Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
33:22 – 36:08… context around bungee jumping. 1996, that's... 1985. 1995. I don't know if I'd ever seen a bungee jump before. Is that possible? I feel like it's about to be Apex Mountain for bungee jumping though. Right? Like they were starting to introduce it in theme parks where you could do like mini versions of it at action park. And then it became in the 90s you would start to see people being like I'm going to the craziest bridge in the world. I feel like MTV started showing like hardcore action stuff every once in a while. There's also like I feel like it's a trope in action movies of this time period for the main …
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Most rewatchable scene. The opening scene is fucking awesome. Yep. We gotta put some context around bungee jumping. 1996, that's... 1985. 1995. I don't know if I'd ever seen a bungee jump before. Is that possible? I feel like it's about to be Apex Mountain for bungee jumping though. Right? Like they were starting to introduce it in theme parks where you could do like mini versions of it at action park. And then it became in the 90s you would start to see people being like I'm going to the craziest bridge in the world. I feel like MTV started showing like hardcore action stuff every once in a while. There's also like I feel like it's a trope in action movies of this time period for the main character to really A, enjoy it and B, the Bodhi move of like you think we're just having a regular conversation and then I just leap off the building and it's like I don't know and it's like he's jumping. Also like right at the advent of the X Games and skating and that whole world. X-Men sports, yeah. So we have just an awesome bungee jump that's filmed really well with some wall you're like where the fuck is this? He lands he upside down punches the guy taking a shit. Pretty good. Pretty good move. I'd probably wait for the flush before I attack the guy. Immediately though he's like sorry forgot to knock. You know immediately with a bond line. Gets away from somewhere between 30 and 100 Russians all in a small space and then does an outrageous motorcycle plane jump all in about eight minutes. Yeah. I have some thoughts on that we can do the pick and nits now of the freestyle jump into the plane catching it being able to get in and then turning the plane up. My favorite part of this whole sequence is it seems like Trevathian was able to get to the same point without having to bungee jump and dive into a toilet bowl full of crap. Yeah. I mean I was thinking about making my flex category the Dan Campbell scale for holy shit are they really going for this right now which is him like jumping off the ledge and catching the plane. That's the exact same thing. Where I'm like bunker cycle jumping. Yeah. What was the idea here? 4th and 19 they're going for it? Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah. There's a few of these in this movie where even by Bond standards I'm like for real dude? Yeah. Right. But clearly Tom Cruise saw this and was like I'll base the next 30 years of my life on this. Yeah. Don't you kind of think just from a stunt perspective I know he didn't actually do that obviously but from the character doing a stunt in a movie that is a crazier stunt than anything Ethan Hunt has ever done. I think so. I think it's cooler than hanging on the plane. You know hanging on a biplane for 20 minutes. It's remarkable. Eight Mission Impossibles and I don't think there's a stunt cooler than that. Because it there's no reality to it. There's like it is it will break your brain trying to imagine But it doesn't look that fake. No. No. I believed it watching it.
