Mallory Rubin

5 sketches, 54 claims, and 25 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–5 of 5 sketches.

The Rewatchables: ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin (host)

Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused.

Stances

  • The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film
  • Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's
  • The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene
  • The reboot must stay in Texas
  • Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines

Humor: Wry self-aware fandom, deadpan sports-fan jabs, mock outrage.

In their words

  • “I love a high school football film.” (0:04:56)
  • “What it really is is like the best portrayal of a marriage and the history of TV.” (1:01:11)
  • “It's only Coach Gaines in the climax and I think that tips it forever to Coach Taylor.” (0:47:49)

The Rewatchables: ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins (host)

Drawn to despairing divorce films like Marriage Story, analytic about tone and character psychology, and a Michael Douglas-comedy booster (Hank Pym). Hates cruelty to animals in movies.

Stances

  • Marriage Story is her top divorce ode
  • Gavin is secretly engineering the Roses' war
  • Cruelty to the pets is painful to watch
  • Pushes a Body Heat plus Fatal Attraction plus Roses triple feature

Humor: Mock-solemn legalistic analysis and deadpan Ravens-fan despair.

In their words

  • “Marriage story is my number one of the boundback divorce odes” (0:03:21)
  • “Mallory immediately went into a dark, just horrible despair.” (1:10:22)
  • “I'm going to throw out a conspiracy theory as a hottest take” (0:57:15)
  • “I just would like to talk for another moment if we if we can about the animals in the crosshairs” (0:53:21)

The Rewatchables: ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin (host)

Mallory loves the mythic and literary side of stories: the hero's journey, Game of Thrones, Bull Durham's existential edge. She is protective of the movie against Ebert's critique and a sucker for character details and performances (Pop and Red). She dislikes the book-faithful tragedy being called better for 1984.

Stances

  • Bull Durham is her favorite sports movie
  • Baseball's godlike myth-making is the draw, not a flaw
  • The Natural fits Campbell's hero's journey and Arthurian legend
  • Brimley's Pop is the heart of the film
  • A darker, book-faithful remake makes sense now

Humor: Deadpan reactions and research-backed zingers, plus Game of Thrones asides and teasing Bill about his mispronunciations.

In their words

  • “I love contests of skill.” (0:31:14)
  • “It's bad critique.” (0:18:46)
  • “Wonder Boy is Excalibur.” (0:16:36)

The Big Picture: ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? (guest)

Adores the original Gladiator and a swoony cast (Mescal, Pascal); cares about structure and what a sequel owes its predecessor. Struggles with sloppy backstory, tonal inconsistency and the retcon. A sucker for the fun of a night at the movies.

Stances

  • Had a blast but couldn't stop thinking about whether the movie should exist
  • The sequel invites a one-to-one comparison with the first and loses
  • Macrinus is the most interesting part of the film
  • Wants more Pedro Pascal

Humor: Warm, self-deprecating and fan-girly, with specific food and office-life details.

In their words

  • “I had fun in the movies.” (0:14:36)
  • “I wanted more Pedro.” (0:33:35)

The Big Picture: Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation (guest)

A devoted fan of the 1998 Mulan and Disney musicals, loves a theme and magic in a story, and loves The Last Jedi. Cannot stand a remake that loses the spirit of its source. Sucker for a well-integrated musical number.

Stances

  • The songs and tone are the heart of the original
  • Magic undercuts Mulan's message
  • Remakes should channel what made the original special
  • Missed Mushu's mentorship

Humor: Self-aware oversharer who sets out to be brief and then talks about concession snacks.

In their words

  • “I would want the remake to understand what made the original one special.” (0:30:43)
  • “I love magic in a story. Frankly, there are a few things I love more. than magic in a story.” (0:21:26)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 1–54 of 54 claims.

