA is a really good one to start with.”
unknown · 0:45:58
nominee Hereditary
“I think hereditary would be up there.”
unknown · 0:46:30
nominee Manchester by the Sea
“Manchester by the Sea, tough 1st date, probably.”
unknown · 0:47:10

How is that a job? job · A character with a bizarre job casually introduced; the hosts like it but note it would have to bend for TV.

pick The eyeball seller in Minority Report
“Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise.”
unknown · 0:55:18
pick Millich, the costume shop owner in Eyes Wide Shut
“Millich in eyes wide shut doing a 24 hour costume shop where he also pimps out family members?”
unknown · 0:56:09
pick Joaquin Phoenix in 8mm, working in the adult film store
“the Joaquin Phoenix, an 8 millimeter.”
unknown · 0:56:21

Hall of Fame · A proposed Rewatchables hall of fame by category; Bill built it with a plaque-ceremony special in mind.

pick Pantheon: Cruise 17, Pacino 14, De Niro 13, Denzel 12, Stallone 12
“The Pantheon would have to be the 5 people that have been in the most rewatchable movies.”
unknown · 1:02:12
pick Directors: Spielberg 9, Tony Scott 9, Michael Mann 8, Scorsese 8
“Spielberg 9, Tony Scott 9.”
unknown · 1:02:28
pick Special achievement: Seagal, Renee Russo, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Loggia, Lorraine Bracco
“Segal, Russo, Hoffman, Loggia.”
unknown · 1:04:22
pick That Guy: Joey Pants, John Carroll Lynch, Catherine O'Hara, Remar, Philip Baker Hall
“I think Catherine O'Hara has to be in there because she's been in a bunch of different ones we've done different characters and Remar.”
unknown · 1:04:45
pick Dion Waiters first class: Ted Levine, Catherine Hahn, Christopher Walken, Clemenza, McBride: Melissa McCarthy and Christoph Waltz ruled out as in the movie too much.
“This is the big one, the Dion Waiters, 1st class.”
unknown · 1:06:27
pick Possible Apex Mountain by year or an MVP of the year
“You could do Apex Mountain by year.”
unknown · 1:09:00

Buffalo Bill Award (role that haunts the actor) · A performance so distinct it damaged or defined the actor's career; hosts call it a good flex category.

winner Kevin Gage as Waingro, Heat: Called the ultimate example.
“Wayne Grow to me is the ultimate example of this.”
unknown · 1:11:48
nominee Patrick Bergin as Sleeping with the Enemy
“Patrick Bergen is a good example.”
unknown · 1:12:22
nominee William Zabka as Johnny Lawrence, The Karate Kid
“Retroactive winners include Billy Zapkin and Karate Kid, Patrick Bergen and Sleeping with the Enemy.”
unknown · 1:11:36

Dave Toschi Animal Crackers Award (most niche taste) · The most niche taste or interest shown by a main character.

pick Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms, Phantom Thread
“Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread.”
unknown · 1:14:05
pick Jennifer Lopez's Dolphins fan, Out of Sight
“Jennifer Lopez, Dolphins fan in out of sight.”
unknown · 1:14:24

Christmas Jones Award (renamed from the Elizabeth Shue Award) · A bombshell cast as a scientist; a listener argued Elizabeth Shue is credibly smart, so the award was renamed.

winner Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones, nuclear physicist: Hosts agreed the listener was right and changed the category name.
“Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist is 100 times more absurd than Elizabeth Shoe.”
unknown · 1:16:00

Best line reading · The best delivery of a line, a twist on best quote; hosts agree to add it.

winner Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) to Eduardo: "That's good. You should be proud of that": Listener's proposal; hosts: it also prophesies the relationship.
“I think best line reading is a great one.”
unknown · 1:17:10
nominee Hugo Stiglitz line, Inglourious Basterds
“Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stigwitz.”
unknown · 1:16:45
nominee Leslie Nielsen, Airplane!
“Leslie Nielsen, an airplane.”
unknown · 1:17:22

Wilson Award (pop culture crossover) · Did the movie cross over into pop culture as a universal reference.

pick Groundhog Day
“He mentions Groundhog Day, the movie.”
unknown · 1:18:05
pick Apollo 13 ("Houston, we have a problem")
“If a movie had a moment that actually became cultural, I think that needs to be recognized.”
unknown · 1:18:27

