The Rewatchables: ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Panic Room' (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey”.

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

Subject films: Panic Room (2002).

On the transcript: Un-labeled speakers; many lines (esp. Fincher commentary and casting what-ifs) could belong to any host, so confidences are modest. The transcript contains ad clips and a couple of garbled stretches around 0:01:40 and 1:13:00.

Awards and segments (61)

Most rewatchable scene

pick The robbers show up.
“I just wrote down the robbers show up.”
Bill Simmons · 0:43:56
floated The opening walk-through of the house, which sets up the spatial layout.
“The robbers, can I just say, I do think that that intro scene when they walk through the house, though, is pretty critical to the movie to just giving you the spatial awareness of everything.”
unknown · 0:45:14
pick Meg finds out the robbers are in the house.
“Jody finds out they're in the house.”
Bill Simmons · 0:46:41
pick Meg goes for her phone while Whitaker talks in slow motion.
“Jody gets her phone.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:15
pick Junior blurts out how much money is really in the safe.
“Leto screws up and says how much money is really in the safe is my next rewatch.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:50
pick The switcheroo with the dad and Raul, a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“So the switcheroo with the dad and Raul.”
unknown · 0:53:43
pick The ending, everything that happens.
“Last one is just the ending.”
unknown · 0:54:18
pick Running the propane gas into the panic room.
“huge one is running the gas into the panic room.”
Sean Fennessey · 0:54:24
pick The propane tank sequence: Junior banging on the wall, the argument over turning the tank off.
“I'm going to take the propane tanks.”
Chris Ryan · 0:56:31

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

pick Panic Room: Three stars; Ebert calls Fincher a visual virtuoso and Foster spellbinding.
“All right, Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:56

Casting what-ifs · Who was almost cast, or replaced, in the film.

pick Nicole Kidman as Meg Altman: Cast first, hurt her knee and was replaced by Jodie Foster.
“This usually doesn't happen, but Nicole Kidman was cast as the role in the role of Meg.”
Chris Ryan · 0:34:25
pick Angelina Jolie as Meg Altman: Mentioned in passing as someone considered for the part.
“It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”
Bill Simmons · 0:26:07
pick Hayden Panettiere as Sarah: Originally cast in the Kristen Stewart role and left the project.
“So Hayden Painted Tier was originally cast in the Kristen Stewart row and, um, left the project toward the end of 2000.”
Bill Simmons · 1:12:31
pick Maynard James Keenan as Raul: Offered Raul first; Bill calls it possibly the greatest casting what-if in the show's history.
“The role of Raul was originally offered to Maynard James Keenan.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:08
pick Anthony Hopkins as Stephen Altman: Jodie owes him; she won him an Oscar.
“Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:14
pick Michael Douglas as Stephen Altman: Foster was once attached to Douglas's film; doubts he would have taken the beating.
“I think Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo, Steven, especially I don't think he would have wanted the shit kicked out.”
unknown · 1:16:28
pick Ted Levine as Raul
“Ted Levine in the Dwight Yoakam part.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:55
pick Wes Studi as Raul: Offered as a wild card while running through the cast of Heat.
“Here's my my wild card would be Wes Study.”
unknown · 1:17:38
pick Tom Sizemore as Raul: Named as the answer from the Heat cast.
“Sizemore, I think, is the answer.”
unknown · 1:17:57

Best That Guy (Joey Pants Award) · The best that-guy actor in a small part.

winner Paul Schulze as a cop at the door: Bill confuses whether he was on Oz or The Sopranos, which the hosts take as the sign of a winner.
“I had either father fell from the Sopranos, who I thought was the guy from us, or the realtor who was also on every soap opera, including General Hospital, and I think was feeding with Robert Scorpio at one.30 years ago.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:39
nominee the realtor (soap opera actor) as the realtor: Put up alongside the cop.
“I had either father fell from the Sopranos, who I thought was the guy from us, or the realtor who was also on every soap opera, including General Hospital, and I think was feeding with Robert Scorpio at one.30 years ago.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:39

Vincent Hanna Award · Best overacting.

