without fail, if they do a rewatchable.. i go back and check the movie out. i love this pod

Denzel Washington hardly ever makes a bad movie. I've enjoyed most of his movies. So many of them. Crimson Tide, Out of Time, Man on Fire, Training Day, The Pelican Brief, the Manchurian Candidate, Inside Man, Courage Under Fire, Fallen, John Q, Safe House, The Equalizer, Virtuacity, The Seige, Deja Vu, etc etc etc

Underrated Will Smith film. Regina King does her thing as always.

Sizemore had a sizable role in Black Hawk down 3 years after this, one of my favorite parts in that film.

Will Smith's Best Film And yea.....Gene Hackman made this film a Classic

Focus IS underrated

Loved this movie as a kid

Great podcast series. It’s about time you did this movie. Just want to say Ali works in every way and is one of his best films. He should’ve won an Oscar for it.

If Will Smith did Django, we would've been brought back to memories of Wild Wild West by the trailer alone. Not fair, but him in a cowboy suit is tainted forever.

I need a 10 min monologue from Bill as to why he thinks Sharon Stone's performance in Basic Instinct is the best performance of all time 😅

With Enemy Of the State and The Siege for the best movies that were way ahead of there time and would see both on broadcast and cable on the weekend during the 2000s

Could this be remade as a 10 episode Netflix show? I'm going with yes. - Bill (Yes!! Cuz we would want Lisa Bonet would be in like 4 episodes)

I did not expect their to be a 6 minute segment of “why did Will Smith never become Daniel Day Lewis” ... what the hell was that lol. His blockbuster run was insane and he made some great different genre flicks ... Pursuit Of Happiness, Hitch, Legend Of Bagger Vance ... all classics in their own right. Hancock aged ridiculously well. I Robot and I Am Legend I can watch now ... yeah he turned down Neo and Django. Okay man lol ... it’s okay. He survived lol

HE MAKES THE CONVERSATION ALSO. THE BETTER VERSION OF THIS MOVIE

How are the views so low in this one? This is a great movie for what it is and grew more relevant over time.

I love this movie!!!

Will Smith plays Will Smith in most of his movies. Even in Ali, I remember my grandmother saying Will Smith sounded too smart.

Great episode guys and amazing insight on Hackman (who has said that he stopped working when he could not find scripts to his calibre anymore - hence we did not see him take on stupid comedy roles and/or idiotic genre flics).

Wonderful!! I was really waiting for this one!

Will Smith was nominated twice for an Oscar and that's fine to me. "Ali" and "Pursuit of Happyness" are good roles for him.

1998 - I was 18. I did have a cell phone and no, people weren't really texting til about '03/'04, maybe even '05, b/c you were charged per text. Many of my friends still had beepers tho

I think podcast should be on KZfaq so clips could be shown. Great movie. I remember watching it back then thinking yeah it’s possible by why would someone spy on us regular people. 😂boy was I wrong. Information is currency now.

Chris Ryan had a cell phone in 98. If you were a teen at that time, you know that was the hallmark of a rich kid.

Am i the only one that doesnt find Lisa Bonet as attractive as these three,especially Bill,find her to be?I mean she is beautiful obviously,but they just went overboard

Simmons’ nitpick is silly. I just asked my wife how long it would take to forgive me for cheating with Lisa Bonet, and she said “why would I be angry at you for cheating with Lisa Bonet?”

A "techno vision of North by Northwest". It's also a role that Gene Hackman is reprising of a previous role. I'm only slightly disappointed that this character's name is not Harry Caul, as it was previously.

You guys also missed the fact that Scott Caan’s hair inspired Syndrome in the Incredibles. Brotherhood of the Gun should be on Rewatchables

You say this movie's ahead of it's time, but I always thought this was exactly of its time. It came out right as some of the surveillance technology was crossing over to the civilian sector, but before 9/11 and the Patriot Act. It's basically a 70s political thriller a la the Conversation, Parallax View, 3 Days of the Condor, updated to the early Internet age.

