Vince Vaughn

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q107730: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Swingers (1996); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); Clay Pigeons (1998); Psycho (1998); Domestic Disturbance (2001); Made (2001); Old School (2003); Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); Starsky & Hutch (2004); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005); Wedding Crashers (2005); The Break-Up (2006); Fred Claus (2007); Couples Retreat (2009); Dodgeball (2015); Hacksaw Ridge (2016); Bad Monkey; Cell Block 99; Dragged Across Concrete; Four Christmases; Psycho (1998 remake); The Breakup; The Cell; True Detective (season two); Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Animal House (1978): 2 lines

  1. lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it.
    “I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House.
    “It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Back to School (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (shared structural flaw) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Back to School ⇒ Old School (the host's read). The late competition-element plot is a flaw borrowed from Back to School and also seen in Stripes' war.
    “when it starts to become too much like back to school, you know, where there's like a competition element to it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Fatal Attraction (1987): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Domestic Disturbance (2001), which they acted in: Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read). Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction.
    “We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Frat House (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (creator precursor) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie.
    “Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Godzilla (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (intent) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending.
    “I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ivan Reitman: 1 line

  1. lineage (filmmaker lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son.
    “it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

King Kong (2005): 1 line

  1. theme (plot trope) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move.
    “We've all seen King Kong.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ransom (1996): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Domestic Disturbance (2001), which they acted in: Ransom ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read). Travolta tries to get mean like Mel Gibson in Ransom but lacks that gear.
    “he's trying to do like Mel Gibson and Ransom, but he just does not have that gear at all.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Swingers (1996), which they acted in: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read). Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino.
    “The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Road Trip (2000): 1 line

  1. people (same director groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Road Trip ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Road Trip, Phillips' first narrative film, laid groundwork for the R-rated run; it is set at an upstate New York college like Old School.
    “Todd Phillips's 1st movie. First narrative movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

The Lost World (1912): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs.
    “the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Stepfather: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Domestic Disturbance (2001), which they acted in: The Stepfather ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read). Domestic Disturbance is a stepfather-from-hell movie, a premise already done by The Stepfather.
    “Which, by the way, we'd already done with the stepfather with Terry Quinn.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

There's Something About Mary (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: There's Something About Mary ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Farrelly brothers hits like Mary laid the ground for Road Trip and the R-rated wave.
    “All of those kind of laid the ground for, uh, road trip.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Life of the Party (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed from) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Old School ⇒ Life of the Party (the host's read). Melissa McCarthy's Life of the Party is basically a solo Old School, down to the closing pop-star performance.
    “That is basically like a solo old school about how she goes back to school.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006): 1 line

  1. unmapped (title formula) · through Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), which they acted in: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The Ballad of Ricky Bobby echoes the Legend of Ron Burgundy naming pattern of the 2006 era.
    “Honestly, that's a 2006 thing is titling movies like this.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:02:38 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (41) everyone in acting

Other (6) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career arc): Vince Vaughn → Old School. Hosts trace five years of studios misusing Vaughn as a dramatic creep until Old School made him a comedy star.
    “And then in 2003, he makes old school...”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:48:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Vince Vaughn → Sleeping with the Enemy. A non-star going into one of these roles can vanish, as Patrick Bergin did after Sleeping with the Enemy.
    “you turn out to be Patrick Bergen and sleeping with the enemy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Vince Vaughn → Swingers. Six years after Swingers made him a star, Vaughn was chasing serious thrillers, Domestic Disturbance among them.
    “Clay pigeon, psycho, the cell, domestic disturbance and made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:42 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Vince Vaughn → True Detective (season two). He stayed with comedy until True Detective season two, then pivoted back to hard-edged thrillers.
    “He basically does that until True Detective season two.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:47 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Vince Vaughn → Cell Block 99. Now he is trying to go back to hard thrillers with Cell Block 99 and Dragged Across Concrete.
    “he's doing, you know, cell block 99 and and, um, and dragged across concrete.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. career (career echo): Vince Vaughn → Swingers. Old School comes back to the Swingers energy after years of odd roles, including the Psycho remake.
    “I think this is the funniest I've ever found him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Jon Favreau → Vince Vaughn. Vaughn/Favreau scenes were the one reason to see Vaughn's weaker vehicles.
    “The one scene that's like Vaughn and Favreau playing speed tennis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:35:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Vince Vaughn → Chevy Chase. Vaughn's comic persona is described as an aggro Chevy Chase, which would have suited the stepfather role.
    “He, he's like aggro Chevy Chase.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:15 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (same casting problem): Vince Vaughn → Matthew McConaughey. Amistad tried to make McConaughey a movie star just as Lost World tried with Vaughn, and no one knew how to use either.
    “Almostad kind of tries to do the same thing with McConaughey.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:40:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Vince Vaughn → Made. Made reunited Vaughn with Favreau but was as much crime movie as buddy comedy.
    “Those are all thrillers and then made, which is the made is the, like, I get the Favreau comeback.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (recurring collaborator): Dwight Yoakam → Vince Vaughn. Yoakam becomes Vince Vaughn's guy who pops up in his movies.
    “Dwight Yoakam becomes like his guy, who always has pop-up in the movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:06:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (persona comparison): Vince Vaughn → Bill Murray. In his comedies Vaughn is basically playing himself as a smart-ass, like Bill Murray.
    “he's basically doing the Bill Murray thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (archetype guess): The Confidence Man → Vince Vaughn. David guesses the rogue who reforms is a Vince Vaughn type.
    “So I'm going to guess he's a Vince Vaughn type rogue.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak · 1:45:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (career apex): Vince Vaughn → Wedding Crashers. Chris argues Vaughn's apex is Wedding Crashers, a year after Old School, when he is clearly a star not a fluke.
    “Now it's not a fluke.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:47:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (4)

  1. what-if (what-if): John Travolta → Vince Vaughn. Casting what-if: Travolta as the villain and Vaughn as the nice first dad would be a better movie.
    “I had, uh, Trivoltan Bond, which part's better movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:47 · Craig Horlbeck (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Vince Vaughn. Cruise in the Vaughn part, saying the stepfather lines, would be amazing.
    “A cruise in the Vaughan part is amazing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Vince Vaughn → Species. Recast the Hollywood Hills guy with full Vince Vaughn.
    “I had Vince Vaughn playing Hollywood Hill's guy instead of Nick Wright.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:09:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (casting what-if): Vince Vaughn → Fletch. Vaughn, a tall motor-mouth, could have made a parody-ish Fletch.
    “But Vince Vaughn as Fletch, I think could have made it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:16:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Vince Vaughn: Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show is described as a concert movie of stand-ups telling jokes as modern cowboys, and as bad.
    “So bad.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:20:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Vince Vaughn: Vaughn's career flipped: comedian who tried to be dramatic actor, versus the usual path of the reverse.
    “Vince Vaughn like inverted it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)