Bill Simmons

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–20 of 51 sketches.

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 701–800 of 1,295 claims.

701. career (career): Whoopi Goldberg → Sister Act. Whoopi's 1992 peak: Ghost the year before, Sister Act the same year.

     “She had a great, she had a great 1992.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:32:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
702. career (career): Randall Batinkoff → School Ties. The Player, School Ties and Buffy are Batinkoff's peak trio.

     “The the trio of school Taz Buffy and the player.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:32:46 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
703. contrast (contrast): The Player → Super Pumped. Bill jokes a ten-episode Netflix Player would be Super Pumped; the others say the mystery element makes binging work.

     “But isn't this just called super pumped.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:37:49 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
704. career (career arc): Bruce Willis → Kevin Costner. Both flew close to the sun with hits and then had major bombs.

     “Costner and him, I think, both flew pretty close to the sun with some of their hits and then had some major bombs.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:57 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
705. unmapped (marriage): Bruce Willis → Demi Moore. Their power-couple marriage was a big piece of his fame, and she briefly matched his stardom.

     “That was one of the biggest celebrity couples we had.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
706. lineage (sequel era): Die Hard 2 → Lethal Weapon 2. It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2.

     “it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
707. lineage (source material): Die Hard 2 → 58 Minutes. The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot.

     “Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
708. lineage (real-world inspiration): Die Hard 2 → Manuel Noriega. The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega.

     “there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
709. verdict (box office rank): Die Hard 2 → Home Alone. Die Hard 2 was eighth in 1990 behind Home Alone, Ghost, Dances with Wolves, Pretty Woman.

     “Die Hard two, eighth.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:39 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
710. unmapped (year peers): Die Hard 2 → Back to the Future Part III. Listed with other 1990 top-grossing movies Simmons saw in theaters.

     “I'm 100% sure I saw 13 of them in the theater.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
711. unmapped (critical reception): Die Hard 2 → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave it 3.5 stars and called it bruised-forearm entertainment like Indiana Jones.

     “this is terrific entertainment.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:43 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
712. theme (critic comparison): Die Hard 2 → Indiana Jones series. The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue.

     “this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
713. craft (joke re-edit): Die Hard 2 → Pulp Fiction. Riffing on a re-edit channel, they joke Pulp Fiction could be cut down to Bruce going to get his watch.

     “It'll just be Bruce going to get his watch.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:48 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
714. unmapped (shared that-guy): Die Hard 2 → Total Recall. Robert Costanzo is in both Die Hard 2 and Total Recall.

     “He's in total recall, too.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
715. theme (hero-vs-protege trope): Die Hard 2 → First Blood. Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood.

     “like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
716. unmapped (scheduling conflict): Die Hard 2 → The Hunt for Red October. McTiernan was supposed to direct but had committed to The Hunt for Red October.

     “John McTiernan was supposed to direct this film, but he had committed to the hunt for Red October already”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
717. people (performance influence): Dennis Franz → Heat. Simmons jokes Pacino might have studied Franz to prepare for Vincent Hanna.

     “I almost wonder if Pacino watched France in this movie studying to get ready to play Vincent Hanna.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:17 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
718. unmapped (shared fictional country): Die Hard 2 → Commando. Esperanza is a general of Val Verde, the fictional country from Commando; Commando is the true Val Verde Apex Mountain.

     “Esperanza is actually a general in the country of Valverde, which is the same country used the fictional South American country used in commando.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:58 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
719. unmapped (snowmobile chase): Die Hard 2 → The Living Daylights. For snowmobile chase Apex Mountain they cite The Living Daylights and Reindeer Games.

     “There a great one in the living daylights.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
720. theme (villain comparison): Cliffhanger → Alan Rickman. Lithgow's villain in Cliffhanger is as good as Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber-style bad guy.

     “Lithgow does the Alan Rickman really as good as Alan Rickman in that movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
721. unmapped (villain model): William Stuart → Oliver North. Stuart is modeled as a rip-off villain of Oliver North, the Iran-Contra figure.

     “Oliver North.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
722. unmapped (airport movie): Die Hard 2 → Airplane!. Set-in-an-airport Apex Mountain is either Die Hard 2 or Airplane, with Airport and Planes Trains aged or insufficient.

     “It's either this or airplane, right?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:06 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
723. unmapped (eye stabbing): Die Hard 2 → Single White Female. Icicle eye stab is good but Single White Female's heel is the number one eye stabbing.

     “single white female, the heel and the high is the number one eye stabbing that I can remember.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
724. unmapped (nude Tai Chi): Die Hard 2 → Road House. They propose a debate whether Sadler's fully nude Tai Chi beats Swayze's half-nude Tai Chi in Road House.

     “whether Sadler's fully nude Tai Chi, tops Swayze's half nude Tai Chi in Roadhouse.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
725. unmapped (villain charisma): Die Hard 2 → Die Hard with a Vengeance. Simmons asks if Die Hard 2 is worse because Esperanza lacks the charisma of Rickman or Jeremy Irons.

     “it doesn't have an evil guy as a villain as charismatic as Rickman or John Jeremy Irons?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:36 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
726. unmapped (Christmas movie test): Die Hard 2 → National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Simmons says a real Christmas movie is Christmas Vacation, where Christmas is in every scene, unlike Die Hard 2.

