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industry (box office):
Star 80 → The Big Chill.
The Big Chill was number one the week Star 80 opened in limited release.
“Number one of the box office is a generational classic.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:40:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Friday the 13th → The Big Chill.
The pot in the film is called grass; Big Chill and Dazed and Confused are the movies where white people smoke grass.
“You know what movie they smoked grass in?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:15:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Friday the 13th → The Big Chill.
Van's flex: a top five of movies that did not need Black people, with Friday the 13th at number five.
“Number five, Friday the 13th.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:20:13 · Van Lathan (0.80 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Big Chill → Grease.
Van's list continues through Grease, Good Will Hunting, and Jackass.
“Number three, Grease.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:20:44 · Van Lathan (0.80 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Beautiful Girls → The Big Chill.
Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex.
“I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Return of the Secaucus 7 → The Big Chill.
Called a precursor to The Big Chill.
“precursor to this movie, Socaucus 7 is like this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
10 Years → The Big Chill.
Another reunion-with-a-great-cast attempt that did not match The Big Chill.
“I kind of like 10 years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
The Intervention → The Big Chill.
Another indie friends-weekend film in the same vortex.
“There was a movie called The Intervention.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Big Chill → Dead Poets Society.
Compared for the intense cast rehearsal and living-together period that made the actors feel like real classmates.
“this intense period of like living together, building up the story, building up the characters, is Dead Poet Society”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Reality Bites → The Big Chill.
Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts.
“And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Grand Canyon → The Big Chill.
Grand Canyon is an interesting double pairing because it shows how Kasdan's worldview evolved; much more optimistic.
“Grand Canyon is an interesting double pairing with this movie because of the way that it's clearly him”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Hosts watch with closed captions to catch the lyrics of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' in the opening montage; the sad song is catchy.
“when you watch this movie with the closed captions, heard it through the grapevine, is you see the lyrics.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Marvin Gaye → The Big Chill.
'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' is a purposeful, perfect song choice for the moment everyone hears Alex has died.
“Like, it's a purposeful choice to use that song at that moment, you know, and like just those little details that he, make sure he gets right”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Rolling Stones → The Big Chill.
The Stones song at the reception, with Karen playing it on the organ, is called as well used as a song ever is in a movie.
“And then the fucking Rolling Stones come in and it's used as well as you're gonna ever use a song in a movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Big Chill → Boogie Nights.
The Big Chill is like Boogie Nights: a movie where the song list in order basically plays like a jukebox.
“This is a movie where you can make a Spotify playlist of all the songs in order of when they're in the movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Meg Kasdan → The Big Chill.
Meg Kasdan helped curate the soundtrack with Lawrence Kasdan, choosing songs that were popular to these characters in 1968-69.
“I guess Meg Kazden, Lawrence Kazden's wife, you know, helped curate the soundtrack and worked with him on it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:00 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Meg Kasdan helped curate the soundtrack, picking songs popular with the characters in 1968-69.
“Meg Kazden, Lawrence Kazden's wife, you know, helped curate the soundtrack and worked with him on it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Big Chill → Goodfellas.
Needle-drop movies where the music is part of the scene, grouped with Boogie Nights and Pulp Fiction.
“It is this Boogie Knights, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
The Big Chill → Terms of Endearment.
One host says Terms of Endearment deserved Best Picture over The Big Chill.
“No, I think terms of endearment should have.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
The film earned $56.4 million on an $8 million budget.
“$8 million budget.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Roger Ebert → The Big Chill.
Ebert gave it 2.5 stars while calling it a splendid technical exercise; hosts think the message is the emptiness.
“The Big Chill is a splendid technical exercise.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Ebert's 2.5 stars reads like a 3 or 3.5 review to the hosts; maybe it hit too close to home.
“It feels like a 3 or 3.5 star review.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Pauline Kael → The Big Chill.
Kael did not much like it, calling the seven characters a psych-major version of a bomber crew.
“you begin to see the film's flabby side”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Return of the Secaucus 7 → The Big Chill.
Secaucus 7 is about people who did not become yuppies; The Big Chill is the opposite, Kasdan reckoning with success.
“Sokaka 7 is about people who didn't become yuppies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Big Chill → The Godfather Part II.
The cut Costner scene, going back in time to college, was compared to the end of Godfather 2.
“A little like the end of Godfather 2.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The Shawshank Redemption → The Big Chill.
Shawshank's deleted Red scene shows why a director may keep cut scenes buried.
“I remember seeing the deleted scenes from Shawshank”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Richard's 3 a.m. kitchen sandwich scene: the square lawyer delivers 'nobody said it was gonna be fun' to the lapsed revolutionaries; a most-rewatchable scene.
“Nobody said it was gonna be fun.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The Wolf of Wall Street → The Big Chill.
Quaaludes apex mountain belongs to Wolf of Wall Street, not The Big Chill.
“No, Ludes is Wolf of Wall Street.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Most rewatchable scene is unanimous: the opening 20 minutes.
“It's the opening 20 minutes.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Big Chill → Tootsie.
The Big Chill is part of a lost wave of 80s serious comedies like Tootsie, Lost in America, Baby Boom, Broadcast News.
“I also feel like this has aged well as one of the signature serious comedies of the 1980s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Big Chill → Broadcast News.
Same 80s serious-comedy wave.
“Tootsie, Big Chill, Lost in America, Pritzies on, or Baby Boom, Broadcast News.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Big Chill → Parenthood.
