Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
76:40 – 81:14… fucked up. Not sure he needed to ruin the car. Bill's going to remake this movie as Cameron's dad's day off. No, there's no day off. He doesn't have a car. Apex Mountain. Me and Sarah. Shut up, Sean. How about the Ferrari Corporation? Yeah, Ferrari. Really flexed it in the mid-'80s. Shermer High School, I feel like, yes. Chez Louis, absolutely. Broderick's a tough one, because I think you could argue yes, because he certainly, coming out of this movie, had the most options career-wise he's ever going to have. It's the biggest movie he's ever made. But he went on to do some really good things. War Game was a …
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I didn't turn on him. I just thought it was kind of fucked up that he ruined the car. It was a little bit fucked up. Not sure he needed to ruin the car. Bill's going to remake this movie as Cameron's dad's day off. No, there's no day off. He doesn't have a car. Apex Mountain. Me and Sarah. Shut up, Sean. How about the Ferrari Corporation? Yeah, Ferrari. Really flexed it in the mid-'80s. Shermer High School, I feel like, yes. Chez Louis, absolutely. Broderick's a tough one, because I think you could argue yes, because he certainly, coming out of this movie, had the most options career-wise he's ever going to have. It's the biggest movie he's ever made. But he went on to do some really good things. War Game was a big hit. I think what's strange about his career is I'm not sure he had an Apex Mountain. He had some definite peaks, but I don't know if there's one moment you can point to and say that was it. I don't even positive it was this. You could make a case for the producers on Broadway. Yeah, that's good. When that was happening, that was the biggest thing, honestly, in popular culture, which sounds stupid to say, because you could only see it in New York. But it was so massive, and it was 20, whatever, 20 years after this movie. But that was a huge, huge thing. It definitely was probably bigger than Book of Mormon and on the level of Hamilton for a year. Yeah, it was the Hamilton of its time, totally. No question. I agree with that. Yeah, so maybe that was it. Jennifer Greyhurst was Dirty Dancing. Chicago summer movies, you could make the case. I was going to say, is this Apex Mountain for Chicago in movies? It's very possible. It definitely uses the city the best. Yeah, there's like Blues Brothers, there's this. Apex. About last night. Yeah. Maybe if you're just going to 80s. I had a related Apex Mountain question. Do you guys think this is Apex Mountain for the all-in-one-day movie? Ooh. What are the other nominees? That's good. Is Dazed? Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, the Before Sunrise, Before Sunset movies. Do the Right Thing is on that list. Deep Throat. There's a gang. No. I don't know. It's just a great category of movie. Well, what about, what's the one that Chris loves? Johnny Depp in Vegas, Snake Eyes. Snake Eyes? And Snake Cage. Snake Eyes. That is all in one day. That'd be good. I would like to hear from the listeners what they think the all-in-one-day king is. But Ferris has got to be in the running. Pick a Knits. Man, I have a lot. So, I know the answer to this. Oh, you know what my favorite all-in-one-day movie is? I think is Inside Man. It extends a little bit past that. But that's a really great all-in-one-day movie. Good one. Pick a Knits. So, Cameron's not wearing a Blackhawks jersey. He's wearing a Red Wings jersey. And it bothered me for 30-plus years. John Hughes grew up first 12 years of his life in Michigan. Loved the local hockey team, the Red Wings. Decided Cameron would wear the Red Wings jersey. I struggle on this because I feel like, Cameron, it's kind of the thing you do. It's like your one rebellious move is to not like the local hockey team. It's like your friends are Blackhawk fans. They're like, I'm going to be a Lions fan. We all knew guys like that who were just like, I'm going to be a dick and zag when everybody else is zigging. But I also think, I don't know if he would have had the courage to become a Red Wings fan living in Illinois. Because he was just such an overthinking it pussy with all the stuff he was doing. It feels like he just would have had the Blackhawks, whoever their guy was. He would have had the Keith Magnussen jersey or whatever. I still don't know how I feel about it. What do you guys think? Hughes did it for a reason, right? Because he idolized Gordie Howe. So it was like a nod to Gordie Howe. But Hughes is a Blackhawks fan, which I always found to be kind of confusing that he idolized Gordie Howe. But he was a Blackhawks fan. So it was a Gordie Howe homage. It just made little sense with the Cameron character. I never got it. Just two things about that too. Also, hockey jerseys, they're not breathable. It's really hot. It's really hot. To wear a fucking Red Wings jersey all day long in 80 degree Chicago weather.
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