     “A Christmas movie is like National Lampoon's Christmas vacation.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:15:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
727. unmapped (taser comedy): Die Hard 2 → The Hangover. Die Hard 2 may have pioneered comedic taser use but The Hangover is the taser Apex Mountain.

     “Apex Mountain is a hangover.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:53 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
728. what-if (alternate ending): Die Hard 2 → The Rock. Ryan wants the Rock-style fix where the villain is stopped at the last second, with Ed Harris redirecting the rockets.

     “when Ed Harris shoots the rockets at San Francisco and then he like redirects them at the last second.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
729. career (career path): Fred Thompson → The Hunt for Red October. Simmons asks whether Red October and Die Hard 2 made voters want Thompson as a senator.

     “Hunt for October and Die Hard 2 where people just like, let's just vote this guy in.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:31 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
730. theme (theme): Will Smith → Tom Cruise. Smith is hitting a danger point like Tom Cruise jumping on the couch.

     “we have entered Tom Cruise jumping on the couch.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
731. industry (industry): Panic Room → The Godfather. The Academy's anniversary shoehorning (Godfather 50th, Pulp Fiction 28th) was awkward; Pacino and De Niro barely spoke.

     “The weird thing was, like, you have Pacino and De Niro out there, and they don't talk.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
732. theme (theme): Will Smith → Chris Rock. The slap hit two people the hosts have history with, like two uncles fistfighting at Thanksgiving.

     “It was like watching 2 of your uncles getting a fistfight at Thanksgiving table or something.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
733. contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Fight Club. Fincher assumed a one-location film would be easier than Fight Club's 400 scenes in 100 locations; it was harder.

     “He does Fight Club and it's an insane movie to make, I think he said, Fight Club at 400 scenes in 100 locations.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
734. contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Leighton Meester. Without Foster and Fincher it's the movie on Netflix once a month with Leighton Meester.

     “But there's a version of this movie that is on Netflix once a month.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
735. lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Rear Window. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.

     “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
736. lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Straw Dogs. Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).

     “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
737. industry (industry): Panic Room → Home Alone. Fincher worried Home Alone would overshadow his film.

     “He was concerned that Home Alone would overshadow it, but he's pretty traumatized after this movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
738. contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Shining. Also a single-house movie, but The Shining's characters at least get to run through a maze.

     “They probably had the same kind of problem on the shining. That's all in one house, but at least they get out.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
739. career (career): David Fincher → House of Cards. Fincher's eight-year run includes the first two episodes and pilot of House of Cards.

     “House of Cards creates the 1st 2 episodes.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:19 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
740. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Angelina Jolie. The part is an attractive-badass Angelina Jolie type; Jolie was reportedly considered.

     “It's like an Angelina Jolie part almost, which is interesting because I think they considered Angelina for this.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:07 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
741. career (career): Panic Room → Contact. Foster came into Panic Room off a dry run that included Contact, which Bill calls awful.

     “contact, which is an awful movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:29 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
742. verdict (verdict): Contact → Panic Room. Bill's take in 1997: Contact was disappointing and Foster and McConaughey had no chemistry.

     “Matthew McConey and Jody Foster had no chemistry at all.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:06 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
743. career (career): Jodie Foster → Flight Plan. Panic Room gave Foster a second wave: Flight Plan, Inside Man and one more run.

     “This got kind of a 2nd wave for her where she ends up in flight plan and Inside Man and one more run.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
744. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Sandra Bullock. Ten actresses could have played the part; Sandra Bullock easily.

     “Like Sandra Bullock easily could have been in this movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
745. programming (programming): Panic Room → Bird Box. Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version.

     “But I think this is the really well-done version of it.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
746. career (career): Jodie Foster → The Devil Wears Prada. Bill wonders if Foster had a Meryl Streep/Devil Wears Prada pop-culture moment in her.

     “Yeah, I wonder, like, did she have a devil wears Prada, Meryl Streep moment in her?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
747. what-if (what-if): Sean Penn → The Game. Foster dropped out of The Game and Sean Penn went in.

     “and then they put Sean Penn in there.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
748. industry (industry): Michael Douglas → The Game. Michael Douglas wanted the character to have a brother, not a sister.

     “I think Michael Douglas wanted the character to have a brother, not a sister.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
749. industry (industry): Jodie Foster → Flora Plum. Foster was free because Flora Plum, which she was directing, shut down when Russell Crowe was injured.

     “She was directing some movie called Flora Plum, where Russell Crowe got injured, left the project, production shut down”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
750. industry (industry): Panic Room → Joe Eszterhas. A record script sale, like Eszterhas's and Shane Black's, which Bill wants a Movie-Reference site for.

     “didn't Joe Esterhouse have that once for basic instinct and him and Shane Black.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
751. programming (programming): Panic Room → The Social Network. Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie.

     “Like social network, perfect date movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
752. industry (industry): Panic Room → Spider-Man. 2002 box office: Panic Room made $96M domestically in a year when things changed, a Spider-Man year.

