Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
75:41 – 85:52… a nitpicks category in the rewatchables. Damn right. We like to tweak it. Let's tweak it. But I wouldn't assign a story to find out. No. And pay an expert. Apex Mountain Culkin? I think it is. Yeah. I think it is too because now he's had three hits in a row and we're heading toward Good Son and this movie made almost $400 million. And it sucks too because Apex Mountain means you're the highest you're ever going to get but it's going to go down. Yeah. It did go down quickly. It sucks. For everybody but Sly Stallone. Right. Exactly right. His Apex Mountain was just Mount Everest and he's still up there. Still …
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We know, dude. It's a movie. We understand. We don't need an expert. It bothers me. That's why we have a nitpicks category in the rewatchables. Damn right. We like to tweak it. Let's tweak it. But I wouldn't assign a story to find out. No. And pay an expert. Apex Mountain Culkin? I think it is. Yeah. I think it is too because now he's had three hits in a row and we're heading toward Good Son and this movie made almost $400 million. And it sucks too because Apex Mountain means you're the highest you're ever going to get but it's going to go down. Yeah. It did go down quickly. It sucks. For everybody but Sly Stallone. Right. Exactly right. His Apex Mountain was just Mount Everest and he's still up there. Still up there to this day. I can't believe he never came down. Pigeon Lady's Apex Mountain? Yeah. And you could also, homeless characters? Like I... Benevolent Christmas homeless characters? Yes. Homeless characters who are not a criminal, a drug addict, or mentally ill I guess. He really hit the lottery with that one. New York City is a holiday movie location? For me it is. Yeah. And for me it is in the last 30 years. Chicago's got some great movies. I'm sure we're forgetting some important holiday. You know Miracle on 34th Street is an iconic Christmas movie and they remade it with Dylan McDermott a few years ago. But I like this better. It's massive. Catherine O'Hara? That's a good one. Because she just, she blew up with Schitt's Creek in terms of like the fanhood and everyone with that show. Well she also had a whole of the Christopher Guest movies, which is my favorite stuff that she's done. Oh my god, Waiting for Guffman is unbelievable. I love that one so much. What's the one? Is it Best in Show or Waiting for Guffman? Best in Show. Dog Show, yeah. When she just has a history with like every guy. Yeah, she's like the best four. And the guy's like slowly figuring out and people are flirting with her. Like, I remember that time in Tulsa? Yeah. I love that movie. John Hurd. A lot of possibilities for him. He's in Big. Yes. Great Sopranos run for him. But I think he became, it's right around here because he became like, oh, John Hurd. Home Alone Dad. Yeah. And he's such a dopey character. Yeah. He must not be that proud of it. It's a stupid role. I like him in Big. I don't get it. I don't get it. It's great in Big. The Plaza? I don't know the history of it. I'm sure presidents have stayed there. I'm sure FDR stayed there. Like, I don't know. From a pop culture standpoint. Herbert Hoover. That's what they say in the movie. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Okay. Hoover. I don't know. Is that first class president? I would say for the Plaza, the pop culture standpoint. Definitely. Yes. Definitely. Losing your kids in a movie? This or Taken. Taken's pretty big. This made more money than Taken. This is a bigger movie than Taken. Soaking a rope in kerosene? Definitely. Daniel Stern? I'm going to say yes. Pesci, 92. Stern, yeah. Stern was great at the time. I loved him in Wonder Years. Great career. But this is it. Pesci. We listed what his 92 was. It's pretty unbelievable. Coming off Goodfellas. Yeah. Then these three movies all in the same year. Dude, I got to tell you. Sky's the limit. I watched a Tales from the Crypt episode that Pesci was in this week in preparation for this. It's batshit. Joey Pants is in it. Oh. Pauly from Rocky is in it. And Pesci gets sawed in half by two twins and then they have sex with half of his body. What? It's right in this run. It's like 1993, 92. He did a Tales from the Crypt episode. Michael Kamen does the music. Like, it is a crazy episode. I watched the whole thing. I love Tales from the Crypt. But that run you're talking about, this is in that too. He decided to just do it. I don't know why. It's so weird. You know what Tales from the Crypt is, Craig? I don't. Yeah. See, Craig missed out on a lot of great HBO content just by being too young. That's on my HBO Rushmore. And that's a tough spot. You don't know Hitchhiker, right? No. The Hitchhiker. Another one. Mm-hmm. You remember The Hitchhiker. I know The Hitchhiker. Yes. My buddy Jeff, one of my best friends, my best friend from high school, who was really excited about Yacht Rock. And he's like, Yacht Rock did well. Do you think you could get him to bring back The Hitchhiker? As long as they bring back Dream On. Dream On is on my Rushmore as well. We were trying to figure out The Hitchhiker. Just like, I guess the premise would be he landed. He's just in Malibu now. Yeah. It's a sequel. He stopped hitchhiking, but now he's something, one last job ropes him back into one more hitchhike. Yeah. It's like you guys with Running Scared, like they're in Key West. They're just retired. Like, what do we do now? Just kind of breaks the thumb out once a while. I guess. For good times' sake. One last one for Apex Mountain. Brenda Fricker. This is right before she's in So I Married an Axe Murder as the mom, where she's just like the horny Mike