Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
34:11 – 36:59… Yeah. It's like, so they're going to make a movie? What, do they think they're cool? You think you're better than me? I don't want to jump in, but this is Apex Mountain for Bunker Hill. I mean, it's been all downhill since. And no offense to any alums, but when your boy fucked up his first semester at UVM, and then I got a three and a half hour speech on the ride back up after fall semester by my father, we drove by Bunker Hill on 93. And he's like, we could just stop here and drop you off. And so I've never thought of Bunker Hill in my life without that moment of like, it's a lot cheaper. Yeah. If this is …
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So he's making the movie. He's from here. Yeah. And his hat's on backwards. And somebody's like, yeah, exactly. I mean, it's the same thing as people hearing about them writing this amazing screenplay. Yeah. It's like, so they're going to make a movie? What, do they think they're cool? You think you're better than me? I don't want to jump in, but this is Apex Mountain for Bunker Hill. I mean, it's been all downhill since. And no offense to any alums, but when your boy fucked up his first semester at UVM, and then I got a three and a half hour speech on the ride back up after fall semester by my father, we drove by Bunker Hill on 93. And he's like, we could just stop here and drop you off. And so I've never thought of Bunker Hill in my life without that moment of like, it's a lot cheaper. Yeah. If this is the effort you're going to put in, I don't have to drive three and a half hours, three and a half hours back. He's like, we can find you, you know, a place in Somerville. It's going to be cheaper. And we can just wrap this up. If that's, I was like, all right, look, can we just, let's just get back to Vermont. I'll try harder. And so every time I would drive past Bunker Hill, I'm like, there's a Rosillo path there. Could have gone different. It's on my son's list for two years from now. Can you get in-state? The 99's right there. I mean, it's, yeah, 99. $10 chicken parmesan in 1998. It was great. We're going to do the categories. Most rewatchable scene. The playground fight scene. Got some notes. Hey, come on. Remember me? Really good slow motion battle. We got a little Baker Street from Jerry Rafferty. What about the music choice for the fight scene? Yes or no? I'm still confused. I think that was, he was zagging. We couldn't throw a little Ed O. G. or Tim Dogg in there when they're fighting. Like, I just didn't get that. Yeah. Not the berry, but the fruit, y'all. Yeah. Next rewatchable scene. No one got that Roxbury reference. Over. The Harvard Bar scene at the bow and arrow. Here's what I wrote in my notes. Ponytail guy comes in talking market economy in the southern colonies. And then in all caps, Rusillo's dream encounter in 1997. Yeah, I don't know what, I'd be like, you think Shea Hillenbrand has become more patient because he takes the first pitch now, which everyone in the league knows that he's going to do, which actually counteracts his patience because he's the most predictable at bat in fucking Major League Baseball? That would happen. It wouldn't be markets. It wouldn't be capitalism. Yeah.
85:24 – 92:41… relationship. It was Rocky. Yeah. Imagine hitting on her post-Lars and Matt Damon. Right. And just being a regular guy. Like, who does your auto insurance? Apex Mountain. Um, CR, you want to tell the audience what Apex Mountain is? Uh, sure. It is the best something has ever been in a movie. Let's say that. Or in real life. That's not what it is. We still... 375 movies. It's when something had the most juice in its career it ever would have had. Why don't we call it Juice Mountain? That's disgusting. Yeah, that sounds terrible. So, Damon and Affleck, no. Would you go Red Line Trolleys? Has it ever been used …
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I did spend quite a lot of time on metal websites today from 2000, like 1998 to 2000, trying to track that relationship. It was Rocky. Yeah. Imagine hitting on her post-Lars and Matt Damon. Right. And just being a regular guy. Like, who does your auto insurance? Apex Mountain. Um, CR, you want to tell the audience what Apex Mountain is? Uh, sure. It is the best something has ever been in a movie. Let's say that. Or in real life. That's not what it is. We still... 375 movies. It's when something had the most juice in its career it ever would have had. Why don't we call it Juice Mountain? That's disgusting. Yeah, that sounds terrible. So, Damon and Affleck, no. Would you go Red Line Trolleys? Has it ever been used better in a movie? Bucker Hill's my answer for like four of the categories. Bucker Hill? It's also like a haunting image, so... Would you go with Gus for this one? I have Gus Vinson. Okay. Apex Mountain. Apex Mountain. Apex Mountain. Apex Mountain? Math? Math? This or Pi? Or Beautiful Mind. Beautiful Mind. Yeah. Well... Is that math or is that yarn? Apex Mountain for the history of math? Like not the theory of relativity? Yeah, all math. No, we're not including real formulas. I'm just talking about math and a movie. Which aren't erotic, as we know. Math and a movie. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like we haven't really done it. He's apparently the smartest math person in the world. Oh, we have this coming up in Picking Nits. All right. Yeah. We have some nits. No one had found out prior to this? Nah. Okay. No special... He never advanced in a class. Nothing. Nobody noticed. Mini Driver? I think so. Yes. Oscar nominated. Yeah. Let me just offer up Gross Point Blank. I mean, she's dynamite. As a part of the conversation. I'm not... She's amazing, but not as much Juice Mountain. By the way, again, maybe Apex for accents, not just because the boss is part of it. But in this one, we get... She's from London, right? Yeah. But she... Again, we've lost... I mean, I don't want to get into immigration right now, but... We've lost so many roles to the English. Right. It's true. I thought we sorted it out in the backyard over here a couple hundred years ago. But... Right over there. Yeah. She, uh... She's from London, so I didn't know that at first. I was like, God, she's nailing that. Makes sense. But then she gives us a little Irish, right? Yeah. She gives us a little Russian and a James Bond deal. Yeah. And then, even in Gross Point Blank, she throws a few Jamaican phrases at you. So, you know, five tool. Her Juice Mountain's right around here. Juice Mountain sounds like it would be opening on Newberry Street. Don't make fun of me, because I am just trying to explain it. Juice. Yeah. I like Juice Mountain. Juice Mountain closed. Please stop saying Juice Mountain. Please. Um... Stellan Skarsgård? He's played a lot of stuff. Andor. Yes. What about Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves? Ronan. Ronan. Oh, yeah. Ronan. Yeah. Dune Part 2? I like that. Dune Part 2 is great. Hey, what would you say for Miramax for Apex Bond? Is it probably next year's Shakespeare's on? We don't. Let's not. I don't... No, for when they had the most power in the movie. Shakespeare in Love. They weren't Shakespeare in Love. They weren't Best Picture. Don't get all pissy with me. Well, I just... We've already done a lot of Harvey, I feel like, on this pod. I'm just saying that Shakespeare in Love is probably the most juice they have. They beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture. How about Howard Zinn? Yeah. Isn't Shalami's character in Lady Bird reading A People's History of the United States on a car? Oh, yeah. Yeah, which I think would be maybe higher. Cheap tracksuits? No. Pretty good. Okay. Sopranos. The Mass Pike. We get the Mass Pike, the entire end credits, with Elliot Smith for like four minutes. Now, it's the two-lane part, but... Yeah, but what was that shot? Like, was that the hardest shot in the entire movie? And then somebody was like, yeah, we're going to do it in the part where everybody leaves. Right. Yeah, was it like a helicopter flying low? What was that? I don't... Yeah. It was probably a truck driving behind him, right? And they're like... Maybe, but I mean, if you think about the budget for this film and how simple most of it was to shoot, I had to think somebody would be like, why are we actually making the most difficult shot of the entire movie on something that no one is going to watch? My last question is for the audience. Would you go Boston Common, Apex Mountain for a movie, or would you go... I call it the Common. I call it the Common. Did somebody just try to correct you? Well, they know what I mean. But would you say the Common... Hey, guys, that's the end of the show. Thanks for coming out. Thank you, Philadelphia. But would you say, or would you go something else? I think the TV show Boston Common is Apex Boston Common, which I still can't believe wasn't picked up. Cruz or Hanks? Cruz. Cruz. In what part? I think Hanks would have done a good McGuire, but I think young Cruz would be a perfect... Cruz, I'm sure Cruz was kicking himself. He's like, I've never thought to be a janitor who's also a genius. Where do I run? Am I fast? Yeah, they would have put a... He would have run home from Cambridge. Rather than he's closed. Because I think it's really funny they went with a choice where Damon's still putting his clothes on, on the green in Harvard. Yeah. Like his shirt is off. Yeah. Couldn't put his fucking boots on. He was in such a hurry. Like, I get the walk of shame. It's like, dude, lace him up first. I know. And I know you look pretty good with your shirt off. It's a violation. Cruz would have been running. I think Hank... I think young Hanks could have pulled off Chucky, potentially. But I think it's Cruz. All right. The Sean Fennessey Award for a stealth homage that gives every movie nerd a criteria orgasm. What do you got, Sean? I have two runners up. The first one is the job interview that Will sends Chucky on is for a company called Holden and McNeil, which is the name of the character that Ben Affleck plays, Holden McNeil in Chasing Amy, which was released in the same year. I got some applause. Thank you. The crowd's back on Sean. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. The how do you like them apples line is actually a very subtle homage to the phrase that Jake Giddey says in Chinatown when he says that after a joke. Yeah. And then the best one is when Morgan says, I swallowed a bug in the Harvard bar scene. It's a reference to something that happens in Hearts of Darkness, the documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now, where during a scene, Francis Ford Coppola is shooting Marlon Brando and he has to stop because he swallows a bug while he's performing and says to Francis Ford Coppola, I swallowed a bug.
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