Sean Fennessey

81 sketches, 1,576 claims, and 559 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

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Blank Check — Patreon: Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) (guest)

Reveres Strangelove as the most singular Kubrick and a document that still applies. Loves Frankenheimer, Malick, and deep trivia of movie years. Dislikes recent McKay satire but is gentle about it.

Stances

Strangelove still applies to how government and masculinity work
Kubrick competed with himself to take on a new genre each time
Seven Days in May and Frankenheimer's run belongs next to Kubrick's

Humor: Dry, generous and self-effacing, tossing off asides in a calm voice.

In their words

“And I love Dr. Strangelove, and I love Stanley Kubrick and everything else that you're doing.” (0:10:35)
“this is exactly how government works.” (1:39:54)
“this movie comes in the middle of the most underrated five-year run in any American filmmaker's history, which is John Frankenheimer from 1962 to 1966” (2:02:41)

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Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Drafts: Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument.
Hall of Fame: A star's or director's best, ranked and argued.
Countdowns: Ranked lists, top five or top ten.

The Rewatchables

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.

Their claims

Showing 1–100 of 1,576 claims.

lineage (lineage): Disturbia → Rear Window. Disturbia, the best of the decade's thrillers in the cycle, is a Rear Window remake.
“It's a rear window remake.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Domestic Disturbance → Swingers. Vaughn's Rick in the first half echoes his Swingers character Trent: constant performing, false energy, bravado.
“He's always, you know, he's always got this like false energy, this bravado, and he's kind of doing that in the 1st half of this movie where he's trying to connect with Danny.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (stylistic seed): After Hours → Goodfellas. Sean says the fast cutting, whip-pans and close-ups in After Hours are the seeds of Goodfellas' look, via cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
“just seeing all the seeds of Goodfellas and all these little edits and camera shots.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (homage): After Hours → The Wizard of Oz. Dark-side-of-the-yellow-brick-road version; Dorothy walks into black and white instead of color, with 'surrender Dorothy' graffiti and Marcy's Seconal tie to Judy Garland.
“it is like very much a Wizard of Oz kind of homage, and it's like if Dorothy instead walked into the black and white darkness”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (same-year cycle): After Hours → Desperately Seeking Susan. Hosts group After Hours, Into the Night, Desperately Seeking Susan and Something Wild as 1985 cokey-screwball-paranoia New York-night movies.
“So the cocaney, screwball paranoia era.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (sliding door): The Last Temptation of Christ → After Hours. Paramount cancelling Last Temptation sent Scorsese to a small fast job; one of movie history's sliding doors.
“it is one of the massive sliding doors in movie history because him not making it leads to him making this movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career hinge): After Hours → Goodfellas. Bill says Goodfellas does not happen if After Hours does not happen first; the cancelled Last Temptation is the sliding door.
“I don't know if Goodfellas happens.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (Oscar contrast): Out of Africa → After Hours. 1985 Best Picture went to respectable, stuffy Out of Africa while the new-Hollywood audacity lived in films like this.
“the movie that won best picture in 1985 is out of Africa.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (slower religious cut): The Last Temptation of Christ → Kundun. Scorsese's religious movies are slower and more painterly than the fast style of After Hours.
“His religious movies are more slower paced and more painterly, I would say.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Steven Soderbergh → Ryan Coogler. Soderbergh can bang out movies fast because he shoots and cuts them himself, unlike Coogler's big-crew, big-star productions.
“Like Soderberg shoots and edits his movies. He holds the camera when he makes the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (tonal shift): After Hours → Raging Bull. Raging Bull is realistic, documentary-like black and white; After Hours is a surreal fever-nightmare with a moving camera, a shift for Scorsese.
“Raging Bull, shot in black and white, almost feels like documentaries.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career bridge): After Hours → The Color of Money. The camera moves of After Hours carry into Color of Money's pool table, tied to Ballhaus; both lead to Goodfellas.
“that same thing, that camera is flying across the pool table.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
people (cinematographer lineage): Michael Ballhaus → Goodfellas. Ballhaus, with Schoonmaker's editing, built the new Scorsese look; seven films together.
“with Thelma Scoonmaker's editing style, they built this kind of new version of the Scorsese movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Rosanna Arquette → Top Gun. Fennessey says she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun, any lead from 86 to 93.
“I feel like she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (stealth homage): After Hours → Rear Window. The neighborhood shooting seen through a window is a Hitchcock rear-window moment never mentioned again; Hitchcock and Fritz Lang noir are influences.
“there's Hitchcock and Fritz Lange Noir movies are a huge influence on this movie, and that's like such a perfect rear window moment”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Peggy Lee → After Hours. Peggy Lee's 'Is That All There Is' wins best needle drop in After Hours.
“But I think the winner is, is that all there is by Peggy Lee?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Peggy Lee → Mad Men. The same Peggy Lee song is recalled, unsure, from a Mad Men episode's end credits (The Sopranos also floated).
“I believe that it was featured in a very memorable episode of Mad Men, at the end credits”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (needle-drop link): Terry Garr → Head. The Monkees' 'Last Train to Clarksville' is a nod because Garr was in the Monkees movie Head.
“because Terry Gar was in head, the Monkeys movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart → After Hours. Mozart's Symphony No. 45 is named as one of the movie's good needle drops, opening it.