  1. programming (programming): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The reboot will use the title as a bucket for different stories about Texas high school football.
    “use the title as a bucket to tell different stories about high school football in Texas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:06:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Explosions in the Sky → Friday Night Lights (new series). Mallory says the new Peacock series is fine as long as Explosions in the Sky are on the score.
    “As long as they have explosions in the sky, we're probably good.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:07:28 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The film's quick cuts and documentary feel read differently now than they did in 2004.
    “It has that kind of like documentary footage quality to it where the camera is right there inside of the play on the bench”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:34 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Billy Bob Thornton → Monster's Ball. Monster's Ball is probably his highest-end film, but not a rewatchable.
    “Monsters ball is probably the highest end.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:22:28 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Billy Bob Thornton → Landman (TV series). His Landman role puts Mallory back in a Coach Gaines headspace.
    “It does put you in a coach gains, Friday night lights, headspace.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:25:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The film score and the TV score are in conversation with each other.
    “I love the way that the movie and the television scores are like in conversation with each other.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:27:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Tim McGraw → 1883 (TV series). His 1883 role is one of the best Taylor Sheridan performances.
    “his starring role in 1883 is like one of the best Sheridan verse performances to date.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:29:48 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): Varsity Blues → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Varsity Blues ripped off the Boobie Miles injury beat with its Lance Harbor injury, and the TV show flipped it with Jason Street.
    “I love varsity blues we've done on the rewatchables, but they rip it off with the Lance Harbor injury.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:35:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (contrast): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Hereditary. In the ring-search scene the fear of a Hereditary-style horror turn flickers by.
    “I like, 0 my god, is this hereditary going to happen again?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:38:40 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. career (career): Friday Night Lights (TV series) → Landman (TV series). Grandma Saracen's actress now plays Ethel on Landman.
    “who is currently just thriving as Ethel on Landman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:42:34 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). The halftime speech contains the ingredients later assembled into clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
    “the ingredients for clear eyes, full hearts can't lose are present here”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:45:50 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): Kyle Chandler → Billy Bob Thornton. Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines, who only gets one good speech in the film.
    “It's only Coach Gaines in the climax and I think that tips it forever to Coach Taylor.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:47:49 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. people (people): Peter Berg → Connie Britton. Berg promised to build her a real character to win her over for the TV show.
    “I told her, I promise we'll create a character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:02:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. career (career): Connie Britton → Friday Night Lights (TV series). Her thankless wife role in the film gave no hint of the great TV character Tammy Taylor.
    “You would never know that from this movie that that was going to happen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:02:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  15. lineage (lineage): Friday Night Lights (2004 film) → Friday Night Lights (TV series). Character map from the 88 team and film to the TV show.
    “Winchell's mom, Sarah's grandma, Booby is smashed, Billingsley is Riggins, John is Buddy, Gary's Eric, Sharon's, Tammy, et cetera.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:15:37 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. what-if (what-if): Richard Linklater → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). A Linklater version would have been personal and Texan, like a football take on Everybody Wants Some.
    “link leader version of this is really interesting to think about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:20:03 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. career (career): Richard Linklater → Everybody Wants Some!!. Linklater's Everybody Wants Some is the benchmark for what his football version might have felt like.
    “think of how you feel about everybody wants some.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:20:21 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). A Cruise Coach Gaines would be deranged but mesmerizing, mixing calm and mania.
    “I think the cruise version of this would be deranged, but kind of mesmerizing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:30:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  19. contrast (contrast): Marriage Story → The War of the Roses. Marriage Story is a divorce film that makes you weep; Roses is the kind that sets up rage and bitterness.
