S4E6: Ocean's 13
🕑 Added 2025-01-25 12:43:23 +0000 UTCOf this, i can say merely; it was a movie i watched in 2025
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Comments
Agatha
Bernie Mack is in charge of corralling the corrupt pit boss they bribed to swap out the weighted roulette balls.
Ferrosol
Kill James Bond Jr in which all the podcasters are replaced by their nephews
Benjamin
Okay, the thing about Sinatra being someone who...did things that rhyme with crepe is news to me, and I can't seem to find any info on it online. If someone could point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
Noblesse Oblahaj
I was right
Knights Who Say Sledge
Y'all DEEPLY need to watch Bad Company (1995) starring Ellen Barkin, Lawrence Fishburne, and Frank Langella. Lesser known but quite noteworthy intrigue film... and starring Ellen Barkin in a role that will absolutely cause you to remember her as distinct from Cameron Diaz.
khaliqtessi
You. Will. Never. Stop. The. Real. Napster.
scara b
hope you girls and devons do The Sting before the end of this season, its everything you talk about a movie thats impossible to make today
lousullivan.bf
The discussion about Suzie Izzard’s eggy outfit (and the similar egg fit in The People’s Joker) is so funny to me because what you are describing is exactly the kind of “boy” I was most attracted to as a transmasc egg teenager. One of the “boys” I dated did, in fact, turn out to be a woman, something I found out many years later thanks to Facebook Memories.
Hugh Crosthwait
It's something singer Paul Anka said to his band when he was threatening to fire them. His whole rant was recorded and I guess the script writer heard it and found the phrase funny. (Look up "Paul Anka is Pissed" on Youtube)
Gabe Small
I hope you're planning on doing Point Break (1991) during heist season. Keanu Reeves playing a former star quarterback who's now a rookie FBI agent who has to infiltrate a gang of surfing bank robbers led by a spiritual guru whose life is organized around the pursuit of the Perfect Wave. (There's also a Point Break (2015) remake that I've never seen)
Mythopoeist
If you don't already have it planned, you should watch The Sting. It's a period piece that isn't technically a heist film, but it's a scam that gets a large amount of money.
Frank Clay
You have forgotten the secret sixth ocean film. LOGAN LUCKY IS AN OCEANS FILM WITH DANIEL CRAIG IN IT!
Wolfman Jack
If I might offer a few suggestions for this year? There are numerous adaptations of the Donald Westlake/Richard Stark character, "Parker". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_(Stark_novels_character)
deathbysamurai
Oh man if you think Brad Pitt is bad wait till you hear about Casey "The Twink Mormon Brother" Affleck...#metoo
deathbysamurai
Some things you guys missed (preface: I have Oceans 13 autism and watch the movie religiously). The plan wasnt to do a strike at the mexico plant, they were gonna sabotage ALL the dice so no matter which ones they got they were sabotaged, the strike was a result of an american having to experience mexican working conditions for like a week. Bernie Mac is the inside man, he's on the opening night floor so that he can be lookout and eyes on the floor at all times while Linus is busy, the mormons are running everywhere, Basher's posing as the motorcyclist, etc. Mac's role is to ensure there's ALWAYS someone on lookout, avoiding the "get me some eyeballs on the X" scene. They mention Mac's role during the Suzie Izzard breakdown of the heist at the beginning ("Who is the shill at the expo to rope bank?") The shaft bits arent filler, thats when A) they plant the explosives (bernie mac's team plant some and Yen plants more, then Linus plants some more when he gets into the diamond vault) and B) they try and sell to Benedict that there's no way to steal the diamonds without getting into the room to swap them, because they know he's watching (they even talk to him via webcam in the vents) and they expect him to double cross them with Vincent Cassel (since Cassel shows up in the casino multiple times), so theyre setting up a Kansas City Shuffle on him. The "cantonese inspired" restaurant is where the hunk mormon poisons the 5 diamonds reviewer, he's sent there by the restaurant steward who says all his tables are full (i.e. they were funneling the 5 diamonds guy to that specific restaurant so the hunk mormon could poison him). Linus talks to his dad several times throughout the movie, and mentions that he has "the best cover known to man so you dont even have to think about [how to do heists] anymore?!" foreshadowing that he's the FBI guy. And Willy Bank wont go to the cops because of ALL the crimes Bank is committing at all times. One they mention is that Bank is tapping the FBI databases (where Suzie Izzard says "HIGHLY! Illegal", shes saying it about him doing that) so he doesnt want them looking too closely at his systems. Picking dudes up off the casino floor is fine but them investigating his security system and how it was compromised for the heist would reveal how he's been breaking a BUNCH of laws. Also the reason everyone likes Ocean more thank Bank is because Bank screws EVERYONE he ever works with. He's very much a donald trump expy in that regard, he refuses to pay people he hires (he does this several times in the film), he fires people for no reason(At one point he fires his security guy for not firing Randall the pool guy soon enough), and he outright threatens to kill his business partners to muscle them out (see: Ruben at the beginning) Everyone hates Bank so no one will work with him.