Best life lesson (Coughlin's law, Cocktail) · Best life lesson; a listener wants Coughlin's law, the best random rule in the movie, folded in.

pick Coughlin's law in Cocktail: Hosts will test drive it as an option within life lesson.
“I'm willing to test drive this one.”
unknown · 1:21:32

Estelle Reiner Award (best performance with one line) · Renaming of the Mark Colton "Enrico Palazzo" award for best performance with one line.

winner Estelle Reiner as the woman in the deli, "I'll have what she's having": Hosts agree it's the more famous line.
“And that's probably a more famous line.”
unknown · 1:24:10

Most WTF moment (Yellow Handkerchief award) · The most what-the-fuck moment of the movie.

pick Al Pacino's yellow handkerchief: Host will put it in the flex pile.
“I'll put that in Flex.”
unknown · 1:21:55

Little Kittner Boy Eaten by a Shark Award · A horrific event glossed over until the viewer realizes it.

pick Dr. Loomis mistaking Ben Tramer for Michael Myers
“mistaking Ben Tramer for Michael Myers.”
unknown · 1:27:14
pick To Live and Die in L.A., bomb at the president's speech and nobody references it
“Then they're like, yeah, let's get some beers.”
unknown · 1:27:33

Peter North Award · The performance in which an actor gave their most effort, shot their biggest load; the try-hard award.

pick Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler, Manchester by the Sea
“it's like Casey Affleck in Manchester by the city.”
unknown · 1:28:12
pick Daniel Day-Lewis as My Left Foot
“Yeah, Daniel De Lewis in my left foot.”
unknown · 1:28:19
pick Ben Affleck as Holden, Chasing Amy
“I feel like Ben Affleck and Chasing Amy was a Peter North movie for him.”
unknown · 1:28:30
pick Tom Cruise as Brian Flanagan, Cocktail
“Like, cruise and cocktail is another one.”
unknown · 1:28:47
pick Al Pacino as Scent of a Woman and Two for the Money
“Like Pacino, son of a woman.”
unknown · 1:28:58

Films that came up

Claims (109)

