Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
95:07 – 101:27… arts, including in jiu-jitsu and is a BJJ black belt. I don't even know what that means. Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Okay. Gracie family, all those guys. UFC. Yeah. Apex Mountain. Chess movies. I'm going to say yes. I say yes, yeah. Yes. Definitely Max the Kid. I love Fresh, but... Max the Kid. Joe Mantegna? No. Joey Zaza? Joey Zaza still. I honestly... If this movie had done better, I would say it's this, but it made... It made only half the money of the budget. You know, it's funny... Maybe it's belatedly this, but it's not in the moment. I don't... I think Godfather 3 was bigger for him. Because that was a huge …
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martial arts guy? Yeah. And won multiple world championship titles in Chinese martial arts, including in jiu-jitsu and is a BJJ black belt. I don't even know what that means. Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Okay. Gracie family, all those guys. UFC. Yeah. Apex Mountain. Chess movies. I'm going to say yes. I say yes, yeah. Yes. Definitely Max the Kid. I love Fresh, but... Max the Kid. Joe Mantegna? No. Joey Zaza? Joey Zaza still. I honestly... If this movie had done better, I would say it's this, but it made... It made only half the money of the budget. You know, it's funny... Maybe it's belatedly this, but it's not in the moment. I don't... I think Godfather 3 was bigger for him. Because that was a huge movie. It still made money. The thing is, the movie didn't make as big... a big enough impact. You know how you look at somebody else and you go, there's fucking Barzini. Yeah. There's fucking Tattalia. There's fucking whoever. Right. Joey Zaza's not quite to that level, but it probably would still be that movie over this. Got nominated for Best Oscar, for Best Picture Oscar. Yeah. Yeah, it probably is. Can I pitch y'all on an Apex Mountain? Yeah. Live action movies that came out this year, I think this might be the apex for this certain... We have The Sandlot, Cool Runnings, Hocus Pocus, and then the remake of Homeward Bound. And on the animated side, Batman, Mask of the Phantasm. Mm-hmm. Nightmare Before Christmas. Like, this is like... The whole 90s was a great year, but I was looking at like 92, 93, 94, 95. Like, Disney Renaissance is happening, and they're... Like, if you look at the Disney Plus live action movies they're making now, they do not look like Cool Runnings or Searching for Bobby Fishers. They don't... They're not even written that way. This is like the apex for a certain level of... We're not slumming it in children's movies. We're actually gonna try to tell... a very complex, nuanced story. Yeah. Which I... I think they kind of quit that shit by the 2000s. Well, partly because this movie only made 7 million bucks, right? They didn't... But it's... VHS... We're not factoring in like how much did this make on the VHS market? And the rewatchability. All that stuff. You're right. I mean, I was just out of college in 93, and I went to all these movies, and it was just an unbelievable movie here in general. And it's so different than it is now. It was just every week there was like two movies that came out. I'm like, I want to see that. I want to see that. Phil, come on. We get a new MCU Disney Plus show every week. Like, this is a pretty good era. Yeah, well, it shifted to TV. Miss Marvel? Apex Mountain for bringing out your queen early? Hell yeah. Well, it depends. That's a good, like, good little, like, I'm blanking on a way to say, I can't speak all of a sudden. Like, a little joke that you could say, like, if you're out at a bar. Bringing out your queen early? Yeah, I don't know. You say that in a long bar, you know. But it's just like, a euphemism. That's the word I was looking for. Euphemism. But it sounds like a euphemism that could be used to different things. Yeah, you bring out your queen early? Oh, you bring it out now? You bring it out now. Okay, cool. I don't know. Workshopping it. Your queen might get took. Bring it out too early. Uh-oh. Might take the queen. Got taken. I like that. Vin, what chess piece are you? That's a great question. I like when Bruce answers it for him. You're this one. Yeah. It's the king. See, the only reason why I would say I'm the king is because really the king is like, he's really kind of the most useless. I'm important, but yet useless at the same time. Moving one step at a time. Moving one step four directions. Everybody thinks you have more potential than you actually do. Come on. You need a lot of protection. Apex Mountain for Ben Kingsley, no. No. Apex Island for Joan Allen, no. She's in a movie, she finally peaked in a starring movie called The Contender that's excellent. Yeah. And I don't think it did as well as maybe it should have, but it's the kind of movie they don't make anymore. Yeah, it's Christian Slater, Jeff Bridges. Jeff Bridges is the president. Yeah, fucking shark. Really good president. Yeah. It's good. Great movie. Lawrence Fishburne. I think you could make a case between this and What's Love Got to Do With It same year. Really? Because he gets nominated for an Oscar. I think this might be there. A year for him? 93 Lawrence Fishburne. I think this is around where it is. It's two years after Boys in the Hood and now he's getting major parts. He's leading a movie. It seems like the sky's the limit. The only problem is the Morpheus problem. I feel like Morpheus is definitely the best. So you go Matrix. Just because it's literally one of the greatest films ever made. And he is like he literally is one of the greatest movies ever made. That's probably the first movie on the obituaries like Lawrence Fish Matrix. So wouldn't it be like Oscar nominee Lawrence Fishburne? It might be like Lawrence Fishburne The Matrix star. Like we're also forgetting and this sucks for Lawrence Fishburne like the red pill blue pill like when it's just he's so much his face means you think of that movie to me at least. It's fair. How about Evil Kids? I'm gonna say no. Nah. Any other Apex? We did chess movies right? Washington Square? Washington Square Park. This is my Apex movie with Washington Square Park. Is there another Washington Square Park movie that's bigger than this? There has to be. Like where it's like a main part or just walking by it? Just where it's like a main part of it. I mean Washington Square Park is in I Am Legend but like not very because he lives right there. When Harry Met Sally they like walk through it? It's true. When Harry Met Sally it's a big deal. It's a bigger character in this but all right. Pick a nits. Bruce, my wife hates you. Would you like to come to Chicago for the tournament? Right. Just not happening. Right. Once she kicks him out of the house Bruce isn't coming to Chicago? I had that question too. And they never piece it up. They never piece it up. Never has one more moment with her. Nah, you gotta piece it up at some point. By the way, that's like the second or third time she kicked his fucking ass. She kicked his ass in the diner and then ate a salad. Fuck you. Then she kicked him out of the house. Bruce is done. Bruce can't come. Should we bring Vinny from the park? Yeah, let's do it. We'll get him a plane ticket. What? Yeah. That was weird. They also, we needed a scene where they were like,
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