Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
9:41 – 12:27… Um, I, I love Waiting for Guffman. I just, the small town theater for me is it's my favorite one other than this, maybe. Yeah. I mean, I had it when we get to Apex Mountain. Is this the best mockumentary ever? I, I, it probably is. I, I like it better than Spinal Tap, but I know Spinal Tap came first. What's weird is all of those movies, except for Borat are 20th century or like beginning of 21st century. None of those movies are from the last 20 years. I was trying to figure out what happened. And I think the answer is it moved to TV. Cause like the, the office comes in second half of the two thousands. And …
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That's the list that I have minus Blair Witch, which is good addition. And I feel like Spinal Tap gets so much respect because it feels like it was first, at least for that generation. Yeah. Um, I, I love Waiting for Guffman. I just, the small town theater for me is it's my favorite one other than this, maybe. Yeah. I mean, I had it when we get to Apex Mountain. Is this the best mockumentary ever? I, I, it probably is. I, I like it better than Spinal Tap, but I know Spinal Tap came first. What's weird is all of those movies, except for Borat are 20th century or like beginning of 21st century. None of those movies are from the last 20 years. I was trying to figure out what happened. And I think the answer is it moved to TV. Cause like the, the office comes in second half of the two thousands. And then you have even stuff like jury duty. You have like Andy Samberg did that seven days in hell, which I thought was really good. But it just kind of moved away from movies for some reason. And I'm not, not totally sure. I agree with it. I don't admit, or maybe it's like, we don't have the same kind of improv comedians or I, or maybe it's moving more toward TikTok. And, but it's just weird to me. We haven't had a good one of these in 20 years since Borat. That's strange. I think you're onto something where I'm watching this a lot. And some of the bits that he's doing, one of my favorite bits is when he just gets to New York city and he's just, I'm new in town. Nice to meet you. And he's just introducing himself to people. There's that's a thousand assholes on TikTok do that. They're just messing with people on the street. That was what Billy Eichner was doing. That's like, I follow some of these Instagram accounts that just that my kids like. One of the, one of the ones that I follow is called humor bagel. And it's just this guy who walks around central park and just farts. And that's all it is. And people love it. That sounds amazing. It's so follow humor bagel. He just farts and people laugh. My kid dies laughing. I watch this sometimes without my kid, but it's like, that's what Borat's doing. He's walking around central park, messing with New Yorkers. But now it's, it's just on Instagram. Like it's everywhere. You can do it for free. Well, one of the writers made the, he's Dan Mazur said, yeah, we were in Dallas for two and a half weeks. We were worried about a local local newspaper getting ahold of the fact that we're around. And he said, and he said this 10 years ago today, there would be people with cell phones. It'd be on Twitter. It'd be on social media. Um, and that was the problem when they made the sequel. People knew the sequel was happening as it was happening. And I think it was one of the, I mean, COVID kind of killed the sequel, the impact of it. I think it was just a weird time for it to come out. When you say sequel, you mean the subsequent movie film, the subsequent movie film, which I gotta say, I've only seen once and I I'm sure it's better than I remember it, but it was just when it came out, it was so weird. We'd all been by ourselves for, I don't know, seven, eight months. Um, we just had a pretty tumultuous summer and you know, there was an election coming.
61:12 – 64:04… was definitely doing a lot of Anchorman in the 2000s. And then maybe The Hangover or something like that. But the Borat one was the worst. And I had this for Apex Mountain. Do you think this is Apex Mountain for movies that set off accent frenzies? You know, everyone- Like, shout out to our movie Fargo. Everyone was going, oh, you betcha, yeah. And any Arnold movie, everyone would do that. But, like, every person under the sun was saying, high five, my wife. And it was annoying. Yeah. Borat says the N-word in this movie. That's also in the worst. He does. And the worst. Ruffalo Hannah Rubinick Partridge …
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I'm not sure what the 2010s version is of the movie that immediately people began imitating and then kind of ruined the movie a little bit inadvertently. Well, everyone was definitely doing a lot of Anchorman in the 2000s. And then maybe The Hangover or something like that. But the Borat one was the worst. And I had this for Apex Mountain. Do you think this is Apex Mountain for movies that set off accent frenzies? You know, everyone- Like, shout out to our movie Fargo. Everyone was going, oh, you betcha, yeah. And any Arnold movie, everyone would do that. But, like, every person under the sun was saying, high five, my wife. And it was annoying. Yeah. Borat says the N-word in this movie. That's also in the worst. He does. And the worst. Ruffalo Hannah Rubinick Partridge overacting award. I don't know. It's a documentary. I got a question mark. Yeah, I didn't have one either. I did have one. I did have one age the worst, though. This is- You're going to- Yeah. All right. And I wish Craig was here, because he would relate to this. Watching porn with your boys. Like, they're on that motorhome, and they just throw on a DVD