Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
63:50 – 69:12… than when they brought The Rock on. Like long term, I think that might be the case. It was great. Perfect in every way in this movie. Love her. All right. Apex Mountain. Vin Diesel. I'm actually going to say yes. I think this was Vin Diesel's Apex Mountain. I think this is his best start to finish performance in a Fast movie. I think he's one of the biggest stars of the world at this point. He has a foyer to go toe to toe with. I enjoy his performance the most. And the movie, this was when it became a kajillion dollar franchise. So I'm going to say yes for him. What do you think? Yeah. I'm voting yes for …
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Bringing her back was a genius part. It might prove to be more powerful than when they brought The Rock on. Like long term, I think that might be the case. It was great. Perfect in every way in this movie. Love her. All right. Apex Mountain. Vin Diesel. I'm actually going to say yes. I think this was Vin Diesel's Apex Mountain. I think this is his best start to finish performance in a Fast movie. I think he's one of the biggest stars of the world at this point. He has a foyer to go toe to toe with. I enjoy his performance the most. And the movie, this was when it became a kajillion dollar franchise. So I'm going to say yes for him. What do you think? Yeah. I'm voting yes for you for all of those same reasons. This was the moment that you knew. Paul Walker, I'm not sure. Because you could argue the 2000 range when he hit pretty big with Fast 1. But then also, you know what? Fast 5. This had to have been. This is when he's, you know, this is the buddy cop movie for Crossed with Heist. And he just knows he's going to be in this for as long as he's alive. Which is unfortunately not that long. But I would say Fast 5 for him to say the best version of the best franchise he was ever in. The Rock. I think I'm not going with this one for his peak. Oh, no. You know what? I'm lying. Yeah, you're right. You're right. What about The Rock? No, not The Rock. Not The Rock. So what is The Rock's Apex Mountain? The Rock's Apex Mountain is right before he did Skyscraper and Rampage. Before those movies came out. That was the apex of The Rock. So mid-2000s. Yeah, we thought those movies were going to be good. We thought there's no way The Rock can make a bad movie. There's certainly no way The Rock can make a bad movie where he's fighting gigantic animal monsters. And he's trapped in a building. And he's doing like a bigger version of Die Hard. And they ended up not being that great. But the lead up to it, the lead up to that summer, that was when he was just everywhere and undeniable. So like 2016, he does Central Intelligence and Moana. He's got Fast 8 coming. And people are talking about how he should run for president. And he's got the biggest social media presence of any celebrity. Yeah, I would say that's bigger. How about Cocoa Butter? Would you say this was Apex Mountain for Cocoa Butter? Because he's got 10 pounds of it on his arms in this movie. Yeah, this is a good movie for Cocoa Butter. Is that what he puts on? Who knows? He just buttered up. I don't think Apex Mountain really for anybody else. I think that would be it. I wonder whose idea it was. Because this is a great pull by this person. This is maybe the second best idea behind pulling the bank vault. I wonder whose idea it was when they were filming this movie. They were like, you know what we should do? Fucking make the rock sweaty in every scene. Every scene, he's just sweat on his forehead. He's so intense. Yeah. And I don't know why he's sweating at night, but I guess go for it. It's because he was working out 24 hours a day. Okay. The Joey Pants Award goes to the guy who plays the billionaire drug dealer, Joaquin De La Meda. He's one of those guys. He's been in a lot of stuff. You don't really know where he's from, but he's been in a lot of stuff. He's a bad guy in Desperado. That's how I knew him. And I knew him. I was like, oh shit, Buccio's back. Yeah. I knew him from that. I knew him. He was in 24. He's a bad guy in 24 during when 24 was actually really good. One of those seasons. Great bad guy face. So we're bringing this category back just for this movie. Who would have been the best addition in this movie? Danny Trejo, Steve Buscemi, Michael K. Williams. I mean, I don't even think we need to really answer this, but I thought it's clearly Trejo should have been in this movie. I don't kind of don't know how he wasn't in this movie. It's upsetting. I disagree. I disagree. I think you need Danny Trejo. Danny Trejo is a little too gruff. A little too gruff for this movie. We need somebody slick. I think we need Michael K. Williams here. We need somebody who is like, he could have been the bad guy. He could have been a bad guy's henchman. Because like the main bad guy muscle that we see, the guy who's left standing in the street after the big shootout. Oh, I didn't love that guy. Yeah, that guy was kind of. No, no. I didn't love him. Replace him with Michael K. Williams. And now we've got some. Oh, so now it's like, it's basically Omar. Omar's in that role. Yeah, that'd be pretty good. Picky Nitz. So Jordana Brewster, she's pregnant in this movie. She's gained zero pounds. I always love in Hollywood when they gain, how long? The lady, of course, knows, just watches her eat for three minutes. How long? Does your husband know yet? And meanwhile, she's been pregnant three months and is in just perfect shape. I love when movies do that. Another Picky Nitz. When you call, when you're getting the team together, like if I call you and I'm like,
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