The Ringer - The Rewatchables - Complete List - Text!!!

Searched Google for way too long and never found a good list of the movies they watch/discus on The Ringer's "The Rewatchables." Figured I'd just type it up instead of search for another however long. Current as of May 2023. Give me some love.

10 Things I Hate About You 25th Hour The 40-Year-Old Virgin 48 Hrs. 8mm Above the Rim Adventureland Alien Alive All the President's Men American Gigilo The American President Any Given Sunday Argo Armagedon Austin Powers (1997) Back to the Future Band Boys (1995) Bad Boys (1983) Basic Instinct Batman Beverly Hills Cop Beverly Hills Cop II Big The Big Lebowski Bloodsport Blow Out  Blue Chips Body Heat The Bodyguard Boogie Nights Boomerang The Bourne Identity Boyz N the Hood The Breakfast Club Brides Maids Broadcast News Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Caddyshack Can't Buy Me Love Cape Fear Casino Cast Away Catch Me if You Can City Slickers Cliffhanger Clueless Cobra Cocktail Collateral Coming to America Commando Con Air The Conjuring Contagion Cop Land Country Strong Creed Crimson Tide Cruising Dangerous Minds The Dark Knight Dave Dazed and Confused Dead Poets Society Deliverance Den of Theives The Departed The Devil Wears Prada Die Hard Die Hard 2 Dirty Work Do the Right Thing The Doors Draft Day Dunkirk E.T. Easy A Edge of Tomorrow The Edge Enemy of the State Escape from New York Escape to Victory The Exorcist Face/Off The Fast and the Furious Fast Five Fatal Attraction Father of the Bride Ferris Bueller's Day Off A Few Good Men Field of Dreams Fight Club The Firm

First Blood  Fletch Focus Forgetting Sarah Marshall Forrest Gump Friday The Fugitive Furious 7 The Game Get Out Ghost Gladiator Glengarry GlenRoss The Godfather The Godfather II The Godfather III Gone Girl Good Will Hunting Goodfellas Grease Groundhog Day Halloween The Hangover Happy Gilmore Hard to Kill Hardball He Got Game Heat Higher Learning The Holiday Home Alone Hoosiers I Am Legend The Ice Storm Inception Indecent Proposal Independence Day Inglourioius Basterds The Inside Man Insidious Ironman Jaws Jerry MaGuier JFK John Wick 2 Juice Jurassic Park The Karate Kid Kicking & Screaming King of New York  Knocked Up Kramer vs. Kramer The Last Boy Scout The Last of the Mohicans A League of Their Own Legally Blonde Lethal Weapon Lethal Weapon 2 Limitless Love & Basketball Mad Max: Fury Road Major League Man on Fire Manhunter Margin Call The Martian Mean Girls Memento Miami Vice Michael Clayton Midnight Run Miracle Misery Mission Impossible: Fallout Moneyball Mr. Holland's Opus Mr. Mom Mrs. Doubtfire My Best Friend's Wedding The Natural Neighbors New Jack City No Country for Old Men The Notebook Ocean's Eleven Ocean's Twelve Old School Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood Ordinary People Out of Sight Panic Room Parenthood The Perfect Storm Pineapple Express

Pitch Perfect Plains, Trains, and Automobiles The Player Point Break Predator Pretty Woman The Princess Bride The Program Project X Proof of Life Pump Up the Volume The Purge Rachel Getting Married  Raiders of the Lost Ark Rain Man Ransom Reality Bites Remember the Titans The Rock Rocky III Rocky IV Ronin Rounders The Royal Tenenbaums The Sandlot Saturday Night Fever Saving Private Ryan Say Anything Scent of a Woman School Ties Scream Se7en The Shawshank Redemption The Shining Shooter Sideways The Silence of the Lambs Singles Skyfall Sleeping with the Enemy Sleepless in Seattle The Social Network Speed Spiderman Spotlight St. Elmo's Fire Stand by Me A Star is Born Step Brothers Stripes Sudden Death Superbad Swingers Taken The Talented Mr. Ripley Tango and Cash Taxi Driver Teen Wolf The Terminator The Terminator 2: Judgement Day There Will Be Blood  Thief Titanic Tombstone Tommy Boy Top Gun Top Gun: Maverick Total Recall The Town  Toy Story Training Day Trainspotting True Romance Unfaithful Unforgiven Unstoppable The Untouchables The Usual Suspects The Vanishing Varsity Blues The Verdict Vision Quest Wall Street Warrior The Warriors Wedding Crashers What About Bob? When Harry Met Sally... While You Were Sleeping Whiplash White Men Can't Jump The Wolf of Wall Street You've Got Mail Zodiac