Also in the 80s dramedies about life crises that are no longer made.
“Cities liquors like that, working girl, parenthood, you know, there's a bunch of movies that are like this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
The Big Chill → The Adults.
A new Michael Cera film is trying to bring mumblecore back.
“It's a new movie that Michael Sarah's trying to bring Mumblecore back.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Big Chill → The Great Santini.
The Big Chill used the Great Santini house.
“One more would stage the best for me is they use the great Santini house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Four handsome leads; Goldblum is 'the best route runner' and has great hands.
“Goldblum's also the best route runner of all of them.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:05:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
John Bailey → The Big Chill.
Bailey's dissolve from the stitches on Alex's wrist into the rows of farmland outside the church.
“they were shooting the field outside the church where they see all the rows of like farmland and he's like, 0 my god, this matches perfectly with the stitches on Alex's wrist.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:17 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
The cinematographer noticed the farmland rows matched the stitches on Alex's wrist.
“this matches perfectly with the stitches on Alex's wrist.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
John Bailey → The Big Chill.
The camera in the one-house movie moves with purpose, subtle zooms and pans, because editor and cinematographer trust each other.
“But if you look at how the camera's moving, like very subtle zooms panning very purposefully around, like, it seems perfunctory, but if you pay close attention, it's really purposeful”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:15 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Accidental Tourist → The Big Chill.
Kasdan's later Accidental Tourist is an entire movie of insert shots about what people carry on trips.
“the accidental tourist is like an entire movie of insert shots and what do people carry with them when they go on trips, you know?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Hometown (TV series) → The Big Chill.
The Big Chill was adapted as a short-lived 16-episode TV series called Hometown in 1986.
“As the short-lived series hometown?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:11:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
The Band → The Big Chill.
'The Weight' playing over Meg at the dining table is singled out as a best needle drop.
“I just really like when like Meg's shattered and she's sitting at the dining room table smoking and like the shoe boxes are there and the wait's playing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:13:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Fertility-night scene: Meg's request to impregnate her, Sarah offering Harold; the biggest nitpick and discussion.
“She's like, I want to have a baby.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:15:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
SNL sketch where Glenn Close's character turns into Fatal Attraction.
“They did a great sketch when they had, uh, I think Kevin Klein.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
unmapped (parody):
Fatal Attraction → The Big Chill.
An SNL sketch has Glenn Close's character turn into Fatal Attraction while listening to the fertility-night scene.
“And finally, she turns into fatal attraction.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:18:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
The Big Chill → Pacific Heights.
A sequel pitch with Meg's son returning is compared to Pacific Heights.
“It's like Pacific Heights.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Kasdan wrote the part of Nick for William Hurt.
“Kazden wrote the role in Nick for William Hurt”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:22:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
A sound technician recorded a ghost voice in the house during filming; the one-hour reunion documentary tells it.
“there was a supernatural event in the house.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:26:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
The Michigan football scenes come from a 1980 Michigan vs Michigan State game won 27-23.
“The Michigan football scenes are from a 1980 game between Michigan and Michigan State that Michigan won 2723.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:07 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Marcia Nasatir → The Big Chill.
Exec who said if she couldn't get this picture made she shouldn't be in the movie business; Kasdan pitched it 17 times.
“We pitched it literally 17 times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
Kasdan pitched the film to studios 17 times; his producer said it was what a screenplay is supposed to be.
“We pitched it literally 17 times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:28:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Big Chill:
JoBeth Williams: for the Costner scene they rented a big house in Atlanta and installed bead curtains, rock posters, incense and 1968 Life magazines.
“they rented a big house in Atlanta and installed bead curtains, rock posters, incense, and 1968 life magazines”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:02 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Big Chill → Bill Clinton.
EW's 15th anniversary review blamed The Big Chill for soundtrack albums, 30-something, and Bill Clinton.
“Hell, blame the big show for Bill Quinton.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:29:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The Big Chill → Wedding Crashers.
Backyard football compared: Big Chill or Wedding Crashers.
“This or Wedding Crashers?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
The Big Chill → Goodfellas.
Nick wouldn't be as chill about a bat as Henry Hill, having seen the second half of Goodfellas.
“We've seen the 2nd half of Goodfellas.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:38:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Succession → The Big Chill.
Harold's bombed eulogy is never mentioned again, unlike Kieran Culkin's character in Succession.
“Having seen what happened to Kieran Culkin's character in succession, you know?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:39:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
The Big Chill → Nick and Nam.
A prestige TV version of Nick bringing drugs back from Vietnam.
“I would watch like a prestige TV version of Nick and Nam.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:41:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
The Big Chill → Goodfellas.
A bit where the Big Chill is cast with Goodfellas-style actors.
“Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Danny Treo?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:41:47 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
The Big Chill → Terms of Endearment.
Later the screenwriting Oscar is argued: Big Chill should have won over Tender Mercies.
“Nah, Big Chelsea should have won.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:43:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Grand Canyon → The Big Chill.
Chosen as the best double feature with The Big Chill, though two hosts are mixed on it.
“Grand Canyon, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:48:35 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Singles → The Big Chill.
Friendship movies loved alongside Kicking and Screaming; realism in a moment.
“I love singles.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:55:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Kicking and Screaming → The Big Chill.
Falls into the same category.
“I love kicking and screaming, and this falls into that category team.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:55:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)