The Rewatchables
‘Disclosure’ With Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -0000
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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre pour themselves a glass of 1991 Pahlmeyer Chardonnay as they rewatch the spicy 1994 corporate thriller ‘Disclosure,’ starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, and Donald Sutherland. FOR TICKETS TO THE LIVE DEN OF THIEVES TAPING IN LOS ANGELES ON DEC 16th - CLICK HERE Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is 'Disclosure' about?
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There might not be another Rewatchables episode after this week, because we're about to do Disclosure, and I don't know what the hell's going to happen, but it's next.
Nobody has to know. Nobody gets hurt. Critics call Disclosure entertaining, provocative, sizzling, sexy. This is a bomb we're sitting on that can blow everything sky high. Thrilling, dazzling powerful riveting we're gonna bury them all right michael douglas demean more you have no idea what you're up against we'll see disclosure rated r now playing all right so
I don't know why three guys are doing this movie. I just want to acknowledge it coming out of the gate. It's a corporate intrigue, erotic thriller. We don't have to do that anymore.
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Chapter 2: How does 'Disclosure' reflect corporate culture?
I thought the movie was pretty good about, like, predicting future. Just, like, the FaceTime element of it all. Right? That just seemed completely insane as an idea. Which they stole from Total Recall. I think Total Recall invented that. Probably. Remember the FaceTime on the TV?
Yeah. Either that or the Usher You Don't Have to Call video. Yeah, they had that too. All of the technology in this stuff, like the digital communication, the idea that people would want to leave the physical realm and be completely lost somewhere else, whether they're doing their job or doing something else. And again, just like the creeping sense that this wasn't a good thing.
That's what I felt like the movie was saying to me. I know this stuff seems new and exciting, but the movie is very skeptical. In a lot of ways, it's an art versus commerce movie. Yeah. In a lot of ways, it's a how do we break ground and use new technology to... Go to different frontiers. Do something cool.
Right. And then who's going to profit from it? And is it going to be done in a way that's responsible or in a way that prioritizes doing something new and different? Like, I got the Vision Pro and I played around on the Vision Pro. And then the only thing that was super awesome about it was like, you guys are making judgments. That's not what I'm going to say. That's not what I'm going to say.
I see both of the looks on your faces. I just want to hear. That's not what I'm going to say. I'm just nervous. I'm not going to say that. Watching NBA games on the Vision Pro is actually super different. You can see the Lakers not play defense in a totally different way. Why you got to do that? Like what? You got to let go. In 2025, Bill, you got to let go of vendettas.
I just love making fun of the Lakers. How is that a vendetta? You love making fun of shit. Like what? I don't know. What do you like making fun of?
The Celtics. But all the things that Division Pro could do, and it's a very cool piece of... But really what I'm doing is watching NBA games on it. Pulling the stats. Doing all of that stuff. But it's more fun to do with somebody sitting right next to you. It's more fun to do with Kalika at your crib. It's more fun to do it that way.
So I think we thought that we would be doing all of this amazing stuff with this technology. And don't get me wrong. There are people that are, but we're just kind of not. We're just kind of like passing the time with it, you know?
Wow.
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Chapter 4: What are the most memorable scenes in 'Disclosure'?
What does that have to do with anything?
Great rack, nipples like pencil erasers. She's attractive. Yeah, she's very attractive. You think she's sleeping with a Garvin? That's why he bought the Nordic track. You know, it's a curse to be me. Life holds no surprises.
This is such a cliché.
Oh, come on, Hunter. How do you think a cliché becomes a cliché?
You mean, like, size doesn't matter?
I have such a thing for you, Hunter.
All right, all right. Please, can we get some work done here? That's what they're doing. They're going back and forth. And Dennis Miller's like, you know, the typical guy. He's doing the wisecracking. Dennis Miller is the avatar for the cool chick in the office who can... She can talk like the guys.
And also just like the avatar for the new American workplace. There's this woman who is an engineer and she went to school for it and she knows her stuff just as well as anybody else. But she's explaining to her male colleagues the difficulties of being...
a woman in these environments and everybody being like yeah get over it whatever i i love that scene next scene tom goes to have a drink with meredith yeah stop by the office around seven picked out a bottle of wine for us yeah the radar gun i had for demi in this scene yeah around this Chapman range.
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