Sean Fennessey

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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 201–300 of 1,576 claims.

unmapped (archetype successor): Pete Davidson → Chevy Chase. Davidson in his Staten Island movie plays the 2020 version of the wisecracking, can't-be-serious Chase archetype.
“He's basically doing 2020 Chevy Chase in a lot of ways in that movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:22:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (failed remake): Fletch → Kevin Smith. Kevin Smith spent years trying to remake Fletch with Jason Lee; Weinstein said Lee was not a big enough name, Affleck entered, then Bill Lawrence, and it died.
“Harvey Weinstein's like he's not a big enough name.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (critic split): Gene Siskel → Roger Ebert. Siskel understood Chase's detached persona was the point of Fletch; Ebert gave 2.5 stars and wanted a character to invest in.
“Siskel nailed it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
people (casting symmetry): Tim Matheson → Animal House. Otter was written for Chase, so Matheson's Animal House turn is a Chase impression; in Fletch Matheson hunts a lookalike to kill.
“So then when you watch Animal House, Tim Matheson is just doing a Chevy Chase impersonation, it's not actually Chevy Chase.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:38:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (marketing context): Fletch → Beverly Hills Cop. Once Beverly Hills Cop hit, Fletch could be sold as an action comedy with Faltermeyer music and two action sequences.
“as soon as Beverly Hills cop hit, this movie made a lot more sense because you could put 2 big action sequences in it”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:43:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (recommendation): Michael Ritchie → The Candidate. Another Ritchie film, rewatched and still great, streaming everywhere.
“I watched a candidate 2 months ago and it's still great.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:46:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (noir plotting): Fletch → Raymond Chandler. Alan Stanwick's incoherent plan is Raymond Chandler style; Faulkner famously could not get the plot of The Big Sleep out of Chandler.
“It's very Raymond Chandler”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Harold Faltermeyer → Stephanie Mills. Speaker prefers Faltermeyer's score to the Stephanie Mills theme song 'Bit by Bit' that opens Fletch.
“I don't like the Stephanie Mills bit by bit at the beginning.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
unmapped (wardrobe knack): Chevy Chase → Eddie Murphy. Both could wear terrible 80s clothes and look cool, Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, Chase in Fletch.
“him and Eddie Murphy had a real knack for being able to wear absolute dog shit clothes and make them look really cool.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (recast what-if): Dana Wheeler-Nicholson → Elizabeth Shue. Sean says casting Elizabeth Shue or Sharon Stone as Gail Stanwick would make Fletch a thousand times better.
“if you just put Elizabeth Shu or Sharon Stone in this movie, it's a 1000 times better.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:51:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (career origin): Joe Don Baker → Walking Tall. Baker is recognized by people 35 and over from Walking Tall, and later roasted in the MST3K episode Mitchell.
“Yeah, walking tall was kind of a borderline phenomenon when it came out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (character lineage): Alan Ruck → The Breakfast Club. Cameron is an extension of Anthony Michael Hall's Breakfast Club character, with similar anxiety and a near suicide beat.
“Yeah, it's kind of an extension of the Anthony Michael Hall character in Breakfast Club.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (analogy): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones. Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model.
“Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (persona inversion): Matthew Broderick → The Cable Guy. Within ten years Broderick is playing Cameron-like weak men in The Cable Guy, inverting his Ferris persona.
“within 10 years, he's in the cable guy basically just playing Cameron.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
people (typecasting): Alan Ruck → Speed. Spotting Cameron on the bus in Speed was disorienting.
“I was like, what the hell is camera doing on this bus?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career reinvention): Alan Ruck → Succession. Ruck is now best associated with Connor in Succession.
“he's more associated with Connor from succession.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (pop-culture integration): Ferris Bueller's Day Off → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The Star Wars theme and the I Dream of Jeannie song are woven into the film though they do not belong to it.
“literally the I dream of Jeannie song and the Star Wars theme appear in the movie, and those songs don't belong to the movie, and yet they do at the same time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:53:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (archetype): John Cusack → One Crazy Summer. Hoops McCann is another great Cusack high schooler like Ferris.
