Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
84:31 – 90:25… okay that it looks like it was just built. Yeah. You know, like, Little Bill's house is all brand new, all that fresh wood, just like in There Will Be Blood. Apex Mountain for, uh, post-prime Clint. I would say yes. I think. 60 and up Clint. He's acting in this. He directed it. It wins Best Director and Best Actor. It's a better movie than Million Dollar Baby. Nobody's watching Million Dollar Baby again. The, the, this and In the Line of Fire are as famous as he ever was, like, in my lifetime, to me at least. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, to the under 45 credit. Yeah, when I was like, holy shit, this guy's …
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He's like, Henry, can you get this done in 35 days? Henry's like, 32. One take Clint. It reminds me a little bit of There Will Be Blood also in that way too, because it's like, everything's kind of new. And it's, it's okay that it looks like it was just built. Yeah. You know, like, Little Bill's house is all brand new, all that fresh wood, just like in There Will Be Blood. Apex Mountain for, uh, post-prime Clint. I would say yes. I think. 60 and up Clint. He's acting in this. He directed it. It wins Best Director and Best Actor. It's a better movie than Million Dollar Baby. Nobody's watching Million Dollar Baby again. The, the, this and In the Line of Fire are as famous as he ever was, like, in my lifetime, to me at least. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, to the under 45 credit. Yeah, when I was like, holy shit, this guy's like a, in every time, every summer, he's been putting out, like, a banger. In the Line of Fire is good. In the Line of Fire. Like that movie. Rules. First, like, 25 minutes of that movie are fantastic. All the, all the Malkovich stuff in that movie. Unforgiven, In the Line of Fire, Perfect World in a 13-month window. Yeah. Am I wrong? Is this the wrong opinion? But I was like, Perfect World was super disappointing in the theater. I loved it. Disappointed people because I think they were like, Clint can't miss. And it's like a weird movie. I think that movie had too much. I saw that in the theater, obviously. And it was like Costner at, like, his fame apex with Clint coming off Unforgiven. And I think, I don't, I don't know what I was expecting, but I was expecting, like, the 92 Dream Team to just kill everybody. It's got, like, a whole, like, there's all the Jehovah's Witness stuff. I didn't like the, the son I remember not liking that much. I haven't seen that movie in a while. Yeah. I remember not loving the kid. Oh. It's a real sentimental favor for me. I was younger than you guys when I saw it. I was almost like the kid's age when I saw it. Maybe I gotta watch it again. I thought it was really cool. I think I've seen that since it's out in the theater. Post-Prime Hackman, you could have this or Crimson Tide. I think it's Crimson Tide. Yeah. I think it probably is. It's not, for Apex or for, like, my favorite performance? For when he had the most juice. I think it's this for Apex. But I think you could make the case that you have more fun with him in Crimson Tide. Yeah, I think it's probably this for post-Prime Apex, because then it sets up the next seven years of Hackman just crushing it. What about Freeman, then? No. Shawshank. Yeah, it's not even close. Saul Rubinek. Let's get this and True Romance same year. I don't think it gets better for Saul. What a year for Saul. I treated you like a son! He got stabbed in the heart, but other than that, it's a great run for him. When veterans of that bullshit war tell me. How about teensy little pecker revenge movies? Oh, yeah. That's the exciting incident. Yeah. She called it Teeny or Teeny? Not a lot of accountability from Quick Mike. He's never like, God, I really should have just controlled my emotions a little bit. I overreacted. We really wouldn't be in this situation if it wasn't for me. Can you have a little pecker and the nickname Quick Mike? That seems like just a terrible combo. Tough, tough beat. Not a lot of ways to go with that combo. That's Quick Mike. Why do they call him Quick? Because he's got a small dick. It's a premature jack-oilter and small dick. Yeah, I mean, Westerns? Apex Mountain for Westerns? Yeah. No. I don't think so, no. What was the Apex Mountain for Westerns? I don't know, like the Searchers? Somewhere in the mid-60s, right? They all feel like they're talking to each other, right? Is it High Noon? Is it The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance? Is it The Searchers? Is it Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? When do we have the most great directors making them all at the exact same time? 50s and 60s. That's probably the Apex, right? Yeah. Whatever that is. I'm not Western historian enough. The problem with Westerns is that everybody is like, I'm closing the book on Westerns. You know? Like, all the Sam Peckinpah movies are like, I'm closing the book on Westerns. You know? Like, every generation has their, like, it's time for me to tell the last tale about the American West. The Apetive should do that for comedies. The last comedy. This is the last comedy ever. Yeah. This is the end. There'll never be another. Yeah, he should have sold it that way. But it's funny, it's like, they'll do it, and then two or three years later, somebody makes, like, a Silverado, or somebody makes Tombstone, which is somewhat elegiac, but is mostly, like, this ruled. Yep. Guys were guys, you know? Deadwood is kind of a, like, we're closing the book. Yeah. Here's how it really was. It sucked. It was muddy, and it smelled, and everybody was drunk. You know? Like, everyone's always doing that. Sounds like college. Was this their Hall of Fame plaque movie? Would you say yes for Clint Eastwood? I would. I think I would, too. I guess now, yeah, because he made it this far. I feel like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is one of those, like, everything changed after that movie. I think the directing piece, the combo, because what makes him really special historically, I think, is the fact that he Otanied it, basically. More than even Dirty Harry in terms of iconography. He's choosing the Hall of Fame plaque, right? Oh, do you get to choose if you're the Hall of Fame? Oh, I thought we were choosing. I thought this was, like, this is, like, the first paragraph. We're choosing? First paragraph. Oh, yeah. I guess we are choosing. If he's choosing, it's Jersey Boys, I would say. I thought it was they choose. He's like Changeling. Yeah. 15, 17 in Paris. Nobody got it. Is it they choose or we choose? Yet another controversial, confusing rewatch. At the top of He Picks Mountain sits the plaque. Choose or. It's like fucking. Like the Wizard of Oz. It's either Dirty Harry or this, depending on which version of Clint you love. Best racehorse name. English Bob's good. English Bob's good. Horse Gold is solid. Here comes Horse Gold. Down the stretch. Strawberry Alice is good. That's good. Strawberry Alice is good. I mean, the Schofield Kid is. Duke of Death? Yeah. The Duke of Death. The Duck of Death.
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