     “but also the year when things change, because this is a Spider-Man year.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
753. verdict (verdict): Panic Room → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave Panic Room 3 stars and called Fincher a visual virtuoso and Foster spellbinding.

     “All right, Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
754. people (people): Jared Leto → Iverson. Leto's cornrows make him an homage to Iverson.

     “Jared Leto is essentially like the an homage to Iverson in this movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
755. lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Don't Breathe. Home-invasion variants take senses away from the victim.

     “What was don't breathe?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
756. theme (theme): Panic Room → Heat. Bearer bonds and heist logic: Bill pitches a Michael Mann movie where robbers reveal the take by mistake.

     “We have to have a thing where the robbers mistakenly reveal how much they were actually getting versus...”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:29 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
757. people (people): Forest Whitaker → Jeff Green. Bill compares Whitaker's career to Jeff Green's: always popping up.

     “like the Jeff Green of actors.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
758. career (career): Forest Whitaker → First Daughter. Whitaker passed on directing Panic Room because he needed to prep First Daughter, though he wanted to act in it.

     “And he passed on panic room.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:20 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
759. contrast (contrast): Will Smith → Jared Leto. Joke: Will Smith punching Leto would have been a big deal since Leto is tiny.

     “Will Smith punching Jared Leto would have been a big deal.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
760. what-if (what-if): Dwight Yoakam → Maynard. Maynard was first choice for Raoul; Fincher had just directed his band's Judith video. Yoakam was number two.

     “Fincher had just directed the video for Perfect Circles Judith, which is an awesome song and an awesome video.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
761. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Anthony Hopkins. Bill would cast Hopkins as the ex-husband; Jodie owes him, she won him an Oscar.

     “Have him played by Anthony Hopkins.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
762. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Ted Levine. Ted Levine in the Yoakam part.

     “Ted Levine in the Dwight Yoakam part.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:55 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
763. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Heat. They run through the cast of Heat for Raoul: Pacino, De Niro, Rollins, Sizemore, Val Kilmer, Wes Studi, Voight; Sizemore is the answer.

     “Let's just run through the entire cast of heat and decide who could play Raul.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:17:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
764. craft (craft): Arthur Max → Panic Room. Max's production design team built the four-story brownstone set in 15 weeks for $6 million.

     “Arthur Max, production design team, took 15 weeks, $6000000 on Raleigh Studios, and lovely Hollywood.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
765. craft (craft): David Fincher → Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh warned Fincher that his operator-less camera plan would drive him insane, and he was right.

     “Soderberg was like, this is going to drive you insane if you do it this way?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
766. theme (theme): Panic Room → Steel Magnolias. Apex Mountain for diabetes in a movie: Steel Magnolias came up and was not enough.

     “wasn't wasn't Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias diabetic?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
767. contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Halloween. Michael Myers energy joke: Foster gets up fresh after falling down two flights of stairs.

     “So Michael Myers energy going on there.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
768. people (people): Andrew Kevin Walker → Seven. The Panic Room neighbor actor is the writer of Se7en.

     “And did you know that the guy who plays the neighbor is Andrew Kevin Walker, a guy who wrote seven?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
769. programming (programming): Panic Room → Succession. As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession.

     “but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
770. industry (industry): The Ice Storm → LA Confidential, Titanic, Good Will Hunting, Boogie Nights (1997 slate). Simmons says a late-1997 run of adult-oriented movies shows how different Hollywood was; today The Ice Storm would be an eight-episode Hulu series.

     “if the ice storm is made now, it's a freaking 8 episode Hulu thing and it sucks.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:27 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
771. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → The Brady Bunch Movie. Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm.

     “They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
772. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → Nixon. Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon.

     “So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
773. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → The Doors. Simmons ties The Doors (1991) to the era of re-examining 60s and 70s figures in the most fun way.

     “the doors, which we did in the rewatchables, that came out like 91”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
774. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Forrest Gump. Simmons calls Forrest Gump the old-school nostalgia version, like karaoke, before filmmakers dug deeper.

     “It's like nostalgic karaoke, basically.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:06 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
775. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → Mad Men. Kevin Kline's out-of-step character parallels late-series Don Draper, uncool as the 70s change.

     “that's basically the Kevin Klein character in this, right?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
776. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Boogie Nights. The key party built hype like Boogie Nights' reveal, the thing the audience waits for.

     “boogie nights is the same year and that had a whole thing about he's got a huge slong”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
777. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Jaws. Simmons says the key party became the movie's marketing hook, like the shark in Jaws.

     “it's kind of became like Jaws where it's like, 0 my god, what's this thing going to look like?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
778. industry (industry): The Ice Storm → Deep Throat. Simmons sets the key party against eras of porn access, from Deep Throat in theaters to video stores.

     “deep throw comes out a year before, right?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
779. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Brokeback Mountain. Simmons says the two films share a vibe: sparse dialogue and the way Lee advances story and sets scenery.

     “They have no relation to each other at all.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
780. verdict (verdict): Roger Ebert → The Ice Storm. Ebert gave it four stars as satirical, funny and observant; Siskel also loved it.

     “Four stars for this one.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
781. verdict (verdict): Gene Siskel → The Ice Storm. Siskel named it his favorite movie of 1997.

