September 1, 2025 • 58 mins
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory is forever! Jeff and Garret are kicking off week one of the NFL season by celebrating the 25th anniversary of Howard Deutch's underrated football comedy starring Keanu Reeves from the year 2000, The Replacements!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It looks like our Ohio State Buckeyes have started the
season with a win against Texas. How about that?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Pretty impressive?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I must say, Yeah, Garrett, if I asked you to
name the greatest fictional Ohio State quarterback, what name would
you give me?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I would have to say, we're going way back. When
to number nine Johnny Utah course point.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Break played by Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yes, sir, that is not a wrong answer.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I was thinking number sixteen Shane Falco, also played by
Keanu Reeves. Garrett, you know what separates the winners from
the losers, the score. Let's talk about a film by
Howard Deutsch, his two thousand underrated football comedy The Replacements.
(01:21):
Welcome back, sports fans.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm Jeff Johnson and I'm Gary Gibson, and.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
This is a film by podcast. We'll start things off
by shouting out one of our listeners, Brad Moore, if
you're out there this week, he was cheering on his
LSU Tigers to a win over Clemson, So congratulations to him.
We are cheering Brad on because he's also our newest
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Patreon member.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Heck yeah, glad to have you here, Brad.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Absolutely, Brad's an awesome guy. So not only do we
have some of our film by swag on the way
to him, in the very near future, we'll be doing
a special Patreon episode just for him as soon as
he decides what movie or director will be doing. And
I'm curious because one of the first questions he asked was, well,
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what if it's a movie that you guys have already done,
And I reminded him, hey, nothing is off the table,
so God help us if he picks Under the Cherry Moon.
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little as three dollars. Brad, welcome and thank you for subscribing. Garrett.
As always, let's start with a couple of facts and
a quote from our director. This this week, Howard Deutsch
(03:03):
attended the Ohio State University.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well fun ted bitt that I did not know. Okay,
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I was surprised when I uncovered that. But how timely
is that? I will tell you? Before directing movies, he
directed music videos for both Billy Idol and Billy Joel.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Which I did see that in his filmography. That's that's
pretty freaking cool way to get your start, right there.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm not gonna lie absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'll tell you another fun thing about Howard. It was
during the filming of Some kind of Wonderful where Howard
met his future wife, actress Leah Thompson. Okay, yeah, think
about that. Think about that. She went from having a
thing for Howard the Duck in nineteen eighty six having
a thing for Howard the Deutsch in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, that's it. And she's got a track record, say.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That she's gotta, she gotta, she's got a she got
a certain type. Yeah, yeah, cool. Quote from from Howard
Deutsch not Duck.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
This is this comes from a nineteen eighty seven interview
he gave where he said, quote, I have a theory
that peer pressure doesn't end with high school. It may
be more glaring there because the groups are so distinct socially,
but it doesn't let up as you get older. There's
a pressure in any business to choose a safe project
to go with the group. In corporations, there's pressure to
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be seen with the right people to eat in the
right restaurants at all costs to avoid the smell of failure.
A case in point was the pressure on me to
choose a quote safer title than Pretty in Pink. You
constantly have to fight to keep everything from being reduced
to the lowest common denominator. Standing on your own is
(05:00):
not a thing that ends in high school.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Man wise words by a wise man.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Very wise words. I dig his energy. So Gary, let's
talk a little bit about the replacements. For those that
maybe haven't seen it in a while, or for those
that have never seen it, you will tell us what
this football comedy is all about.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Absolutely, So here's the review. It's late in the season,
the playoffs are fast approaching, and the Washington Sentinels have
just gone on strike. Scrambling for a solution, the Sentinels
owner Edward O'Neill hatches a plan to bring in a
legendary coach, Jimmy Magendi played by none other then Gene Hackman,
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which is absolutely amazing in this to recruit a team
of replacement players in exactly one week. For fans and
owners alike, the strike is a disaster. Or for Shane
Falco played by Keanu Reeves and a mismatch crew of outsiders.
It is a second chance they waited for their entire lives.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Missed match crew of outsiders that could not There couldnot
be a better description of this team in this movie.
I love that. I can't believe it, but it's celebrating
its twenty fifth anniversary as of as of right now,
I find that hard to believe because not only does
it not feel dated, not only does Keanu still look
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like he can throw a fifty yard touchdown pass yep,
but the plot of the movie concerning players, salaries and strikes,
it's still very relevant today.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
It truly is, especially with what we just had within
NBA a couple of years ago, and is very relevant
in the eighties early nineties in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So it's not too far fetched.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's I feel like it's like the Big Three, the NFL,
the NBA, in Major League Baseball. It's like every five
to ten years, we the fans suffer with one of
these organizations going on strike. I can't I don't recall,
like has the NHL ever gone on strike? I don't
recall hockey ever.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think they just enjoy what they do honestly.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, they're like, all right, cool, we're gonna go out
there and we're gonna get hit hard, and we're gonna
hit hard.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So yeah's that's all those guys want.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I think all the Russians and Canadians and everything, they
just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So, you know, more power to them.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
All right, Yeah, I'll tell you what, Uh, more power
to our sponsors. Let's take a quick break and we
get back. We will. We will jump in the huddle
with this amazing cast. All right, welcome back. We are
discussing the replacements from two thousand, a very fun football film.
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Gotta start off with number sixteen, Kunna Reeves playing Shane Falco.
You know, Falco, the future of football until he choked
in the nineteen ninety six Sugar Bowl, which they bring
up a couple times. Now, in reality, did you realize
that there was no Sugar Bowl in nineteen ninety six?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now, Yeah, So you know this movie, you know, you
and I both know it's kind of loosely based off
a true story. So if they're talking Sugar Bowl meltdowns,
you don't really want to have anyone attaching that to
a real player.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, So they picked ninety six because the year before,
the ninety five season was played on December thirty first,
nineteen ninety five, and the ninety six season wasn't played
until January second, nineteen ninety seven, So officially, no Sugar
Bowl in the year nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
So that makes a little bit more sense of why
they would actually put a time stamp on that, which
is kind of why I think they leave the time
frame of the film a little bit open. After that,
they don't really say how long he's been away. They're like, oh,
he's been gone for a while.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, we just he had one season where he washed
out and we don't know how long ago that was.
Sports is all about the the numbers, So let's talk Keano.
He takes a ninety percent pay cut on his salary
so that the studio can afford Gene Hackman.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh my gosh, okay, I mean, I don't think this
film works without Gene Hackman. So that is a brilliant
move on Keanu's part.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You you don't do this movie without Gene Hackman. You
don't do this movie without Keanu Reeves. No, that's that's
just good anyways. Yeah, more numbers, Kano gains twenty three
pounds in order to have a pro football player's size.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I mean, in this role, he's built a lot like
that kid for Jacksonville Jaguars right now, Trevor Lawrence. He's
got that tall, kind of lanky but kind of built
framed to him.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, he's built just like that kid. So it's very
believable in this role.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now you say that, you know, even though he's even
got the long hair. Yeah, right, yeah, little little Trevor
Lawrence happening here during filming. You know, they did shoot
on location around Baltimore and they used the Ravens Stadium.
The Ravens offered a walk on tryout to Keanu.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
That year, did they really?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
They saw they saw him throwing the ball, and they're like, hey, uh,
seriously you want to you know, you got remember something too,
Kena is a left hander.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He is.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's not that's not really a common thing. You don't Yeah, yeah,
the Ravens. Uh, he declined, obviously, But the Ravens would
later go on to win Super Bowl thirty five that season.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So was that Steve McNair they had that?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I believe that was that was air McNair.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Could you imagine Kenna Reeves starting in the Super Bowl
and says, he's.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You know, he's the thing. It's funny, but it's not
impossible because no, Yeah, Keano, aside from being you know,
the guy that creates his own motorcycle and the guy
that is an action star and the guy that is
mister Charity, let's not forget, he's also a rock star
(11:22):
played for a dog Star. Did you I saw dog
Star having no idea who Dogstar was, and I looked up.
I was like, why is Keanu Reeves playing guitar feet
in front of me? What?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
What? What's going on? Yeah, I'll tell you something.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
They're good.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That is the whole appeal to his character and Bill
and Ted movies and then that video game Cyberpunk's at
seventy seven or what a twenty seventy seven something like that.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, huh yeah movie. I'm telling you, man, he's just
fun to watch this whole time.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He is.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
And it's a strange change of pace for something that
we do have coming up that you know, nineteen ninety
nine that was shot and now here we are in
two thousand, YEP.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
A big difference between those two characters.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Absolutely, Let's talk Gene Hackman for a minute. I know
we got to talk a little more in detail earlier
this year with his passing. We did a we did
a great episode on Gene Hackman and some of what
we feel are his favorite roles. Here. He's playing coach
Jimmy McGuinty and he comes in, he gets that offer.
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You know, he's the washed up coach's it's almost like
it's almost like he's channeling Norman Dale from Hoosiers. Yes,
he's a maybe he's a little bit of Harry Hog
from Days of Thunder, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
A little bit of that mixed with Tom Landry that
the hat, the suit, Yes sing for me?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, you picked up on Landry. I love that. Oh yeah.
He wants total control of the team. He wants to
be able to recruit anybody, and he wants no interference.
That's how you get him on the field and fortunately
the Washington Sentinels owner. As he goes all in. Hackman
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spends this whole movie just spouting some of the most
amazing quotes, like play like coach quotes.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Oh he truly does. Throughout the entire film. You get
so many likable lines from Gene Hackman and just circle
back a little bit. The fact that we almost didn't
have him in this is just mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Kimmy, Yeah, I don't know if you have a favorite
Hackman quote on this, but I always like the one
he gives Shane Falco. I see the man you are,
I see the man you could be. And one day
I hope they meet that one.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
And then I like the halftime during the big game,
the reporters like, well, what changes do you guys need
to make?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And He's like heart, miles and miles of heart.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, you want to elaborate on that coach and he
just he just taps his his chest, Yeah, talking talking
about the heart that that Seane Falco has. And that's
another that's I almost step on, you know, pivotal moments
are noteworthy scenes. But we'll get to that that moment
where he has that conversation with with Keanu Reeves. Tellya
(14:17):
who I always enjoy watching in this film. Very talented
actress Brooke Langton playing Annabelle. She runs, she owns the
bar that her dad left her. She's also the head
cheerleader for the Sentinels. Just just incredible actress.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Really, she's such an amazing actress, and just the pain
that she's going through while she's interviewing these girls to
be on the cheer squad is it's such a delightful
scene because you kind of forget about it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You're like, Okay, yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Get this guy in here, we get this guy, and
then here's the little segment of her like bringing in
these cheerleaders, and it's such a freaking amazing part.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Any good football movie, any good sports movie about a
ragtag group that's gonna come together, you know, if it's
if we're talking like you know, something like major league
or you know, necessary roughness, you always got to get
this team put together. So the the little montage of
players just looking like idiots, yep, you know you expect that,
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you do. Now we're we're talking the cheerleaders. And don't
get me wrong, later in the later in the movie,
they are they are definitely something something to behold.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
They're they're definitely they really are.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah, they're they're still on the team's attention for sure.
