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people (casting test):
Dennis Peck → Internal Affairs.
Craig's relationship test: could Internal Affairs' Dennis Peck have charmed Leatherface's family out of the house.
“You think Dennis could have gotten out of that house?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:09:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Internal Affairs:
Hosts say it is a one-of-one: a dirty-cop movie crossed with a psychosexual thriller.
“I don't know that they ever did.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:02:11 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Internal Affairs:
Watching it feels like a genre of its own: you look behind you to see whether anyone is watching you watch it.
“is anybody watching me watch this movie?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:03:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Training Day.
The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs.
“I mean, departed in training day?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Cop Land.
A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta.
“For me, Coplands in there.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → The French Connection.
Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them.
“Yeah, connection.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → The Seven-Ups.
The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture.
“The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Prince of the City.
Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run.
“Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Live and Die in L.A..
Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie.
“it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Colors → Internal Affairs.
Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up.
“Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Training Day → Internal Affairs.
Training Day knows it is a different prism on dirty cops, while Internal Affairs treats a dirty cop as fun to watch.
“Yeah, training day is in a completely different prism and it knows that this movie is kind of like, ah, it's fun to watch Richard Gere be a dirty cop.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:16:20 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Shield (TV) → Internal Affairs.
The Shield is offered as the closest TV answer to a dirty-cop show.
“I guess the shield's the closest, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The Wire → Internal Affairs.
Cops in The Wire beat suspects and plant evidence but read as more human than police, so dirty cops work differently on TV.
“You see a couple these, Hurricane Carver, take some money, the whole not, so they're more human than they are police, which makes the lens that you look at them through a little bit different.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:18:16 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Bad Lieutenant → Internal Affairs.
Bad Lieutenant went too far for the speaker and is not a rewatchable.
“That one went too far for me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Internal Affairs → Bad Lieutenant.
Bad Lieutenant is the dirtiest cop ever but tries too hard to be deranged; Internal Affairs is deranged without trying.
“This movie is deranged, but it doesn't try too hard.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:21:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Leaving Las Vegas → Internal Affairs.
Both are set in a place supposed to be full of promise but are really full of sin and desperation.
“They're both set in a place that's supposed to be full of promise, but is, in fact, full of sin and desperation.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:23:46 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Internal Affairs:
Box office: a $50 million budget (as said) against 47.7 million, then a cable mainstay, heavily edited for TNT.
“It was one of the worst edited for TNT movies possible”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:24:45 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Roger Ebert → Internal Affairs.
Ebert and Siskel both loved it; Ebert called it a movie about personalities, and Gere brilliant.
“And Ebert said, it's really a movie about personalities.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:25:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Internal Affairs → Ghost.
The same movie could be made with Ghost's dirty banker and the drug dealer; the cop element is not necessary because it is about power and manipulation.
“So remember how in Ghost he was the dirty banker that was funneling money for the drug dealer, whatever?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:26:09 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Bad Influence.
Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies.
“But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Single White Female.
The dark, weird-sex run of movies carries on into Single White Female in 92.
“Even through like single white female.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Rear Window.
The jealousy scenes turn the movie toward Rear Window or Vertigo as Raymond is consumed by sexual inadequacy more than the case.
“That's where it turns to the rear window a little bit, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:41:23 · Van Lathan (0.35 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Internal Affairs → L.A. Confidential.
L.A. Confidential is the other prominent L.A. dirty-cop movie that the speakers had left out.
“LA Confidential?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:46 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
L.A. Confidential → Internal Affairs.
Both open with a dirty cop who executes a man and plants a gun on him with no consequences.
“So like even in like confidential when Russell Crowe just walks in and executes that guy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Mike Figgis → Internal Affairs.
Figgis scored the film himself and cameos as the man dining with Nancy Travis.
“So Mike Figgis was like, I got this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:01 · Chris Ryan (0.35 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Internal Affairs → Lethal Weapon 3.
The unfinished Granada Hills development recalls construction sites in Lethal Weapon 3 and other action crime movies.
“Because when you think about, I guess it's lethal weapon three.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:48:27 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Internal Affairs:
Original ending: they go out a window into a pool and Peck seems to drown; test audiences hated it, so it was changed.
“They end up going out the window, falling in the swimming pool, peck drowns.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:50:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Serpico → Internal Affairs.
Raymond, though supposedly an IAD rookie, takes over like Serpico.
“And he turned into like Serpico.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:00:07 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Internal Affairs:
Rat Squad: a better title offered via a speaker's father, a former police officer, who said that is what Internal Affairs was called.
“they called it the rat squad.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:03:22 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Another 48 Hrs. → Internal Affairs.
The Internal Affairs guy is cast as the bad guy while investigating Jack Cates, who is the corrupt one.
“Meanwhile, he's investigating Jack Cates, who is like just completely corrupt.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:07:06 · Van Lathan (0.30 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Harrison Ford → Internal Affairs.
One speaker would nominate Harrison Ford from the studio's long list for Peck.
“Harrison Ford, which is the one that I would nominate.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:08:53 · Van Lathan (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Internal Affairs:
Casting what-ifs: the research list of actors offered Peck includes Nolte, Harrison Ford, Pacino, and Schwarzenegger.
“Alec Baldwin, Tom Barringer, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, William Defoe, De Niro, Michael, Douglas, Harrison Ford, which is the one that I would nominate.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:08:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Internal Affairs → The Breakfast Club.
Another movie with no black people that did not need any.
“Same as Breakfast Club, a movie with no black people.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:11:32 · Van Lathan (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Daryl Gates → Internal Affairs.
The LAPD chief at the time condemned the movie.
“Daryl Gates condemned this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Internal Affairs → Unfaithful.
Apex Mountain candidates for imagining a spouse with someone else: Unfaithful and Indecent Proposal.
“Unfaithful is a big one when gear after he kills the sculptor.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:20:31 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Internal Affairs → Indecent Proposal.
Indecent Proposal is declared the winner of the imagined-spouse-affair Apex Mountain.
“That's the winner.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:20:46 · 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) -
fun, about
Internal Affairs:
The fake-LA hot spots: a burger-hut parking lot with prostitutes, like BJ's on Alvarado from Heat.
“like BJ's on Alvarado from Heat.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:28:57 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Deep Cover.
Deep Cover was conceived as a sequel to Internal Affairs; Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean got involved in writing it.
“Deep cover was conceived as a sequel to this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:29:39 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Internal Affairs → Bad Influence.
Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies.
“I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Internal Affairs → Basic Instinct.
Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie.
“Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Black Panther → Internal Affairs.
Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end.
“It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35 sure it was them) -
unmapped (next-episode tease):
Beverly Hills Cop II → Internal Affairs.
The hosts tease dirty-cop episodes coming up including Internal Affairs.
“until we do internal affairs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:07:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)