Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
4:59 – 7:48… for as good as it gets. So there was still like some real star power with them. But I don't think this was the highlight of their career. It's like we did Apex Mountain for a few good men. We don't need to do Apex Mountain. This was the apex of nobody's career. Damon's come. Can I interject though? Yeah, please. Because there's something you're saying about the idea of these movies being star fests and how like sometimes that's just like the best way to do it. Yeah. One of the secrets ingredients to this movie is I'm pretty sure that DiCaprio, Damon, Nicholson, and Baldwin and Wahlberg all think they're the …
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Wahlberg had Boogie Nights. Damon breaks out Good Will Hunting. Leo had Titanic, obviously. And then Nicholson won his last Oscar for as good as it gets. So there was still like some real star power with them. But I don't think this was the highlight of their career. It's like we did Apex Mountain for a few good men. We don't need to do Apex Mountain. This was the apex of nobody's career. Damon's come. Can I interject though? Yeah, please. Because there's something you're saying about the idea of these movies being star fests and how like sometimes that's just like the best way to do it. Yeah. One of the secrets ingredients to this movie is I'm pretty sure that DiCaprio, Damon, Nicholson, and Baldwin and Wahlberg all think they're the star of this movie. Wahlberg, definitely. Because they're just like as much time as I get on screen, I'm making the most of it. Yeah. And Wahlberg is out of his mind in this movie because he's just like, wait, like you guys had me for four days, but I'm going to make it feel like 40 years. Damon, 01 to 05. He does Oceans 11 and 12. The first two Bourne movies, Grimm and Siriana. So he's in full Matt Damon, A-list superstar mode. Absolutely. Leo at a slightly different point of his career. He's the biggest star in the world after Titanic. Disappears for a little bit, comes back, does The Beach, and then does Gangs of New York. I don't feel like that movie was a 100% win for him. I don't think anybody does. Then he does Catch Me If You Can. Good movie. Yeah. And a great use of his talents. Solid. The Aviator. It's good. We had no idea if he could do this part. I know I didn't in 2006. Martin Scorsese didn't. He had Brad Pitt in the role first. Right. Can Leo play a kid from the streets of Boston who has to pretend to be an undercover cop? I had no idea. Nicholson's coming into this weird post as good as it gets Oscars part of his career where he did the pledge about Schmidt anger management. Something's got to give. Hadn't really played a bad guy. Well, actually, Pitt was going to play the Damon part, but go ahead. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Nicholson hadn't really played a bad guy, I guess, since The Shining. Is that possible? Yeah. I mean, if you could, man, he's a bad guy, I guess, obviously. Or San Diego's Death Saved Lives. We'll never figure it out. Listen to Rewatchables to find out. Scorsese from 97 to 05, Bringing Out the Dead, Cundin, Gangs of New York, Aviator. Looked like his ship had sailed for winning an Oscar. And he even says, when I was doing the prep for this, he never thought this was an award movie. He thought it was too violent. It's a remake. Yeah. It was a remake. No remake had won an Oscar before. And the ship had kind of sailed on Martin Scorsese winning an Oscar. And I was like, Goodfellas was going to be the Oscar he should have won and did it in a Reggie Bow, whatever. And he never won it. And then this movie happens. Do you feel like this is a makeup Oscar? Because that was something that used to happen a lot more in the 90s, early 2000s. Well, I'm going to give you the other nominees that year.
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