In a couple of plays, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But the fact that they they've got these cheerleader tryouts,
you got Young MC's bust to move playing and some
of these some of these girls are just ridiculous. And
I love the fact that they're they're taking a moment
to say, Hey, the girls don't have to be sexy
one hundred percent of the movie. No, let's be a
little goofy. Let's let's know some comedy, and let's let's
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give you a chance to the chuckle and have some
fun with it. And you're absolutely right, man, Annabelle trying
to try to find a cheerleader squad is just hilarious.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Absolutely, it's such an awesome scene. And I mean, I'm
glad that that actually made it end of the film.
Just such a fantastic scene.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Now you know, uh, she's got she's got some background
with another another actor that's in this movie. Who you
didn't You didn't recognize her?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No? What what what do we got?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Brook Brook Langton memorable role in the nineteen ninety six
film Swingers with John Favreau.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Oh my gosh, I remember, Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You got let me take you back, like you know,
they're getting you know, he plays Mikey. They're getting him
his confidence back. He sees, uh, you know, Vince Vaughn's like,
you know, don't look at her as she's a she's
a bunny. She's a beautiful little bunny, and you got
these big claws and you gotta go get the bunny.
She played Nicki, who he hits it off with, gets
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the number, and then has an epic meltdown where he
gets home and leaves like sixteen messages and all you
can keep hearing is h Hi, this is Nicky. You
leave a message, and like that last one, she finally
picks up. He's like, oh, Hi, did you just get home.
Don't ever call me?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Call me again? Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Oh my gosh, I dar not recognize her from that role.
That is pretty freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely love her. I like that she's not
playing the damsel in distress, strong independent woman. You know,
she's running her father's bar, she's trying to keep the
cheerleaders together. She's having the will they won't they relationship
with Keanu Reeves Shane Falco, which can we just can
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we just talk about how incredible their chemistry is.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh, it's simply amazing. I've got to tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
So, this film has a lot of parts in it
where it's just the right amount of comedy or the
right amount sports.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It did need that little.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Bit of a romance aspect to it, and I think
the chemistry these two shared on set was truly amazing
and very believable. It didn't seem forced, it didn't seem fake.
It was just very pleasant to have that little bit
in the film. Absolutely, if you would have.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Read a story about these two actors falling in love
on set and and ending up together, it would have
made perfect sense to me. I know that's not the
case at all, but I love when he comes back
in that final game, just walks straight to her and
kisses her. You got hey, I think he's he's necking
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that cheerleader. That's like, what are they gonna do? Firing? Yeah? Uh?
Pat summer All and John Madden.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You know, the fact that they've got them and the
entire film just made my day rewatching this this morning,
it just, I don't know, it really started the day
off just right seeing both of them.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's very rare that you're going to see a football
movie where the NFL offers their license and says, yeah,
you can, you can show the actual team names and
the actual players, you know, because they they're not going
to agree with most of the things they see in
the script and I get that, but I'll tell you what,
when you have a movie like this where the teams
are fictional, even like Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, the
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thing that helps make it feel real is when you
have real color commentators from the NFL, YEP and involved,
and I just I love it. I love that they
got Summer on Madden because.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
They could not have went with a better duo.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Now, heck no, heck no. This whole team is a
who's who of amazing actors actresses. I know we'd be
here all week if we try to talk about everybody,
but uh, just just so we can move along, is
there anybody, uh you wanna you wanna briefly talk about
on this team?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I'd go with number fifty six old Danny Bateman. Jon Favreau, Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
an absolute menace at linebacker. I just love his character
so much. It's so few on words, but when he
does talk, it is absolute insanity and it takes me
back to you know, classic football days, and I like,
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we all knew that guy that was on the team.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, how awesome it is his intro, you know, because
he's a he's a swat team member.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Gosh, yeah, they're doing the raid. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, and this again. You when you have a sports
comedy and we're putting the team together, you gotta we
gotta have that montage where we're we're we're hearing like
the voiceovers, we're talking about the guy as we're seeing
him somewhere else and him walking to that that that
bust and just just weighing lace to the criminals, drug
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dealers and everything. It's he's awesome. He's he is. He
is way over the top.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, he is a very much rabid dog personality in
this film.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And I love that. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Get that ball, Go get me that ball. I'm gonna
get that ball, Give me that ball.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He's just love it so much. Man, well would he?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I mean he almost he almost hospitalizes Shane Falco like
they're they're doing practice, and count is like tapping his
red jersey's like red meats.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Stop and just anytime that Reese Iphens hits a field
goal in this entire movie, he's just chasing him. In
the final one where he's like chasing down the field.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He tackles ree Iphens, who's he's playing Nigel gruff leg Yeah,
he's what he's a Welsh soccer player soccer, a gambling.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Degenerator field and score. Is that the legend behind him?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I just yeah, he he he hits him that one
game and I think it's Mad's like, hey, listen, there's
a there's a saying, don't be good at something unless
you want to get you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Can handle the congratulations.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Unless you can handle the congratulations.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
He's he's such a he's such a dirt bag in
the fun way, Like he's smoking cigarettes on the field.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I belave us all the smoke.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I blame us all the smoke. It's yeah, Reeseipeens is great. Uh.
I tell you blink and you miss it moment. You
know how much you and I love Keith David. Yes,
he's uh he's repping the the players union for the strike.
It's like one one scene in the parking lot and
I was like, wait, that's Keith David, Like what's what's
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going on?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I had so much hope when I was rewatching this
and saw him. I was like, was he the commissioner
of the NFL quote unquote?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And uh now no he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I was like, maybe he's got a big part and
I'm just not remembering him for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
No, just a olsnid bit there.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I know I mentioned Major League a couple minutes ago,
Orlando Jones playing wide receiver Clifford Franklin number eighty one. Yes,
like when we get hit, like the where he's like
the stock boy who is tracking down the the kid
that rips off the comedian store. He runs past, He's like, hey, brother,
how's it going, giving off some serious Willie Mays Hayes vibes.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh he really is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Too fast, too fell Orlando.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
And and the fact that even though he is the
fascist man out there can run any route, he cannot
catch the ball.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, that's that's Uh, that's gonna hurt you a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I'll tell you two more that I think we need
to talk about. David Denman. This is his feature film debut.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Which is a pretty solid feature film debut.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And I remember growing up this is one of the
first two things i'd seen him in. I'd seen him
in this and a little film with another up up
and coming actor at the point time, Zach Galfernakis in
like Buddy Comedy's snowboarding movie called Out Cold. Oh yeah,
come it just freaking amazing. But you know, for him
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playing the deaf tight end in this Brian is it Murphy?
Brian Murphy, Yep, Yeah, absolutely loved him in this role.
I mean, just such a likable guy.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I think if there's one actor that's quietly stealing the
show from everybody, including Hackman and Reeves, it's David Denman. Yeah,
it's And you know, it's funny because like I think
a lot of people they if they go back and
they see this or they see it for the first time,
they're like, holy shit, that's that's Rory from the Office.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yep, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And then right now, I mean he is playing in
season two Peacemaker, I mean, oh that's right. Yeah, yeah,
he's playing east Maker's brother for anyone that's watching that show.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Pretty amazing so far.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
But yeah, yeah, he's He's got some great, great moments
in this film. I feel like every scene he's in
he just steals it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh just the jail scene alone, as well as.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Amazing the jail So we're gonna get to the jail scene.
Got we got to talk about the jail scene. But
one last one before moving on. You know, like I said,
this is if this is David Demmon's feature film debut.
Jack Warden in his final film performance. He retired right
after this. Jack Warden, who plays Ed O'Neill, the owner
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of the Washington Sentinels. This guy, what is it about
him and football movies? He always plays like the coach
or he's always he does.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
He's got the right amount of just gruff in his
voice that he's got to be an owner, He's got
to be a coach.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
He's just perfect for that role.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I think what's amazing about him. We should we should
dislike him, we should not like his character because of
some of the stuff he's doing.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Absolutely, but you can't.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
You can't not like him. Even at the end he's like,
I know it, I believed in them all along. It's
you're just like, yeah, all right, let let him have it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Exactly like that.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
That's exactly how any NFL owners acting after the day.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
He's like, nope, bench and get him out of here.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah he feels he feels a little Jerry Jones, Yes
he does. But but at Jerry Jones that you just
you just like WHI yeah right yeah. Apologies to everyone
listening in Dallas right now. We have we have listeners
in Dallas, and you know, I don't know how they
feel about Jerry Jones. You know, I'm not not picking
on the man. I'm just saying, all right, Garret, let's
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move on to this film's background, little little production history
for you. Not a whole lot to go on, but
I do want to point out something. I think it's incredible.
We talked that this, We talked about this being based
loosely on a true story. Do you do you know
this the story here?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Actually, uh, nineteen eighty seven Washington Redskins, believe it or not.
So the team went on a strike leading into week three,
if I'm not mistaken here, and then while they were
on strike, they had the bright idea, instead of going
for all these collegiate players and everything that's wanting to
come to the NFL a little bit early, they went
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ahead and got a ragtag bunch of guys kind of
just like this that played weeks three, four and five,
four world, which is pretty freaking awesome. And the Redskins
actually went on to come back and I want to
say it's week six, ended the season with a twelve
and four record and went on to win the Super
Bowl that season, which is pretty damn cool.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So I want to point something out. The teams that
Shane Falco's sentinels are playing are Saint Louis, New York
and Dallas. And in the movie Dallas crosses the picket line.
They returned to actions. So they're playing like the real
the pros, right, And in nineteen ey seven, the Redskins
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replacements took on Saint Louis, New York and Dallas and
the Dallas Cowboys cross the picket line to play. I
think there's plenty of experts out there, historians. I'll tell you,
if these guys had not won these three games, the
Redskins don't go to the Super Bowl and they don't win.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
They do not.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
They definitely don't meet John Elway in the Super Bowl
and beat him, beat him forty two to ten.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
So no, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Another fun fact, Shane Falco wears number sixteen. So did
Washington replacement quarterback Ed Rupert.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So did he really? Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, there're they're walking a fine line of doing like
a bio pick and getting away with it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeeah. I like their style for that one.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Talk about style, Let's talk about music for a moment,
because The soundtrack plays like a nineties jock JAMCD. Do
you remember those?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeuh yes, I sure do.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Let me let me give you a rundown of the music,
because I got to know what was making your playlist
back then. So I mentioned bust a Move by Young MC,
which is a you know, the fun scene with the cheerleaders.
We also get I Don't Want to Be Your Girlfriend
by Kelly Owens. We get rock and Roll Part two
by Gary Glitter, which I feel like you're gonna hear
that in every sporting event you go to, you do Yeah,
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no matter what it is, right. Good Vibrations by Marky
Mark and the Funky Bunch is featured several times in
the movie. Taking Care of Business by Bachman Turner Turner Overdrive.