winner Jared Leto as Junior
“Our guy Leto just dials it up.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:00

Dion Waiters Award · Small role, big impact; the hosts debate who is eligible in a five-hander.

nominee Dwight Yoakam as Raul: Bill doubts he is eligible because he is in it a lot.
“DM waiters are where it's got to be Raul.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:05
winner Jared Leto as Junior: Joking retroactive ruling; the hosts decide Raul or Junior can qualify.
“So retroactively, we'd like to announce Dion Waiters, Jared Leto.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:50

Apex Mountain · Where a person or thing sits on the mountain for this film.

nominee David Fincher: Not an apex.
“Apex Mountain, Fincher?”
Bill Simmons · 1:22:55
nominee Jodie Foster as Meg Altman: Not an apex; her peak is Silence of the Lambs.
“Foster, no.”
Bill Simmons · 1:22:59
nominee Kristen Stewart as Sarah: Not an apex.
“Kristen Stewart, no.”
Bill Simmons · 1:23:01
nominee Diabetes in a movie: Not clearly the best use; Dog Day Afternoon floated as better.
“Diabetes in a movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:23:19
nominee Forrest Whitaker: Not an apex.
“Forrest Whitaker?”
Bill Simmons · 1:24:22
winner The panic room itself: Apex because the whole movie is built around it.
“I mean, whole movie's built around a panic room.”
unknown · 1:24:24
nominee Girl power in a movie: Not apex, but in the discussion; the women underestimated, though Whitaker saved them.
“Girl power in a movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:24:31
nominee Dwight Yoakam as Raul: Not an apex.
“Dwight Yoakam?”
Bill Simmons · 1:24:54
winner Propane explosions in movies: Judged pretty good.
“Movie propane explosions.”
Bill Simmons · 1:25:47

Aged best · What has held up best in the film.

pick Forrest Whitaker as the good burglar
“Forrest Whitaker as the good burglar.”
Bill Simmons · 0:57:30
pick The opening title graphics: A big external look for a movie set inside.
“In other words, agent best, the graphics at the beginning are amazing.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:34
pick How the diabetes was handled: Subtle, not overt.
“Diabetes situation we mentioned.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:57
pick Kristen Stewart as Sarah: Told his wife she would be nominated someday.
“I remember I told my wife that Chris Stewart was going to get nominated for an Oscar someday.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:14
pick I can't go to prison, man: Loves the line; another host later calls it the hackiest in the script.
“This is another one stage the best when somebody says, I can't go to prison, man.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:35
pick Junior's death
“Well, I had that as the next wood stage the best.”
Chris Ryan · 1:05:49
pick Dwight Yoakam as Raul: Raul as the malevolent force and a great creation.
“Raul the bus driver is just a great creation.”
unknown · 1:09:35

Aged worst · What has held up worst in the film.

pick I can't go to prison, man: Called the hackiest moment from a script standpoint.
“because it is real the hackiest moment from a script standpoint”
unknown · 1:05:33
pick The propane gas sequence: Thinks she would have blown herself up.
“I just think she blows herself up.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:47
pick Stephen Altman as the husband: Too over the top for a marriage not working out.
“Another one stage of words for me is the husband character in this movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:50
pick The cops at the door: They should have forced their way in.
“And, um, the other one's age the worst is I just feel like the cops come in when, when, uh, the guy from Oz come dressed up as a police officer comes.”
Bill Simmons · 1:10:50