“Hoops in in one Crazy Summer is kind of a great high school character”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:58:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
people (casting contrast): Jeffrey Jones → Paul Gleason. Jones is more sitcommy like Laurel and Hardy while Gleason is a huge prick; Jones was the right choice for tone.
“Paul Gleason has a different energy than Jeffrey Jones.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (preview): Jennifer Grey → Dirty Dancing. Her karate kicks on Rooney preview Dirty Dancing; the movie that is her Apex Mountain.
“the karate kicks are a little bit of a preview of what's to come in dirty dancing, you know?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:08:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career arc): Brad Pitt → Paul Newman. Pitt's path from heartthrob to weathered roles mirrors Newman's from Hud to The Verdict.
“he always reminds me of Newman, where it's like there's this really, really like heart throb beginning”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career-arc comparison): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → The Verdict. This period of Pitt (Moneyball, OUATIH) is likened to Newman's The Verdict and Color of Money stage.
“once upon a time in Hollywood is, like, almost like verdict, color of Money Newman.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (speech echo): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Scent of a Woman. Marvin's pitch resembles the Top Gun speech in Sleep With Me; the transcript garbles the title.
“That speech he gives is pure Tarantino. Like, that is not that much different than the actual speech”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Casino Royale → Quantum of Solace. Casino Royale sung by Chris Cornell and Quantum by Jack White and Alicia Keys, both strange compared with Adele.
“theme song in Quantum of Solace is sung by Jack White and Alicia Keys, and it's actually quite strange.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:05:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Adele → Skyfall. The Adele song feels both a century old and incredibly modern.
“The Adele song, it feels like it's 100 years old and also incredibly modern”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Roger Deakins → Skyfall. The shot-from-behind-Bond's-shoulder Silva intro is Deakins photography, and the movie is candy for movie nerds.
“The movie is shot by Roger Deakins.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:05:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): John Logan → Rango. Logan wrote one of the speaker's favorite movies, Rango, and Gladiator.
“He wrote one of my favorite movies ever, Rango.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:10:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Peter Morgan → Skyfall. A discarded Morgan script held the blueprint of M as empire stand-in with a rebelling son.
“there was another script for the 23rd movie that was written by Peter Morgan.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Skyfall → Casino Royale. Skyfall is the payoff of the first Craig movie, where Vesper's betrayal shows Bond can feel.
“it's also the ultimate payoff of what starts in the 1st Craig movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:12:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Sean Connery → Daniel Craig. Craig is a legitimately great actor, which wasn't true of most Bonds; Connery hadn't yet built his chops.
“They were great movie performers, but not necessarily great actors.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:17:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Daniel Craig → Tom Cruise. Craig is a fantastic movie runner, maybe number two behind Cruise.
“Daniel Craig, like, is a fantastic movie runner, might be number two behind the cruise.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Skyfall → Austin Powers. Silva's early villain speech inverts the cliche that Austin Powers parodied.
“movies like Austin Powers parodied it till no end”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:30:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Skyfall → Mission: Impossible. Bond now has 'Mission Impossibleitis' of topping set pieces; MI is the action gold standard.
“to me, the gold standard is the Mission Impossible movies on this stuff right now”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Kevin Spacey → Skyfall. Spacey was originally approached to play Mallory because Mendes directed him in American Beauty.
“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)
career (career): Ben Whishaw → The Hour. Whishaw was starring in The Hour at the time of Skyfall.
“this is right when he's starring on that show, the hour, that BBC show”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:59:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Helen McCrory → Peaky Blinders. McCrory goes on to play Polly Shelby in Peaky Blinders.
“Helen McCrory, who goes on to play Polly Shelby in Peaky Blinders plays the minister”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Rory Kinnear → Black Mirror. Most people know Kinnear from Black Mirror; Southcliffe is the better show.
“I would recommend if anybody wants to watch a really great Rory Crunier show, they look up South Cliff.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Tom Hardy → Inception. Hardy would be a Bond pick but won't be the movie-star version of himself outside Inception.
“I would like Tom Hardy to play James Bond.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:16:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Beverly Hills Cop → The Nutty Professor. In BHC he is not the guy of The Nutty Professor; he has not yet morphed into a persona.
