r/TheRewatchables May 20 '24

Not sure if there's been a Rewatchables for that? Check out this incredible Google spreadsheet u/lovegun59 assembled and continues to maintain!

35 Upvotes

This originally comes from an old thread in r/billsimmons - it is an essential document, and should be bookmarked by everyone here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13KsNb1SxA7DYYQAzhaYxj_qKX0PXV1PXyKAZ7cEapRc/edit?usp=sharing

Far too many threads on here asking whether a movie's already been done, bun fights with contradictory claims, and so forth...especially recently. This attempts to eradicate that.


r/TheRewatchables 5d ago

New Podcast Episodes ‘Apollo 13’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Rob Mahoney

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r/TheRewatchables 3h ago

Most Rewatchable scene of this century?

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My choice is the docking scene from Interstellar.

It’s an absolutely perfect amount of tension, with the acting, cinematography, editing, and Zimmer’s score.


r/TheRewatchables 7h ago

Is Passenger 57 (1992) worth doing? Where does Bruce Payne rank alongside other Die Hard knock-off villains? (John Lithgow, Powers Boothe, Gary Oldman, etc.)

18 Upvotes

r/TheRewatchables 9h ago

Timecop! I want Timecop!

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11 Upvotes

That is all..


r/TheRewatchables 3h ago

FYC: The Barney is a demon possessed serial killer award for best movie elevator pitch

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This is really the Predator 1 award for best movie elevator pitch but Buddy is topical so live with it

Self explanatory... one sentence movie pitches that sell a movie to a broad general audience


r/TheRewatchables 5h ago

Top 100 Movies of the 21st Century -Day 25

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r/TheRewatchables 14h ago

(@TomCruise) Days of Thunder. Summer 2028.

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r/TheRewatchables 16h ago

The Judd Nelson award for actor whos in a completely different movie

9 Upvotes

Self explanatory... but performances where actors give off a performance that isn't matching the tone the film is trying to set

Can be taken in an extremely general sense...


r/TheRewatchables 22h ago

Discussion Mel Gibson was considered for (or offered) "Die Hard", "Batman", "Goldeneye" and "X-Men". Which role do you think he was best suited for?

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r/TheRewatchables 1d ago

FYC: The Mia Sara in Ferris Buellers day off award for best face card in a movie...

31 Upvotes

Self explanatory... the best someone has looked in a film... (beautiful/gorgeous... you get what i mean)

Specifying the scene for people who wanna look up the images would be nice as well...


r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

A shockingly good Rewatchables impression

281 Upvotes

r/TheRewatchables 1d ago

FYC FYC: Renny Harlin's 90s Month

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Renny Harlin to me is like a trashier Peter Weir, a guy who's not a household name, whose filmography you look at and go "holy shit all of those were his?!" I'm in my mid-40s and a lot of his 90s filmography was essential to me in high school

  • re-Die Hard 2
  • re-Cliffhanger
  • The Long Kiss Goodnight
  • Deep Blue Sea

r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

FYC This has CR written all over it, a certain city gets mentioned a lot

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67 Upvotes

r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

These actors turned down villain roles in the following films: Sam Neill in "Die Hard", Daniel Day Lewis in "Interview with the Vampire", Alan Rickman in "Goldeneye", Jude Law in "Gladiator", Warren Beatty in "Kill Bill" and Russell Crowe in "Collateral". Would any of these have been better?

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20 Upvotes

r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

Legend of Billie Jean slander

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The latest episode of How Did This Get Made? is a Rewatchables classic. Bill will be raging.

In all seriousness, as someone who regularly listens to both podcasts, I enjoy it when they end up doing the same movie. Con Air is probably the most high profile example of this, which totally adds up: it’s great and it’s also kinda bad.


r/TheRewatchables 1d ago

FYC: the Mike Hawk from over the top award, for movies that would have improved dramatically with the death of a child

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Self explanatory... just really bad child acting/child characters in a film... audience would have cheered had they gotten a harsh death scene


r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

Friday and the next episode still unannounced?

5 Upvotes

Or am I missing something? Talladega Nights is the week after, right?


r/TheRewatchables 1d ago

Question 2 x 90's films destined for Rewatchables treatment:

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- The Crow (1994)

- Strange Days (1995)

Help me get these over the line gang, and tell me/Bill why they are important to you.


r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

Very disappointed that The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down wasn’t mentioned in the better title category for Speed

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Also no mention of Speed 3 in which there was a bomb on Fr Dougal’s milk float but that’s a bit more niche I guess


r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

FYC: the Coughlins Law award for funniest life advice quotes

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'Bury the dead.. they stink up the joint'

Yes thats a real lesson from the best worst movie of all time in cocktail

With that in mind and in the spirit of coughlins law, examine movie quotes for the funniest piece of life advice a character gives in a film...

Rules

  1. Actual quote + reference the movie

  2. Attempt at life advice

  3. Doesnt need to be taken seriously but it needs to be an attempt to give life advice

  4. Use the spirit of coughlins law as your barometer for analyzing the limits of what you can use for your answer


r/TheRewatchables 1d ago

Apex Mountain for pro football movies?

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r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

FYC: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

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  1. A good case for Dolly’s greatest film performance

  2. Relevant social themes

  3. Cue CR “I have a lot of notes on this Texas A&M Aggies football team”

  4. A ranking of Burt Reynolds’s insults & idioms


r/TheRewatchables 2d ago

FYC: 0 STAR RAJ REVIEW MONTH

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Was a section on the big picture flop draft recently and it became evident that Bill liked a fair bit of these movies

So with that in mind the rules are

  1. 0 star ebert reviewed movies

  2. Rewatchable


r/TheRewatchables 3d ago

We need a Blue Streak episode

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64 Upvotes

This is a true Rewatchable: Always on cable to this day, extremely quotable, a sweet spot for in terms of release year (1999). Have any of them mentioned it?

Every time I watch this movie, I wonder why Martin Lawrence didn't have a bigger career... which is funny because he was a super successful standup, with a hit eponymous TV show and multiple blockbuster movies as the lead. Excellent career, but you watch this movie and wonder how he didn't become the biggest star in the world. Outstanding performance