True Romance is the greatest movie of all time

True Romance. Must have thought it was white boy day. My introduction to Quentin Tarantino. With Once Upon a Time In Hollywood coming out tomorrow I'm revisiting this magnificent flick that totally blew my little mind as a child. Tarantino through the eyes of Tony Scott, this movie is perfect. I've watched it 20 times since 1993 and pick up new details every single time. This, not one of Tarantino's 10, is for me, depending on the day, top three movies he's written. I really, really love this flick.

Rotten Tomato Consensus: Fueled by Quentin Tarantino's savvy screenplay and a gallery of oddball performances, Tony Scott's True Romance is a funny and violent action jaunt in the best sense.

On days when Tarantino comes out with a new movie, that should be a national holiday. I've got too much shit over the next week and am going to have to sandwich seeing With Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (which sort of feels like a companion movie for TR, another industry movie that takes place in L.A.) in on a day I've got shit going down, work on Thursday/Friday, trivia on Thursday, 2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen on Friday, my female companion is out doing shit all day on Saturday, volunteering on Sunday. If I had spaced out my time off better, I'd have taken the day off on Friday. As it stands now... Sorry, babe, Saturday is the day I'm seeing this. Don't worry though, I'll probably see it again.

Anyway, True Romance. Detroit comic book store guy Clarence Worley, played by Christian Slater, meets and marries a bubbly and adorable prostitute, Alabama Whitman played by Patricia Arquette. This leads to him murdering her pimp and stealing a shitload of cocaine which they try to sell to a filmmaker in Hollywood. However, the Mob and the police find out and shit goes down in what is more or less a Tarantino autobiographical wish fulfillment movie. The cast for this movie is incredible. Like holy shit. Appearances include James Gandolfini who is brilliant as this monster of Mob hit man in the first thing anyone had really ever seen him in, Dennis Hopper as Clarence's dad, Samuel L. Jackson as a random drug dealer killed by Alabama's pimp, Val Kilmer as Elvis (don't ask), Gary Oldman as drug dealer/pimp Drexl, Chris Penn and Tom Sizemore as cops, Bronson Pinchot (most known for his as Balki from the sitcom Perfect Strangers) plays a pivotal idiot who sets up the deal between Clarence and filmmaker Lee Donowitz played by Saul Rubinek, Brad Pitt as Floyd (easily my favorite character), Michael Rapaport as the friend in Hollywood, and Christopher Walken as the Mob boss.

Here's some interesting shit about Oldman's Drexl character who has the best lines in the movie. He gets to say that Clarence "must of thought it was white boy day" and "Y'know what we got here? Motherfuckin' Charlie Bronson." Dude based it on his personal drug dealer. Apparently Tony Scott told him he is a white dude who thinks he is black. Oldman was like, I've got it and rolled with it. This was according to interviews Scott did. Oldman, however, walked that back, saying he didn't have a drug dealer. This was a different time when smoking pot wasn't as socially acceptable. He said he based it off of kids in his neighborhood or some such shit. He really rolls with it when he sizes up Clarence, making a bunch of assumptions that Clarence then shoots to shit in one of the many unforgettable back and forths in the film. Shit is perfect. Most of this I learned from The Ringer who did a Rewatchable on the movie last year. If you like Bill Simmons, love that guy, and this movie, you have to check this out.

While Oldman is truly unforgettable, Brad Pitt's character Floyd, the stoner on the couch, has long been my favorite. Don't condescend him, man, he'll fucking kill you. He is the ultimate lazy stoner, my people. Dude is my spirit animal. For real.

