Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
21:01 – 29:10… Marshall. He was on twin peaks too. Right. Yeah. But he's not even a guy. If you're under 30, you don't even remember him. All right. We're going to go to apex mountain. Let's go. I brought my climbing gear. Apex or career, not apex for the following people. Okay. JT Walsh. Apex for me, for sure. Chris. Definitely his most infamous role. I think probably his apex was, yeah, I go apex for him. Do you notice how seriously Chris took that question? It was like, I asked him like, it was like, I asked him, we have 15 minutes to escape. What should we do? Aaron Sorkin. I was thinking about my Sorkin rankings on …
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Like you expect them to be this really sensitive young ER doctor. Yeah. But instead he's just as sensitive, whatever the guy from, he's not even a, that guy anymore, but the guy from gladiator. Yeah. James Marshall. He was on twin peaks too. Right. Yeah. But he's not even a guy. If you're under 30, you don't even remember him. All right. We're going to go to apex mountain. Let's go. I brought my climbing gear. Apex or career, not apex for the following people. Okay. JT Walsh. Apex for me, for sure. Chris. Definitely his most infamous role. I think probably his apex was, yeah, I go apex for him. Do you notice how seriously Chris took that question? It was like, I asked him like, it was like, I asked him, we have 15 minutes to escape. What should we do? Aaron Sorkin. I was thinking about my Sorkin rankings on the way over. I, it's not the apex. Okay. It's close. What a, what a beginning. We're on apex mountain. You can have whatever opinion you want. Yeah. He has a nice view, but it's not the top. Chris. I'd say that the first season of West wing and social network are in, I agree. Really, really like. I would say first season, West wing apex mountain. I can't believe more like his 63 point Michael Jordan game. Yeah. There's not a bad scene in this movie. There's no scene where I'm like, get rid of this. Why do you have a 30 year career? Neither of you is doing money ball for that one. Uh, he only rewrote. Okay. Somebody else's script there. Okay. I think that's why I don't count. I don't count. Yeah. Okay. Kevin Pollack. No usual suspects. Oh yeah. That's a good one. I agree. Kevin Bacon. No, I can't give it to him. He's so good in this. He's so underrated in this, but he's been in so many. I mean, how can you not say river wild? His kid. I feel like I have this theory about Kevin Bacon's haircut in this movie, which is quite bad, but I think they purposefully gave to him in order so that he would not, uh, distract from Tom Cruise. It was, he was on the Tom Cruise hunt corner. They had to, yeah. And so you have to separate the Kiefer's haircut with the giant ears. Yeah. So in the spirit of the film and those choices, I'm saying that it's not his apex. So that is footloose. Kevin Bacon's apex. I liked him quite a bit in Mr. River. Uh, I think footloose is probably his height of fame. Yeah. I disagree with both of you. I think this is Kevin Bacon's apex. I think he's, this is not like a substantial meaty part and he's great in it. And it's a really memorable character and he's kind of over the top. And there's like a, just a dash of unintentional comedy, but he's likable. And I just liked him. I don't know who else would have played that part and made it really good. Like who else from that era? It's hard to figure out a person who could have done that. Like Matt Dillon or somebody who could have played that part. Yeah. It would have been either. They would have tried to compete with Cruise. He's like, I'm here to support Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise is a star. I'm going to be like, Kevin Bacon was doing a lot of movies like in that way. Like kept like quite, quite a role for him in JFK. Right. Yeah. You know, like he was taking smaller parts in bigger movies at that time. And is he, he's not, he's on the bad team, right? He's trying to prosecute these guys. He's sticking up with Jessup. So I shouldn't like him. Like he's basically saying, I don't care what you have markets and I'm taking you down. But I'm like, I'm kind of rooting for Kevin Bacon. He says at some point, he's like, I don't think your guys deserve to go to jail, but I don't make that decision. He had some morality to him. He represents kind of the, the contradictions of the system. It's unforgivable when he leaves the pickup basketball game though. It's hilarious. We're going to get to that in a second, but it's just unforgivable, but we're going to get to that. I'm