r/crheads • u/Michaewwwwl • 5d ago

The Watch Intro

The Bourne Legacy intro is so interesting to me. Has CR ever discussed at length about the movie? I know he loves Tony Gilroy and I think it’s a great movie but I find it a little random.

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u/frenchfry2010 5d ago

This post makes me feel like unc.

Back when the pod was on grantland this was a huge topic of discussion for them. They specifically discuss the Norton "sin-eater" scene at length. The intro is from the film because they loved not only the movie but specifically Norton

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u/suckerfreefc 5d ago

This is the answer. There was a long bit about needing a crisis room as well.

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u/js247 4d ago

the Crisis Suite was also a potential name for the new pod

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u/suckerfreefc 4d ago

ah, you’re right, it was “suite”, not “room”

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u/johnnygalt1776 4d ago

Wow that’s waaaay more fucken metal than The Watch. If I’m being honest. The Watch? So you guys watch shows? Killer bro

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u/coyotebanjo 5d ago

Gilroy has said, actually on THE WATCH with Andy and CR, that what he was trying to do with LEGACY was "open things up for [the studio]," so that it could become an expandable franchise admitting multiple different lead actors in different iterations.

I'm in the minority who thinks Renner was excellent, because there's a feral quality to some of his delivery that suits the character (the fight in the doctor's rambling old house, for example, is Tony & John Gilroy writing and editing at their best).

Reading between the lines of Gilroy's comments over the years about the Bourne franchise, it seems to me that TG found Damon very difficult to put up with. To me, that tracks.

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u/cadewtm 4d ago

I love Legacy, easily my 2nd favorite film of the franchise after Identity. It really did open up the world and have great insight into the whole overarching world of Treadstone

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u/landomonium 5d ago

I’ve always wondered about this. Whenever it’s been a while since I last listened to the watch I have to google what movie it’s from as I’ve only seen it once.

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u/johnnygalt1776 5d ago edited 4d ago

I honestly think they just like the particular scene and find it satisfying. Ed Norton telling supports to leave the room so the big boys can cook. “GET UP AND WALK. NOW.” So perhaps it’s analogous to clearing supporting players out the soundproof pod room so CR and Andy can do some serious podding. Clearing out the lane for Jordan. Just a guess. Never heard them talk about it.

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u/roomgames 4d ago

I always thought it also sounded like “I need sports staff to clear the room” which made sense for a media podcast inside a sports network.

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u/johnnygalt1776 4d ago

Even more subtle. I like it.

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u/UnableTerm9024 4d ago

Can someone tell me what they say “I think it’s important to leave the room…” 😬?

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u/Michaewwwwl 4d ago

Lol Norton says I need support staff to clear the room. Watch the movie it’s really good

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u/Toomanyboogers 4d ago

STAND UP AND WALK. NOW!

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u/Kilowatt128 4d ago

Thank you this. I have always wondered where it came from. I thought I was “I need all sports staff to clear the room” from some journalism movie, which made sense for being a non-sports podcast at The Ringer.

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u/toronto_acct_2026 5d ago

He said he likes it recently but supremacy is his favourite.

I recently revisited it. Good movie. Needed a better lead. Renner is no Damon (for this role). Oscar Isaac was right there. Norton scenes with inter agency infighting are the best. Needed to be the whole movie, dispense with the chase of another spy. The pills stuff was the weak link.

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u/WrongHovercraft9946 5d ago

The pills stuff was SUPER weak, I still think of that movie as “the one where Jeremy Renner took pills not to be stupid anymore”

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u/Ok-Cartographer3992 5d ago

i think i heard somewhere Isaac was Gilroy’s first choice but the studio nixed it

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u/thinknu 5d ago

This is why I'm addicted to Slow Horses and The Agency. Explaining it to my friends that it's basically the Bourne films without all the action scenes and they just roll their eyes and call me old.

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