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The propane sequence is unrealistic
“I just think Jody blows up.”
Bill Simmons · 0:54:41
pick Meg never gets her phone while the burglars are downstairs
“I've seen this movie enough times now that Jody Foster's inability.”
Bill Simmons · 1:25:56
pick 911 puts her on hold
“What world does 911 put people on hold?”
Bill Simmons · 1:27:55
pick Hungover Meg rigs two phone lines together
“Jody, drunk divorced mom for the 1st 20 minutes of the movie within an hour is taking 2 phone lines and rigging them together and it's like, no, no, use the yellow line.”
Bill Simmons · 1:28:19
pick Meg's fast drunk recovery
“She went from 4 glasses of wine, NIQUA, whatever else happened, and can barely pee, to all of a sudden she's running, you know, 4040 yard dashes into a room, grabbing the phone, just looking spry.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:29:08
pick Whitaker breaks in wearing the security company jersey
“shows up to the house to break in, wearing the security company, kind of jersey.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:29:51
pick No quick escapes from the panic room
“Uh, I had mostly just like the, the lack of interest in like quick, quick escapes from the panic room and just doing like little bit of like chipping away, not looking for chunk plays, but just getting, just getting 3 yards in a cloud of dust.”
Chris Ryan · 1:30:51
pick No diabetes supplies stocked in the panic room: Offered as a hot take he forgot in the nitpicks.
“Maybe put some diabetes stuff in the panic room.”
Bill Simmons · 1:38:09

Netflix series remake · Could it be remade as a 10-episode Netflix show.

pick Home invasion Netflix show: Got excited briefly, then decided he would not watch it.
“I actually got excited about this for a split second, then decided, no”
Bill Simmons · 1:32:57
pick 10-episode show built on the characters: Junior played by Roman from Succession.
“I think it is a 10 episode Netflix show, but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession.”
unknown · 1:33:06
pick Anthology series called Panic Rooms: Ten different panic rooms, or one panic room across a century.
“The show would have to be called panic rooms, and it would be about 10 different panic rooms in 10 different situations”
unknown · 1:33:24

Unanswered questions · A question the hosts raise about the film.

pick Kristen Stewart as Sarah: Asks if this is her best performance; Sean prefers Adventureland, the hosts list others.
“Is this the best Kristen Stewart's ever been in a movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:32

Memorabilia · A prop they would own from the film.

pick The bearer bonds
“I want the bear bonds.”
Chris Ryan · 1:36:48
pick The propane tank
“The propane tank?”
Sean Fennessey · 1:36:55
pick Raul's ski mask
“I'm going to go with the ski mask.”
Bill Simmons · 1:36:59

Who won the movie · Who won the movie.

nominee Jared Leto as Junior
“Leto.”
Bill Simmons · 1:37:05
winner David Fincher: Anyone else would make a forgettable version of this movie.
“Yeah, I mean, he's just, he makes this movie. 99 other people make this movie.”
unknown · 1:37:08

Films that came up

Claims (98)

