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The boy here says he owes me. Well, how many of the actors who played those roles were actually murdered? Who was he? Above the Rim est un film sportif américain de 1994 co-écrit et réalisé par Jeff Pollack à ses débuts en tant que réalisateur .Le scénario a été écrit par Barry Michael Cooper , adapté d'une histoire de Benny Medina .. But the Nutso subplot makes a good 40 percent of this movie completely insane, so every time stone-faced Shep pops up for the first hour, I end up laughing out loud. A fiery point guard with a few red flags ending up at Georgetown might be the most plausible part of this whole movie. Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard. [Thinking.] STITCH SEWN GRAPHICS, EMBROIDERED PATCHES AND EMBROIDERED NAME. They’re all Above the Rim quotes? They couldn’t have filmed one McHale-Rambis-type clothesline where Barksdale actually decapitated Schintzius? “Now I seen it all, man — a bum with a bodyguard!” Or is this just how things roll in the Uptown Shootout? This rousing basketball drama centers around Tommy "Shep" Sheppard (Leon), a former high school basketball star now haunted by the accidental death of his best friend, and Kyle Watson (Duane Martin), an arrogant high school player in danger of sl…. You owe yourself and ones who cared to get you here. Complete Column Archives: Grantland Edition, ‘Bill Don’t Lie’ Podcast: Tom Haberstroh on the Cavs, Blake Griffin, and the Future of the Miami Heat, ‘B.S. I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. Not to mention that we’ve seen so many fake Hollywood dunks — Woody Harrelson in White Men Can’t Jump, Edward Norton in American History X — that this kind of trickery just doesn’t faze me. SIMMONS: Everyone remembers the groundbreaking soundtrack, but the trailer broke new ground, too. They just threw it in with a bad edit and everything. In fact, I’d like to amend an answer from earlier. A great memorable quote from the Above the Rim movie on Quotes.net - Shep: You hear that Nutso? We’ve discussed how to handle Above the Rim, and even though we look like the token white guy on the Bombers times seven, we’d all prefer to call ourselves the Birdmen, with the lone exception of our power forward, who loves to recite the line: “Bombers, Bombers, Bombers … championship! But isn’t it creepy that he died at the tail end of his two most beloved performances? Film Session | Above The Rim from No Dunks on Podchaser, aired Friday, 8th May 2020. Why? I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and I'll be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel free to drop me a line. SWEATSHIRT FABRIC. I was 12 years old when I first heard this song, and lines like “Ain’t nothing like a lollipop / That gets sucked all day long / A tangy little candy drop” might have been single-handedly responsible for ushering me into puberty. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. Official page of Above The Rim - Hoopwear and kicks for the court since 1989. [explode] {Whoooo!} NUTSO!!!!! Everybody wants to roll with Birdie. They can’t change what we were. What's the Kyle Watson scouting report? Only with Kris Humphries’s game. He must decide whether to follow his kind coach or Birdie (Tupac Shakur), the gangster venue. But that’s one of the best parts of Above the Rim. SIMMONS: Absolutely. They should do a prequel that tells the story of Nutso. SIMMONS: I always loved that they didn’t name the character “Clyde” or “Frankie” or “DeAndre” or anything else that could have made the character more endearing and mournable. The uniforms worn in the movie’s first basketball scene are very recognizably from Olaf’s Sporting Goods, a mom-and-pop place in East Harlem whose shorts were coveted by pretty much every teenage basketball player on the East Coast. The soundtrack, released by Death Row and Interscope Records on March 22, 1994, was executive produced by Suge Knight. I’m going to Google this while Sharp takes over. A man playing one-on-one with an invisible basketball and shouting to the sky at an invisible best friend — there’s someone doing that on a New York City playground every single day. SHARP: On the one hand, watching Tupac get shot is horrible for obvious reasons. RAFE: I have it tied for best with Flip the bum hugging Shep and then mumbling, “They can’t erase what we were, man — champions, baby.”