Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
65:39 – 71:30… really realize it yet. And then the railway station shootout parodied in Naked Gun 3. A movie that slipped through the cracks of history. A little bit, yeah. Apex Mountain. Costner, no. No. Prohibition in movies? It's Prohibition during The Sting, isn't it? Yeah, that Sting wins. Sting was a bigger movie. But I mean, it's not the focus of The Sting, but it is in The Sting. It's a Prohibition movie. I'm with you. Andy Garcia, no. Marriage? Marriage seems so hopeful in this movie with the Ness family. Is there an apex mountain for marriage? 1930s marriage? Kramer versus Kramer? Yeah, I don't know. Capone? Go …
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final tax evasion conviction. Basically, the team from Winning Time was involved with the untouchables. That's right. I didn't really realize it yet. And then the railway station shootout parodied in Naked Gun 3. A movie that slipped through the cracks of history. A little bit, yeah. Apex Mountain. Costner, no. No. Prohibition in movies? It's Prohibition during The Sting, isn't it? Yeah, that Sting wins. Sting was a bigger movie. But I mean, it's not the focus of The Sting, but it is in The Sting. It's a Prohibition movie. I'm with you. Andy Garcia, no. Marriage? Marriage seems so hopeful in this movie with the Ness family. Is there an apex mountain for marriage? 1930s marriage? Kramer versus Kramer? Yeah, I don't know. Capone? Go this or you go Al Capone's Secret Vaults? Or you go Boardwalk Empire. Or Rod Rivera. Oh, Boardwalk Empire. Stephen Graham and Boardwalk Empire. Yeah. No, though. I think it's this. I agree. De Palma? No. I'm also going to say no. I don't think so. I think that it depends. I mean, I guess this is a very successful, well-done movie, but I think in some ways Mission Impossible is even even crazier. If you're going big budget movie, it's Mission Impossible. If you're going peak of his career, I think it's Blowout. Yeah. Yeah. if you're talking about the admittedly ambiguous category of Apex Mountain, when did he have the most juice? Yeah. I think it's somewhere between Dressed to Kill and Blowout. Right. Because Dressed to Kill was a huge movie and after that he could make any movie he wanted. So his next two he makes Blowout, he makes Scarface. Like those are pretty strange big swings. I guess Scarface wasn't strange because it was a famous movie, but two movies that I think were pretty ambitious for the time. So I would say no for De Palma, no for De Niro, how about Older Connery? So it's this, The Rock. Anything from the 80s or you could go The Rock. Or you could go Finding Forrester. You're the man now, dog! I think it's Rocktober for me. Okay. Still waiting on that one by the way. Mid, I heard you. Mid 80s summer Chicago movies. Here are nominees. Movies filmed in Chicago in the mid 80s. Running Scared, About Last Night, Ferris Bueller, Above the Law, Adventures of Baby City, Midnight Run, Big Town, and The Untouchables. What a run for Chicago. Jesus, Chicago? God damn. I guess John Hughes really just put Chicago on his back there for a few years. I think it's Ferris. Ferris, he's the Chicago the best. Yeah, me too. Although Running Scared. Are you and Van and I are going to do that soon? You're in on that? I'm going to get my airbrushed t-shirt like Gregory Hines has. That's my personal Apex Mountain just in life when they play Michael McDonald as Crystal and Gregory Hines are roller skating. That's it. That's everything I want from a movie. The weirdest part of any movie ever is when they're just like these guys go to the Bahamas for 20 minutes. They go to the Bahamas and it's a whole movie that I just want to be there with them for the next five years. Can they just run a bar in the Bahamas? Can that just be the movie? Yeah. Do we have to go back to Chicago? Was this their Hall of Fame plaque movie is a sub question for Apex Mountain. Is it for De Palma? You can make that case. I was going to say it is. Could you make the argument? Is it this or because he wins the Oscar for this. I guess James Bond is for Connery but he does win the Oscar for this. Bond has to be for Connery. It has to be Bond. I think for De Palma you could make the case this is the movie he made that the most people saw other than Scarface. The answer is either this or Scarface. Yeah. What's the matter? You need the yayo? Best racehorse name from the movie. I'll give you Untouchable or Dago Bastard. I can't have Screaming Irish Pig? You can't have Screaming Irish Pig. Untouchable is a great horse name though I was thinking. Yeah. Dago Bastard. Dago Bastard. Here's Dago Bastard down the stretch. I'm half Italian I can make these jokes. Picky Nets. Why would Ness want a picture taken of his new crew during this time when he's suspicious of everybody and doesn't want to trust anyone at all and he's like yeah photographer come on in. Well he trusts Scoop. He trusts that journalist. We just established that he doesn't trust anybody. And it's not for publication right? So they claim. What if Capone gets the film? Yeah. I mean it doesn't matter because like the cops are on these guys anyway and the cops are working for Capone. But I hear you. It's a weird choice by Ness. Weird flex. I think the baby is crying uncontrollably three minutes into the scene. It's weird that I'm going back to my Oscar getting killed thing. It's weird that Ness and Malone are just like walking around smoking cigars while they're transferring this witness. And they're just like I had a kid. How about that? Right. Should be a little more premium placed on. We got to get this witness out and somebody's going to be trying to take them down. Yeah. The baby's crying three steps down. It's a lot of bouncing in the 1930s carriage. Come on. Any other picking nits? Yeah. Yeah. So in the train station shootout, did you notice how many sailors get killed? Right. What's up with that? Like, why did they? I mean, I guess I could I appreciate those guys dedication to like saving that baby. But if I'm a sailor and my first my first buddy gets mowed down by the mafia, I'm like, God, let's just hope that carriage gets to the bottom of the stairs on its own. Yeah. You know? And then my only other picking day is the Mounties get mowed down.
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