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Talkie Talk 225: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

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Talkie Talk 225: Ocean's Eleven (2001)
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224 episodes oughta do it, don’t you think?
You think we need one more?

We don’t have a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, even one Jethroe, a Leon Spinks, and certainly nothing close to the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever, but we do have Brent, David, and TJ to revisit Steven Soderbergh’s 2001 Vegas heist classic. We all go way back, and you owe us from the thing with the guy in the place, so give it a listen! We may or may not make you laugh, but we promise to not make you cry.

Caution! Talkie Talk reviews are spoilery unless otherwise noted.
This episode also features minor discussions, which could include spoilers, of these films:
– Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
– Ocean’s Twelve
– Ocean’s Thirteen
– Ocean’s 11
– Ocean’s Eight

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Tobey Maguire Versus Topher Grace

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Some background: this comparison started mentally for me back in college, when my friend Pritesh asked if I wanted to see Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! playing on TV – he said it’s that movie with the Tobey Maguire lookalike. For those of you not acquainted with the quaint charm of WADWTH!, this romantic comedy stars Topher Grace as the Tobey Maguire lookalike. It made me wonder – was my friend comparing these two because they looked alike, or because their names looked alike? But more germane to this piece, who is just better?

There is no objective way to approach who is a better actor; so I thought, why not expand this subjectively to find out who is the better ultimate human being, utilizing arbitrary categories for comparison?

That’s right. It’s THE TOPH VS THE TOBE.

Physical Attributes

Topher Grace: white, skinny and a surprising 5’10¾” – a quick aside, the ultra specific 5’10¾” is the kind of height people who are actually 5’8” give. He’s a spry 38-year old and was born in NYC. East Coast.

Tobey Maguire: white, skinny and a just-about-right 5’8”. An elder 41-year old hailing from Santa Monica, California repping the West Coast.

Topher has the reach on Tobey, but this is for the best everything, not just the best in a fight. So we’ll call the first round of the East Coast / West Coast battle a draw.

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EDGE: Tie.

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