going yes for that. Wolfgang Bodesen, Apex Mountain. Yes or no? Yeah. That's the apex for Wolfgang. I wish him well. Jack Nicholson. No. No. No. No. Late Jack Nicholson. Yes. I would say as good as it gets. This is late. So you think this, his late career. You take this over Departed? How dare you? It's late. But you know, I can't stand his Departed performance. Oh, is that right? With his New York accent. And he's playing Whitey Bulger. New York. I thought he was out of control of the Departed. I think he's the weak link of the Departed. Everybody is out of control of the Departed. He's the weak link of the Departed. Last one. Apex Mountain. Tom Cruise. Yes. Yes. Not cocktail? This. It's a few good men. It's this or the firm. Who else could have played few good men, Daniel Caffey, in the last 30 years and brought this level of unintentional comedy, good acting, sarcasm, bravado, all the stuff that he brings. Is there any other actor? Like, could Leo DiCaprio have played this guy? Not at all. I think Matt Damon could have done it. Like, 10 years later, Matt Damon? Yeah, I think Damon could have done it. I think that, uh, it's, you know, it was interesting reading about, or like, additional Broadway stagings that they had talked about doing, or, and they, and they're going to do a TV version of this next year, apparently. Yes. And Alec Baldwin is just, Alec Baldwin is just, but they haven't cast Caffey yet. It's a hard one. James Franco had been rumored to do it like a while back. It's a terrible idea. But it's just very, very hard to find somebody who can be an airhead, but really smart, who could be a lawyer who also plays softball, who could be attractive, but isn't a romantic lead. Like those are, there's a lot of things that you have to do at the same time. I'm not putting Demi Moore on the apex mountain question because we all know this is the nadir of her career. Unintentional comedy award. Here are the nominees. Tom Cruise swinging a baseball bat, actually a softball bat. Drunk Tom Cruise. Is that unintentional? It's funny to watch him pretend to be drunk. Cause he's clearly never had a drink in his life. Yeah. But like the here's, you know, the, what do we have? He's doing a game show thing. I feel like he's trying to be funny. Randomly anti-supporting. Medic Colonel Jessup. You Sam Weinberg. You Lieutenant Weinberg. You just had nowhere, like just a little anti-Semitism to turn us against Jessup more. The only time Kendrick laughs, which we mentioned before, they're this totally inappropriate blowjob joke. Cause one time he cracks a smile. Kevin Pollack asking, why do you like them so much? And Joe Galloway saying, because they stand on a wall and they say, nothing's going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch. Um, or Kevin Bacon leaving the hoops game. Or last but not least on Amazon right now. Cause I had to buy it to watch it. It said few good men. And then it said starring Wolfgang Bodison, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson. Wolfgang Bodison at first billing on Amazon. I don't know if he paid off. I feel like that's all he has at this point. So let's just give it to him. All right. So my choice is Kevin Bacon leaving the hoops game, which I just can't believe. What do they get? So they just have to stop the game. It's a dream of life for me to walk into a pickup basketball game and shout. They doctored the log books or whatever the hell it does to like get Jack's attention. They were given an order. I love all those guys being like, what the hell, Jack? They're like, Jack, you're not that mad. It's 10-8. What are you doing? He has a really slick little like half turn. As soon as he hears it, it's like basically a ballet dancer. He's just like, hello, and I'm out. It's like the footloose training. I feel like that would cause a riot. Really, really, really great scene in the hallway where she's like, we're going to do this. And he's like, no, you're not because he knows that he's got me out here in the courtroom. I have to like go after these guys. It's very good, Bacon. So what's your pick? Oh, because they stand on a wall and say no one's going to hurt you tonight. I mean, how long are we going to keep dancing around this? No, we're getting to it. I'm going to do Tom Cruise holding a bat, but can I have a subsection for Tom Cruise shooting Nerf basketballs and saying, where's my bat? Where's my bat? Doing two sports at once. That's great. Yeah. So Tom Cruise has had two basketball scenes in a movie by my knowledge. The other one is in Cocktail when he's playing Coghlan for money.
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