verdict (verdict): Fever Pitch → Fever Pitch. Chris Ryan despises Fever Pitch as inauthentic Boston fandom, a film Craig loved growing up.
“They chased the 2004 ring and it felt inauthentic.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:03:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Justin Long → Accepted. Justin Long had a run of about four years, and Accepted is one of his films, a long-distance-romance story.
“Justin Long, by the way, had a moment there for like 4 years.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:04:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): GoldenEye → Tina Turner. Tina Turner's GoldenEye theme song is named an all-time stinker and nominated for the anti-apex award.
“Because of her all time stinker of a theme song for Golden Eye.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:07:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Tom Cruise → War of the Worlds. A candidate for Cruise's anti-apex alongside the couch-jumping period, though the speaker likes the movie itself.
“Cruz, I think it's Oprah's sofa and War of the Worlds, even though I like War of the Worlds.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:08:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Tom Cruise → Mission: Impossible. Cruise's low point is framed as the stretch when he was reviving Mission: Impossible with McQuarrie and still making Oblivion.
“It's what Cruz was doing as he was trying to revamp Mission Impossible with Macquarie and then still making kind of like oblivion.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:09:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Steven Spielberg → Tom Cruise. Spielberg stopped working with Cruise around the time people wondered whether Cruise was nuts.
“And then Spielberg stops working with him then?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:09:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert De Niro → Rocky and Bullwinkle. De Niro's nadir: after a great run he began taking paychecks around 2000, starting with Rocky and Bullwinkle.
“But then in 2000, he just started taking paychecks and he did Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:09:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert De Niro → Dirty Grandpa. De Niro's later dirty-grandpa era of cheesy comedies, the 2016 Zac Efron film as the example.
“Dirty grandpa is a movie with Robert De Niro and Zach Efron, as the 2 leads.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:10:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Al Pacino → Author! Author!. Pacino's anti-apex is Author! Author!, an early-80s bomb that made people doubt the best actor we had.
“Pacino, it's definitely author author.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:10:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Denzel Washington → Virtuosity. Denzel has no real stinker, so Virtuosity, a movie the speaker loves, stands in as the closest thing to his low.
“So I'd have to go with virtuosity, a movie that I love that we probably will do on rewatchables”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:10:29 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Denzel Washington → Denzel Washington. Denzel has a hit in every decade for four decades and really has no stinkers, which is why the anti-apex exercise fails for him.
“And he really doesn't have stinkers.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:11:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): GoldenEye → Dennis Quaid. In the GoldenEye pod Chris Ryan suggested Dennis Quaid for Joe Don Baker's role and Bill shot it down as not old enough.
“CR says, I think Dennis Quaid is just as good a suggestion as Nick Nolte, and it gets a little testy.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:11:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Shining → Room 237. Room 237 documentary argues there are no accidents with Kubrick, down to the carpet changing between shots.
“That was one of the things in the room 237 documentary where they get into how there are no accidents with Kubrick and they talk about the carpet.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Fargo → The Shining. A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel.
“I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Tim Robbins → Bull Durham. Bull Durham is the proposed namesake for a horrible-on-screen-athleticism flex category, though Tim Robbins is defended for his idiosyncratic windup.
“I nominate Tim Robbins as the namesake for Bull Durham.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:15:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Dazed and Confused → Summer Catch. Both films cut around a star who cannot pitch: Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer and Freddie Prinze Jr.
“The windup and then cutting to the guy behind him where it's clearly the stunt double pitcher because, you know, the guy couldn't.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:16:24 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Major League → Wesley Snipes. There are no shots of Snipes throwing a ball in Major League because it was so bad they couldn't use it.
“There's like no shots of him throwing a ball in major league because it was so bad they couldn't use it.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:17:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Young Blood → Rob Lowe. The opposite case: Rob Lowe was taught to skate for the movie and is actually pretty good.
“One of the best ones for this was they taught Rob Lowe to skate for Young Bud.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:17:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Top Gun → Top Gun: Maverick. Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots.
“I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): War of the Worlds → Tom Cruise. A Reddit thread defends Cruise's awkward ball toss as a character choice, a father easy on his son.
“there was Reddit thread defending Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds that's saying that. That's what the character, that's how the character would have thrown the ball.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:20:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): For Love of the Game → Kevin Costner. Costner told the speaker that John C. Reilly was the catcher and the film cut carefully around him.
“which I asked Costner about once, and he is basically like, he was the catcher, and they very carefully cut around him.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:20:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Sicario: Day of the Soldado → The Bourne Identity. Both have the emergency homemade haircut that goes perfectly, a trope a hairdresser's wife hates.
“Benicio del Toro giving the cartel daughter. the short hairdo before attempting to cross the border.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:23:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Fugitive → The Bourne Identity. Richard Kimble leaving the hospital with cuticle scissors and a razor looking like Harrison Ford is another instant makeover.
“Richard Kimble in the hospital room with a pair of like cuticle scissors and a disposable razor coming out looking like fucking Harrison Ford”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:23:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Sicario → The Godfather. Godfather beats Sicario for best dinner-scene assassination because it is the bigger, more important movie.
“Godfather is just a bigger, more important movie.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Godfather → Sicario. The Godfather scene has more buildup and suspense, and Michael is not killing anyone's kids.
