WHEN WE WERE KINGS Rerelease (with new intro to honor GEORGE FOREMAN)

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha RERELEASE their episode on WHEN WE WERE KINGS to honor the passing of the two time heavyweight champion of the world and of the greatest humans in GEORGE FOREMAN. Steve and John deliver a new intro for this episode discussing George Foreman's impact on their lives respectively and why his presence in this movie is so essential to appreciating Foreman's comeback later in life and his transformation into this beloved presence. Sit back after our new introduction and enjoy Steve and John going thru this movie and exploring its lasting effect on us today.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Cineophiles.
0:09.6	My name is Steve Morris.
0:10.6	I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:14.1	Hello, everyone.
0:14.7	My name is John Roker.
0:15.5	I'm a writer, producer, and host, and voiceover artist here in San Diego, California.
0:20.6	And we are here, Steve, for an interesting introduction to one of our oldest,
0:26.2	one of our oldest episodes, if not the oldest episode, may possibly, yes?
0:30.1	It is not the oldest, but it's damn close.
0:33.5	So the reason we're talking, you know,
0:35.7	there's certain people that just are special to us that we develop a real kind of relationship with. And when they pass, we just want to take a moment to honor them. And last week we lost one of the great fighters of all time and one of the most interesting people of all time, I think, which is George Foreman. And as you just mentioned, literally the second episode of the
0:56.5	cinefiles was because we had lost the greatest boxer, arguably of all time,
1:02.1	Muhammad Ali, which led us to do the movie when we were kings about his fight with George
1:06.8	Foreman.
1:07.8	And so that's episode number two that came out in, in let's see I'm looking it up right now.
1:14.0	It came out on June 23rd, 2016, almost exact, almost nine years ago now.
1:21.0	And did we know what we were doing when we were making that podcast?
1:25.3	No, who we're just starting out.
1:27.4	Is that movie,
1:29.1	that documentary about that moment still like a really important film for me? Yeah, it totally is.
1:34.6	And George Foreman definitely is someone that's been in my mind and imagination for a long time.
1:40.2	Yeah, when you grow up an Ali fan like I did, my dad was a massive Ali fan. So that's how I kind of became an Ali fan from watching the fights with my dad.
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