Maybe the Crown Jewel on the playlist I Will Survive
by Gloria Gaynor, which is going to be included in
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one of the funnier scenes which we'll get to. But
we also have some some rolling stones. We got you
got Me Rocking yep see and see Music Factory Gonna
make You Sweat.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, how about the Every Breath You Take by the
police for that Lettle got that that that Kiss Barcia
with Shane and Annabel, a nineties favorite of mine. E
mf's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
It's it's a classic.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It's a classic. Can't have a football movie without Queen's
We Were Rock You No, Mars pump up the Volume,
So that's a gem. I don't care who you are.
It is, Uh, we got we got David Bowie's Heroes.
But it's not David bow It's not the David Bowie version.
It's a cover by Mark Manila. I mean it's the
soundtrack is just amazing. Man, It's it's just banger after banger.
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But what's what's your go to track here? Out of
all these?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Oh my gosh, Well, uh, I'm gonna go with either
Gloria Gayner because I absolutely love Amazing of course, or
you know, if I'm out there gimming or whatever it
may be, I might go a little bit of Market
Mark and the Funky Bunch. I'm not going yeah, and
you have to wait what you got on yours here?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I tell you, uh, pump up the volume by Mars
and then make you sweat by CNC Music Factory. Okay,
I listen unashamedly. I will tell you if CNC Music Factories,
Make you Sweat came on right now. I could sing
it word for word. I would not miss a single note.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
That's where I'm at with the Market Park and.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm no Freedom Williams, But but I could. I could
hang with the CNC Music Factory. I think I got
to point out this is also an amazing film score
by the one and only John Debney. Love this guy's music,
Absolutely love it. I'll tell you who else loves it,
our very own Wayne White did. And uh, we're gonna
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go back to the locker room where Wayne is standing
by to tell us a little bit about John Debney. Wayne,
take it away.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
The year two thousand was a great year for film scores.
Within those twelve months, we were treated with music masterpieces
like Hans Zimmer's Gladiator, Michael Cayman's X Men, John Williams
Is the Patriot, and James Newton Howard's Unbreakable. One composer
that was keeping himself busy during that year was John Debney.
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By this time, Debney had been in the business for
over a decade, and by now had put most of
his incredible work on television behind him to focus on
his film music.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Career.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
During the year two thousand, John Debney had no less
than four film scores to complete. The Julie Andrews William
Baldwin film Relative Values, the animated Disney film The Emperor's
New Groove, the Imax documentary Michael Jordan to the Max,
and this film one of the most experimental, the Howard
Deutch directed sports comedy The Replacements. The film about a
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fictional football team who won three replacement games without any
of their regular players and went on to win Super
Bowl twenty two, would prove to be a challenge for Debney.
His only previous sports film was the nineteen ninety four's
Little Giants, but that was a family film requiring a
fully orchestral score. The Replacements was a whole different style
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of film together and required a whole different style of
music to go along with it. This was a fast
paced film, one that needed a high octane score, and
Debney delivered just that, bringing a techno pop feel to
his music, dotting the music with catchy danced beats and
rock songs, but never fully forgetting his orchestral background, with
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some beautiful dramatic pieces full of singing brass and soft
and beautiful flutes and woodwinds. The soundtrack to The Replacement
has only ever been released once by Very Sarah Band Records,
back in stace of Timber of two thousand, just a
few weeks after the film. It is a compilation album
containing about thirty minutes of musical score by John Debney,
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hitting the majority of musical cues by the composer, along
with songs that were heard in the film such as
Second Chance by Bette Domrose, bust a Move by Young MC,
rock and Roll Part Two by Gary Glitter, and I
Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. The CD opens with a
track titled Replacements Remix, which is an odd six minutes
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piece hitting most of the main themes DeBie created for
the film with a pulse pounding techno rock heat, synth
elements and a bit of dialogue from the film. It's
an interesting choice to start the album. I would have
placed it at the end because it's a great way
of getting the feel of Debutye's music for the film
all in one go. A few of the highlights from
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this score includes the piece Falco, which was a soft
orchestral cue which contains the film's softer emotional core and
showcasing DeBie talent for creating a lovely emotional tone for
the lighter sides of the film. Strings and woodwinds play
a calm version of some of the themes that we
heard briefly in that remix cue. Debby paired with musician
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and guitarist Mark Henry Banella of the group Font forty
to eight for a couple of cues, including the songs
The Look in Your Eyes and strike Breakers. Banilla would
work again with Debney on the film Was a Scorpion King,
Spider Man two, and iron Man two. It's an interesting
mix orchestral rock and techno sound that are highly energetic
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and very different from anything that Debney has done before
in his scores. My favorite piece for the score, though,
is entitled The Dallas Game and is a hard hitting
cue with tense stringwork and a driving, energetic rhythm. It's
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the beginning of a new style and sound that Debney
would return a few more times in the future in
films like Spy Kids, Sin City, and especially Iron Man two.
Director Howard deutch Will returned to work with John Debney
two more times for the two thousand and four comedy
The Whole Ten Yards and then again in two thousand
and eight for My Best Friend's Girl. While The Replacements
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may have received mixed reviews for the film upon its release,
one thing that was praised was John Debbee's innovation and
unique musical storytelling that he delivered, proving his value as
a composer that can deliver the necessary energy and emotion
needed and a musical genius. Quickly moving up the ranks
to stand next to the legendary greats in film music.
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Debney had already won a place in My Heart and
My Soundtrack shelf years before with such incredible television scoring
like The Young Writers, SEQUESTDSB Star Trek, The Next Generation
and Doctor Who, and his scores for the Replacement sits
proudly among them, getting an occasional re listen when I'm
in the mood for something a little different.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Well, Garrett, that's one guy you always want in your lineup.
Wayne Whited giving us yet another amazing scoring session. Wayne,
thank you very much for that. We appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I mean, just how much you can tell Hey enjoys
talking about film scores.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You know, It's one of those things it just warms
your heart. It's like this man right here, he gets it.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I absolutely love that Wayne makes time for us on
a film by to do these for us. But tell
you what we're gonna do. We're gonna take another break,
and when we come back, we'll talk noteworthy scenes and
the pivotal moment. But for all of you listening to
today's episode on Patreon, like Brad Moore, there is no
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break because we're going to take a minute to discuss
our top five favorite football movies. This portion of the
show is only available on Patreon, so we'll see you there,
or for those of you not on Patreon with us,
we'll see you right after this break. All right, welcome back.
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Those of you on Patreon. We didn't go anywhere. We're
still here. But for those of you that are not
on Patreon, we just had ourselves a pretty fun conversation.
Well we didn't have the fun conversation. Apparently a couple
of pros across the picket line and we got their
top five football movies. So but you know, hey, Garrett,
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even you and I need to hit the bench once
in a while, right.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Every now and then, it's good. Take a seat.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Let's talk about some of the noteworthy scenes here. I
don't know if there's a pivotal moment as much as
there's a favorite moment. But I want to start off
with throwing up in the huddle.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Yes, it's like, what the hell are these guys doing
the fact that Orlando Jones is like, hey, we need
to move, He's like, we're in the huddle.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Immediately vomits as well.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
And then Brian Murphy's over here and he's doing the
hand signing of he's about to puke as well, and
it's like, everyone move on three.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
It's absolutely fantastic. Yeah, that that little twinkletoes group move
that they do that reminds you of like Fred Flintstone
he does. Yes, it's oh man, I laugh every time
I see it.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Past summer, I was like, John, have you ever seen
anything like this? He's like, not on a football field, not.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
On a football field. You mentioned the uh, the jail scene.
So we got a nice little combo here. There's a
bar fight that leads to what might be the greatest
jail scene ever. We got. We got the you know,
the pros are here, you know, they get they get
their asses kicked in their first game. They're kind of
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licking their wounds and in Annabelle's pub and here come
the pros just to talk shit and kick them while
they're down, and it leads to a fantastic bar fight.
You know, they get they get locked up, and this
is that, this is that that that trope where this
dysfunctional team needs to come together somehow, Someway, did you
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ever suspect that they're gonna come together by singing and
dancing to Gloria Gainers? I will survive.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
I would never have guessed that.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
But this is one of those scenes where everyone on
the team finally comes together. You have that brotherhood moment
to where you guys just kick these guys' asses and
now you're getting to share some alone time with the boys,
and you know, I think this is probably my favorite
favorite scene in the film.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I've got to say, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Orlando Jones, who's kind of like he's he's talking the lyrics,
you know, because like you were hide behind the jukebox.
He's like, hey, man, at first I was afraid.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I was petrified, and I was petrified.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Think about how you I couldn't have you living with you,
without you by my side. And then you know, everyone
kind of comes together anytime you get a group of
people that aren't getting along and they come together by
singing something. Singing the song you know, maybe maybe almost
famous as the probably the perfect version of this Tiny
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Dancer on the Bush. But seeing these guys in jail
all singing I Will Survive, which is kind of like
a lady's power anthem.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
The I want to say, one of the top like
disco tracks of all time.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, maybe the maybe the number one track of all time. Yeah,
did you recognize now, Garrett? I know you're no stranger
to the clubs and the bar scene from from uh Yesteryear,
but did you recognize the dance that they were doing?
Because if you've been if you were out of any
club in the in the eighties and nineties, if you've
if you've been at any wedding in the last thirty years,
you've got to know this this dance.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Man, I I don't know that I'm blanking right now.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
What we got The Washington Sentinels were doing the electric slide.
Oh my gosh, Okay, maybe the easiest line dance to learn, Like, yeah,
I think that's like the go to like, Hey, I
don't know how to do this, now just watch me
for like ten seconds and you'll be fun anyone. You know,
I can't dance, but I can do the electric slide,
so that tells you.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
But my favorite part about that is where, you know,
the coach comes in and they're all getting bailed out
and they all like realize he's there and stop dancing
after he says something, and then David denhams just Denman
still over there, just dancing like tapp him like, hey stop,
he stop stopping coach here.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
How about uh, we get that play where the Japanese guy,
the sumo wrestler Yumiko, Yes, runs it in. You know
what wasn't supposed to happen. He runs it in for
a down. John Madden, I love to see a fat
guy score. You get a fat guy spike, you get
a fat guy dance again, quick moment. Anytime you can
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get Madden or some are all to give us a
little SoundBite, it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah movie, It's truly amazing.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
And that leads me to maybe my favorite Pat Summer
all John Madden commentary. We get Falco and Annabelle. She's
closing up shop in the bar and you're like, you know,
the police is playing lowly in the background. Every breath
you take and you're like, come on, you've got to
kiss her. And meanwhile you've got commentary happening by some
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aere All and Madden. But he's going in for it.