     “It was Cisco's favorite movie of 97.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
782. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → Kramer vs. Kramer. Both belong to Fucked Up Family February and trade on unspoken tension rather than action.

     “We were talking about last week with Kramer versus Kramer”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
783. programming (programming): The Ice Storm → Swingtown (TV). Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax.

     “That show has to be on Cinemax.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
784. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Mad Men. Simmons notes Mad Men never had a key party, just chronic adultery.

     “Mad men never had the key party, right?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:22 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
785. people (people): Kevin Kline → Sigourney Weaver. They played the president and first lady four years earlier (in Dave) and here are a 70s adultery couple.

     “who played the president and the 1st lady 4 years earlier”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:02 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
786. career (career): Tobey Maguire → Pleasantville. Simmons says Ice Storm led to Pleasantville and to Maguire becoming a thing.

     “But Toby, this led to Pleasantville and Toby becoming a thing.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:39 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
787. career (career): Katie Holmes → Dawson's Creek (TV). Holmes went from her first film role here to Dawson's Creek, Disturbing Behavior, and Teaching Mrs. Tingle.

     “Dawson's Creek, Disturbing behavior.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:53 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
788. verdict (verdict): Kim Basinger → LA Confidential. Basinger won Best Supporting Actress that year; Simmons rates it 5 out of 10.

     “Kim Basinger won for LA Confidential.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:04 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
789. what-if (what-if): Harrison Ford → Kevin Kline. Bill floats Ford for Kline's role, then notes his sex scenes are always stressed-out.

     “How about Harrison Ford instead of coin?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:04:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
790. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Presumed Innocent. Simmons notes Harrison Ford sex scenes (Presumed Innocent, Witness, Frantic) are stressed-out sex.

     “it's a lot of like, I'm really stressed out sex.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:04:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
791. what-if (what-if): Jeff Bridges → Jamey Sheridan. A bigger star like Jeff Bridges or Nick Nolte in Sheridan's role would make the cast an event.

     “If that was like Jeff Bridges, you'd be like, oh, wow, this movie has a fucking event.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:42 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
792. programming (programming): Brokeback Mountain → The Ice Storm. Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023.

     “Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
793. career (career): Joan Allen → The Bourne Supremacy. Simmons argues her apex is Bourne, 2004, as Pamela Landy in the biggest action franchise.

     “You don't think it's 04 where she's Pamela Landy in like the biggest action franchise in the world?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:10:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
794. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → After Hours. Simmons asks whether any movie character had a worse night than Jim Carver and cites After Hours.

     “Griffin Dunn in after hours or in competition for worse than true.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:21:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
795. industry (industry): The Ice Storm → The Full Monty. Weaver blamed Titanic and The Full Monty for taking art-house audiences from the film.

     “the other movie that she thought really undercut it was the full Monty.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:46 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
796. industry (industry): The Ice Storm → American Beauty. Simmons thinks American Beauty blocked Ice Storm from a second wind; a B-grade version of it.

     “I always felt like American beauty kind of blocked this movie from having any kind of 2nd wind.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
797. industry (industry): Miami Vice → Michael Mann. Simmons and Ryan joke that their persistence made the Miami Vice movie beloved.

     “made the Miami Vice, the movie, um, more powerful than the TV show”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
798. programming (programming): The Ice Storm → Pulp Fiction. Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction.

     “I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
799. theme (era / Cold War): Miracle → Rocky IV. The Cold War movies led up to Rocky IV, which Simmons jokes ended the Cold War.

     “all the Cold War movies were leading to Rocky 4 and Rocky finally ending the Cold War single-handedly”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:10:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
800. what-if (casting what-if): Kurt Russell → Kevin Costner. Costner would overpower the part.

     “Costner, I think he overpowers it.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

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Showing 301–400 of 677 fun items.

301. fun, about Beverly Hills Cop II: Trivia: the license plate 2GAT123 is apparently the license-plate equivalent of the 555 phone number, appearing in other LA stories.

     “is apparently the license plate equivalent of the 555 phone number.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:53:54 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
302. fun, about Eddie Murphy: Foley never keeps money in the movie: he hands the $20, $50 and $200 to others, so he never actually takes money.

     “So he never actually takes money in this movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:54:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
303. fun, about Brigitte Nielsen: Nielsen, who had affairs with Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Tony Scott, Mark Gastineau and Flavor Flav, is called a rainbow of romances.

     “It's quite a rainbow of people.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:55:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
304. fun, about Beverly Hills Cop II: Who won the movie: Rosewood and Taggart or Tony Scott can make cases, but the answer is Eddie Murphy.

     “Now, the answer is Eddie Murphy, but you're right.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:02:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
305. fun, about Beverly Hills Cop II: Double-feature style pitch: Axel is brought to LA as a consultant on a cop movie and discovers it is laundering drug money. Simmons adds Don Simpson with a giant pile of cocaine.

     “Then we could have just had Don Simpson in the movie with a giant pile of cocaine.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:05:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
306. fun, about Popeye: Bill's first Altman movie in a theater was Popeye with his dad; it fucking sucked and he never saw another after that.

