Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
69:13 – 80:15… with Apple Pay. Subject to credit approval, Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch. Terms and more at applecard.com. All right, Apex Mountain. The case for William Friedkin. French Connection, then The Exorcist. Can't imagine he had more power than this. Sean? It's indisputably his Apex Mountain. Yeah. He goes on to make a lot of other cool movies. I'm a huge sorcerer guy, personally. I know. Yeah, me as well. I just, like I said before, this movie made today's version of $2 billion. This movie was like Avengers Endgame. Like, it's a huge, huge, huge movie. You can't get more …
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when you use your Apple Card with Apple Pay. Apply for Apple Card now. Use in minutes with Apple Pay. Subject to credit approval, Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch. Terms and more at applecard.com. All right, Apex Mountain. The case for William Friedkin. French Connection, then The Exorcist. Can't imagine he had more power than this. Sean? It's indisputably his Apex Mountain. Yeah. He goes on to make a lot of other cool movies. I'm a huge sorcerer guy, personally. I know. Yeah, me as well. I just, like I said before, this movie made today's version of $2 billion. This movie was like Avengers Endgame. Like, it's a huge, huge, huge movie. You can't get more power than after this. Well, this is my favorite Apex Mountain we've ever had in Apex Mountain. We've done like 155 episodes. It doesn't get any better than this. Jason Miller, The Exorcist comes out in 1973. It's the same year that he wins the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for his play that championship season and then gets nominated for Best Supporting Actor a couple months later. So, he rips off a Pulitzer, a Tony Award, and a Best Supporting Actor nomination all in the span of eight months. incredible Apex Mountain. Maybe an all-timer. Loses Best Supporting Actor to John Hasman in the Paper Chase, which, I mean, the Paper Chase was a thing. Like, the movie did well and they turned it into a TV show, which was one of the first artsy-fartsy TV shows, really. And people liked it, so, I'm not 100% against it, but tough. Washington DC movies. So, there's this, there's Presidents Men. Like, two years later. We're in some sort of, and then you have the Parallax View and you have, I don't know, we're in a nice little Washington DC run right here. Hmm. I like a few good men for some of its DC stuff. Hmm. This is, it's this or Presidents, though. All right. Gosh, this is a tough one. Max Van Saito? Saito or Cito? Cito. Max Van Saito, yeah. Is this his Apex Mountain? I don't think it is. Analyze someone. I mean, he was in the Seventh Seal, you know, like this guy was, he's been in like the most, some of the most important films in the history of world cinema. When Max Van Saito came out of Seventh Seal, all his fucking parties were just priests and astronauts. Like, you couldn't get into a Max Van Saito party. Yeah. He was in the Virgin Spring, you know, he was, he played Jesus Christ. Like, he's done it all. Linda Blair, yes. Chris feeling awkward about talking about all of Linda Blair's ex-boyfriend, yes. Why do you think I was feeling more awkward than Sean? I feel good about it. Georgetown, I'm going to say no. I still think the 85 title, 84 title, whatever year they won with Ewing, John Thompson. I'm going to give that because that was the same year St. Elmo's Fire came out. It was just great run. Great Georgetown run. That Iverson season too, tremendous stuff. Ellen Burstyn. Yeah, I mean, I guess Alice doesn't live here anymore. This is so much bigger than that though, right? Yeah. Yeah. You could argue that Alice is because she's exorcist, then that, and now she's established as an A-plus-less actress there for a couple years. her role is Barb Weaver in Draft Day? I got to say, I saw her in a movie that's coming out this year called Pieces of a Woman a couple of weeks ago. Still crushing it. I mean, she's been acting in movies for 50 years. She's still great. Yeah, she feels like long-term, she market-corrected Faye Dunaway. It took a while. Faye Dunaway was killing her in the 70s, but it circled back and last 15 years, I feel like she's taken Faye Dunaway to school. Apex Mountain, Split Piece Soup, Yes. Yeah. Great call. I was thinking maybe Dave Jacoby doing an entire podcast on Split Piece Soup once, but I don't know. Speaking English in reverse, it's either this or what was the Led Zeppelin song that people played backwards and claimed they could hear stuff in? It's the Beatles songs, right? Or Beatles song was one of those songs. Paul is Dead. Pazuzu the Demon. I mean, where else do you think, what are some of the other Pazuzu's great moments? I feel a little like him, Pazuzu and Linda Blair. I feel like they peaked in this movie and just never were able to, Pazuzu's such a scary name. I'm talking about Pazuzu's dating history. Why don't you turn about his fair play? Who did Pazuzu date? I couldn't find that research. Pazuzu dated Morris Day and the Times bass player. I think it's reasonable to assume that Rick James also had a fling with Pazuzu based on it having a Rick James. Yeah, I think that was a fling with cocaine. Pazuzu feels like untapped Hollywood territory, right? Because it's a scary name. As I've gone through the document, I've deleted Pazuzu after I talked about it because I didn't even want it on my iPad. There's something just scary