Sara Amorosi
Nova: If you've ever worn the dark suit, dark shirt, colourful tie combo, you are transgender now. Me: look at the time I did still identify 100% as a woman but yes I am now nonbinary, point taken.
Topper
I'm from the 90s and remember the song from Big Shiny Tunes compilations and from my friends being obsessed with vampires. :D Plenty of things are named after plenty of things. Negasonic Teenage Warhead was named after a Monster Magnet album (and Monster Magnet was named after a comic book character. INCEPTION.)
Strike3
The 90's Band Savage Garden took its name from The Vampire Lestat. Yes, the Jojo part 4 credits Song guys. . . Yes, the Book Sequel to Interview With The Vampire. The Brad Pit Character.
Topper
Although it's a movie quote, I am going to give full credit to you that I've decided to name my musical project "Slice Like A Goddamn Hammer".
scara b
casino dominoes was such a weird game but it was how they were getting unrigged balls onto the roulette tables
BarFly
You need a latin-inflected theme for when you join the Mexican army.
BarFly
Brad Pitt does an inscrutable Michael York impression which you end up having to watch a different film series featuring Nate Bethea until he explains what was up with that.
Moray Macdonald
Guys. Stop calling out my fashion choices. The all back suit look rules and I'm still cis and still happy shut up.
Brian Danger Hicks
Doing a bunch of tricks to rig casino games and heist some diamonds is straight out of MacGyver S1E5 The Heist, although the Oceans crew for better or worse skips MacGyver's most famous gambit from that episode: undressing a woman with only a paperclip and some thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaSYDlC4Gc
Doug King
When it first was released Soderberg didn't have his name as director.
kinoverite
funnily enough it is directed by soderbergh
kinoverite
in the trilogy’s defense of not having a whole ton of bernie mac in it, he was getting sicker every time they were being filmed before he died - and soderbergh is on the record saying there won’t be an ocean’s 14th since bernie mac is gone
D&BDomeisen
Perfect "smell" movie Love potion no.r9 starring Sandra Bullock
D&BDomeisen
Also checked your math and do confirm
D&BDomeisen
If you are logged on at ao3 the number of Rusty/Danny fics is 386 as of 1/27
Peter Larkin
Thought the Jazz intro was going to be replaced totally with the Soviet anthem, would have been hilarious
Carley They/Themsen
Devon giving a shout out to Awkwafina's ocean based doppelganger, Aquafina
G
Oooh thank you! That’s super gross.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
Maybe this https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/helena-bonham-carter-defends-j-k-rowling-johnny-depp/
G
Wait what did helena bonham carter do?
Tormentum
Considering Sly Cooper and The Theivious Racoons came out in 2002 there is a non zero chance Catherine Zeta Jones character was inspired by Carmelita Fox
James Rule
Wish there was a Leverage: Redemption movie.
Nasper Orion Yippee
I'm not up on heist movies literally at all so I'm excited for heist szn to introduce me to whatever deep cuts y'all unearth- I did watch Army of the Dead with my brother a few years ago though and found it fun, if you're looking for any unusual/genre crossover heist movies later down the line. I feel like "heist In The Middle Of A God Damn Situation" is an interesting subgenre for examining "where is the threshold of 'heist movie' vs 'movie with a heist'". What are the most crucial aspects of the cultural construct of "heist" for preserving the core vibe, etc.
Jermy
Yeah, but let’s not forget what the Mormons were doing in the Mexican-American War
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
probably this https://www.christianpost.com/news/mitt-romneys-father-born-in-mexican-polygamy-commune.html
Hugh Crosthwait
Mitt Romney's dad was a child when they left Mexico. The Mormon colonies in Mexico were established to escape prosecutions for polygamy in the US, so I guess Nova was implying something about that. It might have made more sense if she'd said Mitt's great-granddad, since that was the polygamous Romney who fled to Mexico.
