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Ep. 232: The Sports Movie Hall of Fame: 'Any Given Sunday'

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The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In their third SMHOF episode, The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan induct ‘Any Given Sunday’ and break down Oliver Stone's bizarre editing (02:25), Cameron Diaz's underrated ownership chops (08:15), Al Pacino's last great performance (11:16), the Tao of James Woods (15:15), the eye-opening concussion/painkiller subplots (16:44), Jamie Foxx's breakout role as Willie Beamon (21:17), the craziest cameos (34:27), and where the "Inches" monologue ranks in the pantheon of great sports movie speeches (45:04). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's episode of the Sports Movie Hall of Fame on Channel 33 is brought to you by Seekyke.

0:06.3

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0:14.8

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0:20.5

Buy and sell tickets on your phone. Try Seekyke. Here we go.

0:30.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:34.0

My name is Bill Simmons. I'm with Chris Ryan. This is the third installment of the Sports Movie Hall of Fame podcast, which you can find on Channel 33.

0:48.0

We might do a couple down the road on the BS podcast, but for now we've done Jerry McGuire and Moneyball so far.

0:55.0

Our third movie is going to be any given Sunday. Chris Ryan here. How you doing? We did Jerry McGuire. We did Moneyball.

1:03.0

Yeah, it seemed like it seemed like slightly more people listen to Moneyball.

1:09.0

Oh, statistically did you look at the advance metrics?

1:11.0

Statistically, the advance metrics of the Moneyball podcast was about 0.2% higher.

1:15.0

That makes sense. It's not demographically about your audience now. Maybe people think Jerry McGuire is a romcom.

1:20.0

Well, any given Sunday is not a romcom. And coincidentally, it's been on recently on HBO. They've been running what they've been calling a director's cut, which is funny because it's six minute shorter than the actual.

1:34.0

There's a couple of directors cuts out there that are like that where it'll be like the movie is actually worse because the director's cut or shorter because the director's cut.

1:41.0

I personally like the four hour when they ease get the whole thing. Well, if you're going to do a director's cut, make it different.

1:47.0

Yeah, like the almost famous director's cut is like what 30 minutes longer and it has all the extra scenes that almost turn it into a different movie.

1:56.0

The Miami vice director's cut has a different phenomena. Yeah, you and I both love that movie.

2:01.0

So this one's not really that different. My opinion if you're new director's cut of any given Sunday, actually have a real director come in and get rid of all the crazy edits that all of a stuntman.

2:12.0

And try to make a better movie. And it's so funny. I am more conflicted about this movie as a sports movie than I think any other movie we're going to do other than maybe he got game.

2:24.0

There's so many good pieces in this movie and I enjoy it so damn much. And then there's some spots where Oliver Stone just goes isobal.

2:31.0

He's like clear out. Clear out. Yeah, it's just Oliver Stone on the wing waving everybody away from him.

2:36.0

Everyone's going to want just read him. Yeah, it's like we've just scored 12 straight Oliver stone. No, no, no, no, we're no one I so he coming out of natural born killers.

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