Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
61:53 – 66:08… the movie. What are you looking at, dick knows. Drunken State, Florida, and Wolf Buddy. Those were his five t-shirts. I think they should all come back. Apex Mountain, Michael J. Fox. You could argue this after Back to the Future, the combo of that, this could have been his Apex Mountain. I still think it's Back to the Future. Oh, it's Back to the Future, I think, and a runaway. Yeah. And it's so interesting that they were shot side by side. I read a quote by Fox when he was shooting this, and they were shooting Back to the Future with Eric Stoltz. He said, here I am playing a werewolf, and Steven …
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And then Styles wore five t-shirts that had slogans on them. Yeah. Life sucks, then you die. Obnoxious, the movie. What are you looking at, dick knows. Drunken State, Florida, and Wolf Buddy. Those were his five t-shirts. I think they should all come back. Apex Mountain, Michael J. Fox. You could argue this after Back to the Future, the combo of that, this could have been his Apex Mountain. I still think it's Back to the Future. Oh, it's Back to the Future, I think, and a runaway. Yeah. And it's so interesting that they were shot side by side. I read a quote by Fox when he was shooting this, and they were shooting Back to the Future with Eric Stoltz. He said, here I am playing a werewolf, and Steven Spielberg's directing a movie down the street. What am I doing with my career? And then we know what happened from that part. Stoltz went heavy emo Marty McFly, and Mike came right back in. Also, Apex Mountain. Every other single person in the movie? Mm-hmm. I don't feel like it got better for anybody who had a long speaking part, except for Doug Savant. You would say Melrose Place or Desperate Housewives for him. Van surfing, I think this was the Apex. My guess is somebody probably tragically died right afterwards in real life trying to van surf, and then it was quickly banned. Yeah, it was like the program that when the players lie down in the middle of the street and let the cars drive by them, and then they cut that from the DVD or the video release because some kids actually tried and got run over by cars. Yeah. I mean, Stiles and Scott make it look really easy to drive on top of the Wolfmobile past the Jack in the Box. So I'm sure people tried it. They had a pair. I was disappointed to find out there was some holds and restraints on those guys on the van. What? Yeah, yeah. It was bullshit. Couldn't believe it. I'm going to make the case for Apex Mountain for werewolves. Make it. I'm interested. Go ahead. What do you got? So you're coming off. There's a whole werewolf run in the early 80s. We have Wolfen in 1981, The Howling, Howling 2, Full Moon High, The Company of Wolves, Silver Bullet, and then you'll also have an American Werewolf in London, which is a pretty big movie. Then you have Michael Jackson with the Thriller video, which is the biggest, most important video ever made. Yep. And then Teen Wolf and Thriller and Teen Wolf. That's within a few months of each other. I don't think it got better for werewolves. The only answer in response is a really annoying one. I think werewolves- You're going to say Twilight, aren't you? I'm kind of obligated to say it. Team Jacob, Team Edward, that kid running around with the werewolf thing. Millions of young people reading those books. I don't think they were bigger than Thriller. But Thriller wasn't so much about a werewolf. The Twilight shit was really big. I hate that I'm saying this, Bill, because I don't watch the Twilights or read them, but they were big. They were really big. I have to be honest. Go on. My plan was to make the case and then have you make the case for Twilight so I didn't have to. And it worked. Were you Team Jacob or Team Edward? And you just made the Twilight case. Picking Nets. Yeah. We covered this already, but the first one I had was, why would Boof like Scott after he left huge claw marks on her back? We'll never have an answer. Because she likes it, I guess. But it was a lot. All right. This is a big one. Wouldn't the Wolves High School have been deluged with reporters from all over the place? Media? Not just local media, national media. I think every game is an event. If you think LeBron James Jr., Bronny, who's playing 14th, 13 minutes a game for Sierra Canyon, and those games are on ESPN+. I'm guessing a werewolf basketball player would have been a semi-big deal. Yeah. There's one scene of four little kids getting an autograph from Scott as he enters the gym. But this is CNN setting up the trucks in the parking lot. And there's a fun little dovetail off of that, Bill, that I wish they would have gone this route if they had more time. Not only the media attention that Scott would have got, but the recruiting attention of who's trying to get the wolf. And I think the coach in that moment where he says, so where's the wolf? There's a subtext there of he's been making calls and he's been on the phone with John
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