    “They're the divorce films that give the emotional response.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:03:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)
  20. contrast (contrast): The War of the Roses → Marriage Story. The speakers split divorce films into emotional-response ones and ones built on rage and bitterness.
    “And then the films that just set up rage and bitterness.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:03:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)
  21. career (career): Michael Douglas → Ant-Man (franchise). Michael Douglas's later comedy lives in the MCU as Hank Pym.
    “before Michael Douglas Comedy awaits in the MCU.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:15:58 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. contrast (contrast): The War of the Roses → The War of the Roses. Unlike other divorce movies, nobody in Roses is mourning the past; Barbara feels pure resentment.
    “in all of the divorce movies, it's like, someone is already mourning what they had”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:29:42 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)
  23. programming (programming): The War of the Roses → Body Heat. Triple-feature pitch: Roses with Body Heat and Fatal Attraction.
    “I do think we should be pairing this with both body heat and fatal attraction.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:32:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)
  24. programming (programming): The War of the Roses → Fatal Attraction. Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble.
    “I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)
  25. contrast (contrast): The Natural → Bull Durham. The Natural is about becoming a god among mortals; Bull Durham is about the opposite, never getting there.
    “it's almost in some ways the complete opposite of the natural”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:05:01 · Mallory Rubin (0.70 sure it was them)
  26. contrast (contrast): The Natural → Bull Durham. Mallory is drawn to the opposite of the Natural's premise: what if you can never get there, as with Crash Davis.
    “I'm always, though, going to be slightly more drawn, I think, to the opposite, which is what if you can never get there?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:05:18 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  27. contrast (contrast): The Natural → Bernard Malamud. In the book Hobbs strikes out; Levinson made Redford a hero and the story about fathers and sons.
    “instead of basically doing the true reconstruction of the book, he decided to make Redford a hero, and he made it more about fathers and sons.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:09:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  28. theme (theme): The Natural → Game of Thrones. A darker book-faithful Natural fits the anti-hero era of prestige TV like Game of Thrones.
    “Even think about something like Game of Thrones.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:11:03 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  29. theme (theme): The Natural → Joseph Campbell. The film fits the hero's journey, even down to a silver bullet.
    “you can assess it on the, on the Joseph Campbell, Hero's Journey scale.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:15:44 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  30. lineage (lineage): The Natural → Arthurian legend. Roy is king, Wonderboy is Excalibur; the Fisher King, Percival and the Grail also fit.
    “Wonder Boy is Excalibur.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:16:36 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)
  31. theme (theme): The Natural → The Princess Bride. Both are very 80s and use basic generic themes told in an awesome way.
    “both very 80s, they belong to that decade, but both trying to accomplish a lot of the same things of just these very basic generic themes”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:17:47 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. verdict (verdict): The Natural → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave two stars and said it turned into idolatry; Mallory calls the critique bad because myth-making is the draw.
    “It's bad critique.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:18:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  33. theme (theme): The Natural → Philip Roth. Baseball stories link the sport to myth, as in the Great American novel idea.
    “I think of of Philip Roth and the great American novel.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:19:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.70 sure it was them)
  34. craft (craft): The Natural → Game of Thrones. The skeptical-journalist role echoes a Game of Thrones line about a suspicious mind.
    “And I found myself thinking about that with the whole journalistic depiction in the film”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:24:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.70 sure it was them)
  35. programming (programming): Pretty Woman → The Rewatchables (series). Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable.
    “prep for next week's rewatchable.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. people (people): The Natural → Babe Ruth. The Whammer is a stand-in for Babe Ruth; real names and fictional creations blend.
    “I like the whammer as a cover.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:32:24 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  37. craft (craft): The Natural → Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. A lightning-storm Quidditch match in the third movie pairs with the Natural's lightning.
