Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
69:22 – 73:42… Cruel Intentions 2 sequel that wasn't nobody from Cruel Intentions 1 was in it. It's like my cousin, Vinny's cousin, Randy. I'm glad they didn't do it again. Apex Mountain. And Pesci, This is the era. It's right around here. Yeah, I don't know exactly. Can an Apex Mountain be three years long? I mean, him, this movie succeeding, probably this might be it. Italians, no. Marissa, yes. Marissa, I would say yes. What is an Apex Mountain for Italians? Hmm, interesting. It's in the early 2000s when the Sopranos is rising but Godfather is having this whole nostalgia run. Yeah. It's great for us. You don't think the …
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And I like, kept looking it up and there was a novelization. You would have thought it would have been like the Cruel Intentions 2 sequel that wasn't nobody from Cruel Intentions 1 was in it. It's like my cousin, Vinny's cousin, Randy. I'm glad they didn't do it again. Apex Mountain. And Pesci, This is the era. It's right around here. Yeah, I don't know exactly. Can an Apex Mountain be three years long? I mean, him, this movie succeeding, probably this might be it. Italians, no. Marissa, yes. Marissa, I would say yes. What is an Apex Mountain for Italians? Hmm, interesting. It's in the early 2000s when the Sopranos is rising but Godfather is having this whole nostalgia run. Yeah. It's great for us. You don't think the actual mob like the 50s? Yeah, or maybe participating in the murder of JFK? I mean, I wanted to see if you were there. So, 63? I just want to wake you up a little bit. Yeah, it's not been the same since 63. Yeah. Marissa, no. Marissa told me yes. Bruce McGill, no. What is Bruce McGill's Apex Mountain? I don't know. What is it? I mean, my favorite Bruce McGill is The Insider. Yeah, I agree. It's somewhere in the 90s. New Jersey, no. Grits, maybe. Grits, 100%. Name me a better Grits movie. I don't know. I didn't do the research on Grits movies. I mean, they're just best Grits movies. What's the first pop-up? True Grit. True Grit. Okay, no. Definitely, definitely my cousin. 64 Buick Skylar convertibles, yes. I was going to say Tire Tracks. Is this Apex Mountain for Tire Tracks? Oh, that's good. I like that. It's Apex Mountain for, like, automotive intelligence, right? For, like, mechanical intelligence, right? Old school. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, it's easy to sort of overlook that. It's the linchpin of the movie, but also, I don't recall a film, even those great driving movies where you are listening to a person actually explain to you what, like an axle does, automotive history and the actual mechanics of the pieces of the car that make the car work. Best racehorse name? Cousin Vinny? Sure. I would say, I wouldn't be putting a lot of money on Cousin Vinny as a horse, but it would be a cool name. Wazoo, Alabama. Wazoo, Alabama? Great. Yeah. Pick and nits. Macho's just not scared enough in the first 15 minutes, and I'm not sure if it's because he's not the greatest actor or what's going on, but I would just be way more scared. It's like, I'm in Alabama and I'm being arrested for murder. I'm having a heart attack right now. He also, He's very calm. He's a white guy. This is why, if you put Will Smith in the movie, Will Smith is like, Right, he's terrified. He's terrified. We mentioned all the other pick and nits. You have any? Why is there a manual for the hotel faucet in the hotel room? Remember when she's just like, I read the manual about this sink. Oh, I've got one. And it's just like, was that a common thing in the 90s where it's like, if you have any needs, you can fix the appliances yourself. The manual is in here. that's a little unusual. But I think it's to, I mean, again, there's so many things in this script. I know it's supposed to be her technical expertise. No. Yeah. Well, yes, but there's, so my, mine along the same lines is, we, we are, at some point, we understand because Vinny explains to Stan this moment from their childhood where he saw Vinny, he's just got a great bullshit detector and he just knows when people are lying. He can call out magic tricks and he can tell magicians like, I can, he can bust your magic trick open if you're a magician. So, a scene after that, there's, it's, is it the cash, the wad of cash sequences? The only reason that wad of cash sequence is there is so that we can see the proof of what Machio is telling Stan. Which is he never loses an argument. He never loses an argument and he can call bullshit on it and the other person being, being called out will just fold. A scene does not need to be there otherwise. Sequel, prequel, prestige TV, all black cast are untouchable. What would you do?
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