Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
40:59 – 43:48… and rad. Do you think I loved it? Well, the, I was going to talk about this later. The funniest thing with the Kareem thing is it's, we have this category apex mountain. It's literally his apex mountain. Cause they just won the 1980 title. He'd had the best game of his life and game five where he got hurt. He sprained his ankle. He came back, had this real game. Oh, so he's like at the top. Yeah. And he had just finished like this incredible 11 year run, uh, you know, top of the mountain. He's playing with magic. He's in LA, but nobody had a feel for him. And then when he did this, it like, I, I actually …
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uh, you know, master, uh, what, what do you think about what Kareem said back? Do you think his like have your old man, I've been hearing that shit ever since UCLA and rad. Do you think I loved it? Well, the, I was going to talk about this later. The funniest thing with the Kareem thing is it's, we have this category apex mountain. It's literally his apex mountain. Cause they just won the 1980 title. He'd had the best game of his life and game five where he got hurt. He sprained his ankle. He came back, had this real game. Oh, so he's like at the top. Yeah. And he had just finished like this incredible 11 year run, uh, you know, top of the mountain. He's playing with magic. He's in LA, but nobody had a feel for him. And then when he did this, it like, I, I actually think it really helped him from a public standpoint. People are like, Oh, Kareem's not an asshole. Oh, he has like a sense of humor about himself. Yeah. And also athletes weren't in movies. Like Bernard King was in fast break. Dr. J was in fish that save Pittsburgh, but they weren't in movies like this. Guys and slap shot. Right. No hockey guys in that. And then long, it was, it was just so unconventional. Like by, by the time, I guess it would be like retired people. Right. Like, right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Well, and then you go 35 years later, you did train wreck and LeBron. And is in it. Right. And at that time we're used to athletes doing shit like that. But with Kareem, we were not. Yeah. You said LeBron was good, like good, like a good actor though. He was really good. What I thought was funny about LeBron was that Judd, you know, he, he was pitching some kind of things. Like, I remember, Oh, what if, you know, you go, you guys go to a, it was like bigger kind of set piece stuff, like more comedy stuff. And, and, and LeBron was more into like, the idea that he was cheap. He thought was really funny. Like, and that was just the thing I was saying, like to him, like I had met somebody who was like really famous and like, like really rich. And I just had a dinner with them. And I was like, and dude, they like, we split the check. It was crazy. It's like one of the most richest people in the world. And we split the check. And LeBron was like, Oh, I should do that. Like that was like, he got really excited by that. And he was like, Oh, let's do that. You know, which I like, so I was like, Oh man, he's funny. He's got like a real comedy, you know, brain and, and he played it great, you know? Yeah. And then, and Judd was so delighted by that. He was like, Oh, he wants to do, Oh, that's so awesome. You know? So yeah, he was great. A couple more scenes. The, the, the play in the song for the sick little girl goes right into Ted story about living in Africa when they're teaching basketball, the soldier ends up killing himself. That all stretch. Yeah. My favorite part. We didn't talk about yet. Uh, the inflatable pilot getting blown.
76:23 – 79:16… the screenings nobody laughed so they took it out but they thought it was like the funniest thing ever sounds like they should put that back in um all right apex mountain uh which i wouldn't even bother to explain to you is that basically peak is this the peak of somebody's career robert hayes so he's on angie at the same time on abc yeah i'm gonna say yes julie hagerty it's probably the albert brooks movie right modern problems yeah lost in america and yeah yeah her losing all the money and lost in america lost in america yeah that's like she's so good in that movie the zuckers and abrahams as a as a combo …
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montage in the airport a very attractive woman was walking through the airport suddenly she turned and hawked a loogie on the wall and in the screenings nobody laughed so they took it out but they thought it was like the funniest thing ever sounds like they should put that back in um all right apex mountain uh which i wouldn't even bother to explain to you is that basically peak is this the peak of somebody's career robert hayes so he's on angie at the same time on abc yeah i'm gonna say yes julie hagerty it's probably the albert brooks movie right modern problems yeah lost in america and yeah yeah her losing all the money and lost in america lost in america yeah that's like she's so good in that movie the zuckers and abrahams as a as a combo probably naked gun just because now they had that police squad and airplane under their belt and i feel like i don't yeah i mean naked gun is pretty amazing but to me it's this one is the one that's like well when do you think they had their most juice to do whatever they want because that's kind of the category yeah i see but i mean airplane it's hard for me because for me airplane and naked gun are very it's like it's like the two yeah you're right it might be kind of like it's like i can't it's like i can't say one's better than the other but because they're both so special but i i definitely think this one i mean you do a movie that kind of like changes the thing like you know you look at comedy differently it's kind of hard to yeah that's fair how about how about uh spoof movies did we peak with this one was this the best one we've ever made i don't know it's pretty amazing i mean airplane's great naked gun's great um i mean i i really you know young frankenstein when i was a kid i thought that i mean i really love that movie um i'd vote for airplane steven stucker yes kareem we covered yes lorna patterson unfortunately yes um unexpected movie nudity in an 80s movie oh it's just a breast that come well i was almost thinking like this summer yeah we have the the uh all of a sudden we have bouncing breasts we have in caddyshack they sneak in a couple and then the shining yeah shining yeah caddyshack though it's like they actually tried to make it like like a real love scene with my like a raunchy sexy like an actual like it was like dissolves and then yeah everything but this was almost like okay here's a pair of tits because we're supposed we have to have a pair of tits in the movie it's so gratuitous and stupid yeah also what i like about that is like it comes across it makes no sense there's no sense for it to be in the movie and then it cuts those two guys sword fighting like two packages are sword fighting and it's just kind of like everything's crazy and for it's like
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