    “There is a Quidditch match played in lightning that I think you'll enjoy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:41:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  38. theme (theme): The Natural → Damien Chazelle. Women as only destroyers or saviors is compared to Damien Chazelle's movies.
    “very reminiscent of the current Damian Chazelle experience.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:59:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. lineage (lineage): Gladiator II → Gladiator. The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison.
    “it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  40. contrast (contrast): Gladiator II → Gladiator. The sequel tries to feel new by flipping the first film's premise: Marcus Aurelius's dream of Rome becomes its failure.
    “Instead of here's Marcus Aurelius's dream of what Rome can be, it's a bastardization and a compromise and a failure to execute against that promise.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. lineage (lineage): Gladiator II → Gladiator. Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion.
    “I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. craft (craft): Gladiator II → King Kong. Peter Jackson's King Kong shows CGI animals done with care.
    “I really like Peter Jackson's King Kong.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:39:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. craft (craft): Gladiator II → Jurassic World. CGI animals pull it out of the film into Jurassic World 6.
    “I was like, okay, so we're just like in Jurassic World 6.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:39:43 · Mallory Rubin (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. theme (theme): Macrinus → Sauron. Macrinus is a great improviser villain, like Sauron in the Rings of Power discussion.
    “one of the reasons that Sauron is so compelling is villainous because he's the great improviser”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:58:36 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. verdict (verdict): Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker → Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens. The Rise of Skywalker is a blight on cinema history.
    “Rise of Skywalker is uh, a blight on the history of cinema”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:22:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. contrast (contrast): Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens → Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. As the start of a new trilogy, The Force Awakens is far more successful than The Phantom Menace.
    “It is infinitely more successful than Phantom Menace was.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:23:55 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. lineage (lineage): Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. It ports over Death Star, Tatooine and R2-D2 as Starkiller Base, Jakku and BB-8.
    “in place of the Death Star, you have star killer base.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:24:09 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. craft (craft): Mulan → Mulan. Mallory says losing the songs removes the efficient storytelling and character bonding the music provided.
    “in the film, it is such an efficient way to move the story forward. It helps with the characters.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:20:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  49. theme (theme): Mulan → Mulan. Mallory says making Mulan magical undercuts the story's point that her ordinary self is good enough.
    “I was not a fan at all of turning Mulan into a, in essence, magical superhero”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:21:31 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  50. verdict (verdict): Mulan → Mulan. Mallory says revealing her identity by choice is better than being found out in an injury tent, but the overall list of improvements is smaller than the list of misfires.
    “That's, to me, vastly superior to being found out in an injury tent.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:31:28 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)
  51. lineage (lineage): Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope → Seven Samurai. Mallory notes Lucas drew on Joseph Campbell, Seven Samurai, and Hidden Fortress, and the cycle of influence is now returning in Mulan.
    “Obviously, Joseph Campbell, as mentioned a moment ago. 7 Samurai, Hidden Fortress.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:46:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)
  52. lineage (lineage): Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope → The Hidden Fortress. Mallory lists Hidden Fortress among Lucas's influences.
    “7 Samurai, Hidden Fortress.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:46:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)
  53. theme (theme): Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi → Mulan. Mallory loves The Last Jedi's idea of Rey as a nobody who does not need a magic name or lineage, while Mulan leans on lineage and family.
    “The thing that appealed to me so much about it was the idea of Ray being no one coming from nowhere”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:47:15 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)
  54. verdict (verdict): Mulan → The Lion King. Mallory ranks 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' first and Lion King's 'I Just Can't Wait to Be King' second in her Disney song top five.
    “number one, I'll make a man out of you. Number two, I just can't wait to be king.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:52:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.85 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–25 of 25 fun items.