Really hard to say who the MVP of the movie was. Maybe Arquette who was conceived as Tarantino's dream girl (and it shows as she is really cute and really cool) for her unbelievable performance, Scott for his vision in directing this slick sort of light film that we never get with Tarantino, or Tarantino for this masterful script that definitely is part of his interconnected universe. Ultimately, went with Tarantino, who planned on financing Reservoir Dogs with what he made off this script. See Tarantino gave Tony Scott both RD and True Romance to read to try to get made. Scott wanted to make RD but by the time Scott was ready to make one of the films, Tarantino had already set his mind on directing RD. Was using the $50,000 he got for the script to pay for RD but when Harvey Keitel read the script and agreed to star, Tarantino and producer Lawrence Bender were able to raise $1.5 million for the film. You can read more about it at Film School Rejects. Something else that is pretty cool is that Keitel's character, Mr. White, in RD which came out a year before TR, is asked by Joe Cabot, the older bald leader guy that looks like The Thing, about "Alabama." Mr. White tells him him that they haven't worked together for a year and a half. This was part of the Tarantino shared universe but Scott changed the ending of the script as Clarence was supposed to die with Bama apparently working on steeling jewels with Mr. White.

Hell Baby is the greatest movie of all time

Hell Baby. Absurd. If you like movies like Scary Movie, then you will like this. About the same3 grade level. I mean, it's sort of dumb and isn't anything new... But the cast is great and it made me legit LOL. So that is something. Can't say that about too many movies. Plus, it got me crazy for a Po' Boy sammy and some of those good ass Zapp's Voodoo chips. It's my burfday and I went to the farmer's market and got all the things I needed for a breaded oyster mushroom variety and got the chips and looked about town for some Abita Amber which I couldn't find. Got the root beer instead. It's tits. And OMG y'all. This was a meal, let me tell you. This movie, which takes place in N'Olans, totally inspired this once a year (month) type of feast.

Rotten Tomato Consensus: Though its brand of immature comedy may appeal to some, Hell Baby misses the mark with much of its humor, rendering it a largely ineffective -- and often crass -- genre sendup.

Rotten Tomato has this flick at 31%. What the fuck is that shit? I mean, there is some dumb stuff. Like this naked old lady (a young dude in makeup) who is always trying to get sexy with Rob Corddry. Or that Keegan-Michael is just allowed to squat under the main couple's home. But this movie has more baby punching than every other film I've ever seen combined. You'll likely easily quadruple the amount of baby punching you've seen lifetime if you make it to the end of this glorious film. Greatest movie of all time.

Anyway. Yeah, cast is stellar. Corddry, Leslie Bibb whom you'll probably know from the first couple Iron Man movies or as the wife in Talladega Nights or Trick 'r Treat, Key from Key and Peele and MadTV fame, Riki Lindhome who is straight up naked for a solid (and pretty hilarious) minute, Rob Huebel who is totally a that guy, Paul Scheer who does like every podcast not a part of The Ringer that I listen to, Robert Ben Garant who was Junior from Reno 911!, Thomas Lennon (Dangle), the Michael Ian Black, and Kumail Nanjiani (the Pakistani dude from Silicon Valley) who is so goddamned funny in this and is so fucking hot right now. I'd watch pretty much anything with the Reno guys and IMB. All these people are funny as shit.

Favorite scene of the flick is after Corddry (the dad), Key as his squatting houseguest, his sister in-law (Lindhome, the blonde from Period Piece, and Nanjiani (who is just there in his capacity as the cable guy hooking up their internet connection) are doing a "Native American" blessing ritual of the house, basically just smoking a shit ton of weed, there is an earthquake that happens just inside the house, the demons don't like this apparently, and Nanjiani goes to leave. Everyone is all like, "are you okay to drive, man?" and delivers the best line of the flick, "well, I'm really high... so, we'll find out." He then gets in his work van and proceeds to drive off at a mile and a half an hour until he hits a neighbors trash can, knocks it over, and pushes it down the block. At some point he realizes there is something slowing him down, puts it in reverse, backs up two or three feet, and proceeds to drive into it again. Ah, high driving. The old "you'll get there eventually." Indeed, hilarious. ABs says "watch that shits".