“And then I think Mozart's symphony number 45 at the beginning of the movie is pretty good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if casting): Linda Fiorentino → Goodfellas. Scorsese calls her 'the great' but couldn't find a place for her in Goodfellas or Kundun.
“Couldn't find a place in Goodfellas for her.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:15:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (production lineage): After Hours → Baby It's You. Without Baby It's You (Dunn/Robinson, Arquette, Ballhaus) there is no After Hours, since it brought Ballhaus to Scorsese.
“without that movie, we don't have after hours either because they bring Michael Bauhaus to Scorsese.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Griffin Dunn → Michael Keaton. Keaton's 'I just blew a line' energy might beat Dunn for Paul Hackett; they played brothers in Johnny Dangerously.
“Michael Keaton does have that like, I just blew a line energy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:21:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Griffin Dunn → Cooper Hoffman. Sean's modern pick for Paul Hackett.
“You know who it should be?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (personal projection): After Hours → The Last Temptation of Christ. Scorsese worked Kafka's Before the Law into the club doorman scene to reflect his frustration over Last Temptation.
“inspired by Franz Kafka's before the law. And Scorsese said the short story reflected his frustration toward the production of the Last Temptation of Christ.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (friendship): Griffin Dunn → Carrie Fisher. Dunn was best friends from childhood with Carrie Fisher, per the Bright Lights documentary.
“Griffin Dunn, best friend since childhood with Carrie Fisher?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): After Hours → Uncut Gems. Uncut Gems owes a heavy debt to After Hours; Go is also described as owing it royalties.
“could a movie owe more of a debt to after hours than the cut gems.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (era companion): After Hours → Bright Lights, Big City. Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about.
“Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (late-night NYC exclusion): After Hours → Dog Day Afternoon. Every Lumet film is a night movie except Dog Day Afternoon, which takes place by day.
“except for Dog Day afternoon, because it only takes place during the day.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (TV reboot idea): After Hours → 24. Prestige-TV version: 10 hours, one episode per hour, like 24.
“It's after hours, but it's 24 and it's 10 hours and one episode for each hour.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:35:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Thelma Schoonmaker → Michael Powell. Powell, Scorsese's mentor, married Schoonmaker around the time of After Hours, and the two of them helped Scorsese.
“became a huge mentor to Scorsese at this time and married Thelma Scoonmaker right before this movie, I think, or maybe right after.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:36:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (mentor): Michael Powell → Martin Scorsese. Powell, exiled British filmmaker married to Schoonmaker, mentored Scorsese and helped with After Hours' ending and tone.
“he was one of the people who helped him figure out the ending, helped him determine the tone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:36:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (double feature): After Hours → Into the Night. Sean's double-feature pick: the LA version of the same energy, made at the same time.
“I think it would be funny to see New York, LA, same kind of version energy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:40:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (lived-in New York): Francis Ha → After Hours. Sean says Frances Ha is the closest to his own New York life, as After Hours is to a different era.
“I didn't live through after hours, but what she is doing in that movie, plus Bombach being such a special filmmaker for us.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:43:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Pulp Fiction → Reservoir Dogs. Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs.
“Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Pulp Fiction → Daniel Day-Lewis. Weinstein pushed Daniel Day-Lewis for Vincent; the speakers would not trade Travolta but would love one DDL hitman movie.
“Having him play like just one normal hitman having a weird day would be awesome.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:39:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Heather Graham → Goldfinger. Details gold-paint cover echoed the Goldfinger woman, speaker thinks it won her the part.
“She was covered all in gold paint, like the, like the woman in Goldfinger.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Alison Jones → Barry (TV). The famous casting director Alison Jones is in Barry season two, in the scene where Bill Hader auditions for Jay Roach.
“And Alison Jones, the very famous casting director.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Al Pacino → Insomnia. Insomnia is the last Pacino movie that felt like an event before his decline.
“Last grasp, insomnia is the tail end, and then it flips.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Al Pacino → Scarface. Theory that Scarface broke Pacino by knocking him off his axis between over-the-top and nuanced.
“the theory of Pacino is that he was broken by Scarface”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Spotlight → All the President's Men. Spotlight was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of All the President's Men, if not its style.
“it was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of all the president's men, if not the style.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Insider → Spotlight. Spotlight was a hit because it is a satisfying bad-guys-get-caught story, while The Insider is meditative and ambivalent.
“Spotlight is just like, let's get the bad guys with our reporting.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): The Insider → Mike Wallace Is Here. The documentary on Wallace informs the Plummer scenes.
“And I think it actually informs this scene a lot”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): Al Pacino → Denzel Washington. Denzel is another actor who is great at being a screen partner, receiving and giving.
