Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
62:21 – 68:37… the best 90s of this whole cast. He's in quite a bit of stuff. I mean, Few Good Men, LA Story. He's in Casino. So, I mean, he had a really great run there. Apex Mountain. Turkish Piss Streams? Yeah, definitely. Have you ever seen a better Turkish Piss Stream? Well, is he a Turk or is he Hungarian? He's Turkish. Yeah. Gabriel Byrne. No, I'm going to go Miller's Crossing for him. Apex Mountain. Also marrying Ellen Barkin. I'm going to hurt your feelings. Never been a fan. Of Gabriel Byrne. Yeah. I think it's the same guy in every movie. But that's a cool guy. Yeah, he's just... Dark and stormy Irish guy. It's …
The whole segment, as transcribed
Pollack might have had like... You can make an argument that aside from Spacey, Pollack has like the best 90s of this whole cast. He's in quite a bit of stuff. I mean, Few Good Men, LA Story. He's in Casino. So, I mean, he had a really great run there. Apex Mountain. Turkish Piss Streams? Yeah, definitely. Have you ever seen a better Turkish Piss Stream? Well, is he a Turk or is he Hungarian? He's Turkish. Yeah. Gabriel Byrne. No, I'm going to go Miller's Crossing for him. Apex Mountain. Also marrying Ellen Barkin. I'm going to hurt your feelings. Never been a fan. Of Gabriel Byrne. Yeah. I think it's the same guy in every movie. But that's a cool guy. Yeah, he's just... Dark and stormy Irish guy. It's like... You need that guy in every movie. Maybe try to act. Kevin Pollack. I'm going to say yes. Okay. I'm going to say yes for Pollack because he's... Few Good Men's in the Rearview Mirror. This was a huge hit. He's got... He's a regular on like the Letterman. Who else had talk shows back then? Conan. Like all those guys. They all loved him. I think... I think this was Apex Mountain. Steven Baldwin. Definitely. Yeah. What was he in? Threesome or Three of Hearts? Threesome. Threesome. Not a great movie. I have a couple more Apex Mountains. Oh, go ahead. Del Toro, no way. No. Palminteri, I'm going to say yes because he had so much juice at this point that was able to get the movie funded. So that's a yes. Yes. Yes. Spacey, no. Even though it's an unbelievable 95 for him. Peter Green, I'm going to say yes because this is Pulp Fiction 94, Usual Suspects 95. You would have thought like, what's this guy up to next? Yeah. Instead it went the other way. Turkish Crime Lords? I can't think of any bigger ones. I think this is the point where we were at our height of awareness of Turkish possible Princes of Darkness. So the guy in Taken 2, I can't remember if he was Hungarian or Turkish, but he's in the mix, I think. Yeah. I don't think he tops Kaiser though. I have one more Apex one, but did you have any that you wanted to hit? Limping? Is this the Apex Mountain? Is this the greatest limp ever filmed? Oh, wow. Yeah. Right? Good one. I like it. So limping and I would also, and I guess we've had this conversation earlier in the movie, but is this the best twist in movie history? Impossible to say. I would still say Chinatown just because that won every Oscar. Right. You know, I have one more Apex Mountain. You're going to like this one. Okay. The Baldwin Brothers. Okay. So lay it out for me. Alec is now like an A-list star, right? He leads now. He's already left Tom Clancy, right? He's already left. He did run for October in 92, right? Yeah. He's considered to be like, he's at least on like the Val Kilmer level as like a major star. It would have been conceivable for him to be in a Batman, whatever. Yeah. Billy Baldwin. Just killing it in the early nineties. Yeah. He's coming off sliver. Flatliners, backdraft. They were really like, they wanted, Hollywood wanted Billy Baldwin to happen. They gave him every shot. They tried really hard. He was the Jeff Green of, of nineties actors. People kept trading lottery picks for him. Just wasn't ever working. But the piece that couldn't come through was the Stephen Baldwin piece. Yeah. But then usual suspects happen. I'm going to say this was Apex Mountain for the Baldwin brothers. As a Troika. Yes. As a Troika. Yeah. Troika. Yeah. All right. I'm glad you agree. I would have been bummed if you didn't agree with me on that because I felt pretty strongly about it. Before we get to the rest of the categories, TikTok. Music makes everything better, which is why it's at the core of TikTok's culture. Each time you open the app, you learn something new. Whether it's a hot new song, new recipes, words of encouragement, or Chris Ryan's new Al Pacino account that he's going to launch after we finish this pod. You're bound to find useful bits of information everywhere you look. Do you want to do Pacino doing a TikTok read? I was on TikTok a half an hour ago. If you happen to hear a catchy new song or two while you're there, well, that's pretty great to discover more on TikTok. All right. Pickin' Nets. So Chaz convinces himself that Gabriel Byrne is Kaiser Soze, that Keaton is Kaiser Soze. This is where he lands. It's his obsession. Yeah. How do you explain the part where Kaiser Soze becomes a New York City police officer or police detective, whatever it is? This guy's a man on the force. It's not that he thinks he's Kaiser Soze. I think as much as he thinks everything is orchestrated by Dean Keaton and that Kaiser Soze would just be like a ghost story that Keaton tells or that allows to propagate. So Verbal tells this whole Turkish-Hungarian, this whole backstory, amazing things. You have all of these people who obviously aren't from here who are involved in this stuff, people dying all over the world. And idiot Chaz Palminteri, who doesn't realize Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze the whole time, doesn't think it's suspicious at all that this one cripple survived the boat explosion where literally everyone dies. So he doesn't have a mark on him. Yeah. And he's convinced that Keaton is somehow pulling all of this off. Right. A little bad job by him. Not quite as bad of a job maybe as Denver not calling a timeout up to game seven with the ball with eight seconds left or just trying to play to get fouled or whatever. Another pick and knit. The way Kaiser Soze is described. As Glenn Danzig. As a tall Glenn Danzig, yeah. Kevin Spacey just not cool like that.
Open the full episode on Spotify — it cannot start at the timestamp, so the segment above is the mp3.
A grade for each call is not built yet. The board's answer is shown; whether the pod landed on it is a separate judgement, and it is not made here.