Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
75:17 – 78:03… Land. Oh boy. And then McConaughey and Nicky Cat, who was one of the two rapists slash got killed guys, both in Dazed and Confused. Yeah. I love Nicky Cat. Apex Mountain. What is it for McConaughey in your opinion? Is it winning the Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club and then heading toward the true detective Wolf of Wall Street kind of part of his career? I think that's true. I think it is. You know, the Magic Mike, Wolf of Wall Street. Hanging out with Lance Armstrong. True detective. Yep. Yep. Sam Jackson. It's not this, but we're kind of in the general vicinity of it. It's probably Jackie Brown. Yeah. Yeah, …
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in No Man's Land. Oh boy. And then McConaughey and Nicky Cat, who was one of the two rapists slash got killed guys, both in Dazed and Confused. Yeah. I love Nicky Cat. Apex Mountain. What is it for McConaughey in your opinion? Is it winning the Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club and then heading toward the true detective Wolf of Wall Street kind of part of his career? I think that's true. I think it is. You know, the Magic Mike, Wolf of Wall Street. Hanging out with Lance Armstrong. True detective. Yep. Yep. Sam Jackson. It's not this, but we're kind of in the general vicinity of it. It's probably Jackie Brown. Yeah. Yeah, it's. Jackie Brown's 97. It's a year later. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think it's probably. Great run by him. Yep. Grisham. I mean, he had. Around here. Like, think about this. 93 to 97? Yeah, he's got like five film adaptations and he's just. No, 96. When's Pelican Brief? Isn't that 96 too? That was earlier. That was like 90. I think that was the same year as The Firm. That was 93. 93, okay. Yeah, so he's got a good three years. Nice run here. This is him. This is him. Sandra Bullock. Not yet. No. Because what's after this? Honestly, she wins the Oscar for The Blind Side. That's quite an apex. That is testament to a great career. She wins the Oscar for a TV movie. From your mouth to my ears, Bill. Is that the first time that's ever happened? No. Come on. You know what? So many Oscar winning TV movies. Shockingly effective movie. Yeah, it works for some people. It just makes me mad. I'm aware. We've talked about it. We haven't done it in the rewatchables yet, but I'm going to make you do it with me when we do it. I love her. I've come to. She's also a testament to her too. I did not believe her. I didn't believe in her. She annoyed me. Yeah. All I saw when I saw her was what I said before is that Julia Roberts just said no. And Julia Roberts couldn't do everything. And there was so much for people. So many people wanted Julia Roberts to be doing things. And so that was a really great time of like you can't get into you can't get into this movie because all the tickets are sold out. Yeah. Go see this other movie. That was Sandra Bullock. She was she got all the Julia Roberts spillover. I'm speculating. I could be wrong. I don't know. At some point they flipped though. At some point. I wrote a thing I remember for I think it was for Grantland where I was I was talking about how crazy her career is because she made rom-coms like 20 years apart. I was like she's Nolan Ryan.
83:20 – 87:36… and they started dating she just she's really she's a special movie star we did a great job Sandra I hope you enjoyed it Ashley Judd I'm gonna say no on Apex Mountain I have to go Double Jeopardy no yeah Double Jeopardy I love Double Jeopardy yeah yeah I mean she's an interesting person do you think Double Jeopardy is a rewatchables movie oh 100% okay good it's got the blood boiling it's on the list anything with a with a plot that boils that makes you mad on behalf of the star I can watch that when they with the writer's strike when they're like we're worried about AI it's like you should be worried …
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but it was like that goes back to the Sandra Bullock thing she just found this normal dude who was a photographer and they started dating she just she's really she's a special movie star we did a great job Sandra I hope you enjoyed it Ashley Judd I'm gonna say no on Apex Mountain I have to go Double Jeopardy no yeah Double Jeopardy I love Double Jeopardy yeah yeah I mean she's an interesting person do you think Double Jeopardy is a rewatchables movie oh 100% okay good it's got the blood boiling it's on the list anything with a with a plot that boils that makes you mad on behalf of the star I can watch that when they with the writer's strike when they're like we're worried about AI it's like you should be worried because they can just take Double Jeopardy and have to spit into the AI engine and make that movie 20 different times right yeah a person betrayed by somebody rock bottom fights back now at the end they're gonna get their revenge on the person can I just say one thing before we go back to this AI because I'm with you the problem with this movie A Time to Kill is that my blood is never boiling on behalf of the Samuel L. Jackson character right it's not the plot that's making me mad it's the movie's inattention to his plight that is upsetting me that's a good call right it's just the movie doesn't know what it's actually about or what it's actually about is a problem for me maybe it does know it's about Matthew McConaughey and not Sam Jackson Apex Mountain for Nicky Cat villains would you go with this or Dazed and Confused when he beats the shit out of Adam Goldberg it's probably this what are you looking at you can't do better than than a redneck racist who only has five minutes of screen time yeah Apex Mountain for green early 1960s Porsches I'm still going Dylan McKay I mean that thing was in like five seasons 90210 I got some news for you though what I'm a Saab person yeah and you give me a Saab in a movie you like cars that just break down I was a Saab owner yeah for five six years so you knew all the Saab shops in the area I did after I kept breaking it down Derek on Atlantic Avenue fixed my Saab until I had to get it away Saab do they even make Saabs anymore no they don't yeah cause they kept fucking breaking down I don't think that's the reason they don't exist though they're terrible cars RIP my Saab SE9000 best racehorse name I don't have one from this movie I think it'd be weird to have a racehorse named after anything from this movie Picky Nitz Judge Noose Judge Noose is a good horse name isn't Judge Noose not winning the Belmont Stakes Judge Noose is good Picky Nitz I can't believe we didn't get to this yet so he's innocent wouldn't it be guilty by or how do we get innocent out of this because I don't understand it's funny I almost called a lawyer friend of mine on the way over here to just run you can't be innocent right I don't know what John Grisham would say about the jurors the sort of legal explanation for how this happens but as a testament to how satisfying it is that he does get off yeah you don't really think about it unless you're probably a lawyer right I didn't think about it until I read the Roger Ebert review and Ebert mentions it I'm like oh shit yeah that is weird it seems impossible yeah like as an adult watching this movie I'm like what is the defense here that just hey jury imagine just forget that this is a black person who did this yeah just imagine your white ass so basically saying the jury's basically saying you know what we're not gonna judge here he's innocent it's just it's such a weird it's so weird but also but you know morally I wrote in my notebook actually I wrote in all caps we need these movies we need these courtroom movies in part because they're the only they're one of the only ways to really understand who we are and how we are
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