He's going in for it, pat you know, like their
commentary makes what could have been an ordinary, you know,
tender moment just still tender and still still a little sexy,
but also some them to have fun with him laugh.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
At it is just because he's like one good play
here and he's back in the ball game.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's that might be one of my favorite
moments in this and it's hard to beat the jail
scene with him doing I Will Survive. But let's take
a moment where not something to laugh at. You get
ed O'Neill. You know, Jack Warden telling telling Jimmy McGuinty, Hey,
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the players are back across the picket line. You know, Martel,
who's this douchebag of a quarterback. I don't know who
they I don't know who they are basing him on
because I couldn't find anything where Now, you know, I
think they're being kind, like we're not basing him off.
He's just he's just playing like the typical douchebag villain,
you know, yep, But Jimmy's got to take Falco out. Falco,
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who is I feel like Keanu Reeves is just playing
himself because he's like one of the nicest people in
the world.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
He is, and he's trying to build up everyone around him, like, hey,
you know, you're great, We're gonna do great. We just
got work together, and they actually start doing that, and
then kind of like what Gene Hackman says is he's
the heart of this team. He took away what was
pomping blood and energy and everything positive into these gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
He took that away from him.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Falco won't even say a bad word about Martel. He's like, well, listen,
he's he's the best. He's the best quarterback. The team
needs the best. He's he's he's got.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
It and not you know.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Hagman's like, no, he didn't. He doesn't have the heart.
That's what you've got, man. That's a that's a harsh
that's a harsh scene. It's it just breaks your heart
every time you have to watch it.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
It really does.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Because he's so excited out there running QB drills while
Gene Hackman's approaching him. He's out there on the field
and talking about what they're going to do against Dallas
on Sunday, and then he has to drop that on him.
So it's it's heart ranching.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, quick question, you know, because Falco makes some amazing plays,
But there's one play I don't understand. Why do you
stand Annabelle up on the date? We cut to her,
she's candlelight dinner, she's crying. I mean, in real life,
you're not gonna stand up the gorgeous, funny, amazing cheerleader.
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You're you're gonna go to and be like, hey, you
know they benched me like you you gotta go, you know,
lick your wounds and let let's let's let your lady
take care of you, right you can?
Speaker 2 (46:31):
I would think so.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
And I think maybe the reason they did this is
kind of this is what he did after the bowl game.
He just went off by himself, secluded himself and then
kind of just gave up on everything. And I think
that's what they were kind of basing it off of.
But no, you would not do that, now, Okay, I
think I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
I think they had to tie it back to like
his his meltdown in the bowl game. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay,
I want to talk about one more scene. Maybe it's
a pivotal moment. I don't know. It's definitely my favorite moment.
So Martella come back, not the reception he gets he's
expecting from the fans, teams not gelling with him's throwing
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his weight around. McGinty says, you're out because Falco has
just shown up. Because Martel's like, I can't beat Dallas
with these losers, and Shane Falco, I can't. Yeah, and
you're like, here we go. Suit up. Every football movie
has that excellent, memorable quote that the quarterback's got to
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give in the huddle. Oh yeah, every one of them
does it. Falco has one of the best, if not
the best, Keanu Reeves telling us, I know you're tired,
I know you're hurting, and I wish I could say
something that was classy and inspirational. That just wouldn't be
our style. Payne Heels to Scars, Glory last forever, Right
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on pain Heels Chicks dig Scars Glory lasts forever. Dude.
At this point, they can win the game or they
could have lost the game, and it doesn't matter, because
that is where you're like, hell, yes, this is awesome,
let's see what you're gonna do. Fantastic moment. I love
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that moment.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
It's truly amazing. I loved that because you're expecting this
big QB speech. They're coming back at halftime, they're down
I think seventeen points at the point in time, and
he just comes in and delivers exactly something a knucklehead
would say to a bunch of other knuckleheads and get
them fired right back.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
I was like, yeah, now we're taking this.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
It's a fantastic film from a fantastic director, Howard Deutsch. So, Garrett,
if someone was unfamiliar with the filmography of Howard Deutsch,
they watched The Replacements, they say, hey, this was an
awesome movie. What else has this guy done? Which three
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films or say television projects would you suggest they watch.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
I would start earlier in his career by far with
Pretty in Pink. Just such such a classic eighties film,
Molly Ringwald. If you haven't seen it, it is definitely
worth the watch.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
That is such a fantastic film. We covered it on
our limited nineteen eighty six series. I think we had
our special correspondent Jenna Jenna Stewart with us, which was
a great time. But that movie, man, that's one of
those I would put that maybe as like a top
ten eighties film. If you're going overall eighties, yes, saying
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action or not saying you know nothing, no specific genre.
But if you're going like top ten of all time,
you got you gotta represent the one for the ladies
out there and pretty in pink. You know the Duckman. Yep,
you know James Spader, who is the essence school in
the nineteen eighties, he was, Yeah, good choice. I'm with you.
I would definitely make that one of my three picks.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
For number two, I would have to go with John
Candy and Dan Aykroyd's classic The Great Outdoors.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
I am right there with you, Okay, Why why is
this one? Why is this someone make your list? Aside
from the fact that's just amazing.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
Such a great film, But my dad loved this film
growing up, and I don't know, it just had me
laughing from start to finish. Every time that they get
in it with into the bear scene.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
Or anything like that. It just had me dying as
a kid. And then that's just stuck with me ever since.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
So such a classic for me, that fireplace story that
John Candy gives them, you know, the all headed killer
Bear of Claire County, the way he does it, and
just the reactions that Deutsch is getting from the kids
and the you know, the wives on the you know,
maybe we shouldn't tell the story. It's gonna give us,
it's gonna give a nightmares. No, no, no, As I said,
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it may save their life one day.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
They need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
They need to hear it. Dan Akeroyd and John Candy
at their best. I love that film, man, It's it
makes it makes me want to go on that kind
of vacation.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
It really does, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
I'm right there with you. I'm two for two with you.
You know, let's let's se if we're gonna go three
for three here.
Speaker 4 (51:36):
I'm going to branch away from his films and then
go over to a show that was on HBO. He
had done two episodes for him, but absolutely loved both
episodes he did for Tales.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
From the Crypt.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
Deutsch did Tales from the Crypt.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
He absolutely did.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
Had one episode in nineteen eighty nine called Only Sin Deep,
and then he had a follow up episode in nineteen
ninety called Dead Right, and I've got to tell you
both episodes truly amazing. And I might be a little
biased just because I love that series so much, but yeah, yeah,
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I love both of his episodes.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
I love I love the series. I know it's available
on I want to say it's available on DVD, YEP,
and so far, any episode I've tried to find on YouTube,
I have found on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
I know.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
When we were talking to Bill Paxton did when we
did our tribute Bill Paxton episode, there was an episode
that he did that I went back and watched. I've
got to find these now. I'm gonna have to look
these up because I know I've seen them because I've
seen the whole series and I love the whole series.
But now I need to go back and get a
rewatch because you tell me that Howard Deutsche did tell
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us in the Crypt. It just doesn't fit, you know,
because he's, you know, early on he's our John Hughes guy,
and then he does he's mainly like a comedy.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Guy, because I know he really is, you know.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
I know we didn't talk about this, but I feel
like when you need a sequel to a comedy. He's
the guy you call because he did Grumpy Old Men.
He did The Whole ten Yards. I think there's another one,
you know. I know I'm missing.
Speaker 4 (53:18):
Grumpy Old Man the Whole ten Yards and oh my gosh,
I'm gonna kick myself if I don't remember this. But
the funny little thing before I get too far away
from it Brett Colwan, the guy that played uh, oh
my gosh, I forgot his name, the jerk quarterback in this.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
Oh yeah, the guy plays Martel.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Yes, he is in the episode only Cindy, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Okay, so that expends why why he's showing up here?
Oh it was the odd couple.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Two there, it is the odd couple too. Yep, all right,
all right.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
So tell us of the Crypt. Not a not a
bad way to go, you know, now I think about it,
I think Deutsch did one of the seasons of American
Horror Story.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
He did, Yes, maybe maybe was it freak Show that
he did or was it, I want to say this
freak show yep?
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Or was it Coven? He might have done both, so
maybe maybe him doing tales some of the Crypt makes sense.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot here from you. I'm
gonna I'm gonna keep my list like solid early Deutsch.
I gotta go with the movie that he met his
wife on some kind of wonderful Okay, I like it.
It's a fantastic film. I mean, truthfully, there's there's no
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bad choices when you're when you're talking about this guy's filmography. Honestly, no, no, not,
it's solid all the way through. Well, Garrett, I have
to believe your recommendation for this movie will be solid.
Speaker 4 (54:48):
Uh. Well, I could not score this movie any higher.
If I had to score it, I would say on
a scoreboard, it would be twenty to seventeen. Is how
I would do this one. They would add you out
the competition like that.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
It's available to rent on most streaming channels. I watched
it on Prime. I know it's on Blu Ray, but
I'm kind of holding out for a good four K release.
I keep hoping we're gonna get something, you know, with
some more, some more to put on the scoreboard. But
we'll see listeners. What do you think of the replacements?
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Have you seen it? Is it among your favorite football movies?
You can let us know on social media you'll find
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(55:44):
want to say, a couple of seasons ago, I did
a eleven eleven football movies you want in the Huddle?
Speaker 2 (55:50):
So yeah, yeah, check it out.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
But yeah, it's all there. You can write to us
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film by swag. Well, Garrett, always a pleasure to have
you back. I know you'll be back later this month
to discuss one of your favorite Sam Raimi films. And
(56:14):
something tells me I don't need a fortune teller to
reveal which film we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
That would be The Gift.
Speaker 1 (56:22):
That is such a damn good movie. I can't wait
to talk about the Gift with you. I know that's
gonna be coming up later this month, and I think
we're gonna have a fun time talking about that one.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
I think we will, and we'll see a different Canna
Reeves in this one.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
Oh holy cal you're right. I completely forgot he's in it.
And you're absolutely right. If if you're expecting Shane Falco
in the gift, you have got another thing company that's
gonna be.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Donnie Barksdale is a animal.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
He is looking forward to that one. And to all
of you listening to the show, following us on social media,
subscribing to our Patreon like Brad Moore, thank you Brad,
once again, We thank you.
Speaker 5 (57:29):
Always.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
All right, I'll tell you I needed that break earlier
at our fantasy football draft. I think I had just
uh one too many beers. Maybe catching up with me
fair enough? Yeah, oh man, I'll tell you. We're sitting
around drafts over and I am cutting a sweet Rick
(57:52):
Flair style promo to everyone, talking about because I'm I've
won the league several times. I'm talking about how I'm
I'm on the rig, I'm gonna I'm gonna take it,
take it again, and uh Yahoo brings back our report
cards on how we did on the draft. A plus,
get the hell out of here, I said, let me
just let me just let me just screenshot this. I'm
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gonna email it to all of you.
Speaker 2 (58:15):
Go ahead in seventeen.
Speaker 1 (58:17):
Yeah, that's good stuff. I'm so happy football is back.