“That's a Denzel thing is very good at that too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:44:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Insider → Miami Vice. Mann's pop-abstract music choices, such as the Linkin Park and Jay-Z cues in Miami Vice, are a recurring misfire for some.
“Is this your, is this a subtle dig at Lincoln Park, Jay-Z being used in Miami Vice?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Wings Hauser → Tales from the Hood. The five films before The Insider for Hauser show where his career was.
“Tales from the Hood.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Val Kilmer → The Insider. Val Kilmer was up for the Wigand role, a significant what-if.
“Just Val Kilmer was up for Wygand, which is pretty significant what if for this podcast”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): The Insider → Thank You for Smoking. A punnier title like Thank You for Smoking would have told you what the movie was about.
“Like Jason Reitman's, thank you for not smoking.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Rolling Stones → The Big Chill. The Stones song at the reception, with Karen playing it on the organ, is called as well used as a song ever is in a movie.
“And then the fucking Rolling Stones come in and it's used as well as you're gonna ever use a song in a movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): At Close Range → A Bronx Tale. At Close Range is named as an amazing father-son movie where both are criminals.
“That's an amazing father-son movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (fandom): Sean Fennessey → Martin Scorsese. His obsession with Scorsese is rooted in lacking a guiding father figure.
“my obsession with Martin Scorsese is probably rooted in the fact that I didn't have that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:08:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (character echo): A Bronx Tale → The Sopranos. Tony Soprano is described as the corrupted version of Sonny.
“So he's like kind of the corrupted screensaver version of Sonny in a lot of ways.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:24:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Chazz Palminteri → The Usual Suspects. He was in The Usual Suspects a year later, a bigger film but he is less central.
“he's in the usual suspects like a year later.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:33:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career arc): Robert De Niro → Midnight Run. From Midnight Run through Goodfellas, This Boy's Life, Cape Fear and this film, De Niro played different parts each time.
“This is such a great De Niro stretch, basically, from Midnight Run.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:34:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (alternate title): A Bronx Tale → Jungle Fever. A better title for the movie would be Jungle Fever or Goodfellas 2.
“Goodfellas, Goodfellas 2.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:18:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (Apex Mountain: crap scenes / Italian): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. Apex for crap scenes and for father-son: Goodfellas and Casino are the competition.
“I gotta go with the fellas, man.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:26:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
verdict (Apex Mountain: racists burned alive): A Bronx Tale → Django Unchained. Apex Mountain for racists getting burned alive: this or the end of Django Unchained.
“Isn't Django unchained, really more the, you know, the end of Django unchained?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (homage question): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident.
“I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (Apex Mountain: Palminteri): A Bronx Tale → The Usual Suspects. Apex Mountain for Palminteri: A Bronx Tale or The Usual Suspects, with Suspects bigger but this his whole life.
“So suspects is definitely a bigger movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:33:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
people (counterfactual director): Robert De Niro → Martin Scorsese. If Scorsese directed, the film would be more thrilling but less breezy and easy to rewatch.
“If Martin Scorsese shoots the movie, it's fucking exciting.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (double feature): A Bronx Tale → Rocco and His Brothers. A Visconti-style Italian neorealist film is suggested as the other double feature.
“Give me some Visconti.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:42:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Player → Singin' in the Rain. Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
“Going back to singing in the rain.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): The Player → Short Cuts. The Player put Altman back among world-class directors: a best director nomination here and another the next year for Short Cuts.
“he gets nominated for best director here and then gets nominated the following year for his next film, Shortcuts”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:09:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Altman → Popeye. Sean wonders whether the Popeye flop triggered Altman's blue period in the 80s.
“whether it triggers Altman's kind of like blue period in the 80s is kind of an interesting question”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:15:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Robert Altman → Tanner '88. Tanner '88 is where Altman found the satirical tone he carried into The Player, using politics as the way into mocking egomaniacs.
“that's where he figures out this satirical tone that he's then going to follow into the player.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Robert Altman → Richard Linklater. Sean lists Linklater with PTA among 90s directors who took Altman's interest in communities and worlds.
“They really were into Linklater is another one.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Robert Altman → Michael Tolkin. Altman changed Tolkin's screenplay and was unkind about it; the film's ending differs greatly from the book.
“And Altman was a little unkind about Tolkien's screenplay.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:31:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Player → Touch of Evil. The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
“Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): The Player → The Larry Sanders Show. Both treat agents and executives as the villains; Odenkirk's Larry Sanders finale line calls back to Griffin's wish to eliminate the writer and actors.
