Bill "there was a run in the 90's" Simmons.

Bill "I'm older than both of you" Simmons

Finally, we are getting more video podcasts 🙌

Absolutely love everything about this film. I’ll never forget being 15 and seeing it in the theatre, Nortons performance absolutely blew me away

Just crazy how Norton came out of nowhere with this movie. I love watching a famous actor’s first big movie that gave them heat.

Man, the fact that I just happened to watch this, on this day of all days. RIP, Andre Braugher

Chris nails Wayne Jenkins EVERY SINGLE TIME 😂😂😂 he is the best! 1:17:59

I gotta tell you guys the rewatchable is my favorite podcast, ive watched a few classics like 10 times, jist such an easy listen

If there's no 'The Devil's Advocate' this month, we riot!!!

Looking back at his filmography, this might be my favorite Ed Norton performance. Which makes it even crazier that it was his first big role.

90’s was a such a great era of movies. Yes, we started to get the mindless dopey blockbuster movies, but studios were still making great films like ‘Primal Fear’ to balance the calendar out. Now it’s comic book movie, reboot franchise movie, comic book movie, etc.

My dad told me that when he was 29 years old and he watched this movie when it got released, it was the first time he'd seen people clapping at the end of a movie. Norton's performance in this movie is just phenomenal, and the fact that it didn't win him an oscar is so unfair.

Great movie. An incredible introduction for Ed Norton.

Yes - Richard Gere as Mayo was great! "I got nowhere else to go! I got NOWHERE else to go!"

Martin Vail does address the insanity defense. He (correctly) states how hard it is to prove. Laura Linney mentions her disappointment that they didn’t try it because her shrinks would have “torn him apart”. None of you guys caught these multiple references?

Sean Fennessey is great. His point about Gere being introspective about the type of actor he is or may be perceived to be is excellent. Great work guys

The pipes are bursting again, John

Thank you for a Rewatchables with video. This is the best content on the internet!!!

The bit on "the usual" at 1:10:10 is hands down one of the funniest moments on this show. So glad Craig jumped in too.

Birdman is rewatchable!

I rewatch these pods more than I rewatch the films you talk about... Except for Heat- I've seen that film almost 200 times.

The Internal Affairs character that Gere plays, is amazing He is beautiful in Pretty Woman. Primal Fear is a great movie. His interactions with Linney and Norton are wonderful.

I love how The Podfather loops around to “Be careful…” and points at Fennesy. Fucking GOAT

The Practice covered everything.

Norton gets all the glory and deservedly so, but Gere was perfect as well playing an arrogant and tabloid-loving high profile attorney. Perfect casting

Wow! I was only watching Internal Affairs last week hoping there had been a rewatchables, great show as always!

John Barleycorn's is definitely a real place. I went there once and it was douchebag central.

Laura Linney reminds me of the perennial 'lady lawyer' on TV haha

55:30 - in Brazil the title of this movie is "As Duas Faces de um Crime" something like The Two Faces of a Crime

59:00 Bill's outta nowhere hottest take is insane lol

Ed Norton has duel personalities in another: THE SCORE 4 PEAT! Something Larry Legend never did or Bill B

Picking nit - When Vail returns to the victim's place and switches the VHS tape, labels never come off as easy as that.

Ed Norton is amazing in ‘Kingdom in Heaven’

I actually think Gregory Hoblit is slept on as one of the great directors, he does thrillers so well. Primal Fear, Fallen, Frequency and Fracture are all GREAT movies.

@1:17:58 for CR's Wayne Jenkins

yep, my mother also loves Richard Gere, tho my mother is the exact same age --- same day, same year

Best movie star debut...Bale in Empire of the Sun...feel like it's not close

Linney also made the Clint Eastwood movie Absolute Power in '97

When are you doing The Insider? Michael Mann! Courtroom scene!

I read the book way before the movie. “Roy” is the bad guy all the time.

SF is my guy. Frasier is goated!!!!!

Fennessy giving serial killer vibes.

Norton in Death To Smoochy is amazing. Smoochy the character is up there with Derek Vinyard and Worm. Yeah I said it. I'll die on the "D2S Rulz" hill

1:20:41 Definitely need more of Podcast Roy

"Maura Tierney... Went on a date with her sister once.." "What?!" "Yea. Terry O'Quinn!" 😂

1:18:09 Wayne Jenkins

I'm with Sean, I enjoyed the slow clap in this movie but don't care for it much otherwise

I’m with Sean on the “the usual” discussion. Also hilarious that a Budweiser picture is behind him during this discussion about a Bud Light

Yep

Well God damn Bill Simmons! I didn't know I was dealing with a certified cenophile! Im going to need you to send some more of these my way big boy!

