Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
81:42 – 86:20… that you know she has to be at LA Fitness every Saturday morning or anything but I think she could have kept with it she seems traumatized by the filming Apex Mountain Sonalathan I think you could say yes I bought like an incredible amount of stock for her and it led to some good roles for her and you know I don't know who got nominated do you think this was an Oscar potential performance by her oh Oscar potential I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give you the I'll give you the five nominees okay that'll help Julia Roberts wins for Aaron Brockovich Joan Allen nominated for the contender she's really good in …
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because if I worked that hard and I actually was getting I hope she thought that she was actually getting good at it right I would have wanted to I'm not saying that you know she has to be at LA Fitness every Saturday morning or anything but I think she could have kept with it she seems traumatized by the filming Apex Mountain Sonalathan I think you could say yes I bought like an incredible amount of stock for her and it led to some good roles for her and you know I don't know who got nominated do you think this was an Oscar potential performance by her oh Oscar potential I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give you the I'll give you the five nominees okay that'll help Julia Roberts wins for Aaron Brockovich Joan Allen nominated for the contender she's really good in that yeah I was like I love that movie Laura Linney you can count on me she's fantastic I actually think she should have won this year over Julia Roberts Alan Burstyn for Requiem of a Dream for a dream not an uplifting movie and then Julia Banesh for Chocolat so it was weirdly sometimes the the best actress category is sometimes just abominable like you can't even find five good this year was actually kind of loaded like Laura Linney I thought she'd won but Roberts that was her most famous role and Joan Allen's really good in the contenders so so I don't know I don't know if she should have been nominated or not it's tough did this have possibly been a screenplay one because this is an original screenplay if I'm not mistaken well it's hard to believe that that incredibly diverse 2000s Oscars committee didn't didn't really pay more attention basketball the 78 year old white guys yeah best original screenplay almost famous one you can count on me nominated gladiator gladiator Aaron Brockovich and Billy Elliot were the five Billy Elliot has not aged well okay couple couple more here Apex Mountain I say yes for her no for Omar Epps anyone else you have for Apex Mountain interesting that you said no for you know would you say yes for him make the case make the yes case for him yeah I would I mean I guess I'm also looking at his longevity and as I mentioned earlier I think the way that despite how I don't say despite like his career is like started off bad I don't mean it that way but I think he was he spent a while being kind of typecast a little bit and then he was able to kind of move out of that and just him being able to find like a rejuvenation and a resurgence on television and then even later in his career he was still he was still kind of seen as that rom-com guy because like Almost Christmas is a rom-com essentially it's a movie about family but it's you know it's a rom-com and Gabrielle Union is his romantic interest so when you think about the trajectory of his career I mean I'd say I'd say that he could put up a fight in this category personally okay yeah USC basketball no Barcelona professional women's basketball yes okay I agree with that one early WNBA seeming optimistic about the future league absolutely yes you watch this yes the WNBA it was the first I was always for the first four years like I was like why are they doing this like they're spending so much time capital promotional time trying to push this league this was the first time where I was like oh that's why they're doing this this she has nowhere to play it was like it was just a storyline I was not aware of until I saw this movie picking nits I have some good ones here all right this is tough I'm gonna I'm gonna ruin this movie slightly for you so she's a senior at Crenshaw in 1988 but the first time we meet her is 1981 it's seven years earlier because they say that when we meet her when she meets Quincy they're playing basketball so 1981 Quincy moves to her neighborhood and the dad is playing for the Clippers the Clippers don't get to LA until 1984 oh that's a good catch it's a good they're in San Diego now they do show San Diego Clipper stuff in his room so I don't know if he was making the commute from LA to San Diego every day did he have a jump off place as Jalen would call it in
93:25 – 96:11… somebody else and I was like oh that was kind of a good one big win for Dick Vitale I was gonna say Dick Vitale with the shout out you know he was a possible apex mountain candidate I should have brought him in this is the height of Dick Vitale when you just put him right into a sports movie it made sense could this be remade as a 10 episode Netflix show probably but don't my advice would be no keep this as is this movie's timeless well there has been this is something I asked Gina about is that a lot of people have tried to convince her to do like a sequel essentially yeah a part two which she has refused to …
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Vitale or whatever like when they have their argument outside of there he's like why don't you go be with Dick Vitale and he named somebody else and I was like oh that was kind of a good one big win for Dick Vitale I was gonna say Dick Vitale with the shout out you know he was a possible apex mountain candidate I should have brought him in this is the height of Dick Vitale when you just put him right into a sports movie it made sense could this be remade as a 10 episode Netflix show probably but don't my advice would be no keep this as is this movie's timeless well there has been this is something I asked Gina about is that a lot of people have tried to convince her to do like a sequel essentially yeah a part two which she has refused to do that maybe it could pick up with their kids or you know or I don't know if they I don't remember if they had a little boy a little girl it looked like a little boy so if they could pick it up from there she has refused and I'm glad that she has resisted that temptation it's perfect just the way that it is but here's the thing though I mean I don't know if you did it as a bit of a prequel like if you just focused on their high school years do you think it will work as a series no you just gave me an idea so if you were going to do this as 10 episode Netflix series you did in 2020 and it would just be their kid who's like a junior in high school right and that is true it's it's them as a couple he's right she did became maybe she became one of the WNBA's biggest stars maybe she's like on ESPN he's just kind of maybe his life hasn't turned out yeah I would watch the first episode if you're like oh they're doing this Gina's Gina wrote it um Sonny Lathan said she said originally I was this is 2015 originally I wasn't into the idea of a sequel but when I read the script um for Best Man for Best Man Holiday oh okay because she was out on that one and then the script and she was like okay this makes sense so she was like so for Love Basketball it always depends if it was a good script she didn't slam the door Omar said Gina and I actually spoke about this she has this you don't touch a classic thing I agree but it's tempting because what would this story look like now the best sequels are when they were in the original when you were searching for the sequel that's when it doesn't really work I agree with that couple unanswerable questions what do you think happened to Tanya Randall got pregnant Monica took her scholarship you think she played ball again or is just over started pumping ! Monica took her spot took first
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