“So then in Larry Sanders, in the last episode, Bob Odenkirk, who plays, um, Sander's agent”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:39:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Whoopi Goldberg → Ghost. Whoopi's few scenes land as an Apex Mountain moment: Ghost was just before, and she holds an Oscar prop a year after winning one.
“And Ghost is right before this, and it's just, you drop her in a movie like a grenade for 15 minutes.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:49:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Randall Batinkoff → Ben Affleck. Batinkoff was the odds-on favorite to be the biggest star of the Affleck/Damon/O'Donnell/Fraser class and peaked in 1992.
“Batenkoff was probably like the odds on favorite to be the biggest star of all of them.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:52:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Brion James → 48 Hrs.. Sean corrects the Blade Runner guess: Brion James is the Ice Pick/Iceman villain in 48 Hrs. and Another 48 Hrs.
“He turns out to be the Iceman at the end of 48 hours too, another 48 hours.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:55:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Sydney Pollack → Eyes Wide Shut. Pollack's Player cameo ended an acting drought since Tootsie and set off a chain that led to Eyes Wide Shut.
“this sets off a chain of movies culminating in Him in the leather sleeveless vest and knives wide shut”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Julia Roberts → Sandra Bullock. After the Pretty Woman era Julia Roberts outran every actress for years, until Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock got a foothold.
“And then Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock finally like clawed their way in at least a tiny bit.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): John Travolta → Pulp Fiction. If Travolta had starred in The Player, the Pulp Fiction comeback might have gone differently, and Bill is glad it did not happen.
“It's a really interesting Travolta sliding doors.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:13:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Altman → MASH. Altman's peak is argued as post-MASH, when he used a surprise hit to make the wild Brewster McCloud.
“he makes Brewster McLeod is the 1st movie he makes after Mesh, which is a wild movie”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:26:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Player → Network. In the meta-Hollywood movies discussion, Network, Argo, Tropic Thunder and Bamboozled are floated as the nearest cousins, none as acidic.
“But you have never seen a movie this acidic about, you know, the, and also involving the, the level of fit.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Player → Brian De Palma. The through-the-window phone call scene is called an Altman dunk on De Palma.
“It's it's like, it's a, it's a total dunk on diploma.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:33:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (star power): Bruce Willis → Pulp Fiction. Willis's star stamp as Butch is a big reason Pulp Fiction became Pulp Fiction.
“a big reason pulp fiction became pulp fiction is because a big movie star Bruce Willis put his stamp on it to play Butch.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
people (early collaborator): Bruce Willis → M. Night Shyamalan. Willis took a risk on then-unknown Shyamalan and kept working with him.
“He's in the 6th sense with a little known filmmaker named M Night Shyamalan, who he went on to work with all the time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
people (self-aware cameo): Bruce Willis → The Player. He played himself in The Player 30 years before Ocean's 12.
“he did the same thing 30 years before that in the player.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
theme (persona blend): Bruce Willis → Paul Newman. Willis split the difference between Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman as persona.
“it seems like he's trying to split the difference between like Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman in terms of the persona.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:11:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
craft (stunt tone): Die Hard 2 → Fast & Furious. McClane's crazier stunts here put the movie in the Fast and Furious camp.
“he has a couple of the craziest stunts, almost like in the Fast and Furious camp.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (prior casting): Dennis Franz → Brian De Palma. Franz had been playing cops in De Palma movies in the 80s and this role riffs on that.
“he had been playing cops into Palma movies in the 80s, and it's kind of a riff on that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career setup): Dennis Franz → NYPD Blue. Franz's cop role here sets up NYPD Blue a few years later.
“there's no doubt that, I mean, NYPD Blue is, what, 3 or 4 years later.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
career (later career): Franco Nero → John Wick: Chapter 2. Nero later reappears in John Wick 2, and in Django Unchained because he played the original Django.
“he shows up in Django and Chain because he played the original Django in the Italian movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
people (that guy recognition): Don Harvey → Eight Men Out. Chris recognizes Don Harvey from Eight Men Out, as a scarier William Forsythe.
“Don Harvey is like, you can't get like sociopath William Forsyth.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (later career): Mark Boone Junior → Sons of Anarchy. Boone is a Special Forces guy here and later goes on to Sons of Anarchy.
“he winds up going on to be in Sons of Anarchy and stuff.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (favorite of director): Renny Harlin → The Long Kiss Goodnight. Fennessey's favorite Harlin is Long Kiss Goodnight, though Die Hard 2 is his Apex Mountain.
“My favorite is Long Kiss Good Night.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
verdict (best known for): Renny Harlin → Deep Blue Sea. Fennessey thinks Harlin may be best known now for Deep Blue Sea.
“he might actually be best known for Deep Blue Sea at this point.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career setback): Renny Harlin → Cutthroat Island. Cutthroat Island is the huge bomb that pulled Harlin down.
“cutthroat Island is kind of the movie that pulled him down.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 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): 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)
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)
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)