Josh Anderson
Missionary work is somewhat untoward
3mix2yoo
As one of the small but presumably not-just-me constituency of "anosmic KJB listeners", I object to any suggestion of pivot to smell
Andrew Dunn
A quick C note: dominoes is a traditionally African American game, so Bernie Mac selling casinos on the idea of dominoes is a racial joke. This movie was my first exposure to the word cougar, Zapatista, and hell, probably radical labor organizing.
Frejo
I'm not surprised that theres homoeroticism in the Guy Oceans Movies, but the one i have seen around as shipping is specifically Oceans' 8!
Frejo
Since you checked ao3 stats, im gonna give you a little teaser for oceans 8 - theres more than double the amount of fics shipping the 2 main characters in oceans 8 than oceans 11-13 despite having a similar amount of fics total
Damien Tonkin
Oh I thought it was because she "heisted" a vote before women's suffrage.
Alex Anderson
You should do the Til Death Do Us Blart model of, if you are to do Every Movie, assigning designated successors to take up the podcast when you die.
Tove
Yay
Gabe
What was November saying about Mitt Romney's dad, it looks like he was born in Mexico but not sure what that has to do with what she was implying, which seemed to be something untoward.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
With his hairline Terry Benedict is Casino Vegeta.
Ctolm [the t is silent]
I always took slice like a hammer to mean there will be no finesse. His retribution is so severe the collateral has collateral.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
If the gang wants a great Ellen Barkin movie that has a bit to say about masculinity they should check out Drop Dead Gorgeous(1999).
Jermy
Also, California by rights belongs to Mexico, if it’s going to belong to any colonial country
Ben Schwabe
Face blindness is a funny thing.
Noblesse Oblahaj
I bet the one with the women is somehow the most misogynist by a long shot
Echo Flint
I hate to break this to everyone, but the KJB theme is already in a minor key. You’ll need to have a rose-tinted flashback to some happy memories to hear it in a major key
Eric Brennan
Which is why I assume the Sacajawea dollar coins are golden.
Mutual Aid Miniatures
Child Grifter on loan from their grifter parents is a perfect trope but it was done to perfection in Hustle.
Robert Young
Exactly. And that decision was made because the vending machine industry didn't want to have to change their mechanisms for a new size of coin.
Just the Worst
We all thought the joke would stay "Jesusland versus the United States of Canada" instead its going to be "MAGA country versus Estados Unidos Mexicanos"
Doug King
I humbly submit another Soderbergesque hesit movie, Logan Lucky. Adam Driver, Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig are the leading men. It's the redneck version of an Ocean's movie.
shadowcb
Something happened to my app at the moment November said Travis Pistrana causing her to repeat Travis Pistrana 😅
Doug King
Given the "pastel color treatment " I think the team is going to go nuts over the hiest in Ocean's 8.
Jermy
ill-fated, IIRC, in part b/c it was so easily confused with a quarter
Jermy
So I joined the Trans Patricio battalion, and I fought on the Mexican side?
Robert Young
Sinatra had siblings, so how could he have been a virgin birth?
Robert Young
"Susan B Anthony" because she's on the ill-fated US dollar coin issued in the 1970s, which for a long time was only common if you were playing dollar slots in Vegas or Atlantic City.
Stephanie Shinkle
Abigail you are so valid for thinking that was Cameron Diaz. I thought the same thing until I looked it up.
Tall Jeff
I like Oceans 8 but I liked Oceans 12 so excited to hear what people with brains think about it
Aniyunwea Greyotter
I think it's a cards reference, actually.
Majestic Affect
Is it wrong that I'd totally watch a "Casino Goku" anime?
Isopod-Gal
in Abby's defense, I remember watching this movie and referring to Ellen Barkin as "MILF Cameron Diaz".
Gilded Dragon
So from Mexico: yall have to do some Luchador movies Also: Abby would make a FANTASTIC silver screen luchadora. Espina (thorn) Filosa(sharp)fica. Going all all roses with the motif.
Cosm Sauce
Is slice like a hammer a golf reference?
Sammi
I love that after a whole episode of Abi saying she can't say anything too negative about Star Wars, they just have a bit of theorising and joking about the creator of Andor being a sex pest.
Tall Jeff
Being declared a heretic for claiming Sinatra was adopted and not incarnated and facing the goon inquisition.
Brendan Hurley
Watching one of the movies of all time in one of the weeks of all time
Sluggnya
This fucking thing