Michael Clayton is my fav Clooney movie

Gere - no oscar noms but he has golden globes a few times, think he took the golden globe for Chicago

I'll agree Clooney's had more misses than hits behind the camera - but Good Night, and Good Luck is a PHENOMENAL movie.

PODCAST ROY. YES

Runaway Jury should be in the mix!

Idris Elba -- had he not been in The Wire, I think he would still have just bounced around, here and there

Bill looks hanmered

Norton did well voicing in monsters inc

Mildly disagree about Everyone Says I Love You. Not a great movie, but a fun one if you’re in the mood for it. Norton’s great in it, trying to do an old school NY musical along with a cast that would never get asked to do one otherwise. It’s fun because you see them having fun doing it. Tim Roth lowkey steals every scene he’s in.

I can’t believe they haven’t done Truman show

No. Was so mad when Cuba won for Jerry Maguire. Love that movie, Cuba was good in it --- not good enough to beat Ed Norton or any of the other actors in the category that year, no way

I gotta go with McAvoy in Split/Glass for the best split personality performance.

how has Runaway Jury not come up in this run of courtroom stuff?

Keep referring to Norton as a kid in Primal Fear. His character is supposed to be a kid, but Norton was 26

Yo Bill TRAFFIC Leaves netflix August 1st ..🍿

“John you need some new material…..”

I disagree. The Verdict's best scene was when Kaitlyn Costello said on the stand, "Who were these men? I wanted to be a nurse!"

Gere was Clooney before Clooney... Or poss anti-Clooney in that Clooney is that handsome friendly ladies man that plays himself in every movie whereas Gere is that handsome prick that plays himself every movie lol

Why Craig was hating on the slow clap?

Liar Liar next

55 STABBINGS 55 FINGERS CHOPPED OFF 55 THTOATS SLASHED 55 LETTERS CARVED INTO CHEST BUT THATS ME

They should have had the bartender say "you want the usual?" Or the bartender coupd have just brought it. Both would establish she's a regular drinker of cheap bar at the establishment and also fit in the bud light ad.

Get Van and do a time to kill

1:23:33 the guys gloss over a pretty major problem I have with this movie. Why would anybody believe Norton's courtroom outburst was evidence of "insanity?" The movie has already clearly established that insanity defenses are absurd. One reason insanity defenses are absurd is because anybody could just act crazy. Why else was the prosecutor openly mocking insanity claims earlier in the film? Norton's character was highly incentivized to act crazy, and everybody just bought it because he seemed convincing? I don't buy it.

Butcher Boy is a llittle on the nose, Bill

Matt Damon CLEARSSSSSSSS Norton and it’s NOT EVEN CLOSE! He has so many banger movies that are MASSIVE and culturally relevant.

just get a Cigarette company to sponsor the pod already LMAO

Never understood the Maura Tierney appeal

Yep, love Mahoney --- think he was a good bad guy. Also not a Frasier fan. David Hyde Pierce is great tho, Bill

How does this have only 400 likes? wtaf.... People are basically obtuse and moronci these days

Christopher Reeve declined American Gigalo and Pretty Woman.

I don't expect the Rewatchables to do a deep dive into Howard Hawks or DeMille or anything like that, but the recency bias is so thick you can cut it with a knife. The best debut performance EVER? In the history of movies? But of course, that history started in the 70's - nothing existed before Spielberg and Lucas, right? (The screen was formless and void, and Spielberg said, "Let there be Jaws", and there were movies.) So it goes without saying that "courtroom month" will not even mention the movie any actual lawyer will tell you is the greatest courtroom movie ever (a lot of law schools even show it in class), one I find endlessly rewatchable - Anatomy of a Murder. But... 1959?! Black and white?! Jimmy Stewart?! No way! The funny thing is, Bill Simmons would fly into a rage if he met someone who wanted to talk hoops but their implicit assumption was that no one played basketball before LeBron James.

The take at the start of the podcast... about Richard Gere not really being that good of an actor... I think is true. I mean look at the scene where he gets angry over the fact the the third-guy-case is falling apart... not very convincing, or at least, not very engaging.

Psycho. Isn't "Psycho" the winner?

This movie sucked ass.

Richard Gere is a terrible actor.

The CR doing Wayne Jenkins is so played out. I can't stand it.

Aside from Norton's perf, this movie sucks.

Rewatched this movie b/c of this. It's not very good. The twist is the only notable part. Not actually rewatchable.