  1. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Mike is holding a toy car in the Coach Gaines visit, a reminder these are kids.
    “The thing I love best in that scene is, Mike is holding like a toy car.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:36:34 · Mallory Rubin (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Dallas Carter never punts or kicks, always going for it on fourth: a modern analytics approach.
    “they never punt, they never kick. They go for it on fourth.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:56:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Mallory's pick for a better sex scene: Coach Gaines and Sharon, because the show is the best portrayal of a marriage.
    “What it really is is like the best portrayal of a marriage and the history of TV.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:01:11 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Derek Luke: Luke was 30 during filming, put forth for the old-actor-playing-teen award.
    “Derek Luke was 30 years old during the filming.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:11:55 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): Jokes about Chris Collinsworth narrating Boobie's injury.
    “I think I, I was able to really like clearly feel, and hear Collinsworth when Booby got hurt though”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:22:40 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Friday Night Lights (2004 film): The coin toss scene is rife with picking-nits.
    “Every frankly, everything with the coin toss belongs in picking nets, all of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:32:48 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about The War of the Roses: Conspiracy theory: lawyer Gavin engineered the whole divorce and benefits from the outcome.
    “Part of the reason that Gavin is the framing device for this movie is because this is actually all a Gavin Longcon, the entire thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.45 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Michael Douglas: Hank Pym in the Ant-Man movies is where the speakers send you for Douglas comedy and baseball-cap Douglas.
    “If you want to see him wear a baseball cap, I'll refer you once again to his work as Hank Pim.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:13:55 · Mallory Rubin (0.55 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about The Natural: Wonderboy is Excalibur, Roy means king, and the tree felled by lightning is Zeus.
    “What does Roy mean?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:16:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Roger Ebert: Ebert gave it two stars, asking why it was turned into idolatry; the hosts fumble the word.
    “Why did the natural have to be turned into Idolatry?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:18:22 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about The Natural: Hobbs's batting practice: Pop guzzles the filthy water and the scene shows Roy is kind of a dick.
    “You really realize that Roy is kind of a dick.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:34:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about The Natural: Pop's 'losing is a disease' speech compares losing to syphilis and the bubonic plague.
    “This guy is trying to motivate the team by comparing losing to syphilis and the bubonic plague.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:39:44 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Kim Basinger: Basinger's lip licking: is it deliberate or just who she is.
    “I was like, is she doing this on purpose or is this just who he, who she is?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:46:47 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Iris: Iris moves to Chicago, raises her boy alone, runs her own life: independent spirit and trailblazing feminist.
    “Iris, as an independent spirit and, you know, trailblazing feminist.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:52:15 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about The Natural: Pop's 'my mama wanted me to be a farmer' and Red's callous 'Tough' are called quietly the funniest moment.
    “Quietly the funniest moment in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:26:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about The Natural: The Natural's headlines the hosts invent for the walkoff aftermath: exploding stomach, 23 dead.
    “Night Slugger mashes explosive game-winning home run, suffers career ending, exploding stomach injury.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:37:07 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about The Natural: Who won the movie: Redford, but Pop (Brimley) is the heart of the film.
    “I mean, it's such a wonderfully winning performance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:45:43 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Gladiator II: Mallory ate a five-piece chicken tender meal at an AMC while watching the long movie.
    “I got a 5 piece chicken tender at Peter.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:14:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Gladiator II: Chris and Mallory could not shake the sense that the plot was a flipped copy of Gladiator, with Macrinus as the real engine of the film.
    “Instead of here's Marcus Aurelius's dream of what Rome can be, it's a bastardization and a compromise and a failure to execute against that promise.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Paul Mescal: Mallory's elevator story: Mescal stood by while a stranger recommended a chiropractor.
    “And the whole time Paul Mescal is just like, I can't wait for this conversation to be fucking over so I can get out of here.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:27:21 · Mallory Rubin (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Gladiator II: Mallory notes the film now says Lucius is Commodus's kid too, an incest angle lightly suggested before.
    “The much more transgressive idea is that he's Commodus' kid, a product of incest.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:51:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Mulan: Mallory saw it at age 11 in theaters with a friend and no parents, remembering Skittles and the euphoria of freedom, and says she has seen it around 25 times.
    “I just remember so many Skittles and the euphoria of feeling that sense of freedom and empowerment.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:13:17 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Mulan: Mallory's favorite Disney song is 'I'll Make a Man Out of You', and she and Amanda have argued about it before on a Ringer video.
    “you know, I'll make a man out of you as my favorite Disney song, period.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:19:48 · Mallory Rubin (0.90 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Mulan: Mallory cites a lyric from 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' as speaking to Amanda's managerial style.
    “Heed my every order and you might survive.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:50:20 · Mallory Rubin (0.75 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Mulan: The producer said Shang was split into two characters in a Me Too-era decision to avoid a romance between commander and soldier.
    “a producer on the film, is just said outright that it was a decision made, uh, taking the Me Too era into account”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:11:49 · Mallory Rubin (0.80 sure it was them)