. “Being alone makes you strong — you and me are a lot alike that way.” “Being alone makes you strong — you and me are a lot alike that way.” 3. Here, I’ll let my illegitimate brother Patrick Simmons explain. He could drop 40 on you, and then lock down anyone on the court. Stage an “everyone in the office has to dress like an Above the Rim character” day? And guess what. Anyway, I root for Birdie and Motaw every time I watch this movie — I wish they’d filmed an alternate ending in which Tupac shoots Duane Martin right as he’s going for the winning alley-oop. A split second later, Kyle’s hitting the game winner against Seton Hall and we all go home happy. Birdie is the younger brother of a talented ex-basketball player, Thomas "Shep" Sheppard, whom he wants to join his illegal business. New York City playground legends Pee Wee Kirkland and James “Speedy” Williams are given bit roles in the film. He did it in this movie and Juice, and even in his music. (Sniifff!) Showing all 12 items Jump to: Photos (3) Quotes (9) Photos . SHARP: This is complicated. Assuming Kyle would have played shooting guard beside AI, that would have meant John Thompson recruited Kyle over Victor Page. RAFE: That’s what the D-League is all about, right? So how did the screenwriters come up with “Kyle Lee Watson” for the lead role in their “urban” basketball drama? (Wouldn’t everyone rally around him after something like that?) It makes me love the whole movie even more. Today: Bill Simmons, Rafe Bartholomew, and Andrew Sharp on Above the Rim, released March 23, 1994. Kyle Watson (Duane Martin) is a talented basketball player who is about to graduate from high school. SHARP: Every outfit Birdie wears is the most dated moment, but I’m partial to the full-camo jean suit he wears about halfway through. On Friday's ep. RAFE: With respect to the soundtracks of New Jersey Drive, Juice, Who’s the Man?, and a few others, Above the Rim wins the title and it’s not particularly close. You don't owe me nothin. Back to Nutso — even if his tragic death was a little unrealistic, we needed it to establish the movie’s crucial premise: “Nobody in the history of mankind ever took a buddy’s accidental death harder than Shep took Nutso’s accidental death.”. And then there’s the end of “Big Pimpin’,” where an artist whose name happened to be Big Pimpin’ delivers 90 seconds of uninterrupted spoken-word pimp game. “How you expect me to piss when you talkin’ about my moms?” Was that finish more or less realistic than the last 28.2 seconds of Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals? So thank you, Tommy Sheppard. 3. I think Above The Rim is an enjoyable picture but there’s nothing great or remarkable about it. He’s a cross between Dwayne Schintzius and Zachery Ty Bryan. I ball till I fall like the dude in Above the Rim, Nutso I get my 9 on, I get my shine on On some Trae tha Truth shit, bitch I’m on Thick bitches hang on my branch, call them pine cones There could be the Nutso plummet, a Mortal Kombat–inspired field of spikes, a tank of piranhas … Then, we could watch as Daryl Morey’s Rio Grande Valley Vipers devised a defense that funneled opposing players into attacking the basket in ways that killed them 7 percent more often than the Vipers players died. But the first two songs that come to mind for me are Snoop’s “What’s My Name?” (which sampled “Atomic Dog”), and Nice & Smooth’s “Hip Hop Junkies” (which sampled the Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love You”). Driving the industry nutso I'm a rub it in. SHARP: Tommy Sheppard was Maverick after Goose died for a solid two decades, yes. Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard. Nutty Professor II, Blue Streak, In Too Deep, and Above the Rim are four. SIMMONS: I have to ask: What would be the worst thing about your mom dating Tommy Sheppard? He definitely sucker punches Kyle at least five times, and those are just the ones the camera caught. An ‘Above the Rim’ Roundtable 1. © 2021 ESPN Internet Ventures. Nutso High School Basketball Varsity Letterman Jacket-Style Sweatshirt Above The Rim. SIMMONS: Yeah, I’ll always believe that Pac had a few top-notch movie performances left in him, as well as a transcendent six-episode The Wire cameo. Does it have Coolio greeting Earthlings? Thank you. SIMMONS: I wonder when and why he switched to “Wood Harris.” That decision was definitely made at 3:30 a.m. and involved at least two other buddies and a seven-step handshake. RAFE: My musical education began and mostly ended with 1990s hip-hop, so you could play Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” around me and I will likely say something like, “That’s the song from ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’!! Listen to this episode from No Dunks on Spotify. First, any teenage superstar who grew up in New York City would be too contemptuous of homeless people to ever play Bernie Mac’s character one-on-one. How weird is Nutso's death sequence? Thomas "Shep" Sheppard (Leon Robinson), a former standout player himself who now works as a high s… 131.99. To quote the great American revolutionary Patrick Henry in 1775: “Give me 10-foot rims in basketball movies, or give me death!”, RAFE: One more note on Above the Rim’s realism, or lack thereof: When I saw this movie in the theater, it felt like the realest thing ever put on film. Shep could’ve just been a failed basketball player who never made it out of New York City, and he’d still have all the same wisdom to offer Kyle Watson. So long, Aniston. Q: Has Above the Rim aged (a) poorly, (b) horrendously, (c) tremendously, (d) like a fine wine, or (e) all of the above? So far we’ve been Hickory, the Western Dolphins, Tech U, and the Pittsburgh Pythons. of Film Session, the guys discuss the 1994 classic "Above The Rim." I guess you shouldn’t ask a lot of questions when you’re watching Above the Rim. Shakur gives the movie a charge of excitement. Snoop’s legendary solo kicks off the “we’re setting up the tournament!” montage, only they inexplicably cut him off right as Snoop was preparing to slide through the city in his rag six-four and hop like a muthafucka trying to find his ho. RAFE: You guys missed the most unrealistic part: Duane Martin’s character is named Kyle Lee Watson. SHARP: Goddammit. Above the Rim. You know how some dads make their kids watch Hoosiers? What's the Kyle Watson scouting report? Otherwise, we’re rooting for Birdie in the final game. At the very least, I have “I Keep Forgettin’”/“Regulate” in the championship game taking on “The Way It Is”/“Changes.”. SHARP: All of those are real except the pissing one. That he occasionally looks up toward the sky to talk to a dead person named Nutso? That “self-destructive” parenthetical is probably the saddest thing we’ve read in 2014. SHARP: Agree with Rafe on Jamie Hector as Birdie. SIMMONS: I love that you just quoted yourself on Twitter. HE owes ME. Here at the Grantland headquarters, we couldn’t decide how to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Above the Rim’s release. That he doesn’t have any money whatsoever? Well, the response is simple. I don’t want to be the reporter who finally asks the question that causes him to snap and then give me a sharp poke in the sternum that causes my heart to explode. 1994 New Line Productions Kyle Watson loses it after being taken out of the game. I’d like to see the NBA add this wrinkle to all D-League games. This ain't your same little brother following behind you trying to go outside. On the other hand, it’s pretty amazing that a guy getting shot in the chest and killed, by Kyle’s best friend, is part of this movie’s heartwarming montage at the end. SIMMONS: That was a flagrant 9. Click here to watch ‘Jalen & Jacoby,’ Grantland Features, and video podcasts. The kid is out for the gusto and I love to win (uh-huh!) It could (1) be an effective tanking deterrent, and (2) eventually lead to some much-needed contraction when the entire Orlando Magic team goes the way of Nutso. SIMMONS: Which coach would have been scarier to interview at halftime — Popovich, or Birdie? He might be the most fully realized character in the movie. SIMMONS: This is a great point. 