Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
65:22 – 69:22… it makes it very soggy. Particularly the coconut soaks up a lot of that stuff. So you really, it's important to keep it on the side. Right. It had to be... Apex Mountain. I think... Billy Crystal? I was going to go Rob Reiner. City Slickers next year. I don't know. I don't think so with Billy Crystal. I think it launches him to a next level. I think City Slickers in the Oscars, he's at a higher level. I agree. Meg Ryan, definitely not. No. Meg Ryan for how I felt like she ruled the 90s. Man, she has a lot of bad movies in there. A lot of flame-outs. Batting average is a lot lower than I remembered. You've …
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A huge coconut cake with the tears and there was this very rich chocolate sauce on the side. Right. Because not everybody likes it on the cake because it makes it very soggy. Particularly the coconut soaks up a lot of that stuff. So you really, it's important to keep it on the side. Right. It had to be... Apex Mountain. I think... Billy Crystal? I was going to go Rob Reiner. City Slickers next year. I don't know. I don't think so with Billy Crystal. I think it launches him to a next level. I think City Slickers in the Oscars, he's at a higher level. I agree. Meg Ryan, definitely not. No. Meg Ryan for how I felt like she ruled the 90s. Man, she has a lot of bad movies in there. A lot of flame-outs. Batting average is a lot lower than I remembered. You've got mail as sort of like a bailout for her. It's basically four movies. I don't know, five if you like IQ? Mm-hmm. I do like IQ. I was going to say, please count IQ. Okay. So if you count IQ, five? I forgot that she voiced Anastasia. Yeah. Yeah. So you have to count that as well. You know where I stand on Proof of Life, so I count that. Sure. We all know where you stand on that one. There's a rewatchable as on Proof of Life in case you're listening right now. Rob Reiner? I'm going to go yes on Rob Reiner. I mean, he's got so many hits though, but like- I'm going to go no and here's why. Okay. Because two years later, he has Misery and Seinfeld Castle Rock blowing up. Right. Right. So it's at another level. I accept that. Nobody, I couldn't think of anybody else. Unless you want to have the, was this New York's Apex Mountain? I can't rule it out. 1989? As I told you yesterday, Bill, this movie makes me wish I was born 30 years earlier, specifically to live in this version of New York, specifically. Because you could say early 90s Seinfeld, New York, or Friends, Central Perk. No, definitely not. I guess maybe New York as a pop culture location. I would still go 70s. I enjoy 70s New York the most. Yeah, I think you have to do 70s. There's something to me about the gritty 80s with like, just like kind of right before they start like tamping down on the crime. That is just really like appealing to me in a sick way. The Joey Pants Award for the best that guy in this movie. I think it's Bruno Kirby, right? Yeah. You know, I didn't want to admit it to myself. And it is. I mean, he played young Clemenza in Godfather 2. And he played this character, which is another iconic character. But I think people 30 years later just know him as the dude who is Billy Crystal's friend in this movie. Yeah. And probably don't even know what his name is. Yeah. I think that's right. He's gone. He died. Carrie Fisher died. Nora Ephron died. Yeah. Somebody else died. Four people died from this movie. The Saul Rubinick They Knew Overacting Award. Is there any overacting in this movie? I mean, are you going to nominate Meg Ryan for this? For the last scene? You're making a look at a face right now. And I know what that face is. No, it's not that scene. But I am going to nominate Meg Ryan. Okay. There we go. I can't believe it. She's really, the whole, I know Juliet loves it, but when she finds out Joe's engaged and invites Harry's over and the crying. She's really floppy. And I'm sitting on the phone thinking, I'm over him. I really am over him. I can't believe I was ever remotely interested in any of this. And then he said, I have some news. She's really weird. That's a weird performance. That seems too long. The bathrobe is a problem. I just feel like that's a lot of it. Dropping the Kleenex. Yeah. She's messy in that. But like, is that her fault? No, I just don't like the performance. I think it's kind of over the top. I would have had her do a couple more takes and really try to get the tone of all that stuff. Yeah. It's a lot of different tones. Like this scene right after they have sex compared with the scene when she's in the kitchen versus offering water. She's all over the place. I actually think that character is a little inconsistent. It's like, there are certain things where like, that's so Sally. Like with, at the end when they're talking about the cake and the ordering.
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