Myers mom, and she's great in that movie. So it's right around here for her, I think. Pregnant Man Gives Birth. That's a fact. Mom, I find it interesting you refer to the Weekly World News as the paper. Right. I love her. She's an Academy Award winner. My left foot. She's in this movie. She won an Oscar. Oh, that's got to be her Apex Mountain. Yeah. I forgot she won the Oscar for that. She won an Oscar for the Day-Lewis movie. I think she won. So that's her Apex Mountain. F.A.O. Schwartz, would you have? No. Piano Scene and Big. The piano. Great point. That's it. What else do you have? Anything? All right. So I got one. This is fun. Is this Apex Mountain for pizza and movies? So when he comes out and he says, Mr. McAllister, a cheese pizza just for you. He opens it. There's this beautiful plume of steam and he gets in, plume of steam and he gets in and he eats it. So here's what else I got. Back to the Future 2 pizza where it's tiny and they make it big. Right. Wayne's World pizza where contractor, no, I will not bow to any sponsor. And they like the commercial thing. There's a big scene in Iron Man where Tony Stark is eating pizza. But I'll tell you my favorite. And I like the Tony Stark pizza. I think we talked about that. I think we did Iron Man. Like how good the pizza looks. I think the idea is, I haven't seen that movie in a while, that they brought it from New York on the private jet to Malibu. So they're having New York pizza in Malibu. Yeah. And like you want to slice so fucking bad. But my pizza at Mount Rushmore. Bill, are you a Loverboy guy? Loverboy guy with Patrick Percy? I mean, who am I asking? Yeah. If you don't know Loverboy, there's a pizza delivery guy who turns into a gigolo and the women order extra anchovies. And that means they want to sleep with the pizza boy. And the phrase of the movie, like the catch line, it's fantastic. His customers always come first. They don't make them like that anymore. The 80s. God damn it. I miss that stuff. Loverboy. That's my... But I think Kevin McCauser's pizza is on the Rushmore, but not Apex. I always think about if they just had a movie and they pretended it was coming out in 2024. They filmed the trailer for Loverboy. Just what people's reactions would be if they're watching football on a Sunday. Like, wait, what's going on? They fucked the pizza guy. It's a teenager. It's awesome. Pizza boy who fucks grown women? What? And he's barely 18. But they love it. I wish you had prepped me for the pizza thing. I would have spent like three hours thinking about this. Maybe next time I'll have more responses. Along came Pauly. Not a bad scene. Hoffman with the pizza. We talked about that. It's a good one. Oh, they're eating the pizza. He's drinking the grease. Yeah. I really think for pizza and movies, it has to be like the old school, thin, cheesy, kind of saucy, like oil spilling off it, eating on a plate. You have to turn it over. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah. The New York style slice. Like that's what Kevin has in the, in the, in the, in it. Look, the pizza in Home Alone 1 is good that barf, that Buzz has to barf up. But I just, I want that pizza so bad. You know, it's funny. There's never been a good Chicago deep dish pizza movie scene. Cause even if it's delicious, it's just so gross to eat as you're eating it. Nobody's like, oh yeah, I got my knife and I'm just cutting. It's not, it's not for television or for movies. It's really not. It's just for that cheese pull initially, but then it turns into a sloppy mess. People, their cheeses are like dripping on their chin. It's my favorite food. No actress is eating that. Yeah. Now she's like, I'm not going to sit down and eat that and look terrible. Yeah. Charlize Theron isn't sitting down eating the deep dish pizza. I have one other one and I should have prepped you for this too, but it's a fun. All right. Apex Mountain, fake movies in real movies. So you got angels with dirty souls and now the angels eat even filthier souls or whatever. I got a list. All right. Log jamming in the Big Lebowski. Great porn movie. Which one's log jam? All right. Our angels live in my town with our guide, Dirk, obviously. Amazing. Simple Jack. You are Dirk Diggler. Yes. Wow. Simple Jack hasn't aged well. Remember when Scream 2 came out and they made a movie that was like it, but it was called Stab. That was their plan. Scream 2. Yeah. And then the last Terrence and Phillip asses of fire in the South Park movie. Which one jumps out to you? That's just my list. Is this all movies or can I do TV too? Of course. Yeah. Because Cleaver on The Sopranos was great. Oh, great. Maltesante. Cleaver. That's a great one. Baldwin. Oh, that's so good. I always thought I absolutely would have rented Cleaver if they had just said fuck it and made the whole movie. And then I guess that's not a movie, but the end of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Oh, yeah. The CSI, whatever. Crime scene. Scene of the crime. Yeah. The sunglasses coming off. I always really admired how they did those. You have friends at HBO. Can't we make the Cleaver movie? That would be an incredible in on the joke. That's what David Chase should have done instead of making The Sopranos prequel. He should have been like, hey, finally have an idea for Cleaver. That's great. If you got Maltesante in it somehow, that'd be so good. And then Carmelo was like, Tony, you don't think it's a problem? Christopher made this movie about somebody who wanted to kill his uncle mob boss because he slept with his fiance. You're telling me this isn't about you and Adriana? So good. I miss that show, man. Let's take a break and then we'll wrap it up. 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