Speaker 2 (58:23):
Oh. Same,
It looks like our Ohio State Buckeyes have started the
season with a win against Texas. How about that?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Pretty impressive?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I must say, Yeah, Garrett, if I asked you to
name the greatest fictional Ohio State quarterback, what name would
you give me?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I would have to say, we're going way back. When
to number nine Johnny Utah course point.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Break played by Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yes, sir, that is not a wrong answer.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I was thinking number sixteen Shane Falco, also played by
Keanu Reeves. Garrett, you know what separates the winners from
the losers, the score. Let's talk about a film by
Howard Deutsch, his two thousand underrated football comedy The Replacements.
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Welcome back, sports fans.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm Jeff Johnson and I'm Gary Gibson, and.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
This is a film by podcast. We'll start things off
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Patreon member.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Heck yeah, glad to have you here, Brad.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
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As always, let's start with a couple of facts and
a quote from our director. This this week, Howard Deutsch
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attended the Ohio State University.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Well fun ted bitt that I did not know. Okay,
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I was surprised when I uncovered that. But how timely
is that? I will tell you? Before directing movies, he
directed music videos for both Billy Idol and Billy Joel.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Which I did see that in his filmography. That's that's
pretty freaking cool way to get your start, right there.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm not gonna lie absolutely.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'll tell you another fun thing about Howard. It was
during the filming of Some kind of Wonderful where Howard
met his future wife, actress Leah Thompson. Okay, yeah, think
about that. Think about that. She went from having a
thing for Howard the Duck in nineteen eighty six having
a thing for Howard the Deutsch in nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You know, that's it. And she's got a track record, say.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That she's gotta, she gotta, she's got a she got
a certain type. Yeah, yeah, cool. Quote from from Howard
Deutsch not Duck.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
This is this comes from a nineteen eighty seven interview
he gave where he said, quote, I have a theory
that peer pressure doesn't end with high school. It may
be more glaring there because the groups are so distinct socially,
but it doesn't let up as you get older. There's
a pressure in any business to choose a safe project
to go with the group. In corporations, there's pressure to
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be seen with the right people to eat in the
right restaurants at all costs to avoid the smell of failure.
A case in point was the pressure on me to
choose a quote safer title than Pretty in Pink. You
constantly have to fight to keep everything from being reduced
to the lowest common denominator. Standing on your own is
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not a thing that ends in high school.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Man wise words by a wise man.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Very wise words. I dig his energy. So Gary, let's
talk a little bit about the replacements. For those that
maybe haven't seen it in a while, or for those
that have never seen it, you will tell us what
this football comedy is all about.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Absolutely, So here's the review. It's late in the season,
the playoffs are fast approaching, and the Washington Sentinels have
just gone on strike. Scrambling for a solution, the Sentinels
owner Edward O'Neill hatches a plan to bring in a
legendary coach, Jimmy Magendi played by none other then Gene Hackman,
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which is absolutely amazing in this to recruit a team
of replacement players in exactly one week. For fans and
owners alike, the strike is a disaster. Or for Shane
Falco played by Keanu Reeves and a mismatch crew of outsiders.
It is a second chance they waited for their entire lives.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Missed match crew of outsiders that could not There couldnot
be a better description of this team in this movie.
I love that. I can't believe it, but it's celebrating
its twenty fifth anniversary as of as of right now,
I find that hard to believe because not only does
it not feel dated, not only does Keanu still look
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like he can throw a fifty yard touchdown pass yep,
but the plot of the movie concerning players, salaries and strikes,
it's still very relevant today.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
It truly is, especially with what we just had within
NBA a couple of years ago, and is very relevant
in the eighties early nineties in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So it's not too far fetched.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
It's I feel like it's like the Big Three, the NFL,
the NBA, in Major League Baseball. It's like every five
to ten years, we the fans suffer with one of
these organizations going on strike. I can't I don't recall,
like has the NHL ever gone on strike? I don't
recall hockey ever.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I think they just enjoy what they do honestly.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yeah, they're like, all right, cool, we're gonna go out
there and we're gonna get hit hard, and we're gonna
hit hard.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So yeah's that's all those guys want.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I think all the Russians and Canadians and everything, they
just enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
So, you know, more power to them.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
All right, Yeah, I'll tell you what, Uh, more power
to our sponsors. Let's take a quick break and we
get back. We will. We will jump in the huddle
with this amazing cast. All right, welcome back. We are
discussing the replacements from two thousand, a very fun football film.
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Gotta start off with number sixteen, Kunna Reeves playing Shane Falco.
You know, Falco, the future of football until he choked
in the nineteen ninety six Sugar Bowl, which they bring
up a couple times. Now, in reality, did you realize
that there was no Sugar Bowl in nineteen ninety six?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now, Yeah, So you know this movie, you know, you
and I both know it's kind of loosely based off
a true story. So if they're talking Sugar Bowl meltdowns,
you don't really want to have anyone attaching that to
a real player.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, So they picked ninety six because the year before,
the ninety five season was played on December thirty first,
nineteen ninety five, and the ninety six season wasn't played
until January second, nineteen ninety seven, So officially, no Sugar
Bowl in the year nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
So that makes a little bit more sense of why
they would actually put a time stamp on that, which
is kind of why I think they leave the time
frame of the film a little bit open. After that,
they don't really say how long he's been away. They're like, oh,
he's been gone for a while.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, we just he had one season where he washed
out and we don't know how long ago that was.
Sports is all about the the numbers, So let's talk Keano.
He takes a ninety percent pay cut on his salary
so that the studio can afford Gene Hackman.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh my gosh, okay, I mean, I don't think this
film works without Gene Hackman. So that is a brilliant
move on Keanu's part.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You you don't do this movie without Gene Hackman. You
don't do this movie without Keanu Reeves. No, that's that's
just good anyways. Yeah, more numbers, Kano gains twenty three
pounds in order to have a pro football player's size.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I mean, in this role, he's built a lot like
that kid for Jacksonville Jaguars right now, Trevor Lawrence. He's
got that tall, kind of lanky but kind of built
framed to him.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, he's built just like that kid. So it's very
believable in this role.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Now you say that, you know, even though he's even
got the long hair. Yeah, right, yeah, little little Trevor
Lawrence happening here during filming. You know, they did shoot
on location around Baltimore and they used the Ravens Stadium.
The Ravens offered a walk on tryout to Keanu.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
That year, did they really?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
They saw they saw him throwing the ball, and they're like, hey, uh,
seriously you want to you know, you got remember something too,
Kena is a left hander.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He is.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's not that's not really a common thing. You don't Yeah, yeah,
the Ravens. Uh, he declined, obviously, But the Ravens would
later go on to win Super Bowl thirty five that season.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So was that Steve McNair they had that?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I believe that was that was air McNair.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Could you imagine Kenna Reeves starting in the Super Bowl
and says, he's.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
You know, he's the thing. It's funny, but it's not
impossible because no, Yeah, Keano, aside from being you know,
the guy that creates his own motorcycle and the guy
that is an action star and the guy that is
mister Charity, let's not forget, he's also a rock star
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played for a dog Star. Did you I saw dog
Star having no idea who Dogstar was, and I looked up.
I was like, why is Keanu Reeves playing guitar feet
in front of me? What?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
What? What's going on? Yeah, I'll tell you something.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
They're good.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That is the whole appeal to his character and Bill
and Ted movies and then that video game Cyberpunk's at
seventy seven or what a twenty seventy seven something like that.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, huh yeah movie. I'm telling you, man, he's just
fun to watch this whole time.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He is.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
And it's a strange change of pace for something that
we do have coming up that you know, nineteen ninety
nine that was shot and now here we are in
two thousand, YEP.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
A big difference between those two characters.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Absolutely, Let's talk Gene Hackman for a minute. I know
we got to talk a little more in detail earlier
this year with his passing. We did a we did
a great episode on Gene Hackman and some of what
we feel are his favorite roles. Here. He's playing coach
Jimmy McGuinty and he comes in, he gets that offer.
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You know, he's the washed up coach's it's almost like
it's almost like he's channeling Norman Dale from Hoosiers. Yes,
he's a maybe he's a little bit of Harry Hog
from Days of Thunder, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
A little bit of that mixed with Tom Landry that
the hat, the suit, Yes sing for me?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, you picked up on Landry. I love that. Oh yeah.
He wants total control of the team. He wants to
be able to recruit anybody, and he wants no interference.
That's how you get him on the field and fortunately
the Washington Sentinels owner. As he goes all in. Hackman
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spends this whole movie just spouting some of the most
amazing quotes, like play like coach quotes.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Oh he truly does. Throughout the entire film. You get
so many likable lines from Gene Hackman and just circle
back a little bit. The fact that we almost didn't
have him in this is just mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Kimmy, Yeah, I don't know if you have a favorite
Hackman quote on this, but I always like the one
he gives Shane Falco. I see the man you are,
I see the man you could be. And one day
I hope they meet that one.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
And then I like the halftime during the big game,
the reporters like, well, what changes do you guys need
to make?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
And He's like heart, miles and miles of heart.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, you want to elaborate on that coach and he
just he just taps his his chest, Yeah, talking talking
about the heart that that Seane Falco has. And that's
another that's I almost step on, you know, pivotal moments
are noteworthy scenes. But we'll get to that that moment
where he has that conversation with with Keanu Reeves. Tellya
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who I always enjoy watching in this film. Very talented
actress Brooke Langton playing Annabelle. She runs, she owns the
bar that her dad left her. She's also the head
cheerleader for the Sentinels. Just just incredible actress.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Really, she's such an amazing actress, and just the pain
that she's going through while she's interviewing these girls to
be on the cheer squad is it's such a delightful
scene because you kind of forget about it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
You're like, Okay, yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Get this guy in here, we get this guy, and
then here's the little segment of her like bringing in
these cheerleaders, and it's such a freaking amazing part.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Any good football movie, any good sports movie about a
ragtag group that's gonna come together, you know, if it's
if we're talking like you know, something like major league
or you know, necessary roughness, you always got to get
this team put together. So the the little montage of
players just looking like idiots, yep, you know you expect that,
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you do. Now we're we're talking the cheerleaders. And don't
get me wrong, later in the later in the movie,
they are they are definitely something something to behold.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
They're they're definitely they really are.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Yeah, they're they're still on the team's attention for sure.
In a couple of plays, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But the fact that they they've got these cheerleader tryouts,
you got Young MC's bust to move playing and some
of these some of these girls are just ridiculous. And
I love the fact that they're they're taking a moment
to say, Hey, the girls don't have to be sexy
one hundred percent of the movie. No, let's be a
little goofy. Let's let's know some comedy, and let's let's
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give you a chance to the chuckle and have some
fun with it. And you're absolutely right, man, Annabelle trying
to try to find a cheerleader squad is just hilarious.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Absolutely, it's such an awesome scene. And I mean, I'm
glad that that actually made it end of the film.