“there's actually more drama in that Godfather scene.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Vision Quest → Sicario. Secret Handshake category: Vision Quest's red wrestling high-tops and Sicario's blue and pink money bands as props only fans recognize.
“Vision Quest, Loud and Swain's red Asex wrestling high tops, which we talked about on that part for 5 solid.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:26:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Fargo → Fargo. Jerry's salesman-of-the-month picture behind him is offered as a Fargo secret-handshake prop.
“I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): To Live and Die in L.A. → Chris Ryan. A listener calls To Live and Die in L.A. a CR special, as Prince's score complimentary.
“watched to live and die in LA last night, and it's a CR special, if I've ever seen one.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Den of Thieves → Heat. Big Nick of Den of Thieves is imagined as a basketball obsessive in the Heat mold, Sizemore's Heat character among the candidates.
“Big Nick was probably like a big Tim Thomas guy for the Clippers.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:28:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Midnight Run → Hamnet. Funny to imagine Agnes receiving the money belt at the end of Hamnet, paid off for writing Hamlet.
“it is also just funny to imagine Agnes getting it at the end of Hamnet.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:28:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Midnight Run → Cast Away. The chorizo and eggs item from Midnight Run would be the thing Cast Away needs.
“Castaway would be the chorizon X.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:29:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Midnight Run → Midnight Run. Midnight Run is ageless, with no cell-phone problem and the best buddy-action casting ever.
“It's just it's it's just basically the best casting of a buddy action movie ever.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:29:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Sicario → Tom Cruise. Cruise could play the lead if the Blunt role were a man, since studios wanted a male lead and 90s Cruise fits.
“That makes 90s cruise perfect for this.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:31:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Tom Cruise → The Firm. Cruise's 90s run (The Firm, A Few Good Men) is about the innocent learning the world is not what it seems.
“The guy learning the world, it's not quite what it appears to be.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:31:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Rain Man → Tom Cruise. Cruise is good at playing innocent, reaching back to Rain Man and Born on the Fourth of July.
“Cruz is good at playing innocent.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Sicario → American Gangster. Craig's complaint that Alejandro killed too quickly leads to Denzel shooting the guy in American Gangster, with De Niro's approach as the opposite.
“You want the person to know that you killed them.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:34:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Heat → Gangs of New York. Listener's 10-percent-better idea: Heat without the Portman storyline or with Vincent doing coke, Gangs of New York with Cameron Diaz recast.
“how heat would be 10% better if they either dropped the Portman storyline, or had Vincent doing coke, or gangs of New York, if Cameron Diaz was recast.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:35:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): GoldenEye → GoldenEye. The music in the first Alps driving moment and the theme song are the 'could have been better' notes for GoldenEye.
“Golden Eye is a really good example.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:35:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Shawshank Redemption → Goodfellas. Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more.
“He, best movie of all time, Shawshank.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Blade Runner → Goodfellas. Listener contrasts bad narration crutched in original Blade Runner with narration that makes Goodfellas.
“It was so bad in the original Blade Runner.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Goodfellas → Goodfellas. Bill concedes his anti-narration stance: bad narration is the problem, not narration.
“I think my stance needs to be, there's nothing worse than bad nourish.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:37:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Devil Wears Prada 2 → The Devil Wears Prada 2. A trailer that shows who is in it and the vibe without teasing plot is the model.
“I actually was one of the few people that like the Devil Wears Prada 2 trailer, because I don't really know what it's about”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:38:39 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Ernie Anderson → Paul Thomas Anderson. The 70s/80s ABC promo narrator is PTA's dad, and the hosts imagine trailer narration for The Town.
“But it's that Paul Thomas Anderson's dad.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:39:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): The Martian → Matt Damon. The Martian is Damon's local-maximum: a post-apex Apex Mountain, the I-still-got-it peak.
“So Matt Damon, the Martians, a great one.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Taken → Liam Neeson. Taken is offered as another late-career 'I still got it' peak, with John Wick for Keanu Reeves.
“Liam Neeson and Taken would be a good one for you.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): John Wick → Keanu Reeves. John Wick is another post-prime peak in the same category.
“Is it like Keanu Reeves, John Wick?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:41:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Clint Eastwood → The Mule. The Mule gives an octogenarian Clint two threesomes: the namesake for an ego-stroke award.
“named after Clint Eastwood and the mule, who plays an octogenarian who has 2 separate threesomes.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:44:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Steven Seagal → The Fast and the Furious. Seagal and Vin Diesel never lose fights, which fits the ego-stroke category.
“Vin Diesel is a good one, though.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:45:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): In the Line of Fire → Renee Russo. Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo in In the Line of Fire is called another ego-stroke 'cream cheese' layer.
“I always found like the Renee Russo Clint Eastwood in the line of fire relationship to be like putting a little layer of cream cheese on that”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:45:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): To Live and Die in L.A. → Bad Lieutenant. Date-night worst movie lists: To Live and Die in L.A. starts one, then Bad Lieutenant, Happiness, 8MM, Come and See.
“He said, uh, he nominates Bad Lieutenant, Happiness, 8 millimeter and come and see.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:46:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Jeff Goldblum → Death Wish. Goldblum in Death Wish: can't see Jeff Goldblum the same way.
“Any movie that I've never seen Jeff Goldblum the same.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Monster's Ball → Monster's Ball. Monster's Ball wins every worst-to-watch-with-someone category.
