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craft (score comp):
Carolina Caroline → Heat.
The score's driving quality in the robberies is closer to Heat than the country needle drops.
“You've got something driving it too at times that's, you know, more akin to heat or something like that.”
The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 2:13:47 · Adam Rehmeier (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (homage):
Ambulance → Heat.
Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie.
“The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat.”
The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Michael Mann → Heat.
Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat.
“he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Ferrari → Heat.
Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions.
“men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Heat → The Rewatchables.
Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording.
“I also listened to the reheat this morning”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Ferrari → Heat.
Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat.
“it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them) -
unmapped (audience):
Ferrari → Heat.
Chris's dad will definitely want to see Ferrari because he loves Heat.
“He will definitely want to see Ferrari loves heat.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:38:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Heat → Apollo 13.
On the Reheat they listed movies that got 1995 Oscar nominations instead of Heat, including Apollo 13.
“nominated for Oscars instead of heat, including Apollo 13”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:39:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Heat:
On the Reheat they went through the 1995 Oscar nominees; best actress doesn't really apply in Heat.
“well, best actress doesn't really apply in heat.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:40:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Heat → Natalie Portman.
Natalie Portman in Heat is teased as the overacting award winner.
“a young Natalie Portman getting the overacting award”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:40:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Heat → Joanna Hogg.
Director Joanna Hogg named Heat the last great thing she'd seen.
“she said heat”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:41:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Collateral → Heat.
Collateral pairs Tom Cruise with Jamie Foxx the way Heat pairs two titans, Pacino and De Niro.
“in the same way that heat is like Pacino and De Niro, like together, finally, like 2 Titans of movies in our life.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Manhunter → Heat.
Manhunter is the movie Chris has rewatched the most apart from Heat.
“It is probably the movie I've returned to the most over the years other than heat”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:49:54 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Thief → Heat.
Thief's characters are still figuring out their lives, unlike the end-of-the-road Pacino and Venora of Heat.
“It's like much different than like Diane Venora, Al Pacino, and he.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:52:14 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Heat:
Heat hosts joke: Chris should take shrooms before the foreheat pod or work for a triad.
“maybe take shrooms before the pod.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:00:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Heat:
Amanda rewatched Heat for work; her husband sat down and watched the whole movie, so Mann brings her closer to people she loves.
“once again, I think Michael Mann, for bringing me closer to the people I love.”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:01:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Heat:
The downtown shootout is among the best set pieces ever and one of the loudest movies.
“Something I always think about, particularly the downtown shootout”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:01:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Heat:
The characters have a hard time saying how they feel; Amanda is more of a Neil, Sean an Owl, Natalie Portman looking for her earring.
“I think that I like to walk into rooms and just let it all hang out, you know?”
The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:13 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Heat → Time.
Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s.
“I rewatched Heat”
The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90 sure it was them) -
unmapped (joke):
The Lighthouse → Heat.
Sean will start a minute-by-minute podcast on The Lighthouse like the one that examines every minute of Heat.
“I will be starting one of those for the lighthouse.”
The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:52:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Elliot Goldenthal → Heat.
The speaker doubts how much of the Heat score Goldenthal wrote himself.
“Although who knows how much of it he wrote?”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:42:40 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The 13th Warrior → Heat.
The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat.
“It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Hunted → Heat.
The Hunted features the speaker's favorite trope of one man dying in front of another, as in Heat.
“And the hunt is another one of those movies where one man dies in front of another and my favorite trope.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:06:30 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Heat → Moby.
For a Heat-style scene of one man dying in front of another, the suggestion is to lay Moby's track over it, as Heat does.
“Just throw some Moby in there, you know, over it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior with David Lowery (Ad-Free) · 2:07:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if casting):
Adam Driver → Heat.
A wish-list casting for Heat 2 is Driver and Isaac in the De Niro and Pacino roles.
“well, you just do it with Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:26:50 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Captain America: The Winter Soldier → Heat.
Redford finally sharing a scene with the Winter Soldier is likened to Pacino and De Niro in Heat.
“This is kind of like Pacino and De Niro finally meeting in heat.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:10:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Den of Thieves → Heat.
Big Nick of Den of Thieves is imagined as a basketball obsessive in the Heat mold, Sizemore's Heat character among the candidates.
“Big Nick was probably like a big Tim Thomas guy for the Clippers.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:28:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Heat → Gangs of New York.
Listener's 10-percent-better idea: Heat without the Portman storyline or with Vincent doing coke, Gangs of New York with Cameron Diaz recast.
“how heat would be 10% better if they either dropped the Portman storyline, or had Vincent doing coke, or gangs of New York, if Cameron Diaz was recast.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:35:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Wayne Gross → Heat.
The Heat villain is the ultimate example of an actor haunted by a role.
“I couldn't even see Wayne Grow again after the heat.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:11:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Heat → Die Hard.
Bearer bonds: the tax-lawyer listener accepts them in post-82 movies like Beverly Hills Cop and maybe Die Hard but not in Heat or Panic Room.
“he can look past it for some post 82 movies like Beverly Hills cop, maybe even die hard.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:13:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Heat → Panic Room.
Bearer bonds in Heat and Panic Room are anachronisms because the 1982 tax act made them rare.
