Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
28:22 – 31:40… tells them that they have to wear the skirts and everything, but he's first of all, I love him personal favorite. What a run for him. He's coming up later in apex mountain. Oh my God. Incredible stretch from him. And the tryout scene is so crucial because it establishes that like all of these characters have some sort of awakening. Right. And he's just there saying to them, like all of these outmoded norms that everyone's going to have to abide by, but he's going to be the one advocating for the existence of the league by the end. And so you get all these great little establishments of all of the respective …
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And we, is this where we, we talk, uh, uh, for, um, just a moment or, or maybe it's better saved for, for later, but about, um, David Strathairn as Ira, because obviously he's the one who comes in and tells them that they have to wear the skirts and everything, but he's first of all, I love him personal favorite. What a run for him. He's coming up later in apex mountain. Oh my God. Incredible stretch from him. And the tryout scene is so crucial because it establishes that like all of these characters have some sort of awakening. Right. And he's just there saying to them, like all of these outmoded norms that everyone's going to have to abide by, but he's going to be the one advocating for the existence of the league by the end. And so you get all these great little establishments of all of the respective journeys. I just, I also just thought he looked incredible. I was going to do this later in apex mountain, but, uh, apex mountain for guys named Ira, or would you go somebody else? Oh boy. Has there been a better Ira in a movie? I'm incredibly fond of Ira from billions. I was going to throw when Harry met Sally, the next thing you know, you're singing, sir, you're the fringe on top in front of Ira. It's a great hour though. I also love David Strathairn. And he, he, eight men out. He's the pitcher, the conflicted pitcher. He's in the firm, which he absolutely crushes as Cruz's brother. He's got a nice friend. He was originally that guy and then became not of that guy. Yeah. Uh, next rewatchable. It's short, but the newsreel of the team. Yeah. Showing each one kind of showing the sexism at the time, but we get to meet all the players. It's really fun. And then ending with Marla from 75 feet away. Oh my God. What a player. It's so good. It's so mean, but so, it's just incredible. And the, the whole, the payoff of that after like the hooch recruitment and Ernie, like when she, she looks up for the first time, I mean, oh hooch. Great stuff. What an icon. Uh, then there's no crying in baseball scene. Are you crying? No. Are you crying? Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball. Why don't you leave her alone, Jimmy? Oh, you zip it, Doris. Rogers Hornsby was my manager and he called me a talking pile of pig shit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry? No. No. No. No. And you know why? No. Because there's no crying in baseball. There's no crying in baseball. No crying. What's the matter, Jimmy? What? She's crying, sir. I didn't mean to do that. Which is probably the most famous scene from this movie. Wow. You skipped a big one. Are you going in chronological order? What did I skip? Jimmy's, Jimmy's managerial debut. Managerial in air quotes. Oh, the, the, the minute long pee? Yeah. I had that in What's Sage the Best. Did you time it? It's 53 seconds, right? I had that, I had that in What's Sage the Best because it's short. The, um, another montage that with the Dottie does the split teams doing well montage. Penny Marshall owning the sports movie montage where Rosie says, think there's men that ain't seen your bosoms? They have that line. Yeah. We have, we have the, um, the, not, not a baseball player, but the black lady who picks up the ball and throws it.
