Rewatchables Reference

• The opening bank heist – nun masks, Claire nervously working the safe, Jem going too far, Claire walking blindfolded to the water.
• Doug telling Jem 'I need your help, I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're going to hurt some people' – 'Whose car we takin?'
• North End heist – 'Close the fucking bridge!', the cop looking away, 'Now that's how you drive a fucking car'.
• Jem and Doug at the cemetery – 'Your problem is you think you're better than people'.
• Doug vs. Fergie the florist – 'You're an old guy with a fucked up face'.
• Hamm interrogating Lively at Sully's – real sexual chemistry.
• Fenway Park heist and shootout.
• Doug killing Fergie.

• Charlestown authenticity – Affleck really researched it, used locals, real bars, real streets.
• Blake Lively's performance – unfairly trashed by critics, anyone from Boston knows she nailed it.
• Affleck's Boston accent throughout.
• Jeremy Renner's performance – the way he walks into bars, carries himself, every detail is perfect.
• The 'Not Fucking Around Crew' as a concept.
• 'Last motherfucker who robbed the Red Sox like this was Jack Clark' – a deep-cut real Red Sox reference.
• The cop looking away during the North End getaway.
• Decision not to use the alternate ending where Doug dies.
• Fergie's bodyguard with the 02129 Charlestown zip code tattoo.
• Pete Postlethwaite as Fergie the florist – 'If there's a heaven, son, she ain't in it'.

• Too many overhead helicopter shots of Boston.
• Hamm's brief attempt at a Boston accent (though arguably he's mocking them on purpose).
• Chris Cooper prison scene – least favorite five minutes of the movie.
• Multiple direct Heat ripoffs: FBI surveillance photos, massive shootout where leads escape, girlfriend waving off the FBI.
• The ending narration about paying for what you've done – he's actually a mass murderer who shot at 50 cops.
• Generic Boston T-shirts because they couldn't get licensing – Renner should have been in a Joe Thornton Bruins jersey.

• Almost directed by Adrian Lyne ('Fatal Attraction', 9½ Weeks) – the weirdest discovery in research for any Rewatchables movie.
• Affleck originally wanted Mark Wahlberg for Jem – Wahlberg was busy shooting The Fighter.
• Casey Affleck suggested Jeremy Renner after working with him on The Assassination of Jesse James (2007).

Slaine as Gloansy – 'I can always take a pinch'; doesn't overdo the Boston thing because he's actually from there.

• Pete Postlethwaite as Fergie the florist – every scene he's in, he's shooting threes.
• Jon Hamm in the interrogation scene – going for the Oscar clip, should have been scaled back 12%.

• Blake Lively – in four scenes she hits 11 threes, double-double, no turnovers, blocked seven shots.
• Fergie the florist as runner-up.

• Used the former Mass Bank branch in Melrose, MA for the first robbery.
• Chris Cooper scene shot at MCI Cedar Junction – first filming ever at the maximum security prison.
• The '300 bank robberies' claim is exaggerated – only 23 in Massachusetts in Q1 2010 vs 136 in California.
• Charlestown community backlash – residents were annoyed at being portrayed as the bank robbery capital.
• Affleck had a four-hour first cut; director's cut was 2:50; theatrical was ~2:05.

• Fenway Park – coming off two World Series, John Henry let them shoot a bank heist shootout there (pure starfuckery).
• Charlestown.
• Blake Lively (though commercially 'Iron Man' 3 for Rebecca Hall).

• Krista gets a DUI 32 seconds after being booted from the Fenway hotel – with a 2-year-old in the car.
• Krista knowing when and where the Fenway heist was going down (director's cut explains this better).
• Renner and Blake Lively as brother and sister – she's really tall, he's not.
• Claire not recognizing Doug's voice from the bank robbery.
• FBI putting all their eggs in the 'he'll show up at Claire's house' basket, then giving up when he doesn't.
• Doug escaping in an MBTA uniform and walking past cops with a bag of money.
• Anonymous donation for the hockey rink from stolen money – no audit?
• Affleck losing the fight to Renner despite being 7 inches taller and 70 pounds heavier with hockey-fighting background.

• Where did the gang get uniforms for every Boston department?
• Could Claire actually pull off the ice rink renovation with stolen money?
• Is the movie better if Blake Lively and Rebecca Hall flip roles?
• How good at hockey was Doug MacRay – poor man's Cam Neely or homeless man's Cam Neely?

Debate between Renner ('one of the best crime movie performances I've ever seen') and Affleck (directed, set up 'Argo', 'Batman', 'Gone Girl' – completed the comeback).