“I think Monsters Ball wins all of this.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:47:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Hereditary → Manchester by the Sea. Worst first-date movies are real bummers like Hereditary and Manchester by the Sea.
“Hereditary and Manchester by the Sea, I think are like real bummers.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:47:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Chasing Amy → Chasing Amy. Bill argued for an hour with a date who liked the ending he hated.
“she liked the movie more than I did, and I really hated the ending, and we argued about it for an hour.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:48:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Master → The Master. The Master is the most polarizing good movie; one host admits he does not like it either while another loves it.
“That is Master is probably the most polarizing good movie because I don't like it either.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:48:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Yorgos Lanthimos → Bugonia. One host has lost faith in Lanthimos, only watching because he gets nominated; the other reads Bugonia as a woman-is-an-alien movie.
“I don't like weird just to be weird.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:49:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Ryan Gosling → LeBron James. Gosling hosting SNL is likened to LeBron entering the dunk contest; the hosts call Gosling the best SNL host of the last ten years.
“I do think he's the best right now.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:51:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Minority Report → Eyes Wide Shut. How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut.
“Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Eyes Wide Shut → 8mm. Eyes Wide Shut's costume shop and 8MM's Joaquin Phoenix working at an adult store are jobs that know the dark world.
“Actually, now that we're talking about this, the Joaquin Phoenix, an 8 millimeter.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:56:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): To Live and Die in L.A. → Ace Ventura. Weird jobs: snitching topless-bar worker, Ruthie the Rat, the whale-tracker in Ace Ventura.
“The old man in Ace Ventura, whose only job is like tracking whale locations in that room in the concert venue.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:56:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Tom Cruise → Days of Thunder. Craig would do Days of Thunder just to do it.
“Craig would do traffic Thunder just so we could do traffic Thunder.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Tom Cruise → Eyes Wide Shut. If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut.
“I would do eyes-wise shut.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Tom Cruise → Cocktail. With the public-figure Cruise, the pick has to be Cocktail.
“If it's the cruise, the public figure cruise that we know, it's got to be cocktails.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Tom Cruise → The Color of Money. Question for Cruise: does he still have his pool skills from The Color of Money, and the bottle flip from Cocktail.
“Is he still good at pool from color?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:58:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Jared Leto → Dakota Johnson. Worse-with test: Jared Leto is the actor to root against; Dakota Johnson is better as a personality than in movies.
“Jared Leto, I just don't like.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:00:27 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Tom Cruise → Al Pacino. Rewatchables Pantheon by number of movies: Cruise 17, Pacino 14, De Niro 13, Denzel 12, Stallone 12.
“Cruise 17, Pacino 14, De Niro 13, Denzel 12, Stallone 12.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:02:15 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Steven Spielberg → Martin Scorsese. Most-featured directors: Spielberg 9, Tony Scott 9, Michael Mann 8, Scorsese 8.
“Spielberg 9, Tony Scott 9.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:02:28 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Renee Russo → In the Line of Fire. Rene Russo has been in 7 Rewatchables, a Special Achievement nominee for killing the 90s.
“She's been in 7 rewatchables movies.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:02:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
people (people): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Mission: Impossible. PSH is a Special Achievement inductee; his Mission Impossible scene is one Bill keeps rewatching.
“PSH scene.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:03:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Catherine Hahn → Step Brothers. Hahn is a Hall of Fame 'Dion Waiters' inductee for Step Brothers; the speaker recalls 25 minutes on the Catalina wine cooler.
“We did like 15 minutes on how good she was in that movie.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:06:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Christopher Walken → Pulp Fiction. Walken in Pulp Fiction and True Romance is on the best-short-performance list.
“Christopher Walken with the combo, pulp, and true romance.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:07:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Ryan Gosling → La La Land. Gosling had The Nice Guys and La La Land in the same year, an MVP-year argument.
“And Gosling was in that and La La Land same year”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:09:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jim Carrey → The Mask. 1994 MVP-year idea: Carrey with Dumb and Dumber, wins the Mask.
“I mean, we talked about Carrie in 94 doing Dumb and Dumber. Carrie wins the mask.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:09:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Steven Soderbergh → Traffic. Soderbergh was nominated for Best Director for Traffic and Erin Brockovich in the same year.
“Yeah, traffic and Aaron Brockovich, right?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:09:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Ben Affleck → Gigli. Gigli is Affleck's nadir mountain, the anti-classic for an Unwatchables month.
“That's his Nadir Mountain.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Gigli → Rain Man. Justin Bartha's Rain Man impression in Gigli is called a nuclear holocaust his career survived.
“The hangovers Justin Bartha submits a nuclear holocaust of a rainman impression that his career somehow survived.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Catwoman → Catwoman. Catwoman is one of the worst movies ever made, with a crazy basketball scene.
“We get a lot of requests for Catwoman because it's really truly one of the worst movies ever made.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Bride! → Cats. The Bride! now is a stinker, like Cats, though some people call it brave.
“We kind of lost the art of making real stinkers”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Wayne Gross → Heat. The Heat villain is the ultimate example of an actor haunted by a role.
“I couldn't even see Wayne Grow again after the heat.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:11:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Patrick Bergin → Sleeping with the Enemy. Bergin is a retroactive winner of the Buffalo Bill award: so distinct a villain he cannot be unwatched.
“But sleeping with the enemy, you just seen him going, right.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:12:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Heat → Die Hard. Bearer bonds: the tax-lawyer listener accepts them in post-82 movies like Beverly Hills Cop and maybe Die Hard but not in Heat or Panic Room.
