The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan make sure they are doing the time and the time isn’t doing them by rewatching Michael Mann’s 2015 film, ‘Blackhat,’ starring Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, and Viola Davis.
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Problem is Chris Hemsworth is as convincing as an elite hacker like Margot Robbie would make a convincing nuclear physicist…
Michael Mann's movies always age incredibly well. Miami Vice and now Blackhat have reached cult status and are getting critically re-evaluated
Hawaii Stoners love CR🌴⚡
A podcast about rewatchable movies does an episode about a movie describing how much it sucks in the first 3 minutes.
Pretty forgettable. Didn’t seem like a Mann movie. Thought it was a Ridley Scott
Can you guys re-do HEAT?
This movies is awful
Bill.. the podcast is better than the movie 😂. I had never seen it.. got thru half and couldn’t stick it out. Still loved the episode, except being distracted by Chris’s🦵🤣😂. Love you guys!
Mann revisits the same common-thread theme in all his crime films: the tough independent outsider who becomes a ward of the state (either through the penal system or through the military) and there he learns the politics and tactics on how to survive in a brutal society with the same "time is luck" mentality.
– Rain Murphy (Peter Strauss) in The Jericho Mile (1979)
– Frank (James Caan) in Thief (1981)
– The Band in Band of the Hand (1986)
– Patrick MacLaren (Alex McArthur) in L.A. Takedown (1989)
– Neil McCauley (Robert DeNiro) in Heat (1995)
– Vincent (Tom Cruise) in Collateral (2004)
– John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) in Public Enemies (2009)
– Nick Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth) in Blackhat (2015)
Basically all chips from the same block.
This is like the disaster couple that’s been talking about getting married for years while everyone stands by in silence, quietly praying that they will eventually break up. Now we’re all at the wedding, watching the ceremony in stunned horror and morbid fascination.
I’m sure I’m not the only one saying, “I guess I gotta watch black hat again.”
56:19 Wayne Jenkins — The Ringer needs to start timestamping these.
Have you guys done No Way Out?
More garbage movies Bill likes 😭
Mann seems to struggle getting the sound editing locked in before theatrical releases – Public Enemies had the same issues as Blackhat
The Keep is Michael Mann's worst film. Not Blackhat or Public Enemies.
The Jericho Mile was released on blu-ray by Kino Lorber in 2018. But I think it recently went out of print (it was in its While Supplies Last sale section for ages).
A lot more upper thigh than I'm comfortable with in this episode…
Apex mountain for hacker movies?! This isn't even Apex mountain for Australian actors in the lead in hacker movies. Don't get me wrong it's not bad, I enjoyed it, but even though it was not close to accurate Swordfish is way more fun.
56:37 Wayne Jenkins
This movie is not good I don't care how many times you can spin it or watch it Michael Mann just had a miss