Episode #729: Rollerball (2002)
Added 2024-03-19 04:00:03 +0000 UTC“He’s one of the worst to ever do it, folks…” - Steve on Chris Klein
On this week’s episode, we’re chatting about the terrible, hatchet job remake, Rollerball! Why do studios put so much trust in dumbass test screenings? Why did McTiernan think getting all the social commentary out of this remake was a smart idea? Why were they banking so hard on the charm of… ECW’s Paul Heyman? How many re-shoots does it take to sink a movie? And does this movie have one of the worst soundtracks of all time? PLUS: Orson Welles weighs in on the use of… NIGHT. VISION.
Rollerball stars Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J, Rebecca Romijn, Naveen Andrews, Oleg Taktarov, Andrew Bryniarski, and Paul Heyman as English Sports Announcer; directed by John McTiernan.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
That extended night vision bit had my own vision blurring from tears of laughter
Chris
2024-04-05 20:25:50 +0000 UTCThe original is one of the better 70’s sci-fi movies, still remember most of it as a small child while it was replayed as a Sunday night movie
Catboyslim
2024-03-24 15:07:36 +0000 UTCBest part of this: great shade thrown at Poor Things, a movie I genuinely despise. Killer stuff guys, you always deliver! :)
Geoff Gershon
2024-03-22 20:43:08 +0000 UTC“I’d rather vote for Slip Knot 10/10 times over KKKim” has RAYGUN potential
Sass
2024-03-22 09:27:59 +0000 UTC“Suck me beautiful” -Chris "Oz" Ostreicher
Graham Trainor
2024-03-22 06:28:07 +0000 UTClol, thankful I never made it that far in the series. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-03-21 13:15:48 +0000 UTCI remember that Chris Klein played a villian for an arc on The Flash. Terrible job..tried to do a menacing voice while having to wear a breathing mask (part of the character)
Swan Benson
2024-03-21 05:49:14 +0000 UTCI'd buy a T-shirt with a picture of Orson Welles wearing night vision goggles
Tim O'
2024-03-21 01:02:59 +0000 UTCTheir MK episode is my #1 comfort listen, agreed
Matthew Kennedy
2024-03-20 22:54:02 +0000 UTCI could listen to the boys do an entire episode in Christopher Lambert's Raiden voice. It's my happy place. eh heh heh heh heh.
Anna Bee
2024-03-20 18:46:20 +0000 UTCOrsen Welles presents Night Vision is easily an all-time great WHM riff. Felipe should definitely do a graphic!
TDB
2024-03-20 18:46:13 +0000 UTCI watched the night vision for the first time 12 minutes ago and it gave me an anxiety attack. I really can’t imagine being in the room when people said, “Yes! Let’s do this!.”
Chris Knutson
2024-03-20 16:22:56 +0000 UTCI liked it! It's a fun food truck/road trip movie. With a bunch of fun actors.
Paul DeCoursey-Clark
2024-03-20 16:14:02 +0000 UTC2000 to 2003 was when you couldn't go a week without a major theatrical release featuring an American Pie cast member in some capacity. I think that run came to an end when Jason Biggs did the Woody Allen movie.
Z
2024-03-20 12:50:49 +0000 UTCAndrew: Chef is good actually don't listen to those joyless naysayers
Rhea
2024-03-20 03:11:05 +0000 UTCEhh-heh-heh-hehhh!
Tim O'
2024-03-19 23:57:00 +0000 UTCThis movie sounds like garbage, but you guys are kinda talking me into watching the one from the '70s.
Tim O'
2024-03-19 23:56:07 +0000 UTCIve run into Harry Knowles a couple of times here in Austin and he is one of the worst smelling Human beings Ive ever had the displeasure of being around.
Kyle Reeder
2024-03-19 20:57:20 +0000 UTCWe send all the bad fighters to rollerball mocap, noface, collector and Hydro.