Barry pepper in 25thb hour, “anyone ever tell you you look like a fucking optical illusion?” lol😂

Really rewatchable. The big arc of your discussion makes me wonder how you think through Spielberg’s career. How could you guys miss Ed Harris as a good comparison for the power presence Hackman’s career turned out to be? You guys hit the sweet spot on the support cast but did you guys miss Sizemore as part of the supporting cast list?

This definitely needs more views

When you bring up Will Smith acting variety, you have to bring up his cameo in Winter's Tale, dramatic attempt in 7 pounds, and him being in one of the biggest Rom Coms of all time in Hitch.

Funniest (and most ironic) Will Smith move being just a small role lending his star power to a movie that ended up backfiring: his cameo playing himself in Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl when he runs into Ben Affleck's character who was fired from the company representing Smith at the time of Fresh Prince simply cuz he didn't see Smith as a movie star and his appearance as the wise advisor unknowingly helping Affleck who never believed in him in a movie that was doomed before it was even seen thanks to the humongous flop Gigli is just such a waste of that very move of being a less-is-more big reveal cameo.

I think Will Smith got type cast early with Sci Fi movies. I do think he was good in this movie, although he was carried by Hackman. He definitely benefited from playing next to really good people, like Hackman or Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black. I do think Pursuit of Happiness is easily his best performance in my view.

The Lisa Bonet park makes me laugh every time

Condor is a TV show with a good man-on-the-run premise, at least for a large part of the first season.

Hackman makes everything great; he's amazing

Remember Jon Voights birthdate in the movie was 9/11

I love this film!

LOVE ME SOME BILL SIMMONS

Hackman is an absolute legend. Popeye and Little Bill alone make him a Hall of Famer.

The great Kane Hodder was a stunt driver in this movie.

did you guys do unforgiven or crimson tide?

Awsome movie. When they talk about a actor's comming out of retirment. I feel you can put Jack Nicholson in the category or Warren Battey.

49:29 LMFAO

I never knew about the Time interview, but that explains a few things. He wanted to make big budget movies that make money. That's fine, but it probably won't result in a lot of Best Actor Oscars.

Hackman is the GOAT actor

You mentioned Lauren dean and Jason Lee but didn't mention Mumford!

Van should’ve been on this podcast all of the subtle things that Will Smith is portraying as a successful black lawyer whose world is completely turned upside down and inside out is completely lost on them.

Pheobe Cates, Lisa Bonnet, Heather Locklear, Jennifer Beals. 80s movie Mt. Rushmore.

I would really like to see a Rewatchables for the Michael Douglas movie, 'The Game'

This movie is a masterpiece and i don't use that word lightly ..i mean it when I say it..its without a doubt my favorite Tony Scott(and i love pretty much all his movies) film and probably my favorite from Will too..the cast is crazy, the story never slows down but doesn't go so fast where it lost me and i first saw it in 1999 when i was 13 ..its only gotten better as my knowledge grew though that also revealed some flaws but they're nitpicks when so much in this movie is done right...the shit they do with technology in this movie i remember thinkin it was impossible when I first saw it but ffwd almost 25 years and i realize what they did was most likely more than possible even back then..but the cast has to be one of my favorites in any movie, tv show etc with Will and Gene both effortlessly elevating the movie but then u got Jon Voight(i love that guy in everything ive ever seen him in) Regina King, Tom Sizemore,Barry Pepper,Jack Black,Jake Busey, Scott Caan, Jason Lee... the cast has to be my favorite part of the film but the story is also pretty amazing and Tony's direction only makes things better...it's a High Full Price of a movie for me...I've seen it at least 50 times and it never gets old and almost certainly never will..i hope u resting peacefully Tony

Pursuit of happiness

will smith oscar talk seems ironic now

Gene Hackman Won this movie Eassy

Hackman is arguably the best actor of all time. Him, Pacino, Nicholson, Robin Williams and Bale are in a league of their own in my opinion.

I discovered this movie when a guest on Coast 2 Coast said this was done to her, it's a documentary. Don't cross your Uncle Sam. He will f*ck you up.

yall, should do RED OCTOBER, best screen play ever

Chris just has to squeeze a 'troika' in there...