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fun, about John Travolta: Travolta's directorial debut: a 62-minute movie about the first time he flew on a plane; the speaker saw him wear a beret to every Cannes screening.
“he wore a beret to every single screening of the film.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Domestic Disturbance: Becker's DVD commentary: Becker narrates the boats, praises credits designer Michael Hogarth, and never acknowledges the fiasco or bar fight.
“I watched the commentary with Harold Becker, which was apparently terrible. is a disaster.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:47:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Domestic Disturbance: The police work: a reverse image search on Rick's photo would end the movie; modern tech killed the From Hell cycle.
“I just feel like reverse image search alone on a photo of Rick just ends this whole thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Scorsese was the one who got hired after Paramount killed The Last Temptation of Christ; Aidan Quinn was to play Jesus and Harvey Keitel Judas; a Catholic letter campaign sent 500 letters a day.
“they get 500 letters a day?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Life Lessons: Underrated Scorsese: his segment of the New York Stories omnibus with Nick Nolte and Rosanna Arquette beats Coppola and Woody Allen.
“Scorsese is by far the best to me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Categories 'most rewatchable scene': the second diner conversation with Marcy and 'surrender Dorothy'; Marcy's death with the arrow sign; the phone-number bit.
“He loved to watch the Wizard of Oz over and over again, surrender Dorothy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Joseph Minion: The writer wrote the script as a film-school senior thesis at 21; much of the first half is his, the back half 'Scorseseized.' Original titles: Lies and One Night in Soho.
“It was his senior thesis when he was in film school”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Fran Lebowitz / After Hours: On the Blu-ray, Lebowitz tells Scorsese the cab that takes off nails the 1980s shift from family-man cabbies to lead-footed maniacs.
“She said, you nailed it because at that time, there was a change in New York.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Best needle drop: Peggy Lee's 'Is That All There Is?' over the Monkees, Joni Mitchell, and Bad Brains' 'Pay to Cum.'
“But I think the winner is, is that all there is by Peggy Lee?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Scorsese's decades: Hot take: his 80s (Raging Bull, King of Comedy, After Hours, Color of Money, Last Temptation, Life Lessons) beat his 90s and maybe his 70s; top 3 is Goodfellas, King of Comedy and After Hours.
“his 80s are better than his 90s and maybe even better than his 70s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Pee-wee, Tim Burton: Burton hot take: all-time genius from 1985 to 2000, then not; theory that his hair impinged on his brain.
“I think his hair just got really heavy and it started impinging on his brain.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:14:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Linda Fiorentino: The Last Seduction was sold to HBO when it couldn't get theaters, then ran its awards campaign and was ruled ineligible, the year Jessica Lange won for Blue Sky.
“And that was the year Jessica Lang won for Blue Sky, which had been made 4 years earlier.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Marcy: Clever detail: she overdoses on Seconal, which killed Judy Garland, star of The Wizard of Oz.
“she overdoses on secondal, which is what Judy Garland overdosed on”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about After Hours: Timeline unanswerable question: he leaves at 11:30, reaches Marcy at 12:15, a clock says 4:10, and he is back at the office around 6:30 to 7:15 with a vacuum running.
“The number one giveaway is that someone is vacuuming in the office when he gets there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Scorsese / hosts: Sean's verdict: a hinge movie, less fun than Color of Money but admired more; Jack Sanders says 5-star masterpiece and the best pace of any director.
“It's just a hinge movie for him, you know?”
The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:41:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Heather Graham: Details cover in gold paint; speaker pinned the trifold to his wall for three years.
“pinned it to my wall.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Christopher Plummer: Plummer plays Mike Wallace not as an impression but as Plummer interpreting Wallace, with the pointing fingers and no prosthetics.
“he is just doing Christopher Plummer interpreting Mike Wallace.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:47:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Wings Hauser: Wings Hauser had five low-budget movies before The Insider and was Jonesy on 90210, a weird casting at that career moment.
“It was just a weird casting.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about The Insider: Most 1999 moment: Pacino and Crowe faxing, payphones, and the New York Times in the lobby; plus the offhanded Ken Starr reference.
“I have Pacino and Crow faxing back and forth.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:56:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about The Insider: The movie was originally called Man of the People; Roth and Mann wrote the first draft at the bar of the Broadway Deli in Santa Monica.
“Roth and Mann wrote the 1st draft of the screenplay at the Broadway deli in Santa Monica”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mike Wallace: Mike Wallace detested the movie, and Don Hewitt criticized it in Page Six; Mann met Hewitt in the elevator of their shared building and Hewitt said 'that fucking Lil Bergman.'
“Hewitt had been criticizing the movie in page 6 throughout the production.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about A Bronx Tale: Nitpicks: the cops are at C's apartment seconds after the murder; 50 witnesses yet the nine-year-old is the star witness; C's mother and the baby sister vanish; why the Satan's Messengers are in the Bronx; who planted the car bomb.
“Who plants the car bomb?”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert Altman: Wesley points to Mitchell Zuckoff's oral biography as where to start; it tells how Altman could be a terror and a menace.
“the oral biography that Mitchell Zukov did in 2009, that features a lot of stories of how he could really be a terror.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:26:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Player opening scene: The pitches within the opening are a Russian doll: Joan Tewkesbury and Alan Rudolph pitch, and Rudolph just directed Bruce Willis in Mortal Thoughts.