of porn, and they're just, like, sitting around drinking and watching it. Yeah. I don't think this generation does that or would get it. No. It was a thing back in the day. Yeah. You would have a videotape, and seven of your friends would just sit around watching porn together and laughing at it. And that's why. Because the porn was so fucking funny back then. Yeah. In the 70s and 80s stuff, you'd watch it. Just as, like, you're watching a movie. Good what's age. So, that might be a what's age the best. That's true. The CR thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford Hottest Take Award. I'd like to test drive Sasha Baron Cohen in the Best Actor Race in 07. Oh, what do you got? Let's go. Forrest Whitaker wins for Last King of Scotland. Yeah. Leo in Blood Diamond. Ryan Gosling, Hap Nelson. Peter O'Toole in Venus. And Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happiness. I'm bumping Peter O'Toole. That was an old man award that he got nominated. We're putting Sasha Baron Cohen in there. Once again, we've talked about this all month. The Academy does not respect comedies. There's no way him and Borat was not one of the five best performances in 2006. So, I think he should be in there. I don't love Leo there either. And the accent's ridiculous in Blood Diamond. We know that. You laugh at it when you watch it. He's done much better roles. I don't say that's a little hurtful. I don't know. I mean, bang, bang, bling, bling. What is Leo doing there, dude? A lot better roles for Leo. But I think it would have been worth him winning it just for the speech that he would have given at the Oscars. Oh my God. That's another reason. It gets him to the Oscars. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. I don't know if you want to test drive Azumat here. Of course I do. Let's start it off. Alan Arkin wins for Little Miss Sunshine. Jackie Earl Haley, Little Children. Demon Hunsu for Blood Diamond. Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls. Mark Wahlberg for The Departed.
71:34 – 74:39… game. Yeah. Yeah. Like they had a good game. But I never did the Gary Shandling. Holy shit. That's cool. A lot of a lot of comedians going half. Yeah. Yeah. Apex Mountain. Sacha Baron Cohen is a yes. I think this is the biggest he's ever been after this movie. Huge. Did sign whatever he wanted to do after this. Yeah. I said the movie gets shown up in The Sopranos. He's everywhere. He breaks character if he wins a Golden Globe. Definitely. Pussy magnets? Apex Mountain? I think it has to be. There's not an actual magnet. They just mean the car. Yeah. It's okay. I still want it. Can you install pussy if I give …
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Back in my day, I used to do some games. I used to play some games with people, you know, I used to go to a Mike Toland game. Oh, yeah. I would go to a Brian Robbins game. Yeah. Yeah. Like they had a good game. But I never did the Gary Shandling. Holy shit. That's cool. A lot of a lot of comedians going half. Yeah. Yeah. Apex Mountain. Sacha Baron Cohen is a yes. I think this is the biggest he's ever been after this movie. Huge. Did sign whatever he wanted to do after this. Yeah. I said the movie gets shown up in The Sopranos. He's everywhere. He breaks character if he wins a Golden Globe. Definitely. Pussy magnets? Apex Mountain? I think it has to be. There's not an actual magnet. They just mean the car. Yeah. It's okay. I still want it. Can you install pussy if I give you money? That's such a great bit. Sketch comedy movies? Is it better than Wayne's World? I love Wayne's World, but it's close. I have to think about that. Maybe it's the 2000s version of Wayne's World. Mm-hmm. Ken Davidian, definitely. Yep. Socks full of shit? I'm going to say yes. Virgin store autograph assaults? I'm going to say yes. The Hotel Wellington, yes. Lunell, who played the prostitute, and then has bounced around in some other stuff. But this is probably the peak, I'm guessing. I have a nit to pick with Lunell. They should have cast a real prostitute. I don't like that they cast an actor for that. I remember when I saw the movie, I recognized her because she had been in some things. Yeah. And I was like, what the hell? Just get a real prostitute. It takes me out of it. The more real actors they have, the worse it gets. I don't think they should have done that. It's a good note. Potassium exporters? The best in the world, Kazakhstan, yes. Shapeshifting cockroaches? I'm going to say they apex that one. Pamela Anderson? No. And then Naked Brawls? 100% yes. I have male nudity in movies. Is that it? And I will give you Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel, Full Frontal. They brought it back in that, too. Yeah. It's a resummon. Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen in the Bathhouse. Jackass had a lot of nudities, but that's not the same. And then the Boogie Nights male nudity was fake at the end. I think it's apex for male nudity in a non-porn movie. Interesting. I can't think of a better one unless it's just Jason Segel just standing there with his big penis. I'm trying to think of what else. I didn't prep. And thank God I didn't because my Google search would be Gibson movies. You were doing the capital X, lower X, whatever the hell that girl was. I'm already getting in trouble for Stoney. My research on his 2001 KVN. Cruz or Hanks? I think Hanks probably has a better chance of pulling out Borat, but I think Cruz's would be funnier. What if he was in the Les Grossman fat suit as Azumar? He probably could have done that. I think to be Cruz, you would have to take some of that Frank TJ Mackey sexual energy and you'd be like, respect the cock, high five.
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