Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
65:17 – 71:44… way to go Tolan said they premiered the movie on September 10th at Paramount the night of September 10th do it and then that was it the world changed next day Apex Mountain Keanu Reeves no Keanu's acting Apex Mountain has he ever done better than the funeral scene as an actor in one scene probably not in one scene probably not I don't think he has either but there's some performances there's some performances there that like he was pretty sound in but in one scene that's probably his best one of my hottest takes is that I like his performance in Devil's Advocate that's one of my hottest Keanu takes I think he …
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Jordan he's the guy way to go Tolan said they premiered the movie on September 10th at Paramount the night of September 10th do it and then that was it the world changed next day Apex Mountain Keanu Reeves no Keanu's acting Apex Mountain has he ever done better than the funeral scene as an actor in one scene probably not in one scene probably not I don't think he has either but there's some performances there's some performances there that like he was pretty sound in but in one scene that's probably his best one of my hottest takes is that I like his performance in Devil's Advocate that's one of my hottest Keanu takes I think he was good in that too I think he's good I think people that movie's so over the top I think some people are out on that movie that movie is a fucking like look go to the fucking watch the movies and have fun that movie is great I love that movie I like it as well how about the scene when they're on the on the roof of the giant building and Pacino's walking and it's like that weird he's the devil it seems like you could fall off either side that scene's fucked up man by the way for a 17 year old Van Lathan for a first date movie you can't beat it it's a great point that is the best first date movie it's got a little of everything you know it's like woo you know your blood's boiling when you leave there shout out shout out to Paulette I see you in that one shout out to Charlize Diane Lane no for Apex Mountain MBJ no John Hawks no D.B. Sweeney no Sammy Sosa yes movie wise no never gets better for Sammy Sosa 2001 he's still it's Bonds and Sosa and McGuire the world hasn't turned on him yet there's no steroid stuff with him yet and he's in Hardball and he's telling them I'm not coming out unless you give me an extra 5k now you know what they could do they could meet remake Hardball and Sammy Sosa could play the white guy he could play he like they could do remake Hardball with Sammy Sosa and the white dude that goes back to the inner city hood could be Sammy Sosa Sammy the ghost Sosa he could do it yeah I was gonna ask you this later for unanswerable questions but who gets the Sammy Sosa cameo now they do this movie in 2021 would it be Aaron Judge would it be Otani if you have to film it in Chicago is it Eli Jimenez no it's Tim Anderson I mean is he more famous than Eli Jimenez in Chicago he's I don't I don't know if he's more famous than Eli Jimenez but he's I think he's the player that those kids would probably most look up to yeah I don't think he would cost 50,000 I don't think so either Apex Mountain for ticket scalpers I don't think it ever got better now online's coming in a couple years later they're prominent in the future in movies they're scalping tickets in the movie is there a ticket scalping movie the only the only movie I could think that might be there remember Money Talks with Chris Tucker yeah he was a ticket scalper in that movie and that movie might have been a bigger hit than this one Apex Mountain for not obviously living Biggie Smalls but post-death Biggie Smalls this is when his library was kicking very true we haven't gotten to picking nits yet have we no it's coming okay yeah Apex Mountain for Biggie Smalls no for for the late Biggie Smalls for he he's already dead Biggie Smalls no because he died and then they put life after death out and then life after death was remember it can't be dead Biggie Smalls because dead Biggie Smalls had his own movie about him Notorious yeah that's fair okay Apex Mountain for Big Papa the song come on come on Bill 20 plus years in a movie on cable all over the place when when has this movie ever been played more or song okay speaking the case how about the Tim Floyd era yes boy I cannot boy shout out to Tim Floyd they put him in there they thought he was going to be good Tim Floyd from Iowa State uh yeah they never they never won 22 games with Tim Floyd and didn't he get another chance where did he go after that he was so bad I feel like he got another shot he got another shot at the at the head job if he did I don't remember it uh okay picking nets so there's a lot of chicanery with the amount of players on this team first we have eight and then three guys who were never addressed the eight originally are Andre Jamal Clarence Jefferson Miles couple others G Baby's in there at that point oh no he's not in there they bring in three more they bring in Ray Ray Kofi and G Baby couple kids disappear Jamal gets cut now we're down to ten somehow but then G Baby's still there right they only have ten uniforms initially right G Baby no uniform for G Baby one player on the bench G Baby hits but then after G Baby there's nine players and then in the trophy celebration at the end we're down to eight they just it's all over the place we never know how many players are on this team now they're picking nets Diane Lane the school teacher she's not single Van no that was mine she's never single for one moment of her life right I'm a smoking hot super nice high school Catholic I work with disadvantaged kids like right she's number she's number one overall draft pick she's Trevor Lawrence yeah she's not single for four days yeah got the same hair too so this is a good one takes the kids out to pizza the bill's $46 doesn't have the money offers the guys behind the counter loge tickets low level loge tickets for the upcoming Mavs-Bulls game again this is the Tim Floyd era right he's offering them tickets to go see
76:16 – 79:04… one can kick my ass better than I can and puts his head through a glass window shades of the fight club scene yeah with Ed Norton that would have been a good apex mountain was this the apex mountain for stars in movies abusing themselves in fights you know what's crazy it has to be obviously wait no it's fight club but it's fight club and then hardball is like 18 months later so this is the era of self injury is there another every time I think about that like who's kicked their ass the best and I know somebody is going to listen to this pod and they remember there's another one that's good too but I can never …
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I'm bringing back best quote just for because I like when Keanu says no one can kick my ass better than I can and puts his head through a glass window shades of the fight club scene yeah with Ed Norton that would have been a good apex mountain was this the apex mountain for stars in movies abusing themselves in fights you know what's crazy it has to be obviously wait no it's fight club but it's fight club and then hardball is like 18 months later so this is the era of self injury is there another every time I think about that like who's kicked their ass the best and I know somebody is going to listen to this pod and they remember there's another one that's good too but I can never remember it where God beat the shit out of himself well me myself and Irene has it me myself and Irene has it too but like there's another one too they don't do that anymore bring back beating up yourself in movies couldn't agree more probably unanswerable questions wouldn't it have been a way way bigger deal including camera crews outside the church that poor little nine year old G baby got killed in gang violence right after having the winning hit in a little league baseball game I feel like there's at least three camera crews outside the church for the funeral probably don't you think yeah yeah that's a story that's on the local news yeah of course of course in his baseball uniform man rest in peace G baby man god damn it G baby what uh what classes do you think Keanu taught at the Chicago high school the following year oh good question was there Degenerate Gambling 101 yeah how to smoke awkwardly at a bar odds uh well he was the PE guy he was the PE teacher how to wear a scraggly leather jacket for 25 scenes in a row probably taught the kids how to shoot dice you know that's because think about it oh Prez Beluski remember when Prez Beluski couldn't get the kids to pay attention and so he yeah he taught them odds with dice that's he he this movie has so many wire connections he was the original Prez Beluski in schools that was my next unanswerable question speaking of the wire is this movie like a third cousin of the wire a second cousin of the wire a half brother an uncle what what's the family relationship in your mind it is a second cousin through marriage okay fair and I tell you because the only reason why no cops great no police involvement at all last unanswerable question I of course had to look this up because this is what I do did that Bulls Heat game actually exist so I found two Bulls Heat games that both happened in March in 2001 and 2002 2002 they wouldn't have known because the film movie was already out so you have to target 2001
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