Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
67:41 – 73:20… actually have VHS basketball games that he would watch as the makeup was happening. Number of dead bodies in this movie, 56. Oh, that's a lot. Light work. Apex Mountain, Michael Keaton. Can I do one more half-assed internet research? Yeah. When Peters, I think, or Goober took Burton to go meet Nicholson, they were doing something like in Aspen together. So they went to Aspen and they were going to go ride horses and Burton says, I don't ride horses. And Groober's like, you do today. So they went horseback riding with Nicholson to convince him that Burton was the right guy. Oh my God. Apex Mountain, Michael …
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for Nicholson to watch. This is pre-league pass. Yeah. So they'd actually have VHS basketball games that he would watch as the makeup was happening. Number of dead bodies in this movie, 56. Oh, that's a lot. Light work. Apex Mountain, Michael Keaton. Can I do one more half-assed internet research? Yeah. When Peters, I think, or Goober took Burton to go meet Nicholson, they were doing something like in Aspen together. So they went to Aspen and they were going to go ride horses and Burton says, I don't ride horses. And Groober's like, you do today. So they went horseback riding with Nicholson to convince him that Burton was the right guy. Oh my God. Apex Mountain, Michael Keaton. Hmm. Gotta be right. This is the, kind of the biggest movie of all time when it came out. Yeah. It's the, I don't know why I'm stuttering over this. Yeah. I'm going to say yes because the definition of Apex Mountain, which we, people still are confused by 226 movies later. It's the people who are confused by it. What did Damon Wayans say about it? Was he like, I love what you're doing with Apex Mountain. Beautiful stuff. He's confused. He was like, I was listening, I was listening to Proof of Life for the third time. Me and Helen Mirren were actually hanging out listening to it. I think yes because it's supposed to be when you had the most juice and the whole thing. Keaton gets enough juice from this that he makes Pacific Heights where he plays an evil tenant, a movie that makes no sense even as I'm describing it and they were able to make it because Michael Keaton was the evil tenant. So I'm going to say he had the most juice right there. That movie fucking rules though. I love that movie. You say the word CR. Say the word, add it to the schedule. Still not sure what they were doing in that apartment. Kim Basinger, you could argue yes. I mean, she's about to meet Alec Baldwin and have a high profile celebrity romance and this movie was a big deal and coming off a bunch of stuff. I don't know. You could also say LA Confidential. I feel like it's LA Confidential. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if she had like a ton of juice at that time necessarily, but she did win the Oscar. She didn't really work after that though. I mean, it's like, it was a long time after LA Confidential. She was like, played Eminem's mom in 8 Mile like five years later. Right. Nicholson, no. We don't have to figure out what his Apex Mountain was, but it's not this. Peters and Goober as a combo, I would say yes. So pretty soon after this, they take over Sony and it all falls apart, but they, partly because Batman had enough juice to kind of even do that in the first place. So I would say yes. Bob will, absolutely. Well, to be, to be confirmed during the Rearlis. I'll get, I'll get it. Maybe the Rearlis will be his Apex. What's Tim Burton's Apex Mountain, Sean? I think it's probably this, but he also, because I mean, he uses this to make Edward Tisserhands and then he uses Batman Returns to make Ed Wood and then, I would say it's Batman Returns because that's a better movie and he had more of a stranglehold on that movie, made the movie he wanted to make. I think that movie is really good. It is really good. It's tough to choose between the two because this movie set the iconography for so much, but two is, Returns is, because Returns has insane great performances across the board. There's no like weird, bad Jack Palance performance in the middle of the movie. It's like everybody is on the same page. Batman movies? No. Dark Knight. Dark Knight. Agree. Pick and Nits. We'll take one more break and then we'll do Pick and Nits. This message is brought to you by Apple Card, Shave Ice by the Beach, a trip to the State Fair, and a throwback flick at the local drive-in. 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This is comic book material. I thought, you know, who really cares? But it was a mistake. It went too far. I would say so. It's just bizarre that they don't pay this off. Yeah, because she sees him and then she's just like, I thought we had like a, we had chemistry, right? Is that the scene you're talking about where she, Alfred brings her in? She just kind of was like, oh yeah, you're Batman. Yeah. It's, it's so confusing. You didn't even really fully
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