theme (theme): Will Smith → Tom Cruise. Smith is hitting a danger point like Tom Cruise jumping on the couch.
“we have entered Tom Cruise jumping on the couch.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → The Godfather. The Academy's anniversary shoehorning (Godfather 50th, Pulp Fiction 28th) was awkward; Pacino and De Niro barely spoke.
“The weird thing was, like, you have Pacino and De Niro out there, and they don't talk.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Denzel Washington → Will Smith. As always, Denzel wins; the only winner of the night.
“there are no winners tonight at all, except for Denzel Washington, who just continues to win.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Will Smith → Mike Tyson. Kimmel compared the slap to Tyson biting Holyfield's ear.
“Jimmy on my podcast last night compared it to Tyson biting Holyfield's ear”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Will Smith → Chris Rock. The slap hit two people the hosts have history with, like two uncles fistfighting at Thanksgiving.
“It was like watching 2 of your uncles getting a fistfight at Thanksgiving table or something.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Chris Ryan → Bill Simmons. Joke: Bill is the Denzel to Chris's Will Smith.
“You've always been the Denzel to his Will Smith.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Fight Club. Fincher assumed a one-location film would be easier than Fight Club's 400 scenes in 100 locations; it was harder.
“He does Fight Club and it's an insane movie to make, I think he said, Fight Club at 400 scenes in 100 locations.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Rope. One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Lifeboat. One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies.
“So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Psycho. Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one.
“But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → North by Northwest. North by Northwest is the big cross-country picture; Fight Club plays that role for Fincher before Panic Room shrinks things down.
“It's very similar to Fight Club in that way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Leighton Meester. Without Foster and Fincher it's the movie on Netflix once a month with Leighton Meester.
“But there's a version of this movie that is on Netflix once a month.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Rear Window. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Straw Dogs. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
“So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → Home Alone. Fincher worried Home Alone would overshadow his film.
“He was concerned that Home Alone would overshadow it, but he's pretty traumatized after this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Shining. Also a single-house movie, but The Shining's characters at least get to run through a maze.
“They probably had the same kind of problem on the shining. That's all in one house, but at least they get out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Panic Room → Fight Club. Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
“This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → No Country for Old Men. Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → The Godfather. Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather.
“is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Zodiac → Panic Room. Zodiac is deep (obsession, meaning through someone else's experience) where Panic Room is a well-made B movie.
“It's one of those things where like zodiac is deep.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Panic Room → Zodiac. Five years between Panic Room and Zodiac; the effect on Fincher shows in how he tells stories afterward.
“5 years went by between panic room and zodiac.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Jared Leto → Fight Club. Fight Club made the cast stars (Norton, Pitt) and Bill expected Panic Room to do the same for Leto.
“I think I kind of expected that to happen for Jared Leto in this movie when it 1st came out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): David Fincher → The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dragon Tattoo has become Fincher's most underrated film.
“which is Girl with a Dragon tattoo.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:24:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): David Fincher → Alien 3. There is no bad Fincher movie, Alien 3 included.
“Alien 3 is good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:24:57 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): David Fincher → House of Cards. Fincher's eight-year run includes the first two episodes and pilot of House of Cards.
“House of Cards creates the 1st 2 episodes.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:19 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Angelina Jolie. The part is an attractive-badass Angelina Jolie type; Jolie was reportedly considered.
“It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:07 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
career (career): Panic Room → Contact. Foster came into Panic Room off a dry run that included Contact, which Bill calls awful.
“contact, which is an awful movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:29 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Contact → Panic Room. Bill's take in 1997: Contact was disappointing and Foster and McConaughey had no chemistry.
“Matthew McConey and Jody Foster had no chemistry at all.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:06 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
career (career): Jodie Foster → Flight Plan. Panic Room gave Foster a second wave: Flight Plan, Inside Man and one more run.
“This got kind of a 2nd wave for her where she ends up in flight plan and Inside Man and one more run.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Jodie Foster → Nell. Foster usually plays extreme people in extreme situations (Nell); Meg Altman is a normal person in one.
“Like if you think about, you know, um, Nell or something like that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:19 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Sandra Bullock. Ten actresses could have played the part; Sandra Bullock easily.
“Like Sandra Bullock easily could have been in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Panic Room → Bird Box. Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version.
“But I think this is the really well-done version of it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Jodie Foster → The Silence of the Lambs. Sean still thinks Silence of the Lambs is the best thing she has been part of.
“I still think is probably the best thing she's ever been a part of”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Jodie Foster → The Accused. Same steely-in-peril type in The Accused and Flight Plan.
“in the accused or in this movie or even in the kind of more, you know, B grade stuff, like flight plan.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
career (career): Jodie Foster → Taxi Driver. Foster has always played steely people in peril, going all the way back to Taxi Driver.
“and that goes all the way back to taxi driver.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Charles Bronson. A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie.
