Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
95:48 – 104:07… That's really beautiful. I didn't know that, but now that you say it, it makes sense. Right into the shower head, right into the knob. Yeah. That's cool. So, Apex Mountain, Leo has this and Blood Diamond in the same year and becomes a massive adult, A++-less movie star. There's a case. Yeah. There's also the Leo, he merges the critical acclaim with the blockbuster. It's like Shutter Island and Wolf of Wall Street come after this with him and Marty, and they're just $200 million movies. You want to do your Blood Diamond? I honestly don't know if I could do a Blood Diamond. My South African- You know when you're …
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When Sullivan turns on the shower before Madeline starts to listen to the Costigan tape, the shots are the same three shots as in Psycho's infamous shower scene, because Scorsese's love Sean. Yeah. That's why he does stuff like that. That's really beautiful. I didn't know that, but now that you say it, it makes sense. Right into the shower head, right into the knob. Yeah. That's cool. So, Apex Mountain, Leo has this and Blood Diamond in the same year and becomes a massive adult, A++-less movie star. There's a case. Yeah. There's also the Leo, he merges the critical acclaim with the blockbuster. It's like Shutter Island and Wolf of Wall Street come after this with him and Marty, and they're just $200 million movies. You want to do your Blood Diamond? I honestly don't know if I could do a Blood Diamond. My South African- You know when you're going to do it? When we do the Blood Diamond rewatchables, because I still really like that movie. Never been a fan. No? No. Well, we won't invite you. Okay. I'm gambling again! Matt Damon, no. Scorsese, no. Even though you made the case that weirdly it could be. You know, if you can have two Apexes. It's like a career Apex. The Dropkick, Dropkick Murphys, fucking A-yes. Yes. They have this the same year Papelbon starts using them at the entrance music. Chipping Up to Boston is played as many times as Gimme Shelter in this movie. And becomes a, really the number one Red Sox song. It's going to, for the rest of our life for Red Sox games, they will be playing the Dropkick Murphys and it'll last forever. You know, the Boston's are like, God damn it. The impression that I get was right there and they just- We- Market corrected? So, Dickie's the- Yes. I obviously know him and I'm friends with him. We've made fun of him about how, what a fucking unforced error that was. How did he not have the Fenway Park song? It was right there. I know. You had one job. Yeah. It helps when Martin Scorsese handpicks your song and puts it in a movie that amplifies the impression. But you've been a big Dropkick Murphys guy for years. I feel like you've been to like hundreds of shows. I'm kind of a Murph head. Yeah. You know, I just like, when I take my vacations, I follow them on the road. DM. DM. Jack Nicholson, no. Mark Wahlberg, no. No. Comfortably Numb. I think it's probably had bigger moments. I think- Can you name one? This version of Comfortably Numb, yes. The Van Morrison- Yes. From the live album? The live album. Okay. But the song Comfortably Numb, I would say, probably from its original release, when it became kind of a phenomenon. Tell me a story, when it was the original release. Well, it was a little bit before our time. How do you think Craig knows Comfortably Numb from this movie? Do you know what Comfortably Numb is? Not by name. Doesn't know it. You don't know Comfortably Numb. Can you name a Pink Floyd song? The Van Morrison- 35 knows who Pink Floyd was? I know who Pink Floyd is, but I couldn't identify the name of Comfortably Numb. Craig, can you name one Pink Floyd song that isn't Comfortably Numb? Or even an album? No. Answers no. The Wall. Oh. Good one. Okay. Great. Got it. Good job, Craig. Combat Zone porn theaters. You want me to do my riff now about this? About whether or not this is Apex Mountain for Combat Zone porn theaters? Well, first of all, they were gone by then. This is a huge nitpick with this movie. Combat Zone has already been cleaned up by 2006. What is Combat Zone? So, the Combat Zone, when I was growing up- I know where it is. Yeah. I know. It was this part of Boston that was like strip joints- Red Light District. It was basically a condensed version of Times Square. Did you hear the confidence when she said, I know where that is? Well, CR. I went to Emerson. CR was in the 90s. Did you? It was down there. Is that what she called it? You went there for bad things. And it was, you know, you went down- If somebody's like, where were you last night? And they were like, I was at the Combat Zone. And you'd be like, oh, oh, no. What happened? So, they cleaned it up by the time this movie came out. But when I was a kid, the Combat Zone, I didn't know what it was. Obviously, it never went down there. Great name for neighborhood. In my head, it was like Escape from New York, where it was just like nudity and drugs. So, we're going to get