r/TheRewatchables

So, I kept wondering as I watched Single White Female for the first time this week, "How is it legal to advertise for a specific race of roommate?" I figured they would address this in the pod, but since they didn't, I found the very straightforward answer: it's illegal today, it was illegal in 1992, and it's been illegal since 1968. The Fair Housing Act explicitly forbids this kind of racial housing advertising. I guess personal ads just didn't enforce this part of the law? Read more here if you're curious.

While on a family vacation a middle aged businessmen (Michael Caine) cheats on his wife with the 17 year-old daughter (Michelle Johnson) of his business partner, but it’s okay… because it was a different time… 1984. The 17 year-old attempts suicide with birth control pills. She is taken to the hospital where she hooks up with a male nurse. Her family is so relieved her parents fly back to America and let her stay for another week at the beach house in Rio with the 15-year-old daughter of Michael Caine’s character and the male nurse. Michael Caine’s and his wife (who was having an affair with the business partner) go to a private resort to work on their fractured marriage. Everything works out for the best of year later. This was on HBO a lot when I was a kid.

Comedy Month seemed like a good idea, but then turned out in a whole lot of “Remember this quote? That was funny, eh” and “This couldn’t have been made today”.

I’m afraid something similar will happen with From Hell Month. The premises of these movies are too similar, all from the same era… It’ll get old fast. Same would happen with Slasher Month, Heist Month, De Niro Month…

Theme month are cool when it’s something like more nebulous and less straightforward like “Fucked Up Family Month” or “This Movie Made How Much Month”. Then you have a lot of freedom to pick different stuff but still there’s a nice tie-in bringing it all together.

As a child of the 80s whose formative movie-watching years were 1984-2000, this is my That Guy Mount Rushmore:

David Paymer (City Slickers 1 and 2, Quiz Show, The American President)

William Fichtner (Heat, Contact, Armageddon, Go, The Perfect Storm)

James Rebhorn (Scent of a Woman, My Cousin Vinny, Independence Day, The Game, Meet the Parents)

Stephen Tobolowsky (Spaceballs, Sneakers, Groundhog Day, Single White Female, Memento)

Should be a episode when the Nolan film comes out… whenever I see it on randomly, it always draws me in and I lose an hour plus of my life to it lol

Such a great clip on the video pod I watched it over and over. Shoutout Sean cheesing so hard.

Spielberg - “I never saw that. You know something- I’m having such a good time talking to both of you about this movie but that one insight just makes this day.”

You better tighten up those questions and get to the point, or you’re going away a long fucking time, big boy.