“This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Panic Room → John Woo. The syringes thrown into the panic room is like a John Woo moment.
“it's almost like a, uh, like a John Wu movie or something.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Jodie Foster → Denzel Washington. In Inside Man Foster goes toe to toe with Denzel.
“I'll go toe to toe with Denzel Washington.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Jodie Foster → Mel Gibson. In the last decade Foster has directed Mel Gibson and worked with Polanski, taking on complicated collaborators.
“Like in the last 10 years, she directed Mel Gibson in a movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Jodie Foster → Roman Polanski. Foster collaborated with Polanski on a movie in 2011.
“She collaborated with Roman Polanski on a movie in 2011.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Jodie Foster → Elysium. Foster plays the villain, a Condoleezza Rice stand-in.
“You know, she's in Elysium as like basically the villain of that movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Jodie Foster → The Devil Wears Prada. Bill wonders if Foster had a Meryl Streep/Devil Wears Prada pop-culture moment in her.
“Yeah, I wonder, like, did she have a devil wears Prada, Meryl Streep moment in her?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → Panic Room. Kidman was cast as Meg, then injured her knee (aggravated from Moulin Rouge) and was replaced by Foster.
“Nicole Kidman was cast as the role in the role of Meg.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Nicole Kidman → Moulin Rouge!. Kidman's knee injury from Moulin Rouge was aggravated on Panic Room.
“she aggravated an injury that she had suffered on Moulin Rouge.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Sean Penn → The Game. Foster dropped out of The Game and Sean Penn went in.
“and then they put Sean Penn in there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Michael Douglas → The Game. Michael Douglas wanted the character to have a brother, not a sister.
“I think Michael Douglas wanted the character to have a brother, not a sister.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Jodie Foster → Flora Plum. Foster was free because Flora Plum, which she was directing, shut down when Russell Crowe was injured.
“She was directing some movie called Flora Plum, where Russell Crowe got injured, left the project, production shut down”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → The Hours. Leaving Panic Room freed Kidman for The Hours, which won her the Oscar.
“one of the movies that she goes on to make in the aftermath of not being able to do panic room is the hours.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): David Fincher → Jared Leto. Fincher likes to riff on movie-star personas, beating up the pretty boy (Leto) on screen.
“let me see how many times I can beat up this pretty boy on screen.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → Joe Eszterhas. A record script sale, like Eszterhas's and Shane Black's, which Bill wants a Movie-Reference site for.
“didn't Joe Esterhouse have that once for basic instinct and him and Shane Black.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Panic Room → The Social Network. Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie.
“Like social network, perfect date movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Panic Room → Spider-Man. 2002 box office: Panic Room made $96M domestically in a year when things changed, a Spider-Man year.
“but also the year when things change, because this is a Spider-Man year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
people (people): David Koepp → Spider-Man. Koepp, who wrote Panic Room, also wrote Spider-Man (2002).
“By the way, also written by David Kepp, Spider-Man.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Panic Room → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave Panic Room 3 stars and called Fincher a visual virtuoso and Foster spellbinding.
“All right, Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Seven. Se7en and Fight Club hide twists from the audience; Panic Room is real time with no withheld information.
“Like 7 and Fight Club, there are these huge twists at the center of these movies that are withheld from the audience.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Fight Club. Panic Room is one of the first Fincher films where the audience is with the characters the whole time.
“And panic room is this real-time experience.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Panic Room → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. After Panic Room, Fincher's films from Zodiac on are less about gotchas and more about ideas.
“Benjamin Button, all of these movies are less about like, boom, gotcha, and more about thinking about the ideas at the center of the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
people (people): Jared Leto → Iverson. Leto's cornrows make him an homage to Iverson.
“Jared Leto is essentially like the an homage to Iverson in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me'). A new home-invasion movie in the same vein, with a blind cat sitter who robs houses.
“It's very much in the same vein as panic room”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Don't Breathe. Home-invasion variants take senses away from the victim.
“What was don't breathe?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me') → Wait Until Dark. Sean notes the blind-woman home invasion was done in Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn.
“Wait until dark is the original version of that, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Heat. Bearer bonds and heist logic: Bill pitches a Michael Mann movie where robbers reveal the take by mistake.
“We have to have a thing where the robbers mistakenly reveal how much they were actually getting versus...”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:29 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Batman (transcribed 'Black Cat'). Bill thought it was really bad, Chris thought it was good.
“I'd like to stand by the fact that when the movie was over, when Chris and I saw it together, I was like, that was really bad”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Panic Room → The Silence of the Lambs. The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
“A little silence of lambs homage.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Max von Sydow. Whitaker as the good burglar echoes Max von Sydow as the good Nazi in the Victory episode.
“We talked in the victory podcast about Max Van Saido as the good Nazi.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Die Hard. Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds.
“Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Forest Whitaker → Jeff Green. Bill compares Whitaker's career to Jeff Green's: always popping up.
“like the Jeff Green of actors.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Forest Whitaker → The Color of Money. Whitaker went toe to toe with Newman in The Color of Money in the mid-80s.
“going toe to toe with Newman.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Forest Whitaker → First Daughter. Whitaker passed on directing Panic Room because he needed to prep First Daughter, though he wanted to act in it.
