Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
76:58 – 82:25… were filming during this. He invited all of these people to his room and got $1,000 worth of pizza for everybody. Like, he just seemed like one of those guys. Apex Mountain. Steve Martin, I'm going to say no. I'm trying to think. It's not his Apex Mountain. It's not. We've already done this, and it wasn't this. Yeah, I don't think it's this. I'm trying to think what his Apex Mountain would be, though. It's tough because he was the biggest comedian in the entire world to the point that he had to stop doing comedy because people would just recite the lines before he said them. So you'd probably say late 70s for …
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And then there's just some good candy stories from this movie about how generous he was to everybody. Like, the Oscars, they were filming during this. He invited all of these people to his room and got $1,000 worth of pizza for everybody. Like, he just seemed like one of those guys. Apex Mountain. Steve Martin, I'm going to say no. I'm trying to think. It's not his Apex Mountain. It's not. We've already done this, and it wasn't this. Yeah, I don't think it's this. I'm trying to think what his Apex Mountain would be, though. It's tough because he was the biggest comedian in the entire world to the point that he had to stop doing comedy because people would just recite the lines before he said them. So you'd probably say late 70s for him when The Jerk came out. Interesting. But then there's a second career of Steve Martin that's from here. See, I'm not even as familiar with that. Yeah. He is the biggest comedian in the world. Yeah. Hosting SNL. He's the best SNL host. Candy, I'm going to say Uncle Buck. With that said, Stripes is an all-time iconic movie, and he's very important to that. I just wanted to mention that. But I do think it's Uncle Buck. I'm going to say that this movie is probably remembered more fondly and more importantly than Uncle Buck. The only problem is that Uncle Buck, he's the man in Uncle Buck. And so Uncle Buck is, in terms of Apex Mountain, that's got to be his Apex Mountain. I think it is too. Because that's him as a full... It's him carrying everything. It's him carrying everything. And it launches Macaulay Culkin, which then launches Home Alone. Which then launches Home Alone, yeah. Mid-80s Chicago movies, I'm going to still say Ferris Bueller. Mm-hmm. Road Trip movies. I got to say yes, bro. I know you disagree. I'm going to say Midnight Run. You're going to say Midnight Run. I'm going to say in general, this is the best Road Trip movie decade. They did it in the 90s. Well, remember the Galifianakis, and they did, what was it called? Due Date? Due Date. That's just this movie remade, though. And they were pretty blatant about admitting that. Yeah. Like, we love those movies, and they inspired this movie. It was like, nah, it's not. I mean, Tommy Boy is just this movie remade. I mean, they just did it again, you know? Road Trip, the movie, is one of my favorite Road Trip movies. I really liked Road Trip. Yeah. There was another one with Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon. Wait. Overnight Delivery, I think it's called. Is that the one where he kidnaps her? No, it's the one where he sends an angry, a videotape to his girlfriend, and they have to go and find it and get it back. They have to go and find it, yeah. That's a good one. There's not a lot of good Road Trip movies. There was Chase with Chrissy Swanson and Charlie Sheen. The Chase. The Chase. Where they have sex in the car going 100 miles an hour. That movie's ridiculous. What was the one where it was, no, it was Alicia Silverstone that got kidnapped. I feel like it was Benicio Del Toro in the movie or something like that. I don't know that one. You don't know? I'll look it up. That might have been in one of your weird cable channels that you're paying $9.99 a month for. Apex Mountain for the LaSalle Van Buren train stop. How do you not think of Martin and Candy if you're at that train stop? Yeah. And then Thanksgiving movies, like 100% yes. Yeah. I mean, what's the, we'll name another great Thanksgiving movie. We couldn't. Yeah. Best racehorse name. Braidwood. Braidwood is a good one. Picking Nits. Let's do it. In no particular order. Neil's willing to pay $75 to steal a cab from somebody else but won't get his own hotel room at the Braidwood Inn. Yeah. Do you have money or you don't? Yeah. You're throwing around $75 but you have to sleep in the same bed with John Candy? Excess baggage. Excess baggage. I remember that one. Yeah. I don't understand Neil's money situation in this. Isn't it the only, it's the only room available. There's only one room available. They only have one left. That's why he doubles up. Is that what it was? Did they explicitly say that? But hold on. Yeah, they did. But that doesn't, but that doesn't explain why he didn't want to pay. See what I'm saying? So like, there's only one room left. Remember, they go there and the guy- Neil does pay. Neil pays for everything in the whole movie. Oh, he does. Wait, wait. Okay, so I'm, so what I'm saying is, he doesn't, they don't know he's right. They don't know that there's only one room left because remember he says that and then the guy goes, one room left and Neil goes, share? It's like right after he goes, share? Yeah, Craig's right. I don't, I don't understand Neil's money situation in this movie. Yeah, a thousand bucks on him. Yeah. Eight hundred bucks, something like that. Just offer the Braidwood Inn guy an extra 50 to get your own room. They didn't have any more rooms. Oh, they had more rooms. Come on, Braidwood Inn. Stop it. I'm sorry, somebody's sleeping on the floor. Sorry, somebody's going to sleep on the floor. That bed was like a, we're going to, we're going to paper, rock, scissors. It wasn't even a queen. We're going to fucking, Yeah, we'll switch halfway through. Yeah, we're going to do something, somebody's sleeping on the floor. Somebody's going to sleep on the floor. I'm not, this is a nitpick that's also explained in the deleted scenes. Why didn't Neil notice how dirty the bathroom was when he got into the shower? Yeah. And it was because in the deleted scene, after he gets in the shower, John Candy just wreaks havoc and the whole thing. So I got one. Go ahead. I have more too. Oh, you do? No, but go. It's only about four hours, four and a half hours
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