Just such a fantastic scene.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Now you know, uh, she's got she's got some background
with another another actor that's in this movie. Who you
didn't You didn't recognize her?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
No? What what what do we got?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Brook Brook Langton memorable role in the nineteen ninety six
film Swingers with John Favreau.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Oh my gosh, I remember, Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You got let me take you back, like you know,
they're getting you know, he plays Mikey. They're getting him
his confidence back. He sees, uh, you know, Vince Vaughn's like,
you know, don't look at her as she's a she's
a bunny. She's a beautiful little bunny, and you got
these big claws and you gotta go get the bunny.
She played Nicki, who he hits it off with, gets
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the number, and then has an epic meltdown where he
gets home and leaves like sixteen messages and all you
can keep hearing is h Hi, this is Nicky. You
leave a message, and like that last one, she finally
picks up. He's like, oh, Hi, did you just get home.
Don't ever call me?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Call me again? Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Oh my gosh, I dar not recognize her from that role.
That is pretty freaking amazing.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely love her. I like that she's not
playing the damsel in distress, strong independent woman. You know,
she's running her father's bar, she's trying to keep the
cheerleaders together. She's having the will they won't they relationship
with Keanu Reeves Shane Falco, which can we just can
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we just talk about how incredible their chemistry is.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh, it's simply amazing. I've got to tell you.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
So, this film has a lot of parts in it
where it's just the right amount of comedy or the
right amount sports.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It did need that little.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Bit of a romance aspect to it, and I think
the chemistry these two shared on set was truly amazing
and very believable. It didn't seem forced, it didn't seem fake.
It was just very pleasant to have that little bit
in the film. Absolutely, if you would have.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Read a story about these two actors falling in love
on set and and ending up together, it would have
made perfect sense to me. I know that's not the
case at all, but I love when he comes back
in that final game, just walks straight to her and
kisses her. You got hey, I think he's he's necking
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that cheerleader. That's like, what are they gonna do? Firing? Yeah? Uh?
Pat summer All and John Madden.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You know, the fact that they've got them and the
entire film just made my day rewatching this this morning,
it just, I don't know, it really started the day
off just right seeing both of them.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
It's very rare that you're going to see a football
movie where the NFL offers their license and says, yeah,
you can, you can show the actual team names and
the actual players, you know, because they they're not going
to agree with most of the things they see in
the script and I get that, but I'll tell you what,
when you have a movie like this where the teams
are fictional, even like Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday, the
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thing that helps make it feel real is when you
have real color commentators from the NFL, YEP and involved,
and I just I love it. I love that they
got Summer on Madden because.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
They could not have went with a better duo.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Now, heck no, heck no. This whole team is a
who's who of amazing actors actresses. I know we'd be
here all week if we try to talk about everybody,
but uh, just just so we can move along, is
there anybody, uh you wanna you wanna briefly talk about
on this team?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
I'd go with number fifty six old Danny Bateman. Jon Favreau, Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
an absolute menace at linebacker. I just love his character
so much. It's so few on words, but when he
does talk, it is absolute insanity and it takes me
back to you know, classic football days, and I like,
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we all knew that guy that was on the team.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, how awesome it is his intro, you know, because
he's a he's a swat team member.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Gosh, yeah, they're doing the raid. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, and this again. You when you have a sports
comedy and we're putting the team together, you gotta we
gotta have that montage where we're we're we're hearing like
the voiceovers, we're talking about the guy as we're seeing
him somewhere else and him walking to that that that
bust and just just weighing lace to the criminals, drug
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dealers and everything. It's he's awesome. He's he is. He
is way over the top.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, he is a very much rabid dog personality in
this film.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
And I love that. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Get that ball, Go get me that ball. I'm gonna
get that ball, Give me that ball.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He's just love it so much. Man, well would he?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I mean he almost he almost hospitalizes Shane Falco like
they're they're doing practice, and count is like tapping his
red jersey's like red meats.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Stop and just anytime that Reese Iphens hits a field
goal in this entire movie, he's just chasing him. In
the final one where he's like chasing down the field.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
He tackles ree Iphens, who's he's playing Nigel gruff leg Yeah,
he's what he's a Welsh soccer player soccer, a gambling.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Degenerator field and score. Is that the legend behind him?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I just yeah, he he he hits him that one
game and I think it's Mad's like, hey, listen, there's
a there's a saying, don't be good at something unless
you want to get you.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Can handle the congratulations.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Unless you can handle the congratulations.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
He's he's such a he's such a dirt bag in
the fun way, Like he's smoking cigarettes on the field.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I belave us all the smoke.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I blame us all the smoke. It's yeah, Reeseipeens is great. Uh.
I tell you blink and you miss it moment. You
know how much you and I love Keith David. Yes,
he's uh he's repping the the players union for the strike.
It's like one one scene in the parking lot and
I was like, wait, that's Keith David, Like what's what's
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going on?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I had so much hope when I was rewatching this
and saw him. I was like, was he the commissioner
of the NFL quote unquote?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And uh now no he wasn't.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I was like, maybe he's got a big part and
I'm just not remembering him for whatever reason.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
No, just a olsnid bit there.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
I know I mentioned Major League a couple minutes ago,
Orlando Jones playing wide receiver Clifford Franklin number eighty one. Yes,
like when we get hit, like the where he's like
the stock boy who is tracking down the the kid
that rips off the comedian store. He runs past, He's like, hey, brother,
how's it going, giving off some serious Willie Mays Hayes vibes.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh he really is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Too fast, too fell Orlando.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
And and the fact that even though he is the
fascist man out there can run any route, he cannot
catch the ball.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, that's that's Uh, that's gonna hurt you a little bit.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I'll tell you two more that I think we need
to talk about. David Denman. This is his feature film debut.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Which is a pretty solid feature film debut.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
And I remember growing up this is one of the
first two things i'd seen him in. I'd seen him
in this and a little film with another up up
and coming actor at the point time, Zach Galfernakis in
like Buddy Comedy's snowboarding movie called Out Cold. Oh yeah,
come it just freaking amazing. But you know, for him
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playing the deaf tight end in this Brian is it Murphy?
Brian Murphy, Yep, Yeah, absolutely loved him in this role.
I mean, just such a likable guy.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I think if there's one actor that's quietly stealing the
show from everybody, including Hackman and Reeves, it's David Denman. Yeah,
it's And you know, it's funny because like I think
a lot of people they if they go back and
they see this or they see it for the first time,
they're like, holy shit, that's that's Rory from the Office.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yep, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And then right now, I mean he is playing in
season two Peacemaker, I mean, oh that's right. Yeah, yeah,
he's playing east Maker's brother for anyone that's watching that show.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Pretty amazing so far.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
But yeah, yeah, he's He's got some great, great moments
in this film. I feel like every scene he's in
he just steals it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Oh just the jail scene alone, as well as.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Amazing the jail So we're gonna get to the jail scene.
Got we got to talk about the jail scene. But
one last one before moving on. You know, like I said,
this is if this is David Demmon's feature film debut.
Jack Warden in his final film performance. He retired right
after this. Jack Warden, who plays Ed O'Neill, the owner
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of the Washington Sentinels. This guy, what is it about
him and football movies? He always plays like the coach
or he's always he does.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
He's got the right amount of just gruff in his
voice that he's got to be an owner, He's got
to be a coach.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
He's just perfect for that role.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I think what's amazing about him. We should we should
dislike him, we should not like his character because of
some of the stuff he's doing.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Absolutely, but you can't.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
You can't not like him. Even at the end he's like,
I know it, I believed in them all along. It's
you're just like, yeah, all right, let let him have it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Exactly like that.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
That's exactly how any NFL owners acting after the day.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
He's like, nope, bench and get him out of here.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah he feels he feels a little Jerry Jones, Yes
he does. But but at Jerry Jones that you just
you just like WHI yeah right yeah. Apologies to everyone
listening in Dallas right now. We have we have listeners
in Dallas, and you know, I don't know how they
feel about Jerry Jones. You know, I'm not not picking
on the man. I'm just saying, all right, Garret, let's
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move on to this film's background, little little production history
for you. Not a whole lot to go on, but
I do want to point out something. I think it's incredible.
We talked that this, We talked about this being based
loosely on a true story. Do you do you know
this the story here?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Actually, uh, nineteen eighty seven Washington Redskins, believe it or not.
So the team went on a strike leading into week three,
if I'm not mistaken here, and then while they were
on strike, they had the bright idea, instead of going
for all these collegiate players and everything that's wanting to
come to the NFL a little bit early, they went
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ahead and got a ragtag bunch of guys kind of
just like this that played weeks three, four and five,
four world, which is pretty freaking awesome. And the Redskins
actually went on to come back and I want to
say it's week six, ended the season with a twelve
and four record and went on to win the Super
Bowl that season, which is pretty damn cool.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
So I want to point something out. The teams that
Shane Falco's sentinels are playing are Saint Louis, New York
and Dallas. And in the movie Dallas crosses the picket line.
They returned to actions. So they're playing like the real
the pros, right, And in nineteen ey seven, the Redskins
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replacements took on Saint Louis, New York and Dallas and
the Dallas Cowboys cross the picket line to play. I
think there's plenty of experts out there, historians. I'll tell you,
if these guys had not won these three games, the
Redskins don't go to the Super Bowl and they don't win.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
They do not.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
They definitely don't meet John Elway in the Super Bowl
and beat him, beat him forty two to ten.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
So no, I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Another fun fact, Shane Falco wears number sixteen. So did
Washington replacement quarterback Ed Rupert.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So did he really? Okay?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, there're they're walking a fine line of doing like
a bio pick and getting away with it.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeeah. I like their style for that one.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Talk about style, Let's talk about music for a moment,
because The soundtrack plays like a nineties jock JAMCD. Do
you remember those?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeuh yes, I sure do.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Let me let me give you a rundown of the music,
because I got to know what was making your playlist
back then. So I mentioned bust a Move by Young MC,
which is a you know, the fun scene with the cheerleaders.
We also get I Don't Want to Be Your Girlfriend
by Kelly Owens. We get rock and Roll Part two
by Gary Glitter, which I feel like you're gonna hear
that in every sporting event you go to, you do Yeah,
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no matter what it is, right. Good Vibrations by Marky
Mark and the Funky Bunch is featured several times in
the movie. Taking Care of Business by Bachman Turner Turner Overdrive.
Maybe the Crown Jewel on the playlist I Will Survive
by Gloria Gaynor, which is going to be included in
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one of the funnier scenes which we'll get to. But
we also have some some rolling stones. We got you
got Me Rocking yep see and see Music Factory Gonna
make You Sweat.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, how about the Every Breath You Take by the
police for that Lettle got that that that Kiss Barcia
with Shane and Annabel, a nineties favorite of mine. E
mf's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
It's it's a classic.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
It's a classic. Can't have a football movie without Queen's
We Were Rock You No, Mars pump up the Volume,
So that's a gem. I don't care who you are.
It is, Uh, we got we got David Bowie's Heroes.
But it's not David bow It's not the David Bowie version.