“And he passed on panic room.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:20 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Jared Leto → House of Gucci. Bill and Chris love Leto in House of Gucci; Sean calls the movie terrible.
“I mean, he's he's beautiful and perfect in House of Gucci.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): House of Gucci → Contact. Sean jokes about merging two terrible movies, House of Gucci and Contact, into 'House of Contact, Gucci'.
“House of contact, Gucci.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Will Smith → Jared Leto. Joke: Will Smith punching Leto would have been a big deal since Leto is tiny.
“Will Smith punching Jared Leto would have been a big deal.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Dwight Yoakam → Sling Blade. Fincher cast Yoakam after seeing him in Sling Blade.
“I think Fincher said he saw him in Sling Blade, and that was what made him want to cast him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Dwight Yoakam → Maynard. Maynard was first choice for Raoul; Fincher had just directed his band's Judith video. Yoakam was number two.
“Fincher had just directed the video for Perfect Circles Judith, which is an awesome song and an awesome video.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Dwight Yoakam → Clint Howard. Joke evolutionary chart: Clint Howard, then Yoakam, then Maynard, ending with Billy Bob Thornton.
“I think it starts with Clint Howard, and then it goes to Dwight Yoakam and then it goes up to Maynard.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Henry Rollins. Because Heat keeps coming up, Rollins would have been good as an enforcer.
“This would have been a good role for Rollins.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Anthony Hopkins. Bill would cast Hopkins as the ex-husband; Jodie owes him, she won him an Oscar.
“Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Jodie Foster → The Game. Foster was supposed to be in The Game at some point.
“because I know that Jody Foster was supposed to be in the game at some point.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo as Steven, though he wouldn't have agreed to the beating.
“I think Michael Douglas would have been a great cameo”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:28 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Anthony Hopkins → The Silence of the Lambs. Hopkins's Oscar came via Foster and Silence of the Lambs.
“She won him an Oscar.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Ted Levine. Ted Levine in the Yoakam part.
“Ted Levine in the Dwight Yoakam part.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:55 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Heat. They run through the cast of Heat for Raoul: Pacino, De Niro, Rollins, Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Wes Studi, Voight; Sizemore is the answer.
“Let's just run through the entire cast of heat and decide who could play Raul.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:17:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Arthur Max → Panic Room. Max's production design team built the four-story brownstone set in 15 weeks for $6 million.
“Arthur Max, production design team, took 15 weeks, $6000000 on Raleigh Studios, and lovely Hollywood.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): David Fincher → Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh warned Fincher that his operator-less camera plan would drive him insane, and he was right.
“Soderberg was like, this is going to drive you insane if you do it this way?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Darius Khondji → Conrad Hall. Khondji started as DP and quit or was fired six weeks in; Conrad Hall (Se7en DP) stepped in.
“Darius Kanji started out as the cinematographer of this movie and quit and or was fired 6 weeks into it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Conrad Hall → Seven. Hall is the guy who shot Se7en.
“this is the guy who shot seven, you know, is one of the most accomplished cinematographers”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): David Fincher → Conrad Hall. Fincher and Hall, the cinematographer who replaced Khondji, have not worked together since Panic Room.
“this is the guy who shot seven, you know, is one of the most accomplished cinematographers and they haven't worked together since, obviously.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Panic Room → Fight Club. The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
“And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): Jodie Foster → Foxes. Foster appeared in Foxes (1980) with Cherie Currie.
“Jody Foster, in the movie Fox's, 1980.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Kristen Stewart → The Runaways. Foster appeared in Foxes with Cherie Currie, whom Kristen Stewart's Joan Jett played alongside in The Runaways, so Panic Room's mother-daughter pair circles back.
“And then Kristen Stewart played Sherry Curry's bandmate Joan Jett in the runaways.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:47 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Steel Magnolias. Apex Mountain for diabetes in a movie: Steel Magnolias came up and was not enough.
“wasn't wasn't Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias diabetic?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Panic Room → Dog Day Afternoon. Diabetes as a better plot device: the manager in Dog Day Afternoon.
“Oh, dog to afternoon.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:44 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Halloween. Michael Myers energy joke: Foster gets up fresh after falling down two flights of stairs.
“So Michael Myers energy going on there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Andrew Kevin Walker → Seven. The Panic Room neighbor actor is the writer of Se7en.
“And did you know that the guy who plays the neighbor is Andrew Kevin Walker, a guy who wrote seven?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Panic Room → Succession. As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession.
“but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Kristen Stewart → Adventureland. Sean's favorite Kristen Stewart is Adventureland; Panic Room is the question.
“I would say Adventureland is my favorite, Kristen Stewart”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:34:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Kristen Stewart → Happiest Season. Stewart is actually charming and funny in Happiest Season.
“She's actually really charming and funny and happiest season”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:35:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): David Fincher → Kristen Stewart. Fincher noted Foster was so much more advanced a screen actor that Stewart needed more takes.
“he noted that they needed to shoot more takes with her and foster because Foster was so much more advanced as a screen actor”
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fun, about Will Smith: On the Oscars: Bill says the first 2.5 hours were boring but the slap was the most must-see TV in five years; Kimmel compared it to Tyson biting Holyfield's ear.
“as soon as that happened, that was the most must see TV thing that has happened in, what, 5 years?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Denzel Washington: Running gag: Denzel always wins; whenever there is chaos, there is Denzel.