about Pazuzu, the two Zs, the way it looks in print and it feels like Conjuring 4, Pazuzu, would just be a movie that would instantly scare me, knowing nothing. Do you guys know, we haven't remarked upon what Pazuzu looks like. Do you know how this demon is represented? It's like half animal, half human, right? Like different parts all screwed up. The body of a man, the head of a lion or a dog, the talons of an eagle, two pairs of wings, a scorpion's tail, and a serpentine penis. I don't even like talking about this. Pazuzu freaks me out. That's fucked up. Pazuzu's ability to go from Iraq to Washington, D.C. is just so underrated. I know. The Bo Jackson of his time. Jesus. Yeah. What did he fly on the Concord? How did he get there? That was a long walk. So you guys, I mean, like, does she just conjure him from the Ouija board? This is a good unanswerable question. I had that in unanswerable questions why Pazuzu became so interested. I assume maybe he was hanging out in that house because they're renting it. They show up. I think Blatty and the filmmakers say that he was targeting Karis. that this was a way to draw Karis who is having a crisis of faith. This was a way to draw him out and to show people that God is weak, right? That if you can reveal that like a priest loses his faith in the face of evil, that the devil is more powerful. Hmm. Picking nets. The Christians got upset about Karis getting possessed briefly at the end of the movie because they said no demon or the devil can dwell where the Holy Spirit is, aka God. So, in this case, if the priest is a saved child of God and he had the Holy Spirit within him and in him, how does Pazuzu get in there? They're basically like, that door's locked. Pazuzu's not getting in. So, they were upset about that. Yeah, with all due respect, we have a lot of evidence that priests are fallible. Yeah. Well, this is, as I forgot to mention earlier, it's priest month here in the rewatchables. I don't know what we do next. Doubt? What are we doing in the Doubt rewatchables? That is a one, one time watchable and that's it. Another picking nets. So, Reagan, the makeup and she's got crucifix scars on her face, all that stuff and then the, the Pazuzu finally goes wherever he goes. Looks totally fine. Just a couple, a couple small marks when she's saying goodbye at the end when they're leaving. It felt like, why wouldn't she have been disfigured? I couldn't figure that part out. I think, well, I don't know how long, how much time is supposed to have passed, but I think that the whole thing with possession is that like, once you get rid of the demon, like, you know. You just spring back to normal. Yeah. Yeah. Good to know. Could Reagan have been charged with murder? Yes. But I think that, that, that, uh, the detective is like, this is one that we're going to let go because it's about a bigger fight than the one we have here. But that would have been a good apex mountain. Detectives letting obvious murders go between this and Death Wish 1 where the guy's like, cool, hey, how about you just move and we'll call, we'll call this a wash for the 11 people you murdered. it's because Burke was such an asshole that no one was seeking justice for him. You know, like, if, if Burke had more friends and picked fewer fights at parties, perhaps someone would come to his aid and try to get Reagan locked up. Well, in the book, I think it's more than insinuated that he, there might've been some molesting stuff with Burke and Reagan and apparently they hint at it in the movie, but I, I didn't really catch it. it's like, what's he doing in her room? Right. So Burke's, Burke's getting what's, what's coming to him. Um, any other nitpicks for you guys? Yeah, I'm kind of curious. What, what's the deal? Does Sharon have like a binding contract? Like what, at what point as a babysitter are you kind of like, this is above and beyond my, my pay grade where we're gonna have to renegotiate terms if I have to babysit Pazuzu and make sure that Pazuzu is properly bound to a, a bed. And cause, cause Chris McNeil is still like going out while her daughter is either possessed or very ill. Chris McNeil is like, oh, I was still, I guess she's still shooting Crash Course or whatever the movie is that they make within the film. But I was just like, I was always like, is Sharon related to them somehow? Because it really goes pretty far with like, if I was Sharon, I probably would be looking for a different house to, to, to live in. Yeah. Chris is late to the set one day. Sorry, my daughter's possessed by an evil spirit and, uh, she was just wreaking havoc in her bedroom. So sorry, sorry, I'm late everybody. Uh, could we speed up the filming? I gotta get back cause again, my daughter's possessed by an evil spirit. I'm pretty sure I would like cancel the movie at that point. What, um, what happened to Crash Course? Did, did that movie open big? Did they ever finish the production of that movie? Burt got thrown out of a fucking window. Yeah. I mean, the star of the film's daughter killed the director. So I don't know. That would have been a good unanswerable question. I didn't even think of that. It, I, I'm not even sure if Crash Course seemed like a good movie. Like that, the, the big parade scene where they're all protesting just seemed like a bad movie. Agree. Not a movie that would work. Um, all right. Best quote. I mean, obviously your mother sucks cocks in hell is just the best. Your mother sucks cocks in hell,
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