2. SIMMONS: [Thinking.] They used Tupac’s “Holler If Ya Hear Me” …, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFZ-OWg_BcQ. Right? R.I.P., Nate Dogg. That he goes long periods of time without speaking or blinking? I don’t think we need anyone to remind us how much his death sucked, but yeah. Well, my kids are watching Above the Rim. Did we ever figure out why they made Kyle’s character so unlikable? That’s too close to Mr. Miyagi telling Daniel-san, “This not tournament, this for real.” They never would have ripped off KK2. Quotes.net. From his sun-kissed blond bowl cut to the number 52 on his jersey to his khaki-in-the-front, blue-and-red-in-the-back shorts, the Above the Rim filmmakers nailed every detail. Real basketball ability, great acting chops, and he strengthens the legacy connections between both Above the Rim movies and The Wire. Q: Where does Birdie rank in the Tupac Movie Character Trilogy against Bishop (Juice) and Lucky (Poetic Justice)? SIMMONS: I will never forgive Above the Rim director Jeff Pollack for blowing the “Big Pimpin’” scene. I still say Popovich. Above the Rim crossed over with HUGE songs and captured Death Row’s sound at its peak. The kid is out for the gusto and I love to win (uh-huh!) For every Simmons column and podcast, click here. But I did enjoy when Wayans shows up to the court and Kyle tells him, “You my man and the whole nine, but you look like a 14-karat Urkel.” Probably my single favorite line from the movie. Tupac was shot to death two and a half years after Above the Rim came out, and enjoying fake movie violence requires some extra mental moral gymnastics when the person you’re watching die onscreen has died from real-life violence. RAFE: As much as I’d be worried that Birdie would respond to my question by slicing my face up into a jigsaw puzzle, aren’t we all convinced that Popovich was a CIA spook in his pre-basketball life? This ain't that dopehead on the roof taking orders from you. Throughout 2014, Grantland will look back at some of the most memorable, beloved, and baffling releases of that magical time around their 20th anniversaries. But you could never find anyone as perfect as Tupac. SIMMONS: Like a cross between the late great Dwayne Schintzius and some ’90s sitcom character that won’t come to me. Nutso High School Basketball Varsity Letterman Jacket-Style Sweatshirt Above The Rim. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Above The Rim. My personal Tupac Movie Character power rankings: 1. How weird is Nutso's death sequence? Couldn’t Shep have redeemed himself by becoming the key witness in a lawsuit against the backboard maker that netted Nutso’s family seven-figure damages? “Afro Puffs” briefly made the Lady of Rage cool, even if listening to her music felt like being yelled at by a middle-school librarian. I’m the one, shit has changed! He also inspired my friend Eric in middle school to practice holding a razor blade in the side of his mouth and blowing it through his lips without cutting himself. SHARP: For the record, and with all due respect to Tupac and Rafe and Above the Rim, this is not the best rap soundtrack. I downloaded the ATR soundtrack as part of a larger pirating exercise, where I downloaded every album and bootleg Tupac ever made, and Above the Rim eventually became my favorite thing from the whole set. In that movie, his mom dates an ex-con Ving Rhames who smokes sleazy cigarillos, occasionally chokes Tyrese to the edge of losing consciousness, and frequently engages in intense squatting pile-driver sex with Tyrese’s mom while Tyrese tries to sleep. 8. “You may not like the man I become, brah — but I’m still a man.”. Are we even? But in the end, nothing in this movie is more unrealistic than Kyle Watson’s jump shot. (uh-huh!) Some guilt trip about something that isn’t even his fault. # car # corvette # dubs # rims # dub rims. Driving the industry nutso I'm a rub it in. 1, ask yourself: Does this album have R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly”? 