“Whenever there's chaos, there's Denzel.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Fincher's lessons from Panic Room: don't shoot 100 days in one place; he ended up two years in thinking nothing was worth it.
“And then you end up 2 years into the challenge.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Jodie Foster: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) is one of the five craziest movies you could ever rewatch; there's a dead person in the basement.
“which is one of the 5 craziest movies you could ever rewatch.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Nicole Kidman was first cast as Meg, hurt her knee, and Foster replaced her on a week's notice because her Flora Plum shut down; then Foster got pregnant and production stopped again, which is why it took two years.
“So this is why this thing takes 2 years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Script by David Koepp sold for $4 million, a record; budget $48 million, worldwide gross $197 million.
“And it sold for 4 million.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Bill reads Roger Ebert's three-star review (Fincher a visual virtuoso, Foster spellbinding) and asks why not 3.5; the Ebert running gag.
“Why not 3.5, Rog?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Jared Leto: Leto's Panic Room cornrows make him 'an homage to Iverson,' and he should have worn a Sixers jersey.
“Jared Leto is essentially like the an homage to Iverson in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Most rewatchable scene candidates: robbers show up, Jody finds out they're in the house, Jody gets her phone (slow-mo), Leto screws up the safe talk, the switcheroo, the propane-tank sequence.
“Jody gets her phone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:15 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The slow-mo phone scene: Whitaker talks in slow motion so you can't hear him but see the words mouthed while Foster searches the covers.
“You see the words being mouthed, which is amazing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Heat: Bill and Chris pitch their Michael Mann movie with a dumb thief; the title is 'Heat', like the new Scream is just Scream.
“It's called Heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Propane scene: Sean argues she should blow up in a closed room and the dive backward is unrealistic; Chris takes the propane scene as his pick anyway.
“I think everyone dies in the panic room the moment she lights the flame.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Bearer bonds explainer: bill Googles it; bonds are owned by whoever holds them, so they're 'the original Bitcoin' and a lazy heist-movie staple.
“So they're like the original Bitcoin.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:00:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Forest Whitaker: Bill calls him 'the Jeff Green of actors' because of his baffling career: Oscar winner who is also in Taken 3, ER, and a Fast Times linebacker.
“like the Jeff Green of actors.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Forest Whitaker: He passed on directing Panic Room, wanting to act in it; he was prepping First Daughter, starring Katie Holmes, which he directed.
“He also directed 1st daughter starring Katie Holmes.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:15 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Dwight Yoakam: Casting what-if: Maynard from Tool was first choice for Raoul, the greatest what-if in Rewatchables history; Yoakam was number two.
“Yokam number 2 choice.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Kristen Stewart grew more than three inches during shooting, towering over Foster; Bill wants a database of child actors who grew mid-production.
“Kristen Stewart grew more than 3 inches during the filming.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Fincher took 103 takes for the medical bags sliding across the floor outside the panic room, and it was worth it.
“Yeah, I can't even imagine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: The house is 38 West 94th Street, but the brownstone set took 15 weeks and $6 million at Raleigh Studios.
“The house is located at 38 West 94th Street in New York City.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:11 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Fincher: Steven Soderbergh warned him the camera plan would drive him insane; Fincher showed it to him and Soderbergh was right.
“Soderberg was like, this is going to drive you insane if you do it this way?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Darius Khondji started as cinematographer and quit or was fired six weeks in; Conrad Hall took over.
“Darius Kanji started out as the cinematographer of this movie and quit and or was fired 6 weeks into it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Memorabilia: Chris and Sean pick the bearer bonds and the ski mask; the Blu-ray finally arrived on the 20th anniversary and Sean has the Superbit DVD.
“As of this week, it's on Blu-ray.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:21:51 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Jodie Foster: Cherie Currie link: Foster costarred with her in Foxes (1980); Kristen Stewart later played Joan Jett to Currie in The Runaways.
“See, it all comes full circle, CR.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:51 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Apex Mountain: Panic Room itself is the only nominee; the propane explosion and diabetes get discussed and not crowned.
“Movies called Panic room.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Sean's nitpick: Foster never just opens the panic room door and grabs the phone when all three burglars are downstairs, and the movie would be over in 40 minutes.
“Just open the panic room, walk 5 feet and call the fucking police and the movie's over.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:27:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Craig asks about SOS flashlight signaling; leads to Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect and the Halloween neighbor who won't help Jamie Lee.
“Craig has a question for nitpicks.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: The neighbor in Panic Room is played by Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of Se7en.
“And did you know that the guy who plays the neighbor is Andrew Kevin Walker, a guy who wrote seven?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Panic Room: Who won the movie: Fincher. 99 other directors make this movie and it's totally forgettable.
“Got to be Fincher.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:37:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves rewatchable ensemble thrillers, box-office and calendar context, and sports analogies; delights in bad-guy-as-star casting what-ifs. Can't stand Contact. A sucker for production trivia and record-setting script sales.
Chris Ryan (host): Gets excited by pure cinematic storytelling, Hitchcock-style filmmaking and compressed exposition; loves Leto's overacting and House of Gucci; sucker for bearer bonds as a heist device. Hates unrealistic plotting only in passing.
Sean Fennessey (host): Film-nerd who builds the big readings (Hitchcock lineage, Fincher career arc) and loves camera moves through walls and Blu-rays. Won't love the accent in Silence of the Lambs; sucker for nitpicks about propane physics.