“He had just directed Bruce Willis in Mortal Thoughts the year before that.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Fred Ward: In the opening, the executive talking Touch of Evil's tracking shot then admits he never watches foreign films, never seen The Sheltering Sky.
“He's never seen sheltering sky.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:36:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Whoopi Goldberg: Whoopi's tampon scene and her mini moments: lifting the Academy Award a year after winning for Ghost, and pushing a witness to pick number 3 in the lineup.
“she picks up the Academy Award and holds it and she's like, oh, this is heavy.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:49:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Brion James: The 48 Hrs. sequel making this guy the Iceman annoys Sean because it retroactively changes the first movie.
“Which is the most annoying sequel thing that has ever happened to me in a movie ever because it actually changes the way you watch the 1st 48 hours.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:55:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about The Player running bit: Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie; in 2022 the hosts still say Julia Roberts for everything, and Zendaya/Chalamet/Tom Holland for now.
“I feel like it's still Julia Roberts for everything.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:58:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Leah Ayres: Best that-guy winner: nobody knew the Bloodsport love interest's name.
“Nobody knows the blood sport lady's name.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:16:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Player: Nitpick: the LA Times has suspects and evidence of the Kahane murder by morning, only hours later; Even Tokyo Vice does not work that fast.
“Even Tokyo Vice doesn't work this fast.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:34:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Player memorabilia: Sean wants the M poster from Griffin's office; Wesley would want a double-breasted suit; Bill wants Whoopi's clogs.
“I mean, the M poster, the Fritz Long movie, I think, is probably like the, that's the movie I like the most that is featured.”
The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:44:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Die Hard 2: Best quote: McClane's self-aware line about the same thing happening twice, later sampled in Positive K's 'I Got a Man'.
“How does the same shit happen to the same guy twice?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Die Hard 2: Casting what-if: McTiernan was supposed to direct but committed to Red October; the hosts think Harlin did a good job, with a goofier, grander tone.
“He just has like a slightly different tone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Die Hard 2: Taser first: a comedic taser may have first appeared in this movie, but it is not the Apex Mountain, which is The Hangover.
“Not before this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:49 · Sean Fennessey (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: 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 Ang Lee: Lee's philosophy: movies are sight and sound, not language.
“movies are sight and sound.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about The Ice Storm: Ryan loves the film's dark, funny undercurrent: it is a satire with tragedy.
“It's got a really dark, funny undercurrent to it that you kind of have to give yourself over to.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Ice Storm: Fennessey notes the opening reading of the Fantastic Four as nearly announcing its theme: four family members at the end.
“you have a character open the movie reading the Fantastic Four.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about The Ice Storm: The kids' trance in front of the television shows mass media taking over minds.
“the hypnotic power of television.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Ice Storm: Ryan on the key party's fumbling: everyone is scared or confused except Jenny.
“the funny thing about the key party to me is just how fumbling it is.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Ice Storm: Rewatchable scene: the Nixon mask scene is one of the most unnerving in a non-horror film.
“It's one of the most unnerving scenes in a non-horror movie in film history.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Ice Storm: Key party rules: no solos, no reverends, no sons or daughters with the parents.
“rule number one would be no solos at the key party.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Color of Money: In the script, the song Vince dances to is James Brown, not Warren Zevon.
“Well, in the script itself, it's James Brown.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Grady Seasons scene: When it goes sideways in the Grady Seasons segment, Scorsese runs the blues soundtrack in reverse to show things spinning out of control.
“he literally runs the audio backwards.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
fun, about The Color of Money: Helen Shaver's character was added late before filming because they worried Eddie's fascination with Vincent could be misread; that's why she's in only a few scenes.
“they got worried that Eddie's relationship slash fascination with Vincent might be misinterpreted”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The ending: Sean defends not showing the final match; 'mic drop' last line with freeze frame. 16-year-old Bill was furious.
“hey, I'm back.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Most rewatchable scene: The 'He's not gone, he's never gone' freakout then opening the door onto Bob was both the trailer's hook and Sean's favorite scene.
“My favorite scene is definitely Dreyfuss just blowing his top and doing the he's not gone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:35:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Casting what-if: Woody Allen: Woody Allen was approached to play Dr. Marvin and possibly direct and co-write; the hosts reject it as too much neurosis on screen.
“It's too much neurosis on the screen.”
The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:47:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Fran Brill / Frank Oz: The sister is played by Fran Brill, a famed Sesame Street and Muppets puppeteer, in the film because she is friends with director Frank Oz (Miss Piggy, Yoda), which is why puppets show up.
“She's one of the Sesame Street and Muppets people”
The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:52:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Thief: Frank's collage as Pinterest, with an NFT joke.
“So does Michael Mann know that he invented Pinterest?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Michael Mann: Mann drives around looking at bridges and water.