1. You can’t trust anyone who roots against Birdie for the first half of the movie, but you also can’t trust anyone who roots FOR Birdie after he kills Bernie Mac, everyone’s favorite hobo oracle. The boy here says he owes me. Believe me. Would that have saved him from a life of working on spin moves with no ball in the middle of the night while wearing his long underwear? The music here makes the movie 200 percent better. The Movies of 1994: ‘The Lion King’ and Its Perfect First Scene, The Movies of 1994: Revisiting Jack Nicholson’s Bizarre, Terrible ‘Wolf’, The Laughs, Pathos, and Overwhelming Talent of Jan Hooks, World Series Preview: Five Questions for Games Three and Four, 50 Scenes That Do Not Appear in the ‘X-Files’ Revival. They can’t change what we were, man. A great memorable quote from the Above the Rim movie on Quotes.net - Shep: You hear that Nutso? RAFE: The winning attitude of Ricky Davis at a midnight Sunday game at MSG after a night of champagning and campaigning meets the overall skills of the homeless man’s Milt Palacio. Now, he brings barbed comic edges to the role of Birdie, a Harlem operator who carries a razor blade in his mouth and flashes his big, gleaming teeth like a happy wolf. SIMMONS: Three words: Birdie’s cell phone. SIMMONS: A just-before-Friends Jennifer Aniston still shaking off her baby fat as Kyle’s forbidden love interest — I have her playing a stripper at Birdie’s club who belongs to Birdie and Birdie only, and yet, she can’t fight that little spark she has with Kyle. Would he have improvised a scene where he joins Shep on the court for some one-on-one with no ball? SIMMONS: Everything you ever despised about Stephon Marbury’s game, only with a worse handle, less talent, less leadership, less stability and less Vaseline. Above the Rim is a movie about Kyle Lee Watson, a high school basketball star (played by Duane Martin) who has to decide where his loyalties lie: with a … RAFE: Sure, the low rims lowered the degree of difficulty on Avon Barksdale’s 75 dunks during the Shootout, but think of how much harder the rims made it for Tommy Sheppard to shoot a perfect 48-for-48 on long 2s. We shouldn’t go down this rabbit hole. That he’s your own high school’s security guard? Or Bugs Bunny rapping about basketball on a track that was ghostwritten by Jay-Z? Second, the New York papers never would have portrayed Tommy Sheppard as a murderer after Nutso’s death. It’s a mystery. RAFE: Sorry, I missed that last exchange. And it pains me to say so, but isn’t that Eric Nies part the role Justin Bieber was born to play? SHARP: I said my piece on Twitter six weeks ago: “Watching Kyle Lowry always makes me think Kyle Watson from Above the Rim actually made the NBA.”. Were you OK with this moment from a realism standpoint? Because their neighborhood built a basketball court with baskets placed directly in front of giant windows so that, if anyone didn’t stop in time and crashed through the windows, that person immediately fell five stories to his death. SIMMONS: And then we get a second ending — we fast-forward at least a year (maybe more) to real-life footage of Duane Martin scoring a game winner at Georgetown as John Thompson celebrates, followed by “Regulate” kicking in and Shep and Kyle’s mom rejoicing. IS THIS A REAL MOVIE?????? RAFE: Shep doing to the Birdmen what Sleepy Floyd did to the Lakers in the 1987 playoffs while wearing brown corduroys and a long-sleeve thermal shirt requires some serious suspension of disbelief. SHARP: On the other hand, when Nate Dogg sings, “I was at the park one dayyyyyyyy,” it makes me want to leave the office and go play basketball in a city park right this second. At least we’ll always have this GIF. Directed by Jeff Pollack. Q: Can you pick the Above the Rim quote that’s not actually an Above the Rim quote from these eight choices? 