     “But the 1st album movie I saw in the theater was Popeye.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:11:22 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
307. fun, about Robert Altman: Studio offered full financing if Altman got a bigger star than Tim Robbins; he told them off and self-financed, hence Spelling Entertainment in the credits.

     “Altman was offered full studio financing of the player if he had a bigger star than Tim Robbins, and Altman said, fuck you”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:30:04 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
308. fun, about The Player cameos: Altman got 65 celebrities to do cameos by saying only that it was about an executive who murders a screenwriter and gets away with it.

     “I only told them, I'm making a film about a studio executive who murders the screenwriter and get away, gets away with it, and they all wanted to be in it.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:30:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
309. fun, about The Player opening shot: The 7:47 opening tracking shot took 15 takes and they used the 10th; it holds the Buck Henry Graduate II pitch and the meta quiet-on-the-set start.

     “The opening scene, 7 minutes, 47 seconds, 15 takes were required.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:34:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
310. fun, about Habeas Corpus (inside The Player): The pitch is no stars, an unknown cast and a depressing ending; a year later it stars Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis with a happy ending.

     “Oh, my God, there's Bruce Willis.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:47:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
311. fun, about Randall Batinkoff: Bill invested in Batinkoff rookie cards, certain he would be the star of his class.

     “I had I had his rookie cards.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:52:53 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
312. fun, about Sydney Pollack: Sydney Pollack in suspenders and no shirt in Eyes Wide Shut is the text-thread photo and the energy Bill says he strives for.

     “That's the energy I'm striving for in my life.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:57:07 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
313. fun, about The Player: The throwaway Pasadena line is called iconic.

     “Come to think of it, Pasadena is as good a place to die as anywhere is just iconic.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
314. fun, about The Player: Every time Griffin Mill enters a bar, restaurant or party he is served a different brand of bottled water.

     “every time Griffin Mill enters a bar restaurant or party, he orders or is served a different brand of bottled water.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:59 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
315. fun, about The Player cast: Patrick Swayze karate moves and Jeff Daniels golfing in a surgeon gown were filmed and cut; Sean has them on his Blu-ray.

     “Patrick Swayze is showing off karate moves that were filmed but cut, but apparently you can find them on Sean's Blu-ray.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:14:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
316. fun, about Vincent D'Onofrio and Greta Scacchi: Six degrees: their daughter Leila George married Sean Penn, whom Tim Robbins directed in Dead Man Walking.

     “They have a daughter named Leila George, who's married to Sean Penn.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:15:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
317. fun, about Greta Scacchi: Scacchi refused nudity after Presumed Innocent, so the sex scene is shot from the neck up; Cynthia Stevenson's nude hot tub scene is the counterpoint.

     “Skocky said no nudity. So that was why they filmed the sex scene from the neck up.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:22:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
318. fun, about Burt Reynolds: Burt Reynolds improvised his bit knowing nothing about Griffin and still played the asshole; assholes identify assholes.

     “Reynolds improvised the scene and knew nothing about Griffin, but still managed to improvise that he was an asshole.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:22:55 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
319. fun, about Paul Newman: Altman reportedly quoted Paul Newman on the Stevenson and Scacchi nude scenes, about not seeing the one you want to see.

     “you don't get to see the tit you want to see and you get to see the ones you don't want to see.”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:23:36 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
320. fun, about Hollywood directors dunking: A proposed spinoff podcast, Total Dunk, where each episode is one scene of a director dunking on another.

     “That would be a good spinoff podcast of the rewatchables, Wesley. You hosting total dunk”

     The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:33:32 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
321. fun, about Die Hard 2: Most rewatchable scene: McClane fights two guys in a restricted baggage area, a cluttered multi-room fight setup nobody does anymore.

     “John fights 2 guys in a security restricted baggage area.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:47 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
322. fun, about Die Hard 2: Most rewatchable: Carmine Lorenzo meets McClane and is unimpressed by the Nakatomi hero; the hosts joke about the Sully equivalent.

     “Yeah, we're not at the Nakatomi building anymore, McQueen.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:59 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
323. fun, about Die Hard 2: The airport SWAT team fails to notice a group of terrorists painting down the hall; Robert Patrick is one of them.

     “Should we should we study these 7 guys randomly painting over there?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
324. fun, about Die Hard 2: The plane crash is the craziest, most horrifying scene in action movies and why the hosts hadn't done the movie; memorable, not rewatchable.

     “I wouldn't call it rewatchable, more like memorable”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
325. fun, about Die Hard 2: Everyone at Dulles keeps drinking after a jet is blown up on the news; they would all go home in real life.

     “everybody at Dulles just has another scotch and hangs out and waits.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:45 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
326. fun, about Die Hard 2: Naked Tai Chi is used as shorthand that the villain is the bad guy; the hosts want to take it back for the good guys.

     “Naked Tai Chi, bad guy.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:56 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
327. fun, about Die Hard 2: Best quote: Stuart's snarl at the reporter, an exchange the hosts want to bring into office life.

     “No pictures, you pinko bitch.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
328. fun, about Die Hard 2: What aged worst: 210 people die and the movie moves on in 2.5 minutes with no grief.

