Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
64:09 – 68:12… character building scenes in the screenplay. It's worth watching, reading if you, if you get a chance. Or maybe that's how they do the Netflix series. Right. Apex Mountain. Bruce Willis, no. This is just an all time yes for me. The Wayans brothers. You got Damon and last Boy Scout and then you have all of them in the living color, which is becoming one of the core shows on TV. Yeah, Keenan is basically like the Lorne Michaels of the moment, right? Yeah, the family's having a moment. So I'm going to say yes for them. LA NFL home games. I have to say yes. I think just, just those two games. Like think of all the …
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I would almost like be curious to see someone make the Shane Black shooting script. I don't think you could make this movie today, but there are a lot of really cool character building scenes in the screenplay. It's worth watching, reading if you, if you get a chance. Or maybe that's how they do the Netflix series. Right. Apex Mountain. Bruce Willis, no. This is just an all time yes for me. The Wayans brothers. You got Damon and last Boy Scout and then you have all of them in the living color, which is becoming one of the core shows on TV. Yeah, Keenan is basically like the Lorne Michaels of the moment, right? Yeah, the family's having a moment. So I'm going to say yes for them. LA NFL home games. I have to say yes. I think just, just those two games. Like think of all the stuff that happened. Has it ever gotten better for LA football? No. No. 1990s Halle Berry? I'm going to still say Boomerang. Mm-hmm. Yes, I would agree with you. Boomerang more than this. She gets more screen time. Danielle Harris, I'm going to still say Halloween 4. Uh-huh. All due respect to her. Halloween 4 is a good movie. Tony Scott, no. Joel Silver, probably not. No, I mean Matrix, Die Hard. There's a bunch. Anything else for Apex Mountain? Oh, I had one more for you. Early 90s, kind of cokie LA. I still think True Romance. Yeah, I prefer True Romance. I was going to say my Apex Mountain would be $650 leather pants. Don't think that they ever really got more popular. And I think this is Apex Mountain for hangover acting. For like a character being hungover. Wow. I still might go Sonny Crockett, but I got to think about it. With no Jack Cates on that? Ah, this sucks. Yeah, that's true. Maniac gets a hold of my gun, starts shooting people. All right, we're going to pick some nits, but let's take one more break. This episode is brought to you by Sleep Doctor. Let's say a good sleep is wildly underrated. You can do everything right, eat well, work out, sleep seven or eight hours, and still feel exhausted. If you snore, wake up tired, or crash during the day, it might be worth looking into. Sleep Doctor offers an at-home sleep study done in your own bed. They accept most insurance plans, so you can pay as little as $0. Visit sleepdoctor.com. This episode is brought to you by ChatGBT. Imagine you're running a professional sports team. Nice. Imagine the player contract report is due today. Not so nice. You've got performance notes from the coaching staff. You've got a salary spreadsheet from your analyst. Three rounds of back and forth emails with the agent, and all of it is scattered absolutely everywhere. Well, that's where ChatGBT work comes in. It's a new way to use ChatGBT for bigger multi-step projects. Give ChatGBT work access to your apps and files and can create real work documents. For instance, spreadsheets, slides, structured reports. You can bring all those to your next meeting when you don't need answers. You need help just getting the work across the finish line. ChatGBT work can move your projects forward while you stay in control. Now, put ChatGBT to work on your most ambitious ideas and projects. Get started. Just go to ChatGBT.com by selecting work mode available on plus and pro plans. Pick a nits. You want to go first or should I? Well, pick a nits. I'll go. I'll give you one. Jimmy, I just feel like should be way more upset that his girlfriend was brutally murdered right in front of him. Yes. I feel like he shrugged that off in 10 minutes. He's at the diner. He seems more concerned with the fact that he's not going to get back into football because they've lost the evidence of the blackmail than her death. My guess is maybe she wasn't the only girlfriend he had or something. I don't know. No, I mean, he says that in the beginning. He's like, I nail everything that moves or whatever. What do you have for a nitpick? Like, yeah, there's no more football after after the Billy scene. Like, they're not like, huh?
77:13 – 80:02… I would want the dropped cigarette that Kim Coates gives Bruce Willis. Oh! May I have a cigarette? I seem to have dropped mine. We should have put that in Apex Mountain, dripping blood from the mouth and nose. I think you're right. I think this was the apex for that. All right. This is tough. Who won the movie? I think that Willis is incredible in this, but I want to give it to Damon Wayans because I think that this is just a dynamite movie star performance from him. And he never captured it again. He never got this opportunity really again. But I don't think that this movie works if it's any number of …
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I actually think that would be an amazing collectible. Yeah. The actual card that Damon Wayans signed that they used in the movie if that was a prop. That would be really cool. I would want the dropped cigarette that Kim Coates gives Bruce Willis. Oh! May I have a cigarette? I seem to have dropped mine. We should have put that in Apex Mountain, dripping blood from the mouth and nose. I think you're right. I think this was the apex for that. All right. This is tough. Who won the movie? I think that Willis is incredible in this, but I want to give it to Damon Wayans because I think that this is just a dynamite movie star performance from him. And he never captured it again. He never got this opportunity really again. But I don't think that this movie works if it's any number of other hot young thing Hollywood stars who play against the younger grizzled veteran. I agree with you. I think multiple people could have been Bruce Willis, including Don Johnson. I don't know in 1991 who else could have been Jimmy Dix. Right. Eddie was too old. Denzel wasn't going to do it, and he was too established at that point. Wesley Snipes makes it weird, I think. Jamie Foxx, it's too early for him. But I think by 1998, 1999 range, Jamie Foxx could have easily done it. Yeah. And then I think we have way more candidates once we move into this century. But it's like right time, right place for Wayans. And he's really likable in it. He really is. He's really good. And it's a bummer that he never got better scripts or that his manager never found him one. I'm with you. I think that's the right answer. I was going to say Tony Scott, but I don't even think people necessarily think of this as a signature Tony Scott movie. Yeah. So I think Tony Scott's like, there's probably some good stuff in there, but this sounds like it was an agonizing movie to make for him. Yeah. Well, when somebody writes the movie about cocaine, late 80s, 90s movies, that just where there's just lots of weird stories and weird shit going on. This will definitely be a chapter. This is the second half of Goodfellas of that decade. All right. The Last Boy Scout. That's it. This was produced by our guy, Craig Horlbeck. We'll be back with one more movie next week, and that will be it for 2021. Don't forget to go on Spotify if you want the entire archive of everything we've done. Don't forget to listen to The Watch. What are you going to talk about now that Succession's done? Station Eleven. It's a new HBO Max show. It's coming out on Thursday. It's really great. Oh, good. Yeah, it's incredible. Who's in it? Mackenzie Davis, who was in Halt and Catch Fire, but it's based on this big novel. Oh, I like Mackenzie Davis. Yeah. It's awesome. All right. Cool. All right. Chris, good to see you. Good to see you, too. This episode is brought to you by the movie Mutiny.
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