tattoos. Yeah. Every bad thing was in the Combat Zone. Great name, by the way. Great name. Yeah. Yeah. It's gone. There's an anachronism in the film because that stuff was all gone. Long gone. Like five, six years gone. I don't think there was any porn theaters anywhere in Boston. I don't remember any porn theaters, honestly. No. They were all gone by that. But there was an area of Boston that was where all the adult bookstores were. That's great. There was a good porn theater. Yeah. There was a good porn theater? No, no, hold on. Like IMAX? No. By the way, that adult bookstore was next to the DMV. I never got a Boston license. Because I went in there once because I was waiting for my license for an hour. I was like, I'm going to go in the adult bookstore. Just looked at some stuff. Kept thinking I'd see Joaquin Phoenix in there behind the counter. Didn't happen. You guys just digging your own graves. I'm fine. While your porn escapades. I got nothing to hide. No, but there was a porn theater in the Boston Garden on Causeway Street. Right? Like when you started walking to the game. And it was like a pizza place. Yeah. Dunkin' Donuts. And then like this porn theater with the thing. And I would always be like, my dad, like, what's that place? Like, don't worry about it. But it was around Boston in like a really seedy way. And then it was gone by 01. Alec Baldwin. No, I think it's 30 Rock. His Apex Mountain? Glengarry. Southie in that extended Boston as a movie kind of center. No. I think it's been done better. Vera Farmiga, no. Boston Accents, no. What's Vera Farmiga's Apex Mountain? Conjuring. Conjuring. Conjuring. She's like a huge star now. Conjuring is like a massive, massive. I also think she was really good in Up in the Air, a movie that I really like. Yeah, Bates went on. It was Bates on my toes. Yeah. Any other Apex Mounds? I got a couple. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Cop Magnet Cousins. Kevin Corrigan, the Apex Mountain of being a Cop Magnet Cousins. Because like you just, when you say that, you just see Kevin Corrigan taking off his funeral suit and just being in his white tank top. Is Kevin Corrigan like 40 years old in this movie? I don't know. Is he living with his mom at 40? Yes. It's great. Yeah. Okay. When they sit on that deck outside, I should have put that on what stage is the best. That was like that back porch where you look out and your view is just everybody else on their porch. I got $30,000 insurance money. That was exactly what I had in Charlestown. Yeah. We were like, hey, let's go out on the deck. And the deck is just a bunch of other people on their decks. There's no view of anything. Also for me and Fantasy, those two guys drooling around Boston listening to Thief's Theme. Oh God. One of the coolest, like very few rap moments in the history of Martin Scorsese. Yeah. An amazing hip hop moment. That's such a great song. He's like, why don't you keep it to two eight balls an hour? We should have put that in Apex. Leo does this thing in that where he's like, he's got his hat backwards and he like pulls it around and down. It's really cool. Yeah. He's wearing the Red Sox cap, right? Yeah. Black Red Sox cap. Picanets. Why did Costigan agree to such a terrible deal from these two guys? Costigan needed. He's like, this is the worst ever. Also, you have to go to jail. Can we unpack the psychology a little bit? I want to understand the character a little bit more. He's a rich kid, but he's not a rich kid. His mom is from a well-to-do family. His parents, I guess she married a lower middle class guy. Who worked at the airport. Who worked at the airport. But his brother was a bookie. Was a mobster. Yeah. They split up, presumably at a young age. So he did what we did. You know, he did weekends and he'd split his time with his families. What did that do to him psychologically that he let two cops, after finishing, you know, boot camp basically to be a trooper, talk him out of being a trooper to be an undercover police officer? Well, they basically challenged his manhood, right? By saying like, he's too much of a rich, rich boy prissy to want to. What the hell is that? I don't know. I'm just, that was how it was kind of sold to us in the movie. My father was an undercover cop. He didn't have to get bullied out of being a cop to become an undercover cop. This is why it's in picking nits. I don't understand it either. Is it that he got into trouble in school, right? That's where he went apeshit on a teacher, right? That's like when he's younger. But there was, he had a history of violence. Violence, right. But that didn't withhold, like that didn't, that shouldn't disallow him from being a police officer. He wouldn't have gotten into, into the academy if that were the case. It's a huge hole. He should have, there should have been some sort of fuck up where he wasn't going to become a cop because they found this one thing in his record or something. How much do you think is the bonus that they're like, you have this bonus?
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