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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Speed 1994

With Bill Simmons, Jason Concepcion, Shea Serrano and Donnie Kwak · 21 September 2017 · 26,395 feet

The claim

40:28 – 43:13

… were about to. He walks up and like, yeah. I might let you go. Like, he said, this is a perfect time for me to make a joke. I'm about to get this joke off. Apex Mountain. Keanu Reeves? Oh, man. He still had higher to climb. And I think that would have been shocking to people, like, in the mid-90s. Yeah, I don't think it was his apex either. No. Sandy Book? Oh, man. No, she had higher to go. She had way higher to go. I agree. I talked to Dobbins about this, and she said it was her apex for Sandy is Miss Congeniality. When you can carry your own half-decent movie and make $200 million with it, that's probably …

The whole segment, as transcribed

I love the way he walks up to Traven and Annie as they're laying on that, like, piece of bus at the end. And he's just, like, waiting for them to fuck. He's going to cry. They were about to. He walks up and like, yeah. I might let you go. Like, he said, this is a perfect time for me to make a joke. I'm about to get this joke off. Apex Mountain. Keanu Reeves? Oh, man. He still had higher to climb. And I think that would have been shocking to people, like, in the mid-90s. Yeah, I don't think it was his apex either. No. Sandy Book? Oh, man. No, she had higher to go. She had way higher to go. I agree. I talked to Dobbins about this, and she said it was her apex for Sandy is Miss Congeniality. When you can carry your own half-decent movie and make $200 million with it, that's probably your best. What do you think? Yeah, I'm going to go Bullock as well. I don't really believe that, but it's closer than I can get. I'm going to throw a curve. Dennis Hopper. I was thinking about that, but he's got too much stuff already. He's on the downside. Yeah, but that's from, like, you know, Easy Rider was, like, 1969, man. And that's, like, barely a movie. But that's the top of the mountain. It's a whole mountain. We're on the bottom of the mountain. I think Easy Rider, if you're, like, 55, was, like, your movie. I guess. Jeff Daniels? No. No. If you combine it with Dumb and Dumber, it's, like, a 1994 or 5 kind of combo apex. What about seeing The Bus Driver? It's tough. Unintentional Comedy Award. The old lady blowing up fucking kills me. It's just funny. She starts looking over. That's so bad. And then the idiot FBI dude on the other things, like, jump, lady. Jump. Like, what are you doing? You're ruining this whole thing. That kills me. Every scene with seeing The Bus Driver makes me laugh. I like when he gets shot. He's still, like, trying to do it. That's a hero. Like I've been shot. It's just they're trying so hard to make him something, and it doesn't work. Anyone being able to stay over 50 on the freeway? Hilarious if you live here. Like, it's maybe 10 times. Could you have done that back then? Was it plausible back then? There's just so much traffic all the time here. Like, it really honestly would have been more realistic if he was like, if the bus goes over 30, it's going to blow up. They're like, oh, my God, 30. I don't know if we can get there. What time of the day was all this happening? It was morning, right? It was morning. It was morning. Definitely morning. My choice, Dennis Hopper running. He has that one thing when he slides away and he does that weird, like, it's like Jack Nicholson running in the department. Same kind of thing. Like, he's just not coordinated. Like an octopus. Yeah. That was my favorite part. Did I miss anything? For me, it was them not checking to see if he was dead and not looking for any. Like, that's hilarious to me to think about now. This guy just tried to kill 15 people. They look for a leg of their hair. Any body parts? No. Something. Something. And there's always, like, any Keanu movie, some of his lines are like, University of Arizona.

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
Keanu Reeves25,570 ftThe Matrix, 1999, by 5,355 feet.
Dennis Hopper24,270 ftBlue Velvet, 1986, by 4,467 feet.
Sandra Bullock26,490 ftGravity, 2013, by 7,048 feet.
Jeff Daniels22,370 ftDumb and Dumber, 1994, by 4,158 feet.

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