1 best seller The Book of Basketball. Does it have a track with Barry White and Chris Rock singing about basketball? The boy here says he owes me. Matzo? Can we CGI it? Is there any way Kyle actually gets into Georgetown? There’s never been an explanation for the gratuitous Wayans dunk. (Note: Every other person in that photo would also work great for this role.). In Juice, he falls to his death. Bishop, Juice: Indisputably the most important role of Pac’s film career (apologies to Nothing But Trouble), and probably his best performance. There’s no way he could have been named “John Nutman” or “Leroy Nutson,” right? SHARP: Birdie would murder you if asked about Avon’s hard fouls, but the answer is still probably Popovich. RAFE: For Birdie, it’s just impossible. My top two were “A-yo, it’s Michael Dudikoff!” (star of the American Ninja films) and “Watch out! 6. Also see his In Living Color music-video spoof “Mr. Filed Under: 1994, Above the Rim, tupac shakur, Regulate, Duane Martin, Basketball Movies. Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard. Nutso High School Basketball Varsity Letterman Jacket-Style Sweatshirt Above The Rim You don't owe me nothin. In the movie Above the Rim, Nutso and Thomas Shepard are playing basketball on a rooftop while wearing their high school jackets. "Above the Rim Quotes." Who stole the … Dr. Dre acted as supervising producer on the project. 7. SIMMONS: And don’t forget — HE THRIVED IN CORDUROYS. I don't think the rooftop court in Above the Rim had any barriers to prevent anyone from falling off the building. # film # 2018 # science fiction # sci fi # pacific rim. We’d seen soundtracks take off for movies like When Harry Met Sally and Singles, but never for an “urban” movie — Juice, Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society all had big artists, but you always felt like you were getting their B-list stuff on those soundtracks. All rights reserved. The boy here says he owes me!” That’s the best moment of the movie AND the worst moment of the movie. On Friday's ep. 3 talking about this. But even more unrealistic than Shep’s scoring run were some of the Birdmen’s late challenges on Shep’s jump shots. Report’: Chuck Klosterman on the NFL Draft, Hack-a-DeAndre, and ‘Mad Men’, ‘B.S. Shep: You hear that Nutso? I have no doubt Shep could’ve locked down Jesus Shuttlesworth. Being 11 years old probably had something to do with this, but it was more than that. Are we even? Look at this picture of him in New Jack City. Voila! RAFE: Wayans’s dunk is ridiculous, but it becomes watered down when the Shootout scene begins and we get hit with the full-on deluge of aerial highlights performed on rims that cannot possibly be regulation height. Even if “Regulate” became the song everyone remembered, “Big Pimpin’” was the greatest ’90s rap song that never actually became one of the greatest ’90s rap songs. Above the Rim quotes: the most famous and inspiring quotes from Above the Rim. Birdie is the younger brother of a talented ex-basketball player, Thomas "Shep" Sheppard, whom he wants to join his illegal business. “Regulate” is unkillable. I’m still upset that Birdie didn’t kill him. Birdie is the main antagonist of the 1994 basketball drama film Above the Rim. (50: "AUH!") He is a security guard at Kyle's school, and a former basketball star, who quit on the game after an accident which resulted in the death of his best friend Nusto. Q: What’s the most dated part of Above the Rim? A junior Don King, Birdie presides over the local playground basketball games, which he turns into high-stakes contests. Any Dork Elvis disciple who claims long 2s are dead really needs to rewatch Above the Rim. SIMMONS: I’m still going with Above the Rim. RAFE: I disagree with “a young Avon Barksdale.” Even if Wood Harris was just 24 (and billed as Sherwin David Harris) when Above the Rim was released, does he really look any different as Motaw, Birdie’s Wee-Bey-esque enforcer, from how he did eight years later, when The Wire came out? ARE WE EVEN? The worst part of the movie might be when Shep kisses Kyle’s mom, and she says, “Oh, you think you can just kiss me?” and Shep says, “Yep,” and she says, “I guess that’s how it is, then.” All of this in front of Kyle. They could’ve looped that bridge for the entire Uptown Shootout and nobody would’ve complained. They’ll argue me down and say Hoosiers, He Got Game, White Men Can’t Jump, Blue Chips, Love and Basketball and others are better, so how can it be my favorite? 