Rewatchables Reference

• The opening scene – Billy Cole shooting four defenders and then himself on the football field during a game.
• Joe discovering the guy in the closet.
• 'Jake, open the trunk' – Jimmy's speech on the NFL's stance on drugs and gambling.
• Joe vs. Kim Coates – 'Touch me again and I'll kill you' then actually kills him.
• The big ending at the football game – Damon Wayans riding a horse, throwing a football to save the senator, Bruce Willis dancing a jig.
• The car chase landing in the pool at the Hollywood Hills house.

• Willis is the best at getting beat up in movies – hit in the face 7 times, back of the head 3 times, tasered, and stabbed.
• The witty exchanges – 'Fuck you Joe, you were never around / I was lonely, buy a dog'; 'I believe in love / I believe in cancer'.
• Halle Berry – stunning in just 4-5 minutes of screen time, leaping off the screen.
• Damon Wayans's hat (the fez-like hat).
• Taylor Negron calling people by their full names in a derisive way.
• The Friday Night Football montage with Bill Medley singing.
• The football card – weaving the title into the movie in a unique way using a 'Pro Set' card from the early 90s.

• Joe's hatred for rap music – he likes Pat Boone while rap/hip-hop were exploding in 1991.
• The Jimmy Carter lookalike is terrible.
• The first dad-daughter scene is too long.
• Some misogyny/homophobia typical of late 80s/early 90s action movies.
• Tony Scott's idea of football is more like Zack Snyder's 300 than actual football.

• Tony Scott wanted Grace Jones for the Halle Berry part; the studio overruled him (good job by the studio).
• John McTiernan declined to direct because it was another Bruce Willis thing.
• Jack Nicholson was supposedly up for Joe Hallenbeck (Bill and Chris don't believe it).

• Taylor Negron as Milo – 'easily the best performance of his career'; mesmerizing in every scene; survives a burning car in a pool; 'Officer, there are too many bullets in this gun'.
• Primarily known as an observational stand-up comic, making his turn as a violent killer even more impressive.

• Kim Coates – Bill's pick, a great bad guy in multiple movies, didn't know his name for years.
• Frank Collison as Pablo (the henchman playing piano) – Chris's pick.
• Noble Willingham as Shelley the owner.
• Chelcie Ross – completed the 'sports movie Mount Rushmore': 'Hoosiers', 'Rudy', 'Major League', and this.

• Don Johnson for the Joe Hallenbeck part – 7 years out of 'Miami Vice', would have been awesome.
• Renee Russo for Joe's wife instead of Chelsea Field.

• Very troubled production – Joel Silver told The New Yorker: 'Making this film was one of the three worst experiences of my life'.
• Football experts for the movie were A.C. Cowlings and O.J. Simpson – possibly the best half-assed research ever.
• Shane Black's original script had Milo as a director of snuff films, a boat chase scene, and Joe's wife killing Milo at the end.
• The Geffen Film Company bid the $1.75 million for Shane Black's script.
• Filmed the football scene at the L.A. Coliseum; a near-riot occurred when they canceled the extras recall but they all showed up expecting to be paid.

• The Wayans Brothers – yes; Damon in Last Boy Scout + all of them on In Living Color; 'The family's having a moment'.
• L.A. NFL home games – yes; 'Has it ever gotten better for LA football? No'.
• $650 pants – yes (Chris: 'Don't think they ever really got more popular').
• Hangover acting – yes; 'This is Apex Mountain for a character being hungover'.
• Bruce Willis – no; Tony Scott – no; Joel Silver – no.
• 1990s Halle Berry – no, still 'Boomerang'.

• Jimmy shrugs off his girlfriend (Halle Berry) being brutally murdered in front of him in 10 minutes.
• No more football after the Billy Cole opening scene; no reference to how the league dealt with a mass shooting on the field.
• Jimmy throwing a perfect spiral with a bleeding/bullet-wounded hand into the upper deck of the Coliseum.
• Joe and his wife getting back together at the end is questionable.

Bill pitches a 10-episode Netflix show, then pivots to pitching a show about the making of 'The Last Boy Scout' (with OJ and AC Cowlings as technical consultants, Joel Silver, Tony Scott, Bruce Willis behind the scenes).

• Did the movie foreshadow the gambling era? Bill: 'put a bright, pulsating light on where things were going'.
• Is Shelley (the owner) based on Jerry Jones? Venn diagram has 'a ton of overlap'.
• Why are they called the L.A. Stallions? What is 'Stallions' about L.A.?
• The NFL asked Pete Rozelle for real uniforms; he read three pages and said 'permission denied'.

• The autographed football card – the actual prop card Damon Wayans signed.
• The dropped cigarette from the Kim Coates scene – 'May I have a cigarette? I seem to have dropped mine'.

• Damon Wayans – 'a dynamite movie star performance he never captured again; he never got this opportunity again'.
• Bill: 'Multiple people could have been Bruce Willis. I don't know in 1991 who else could have been Jimmy Dix'.