Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
89:43 – 97:43… Yeah. It's like, I've got to learn how to do this, that. You think Jennifer Connelly learned how to pour drafts of bud for 120 people at the same time? Apex Mountain. This is really tough. Post-prime Tom Cruise. So I'm going to say his prime ends in that his peak is that Jerry Maguire kind of eyes wide shut range. Right? That's like his apex. Post-prime probably from Oprah's couch on. This is it. I think this is it. This is the biggest movie of the last couple years. Okay. So we agree on that. Yeah. You wouldn't go Apex Mountain just period for Cruz, right? No, I can't do that. Okay. What about the 1973 …
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He's probably pretty used to it by this point. I love when people work with Cruz. And they have to do something like that. The authenticity becomes so important. Yeah. It's like, I've got to learn how to do this, that. You think Jennifer Connelly learned how to pour drafts of bud for 120 people at the same time? Apex Mountain. This is really tough. Post-prime Tom Cruise. So I'm going to say his prime ends in that his peak is that Jerry Maguire kind of eyes wide shut range. Right? That's like his apex. Post-prime probably from Oprah's couch on. This is it. I think this is it. This is the biggest movie of the last couple years. Okay. So we agree on that. Yeah. You wouldn't go Apex Mountain just period for Cruz, right? No, I can't do that. Okay. What about the 1973 Porsche 911? So what are my other options with that one? No, it's this. It's just, what an unbelievable car. That's also really funny that she's like, you see everybody's just like, I have a Subaru Forester or some SUV because I got all this shit in the car for my kid. And she's like, we have a two-seer Porsche that fucking probably breaks down every 110 miles. In real life, her girl is just screaming at her every time they get in the car. Forget it, mama's in an Uber. Can't you just get a Jeep like normal moms? Don't you know this is killing the environment? Where am I supposed to put my stuff? This one's interesting. Is this Apex Mountain for Jennifer Connelly? So. Has she been nominated for an Oscar? Yeah, Requiem. I think she got nominated. That's a rough movie though, man. That's not a, I mean, that is, that will not be on the rewatchables. I mean, what are the big ones? Career Opportunities, obviously. Wasn't she? She won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. Beautiful Mind. And that's probably it. She won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind. And she was in, that was a huge, that was a big hit. I think it's this. It certainly is in like, in our heads. Like, Jennifer Connelly out of nowhere has become like a prime concern for me. This is like when Nolan Ryan threw the no-hitter when he was like 46. You're like, you're like, oh my God, Nolan Ryan. We just need Jennifer Connelly to beat the shit out of Robin Ventura. Yeah, maybe it's like when Nolan Ryan beat the shit out of Robin Ventura. Or like, if Brady won the Super Bowl four years from now. It's just, I'm just, just an amazing job there. Joe Kaczynski, definitely. I mean, I can't even imagine what his next 10 years are going to be like now. No, I mean, he's got the F1 movie with Brad Pitt coming. Yeah. He's, I mean, he'll be. Two movies this year. Could this guy be, you know, there was that Fincher Nolan generation. I think he needs the scripts. I think he needs like, when he makes movies that are like. So he needs like a Gone Girl type of movie. No, but I think he just needs like really, like the thing you can tell about Maverick is just like how every line and every moment has been so well interrogated. And it just hits so hard. So it's just like, he just needs like, I think he's an incredible visual director who just is like, I'm as good as the script I get. Like, Spirehead's really cool to look at. But there's like a lot of ups and downs with like the tone and the script. Okay. Teller. I don't think it's happened yet. I'm going to say no impacts yet. Yeah. I mean, I think Whiplash would be it otherwise, right? Yeah. I mean, being toe to toe with Tom Cruise in a movie that. This is pretty big. He's at a whole other level of fame now. Yeah. Powell, same thing. I think for me, Whiplash as a movie. But now this is like. From a fame standpoint, bigger. And it'll probably lead to some stuff. San Diego. What are some other great San Diego movies? For San Diego movies, I still think it's Anchorman. Yeah. You're probably right. San Diego. It means whale's vagina. Dead Don Simpson. This might be his apex. I think so. Since he died. Don is really dining out on this one in heaven. You're fucking amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I am. Just Mach speed in general? Apex? Certainly double digit Mach speed. Mach 10? Yeah. The hard deck rule? Apex Mountain? Did you know there was a hard deck rule? I did. Yeah. Ham? No. No. It's interesting. Ham is in two of the most rewatchable movies of the last 15 years. Top Gun Maverick and The Town. And The Town. And he's pretty much the same guy in both. He's the exact same guy in each movie. If his character in The Town was named Bo Simpson, I would have been like, yeah, totally. Exact same guy in each movie. You don't think he's bad in the movie. He's pretty good. But you wouldn't list him as one of your 10 favorite things about the movie. But I love half of the lines in the movie that he delivers are like, I still think of when he's like, send him. It's so good. He's just really good at playing these roles. He really is. And yet, I do feel like there's a version of his career where he could have also been like Maverick. Yeah. Not now, I'm saying. The fame seems so late for him. Yeah. That's what I mean. Yeah. But like, I watch this stuff and this is just kind of what he's graduated into. He's like the best version of this guy. Yeah. He's going to be at Harrison. He's going to, you know, he's going to- So he's going to have this whole second career as a major character guy. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there could have been more. Yeah. Top Gun. Is Apex Mountain for Top Gun this movie or the first one? I think it's the first one. Nobody knew what it was the first time. Yeah. Any other Apex for you? No, that's it. All right. Best racehorse name. Nominees for you. Tower Buzz, Great Balls of Fire, G-Lock or Dogfight? I like G-Lock. G-Lock's good, right? Here comes G-Lock. Yeah. I have some nitpicks. Yeah, me too. We're going to pick some nits. We mentioned Ham's character. Did he just want everyone to die? Was he a mole? Would you believe he was a mole from the ambiguous uranium country? Yeah. He was really, he was from the country of Urania. Miles Tower. So how old is he in this movie? So he's supposed to be a little bit older because his career starts four years later than everybody else's because Maverick pulls his papers. I think he's 35 in real life. So I think he's supposed to be a little bit older than the other pilots. He's 35 in real life? I think so. You sure? He was probably 33 when he filmed it. Yeah. Right. Okay. So Miles Tower is 35 now. He's 32 when he filmed this. But in the movie, he's supposed to be at least 32 plus, at least 35. All right. So I guess that checks out. So he's got no girlfriend, no wife, no kids, nothing. Rooster? Yeah. I guess not. Yeah. None of these guys have a girlfriend or a boyfriend? Doesn't seem like it. It's kind of weird. No. No personal lives anywhere. Nobody's dating anyone. But they're also taking place in a purgatory death dream. So maybe that's why. All right. Let's do this. The Mav goes down. Yeah. Rooster goes down. So let me ask you this. The crashes are at least a couple minutes apart, but they land close enough that Mav's able to run through the forest after, I guess, a concussion. Sure. Sprints through the forest, finds them right away. Yes. And guess what? They're right next to an airstripe. Airstripe. Where they also have the plane that Maverick flew. And they also have the one plane Maverick knows how to flow, which he flew with Roosters. There's just a lot of stuff that has to work out here. I've been thinking about this a lot since I first saw the movie. I guess this is also possibly an answer to a question. If the movie has Maverick dying, saving Rooster's life. It just ends? And it's like they escape. Maybe Hangman comes and saves them because the fighter pilots chase them out to the ocean.
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