It's a cover by Mark Manila. I mean it's the
soundtrack is just amazing. Man, It's it's just banger after banger.
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But what's what's your go to track here? Out of
all these?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Oh my gosh, Well, uh, I'm gonna go with either
Gloria Gayner because I absolutely love Amazing of course, or
you know, if I'm out there gimming or whatever it
may be, I might go a little bit of Market
Mark and the Funky Bunch. I'm not going yeah, and
you have to wait what you got on yours here?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I tell you, uh, pump up the volume by Mars
and then make you sweat by CNC Music Factory. Okay,
I listen unashamedly. I will tell you if CNC Music Factories,
Make you Sweat came on right now. I could sing
it word for word. I would not miss a single note.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
That's where I'm at with the Market Park and.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm no Freedom Williams, But but I could. I could
hang with the CNC Music Factory. I think I got
to point out this is also an amazing film score
by the one and only John Debney. Love this guy's music,
Absolutely love it. I'll tell you who else loves it,
our very own Wayne White did. And uh, we're gonna
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go back to the locker room where Wayne is standing
by to tell us a little bit about John Debney. Wayne,
take it away.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
The year two thousand was a great year for film scores.
Within those twelve months, we were treated with music masterpieces
like Hans Zimmer's Gladiator, Michael Cayman's X Men, John Williams
Is the Patriot, and James Newton Howard's Unbreakable. One composer
that was keeping himself busy during that year was John Debney.
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By this time, Debney had been in the business for
over a decade, and by now had put most of
his incredible work on television behind him to focus on
his film music.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Career.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
During the year two thousand, John Debney had no less
than four film scores to complete. The Julie Andrews William
Baldwin film Relative Values, the animated Disney film The Emperor's
New Groove, the Imax documentary Michael Jordan to the Max,
and this film one of the most experimental, the Howard
Deutch directed sports comedy The Replacements. The film about a
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fictional football team who won three replacement games without any
of their regular players and went on to win Super
Bowl twenty two, would prove to be a challenge for Debney.
His only previous sports film was the nineteen ninety four's
Little Giants, but that was a family film requiring a
fully orchestral score. The Replacements was a whole different style
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of film together and required a whole different style of
music to go along with it. This was a fast
paced film, one that needed a high octane score, and
Debney delivered just that, bringing a techno pop feel to
his music, dotting the music with catchy danced beats and
rock songs, but never fully forgetting his orchestral background, with
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some beautiful dramatic pieces full of singing brass and soft
and beautiful flutes and woodwinds. The soundtrack to The Replacement
has only ever been released once by Very Sarah Band Records,
back in stace of Timber of two thousand, just a
few weeks after the film. It is a compilation album
containing about thirty minutes of musical score by John Debney,
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hitting the majority of musical cues by the composer, along
with songs that were heard in the film such as
Second Chance by Bette Domrose, bust a Move by Young MC,
rock and Roll Part Two by Gary Glitter, and I
Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. The CD opens with a
track titled Replacements Remix, which is an odd six minutes
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piece hitting most of the main themes DeBie created for
the film with a pulse pounding techno rock heat, synth
elements and a bit of dialogue from the film. It's
an interesting choice to start the album. I would have
placed it at the end because it's a great way
of getting the feel of Debutye's music for the film
all in one go. A few of the highlights from
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this score includes the piece Falco, which was a soft
orchestral cue which contains the film's softer emotional core and
showcasing DeBie talent for creating a lovely emotional tone for
the lighter sides of the film. Strings and woodwinds play
a calm version of some of the themes that we
heard briefly in that remix cue. Debby paired with musician
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and guitarist Mark Henry Banella of the group Font forty
to eight for a couple of cues, including the songs
The Look in Your Eyes and strike Breakers. Banilla would
work again with Debney on the film Was a Scorpion King,
Spider Man two, and iron Man two. It's an interesting
mix orchestral rock and techno sound that are highly energetic
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and very different from anything that Debney has done before
in his scores. My favorite piece for the score, though,
is entitled The Dallas Game and is a hard hitting
cue with tense stringwork and a driving, energetic rhythm. It's
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the beginning of a new style and sound that Debney
would return a few more times in the future in
films like Spy Kids, Sin City, and especially Iron Man two.
Director Howard deutch Will returned to work with John Debney
two more times for the two thousand and four comedy
The Whole Ten Yards and then again in two thousand
and eight for My Best Friend's Girl. While The Replacements
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may have received mixed reviews for the film upon its release,
one thing that was praised was John Debbee's innovation and
unique musical storytelling that he delivered, proving his value as
a composer that can deliver the necessary energy and emotion
needed and a musical genius. Quickly moving up the ranks
to stand next to the legendary greats in film music.
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Debney had already won a place in My Heart and
My Soundtrack shelf years before with such incredible television scoring
like The Young Writers, SEQUESTDSB Star Trek, The Next Generation
and Doctor Who, and his scores for the Replacement sits
proudly among them, getting an occasional re listen when I'm
in the mood for something a little different.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Well, Garrett, that's one guy you always want in your lineup.
Wayne Whited giving us yet another amazing scoring session. Wayne,
thank you very much for that. We appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
I mean, just how much you can tell Hey enjoys
talking about film scores.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
You know, It's one of those things it just warms
your heart. It's like this man right here, he gets it.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I absolutely love that Wayne makes time for us on
a film by to do these for us. But tell
you what we're gonna do. We're gonna take another break,
and when we come back, we'll talk noteworthy scenes and
the pivotal moment. But for all of you listening to
today's episode on Patreon, like Brad Moore, there is no
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break because we're going to take a minute to discuss
our top five favorite football movies. This portion of the
show is only available on Patreon, so we'll see you there,
or for those of you not on Patreon with us,
we'll see you right after this break. All right, welcome back.
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Those of you on Patreon. We didn't go anywhere. We're
still here. But for those of you that are not
on Patreon, we just had ourselves a pretty fun conversation.
Well we didn't have the fun conversation. Apparently a couple
of pros across the picket line and we got their
top five football movies. So but you know, hey, Garrett,
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even you and I need to hit the bench once
in a while, right.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Every now and then, it's good. Take a seat.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Let's talk about some of the noteworthy scenes here. I
don't know if there's a pivotal moment as much as
there's a favorite moment. But I want to start off
with throwing up in the huddle.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Yes, it's like, what the hell are these guys doing
the fact that Orlando Jones is like, hey, we need
to move, He's like, we're in the huddle.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Immediately vomits as well.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
And then Brian Murphy's over here and he's doing the
hand signing of he's about to puke as well, and
it's like, everyone move on three.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
It's absolutely fantastic. Yeah, that that little twinkletoes group move
that they do that reminds you of like Fred Flintstone
he does. Yes, it's oh man, I laugh every time
I see it.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Past summer, I was like, John, have you ever seen
anything like this? He's like, not on a football field, not.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
On a football field. You mentioned the uh, the jail scene.
So we got a nice little combo here. There's a
bar fight that leads to what might be the greatest
jail scene ever. We got. We got the you know,
the pros are here, you know, they get they get
their asses kicked in their first game. They're kind of
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licking their wounds and in Annabelle's pub and here come
the pros just to talk shit and kick them while
they're down, and it leads to a fantastic bar fight.
You know, they get they get locked up, and this
is that, this is that that that trope where this
dysfunctional team needs to come together somehow, Someway, did you
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ever suspect that they're gonna come together by singing and
dancing to Gloria Gainers? I will survive.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
I would never have guessed that.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
But this is one of those scenes where everyone on
the team finally comes together. You have that brotherhood moment
to where you guys just kick these guys' asses and
now you're getting to share some alone time with the boys,
and you know, I think this is probably my favorite
favorite scene in the film.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I've got to say, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Orlando Jones, who's kind of like he's he's talking the lyrics,
you know, because like you were hide behind the jukebox.
He's like, hey, man, at first I was afraid.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I was petrified, and I was petrified.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Think about how you I couldn't have you living with you,
without you by my side. And then you know, everyone
kind of comes together anytime you get a group of
people that aren't getting along and they come together by
singing something. Singing the song you know, maybe maybe almost
famous as the probably the perfect version of this Tiny
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Dancer on the Bush. But seeing these guys in jail
all singing I Will Survive, which is kind of like
a lady's power anthem.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
The I want to say, one of the top like
disco tracks of all time.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, maybe the maybe the number one track of all time. Yeah,
did you recognize now, Garrett? I know you're no stranger
to the clubs and the bar scene from from uh Yesteryear,
but did you recognize the dance that they were doing?
Because if you've been if you were out of any
club in the in the eighties and nineties, if you've
if you've been at any wedding in the last thirty years,
you've got to know this this dance.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
Man, I I don't know that I'm blanking right now.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
What we got The Washington Sentinels were doing the electric slide.
Oh my gosh, Okay, maybe the easiest line dance to learn, Like, yeah,
I think that's like the go to like, Hey, I
don't know how to do this, now just watch me
for like ten seconds and you'll be fun anyone. You know,
I can't dance, but I can do the electric slide,
so that tells you.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
But my favorite part about that is where, you know,
the coach comes in and they're all getting bailed out
and they all like realize he's there and stop dancing
after he says something, and then David denhams just Denman
still over there, just dancing like tapp him like, hey stop,
he stop stopping coach here.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
How about uh, we get that play where the Japanese guy,
the sumo wrestler Yumiko, Yes, runs it in. You know
what wasn't supposed to happen. He runs it in for
a down. John Madden, I love to see a fat
guy score. You get a fat guy spike, you get
a fat guy dance again, quick moment. Anytime you can
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get Madden or some are all to give us a
little SoundBite, it's perfect.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yeah movie, It's truly amazing.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
And that leads me to maybe my favorite Pat Summer
all John Madden commentary. We get Falco and Annabelle. She's
closing up shop in the bar and you're like, you know,
the police is playing lowly in the background. Every breath
you take and you're like, come on, you've got to
kiss her. And meanwhile you've got commentary happening by some
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aere All and Madden. But he's going in for it.
He's going in for it, pat you know, like their
commentary makes what could have been an ordinary, you know,
tender moment just still tender and still still a little sexy,
but also some them to have fun with him laugh.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
At it is just because he's like one good play
here and he's back in the ball game.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's that might be one of my favorite
moments in this and it's hard to beat the jail
scene with him doing I Will Survive. But let's take
a moment where not something to laugh at. You get
ed O'Neill. You know, Jack Warden telling telling Jimmy McGuinty, Hey,
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the players are back across the picket line. You know, Martel,
who's this douchebag of a quarterback. I don't know who
they I don't know who they are basing him on
because I couldn't find anything where Now, you know, I
think they're being kind, like we're not basing him off.
