The Rewatchables

It's also worth noting that Moneyball, the book, is 0-2?

It started with Moneyball.

Moneyball, that's a good example that they have talked about sometimes where it's like every once in a while, you just wanna see a movie star, a big movie star.

Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, The Natural, League of Their Own, you know, Moneyball, a couple others just missing the cut.

I love racing movies... Moneyball. Cars doing cool shit.

Moneyball was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables.

I think when you watch something like Presumed Innocent or you watch like some of the prestige series where they're like, I'm trying to like stretch this twist out over eight hours.

To me, it starts there with that and Presumed Innocent. With the Scott Turow book and then Grisham and those books.

Bonnie Bedelia ... She's in this and Presumed Innocent, two of the top 12 movies in 1990.

He's writing basically his version of Presumed Innocent about Chris Chambers.

Presumed Innocent? Who's Henry's wife?

Sam's book is fantastic about this, which I haven't read in a while, but the fifties was, uh, really fun and really hit a lot of this has a quiz show chapter in it, uh, about 21.

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He's on The Book of Basketball, me and him talking about Julia Serving.

Also, The Book of Basketball, my podcast, that has another one coming out on Thursday night.

Don't forget book of basketball is coming at you later this week.

I built a chapter of my basketball book built around him. It was the greatest team's chapter

Book of Basketball 2. I'm going to get Isaiah Thomas. I'm going to be like, hold on. Yeah. Hold on. Wait. What's the secret?

I think this is the best thing I've read since The Godfather.

Why is this the Irish Godfather? Well, it's by default, really. It's not as good as The Godfather.

Plus this was a monster book. Yeah. So this book came out in 1969. It's been 67 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Usually when you make the movie based on the book, people just read the book. It's hard to surprise people.

Plus this was a monster book. Yeah. So this book came out in 1969. It's been 67 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Coppola clearly, when he read the book and thought about the idea and took a lot out of the book and decided that he wanted to make something that really aspired to serious commentary using old fashioned ideas about story structure and characters.

And also the book was- There's a whole backstory with Puzo, sold the rights. He developed it with Evans.

If you read the novel Clockers, that ...

Clockers. Clockers. Clockers. Great role from him. You remember Clockers, right? Yeah.

I mean, he's written two of my favorite books, Lush Life and Clockers.

I think it is on, it is the B side to Clockers. I think, I mean, Clockers for me, Clockers for me might be my 25th Hour.

And I think that Clockers is one of his two or three deepest fiction films.

The Shining 7.

if you just watch The Shining on the surface or even A Clockwork Orange which is a crazy movie but if you just watch ...

I think the two best films made out of Stephen King material are the two that are the least horror. They're the ones that are the most real and rooted in human experience... We've already did Rewatchables and The Shining.

The Pelican Brief is when it comes back.

Pelican brief instead of all the president's men.

I think they stopped making Grisham movies with runaway jury, but he wrote like 15, 20 more books or whatever.

Like Pelican brief is like an incredible idea for a movie and a book.

My dad took me to see The Shining.

We saw The Shining.

It reminds me of The Shining.

The people are on edge because it's The Shining, it's one of the most frightening movies.

Those would be the four best ones. And The Shining he didn't even like.

Like The Shining is just an incredible idea.

We haven't done Bonfire of the Vanities yet.

It's a great novel by Tom Wolfe that we still need to cover.

Bonfire of the Vanities, in which he's miscast

Bonfire of the Vanities is right up there too.

From the author of The Firm and The Client comes a time audiences will always remember. A riveting thriller. The best Grisham yet.

John Grisham had said he witnessed the harrowing testimony of a 12 year old rape victim and kind of went down the road of what would happen if the girl's father killed the assailants. And that was how he ended up doing a time to kill, which was his, I think the first book he wrote.

The Client, Just Cause, Primal Fear, Time to Kill, Devil's Advocate, 1990. 1997, The Rainmaker, Liar Liar.

I love A Time to Kill.

The Bible. Oh, that's in bestsellers right next to Twilight.

the Twilight shit was really big. I hate that I'm saying this, Bill, because I don't watch the Twilights or read them, but they were big, they were really big.

Team Jacob, Team Edward

I love the book, The Big Short. Big Short as a book.

And then I do think Big Short hurt this movie a little bit because it was so successful.

I want to stay with The Big Short part of it, too, because I mean, look, J.C.'s writing this before.

The Big Short was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables.

I think Brad Pitt got $30million for this movie and he's like it's not about the money... The Big Short.

What's the point of being a writer or an artist anyway? Herman Melville wrote fucking Moby Dick and he was so poor and forgotten by the time he died that in his obituary, they called him Henry Melville.

the Walkman with the Moby Dick

Moby Dick on a Walkman

World According to Garp, a movie that I really love

my favorite author is John Irving who wrote, um, world according to Garp and Prayer for Owen Meany

Risky Business is like that too. Cruise is young in that movie, he's like 19. ... or like The Outsiders, like Rob Lowe is like a 15yearold, but this is definitely one of them.

The Outsiders? Rumble Fish? Come on. Rumble Fish sucks.

From the author of The Firm and The Client comes a time audiences will always remember.

I still really like The Firm. As a movie? As a movie. We did, that was one of the first rewatchables.

John Grisham had said he witnessed the harrowing testimony... and that was how he ended up doing a time to kill, which was his, I think the first book he wrote.

The Client, Just Cause, Primal Fear, Time to Kill, Devil's Advocate, 1990. 1997, The Rainmaker, Liar Liar.

He did Fight Club and it's an insane movie to make. I think he said Fight Club had 400 scenes in 100 locations is what he said in the DVD commentary, which was nuts.

He thought it would be an easy process to just make a movie set in one location. It turned out it was harder than Fight Club.

I remember seeing this movie in the theater. I never read the book. ... It made me read the book after I saw the movie.

Chuck Palahniuk ... writes a book in 96. The movie's pretty faithful to the book.

may be improved on a couple of themes from the book, but the basic themes are these two Tyler Durden quotes, ...

From the novel by Stephen King.

When he had Misery, it was such a personal book to him because it's really about his addiction.

I think the movie people who watch this, if they don't know the backstory, they think it's just about a crazed fan, but it's really about the crazed fan in this case is the painkillers and that's in all the shit that he was doing at the time.

I hadn't read the book. Yeah, I had read the book. I can't tell you how horrified the theater was.

I would put Misery there too though. I think those three.

everyone knew what the twist was because a lot of people had read the book

Again, that with Gone Girl where it was like, no, dude, I'm awesome again.

He's in Gone Girl, which was a big one too.

Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho. This was Patrick Bateman's favorite movie. Talked about it over and over. He rented it 37 times on videocassette.

Ordinary People on the list of most banned books in school libraries. Yeah, that's so strange. It was the 52nd most challenged book in schools and libraries from 1999. Narrowly beating out number 53, American Psycho.