Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
66:13 – 70:56… Deanne Waiters on this Oklahoma City Thunder team? Good point. And isn't Hoffman's character kind of the Deanne Waiters? There you go. That's why we do it. Apex Mountain. You could make a strong case for Gwyneth there. She's already won the Oscar. She's another big movie. She's been in six commercial movies over the last two years. I don't know if she has more power at any other point than she does right now. I'm sorry that we have to redefine this category in every episode, but is Apex Mountain limited to acting or movie endeavors? It is about peak of your powers. When did you have the most career options? …
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No, but if it's Freddie Miles, I still understand what it means, so that's okay. The Freddie Miles award is pretty good. I love it. I don't think we can change it yet because wasn't Deanne Waiters on this Oklahoma City Thunder team? Good point. And isn't Hoffman's character kind of the Deanne Waiters? There you go. That's why we do it. Apex Mountain. You could make a strong case for Gwyneth there. She's already won the Oscar. She's another big movie. She's been in six commercial movies over the last two years. I don't know if she has more power at any other point than she does right now. I'm sorry that we have to redefine this category in every episode, but is Apex Mountain limited to acting or movie endeavors? It is about peak of your powers. When did you have the most career options? When did you have the most juice to do whatever you wanted? Okay. I mean, the goop thing is so huge. Yeah, I was going to say, I honestly think it might be right now. I know that's ridiculous. I would say that's Gwyneth the business woman. Right. So that's just the actor? I think the actor. I think this is Apex Mountain for her. It's a good case. Jude Law? I mean, absolutely. Has to be, right? Yeah. This is coming out of this movie where like, this guy's gonna be James Bond. This guy's gonna be, who is this? He's the most handsome man in the world. What's next? And he never really, really topped it. He strikes me as one of those guys who's gonna win an Oscar when he's like 71 and it's gonna be for a really like saccharine, mediocre movie, but we're gonna be like, Jude Law's given us so much. It's time to honor him in his time and we're gonna look back and be like, why didn't we honor him for a movie like this? He was nominated. Like when Michael Caine won the Oscar? Exactly. And the year that he won the Oscar for this, in this race. Oh yeah, he won for the Cider House Rules and Jude Law was nominated. 1950s Italy, I have for Apex, man. Okay. What? I just wanted to mention Italy again. This movie is Apex Mountain for 1950s Italy? For 1950s Italy in a movie. I think that I, I think Roberto Rossellini would probably have something to say about that. He's got some films during this time that you might want to consider. For me personally. Any other Apex Mountains? Nobody else, I don't think, really qualifies. Unless you wanted to make a Hoffman case, which I'm not ready to do. You know, Anthony Minghella is kind of an interesting one to talk about. Oh, that's a good one. Because obviously The English Patient is like a major triumph, huge hit, wins all these Oscars. And a lot of people were like, can he follow it up? Can Damon follow it up? And like, they did. They made it successful and then it was like, I thought English Patient maybe, but maybe you're right. Now that he does this and then it's like, oh man, here we go. everything at his fingertips. And he probably doesn't make as many movies as you would have wanted him to make. He died so young. But he never, I don't think he ever got back to something this successful and beloved either. It's a bad one. Bad loss. It is. It is. He would have made some great movies. I feel like he would have had a couple more decades there. His movies that follow are a little bit, they don't feel like they're fully there. Like Cold Mountain and Breaking and Entering in particular are like, there's something a little bit off about both of them. They're interesting, but they're not like these first two. The Joey Pants Award for best that guy, unless we want to give it to Philip Baker Hall, but I feel like he's Philip Baker Hall now. The guy who plays Dickie's dad? Yeah, James Rebhorn. He is an all-time that guy. All-timer. Yeah. I think they both are. I can't even name the other movies he's been in, but I know he's been in 30 of them. Are you going to do a couple? I mean, he's in Scent of a Woman, right? He's in Scent of a Woman, also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Well, he's in the My Cousin Vinny Basic Instinct, back-to-back. That's pretty huge. Oh, yeah. He's in Carlito's Way. He's in White Squall. Who's he in Basic Instinct? Dr. McElwain. He's one of the psychiatrists. Yeah. He's the dad on Homeland. Forgot about that. That's right. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, yeah. What's his name? He also has a mental illness of some kind. Yeah, I think so. What's his name? James Rebhorn? Rebhorn, yeah. God, what a good guy. Just a phenomenal that guy. Kind of like the G.D. Spradlin for his generation. Good call, yeah. Do you think... Like in the 70s, he's definitely playing Senator Geary. I feel like you gotta do the pyramid for that guy's. He's in there. You think he's in the upper rung? Is Joe Pantoliano, is he the number one? Yeah, yeah. He's the overlord. His 80s run is just unparalleled. This is good shit. I also really like how much Rebhorn hates jazz. And he's like, the guy's playing jazz and he's like, give that guy $100 just to shut up. He's under some stress. His son is missing. He's in a foreign country that he doesn't want to be in. And the saxophone is reminding him of his son. Why does Herbert Greenleaf hate Europe? That's kind of a hot take.
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