“This isn't the guy who was in the nutty professor.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Beverly Hills Cop → Mean Streets. The Detroit opening with the two guys in the truck has a Mean Streets moment that distinguishes it from other 80s blockbusters.
“I love the fact that they just like kind of have this mean streets moment in the beginning of this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:32:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (Oscar snub): Do the Right Thing → Driving Miss Daisy. Driving Miss Daisy won best picture the year Do the Right Thing was not nominated; the snub is the reason the film is remembered in awards history.
“This is, of course, the year that driving Miss Daisy won best picture.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Do the Right Thing → Ernest Dickerson. The speaker calls it one of the most beautifully shot films he has seen, crediting Dickerson's color, weather and tilted camera angles.
“It's one of the most beautifully shot films I've ever seen. Ernest Dickerson.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:12:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (tone contrast): Do the Right Thing → Wedding Crashers. Most Rewatchables picks are quotable fun like Wedding Crashers; this movie is different.
“a lot of the movies we do on this show are like wedding crashers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:16:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
contrast (tone contrast): Do the Right Thing → Beverly Hills Cop. Beverly Hills Cop is a comfort rewatch whose social import is extra-textual; Do the Right Thing is working hard to be important and disrupt comfort.
“it's working hard to be important, and it's working hard to disrupt your feeling of ease and comfort.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
lineage (pseudo-sequel): Red Hook Summer → Do the Right Thing. Mookie reappears delivering for a Sal's that has relocated to Red Hook, though Spike insisted it was not a sequel.
“he made a movie called Red Hook Summer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (critical opposite): Roger Ebert → David Denby. Ebert's Cannes tears and empathy versus Denby's New York magazine scorn; Sean calls Denby's one of the worst pieces of criticism he has read.
“You know, one of the worst pieces of film criticism that I've ever read.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:25:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
unmapped (commercial work): Spike Lee → Michael Jordan. Spike was famous partly via Mars Blackmon and the Michael Jordan commercials, which colored critical reception.
“he was a famous person in part because of Mars Blackman in part because of Michael Jordan and the commercial work that he did.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:25:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (political framing): Joe Klein → David Dinkins. Klein framed the movie as a problem for Dinkins' mayoral campaign, the opposite of Spike's intent.
“The way that Klein positioned it was in opposition to David Dinkin's mayoral campaign.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:27:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
unmapped (joke answer): Do the Right Thing → Steel Magnolias. Joke answer to 'favorite movie' versus the real answer, Do the Right Thing.
“Number one, steel magnolias.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
verdict (best-of-decade contender): Do the Right Thing → Broadcast News. Both come up as perfect movies in the best-movie-of-the-80s conversation.
“Adam, we had a conversation on this show about Broadcast News a few months ago.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:32:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (decade bookend): Raging Bull → Do the Right Thing. Raging Bull (1980) and Do the Right Thing (1989) bookend the decade as New York movies.
“Raging Bull, 1980. Do the right thing, 1989.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:32:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (collaborator): Spike Lee → Ernest Dickerson. Dickerson, Spike's DP here, went on to be a filmmaker without a huge public profile; the two storyboarded the final sequence together.
“him and Dickerson, storyboard, exactly what happens”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:44:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (callback): 25th Hour → Do the Right Thing. 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness.
“There's a 25th hour version of that too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
unmapped (commissioned anthem): Do the Right Thing → Public Enemy. Spike asked Chuck D for an anthem, producing Fight the Power for the film.
“This song was written specifically for the movie because Spike approached Chuck D and said, I need an anthem.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:48:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (influence): Wes Anderson → Do the Right Thing. Direct address to camera (Mr. Senor Love Daddy and the like) was taken up by the whole indie revolution, Wes Anderson most of all.
“Using direct address into the camera as a style, which has been now jacked by basically the whole indie revolution that came after him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
people (feud): Spike Lee → Quentin Tarantino. Sean thinks Spike's long clash with Tarantino is partly because Tarantino took things directly from this movie.
“So there's this longtime clash between Spike and Tarantino.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowed line): Quentin Tarantino → Do the Right Thing. Sean says Tarantino lifted the 'shoot me in a dream, wake up and apologize' line from Do the Right Thing into Reservoir Dogs.
