Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
53:18 – 56:06f-r-e-s-h-l-y dot com rewatchables slash rewatchables to get $20 off your first six dinners $20 off plus free shipping at Freshly.com slash rewatchables okay Apex Mountain Grodin yes yes I don't even think that's a debate De Niro's complicated it's not it can't be it's but it is a a high step on the way to the Apex what is your Apex for De Niro out of curiosity is it Marvin's room it's probably Taxi Driver Marvin's room I would say his Apex has to be Raging Bull okay coming off Godfather 2 I have to say I think Goodfellas is pretty high up there well it's way up there it's weird because he's had multiple …
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f-r-e-s-h-l-y dot com rewatchables slash rewatchables to get $20 off your first six dinners $20 off plus free shipping at Freshly.com slash rewatchables okay Apex Mountain Grodin yes yes I don't even think that's a debate De Niro's complicated it's not it can't be it's but it is a a high step on the way to the Apex what is your Apex for De Niro out of curiosity is it Marvin's room it's probably Taxi Driver Marvin's room I would say his Apex has to be Raging Bull okay coming off Godfather 2 I have to say I think Goodfellas is pretty high up there well it's way up there it's weird because he's had multiple Apex's because for me personally Midnight Run is his Apex because I just love De Niro and I don't think anyone else could have played that part nearly as well and made it the movie that it was but then you get to Casino and it's like now we have this familiarity with De Niro we've seen him in all these things and then he comes into our life as Jimmy Conway and there's anticipation with it it's like Scorsese's making a mob movie De Niro's in it and that was really the hook we didn't oh it's based on this Henry Hill thing but we didn't know that much about it but De Niro was in it it had this credibility and anticipation so you could argue that was his Apex that he had built his career to the point that it was like De Niro Scorsese what when where is it Dennis Farina yes John Ashton I still think Beverly Hills Cop 2 Beverly Hills Cop 2 over Midnight Run he's unbelievable in Cop 2 doesn't he get shot in the beginning of Cop 2 no his wife leaves him it's all jokes about how his divorce with Judge Reinhold just making fun of him for his divorce all the time Joey Pants I mean Joey Pants has done a lot of really good movies he's great in Memento he's great in The Matrix but this is my favorite Joey Pants I think this was his Apex because he becomes Joey Pants also Joey Pants has to do so much that's basically like running to Chin Luz or saying like Jack Paul's got the Duke he asked how it was my second favorite quote in the movie he called me 10 minutes ago yelling and screaming and telling me to go fuck myself you're telling me to go fuck myself I'm telling me to go fuck myself then everybody else whatever so last week we asked the listeners to tweak the Danny Trejo
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