Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
100:10 – 106:57… it. We'll figure out a different one. The Bill Simmons jug challenge. You just want to do the Bill Simmons jug challenge. That's where that was all going. Uh, Apex Mountain, Bruce Willis. No. Well, you could say that these couple of years are, but I don't know, man. I think there's a case. It's right here. Mountain. I think you'd make a case. It's right here. Okay. Okay. I mean, I want to hear the case. Well, so he's red hot as an actor. Yeah. Then it dies down. Then he has pulp in 94 and this in 95. And that leads to the 12 monkeys, Armageddon, fifth element, siege, six cents, whole nine yards. This is his …
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I already said how to do it. We'll figure out a different one. The Bill Simmons jug challenge. You just want to do the Bill Simmons jug challenge. That's where that was all going. Uh, Apex Mountain, Bruce Willis. No. Well, you could say that these couple of years are, but I don't know, man. I think there's a case. It's right here. Mountain. I think you'd make a case. It's right here. Okay. Okay. I mean, I want to hear the case. Well, so he's red hot as an actor. Yeah. Then it dies down. Then he has pulp in 94 and this in 95. And that leads to the 12 monkeys, Armageddon, fifth element, siege, six cents, whole nine yards. This is his run. I feel like he's kind of the number one call in 95 for anything with action or kind of cool, anything. Right. Like Hanks is like the, Hanks has the Hanks corner. Yeah. Um, I don't, I just think Bruce, this is it. Yeah. I think he has, I think if you're making a movie, it's like, can we get Hanks? Can we get Bruce? Can we get Cruz? Right. Those are the first three calls. That's what you mean. And then Denzel's probably fourth. Yeah. And when you talk about like culturally the Demi Moore. Yeah. Yeah. Also like Demi Moore, this is right around when she got the 20 million for strip tease. I think it was 12, but yeah. As a couple. Well, you just Lakers valuation. Yeah, exactly. As a couple, it's about as good as it gets. Yeah. He's a huge, huge star. Yeah. Sam Jackson. I don't think so, but I also couldn't tell you when it was. Maybe Jackie Brown. No, I think it's later. I think it's this, this area, this area doing pulp and die hard. I still feel like it's like, how long is this guy going to be up here? And then at some point that flipped. He's just done so many different types of movies. It would be difficult to pin down like when he was the most relevant and most at the peak of his powers because he maintained. It's somewhere in the nineties that we can agree on that, right? Maybe, but at some point he became like, Oh, Sam Jackson's just here now. And that's how it's going to be. Maybe, but you could then argue that it's Sam. Yeah. You know, could we, maybe when he gets star Wars, that's 99. Yeah. Yeah. It's right around there. Yeah. Yeah. Jeremy Irons probably went in the Oscar or marching call. How about Harlem as a movie location? Shit. No. What would you have? Harlem as a movie location. Yeah. In a movie. I mean, I said that so quickly and now what about Harlem nights? I mean, not very well liked movie, but I think it's had a culturally re-reckoning. No, I get, I know, but it was a bomb when it came out. So, so you got Harlem nights, you got the cotton club, you got hoodlum. These are all going to be black movies. You got, I don't know. I would just wouldn't think about Harlem as a movie location. Die hard with the vengeance being, it's only like in Harlem briefly. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't think. What about a movie set during the summer? Like summer movie. Action movies, maybe. Okay. That needed the summer. Yeah. As part of what they were doing. Crazy. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's fair. The wall street school system. Yeah, for sure. Apex mountain. Yeah. Never discussed before or since. Um, the gold reserve bond with teller a hundred percent for sure. A hundred percent. Maybe the first and last time it's been mentioned, mentioned in the film. Colleen camp. Who's your girl? The cigarette smoker, Sam, Sam, Phillips, Sam Phillips, all of them. Uh, cruiser Hanks for this. Oh, I got a couple of other apex miles. Go. Let's hear it. Die hearts equals. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. John McClane sidekicks. Yes. Yes. So this is easily bigger than Dale Johnson, bigger than Justin long. So who's the dude in, in two that helps him with the air traffic control. He barely has a, like a partner in that movie. Yeah. So John McClane sidekicks. This is definitely an apex mountain of John McClane sidekick. Cruz or Hanks? To me, easy Cruz. The running. Cruz is McClane. Yeah. I could also see Cruz as, as Simon. Oh, Oh, blonde. Oh, CR. Now we're talking fucking rock. CR. Can you do a German accent? Say OCR one more time. And then you got a problem. It's a gigantic boss. Um, all right. Bill Simmons, Jugs movie. Uh, uh, no, that's actually awesome. Yeah. So Cruz with the collateral hair. Yeah. It just goes blonde. Tries a German accent. Yeah. Like Valkyrie. He tries it for like 10 minutes and then he's like, I forget it. What thing would Cruz have learned how to do? Um, he probably, drive a dump truck, learn how to do all the construction stuff. He's like, we don't need Targo. I can, I can do all that. I've actually studied gold. What if you drop the racial component? Cruz is Zeus. It's Cruz and Hanks together. Why drop the racial component? Why not have Cruz running an electronic store in Harlem? Just be like, Hey, I'm the first gentrifier. Yeah. I'm the guy. Like everybody knows them. They love me here. Scorsese or Spielberg. I would say Scorsese. Yeah. Marty. New York city. What role would, uh, Phil Hoffman have played? Simon. Yeah. Good. Good. He'd also be good. The lead cop with a, with a, or you could have done maybe, uh, um, the Graham green part. Yeah. Oh, that would have been funny. Picking it's John. We mentioned, um, everything being open at seven 45. Yeah. Neighborhood is a little, a little dicey. Zeus leaves the store. Doesn't lock up. Nothing. Just leaves it open. Well, I mean, it's not like that. I think he tries to get back to, his store multiple times. Yeah. Never says at any point. We hear about Holly 45 times. We never hear Zeus stay over the next 15 hours. Shit. I left my store open. He's also a staple in the community. So maybe they're not going to run. Doesn't he think his store's getting destroyed though? Yeah. Oh, he said those guys are all, he does say that. Yeah. Because he does actually, he does say that because. I just feel like he'd be a little, it'd be on his mind a tiny bit more that his entire livelihood is about to. Because he stuck up for McLean and he says what those guys are doing to my store right now. Yeah. He does say that. How did Simon know that McLean wore the sign?
116:01 – 118:47… York City. Because you had the Rangers. You had the Knicks. You had the heyday of Mike and the Dog. And then you have Die Hard filming in New York. Probably Apex Mountain. Wait, you're skipping a very important question. What? How do Mike and the Dog react to this? Well, so that was my third thing. If this is really New York City, what is the next day Mike and the Dog? Well, so is it 1995 Mike and the Dog or 1994? I don't know. What is it? We have. Because they're filming this in 94. But I because the movie came out in May 95. We have to assume it happened in May 95. So the Knicks are in the playoffs. And I …
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And then the other thing I was thinking was 1994. Which was an amazing time in New York City. Because you had the Rangers. You had the Knicks. You had the heyday of Mike and the Dog. And then you have Die Hard filming in New York. Probably Apex Mountain. Wait, you're skipping a very important question. What? How do Mike and the Dog react to this? Well, so that was my third thing. If this is really New York City, what is the next day Mike and the Dog? Well, so is it 1995 Mike and the Dog or 1994? I don't know. What is it? We have. Because they're filming this in 94. But I because the movie came out in May 95. We have to assume it happened in May 95. So the Knicks are in the playoffs. And I think Dog's like, Mike, we got to talk about what's going on in New York City later. But first game three, Knicks paces. Let's talk about what is Huey got to do? Later on, we're going to talk about all the things blowing up, Mike. It was a huge day in New York. I just went to Bonwet last week. I went to Bonwet three weeks ago. It's a staple of the city. But driving through Central Park, Dog, it's just crazy. I just can't believe they did that. Yeah. Yeah. I think they get to it in the second hour. Take some calls. Yeah. Yeah. And then we got to talk Rangers, Mike. Yeah. What piece of memorabilia would you want or not want from this movie? I want her knife. The scythe. The little scythe that she has. That was good. I thought I wanted a gold bar, but it's going to be a fake gold bar. How much does one of those gold bars work? I'd want one of the bricks. It'd be like a game used diehard gold brick. Bricked up. Movie used. How much would one actual gold bar like that for real? So apparently they're 25 pounds. But how much is it worth? A 25 pound gold bar? Depends on the price of gold. Yeah. At any given moment. I know I understand financial shit, but what's the ball? Well, I don't know. It would depend on gold by the pounds. So what is it by the pound? If it's like $100 by the pound, then that's the price. So it's a brick. See? They always say buy gold. It's like gold never goes down. I can't figure this out. Okay. I'm going to do this. I'm sure somebody will email us. It's $108 by the gram today. By the gram? $3,300 by the ounce. By the ounce? $3,300 by the ounce? That's what it said. How many ounces in a pound? Fucking math. Gold price per ounce, $3,367 right now. So each brick was like over $100,000. Yeah. Look at you. Jokes. Coach Finstock Award for best life lesson.
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