Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
99:05 – 104:57… first successful execution of it? Well, producer Craig, call again. Maybe the second time we'll go through. That tells me something about Craig, by the way. Apex Mountain. Keep calling. Over and over. Never give up. DM them. Over and over. Apex Mountain. Nick Nolte. No. Cheating in a basketball movie? What else you got? No, because the white man can't jump when he's not cheating, but he's like- He's hustling the game. Above the rim. Like him playing terrible in the last game until he gets called out because Birdie. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one, actually. Mary McDonald. No. No. Bob Knight. No. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. …
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Completely redeemed the idea. Yeah. Yeah. We knew it had high potential. Was that the first successful execution of it? Well, producer Craig, call again. Maybe the second time we'll go through. That tells me something about Craig, by the way. Apex Mountain. Keep calling. Over and over. Never give up. DM them. Over and over. Apex Mountain. Nick Nolte. No. Cheating in a basketball movie? What else you got? No, because the white man can't jump when he's not cheating, but he's like- He's hustling the game. Above the rim. Like him playing terrible in the last game until he gets called out because Birdie. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one, actually. Mary McDonald. No. No. Bob Knight. No. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Alford? Alford team coming right off season in the brink? And they win the title? Yeah. Keith Smart. Yeah, 87. Yeah. Flunking TV in college. Yeah. Yes. 100%. Not done again until 1996 when I did it. Rick Fox. Very brief. In a really nice run here of this, then Eddie, and then he got game. He got game. And Oz. Oz. He was making away as a really serious actor. Who do I need to fucking hear to get high? I can't never forget Rick Fox saying that on Oz. You remember? Oz. Oz. Crazy shit. Did we just say- That's when everyone will know I'm about to retire when we do the one for us. Oz rewatch. We just did the Oz rewatch. Oz. Four seasons of Oz. The Adabisi scene. It's like, oh, this is it. Bill's done. Uh. Point shaving movie scenes? You're still going gambler. Yeah. I think it- Also, it's just so crazy because, like, you know, he's got the tennis pro or the tennis kid betting on the game for him. Yeah. Yeah. Shaq and Penny, no. Oh, wait. Shaq has an actor? What are you saying? Sports betting scenes? Point shaving in a basketball game scene. Okay. Because I was going to say, Uncut Gems is, like, my favorite sports betting. Uncut Gems is one, too. It's not point shaving, though. If we're just talking about taking a dive in a sports movie, what about- That's Longest Yard. Yeah. But what about the end of Color of Money, though? Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's a fucking crushing one. So Shaq and Penny, no, but Shaq as an actor- Shaq as an actor. I think 100% yes. Yeah. I don't think that this is the best Shaq ever- I think Shaq would admit that. Yeah. Bob Cousy is an actor, 100%. Richard Pitino is an actor, definitely. Bob Cousy has an actor. Algiers. Algiers is the hardest location to get to in America, definitely. It's like Burning Man. Yeah. That's it, unless you have any other apex. College basketball movies? I had that as a question, too. I mean, I'm still partial to the ones in the 70s. Okay. Even though I wouldn't say Fast Break is age great from a political correctness standpoint. What's the one that Nicholson directed? Is he, Drive, he said, is he coaching that one? Or is he just an ex-player? I remember that one. That's in the 70s. I saw that come up the other day. This is probably my favorite college basketball movie of all time. Mine, too. I mean, it's like basically our generation snapshot. We get to see all of our favorite players. What about recruiting scenes? Apex Mountain for recruiting. I still like when Brad Pitt goes to Chris Pratt to get him to come to the A's in Moneyball. In Moneyball? He's like, I'm going to move you to first base. I would go, Gene Hackman, go in and see Jimmy Chitwood and them doing the, I don't care if you play or not. Fucking bold move by Gene. And I'm going to say that, you know, even though, I'm going to say that the recruiting scene at Tech and he got game is pretty special. Oh, with the Jill Kelton and Chasey Lane? Yeah. I've never listed IMDb in that movie. Cruise or Hanks? Hanks. Hanks. Yeah. You like Cruise. I got Hanks. Hanks. Really? Yeah. You wouldn't know Sarah guy, Tom? Tom, I never would have believed ever would have been in any way part of a college. He's just, he's two. Yeah, you're right. He's five, six. Like, Tom is interesting for happy. Oh, yeah. Doing like a Les Grossman? Yeah. Like a Tom is interesting for happy as the fucking, like, evil Jerry Maguire type. Scorsese or Spielberg? Scorsese. Yeah. What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? The guy who delivers Neon's Lexus. That is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he would have been an unbelievable happy. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Craig, you got one more flex. Two flexes? You don't need to do it if you don't want to. I just want to pile on on Cruise that. I just, imagining Cruise in the paint trying to teach Neon footwork is just all time. With wearing like six inch boots disguised as Nikes? Neon picking him up so he can dunk. I think if Cruise had the Jerry Maguire energy as Pete Bell and it's a completely different movie. I'm not sure I'm against it as a movie. Him doing the speech at the end? Yeah. Where he's just like, I'm a completely broken man. Yeah. No, the answer is Nikes. It needs to be Cruise now. Like, old Cruise maybe. Young Cruise. Old Cruise maybe, yeah. Old Cruise maybe. Tom Cruise isn't old. I know. He's telling Anna Darmus. Picking Nets. So, no conference tournament for Western U? That before Penny and Shaq get there? Season's just over. There's not like, oh, we're in the quarterfinals next week against so-and-so. Just regular season and we're out? What is this? Like the fucking, like NESCAC? Generally speaking, they miss a couple of times on like just references to real college basketball.