“he can look past it for some post 82 movies like Beverly Hills cop, maybe even die hard.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:13:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Heat → Panic Room. Bearer bonds in Heat and Panic Room are anachronisms because the 1982 tax act made them rare.
“But when we get to heat and panic room, no fucking way, basically.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:13:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Phantom Thread → Little Miss Sunshine. Dave Toshki (as transcribed) Animal Crackers Award for niche tastes: Reynolds Woodcock's poisoned mushrooms, the Little Miss Sunshine character, Neil McCauley in Heat.
“Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Rounders → Heat. Niche tastes also include Malkovich liking Oreos in Rounders and Neil McCauley in Heat.
“Or like Malkovich and Rounders liking Oreos.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Out of Sight → Out of Sight. J.Lo as a Dolphins fan in Out of Sight is deemed not niche; she's from Miami.
“Jennifer Lopez, Dolphins fan in out of sight.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Denise Richards → Elizabeth Shue. The award is renamed for Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Christmas Jones, since it's more absurd than Shue as an astrophysicist.
“Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist is 100 times more absurd than Elizabeth Shoe.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Social Network → Inglourious Basterds. The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'.
“It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Airplane! → Leslie Nielsen. Leslie Nielsen in Airplane is named for best line reading.
“Leslie Nielsen, an airplane.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:17:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Oppenheimer → The DUFF. Pop culture now runs on visual memes: Cillian Murphy looking down in Oppenheimer, the Duff quarterback.
“Because now it's like a screenshot of Killian Murphy from Oppenheimer after like the what have I done?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:18:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Apollo 13 → The Departed. Movies break into pop-culture lexicon slowly, 10 to 15 years; The Town and The Departed cited.
“I think it takes like 10 to 15 years.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:19:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Zodiac → Almost Famous. AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes.
“we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Cocktail → Cocktail. Cogwin's law from Cocktail becomes a Life Lesson category; the Cocktail pod was a fun one.
“He points out, we had so much fun with the laws.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Just One of the Guys → Judd Nelson. Joyce Hyser nearly played Dr. Melfi; equivalent to Judd Nelson almost being Walter White; the 'hammer' of internet research.
“He said this to me was the equivalent of finding out”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:23:06 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Rocky → Al Pacino. Polly from Rocky nominated for the character with the most terrifying podcast; Den of Thieves' Nick on LA high school football; Waingro.
“Nick and Dennis Thieves would just be like talking LA high school football.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:23:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Cast Away. Cruise-for-Hanks swap: Cruise in Cast Away would be great, especially trying to light the fire.
“Cruise and Castaway would be pretty amazing.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:25:28 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Eyes Wide Shut. Hanks in Eyes Wide Shut would be a tough one.
“What about Hanks and Eyes wide shut?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:25:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Rain Man. Hanks as Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man; the Hanks bad-boy era of Punchline and Bachelor Party.
“So Hanks is Charlie Babbitt.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:26:01 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Forrest Gump. Worst swap: Cruise as Forrest Gump, because of the running.
“The worst version of it would be cruise is Forrest Gump.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:26:14 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): To Live and Die in L.A. → Jaws. Scenes that gloss over a shocking event: the Reagan-building explosion in To Live and Die in L.A., the Kintner boy in Jaws, Loomis in Halloween.
“a guy explodes in the same building that that Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at, then the next scene is like, they don't even reference it.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:27:19 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Casey Affleck → Manchester by the Sea. Peter North award candidates: Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea, Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot.
“Casey Affleck in Manchester by the city.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:28:12 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Chasing Amy → Ben Affleck. Peter North award for the actor who goes all out: Ben Affleck in Chasing Amy.
“I feel like Ben Affleck and Chasing Amy was a Peter North movie for him.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:28:30 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Tom Cruise → Cocktail. Cruise in Cocktail is a throwing-everything-into-a-part-that-isn't-great example, as with Pacino in Scent of a Woman and Two for the Money.
“Like, cruise and cocktail is another one.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:28:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): L.A. Confidential → The Nice Guys. CR month ends with To Live and Die in L.A., Nice Guys, and L.A. Confidential, the first four-person Rewatchable.
“Our 1st 4 person we watchable.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:31:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Toy Story 3 → Toy Story 3. Toy Story 3 is the one sad toy movie Craig likes, when they're about to die in the fire.
“3 is good.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:32:40 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Lion King → Zootopia 2. Animated movies that work: the Elton John Lion King, Zootopia 2 with its Godfather references.
“I also thought Lion King was really good.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:32:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Lion King → Elton John. In the animated-movies chat, the hosts single out the 1994 Lion King for its Elton John side and its music.
“the 94 one. Yeah, the Elton John side.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:32:47 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Finding Nemo → Up. Animated films open with a tragedy: Bambi, Nemo's mom eaten by a barracuda, the wife dying in Up.
“Nemo, the mom gets eaten by a barracuda to start the movie.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:33:33 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): WALL-E → WALL-E. Wall-E is like Apple Vision Pro: fat robots watching screens; it would be an age-best and age-worst entry.
“Wally is like it in, it's like the Apple Vision Pro is in Wally.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:34:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Gravity → Interstellar. Craig doesn't like outer-space movies but names Gravity as really good.
“Gravity is really good.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:34:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (26)