     “comes and goes in 2.5 minutes.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:58 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
329. fun, about Die Hard 2: Trivia: first film to digitally composite live action with a scanned matte painting, used for the runway scene.

     “This was the 1st film to use digitally compositive live action footage with the traditional map painting”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:56:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
330. fun, about Die Hard 2: Trivia: Black & Decker paid for a cordless drill in a Bruce scene, the scene was cut, and they sued Fox for $150,000.

     “Black and Decker paid to have a cordless drill featured in a Bruce Willis scene.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:56:54 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
331. fun, about John Leguizamo: Leguizamo wrote that his role was meant to be much bigger until the filmmakers realized how short he was.

     “his role in this movie was intended to be much larger until the filmmakers realized how short he was.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:14 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
332. fun, about John Amos: Amos said there was real tension with Willis on set.

     “let's just say that he will never humiliate me in public again.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:31 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
333. fun, about Die Hard 2: A wet print: the film was finished so close to release it was shipped to theaters still wet.

     “Wet print means it was just completed right before the release date.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:13 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
334. fun, about Bruce Willis: Bruce's hair here is the last wave of the peninsula at the top before chicanery.

     “I think this was the last wave of when he had like the peninsula at the top.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:04:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
335. fun, about Die Hard 2: Hosts spend four minutes failing to explain the getaway plan and Wikipedia plot; Simmons admits not understanding the movie.

     “the fact that we just spent 4 minutes trying to figure this out tells me maybe they didn't really fully label it.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:10:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
336. fun, about Die Hard 2: Christmas movie debate: Simmons holds firm that Die Hard and Die Hard 2 are not Christmas movies; the others say this captures holiday travel anxiety.

     “In my heart of hearts, it's not a Christmas movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:16:22 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
337. fun, about Die Hard 2: Old widescreen composition made this hard to follow on old TVs; it plays better on modern TVs.

     “it's filmed super wide.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
338. fun, about Will Smith: On the Oscars: Bill says the first 2.5 hours were boring but the slap was the most must-see TV in five years; Kimmel compared it to Tyson biting Holyfield's ear.

     “as soon as that happened, that was the most must see TV thing that has happened in, what, 5 years?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
339. fun, about David Fincher: Fincher's lessons from Panic Room: don't shoot 100 days in one place; he ended up two years in thinking nothing was worth it.

     “And then you end up 2 years into the challenge.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
340. fun, about Jodie Foster: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) is one of the five craziest movies you could ever rewatch; there's a dead person in the basement.

     “which is one of the 5 craziest movies you could ever rewatch.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
341. fun, about Panic Room: Nicole Kidman was first cast as Meg, hurt her knee, and Foster replaced her on a week's notice because her Flora Plum shut down; then Foster got pregnant and production stopped again, which is why it took two years.

     “So this is why this thing takes 2 years.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
342. fun, about Panic Room: Script by David Koepp sold for $4 million, a record; budget $48 million, worldwide gross $197 million.

     “And it sold for 4 million.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
343. fun, about Panic Room: Bill reads Roger Ebert's three-star review (Fincher a visual virtuoso, Foster spellbinding) and asks why not 3.5; the Ebert running gag.

     “Why not 3.5, Rog?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
344. fun, about Jared Leto: Leto's Panic Room cornrows make him 'an homage to Iverson,' and he should have worn a Sixers jersey.

     “Jared Leto is essentially like the an homage to Iverson in this movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
345. fun, about Panic Room: Most rewatchable scene candidates: robbers show up, Jody finds out they're in the house, Jody gets her phone (slow-mo), Leto screws up the safe talk, the switcheroo, the propane-tank sequence.

     “Jody gets her phone.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:15 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
346. fun, about Panic Room: Bearer bonds explainer: bill Googles it; bonds are owned by whoever holds them, so they're 'the original Bitcoin' and a lazy heist-movie staple.

     “So they're like the original Bitcoin.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:00:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
347. fun, about Forest Whitaker: Bill calls him 'the Jeff Green of actors' because of his baffling career: Oscar winner who is also in Taken 3, ER, and a Fast Times linebacker.

     “like the Jeff Green of actors.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
348. fun, about Forest Whitaker: He passed on directing Panic Room, wanting to act in it; he was prepping First Daughter, starring Katie Holmes, which he directed.

     “He also directed 1st daughter starring Katie Holmes.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:15 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
349. fun, about Dwight Yoakam: Casting what-if: Maynard from Tool was first choice for Raoul, the greatest what-if in Rewatchables history; Yoakam was number two.

     “Yokam number 2 choice.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
350. fun, about Panic Room: Kristen Stewart grew more than three inches during shooting, towering over Foster; Bill wants a database of child actors who grew mid-production.

     “Kristen Stewart grew more than 3 inches during the filming.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
351. fun, about Panic Room: The house is 38 West 94th Street, but the brownstone set took 15 weeks and $6 million at Raleigh Studios.

     “The house is located at 38 West 94th Street in New York City.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:19:11 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
352. fun, about David Fincher: Steven Soderbergh warned him the camera plan would drive him insane; Fincher showed it to him and Soderbergh was right.