4. I don’t know, I suck at this game. Directed by Jeff Pollack. So Nutso absolutely HAD to be a lunatic. SIMMONS: Boom. That he’s brothers and bitter rivals with the neighborhood drug lord? It would make zero sense from a casting perspective, but from the moment Nutso crashes through a backboard and falls to his death at the beginning of the film, Above the Rim makes it clear that making sense is not a priority. Cookie Policy. 5. Storm the L.A. SportsCenter set wearing bandannas, point guns at Neil Everett and Stan Verrett, and force them to show highlights of Duane Martin dunking on 9-foot rims? Loosely based on Stephon Marbury It’ll only get better as the years pass. With Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur, Leon, David Bailey. We truly appreciate your support. - I just shit it on you! Kyle is a hot-head. I remember seeing Above the Rim’s trailer in the theater, hearing the Tupac song, seeing the dunking and thinking, My God … WHAT IS HAPPENING? (50: "AUH!") Busey is a bona fide lunatic. 981 GIFs. Birdie is awesome. Off the opening tip I’m pretty sure he punches someone in the face. Rewatching this movie at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night made me miss him even more. Finally, the Above The Rim script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the Tupac Shakur movie. We settled on a gimmick tentatively called “Simmons, Sharp, and Rafe answer every single question you’d ever have about an American classic that isn’t shown on cable TV nearly enough.” Without further ado …. They brought Remy from Higher Learning with them!” (Remy was a mass-murdering skinhead played by Michael Rapaport in John Singleton’s film about the American college experience — and not a very flattering comparison.). This ain't your same little brother following behind you trying to go outside. They will have three years of nightmares about Birdie and his razor blade, but it’ll be worth it when they spread their fingers and snap their wrists to win the Big East tournament. SIMMONS: Update: I Googled “goofy white guy above the rim,” “Kyle’s white teammate above the rim” and “WHITE GUY WTF ABOVE THE RIM” — nothing. You owe yourself and ones who cared to get you here. RAFE: And what was that backboard made of? (GGG!) In the movie's first scene Shepard and Nutso are playing ball on a rooftop with a huge wall and glass window behind the basketball hoop. Q: If they remade this movie right now, whom do you think Hollywood would pick to play Tupac’s role, Duane Martin’s role, and (most important) Eric Nies’s role? SIMMONS: This is why we can never remake Above the Rim. RAFE: Fact: Three million people bought Warren G’s debut album on the strength of “Regulate,” and 2.9 million of them forgave him for how much it sucked, because at least Warren had the good sense to include “Regulate” as the first track. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by Movie Quotes .com . Hold a streetball tournament outside our office that ends with the losing team trying to shoot the winning team? This guy starting for the Bombers is easily the most unrealistic part of the entire movie. SHARP: Bernie Mac’s hobo oracle, no contest. (The jury is out on whether he’ll prove as self-destructive.) She’s also going to college during the day, as an English major at NYU, and she offered to help Kyle with his SAT so he can get into Georgetown! You can’t end up with the nickname “Nutso” for any other reason than being nuts. # rimshot # rim shot. Like Penn, Shakur gives each of his characters a unique spiritual temperature. RAFE: I vote for (c) — tremendously. SIMMONS: “This ain’t about a game anymore, it’s about real life!” is the fake one. As for the inexcusably short hoops in the tournament, it’s ATR’s biggest obstacle in any “greatest basketball movie of all time” conversation, narrowly edging the script, the acting, the directing and the dialogue. Shit has changed! Which was your favorite? RAFE: Absolutely. “Pain” belongs in the discussion for being one of Pac’s five best songs, even if it’s not as well known as some of his other classics because it ended up only on the soundtrack cassette (not the CD), for whatever reason. ARE WE EVEN? I was at the EAST SIII-IIIDDEEE MO-TEEELLLLLLLLL. Above the Rim Synopsis: Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard. 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