fun, about Podcast: The mailbag will be quarterly from now on because they get too many emails.
“We have, we've only been doing the mailbags once a year, and we decided that's, it's got to be quarterly from now on.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:02:11 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Craig / Fever Pitch: Craig loved Fever Pitch growing up; Chris Ryan calls it one of the dumbest movies ever because a fan runs onto Fenway for five minutes with no security.
“Nobody's like, we got to get security rushing.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:04:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Chris Ryan: Listeners say he gets wound up 40 minutes from the end; he says it is the Zane Lowe category.
“I think it's excitement for the Wayne Jet category.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Anti-apex: Anti-apex list of listener's: Travolta in Look Who's Talking, Mike Myers in Love Guru, Brando in Dr. Moreau, Cliffhanger for a rock-climbing date.
“Cliffhanger as anti-apex for a rock climbing date.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:08:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight Club: Listener pictures Ed Norton's narrator looking at Bill praising new top boy Craig.
“I feel like destroying something beautiful.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:12:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fargo: Listener notes the Fargo pod never mentioned that the restaurant is carpeted, spawning a what-age-the-most idea.
“Carpeted restaurants seem like a what's age the best, what's age, the worst, split decision?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Bad athleticism: The Duff has a quarterback who looks like he throws with the wrong arm, with 'mini seizures' every time.
“He's having like mini seizures every time.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:18:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Craig carefully watched the dogfight football game hoping an athlete would be bad but they were compelling.
“I really wanted one of the athletes to be bad, but it was actually like pretty, pretty compelling athletic.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Top Gun: The original volleyball scene has 58 Cruises in jeans lofting over the net.
“It's just also a lot of guys wearing jeans, which is just so insane.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Godfather: Bill says the dinner scene saved Pacino from being fired.
“there's some backstory with Godfather where they were going to like, they wanted to replace Pacino and they shot that scene and that was the scene that saved him from getting fired”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:25:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Midnight Run: Midnight Run ends up a list of accessories the movie needed; Bill wants to do it again.
“This question made me want to do midnight run again, because we did it, I think, 1st year.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:29:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Sicario: Craig suggests Alejandro killed the cartel leader too fast; listener jokes he is a future true crime subject.
“I'd like to suggest the Bangkok Coralback tip off award for is Craig actually a serial killer who will one day have his own Netflix true crime documentary?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:33:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Goodfellas: Listener calls Forrest Gump the best premature ejaculation movie in a narrated list.
“Best premature ejaculation movie, Forrest Gump.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Doc Holliday: Doc Holliday is a no-organ-donation pick: you'd get TB.
“Doc Holiday, you would get sicker getting Doc Holiday's organs.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:43:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jaws: Quint is the first pick for the organ you wouldn't want.
“I think Quint's the 1st pick for the one I wouldn't want.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:43:42 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Cast Away: Hanks' Chuck Noland would have a clean liver after two years in ketosis, and McDonald's would set him back a week.
“Yeah, his 1st trip to McDonald's sets him back a week.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Tom Cruise: What activity with Cruise: Chris Ryan wants to dance with him to Lil Jon; Bill wants to play pool; Craig wants to bartend.
“I want to dance with him to Lil John.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:58:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Hall of Fame: Hall of Fame will have plaques and a special pod.
“I think we should just make, we should actually really put more time into this and then like announce it on some special pod and have like plaques and stuff.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:08:33 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Heat / Waingro: The Waingro actor came out as Waingro on the Mulaney show; he cannot be unwatched.
“Like he did the Mulaney show where he just came out as wing grow.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Gondorf: Bill mispronounces Floyd Gondorf's name again on the fly; Craig throws a challenge flag.
“Gondoli.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:13:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Almost Famous: Bill's family watched the bootleg cut and decided which 35 minutes of deleted scenes deserved to stay.
“I would say there's probably 3 scenes that they could have added.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Serial killers: A New Yorker theory: leaded gasoline created a generation of serial killers, powering Netflix.
“did lead poisoning create a generation of serial killers in the 70s.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:22:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Zodiac: A listener wants an AI to cut Zodiac to 97 minutes; Craig is 'the new Claude' trimming an hour out of Zodiac.
“I'm trying to trim an hour out of zodiac right now.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:26:53 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Craig Horlbeck: Craig confesses he doesn't know who Peter North is.
“I was just kind of hoping nobody would ask.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:29:34 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Peter North award: The mailbag's final goofy question: an award for the actor's most effort-filled performance; a host claims the 21st-century 50 pod as his own.
“I think my Peter North Award was the 21st century 50 most rewatchable movies pod.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:30:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Podcast: Asked for the least-CR movie to do after CR month, the answer is anything animated: Toy Story, Cars 3, Harry Potter.
“Cars three?”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:31:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves ranking, tallies and lists (Pantheon, Hall of Fame, Mount Rushmores), and treats the show like a sports franchise with categories as awards. Hates inauthentic, silly-looking athletics and bad stinkers, and has always disliked narration (now conceding). Sucker for Midnight Run, Almost Famous, and sports analogies for everything.
Chris Ryan (host): Loves the 80s/90s crime and Michael Mann-style movies of CR month (To Live and Die in L.A.), and Eyes Wide Shut-style deep dives. Can't stand Fever Pitch and animated films. A sucker for category nitpicking and detailed lineage stuff.
Craig Horlbeck (host): A producer-turned-host with a taste for comedies and crime movies, loves Ryan Gosling and Days of Thunder, and spares no love for outer space movies. Comic foil who gets teased as a future serial killer and an AI.