     “Soderberg was like, this is going to drive you insane if you do it this way?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
353. fun, about Panic Room: Apex Mountain: Panic Room itself is the only nominee; the propane explosion and diabetes get discussed and not crowned.

     “Movies called Panic room.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:24:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
354. fun, about Panic Room: Craig asks about SOS flashlight signaling; leads to Kitty Genovese and the bystander effect and the Halloween neighbor who won't help Jamie Lee.

     “Craig has a question for nitpicks.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
355. fun, about Andrew Kevin Walker: The neighbor in Panic Room is played by Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer of Se7en.

     “And did you know that the guy who plays the neighbor is Andrew Kevin Walker, a guy who wrote seven?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:43 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
356. fun, about The Ice Storm: Simmons says there is hardly any rewatchable scene beyond the key party; it works as a whole.

     “There's really almost no rewatchable scenes other than, um, other than the key party.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
357. fun, about The Ice Storm: The key party was the sales hook of the film, but the last 25 minutes feel like a drill to the head.

     “The last 25 minutes is like being, uh, having a drill put to the side of your head.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
358. fun, about The Ice Storm: Box office: $18 million budget, about $8 million gross, likely the least successful film in the series.

     “I think out of all the movies we've done, this might have been the least successful at the box office.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:48 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
359. fun, about The Ice Storm: Simmons would have wanted the key party to run an hour, or as a two-parter on Hulu.

     “am I wrong to think that could have been an hour of this movie?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:10 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
360. fun, about The Ice Storm: The key party as a sports broadcast: Nance and Romo calling it.

     “I think Nance and Romo.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
361. fun, about The Ice Storm: Nixon haunts the film: poster next to the bed, a speech, and a Nixon mask on the teens.

     “Nixon has a funny relationship to this movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
362. fun, about The Ice Storm: Ryan's Elton John story: a college friend kept replaying Levon, unaware Ryan was home sick.

     “And it became a running joke for 35 years.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
363. fun, about Jamey Sheridan: Aged worst: Jim Carver's premature ejaculation; later jokes recur through the show.

     “his his orgasm aged the worst.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:56:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
364. fun, about The Ice Storm: Simmons casts football analysis: only time the film felt directed by someone who did not grow up in America.

     “That's the only time in the movie that I felt like it was definitely directed by somebody who didn't grow up in America.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:22 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
365. fun, about Michael Cumpsty: The Reverend gets the show's single-guy key party rules debate and a Jed Nelson Award.

     “sometimes the shepherd needs to play with the flock.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:00:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
366. fun, about The Ice Storm: Simmons says Henry Czerny gets the Dion Waiters Award for his look at the key party.

     “that's a great Dion Waiters moment.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
367. fun, about The Ice Storm: Lee said what attracted him to the book was the climax and the family reunion the next morning.

     “the book movement at those 2 points, I knew there was a movie there.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
368. fun, about The Ice Storm: Anachronism: the MTA did not exist at the time, and Marlboro Lights were not invented until 1977.

     “Marlboro Lights, not invented till 1977.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
369. fun, about The Ice Storm: Memorabilia pick: the Nixon mask, Elijah Wood's sweaters, or the key party bowl of keys.

     “It's got to be the Nixon mask, right?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
370. fun, about The Ice Storm: Fucked Up Family February's next-year list: Squid and the Whale, Over the Top, Margot at the Wedding.

     “Over the top was Slice Stallone, the greatest arm wrestling divorce movie ever”

     The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:26:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
371. fun, about Miracle: Simmons listened to the Sweden game on a clock radio; the broadcast was tape delayed and he overheard the score in a grocery store.

     “I swear to God, in my room, in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, I listened to us tie the Sweden game on my clock radio.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:02:25 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
372. fun, about Miracle: Tape delay: a stranger at Star Market blurted the score before the game aired.

     “And we're walking around and we're in like the frozen food aisle, and I hear somebody say, it's 22 after the 2nd period or 2 after the first.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:03:58 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
373. fun, about Miracle: Sports Illustrated's cover after the win had no cover line, just the photo.

     “which I think was only one of 2 covers ever where they didn't have any sort of, uh, any writing on the cover.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:11:29 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
374. fun, about Kurt Russell: The Rewatchables recording: Russell arrived alone, leather jacket, Marlboro Reds, keys on the table.

     “He stinks of Marlborough Reds, who's smoking Siggs.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:19:46 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
375. fun, about Kurt Russell: Russell met Herb Brooks while Brooks recruited his son; Brooks described that year as lonely, which unlocked the script.

     “And him and O'Connor looked at each other and that was when they realized, oh, this is what we have to do.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:21:07 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
376. fun, about Miracle: Most rewatchable: Herb makes the team skate 'again' until Rizzo answers, 'the United States of America'.

     “United States of America!”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:28:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
377. fun, about Ralph Cox: Ralph Cox's cut makes him a famous sports trivia answer, and his mustache is a Slap Shot throwback.

     “he becomes one of the most famous trivia question answers for sports that we've ever had, right?”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:30:03 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
378. fun, about Bill Ranford: Edmonton goalie Bill Ranford doubles for Jim Craig; the mask lets them cheat.