He's just he's just playing like the typical douchebag villain,
you know, yep, But Jimmy's got to take Falco out. Falco,
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who is I feel like Keanu Reeves is just playing
himself because he's like one of the nicest people in
the world.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
He is, and he's trying to build up everyone around him, like, hey,
you know, you're great, We're gonna do great. We just
got work together, and they actually start doing that, and
then kind of like what Gene Hackman says is he's
the heart of this team. He took away what was
pomping blood and energy and everything positive into these gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
He took that away from him.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Falco won't even say a bad word about Martel. He's like, well, listen,
he's he's the best. He's the best quarterback. The team
needs the best. He's he's he's got.
Speaker 4 (45:33):
It and not you know.
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Hagman's like, no, he didn't. He doesn't have the heart.
That's what you've got, man. That's a that's a harsh
that's a harsh scene. It's it just breaks your heart
every time you have to watch it.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
It really does.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Because he's so excited out there running QB drills while
Gene Hackman's approaching him. He's out there on the field
and talking about what they're going to do against Dallas
on Sunday, and then he has to drop that on him.
So it's it's heart ranching.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, quick question, you know, because Falco makes some amazing plays,
But there's one play I don't understand. Why do you
stand Annabelle up on the date? We cut to her,
she's candlelight dinner, she's crying. I mean, in real life,
you're not gonna stand up the gorgeous, funny, amazing cheerleader.
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You're you're gonna go to and be like, hey, you
know they benched me like you you gotta go, you know,
lick your wounds and let let's let's let your lady
take care of you, right you can?
Speaker 2 (46:31):
I would think so.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
And I think maybe the reason they did this is
kind of this is what he did after the bowl game.
He just went off by himself, secluded himself and then
kind of just gave up on everything. And I think
that's what they were kind of basing it off of.
But no, you would not do that, now, Okay, I
think I think you're right.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
I think they had to tie it back to like
his his meltdown in the bowl game. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay,
I want to talk about one more scene. Maybe it's
a pivotal moment. I don't know. It's definitely my favorite moment.
So Martella come back, not the reception he gets he's
expecting from the fans, teams not gelling with him's throwing
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his weight around. McGinty says, you're out because Falco has
just shown up. Because Martel's like, I can't beat Dallas
with these losers, and Shane Falco, I can't. Yeah, and
you're like, here we go. Suit up. Every football movie
has that excellent, memorable quote that the quarterback's got to
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give in the huddle. Oh yeah, every one of them
does it. Falco has one of the best, if not
the best, Keanu Reeves telling us, I know you're tired,
I know you're hurting, and I wish I could say
something that was classy and inspirational. That just wouldn't be
our style. Payne Heels to Scars, Glory last forever, Right
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on pain Heels Chicks dig Scars Glory lasts forever. Dude.
At this point, they can win the game or they
could have lost the game, and it doesn't matter, because
that is where you're like, hell, yes, this is awesome,
let's see what you're gonna do. Fantastic moment. I love
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that moment.
Speaker 4 (48:30):
It's truly amazing. I loved that because you're expecting this
big QB speech. They're coming back at halftime, they're down
I think seventeen points at the point in time, and
he just comes in and delivers exactly something a knucklehead
would say to a bunch of other knuckleheads and get
them fired right back.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
I was like, yeah, now we're taking this.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
It's a fantastic film from a fantastic director, Howard Deutsch. So, Garrett,
if someone was unfamiliar with the filmography of Howard Deutsch,
they watched The Replacements, they say, hey, this was an
awesome movie. What else has this guy done? Which three
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films or say television projects would you suggest they watch.
Speaker 4 (49:20):
I would start earlier in his career by far with
Pretty in Pink. Just such such a classic eighties film,
Molly Ringwald. If you haven't seen it, it is definitely
worth the watch.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
That is such a fantastic film. We covered it on
our limited nineteen eighty six series. I think we had
our special correspondent Jenna Jenna Stewart with us, which was
a great time. But that movie, man, that's one of
those I would put that maybe as like a top
ten eighties film. If you're going overall eighties, yes, saying
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action or not saying you know nothing, no specific genre.
But if you're going like top ten of all time,
you got you gotta represent the one for the ladies
out there and pretty in pink. You know the Duckman. Yep,
you know James Spader, who is the essence school in
the nineteen eighties, he was, Yeah, good choice. I'm with you.
I would definitely make that one of my three picks.
Speaker 4 (50:17):
For number two, I would have to go with John
Candy and Dan Aykroyd's classic The Great Outdoors.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
I am right there with you, Okay, Why why is
this one? Why is this someone make your list? Aside
from the fact that's just amazing.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
Such a great film, But my dad loved this film
growing up, and I don't know, it just had me
laughing from start to finish. Every time that they get
in it with into the bear scene.
Speaker 2 (50:45):
Or anything like that. It just had me dying as
a kid. And then that's just stuck with me ever since.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
So such a classic for me, that fireplace story that
John Candy gives them, you know, the all headed killer
Bear of Claire County, the way he does it, and
just the reactions that Deutsch is getting from the kids
and the you know, the wives on the you know,
maybe we shouldn't tell the story. It's gonna give us,
it's gonna give a nightmares. No, no, no, As I said,
(51:13):
it may save their life one day.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
They need to hear it.
Speaker 1 (51:17):
They need to hear it. Dan Akeroyd and John Candy
at their best. I love that film, man, It's it
makes it makes me want to go on that kind
of vacation.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
It really does, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
I'm right there with you. I'm two for two with you.
You know, let's let's se if we're gonna go three
for three here.
Speaker 4 (51:36):
I'm going to branch away from his films and then
go over to a show that was on HBO. He
had done two episodes for him, but absolutely loved both
episodes he did for Tales.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
From the Crypt.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
Deutsch did Tales from the Crypt.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
He absolutely did.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
Had one episode in nineteen eighty nine called Only Sin Deep,
and then he had a follow up episode in nineteen
ninety called Dead Right, and I've got to tell you
both episodes truly amazing. And I might be a little
biased just because I love that series so much, but yeah, yeah,
(52:14):
I love both of his episodes.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
I love I love the series. I know it's available
on I want to say it's available on DVD, YEP,
and so far, any episode I've tried to find on YouTube,
I have found on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (52:29):
I know.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
When we were talking to Bill Paxton did when we
did our tribute Bill Paxton episode, there was an episode
that he did that I went back and watched. I've
got to find these now. I'm gonna have to look
these up because I know I've seen them because I've
seen the whole series and I love the whole series.
But now I need to go back and get a
rewatch because you tell me that Howard Deutsche did tell
(52:51):
us in the Crypt. It just doesn't fit, you know,
because he's, you know, early on he's our John Hughes guy,
and then he does he's mainly like a comedy.
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Guy, because I know he really is, you know.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
I know we didn't talk about this, but I feel
like when you need a sequel to a comedy. He's
the guy you call because he did Grumpy Old Men.
He did The Whole ten Yards. I think there's another one,
you know. I know I'm missing.
Speaker 4 (53:18):
Grumpy Old Man the Whole ten Yards and oh my gosh,
I'm gonna kick myself if I don't remember this. But
the funny little thing before I get too far away
from it Brett Colwan, the guy that played uh, oh
my gosh, I forgot his name, the jerk quarterback in this.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
Oh yeah, the guy plays Martel.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
Yes, he is in the episode only Cindy, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
Okay, so that expends why why he's showing up here?
Oh it was the odd couple.
Speaker 2 (53:51):
Two there, it is the odd couple too. Yep, all right,
all right.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
So tell us of the Crypt. Not a not a
bad way to go, you know, now I think about it,
I think Deutsch did one of the seasons of American
Horror Story.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
He did, Yes, maybe maybe was it freak Show that
he did or was it, I want to say this
freak show yep?
Speaker 1 (54:12):
Or was it Coven? He might have done both, so
maybe maybe him doing tales some of the Crypt makes sense.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna pivot here from you. I'm
gonna I'm gonna keep my list like solid early Deutsch.
I gotta go with the movie that he met his
wife on some kind of wonderful Okay, I like it.
It's a fantastic film. I mean, truthfully, there's there's no
(54:35):
bad choices when you're when you're talking about this guy's filmography. Honestly, no, no, not,
it's solid all the way through. Well, Garrett, I have
to believe your recommendation for this movie will be solid.
Speaker 4 (54:48):
Uh. Well, I could not score this movie any higher.
If I had to score it, I would say on
a scoreboard, it would be twenty to seventeen. Is how
I would do this one. They would add you out
the competition like that.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
It's available to rent on most streaming channels. I watched
it on Prime. I know it's on Blu Ray, but
I'm kind of holding out for a good four K release.
I keep hoping we're gonna get something, you know, with
some more, some more to put on the scoreboard. But
we'll see listeners. What do you think of the replacements?
(55:21):
Have you seen it? Is it among your favorite football movies?
You can let us know on social media you'll find
us on Facebook, Instagram, and x You can check out
www dot a film by podcast dot com, where all
of our episodes you'll find links to where they're streaming free.
It's also several film and television articles. And Garrett, I
(55:44):
want to say, a couple of seasons ago, I did
a eleven eleven football movies you want in the Huddle?
Speaker 2 (55:50):
So yeah, yeah, check it out.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
But yeah, it's all there. You can write to us
at a film by Podcast at gmail dot com with
your questions, comments and concern We may just read your
response on the show and send you some of a
film by swag. Well, Garrett, always a pleasure to have
you back. I know you'll be back later this month
to discuss one of your favorite Sam Raimi films. And
(56:14):
something tells me I don't need a fortune teller to
reveal which film we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
That would be The Gift.
Speaker 1 (56:22):
That is such a damn good movie. I can't wait
to talk about the Gift with you. I know that's
gonna be coming up later this month, and I think
we're gonna have a fun time talking about that one.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
I think we will, and we'll see a different Canna
Reeves in this one.
Speaker 1 (56:37):
Oh holy cal you're right. I completely forgot he's in it.
And you're absolutely right. If if you're expecting Shane Falco
in the gift, you have got another thing company that's
gonna be.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Donnie Barksdale is a animal.
Speaker 1 (56:54):
He is looking forward to that one. And to all
of you listening to the show, following us on social media,
subscribing to our Patreon like Brad Moore, thank you Brad,
once again, We thank you.
Speaker 5 (57:29):
Always.
Speaker 1 (57:31):
All right, I'll tell you I needed that break earlier
at our fantasy football draft. I think I had just
uh one too many beers. Maybe catching up with me
fair enough? Yeah, oh man, I'll tell you. We're sitting
around drafts over and I am cutting a sweet Rick
(57:52):
Flair style promo to everyone, talking about because I'm I've
won the league several times. I'm talking about how I'm
I'm on the rig, I'm gonna I'm gonna take it,
take it again, and uh Yahoo brings back our report
cards on how we did on the draft. A plus,
get the hell out of here, I said, let me
just let me just let me just screenshot this. I'm
(58:13):
gonna email it to all of you.
Speaker 2 (58:15):
Go ahead in seventeen.
Speaker 1 (58:17):
Yeah, that's good stuff. I'm so happy football is back.
Speaker 2 (58:23):
Oh. Same,
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