“I would drive around and I would look at things.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Heat: Thief and Heat meeting: Caan told Pacino 'you fucker, that was my movie'; leftover scenes went to Heat.
“I said, you fucker, that was my movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Se7en (Pitt/Fincher commentary): The commentary mixes a Fincher-Pitt track with Freeman's solo track; Fincher and Pitt are mischievous and love McGinley's first shot.
“those 2 guys are hilarious together because they're old friends”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Se7en (SWAT scene): The SWAT actors were not told the starving victim would cough, so their startled reaction is authentic.
“So apparently, they didn't tell the actors playing the SWAT team that that guy was going to cough.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kevin Spacey: Fincher calls Spacey an instrument, a weapon in the movie.
“Fincher calls him an instrument.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:42:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Se7en (credits): Fincher wanted the title sequence to look like a serial killer made it; the books were real and cost $15,000.
“Fincher wanted to make them look like a serial killer was doing the credits, basically.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Se7en (Somerset): Somerset hang bit: a Jets, Knicks, Rangers fan still mad about the Charles Smith game, with a joyless take on the Spurs.
“Somerset has no joy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Lorne Michaels: Michaels's drug advice recalled in a Chase oral history: rotate them, and coke is God's way of telling you that you have too much money.
“Lauren used to say that coke was God's way of telling you that you have too much money.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Fletch: Fletch runs an hour 37, almost the perfect length for cable with commercials, and there are no bad scenes in the movie.
“It's almost like they made the absolute perfect length of a movie to have commercials.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Nitpick: Bill's complaint that a senior cut day with no beer or joint is too innocent, and Sean's retort that the museum, Wrigley, and a Ferrari day is amazing. Chris calls it the most innocent cut day possible.
“Your dirtbag ethics have nothing to do with what makes Ferris Bueller beautiful.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean wins the most-rewatchable scene pick: Cliff on the roof in the Bruce Lee scene, which he looked forward to most on his third viewing.
“I'm going with Cliff on the roof in the Bruce Lee scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:39:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Mad magazine: Tarantino made a full-length faux Mad magazine just for a framed prop.
“Let's do 50 pages that nobody will see about Mad magazine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Skyfall: The rat speech: Silva's monologue ends the first act rather than the movie.
“But this one is like, it's just playwriting.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Javier Bardem: He is called the greatest Bond girl.
“Javier Birdem is the greatest bond girl.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:31:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Naomie Harris: Stray tone: Moneypenny banter in a depressed film.
“It's like everyone's really depressed.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:56:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Skyfall: Casting what-if: Connery as Kincade rejected; Spacey approached for Mallory.
“I think Kevin Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Skyfall: Award for overacting goes to the boat captain, because the group will not name Bardem.
“How about we give it to the boat captain who sticks his head and is like, we should push off?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:05:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about James Bond series: Stunt-casting what-if: a Bond Netflix show would mean movies are dead.
“that how we know movies are dead. If Bond goes to Netflix.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:28:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Judi Dench: Most screen time of any M in the series.
“I read that this is the most screen time by far that Em ever had in a movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:31:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Smiley / Roger Guenveur Smith: Smiley was not in the original script; Roger Guenveur Smith lived around the corner and begged on set every day until Spike wrote him in.
“because Roger Guinevere Smith, who knew Spike, and lived on around the corner in Bed Sty, came to the set every day and begged and begged and begged and begged to be in the movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:29:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
fun, about Show format: Episode confirmed to feature only Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris; Bill Simmons is not heard, though Sean says they will have to work on Bill to get Scorsese's After Hours and King of Comedy made Rewatchables.
“We're going to have to work on Bill to get those to be rewatchables.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:33:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Final sequence: The only time Spike ever storyboarded: Spike and Dickerson storyboarded everything from Smiley, Buggin Out, and Radio Raheem entering the pizzeria to the end.
“And I think it might be the only example in Spike's history of where he storyboarded.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:44:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Fight the Power: The song appears in the movie over 20 times, per Sean.
“Fight the power appears in this movie over 20 times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:48:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Tarantino: Sean says Tarantino took two things from the movie: a line that reappears in Reservoir Dogs, and the Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance.
“I think that Spike, and he's never said this, but I think Spike is like, this dude ripped me off a couple of times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Rosie Perez nude scene: Rosie Perez has said the nude scene's atmosphere was wrong and she was crying; Sean lists it, with her function in the movie, as what aged worst.
“That's obviously not how you want to make a movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about John Savage / Larry Bird jersey: Savage claims his sister dated Larry Bird and Bird gave him the shirt; Spike debunked it on a featurette: he bought it in a store and gave it to costume designer Ruth Carter.