Lisa Bonet. Apologies for spelling wrong

Winter Kills is on amazon prime

i think BS is wrong. the movie needs the slow pace in the beginning, it helps to feel the unhuman speed and uncertanty the rest of the movie wants to show. one hour of persuit is exhausting enough. love this movie. and you are 100% right about Will Smith's career. unfortunatly.

Y’all need to do American Beauty

*batting average of 1000, not 100 lol

Will Smith was a bonafide A-lister after Bad Boys (1995)

You all are discussing Will Smith as if he is Denzel or Leo...Will Smith didn't go to acting school and start his career pining to be taken serious as an actor...he is a guy from Philly on his way to MIT, but charming enough to make rap work to a Grammy winning level on the 80s...Grammy...Now if your great actor won an Oscar as a 19/20 year old as a lead you all would excuse so much...(Matt Damon?)...but Will's journey shouldn't be graded with the same rubric as other actors, because he HAS WON ar every level of his life and won big...

The falcon and the snowman Sean Penn I forget the other guys name1983 watch it!

Always loved gene hackman in get shorty

Will Smith in Snake Eyes would've been fucking bizarre

Enemy of the State is like if 4Chan on mescaline

ali is the last great movie will smith made? ...I am legend, Pursuit of Happiness, Seven Pounds, Concussion

Why don't you guys watch the movies with us?

Never seen movie...Don't care...Still watching this.

Gene Hackman? Think a minute about his short role in Young Frankenstein. He's definitely WAY better than Pacino.

had a father that was in communication so we had the first cell phone, it was a brick. a call costed 5.00

Elevator scene all the time.....Top Gun....please

"He's not ready"??? LoL...guess we all have different lens...Will is younger now than Gene was in this movie... 7 pounds, Hitch, Focus, Happyness, Robot, ...people dump on so many of his projects but burden of being that big... Rando...Will in Made in America...he was very good in a rare supporting role

Will Smith has a wide receiver attitude, only hes not a player.

Will Smith is a wonderful, successful movie star and he doesn't need any of us tell what he should have or should've not done with his career. With that said, bless his heart, I thought he was going to be the next Denzel and he wasn't (in terms of acting I mean) and I do feel a little disappointed in how his career turned out vis a vis what is considered "serious acting". You can chalk up turning down The Matrix as a mistake, pretty much every big movie star has at least one role that they turned down that they might regret (or that others judge to be a mistake), but turning down Django Unchained told me everything I needed to know about him. He just doesn't want "that" and I have made peace with it, not that he is asking me for advice or anything.

The excessive, repetitive Lisa Bonet references ruined this

And, somehow Will Smith picked Wild Wild West over the Matrix.

I think Lisa Bonet is better looking and cooler than Zoe.

Let's be clear, Ali is a plodding, boring film about arguably the most dynamic and exciting person of the 60's. Anyone who can make Muhammad Ali boring doesn't deserve a fucking Oscar. Ali was the beginning of Michael Mann's decline as a director.

Russell Ira Crowe

Will Smith is the Vince Carter of actors

Will Smith film career has been so underwhelming. Enemy of the state, hitch, pursuit of happiness, iamlegend, six degrees of separation is Will Smith at his best

Will Smith intentionally modeled himself after Tom Cruise.

Woah... all this will talk and no mention of Pursuit of Happyness??

Will Smith has the worst filmography for an A list actor

This is my favorite podcast but so many of the movie choices lately just aren’t rewatchable. No one is watching this movie multiple times and having conversations about it.

Awesome movie, amazing retrospective. But Bill, .100 is NOT a good batting average! 54:01

C'mon. Will Smith just isn't that good. He makes too many bad movies. He is box office, though, no question. But it isn't his acting talent.

Will Smith may have a lot money making movies or made a lot of money-makers, but he stinks as an actor. "A chance to be the next Denzel"? Are you freaking kidding me? He's not 10% of an actor as Denzel. Whenever he tries to be "serious," it comes off as fake and cheap.

Corny movie....

Dustin Hoffmann is defintely getting the grocoeries.