Wednesday, January 31, 2018

FTM 426 - ANY GIVEN SUNDAY

Patrick, Adam, and Rob talk through this movie one inch at a time.



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Also discussed this episode: It (2017), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Birth of a Dragon (2017), Paddington 2 (2018), Den of Thieves (2018), Phantom Thread (2017), Orange County (2002), Slamma Jamma (2017), Cactus Flower (1969), Trauma (1993), Class of 1999 (1990)

18 comments:

  1. I think they don't use the NFL because they couldn't get the rights. So they had to create teams and uniforms

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    1. That's correct. The NFL did not want to participate, I read, when they saw the script.

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  2. Great episode! Now I have to rewatch this one. Also, can we please get whole episode with you guys in character as Al Pacino and Dennis quaid as Doc Holiday? Please??

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    1. I would love that but I think my Pacino needs to be workshopped a little. I lost control of it several times.

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    2. I think a Pacino impression should always be threatening to veer out of control

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  3. I would totally listen to a RiskeSports cast if there was one.

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  4. An all timer show for me right here an I still have about 20 minutes left to go!

    I've been on both sides of that SPEECH. Not as an NFL player but as a college player and high school coach. Shits real, man. It hits me every single time I watch or, yes, just pull up the speech on YouTube and listen to it. I'm sure somewhere in the research about NFL players someone 'in the know' transcribed that speech for him. Either way, its one that I know every single person involved with football or coaching period has an extreme fondness for. Pacino kills it. When a coach opens up like that and puts himself out there, its heartbreaking, but its exactly what the team needs. But youre right Patrick, it can only happen ONCE. It only works once. A coach can only put himself in a low space like that before everyone becomes Tony Soprano and tells him to "suck it up and stop whining." The "I wish I could do it for you" line is what every coach thinks when his team is failing and he/she's trying to get them over the hump. You wish you could put on the jersey one more time and play, but you cant. All you can do is talk.

    The way y'all mentioned how this movie doesn't get into that jingoistic bs patriotic side of the aesthetics of the NFL is why I think this is far and away the average NFL player's favorite football movie. It paints the players, and coaches and staff as they know they are or can be.

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    1. Thanks Ben! I love that speech so much because it's simple - just try a little bit harder.

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  5. Oh hey, I've seen Cactus Flower! That's a charmer of a movie and your'e right about Ingrid being really good about selling her part (and besides that, I'm a sucker for Walter Matthau shambling about).

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  6. Nice timing! I watched the first half of this movie last weekend on a haven't-seen-it-in-a-while whim. Now I have a bonus FTM pod to look forward to after I watch the second half.

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  7. I can personally attest to Jeff Blake having a Beaman-esque rise in the ‘90s with the Bengals. After 3-4 good games everyone went nuts, he had billboards, a nickname and song (“Shake-n-Blake”). However I don’t think anyone outside of Cincinnati cared much. Loved the show as always!

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  8. For all the talk of Dennis Quaid and Jambalaya, not one Big Easy joke?

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    1. Like the best films, we try not to spell everything out

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    2. Not sure if everyone caught it but Patrick’s “Get it while it’s hot!” was inspired brilliance.

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  9. While I completely understand your frustration with the ‘Oliver Stone-ness’ of it all, I absolutely love how you can watch this film and appreciate that there is only one director that could have made it. Oliver Stone will always be one of my favourite directors simply because in his glory days there was no mistaking an ‘Oliver Stone’ film. I can’t think of another director (aside from maybe Fincher, Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson) whose films are so visually distinctive and wear this distinction so proudly on its sleeve. While some of his films from this era (era) don’t always land, like U-Turn, when he was cooking he was REALLY cooking. This might be the last real ‘Stone’ movie, and that’s why I’ll always love it. Great ep as always guys :)

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    1. I am a big admirer of his work in the 80s and 90s and you're absolutely right that there's no one quite like him. My problems are sort of retro-active. I saw him do an interview at Ebertfest after a screening of Born on the 4th of July that really put me off and it sort of made the image of "great filmmaker" show some cracks. He's made several classics though and no one can take that away.

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  10. Great podcast guys - I always appreciate it when you compel me to either dust off a movie I haven't watched in a while or actually crack the plastic on one I've never watched and this was the latter. Didn't see it when it came out (unfortunately - because I think it's a realistic depiction of NINETIES football in particular) and it takes a lot to get me to put on a 2.5+ hour movie these days but so glad I did! I was skeptical at first - the gameplay editing was nauseating (I threw up during every game) and so many aspects of the film were just plain obnoxious but I found myself loving it in spite of all the glaring issues. And yeah, talk about ahead of its time with all of the race and health issues that have really only come to the mainstream in the last few years.

    I never fully bought in to Pacino as an NFLish head coach but his performance still won me over. Quaid is fucking perfect. And Jamie Foxx really comes out of the gates a star (I watched it as a sick-day (not that kind, Riske) double-feature with Baby Driver and it was a nice contrast but also, holy shit, is he ever great in Baby Driver) and just the whole cast is pretty much as good as it gets.

    Again, thanks for helping introduce me to this new oddball favourite of mine. Now enough about fake football - Go Eagles!

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