     “So they had Bill Ranford, who was a goalie for a long time for Edmonton.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:37:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
379. fun, about Al Michaels: Michaels re-recorded his narration so the third act is narrated by him; his real last ten seconds call is higher and more excited.

     “His voice is just higher and more excited.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:39:15 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
380. fun, about Ken Dryden: You cannot recreate Ken Dryden interrupting Al Michaels during the real call.

     “Let Al have this.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:39:36 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
381. fun, about Herb Brooks: Brooks died in a car accident before the film came out; the credits say he never saw it.

     “Hurt Brooks died before the movie came out.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:44:41 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
382. fun, about Roger Ebert: Ebert's two-star review mocks the thankless wife role and proposes all workaholic movie leads be bachelors.

     “I propose all future movies about workaholics, just make them bachelors, to spare us the dead air.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:46:33 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
383. fun, about Bill Simmons: Simmons's 2004 ESPN The Magazine column was rewritten by editors because Disney owned both; the new ending was 'by the way, I'm seeing it on Friday.'

     “You can't, like, trash the idea of the movie in your column.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:49:31 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
384. fun, about Jim Craig: The movie shows all 39 saves Jim Craig made in the real game.

     “I think they show all 39 in this movie.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:57:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
385. fun, about Rocky IV: The Pacific Coliseum hosted the Rocky-Drago fight; Stallone broke his ribs and filming paused for two weeks.

     “Stallone broke his ribs in the P in the Agra Done.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:59:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
386. fun, about Miracle: Soviet coach benching Tretiak is the worst coaching decision, compared to benching Mahomes after a first-quarter pick.

     “this is the equivalent of Mahomes throws a pick in the 1st quarter of the round one playoff game”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:00:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
387. fun, about Miracle: Dion Waiters Award nominees: the Soviet coach for three expressions, with Al Michaels floated.

     “he has no lines in the movie”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:01:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
388. fun, about Miracle: Finland gold medal game skipped; Brooks's line to the team before it.

     “if you lose this, you will take this to your fucking graves”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:04:17 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
389. fun, about Miracle: Pitch: remake as a Netflix series ending with the team lost in the woods like Yellowjackets.

     “They crash in Minnesota.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:06:31 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
390. fun, about Miracle: Simmons bought two unripped Lake Placid US-USSR tickets at a collectors convention.

     “I got 2 unripped tickets from the Lake Placid, the US Russia game.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:10:39 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
391. fun, about Steve Martin: Martin gave up stand-up because he was so famous at it that crowds treated him like a jukebox, and he wrote a book about it.

     “they were like jukebox, he became a jukebox.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:15:52 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
392. fun, about Father of the Bride (most rewatchable scene): Annie announces she is getting married at the first family dinner. It sets up all the dynamics, and Steve Martin's expressions and Diane Keaton's welling-up are the payoff.

     “it's got to be that 1st family dinner scene because it sets up all of the dynamics of the movie and everybody's very funny in it.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:14 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
393. fun, about Kieran Culkin: Best 'what ages the best': a child Kieran Culkin in the dinner scene whose face already looks like Roman Roy. Simmons and wife waited for the 8-year-old equivalent of a dick pic scene.

     “It is so fucking hilarious to watch this and think that kid's going to be Roman Roy.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:34 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
394. fun, about San Marino: Both hosts give San Marino, the film's suburb, a best-aged vote; Simmons says it is a secret like Fight Club, with old-school drugstores with ice cream sundaes. The house exteriors are actually in Pasadena.

     “I think San Marino is a little like fight club.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:40:49 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
395. fun, about Father of the Bride (basketball scene): The kid montage into the father-daughter basketball scene set to a Darlene Love song. Simmons grades it an eight against Teen Wolf's one, and notes dads do not play one-on-one with a 5-foot-2 daughter.

     “So if that's a one, this is like an eight, I would say.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:42:13 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
396. fun, about Phoebe Cates: Casting what-if: Phoebe Cates was offered Annie Banks but was pregnant. Simmons says she and Demi Moore would have split the Demi Moore parts.

     “Phoebe Cates. Offered the role of Annie Banks. had to turn it down because she was pregnant.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:53:56 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
397. fun, about George Newbern: Best That Guy (Joey Pants Award) debate: Brian the son-in-law is George Newbern, who has hundreds of credits and over 350 audiobook credits on Audible as of September 2020. Simmons gives him the award over B.D. Wong.

     “As of September 2020, over 350 credits on Audible.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:02 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
398. fun, about George Clooney: Recast-and-catch: George Clooney as the son-in-law, in 1991 Facts of Life mode, which Simmons says would make him a bit more of a threat and make a fun wrinkle.

     “I can't believe George Clooney was the son-in-law, just would have been a fun wrinkle.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:59:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
399. fun, about Tom Irish: Trivia: an actor debuted in the 1950 Father of the Bride and made his last film appearance in the 1991 remake, playing Ben Banks in both.

     “he played the same character in both Ben Banks.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:00:19 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
400. fun, about Father of the Bride (the house): The house exterior is in Pasadena and the rest is sets or another house; the reception house sold for $1.998 million in August 2016. Fans take photos like at the Michael Myers house.

     “It's like the like the Michael Myers house and a bunch of other ones.”

     The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:01:27 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)