“you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize, which is something that I think Robin Harris says in the movie, which later appears in Reservoir Dogs”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowed speech): True Romance → Do the Right Thing. The Sicilians-and-Moors speech in True Romance echoes what Mookie says to Pino in Sal's.
“Well, Sicilians and and Africans and the Moors in that whole speech that appears in true romance, which is also something that Mookie essentially says to Pino”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:51:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career run): Rosie Perez → Untamed Heart. Rosie Perez is also really good in Untamed Heart opposite Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater.
“She's also really good in that movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:58:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (casting what-if): Robert De Niro → Do the Right Thing. Spike campaigned for De Niro as Sal; Wesley argues his baggage would have tipped the film's equal-weighted balance and made it a different movie.
“Spike Lee campaigned for Robert De Niro as so.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:59:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Ruth Carter → John Savage. Spike bought the Larry Bird jersey in a store and gave it to costume designer Ruth Carter, who gave it to John Savage, debunking Savage's own story.
“Spike bought that shirt in a store, gave it to Ruthie Carter, the costume designer of this movie and the costume designer on many of Spike's movies, and Ruth Carter gave it to John Savage.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Ruth Carter → Spike Lee. Ruth Carter was the costume designer on this movie and on many of Spike's movies.
“the costume designer of this movie and the costume designer on many of Spike's movies”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:05:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (inspiration): Do the Right Thing → Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Shopping for Death. Spike got the idea after seeing the Hitchcock Presents episode where characters theorize hot weather increases violence.
“Spike Lee 1st got the idea for this film after watching the Alfred Hitchcock presents episode shopping for death”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (real-events inspiration): Do the Right Thing → Eleanor Bumpurs. The film was inspired by Howard Beach and Eleanor Bumpers, plus a list of other deaths in 1980s New York.
“It was also inspired, as you mentioned, by the Howard Beach racial incident in Eleanor Bumpers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (double standard): Do the Right Thing → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Spike points out nobody feared audiences leaving Schwarzenegger films to kill people.
“I don't remember people saying people were going to come out of theaters killing people after they watched an Arnold Schwarzenegger film.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
unmapped (same-summer): Do the Right Thing → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Same summer of Batman and sex, lies, and videotape, which also did not make that much money.
“Sex lives and videotape on its way, it didn't make that much money either.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:12:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (moral-panic parallel): Do the Right Thing → Basic Instinct. Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing.
“There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (callback): Inside Man → Do the Right Thing. In Inside Man the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.
“In Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, the police provide Sal's Pizza to the hostages.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:15:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (date movie): Do the Right Thing → Barack and Michelle Obama. The Obamas said they saw it together on their first date.
“And in 2014, the 25th anniversary of the film, Barack and Michelle Obama praised the film and said they went to see it together on their 1st date.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:15:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
verdict (apex debate): Do the Right Thing → 4 Little Girls. Wesley argues 4 Little Girls and other work challenge the claim that Do the Right Thing is the Spike apex; Sean says the screenplay is why this one is, for fiction.
“the reason that I'm saying do the right thing is the apex of his filmmaking.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:17:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
career (later career): Frankie Faison → The Wire. People later know Faison from The Wire and many films.
“who I think people would later know as like a from the wire and a lot of films over the years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:20:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career displacement): Giancarlo Esposito → Breaking Bad. Esposito used to win the Joey Pants Award for 'that guy' until Breaking Bad.
“Used to be the winner of this category.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:20:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (prescient detail): Do the Right Thing → Black Panther. A character holds a Black Panther comic and eats pizza; Sean first noticed it in the age of Coogler.
“Black Panther eat pizza.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:22:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (TV adaptation question): Do the Right Thing → She's Gotta Have It. Asked whether it could work as a 10-episode Netflix show, Wesley says no, noting Spike already made a TV show of She's Gotta Have It.
“As we know, he already made a TV show out of she's got to have it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 1:30:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Reservoir Dogs → Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Sex, Lies and Boys n the Hood are the two festival-born indie films that Reservoir Dogs continues.
“indie-minded festival entries from young people who are going to basically take over Hollywood”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): The Killing → Stanley Kubrick. The Killing let Kubrick leap from B-picture craftsman to the most significant film artist of his time.
