Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
75:21 – 79:50… is really alive when she's on screen. The poster has, oh my God, that's my daughter. He never actually says that in the movie. They took some liberties. Apex Mountain. George C. Scott, I'm going to say no. What is his Apex Mountain? I think it's Pat. It's got to be Patton, right? Yeah, it's Patton. It's amazing in that movie. Schrader, no, but what is it? I mean, this and Taxi Driver and this moment. I think it's America Gigolo. Yeah. I think it's America. I think it's First Reformed. It could be First Reformed. Because that was like one of the biggest comebacks for a filmmaker in years. And that movie …
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Just that world weariness, that casual comfort with sex, sense of humor. She's like bright the same way that Jodie Foster is kind of like, you know, Taxi Driver is really alive when she's on screen. The poster has, oh my God, that's my daughter. He never actually says that in the movie. They took some liberties. Apex Mountain. George C. Scott, I'm going to say no. What is his Apex Mountain? I think it's Pat. It's got to be Patton, right? Yeah, it's Patton. It's amazing in that movie. Schrader, no, but what is it? I mean, this and Taxi Driver and this moment. I think it's America Gigolo. Yeah. I think it's America. I think it's First Reformed. It could be First Reformed. Because that was like one of the biggest comebacks for a filmmaker in years. And that movie holds up. That's probably my favorite. Well, when we did Gigolo, we decided it was, I think, his Apex. It was Gigolo, yeah. Peter Boyle, it's not, but it's probably like within a couple years of when he had it. He was just grabbing all the weird guy parts in the 70s. Yeah. Vincent Schiavelli tried to make a run, and he just slotted him away. Let's get the fuck out of here. He makes a big comeback in Ghost, though. Schiavelli, he really tries to take the crown. Get off my train. I mean, isn't it Everybody Loves Raymond, though, for him? For Boyle? Well, I mean, that's probably his most like... Yeah, you're probably right. I mean, that's like one of the biggest TV shows the last 25 years. Season Hubbly, definitely. Renting out of theater to ruin a dad's life. Apex Metal. Absolutely. Yeah. 70s fake movie porn. No, Boogie Nights. Yeah. Yeah. Bellflower, California. It's either this or when they have youth soccer tournaments, and it's super windy. And everyone's like, why the fuck are we here? Super windy? Yeah. Okay. Where is Bellflower? It's in the middle of nowhere, and it's super windy. And it's like, oh, cool. The 30-mile-an-hour wind is against us this half. You should listen to some of Chris's soccer pods. Maybe they have some solves for that. Yeah, that's true. Keep it on the ground. What about explaining Calvinism to a hooker? Apex Mountain? Absolutely. I would say, actually, Apex Mountain for Tulip. For Calvinism. Yeah. Yeah. Calvinism itself. This has got to be its pinnacle in modern entertainment. I had not heard of Tulip before watching Hardcore. And now you have subscribed. Now it's what I apply to my own life. How about the seedy side of 70s San Diego? Captured in a movie or TV show. I'm going to say 100%. Yeah. We never saw this side in anything. The TJ adjacent. Yeah. San Diego was always super happy as a location for Hollywood stuff. I love it there, too. Isn't it just the best? Yeah. This movie kind of makes it like, yeah, it's a little darker. Yeah. All right. This is America's favorite category now. Cruise or Hanks? Cruise is leading 3-1. 100% Cruise. So when we launch the- Oh, I disagree. I disagree. When we launch our channel- Is that a spoiler alert? Ringer Movies? The Ringer Movies channel. You want to get into it? Well, we might. We might launch a Ringer Movies YouTube channel soon. We will. We're going to do live. We're going to go over all 330 rewatchables movies and just blink test Cruiser Hanks. And we're going to just do it until we're done. Is that the entire video? We're going to do the actual scoreboard. Yeah. The three of us. We're just going Cruiser Hanks. Right up there. Starting with episode one. Boom. We all have to decide. Boom. Boom. Second one. Yeah. We'll see how many we can do. It might be a four-parter. Are there bonus points if Cruise takes a Hanks movie or Hanks takes a Cruise movie? Like, is there a... No. What if it's like Devil Wears Prada? Cruise or Hanks? From Miranda Priestly? No. It'd have to be the Stanley Tucci. Okay. What about Adrian... No. Is it Adrian Grenier? Yeah. Adrian Grenier. Who's better in Devil Wears Prada is the Stanley Tucci character? It's probably Cruise. It's definitely Cruise. It's Cruise. Yeah. We're stepping on this pod. I think Cruise might win most of these. Of course he'll win, Bill. Yeah. This helps Sean's case. But I think in this case, I think it's Hanks. I think Hanks as the father would be the better part. Because imagine Hanks having his morality destroyed. He never made his eyes wide shut, man. Cruise is in this place. That's true. What do you think? I wanted to talk it out because my instinct was... I wanted to talk it out. Better movie for Hanks. I think it makes more sense for him. It's the kind of movie I always wanted him to make. But a such funnier movie with Cruise. Yeah. With Cruise, Cruise being a porn producer for a half hour is like one of the funniest 30 minutes of my life. I personally think there's got to be a little bit of a layer to this is which guy would be more likely to do this movie? And it's definitely Cruise. Cruise in the turn it off scene.
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