“But when we get to heat and panic room, no fucking way, basically.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:13:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Rounders → Heat.
Niche tastes also include Malkovich liking Oreos in Rounders and Neil McCauley in Heat.
“Or like Malkovich and Rounders liking Oreos.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Glen Powell → Heat.
Riffing on a Heat sequel, they imagine Powell in the Val Kilmer part: a baseball career in Panama.
“What is that? The Val Kilmer part from heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:19:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Species → Heat.
Heat's De Niro-and-Kilmer third guy is the test for being a cool character-actor type.
“could you beat De Niro and Kilmer's 3rd guy?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:05 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Twister → Heat.
A joke that Chris Ryan lost the town its treasury of cinematic knowledge when blown away, still hadn't seen Heat, which hadn't been made yet.
“He loved heat, which had not been made yet.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:45:39 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Heat → Internal Affairs.
Bad-guy world where everybody knows the plan is a movie trope shared with Heat.
“Am I tripping or does that happen in heat as well?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:24:33 · Bill Simmons (0.35 sure it was them) -
career (career):
The Insider → Heat.
The Insider was Michael Mann's first film after Heat.
“It was man's 1st movie since heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
The Last of the Mohicans → Heat.
Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider.
“Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Al Pacino → Heat.
Pacino's patient, ulterior-motive conversational style is in Heat and in The Insider.
“he does it in heat too when he's trying to get something out of the other person”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:36 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (people):
Diane Venora → Heat.
Venora in The Insider is basically her sad Heat role again with long hair.
“but she's just doing a sequel to the heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:55:17 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
The Insider → Heat.
Mann getting this movie made 34 years after Heat is called an achievement, though Heat with De Niro and Pacino is the true apex.
“And heat, he had De Niro and Pacino at a point when that still mattered and got like the best possible movie out of them.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:21:45 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (performance contrast):
Robert De Niro → Heat.
Even in Heat his intensity is a burning ember; here he is softer and the everyman.
“But this one, he really is the everyman.”
The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:35:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
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) -
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) -
fun, about
Heat:
Bill and Chris pitch their Michael Mann movie with a dumb thief; the title is 'Heat', like the new Scream is just Scream.
“It's called Heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
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) -
people (performance extremity):
Tom Cruise → Heat.
Cruise's Werewolves of London pool scene goes for it as hard as anyone on the podcast other than Pacino in Heat.
“cruise goes for it as much as I think anyone's ever gone for it. Maybe in the history of this podcast other than Pacino and Heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:04 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Thief → Heat.
Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA.
“the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Thief → Heat.
Thief is more Sean's jam; he likes Heat less.
“This is more your kind of jam thief.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Thief → Heat.
Prison as a purifying origin recurs in Heat's crew.
“All the, all the guys in, in, uh, in Neil's crew are like from, from our jail buddies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Thief → Heat.
The first date in Thief rhymes with Neil and Eady's meeting in Heat.
“the Edie and Neil date is like something out of Nancy Myers movie compared to this date.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Thief → Heat.
The diner scene's wide shot echoes Heat's, which never shows both guys.
“Wide shot, some heat DNA, although in heat, they don't have, you never see the 2 guys”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:36:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Thief → Heat.
The wife who must be sent packing recurs in Mann films.
“Michael Mann has this movie where he has to send the wife packing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Heat:
Thief and Heat meeting: Caan told Pacino 'you fucker, that was my movie'; leftover scenes went to Heat.
“I said, you fucker, that was my movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Thief → Heat.
Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat.
“All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Thief → Heat.
Thief is a man alone; Heat is a showdown.
“thief is about a man alone and heat is a showdown movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Thief → Heat.
Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining.
“How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Seven → Heat.
Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars.
“Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them) -
people (performance echo):
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Heat.
Pacino's Marvin Schwarz scene is framed as a sequel to his Heat performance.
“I think it's actually Pacino's sequel performance from Heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:19 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (LA movie):
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Heat.
Heat is floated as a best Los Angeles movie in a list including Boyz n the Hood and Nightcrawler.
“This, uh, he, Boys in the Hood, Nightcrawler, like what else?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Reservoir Dogs → Heat.
A line delivery is called borderline Pacino in Heat.
“I think you're kind of borderline doing pachino and heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:20:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Val Kilmer → Heat.
Ryan nominates Heat as Kilmer's apex.
“I'm going heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Val Kilmer → Heat.
Kilmer as De Niro's wingman in the biggest movie of the mid 90s.
“He's De Nero's wingman.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career arc):
Jon Voight → Heat.
MI is the end of Voight doing good movies; before it he was in Heat.
“It's the end of John Void doing good movies. Prior to this, he was in heat”
The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:04:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (star clash):
The Departed → Heat.
The Nicholson-DiCaprio scene echoes the Pacino-De Niro anticipation of their Heat scene, though with less weight.
“it was like this anticipation of Pacino and De Niro finally being in a scene together.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:09:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them) -
craft (crafted vs improvised):
The Departed → Heat.
Heat is long and full of huge stars like this, but Mann's decisions were all considered while The Departed feels like flying by the seat of its pants.
“I felt like heat was crafted. Every decision he makes is really well thought out”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:58:26 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)