126:43 – 129:31… Well, you know, Mulaney's kind of bringing it back with the Netflix show. I know. He basically ripped off the opening credits. You don't think Jenny Bell is Apex Mountain for ex-wives in a movie? She basically gives up her personal life to Crush Tape. She lets you come over after the game to blow off steam and drink. And she recruits students for you for free. It's weird because, I mean, she's basically doing everything for him except giving up the push. She does more than Freddie. It would take too long to get her clothes off. She's wearing like five different pieces of clothing. A shirt, a sweater, a …
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We haven't done To Live and Die in LA yet. I love that movie. Oh, auditioning. I'm not, I'm just saying I love it. I mean, you know. Out on 4K Blu-ray. Well, you know, Mulaney's kind of bringing it back with the Netflix show. I know. He basically ripped off the opening credits. You don't think Jenny Bell is Apex Mountain for ex-wives in a movie? She basically gives up her personal life to Crush Tape. She lets you come over after the game to blow off steam and drink. And she recruits students for you for free. It's weird because, I mean, she's basically doing everything for him except giving up the push. She does more than Freddie. It would take too long to get her clothes off. She's wearing like five different pieces of clothing. A shirt, a sweater, a jacket. She's still so involved. He can ask her for anything except for physical effects. She's going out to dinner with them. It's like they're still married. She's making Google eyes at them still. It's the air of the wet blanket sports movie girlfriend slash wife. Yeah. For like, starting with Adrienne. Yeah. She's not a wet blanket though. I don't think Jenny is. No, they try not to make her the wet blanket. But then at the end when she's super disappointed and she definitely becomes a wet blanket after a while. She wet blankets it up, but she's kind of justified because she's the only person with a soul in the movie. I was going to ask you, we didn't really do Big Kahuna Burger, Craig, but would you like it if like basically everybody from work went to the same restaurant every night? Yeah. Hell yeah. And I walked in one night with like two ladies. Craig, she's a friend. These guys are fans of the fantasy pod. These guys, these gals love hyphens. Who would be the... They got first in their fantasy league. If we were all at the bar together, who would be the person that walked in with two ladies on their arms? Brian Curtis. That's always the answer. He's a friend of the program. He's a friend of the program. Hello, media consumers. Craig, really glad you liked that movie. Love it. Don't forget, people listening, we're coming to Boston for a sold out show and we're doing a first ever rewatchables film festival at the historic Coolidge Corner all weekend, Friday, March 28th through the March 30th. We're going to make a couple appearances. Yeah. But we're playing all the hits, man. We're showing Heat. We're showing The Town. We're showing Good Will Hunting. We're showing Friends of Eddie Coyle. A couple of old school ones. The Verdict. So these are all Boston based movies? Oh, they're Boston or heist movies. Are you guys going to be showing the H. Will Max documentary of Murder in Boston? That would be good for the people. We're showing all seasons of Oz. Marathon. All the Rick Fox episodes of Oz. I just want to say to the people of Boston, if there is in fact any pickup basketball happening around 10 p.m., Bill is happy to come and coach. Yeah, guys. 10 p.m. Yeah. Or have Bob Cousy shoot free throws so you guys can be amazed.
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