“the movie that allowed Kubrick to take the leap from very crafty photographer trying to make his way doing B pictures”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Jean-Pierre Melville. A recommendation for Reservoir Dogs fans: Melville's tough-guy French movies.
“if they like Reservoir Dogs is the movies of Jean-Pierre Melville.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → Le Cercle Rouge. Speaker's favorite Melville tough-guy movie is the one to watch if you love Reservoir Dogs.
“my favorite is Le Circle a Rouge.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career comparison): Will Ferrell → Mike Myers. Ferrell tried Myers' playbook of turning an SNL character into a movie, but never got his Wayne's World.
“He tried to take a character from the show and make a movie out of it, and that was not successful.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (same-era run): Old School → Wedding Crashers. Old School starts the R-rated comedy boom that runs through Wedding Crashers, Superbad, Step Brothers, and The Hangover.
“This sets off an era from 03 all the way through, and the R-rated comedy boom”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (meta-commentary on 80s comedies): Old School → Pineapple Express. Old School and the Apatow-era movies after it are meta commentaries on earlier comedies; Pineapple Express is that generation's Midnight Run or 48 Hrs.
“they're basically trying to make their version of Midnight Run or 48 hours or those kinds of action comedies, thriller comedies from the 80s”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (groundwork): Old School → There's Something About Mary. 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)
people (same director groundwork): Old School → Road Trip. 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)
lineage (creator precursor): Frat House → Old School. 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)
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)
contrast (role inversion): Jeremy Piven → PCU. Piven subverts his PCU older-flunky character by playing the dean.
“he's kind of like subverting his PCU character.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
people (recurring cameo): The Hangover → The Dan Band. The Dan Band also appear in The Hangover and other Phillips movies.
“they're in the hangover, too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (borrowed from): Old School → Life of the Party. 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)
people (stunt casting): Craig Kilborn → Old School. Kilborn was stunt-cast and could not act, delivering lines like Daily Show jokes.
“he's reading his lines like he would read daily show jokes.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
people (same director craft): Old School → The Hangover. Phillips later masters the story-inside-the-credits trick with the Polaroids in The Hangover.
“Todd Phillips, like, masters this with the hangover closing credits.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (sequel wish list): Wayne's World 2 → Old School. Asked which comedy sequel they'd want, Old School 2 beats Wedding Crashers 2; Wayne's World 2 is the great comedy sequel.
“I think is a genius movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
people (character-actor trail): Patrick Fischler → Mulholland Drive. Fischler, the Piven henchman, is the guy telling the diner story in Mulholland Drive.
“What is he's also so memorable in Mulholland Drive, where he tells the story in the diner”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (joke structure): Old School → Fight Club. The Godfather secret in front of Pompeo works like a Fight Club rule about not talking about it outside.
“It's a great, like, fight club joke.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (producing partnership): Todd Phillips → Bradley Cooper. Phillips and Bradley Cooper are producing partners, so Phillips could be on stage if A Star Is Born wins.
“he and Bradley Cooper are producing partners.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
unmapped (hometown): Todd Phillips → Sean Fennessey. Sean and Todd Phillips are both from Long Island's North Shore.
“the person who is also from the North Shore from my hometown is Todd Phillips, director of old school.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (inspiration dispute): Frank Sinatra → The Godfather. Sinatra was mad because Johnny Fontane resembled him and the From Here to Eternity role; Sean denies Fontane is a Sinatra replica.
“Johnny Fontaine is not a replica of Frank Sinatra.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:12:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Kevin Costner → Tombstone. Costner was attached at first and bowed out over the script's focus.
“Disagreed with Kevin Jari over the focus of the film.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Tombstone → Wyatt Earp. Costner left Tombstone over its focus, then made the competing Wyatt Earp, which arrived months later.
“He believed the emphasis should have been on Wyatt Earp rather than the many characters in the script.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (people): Lawrence Kasdan → Wyatt Earp. Costner teamed with Kasdan for the rival Earp picture.
“Bowed out, left the project, teamed up with Lawrence Kazden, who was then still pretty red hot.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (people): Robert Towne → Without Limits. Towne is the Without Limits writer/director.
“Without limits is the Robert Town one.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 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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