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

Sean Fantasy / Fantasies = Sean Fennessey
Jody Foster = Jodie Foster
Forrest Whitaker = Forest Whitaker
Raul = Raoul (Dwight Yoakam's character), spelled Raul in transcript
David Kepp = David Koepp
Darius Kanji = Darius Khondji
Soderberg = Steven Soderbergh
Maynard = Maynard James Keenan of Tool/A Perfect Circle (spoken as 'Maynard' and 'lead singer')
Perfect Circles Judith = A Perfect Circle 'Judith'
Hayden Painted Tier / Penateer = Hayden Panettiere
Lee Turbane = unclear actress name, said when listing Panic Room/The Game casting churn (could not resolve)
Wheat Crash = WeCrashed
Black Cat/Black hat = The Batman (guess)
Edie Amin = Idi Amin (The Last King of Scotland)
Max Van Saido = Max von Sydow
Sherry Curry = Cherie Currie
Mike Ocean's Ocean's 11 = Ocean's Eleven
Moulin Rouge ok; In the King 1999 = Anna and the King
dog to afternoon = Dog Day Afternoon
Kirk Acevedo/Paul Scholzy = Paul Schulze (Father Phil in The Sopranos)
Rob Williams/Robert Williams = Robert Williams (Celtics)
Wesley = a colleague named only by first name