“that is an untrue story because Spike bought that shirt in a store, gave it to Ruthie Carter”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
fun, about Do the Right Thing production: Shot entirely on Stuyvesant between Quincy and Lexington; the block was repainted red and orange for heat; local crack dealers threatened the crew so Spike hired Fruit of Islam security; Sam Jackson mostly slept.
“So Lee hired fruit of Islam members to provide security.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:08:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Spike Lee: Spike says only white viewers ask whether Mookie did the right thing; in 2016 Air Jordan released a Radio Raheem sneaker.
“Spike remarked that he has only ever been asked by white viewers whether Mookie did the right thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:14:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Joey Pants Award: For the 'that guy' award, Frank Vincent wins because it's always Frank Vincent; Giancarlo Esposito used to win until Breaking Bad; Frankie Faison is the alternative.
“I guess it's Frank Vincent because it's always Frank Vincent.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:21:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Saul Rubinek Award: Sean picks Ruby Dee's Mother Sister, and Wesley is genuinely shocked, as he picked Esposito and loves Mother Sister.
“It's Ruby D.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:21:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Sal's pizza: The props department only had two pizzas, so the production reused them; Turturro was taught to cut with a roller but was seen just airing it. They say it looks like Play-Doh or claymation.
“I only had 2 pizzas.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:33:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about New York vs. California pizza: Sean claims the worst New York pizza beats any food in California; Wesley, a Philadelphian, pushes back with Koreatown. Running argument closes the unanswerable questions segment.
“The worst pizza I've ever had in New York is better than any food I've had in California.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:35:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
fun, about Todd Phillips: Phillips' first student documentary Hated, about punk singer GG Allin, got him an HBO internship; he helped develop Taxicab Confessions there, then made Frat House, later accused of staging scenes.
“It got him an internship at HBO.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about The Hangover: The story is Phillips skipped an upfront check on the first Hangover and took points, earning $50 million on the original alone.
“he did not take a check for ahead of time for the hangover and that he took only points and that he made $50000000”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Snoop Dogg: A four-minute Snoop performance in the film is a good snapshot of Snoop time: Warren G as DJ and Don Magic Juan in tow, rumored trade-off for Starsky & Hutch.
“Warren G is his DJ and it's when he went everywhere with Don Magic Wand.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Old School: The closing credits have a story: Kilborn crashes over a bridge and kills fly-fishing Jeremy Piven, then there are other bits, about 2.5 minutes. Phillips mastered the trick with The Hangover Polaroids, rated number-one closing credits by one host.
“I would say that's for me, that's the number one closing credits of all time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Elisha Cuthbert: Aged-the-worst: Luke Wilson sleeping with a high school girl, who may be 17 or 18. Compared to the Stefania Simonetti situation in The Godfather.
“She's either 17 or 18.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Juliet Lewis: Dion Waiters Award winner (biggest heat check): she is only in two scenes, one the closing credits, and is basically an amateur porn star before amateur porn stars.
“She's basically like an amateur porn star before we even knew there were amateur porn stars.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Old School: Best quote contest: 'Blue, you're my boy!', Frank's earmuffs and 'cockballs' bit, and Mitch's 'Columbus wasn't looking for America' line.
“well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out pretty okay for everyone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Todd Phillips: Who Won the Movie: Todd Phillips, who is arguably bigger than Apatow, is directing Joker, and might be on stage for A Star Is Born; he picks people at the right time.
“he definitely picks people at the right time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about The Godfather: Closing Godfather corrections: Corleone compound is in Long Beach, Sean is a proud North Shore guy, a reader notes Bobby Thompson's home run game on the radio, and a bit about the kids Kay was teaching.
“fuck the southern shore.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Kevin Jarre: First director fired after about a week for falling behind and shooting only wide masters, with no coverage.
“after about a week he was fired when it became clear he didn't know what he was doing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about George P. Cosmatos / Kurt Russell: Russell claimed he effectively directed Tombstone: shot lists the night before and hand gestures on set while the credited director stood in.
“The night before we would shoot, I would give Georgia a shot list.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Kevin Costner: Costner left over the film's focus, then made the competing Wyatt Earp; the group says Tombstone still came out better.
“And so not only did they not have Kevin Costner in the movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Val Kilmer: Kilmer praised Russell for sacrificing his own role energy to save the film.
“He said, I have admiration for Curtis.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Billy Bob Thornton: Reportedly improvised all his dialogue, per Russell.
“Improvised all of his dialogue.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:26:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Tombstone: The closing credits are four minutes of the cast walking in close-ups like a Vanity Fair shoot.
“a vanity fair photo shoot almost.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:35:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Val Kilmer: Kilmer's accent compared to Yosemite Sam reading Oscar Wilde.
“he's like if Yosemite Sam was trying to read Oscar Wilde.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Stephen Lang: Reportedly hammered through the whole movie; the Dion Waiters Award pick.
“who is reportedly actually hammered for the entire, like the entire movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:42:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

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