Mark D Myers
2024-03-19 20:22:05 +0000 UTCOh that sweet, sweet Lambert impersonation...my punchcard is almost full
Smaug
2024-03-19 19:59:04 +0000 UTC"I watched that dang fool Hitchcock's film Vertigo the other day. You know that scene where Kim Nowak appears in the suit with that green glow behind her? How did that idiot never think to make the whole SCREEN green with NIGHT VISION?" - Orson Welles, probably
Overflight
2024-03-19 19:49:26 +0000 UTCI love a good wild Raiden appearance
Chris Tobias
2024-03-19 19:22:59 +0000 UTCThe mention of Slipknot bootlegs jogged a terrible memory. I distinctly remember in 99 or 2000, downloading (very slowly) the Slipknot demo album Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. through Limewire or something similar. I was so into them back then, that I was really excited to get that boot!
Tony King
2024-03-19 18:37:03 +0000 UTCChris Klein is fascinatingly bad in most things but I will say they have compilation videos online of his scenes in that Street Fighter movie from the mid-2000s and it's hilarious and might be the only time I watch anything from that movie.
Busiris
2024-03-19 17:16:40 +0000 UTC“Is that….Dean Cain?” - Mulaney on watching Law & Order where Dean Cain plays a rapist.
jribs
2024-03-19 15:50:02 +0000 UTCNot sure if it’s ever been stated but I feel like The Longest Yard with the Sandman is a stay tuned and a half!
jribs
2024-03-19 15:49:11 +0000 UTCThis was a great episode to listen to… in night vision
Kevin Lynch
2024-03-19 15:08:04 +0000 UTCJustice is served cold.
Adam Lewis
2024-03-19 14:21:38 +0000 UTCYikes that Chris Klein audition tape. Man, that’s embarrassing. Also wouldn’t mind if Raiden made his thoughts known on every episode
RJ Cunningham
2024-03-19 14:14:25 +0000 UTCChris Klein had roughly the same career arc as Coach Klein.
MarkNM
2024-03-19 13:53:48 +0000 UTCEh he he he - Chris(topher Lambert)
We Hate Movies
2024-03-19 13:48:03 +0000 UTCSame. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-03-19 13:47:41 +0000 UTCI was also working at a theater and had to build Rollerball when it came out. I remember watching it late that night before it came out and thinking that people were going to have a problem with the night vision stuff, but no one ever complained. First of all, the movie didn’t really do any business, and by that point in the movie, you’re probably so checked out that you don’t give a shit when it actually happens. At first, I remember thinking that it must have just looked like that inside of whatever vehicle they were in, but then you see outside scenes that look like that, too, so it’s clear it wasn’t part of the world of the movie.
Rob Brown
2024-03-19 13:26:58 +0000 UTCRelevant to the Skipknot state legislature discussion! https://thehardtimes.net/music/slipknot-still-claiming-theyre-not-a-ska-band-despite-having-17-members/
Rob Brown
2024-03-19 13:23:19 +0000 UTCHoward Stern said The Longest Yard remake with Adam Sandler is what happens when you take the heart and soul out of the original. Rollerball'02 is what happens if the classic Rollerball suffered a traumatic head injury.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-03-19 12:43:12 +0000 UTCI've seen this movie cover in the video stores for years and not once thought I should watch this lol
Watch_N_Rewatch
2024-03-19 12:19:29 +0000 UTCIt got completely erased from my memory as soon as I watched it. So, there's that.
Eren Keskin
2024-03-19 11:57:09 +0000 UTCAnytime they can work in the Lambert impressions and I’m a happy guy
Milan Davidek
2024-03-19 11:06:32 +0000 UTCI will side with Cabin on part of this - he works well as an affable, well meaning dumbass in Election. Not the most versatile skill set, but could have kept himself working as an alright character actor. Just never had the chops to lead.
Todd B
2024-03-19 10:56:25 +0000 UTCI could have sworn Dean Cain was in this, but it turns out that was some DTV thing called Futuresport in 1998. Definitely looks like a stay tuned.
Craig
2024-03-19 08:38:45 +0000 UTC"What's happening right now?" - me 35 times during the movie.
Ray
2024-03-19 06:53:21 +0000 UTCKlein is kinda like what would happen if one surgically removed all of the charm out of Keanu.
johnny stocker
2024-03-19 04:26:16 +0000 UTCThis film is the real reason the director was imprisoned
Rob Balducci
2024-03-19 04:04:28 +0000 UTC