71:35 – 78:02… from the book. What? Yeah. So, little credit stealing accusations. Any other, that's all I had for Half-Asses. I think you covered it. All right. We'll go to Apex Mountain. Boy. Okay. I'm excited to see what you have here. Gina Davis, Thelma Louise, Thelma Louise, then this. Back-to-back years. 91 and 92. What a fucking run. Apex, literally. Maybe of beauty, humanity, acting. You pick, pick a noun. She might have been the apex. Great job by Gina Davis. Amazing. Penny Marshall, I would say yes. She dined off this movie and big and really, never really hit these heights again. This is the most successful movie …
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but in reality she screwed another woman just the way the worst male directors do. That's from the book. What? Yeah. So, little credit stealing accusations. Any other, that's all I had for Half-Asses. I think you covered it. All right. We'll go to Apex Mountain. Boy. Okay. I'm excited to see what you have here. Gina Davis, Thelma Louise, Thelma Louise, then this. Back-to-back years. 91 and 92. What a fucking run. Apex, literally. Maybe of beauty, humanity, acting. You pick, pick a noun. She might have been the apex. Great job by Gina Davis. Amazing. Penny Marshall, I would say yes. She dined off this movie and big and really, never really hit these heights again. This is the most successful movie she made. Lori Petty, definitely. She even said like, I'm Kit. That's how people know me. Yeah. Cow milking. Seen a better cow milking scene in a movie? Oh boy. Wow. Witness? Mmm. A lot of good cow milking witness. I love witness, as you know. What's your, what are your top five, oh my God, I can't believe how in love I am with Harrison Ford movies? Witness is one? Witness is number one. I know that's like a, a slightly unconventional opinion and most people would say, you know, Han Solo or, or Indy. And obviously he looks fucking incredible in those roles too, but him, the, the, the singing Sam Cooke and drumming on the, the top of the car in Witness, that's like sex boiled down into one image. Oh my God. There you go. Incredible. Regarding Henry, probably finishing last. Woo. Long, uh, long movie piece. I think this, it's either this or Austin Powers in the finals. I don't know who wins. Austin Powers, it's kind of funnier. I don't know. Maybe Austin Powers is still the winner. Oh boy. That's a, that's a great one. You know, 53 seconds, I guess is a long time, but I actually was disappointed when I timed it, especially because they're talking about like, let's time it. How long should it be in the movie? You think it's going to be like two and a half minutes and then it's not. Doesn't wash his hands. Same puzzling hygiene that we talked about in Kramer versus Kramer. Very tough. That's what, when you do a long YouTube clip for the ringer about something, when you have Dylan Berkey making, it's going to be all the time somebody didn't wash their hands after they peed in a famous movie. It's like 19 minutes of non-hand washing. That's distressing. Madonna, no. John Lovitz, I'm going to say no because I still feel like when he was at his peak on SNL, that show was being watched by 15 million people and was pretty culturally big. Straight thorn, straight haired. I have no chance of saying this correctly. You could tell me it's pronounced nine different ways. Straight haired. I'm going with the firm. He got nominated for an Oscar for the firm, which was a year after this. He is just an incredibly robust IMDb. Great job. It's always a pleasure to see him in any sort of IP. TV, movies, play, pick it. Bill Pullman, no. Independence Day. Rosie O'Donnell. Probably not. I mean, she did have her own talk show and was pretty famous with the talk show. Hank Snow. Women's baseball. Women's sports movies. Women's sports movies. Yeah. Eh. Don't you think? Let me think about this. Love and Basketball is bigger than that. Love and Basketball is 2000, right? And I guess... This movie did way better budget box office wise. Early 2000s, though, is a strong... Like, there's a good amount in the early 2000s. No, you're right. Women's sports movies, yes. Yeah, I think so. Baseball movies, yes. What about sister movies? Apex Mountain. The answer is no, but I don't know what the answer is for the yes. Yeah, I don't think it can be. I don't think it can be, but I don't know what it is either. Sister movies. Somebody will have to tell us. All right. Let's take one more break and then we'll do Pick and Nits. This episode is brought to you by Sleep Doctor. 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I mean, maybe they got, they're like discovered time travel and heard CR's, you know, smoking hottest take episode and really just found some new perspective on life way ahead of schedule. Kit. They do say that they can't smoke in the league. Now that I think about it, like that is one of the- In the stands, you would be smoking. You'd be smoking on the bus. Come on. Kit gets traded before the playoffs. What kind of league is this? The regular season just ended. You can make trades. You can't even, what league can you make trades in? I would have loved some more details about the actual like workings of the league given how few teams there are. Other teams didn't have a pitcher? Why not show the semifinals win setting up the seven game series? Why don't we just skip over? Just give me the montage. We've already three montages. Guess what? I like seeing montages. I like seeing winning. Well, you know what you got instead? What? One of my favorites. A newspaper headline montage. Yeah. Fine. What was Kit's pitch count in the World Series? Oh, man. Yeah. I love any conversation about Kit's pitch count. And also, I want to know more about Kit's arsenal overall.
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