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

Palm Olive/Pomal of Ultra = Palmolive Ultra (ad)
Oprah's sofa = Oprah's couch (Cruise couch jump)
Wayne Grow / Wingrow / Wayne Gross = Waingro (Heat)
Gondolies / Gondoli / Gondale = Floyd Gondorf (Sicario)
Macquarie = Christopher McQuarrie
Eurgos = Yorgos Lanthimos; begonia = Bugonia
Nader Mountain / Nadir Mountain = Nadir
Roy Hobbs's son at the end of 'the natural' = The Natural
Utopia 2 = Zootopia 2
Wally = WALL-E
Fantasy = Sean (the 'Sean Fantasy'/Fennessey)
Carrie in 94 = Jim Carrey
Palm 13 / Paul 13 = Apollo 13
Rembrandt = Rembrandt (Warriors graffiti)
Sizemore and Heat = Tom Sizemore in Heat
Jerry's 'salesman of the month' = Jerry Lundegaard
Dave Toshki = Dave Toschi (Zodiac)
Ted Levine sounds of the lamps = Silence of the Lambs
Young Bud = Youngblood
Catherine Hahn/Hans = Kathryn Hahn
Michael, Sarah = Michael Cera
Zayn Low = Zane Lowe
Wayne Jet = Wayne Jenkins (The Town)