84:02 – 89:06… everything. And Perrier's like sign us up. And it was great for them. How many people do you think he killed in this movie? 60? 75. 47. Highest ever for Bond. Apex Mountain Brosnan? I'm gonna say yes. Yeah, probably. It was kind of Brosnan time in 95. Because this is also such a huge success it basically revives the franchise, right? It might be Mamma Mia. Oh. Oh, you just, yeah. I just saw this for the first time. I did not know how popular these movies were. I have now learned how popular they are. Is this in your divorced women's group? Yeah, well. Pretty much. It's called watching a movie Amanda asked me to …
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turned it down. And soda, water, everything. And Perrier's like sign us up. And it was great for them. How many people do you think he killed in this movie? 60? 75. 47. Highest ever for Bond. Apex Mountain Brosnan? I'm gonna say yes. Yeah, probably. It was kind of Brosnan time in 95. Because this is also such a huge success it basically revives the franchise, right? It might be Mamma Mia. Oh. Oh, you just, yeah. I just saw this for the first time. I did not know how popular these movies were. I have now learned how popular they are. Is this in your divorced women's group? Yeah, well. Pretty much. It's called watching a movie Amanda asked me to watch. And I enjoyed the movie. But he's a big part of the movie. Like more than I expected. He's like the third lead of the movie. And I feel like to a younger generation he's way more famous for that movie than he is for James Bond. Was he Thomas Crown Affair? He was. I would argue he might be more famous for that too than Goldeneye. But I think people my low key favorite Brosnan is probably Hot Fuzz. He's super funny in Hot Fuzz. He was just in Black Bag. He was also in Black Bag. Yeah, yeah. He's having a good little stretch. I like Brosnan. And he's in Taylor Sheridan. Isn't he in Taylor Sheridan? No, he's in Mobland. It's not Taylor Sheridan but it feels like it. He's always been good. He was in the first John McTiernan movie. Nomads. He was the lead before Die Hard before all those movies. Isabella Skoropko I'm going to say yes for Apex Mountain for her. She did appear in a film called Cougar Club. Several years later. Did you write and direct that film? I've been waiting for the 4K to arrive. That's got to be on Tubi. BMW Z3. No question. It wasn't until you shit on it on this pod. Listen, everyone makes mistakes. Is the song GoldenEye and the performance the anti-Apex of Bond theme songs? Oh, I think it's the worst. What's the best? Honestly, I kind of might go Skyfall. Diamonds Are Forever is amazing. I mean, Carly Simon. For Your Eyes Only? Yeah. That was massive. Goldfinger is also amazing. Fomke. I'm probably butchering her name every time we're doing that. It should be on brand. Fomke. Fomke Jansen. X-Men. Yeah, Jean Grey. Bond movies. No. No. What would you say Apex Mountain for Bond movies is? Skyfall? I think it's got to be Connery era. These were like events when they came out. I think Skyfall made like a billion dollars. I think Skyfall is the most financially successful but maybe not for inflation. That's like Dr. No from Russia with Love. That first Connery era I think is probably. I think that in the 60s it has to be somewhere in there. Joe Don Baker? No. Walking Tall. So I have Mitchell when he played Mitchell and then the Mr. Science Theater guys made fun of Mitchell which is. Mitchell in the film Mitchell. The best hour and a half of comedy in Comedy Central history was them doing Mitchell. I really loved it. Because they would always do like these weird 40s and 50s movies and then one time they decided to do Mitchell and it was fucking awesome. Had you seen Mitchell before you saw them do that? No. All they're doing is just ragging on Joe Don Baker for 90 minutes. And he's like a ladies man grizzled drunk detective in it and they're just fucking killing him. It's really funny. It's probably on YouTube. Post Cold War shit No. No. Perrier. I think you could say yes. Sparkling water. Perrier had a bad rap for a while. It's starting to come around. Is Perrier just being completely blown off the face of the earth by all the fancy sparkling waters now? Yeah now it's like people just call it sparkling water. What's your relationship with Perrier, Craig? Never really drank it. Yeah. San Peli. That's my... Yeah. It's a lot of competitors. No free ads. Yeah. By the way note to any of them we're happy to sponsor we'll put you right there I'll drink from Perrier. No offense to San Pellegrino but it always strikes me that they are I find their rewards or their prize money for Top Chef to be pretty cheap. It's like you get $200,000 it's like this guy's the best chef in the country shouldn't he get like something more than that? Wow. Alan Cumming? No. Traders. Traders, yeah. He's having his moment. You think he's proud of his work as Boris Gorschenko? He's basically test driving his Traders hosting role as Boris. Similar energy. Yeah. Yeah. By the way one of my goals for 2026 is to get Rachel Lindsay on Traders. I'm just laying the hammer down now. Can I... She needs to go on Traders. They need to have her and I think she'd be amazing. I have no problem with that whatsoever but can I just make a suggestion? I think you should go on Traders. I should go on Traders? I think you would be incredible on Traders. I just don't know if he could stay... It's like a guilt by association with who's on the show though. Kind of but like you are a strategist. How would you have
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