Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
38:53 – 41:39… just interesting. I never knew that stuff before. I did this. What's age the best for you? Mom's drinking whiskey in the bathtub with a friend? That was my apex mountain. Tough one. You realize in three seconds that Mick never had a chance. He's like, oh, this is his mom. She's with Cowboy Bob in the bathroom in a bottle of bourbon. With a bottle of J&P. I love the bald, black, muscular teacher guard guy. Yeah, Daniels. Who tells. Yeah. He's just, he's so believable. He's got the right level of anger. He does seem like he cares. And he also seems like he would clear house and beat the shit out of anybody. …
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Because even when Mick, he tries to escape in the ward and talks to him, and he says, you're supposed to be an example here. They look at these barn bosses really to be the policeman of the whole thing. But it was just interesting. I never knew that stuff before. I did this. What's age the best for you? Mom's drinking whiskey in the bathtub with a friend? That was my apex mountain. Tough one. You realize in three seconds that Mick never had a chance. He's like, oh, this is his mom. She's with Cowboy Bob in the bathroom in a bottle of bourbon. With a bottle of J&P. I love the bald, black, muscular teacher guard guy. Yeah, Daniels. Who tells. Yeah. He's just, he's so believable. He's got the right level of anger. He does seem like he cares. And he also seems like he would clear house and beat the shit out of anybody. He's just like really good casting. We'll get to him later in a couple other categories. Vikings, blonde permafro, aka the Sigma. This was a peak for that exact look. Yeah. Right here. 1982, 1983. This is when it went to a whole other level. Women had this haircut. I have no explanation for it. We've never seen it in 35 years. Guys who did security for Bon Jovi had this haircut. It was just like, it was impossible to look at a guy's hair and be like, I wonder what he does. Because he might be a stockbroker or he might be a hell's angel. Yeah. It's just gone. Hey, what are the odds of me now, Peretti? Three to two against you. Just got, how am I not going to love this movie? Lance said this. What's age the best? Illinois State Penitentiary. Oh, man. Wow. What a location. Yeah. That's my scene stealing location. It's like the fucking Astrodome. Yeah. I got that too. We had that for the Den of Thieves, Benny Hanna Award for scene stealing location. Yeah. I mean, no way it exists anymore. It's almost like looking at those old baseball stadiums from the late 70s, those concrete circles. But you know, Sean Penn was like, take me in, take me in. Let's shoot it handheld. Sean Penn's like, can you guys leave me there for anything? No, no, Sean, please. Can't. The point system we mentioned, Young Al and Ruck we mentioned. There's a Halloween 2 billboard that Rosenthal. I love when directors call back to their old work. That was fun. Horowitz reading the Tweety-o bit. And then the guy going, Fikey, you want to tell him who that was? He was like, it was Tweety, you assholes. Yeah. Really good scene. What else you got for what's age the best? Oh, and Chicago is the other one. Like just this early 80s Chicago, which has been in a bunch of movies from this era. Because when it's in My Bodyguard, Risky Business dips into it. Some of the John Hughes movies jump into it a lot.
61:21 – 65:56… on the street earlier in the movie, right? Yeah, Paco's crew is about to go to a building and you see this lady with long hair and it's Jamie Lee Curtis. Apex Mountain. Would you go young Sean Penn? I still think it's at close range, personally. I think this movie leads to all the next three years of movies, though. Yeah. It didn't really do that well. It's not like it made a kajillion dollars. I don't know the answer to that one. Rick Rosenthal, who Ebert calls out as this really promising filmmaker. He's going to be a major hitter, yeah. Yeah, it didn't happen. He said recently, I think I turned down …
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And then this is, I've seen this movie a million times. I didn't know this. There's a Jamie Lee Curtis cameo. Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis is in this. Yeah, she's walking on the street earlier in the movie, right? Yeah, Paco's crew is about to go to a building and you see this lady with long hair and it's Jamie Lee Curtis. Apex Mountain. Would you go young Sean Penn? I still think it's at close range, personally. I think this movie leads to all the next three years of movies, though. Yeah. It didn't really do that well. It's not like it made a kajillion dollars. I don't know the answer to that one. Rick Rosenthal, who Ebert calls out as this really promising filmmaker. He's going to be a major hitter, yeah. Yeah, it didn't happen. He said recently, I think I turned down around 20 or 22 films after Bad Boys. The phone rang all the time. The funny thing is, at the time, I didn't know I was hot. But after American Dreamer, I knew the difference. So he made this movie called American Dreamer. Two years later, it bombed. And then that was it. The phone stopped ringing. Rennie Santoni at Seinfeld. Sadistic Clancy Brown prison characters, still Shawshank. Oh, yeah. It's funny. He's on the other side as the Shawshank, the evil warden. Whatever his name. Not Hadley. What the fuck was his name in that movie? In Shawshank? Yeah. It wasn't Hadley. Anyway. You have exploding boom boxes for Apex Mountain here? They've never been bigger. Never been bigger, louder? Eric Curry, definitely. It was Captain Hadley. Esai Morales? It's got to be La Bamba, right? Yeah. He's great in La Bamba. Esai Morales, I would probably put... Yeah, it would be La Bamba. He had a nice NYPD blue run, too. The Sigma Permafro. I still think it's Sigma. You think Sigma over Viking? Yeah. Sigma had that thing for like five years. Even Larry Bird tried to take it. It was always the Sigma. Booger and the Green Beans? Yeah. I think this was Apex Mountain. What about RC Cola? Oh, definitely. And RC Cola Machines. Because Tab really takes over in Back to the Future, right? Yeah. But RC Cola has a moment here. Really does. Juvie movies? Yes. I think so, too. Yeah. Best racehorse name? I'll give you Soda Can Beating or Mick O'Brien. Well, Mick O'Brien sounds like a trainer. He works for Bob Baffert. Right. I would go... What do they call it? Viking and Tweety or Smacks? I like the idea. Here comes Smacks! Coming out a lot. Yeah. That's a good one. Barn Boss? Barn Boss is good. And a horse could be a Barn Boss. That's where you'd be hanging out. I guess it would be Stable Boss, but still. Picking nits. So Paco's crew, they're just carrying a suitcase of drugs for five blocks through downtown Chicago, just holding... It was 83. Holding this very conspicuous suitcase. Five blocks. Not buying that one. I like how unambiguous it is that those dudes are doing crimes. It's very Escape from New York, where it's just like, yeah, I've got a cut-off leather jacket and sunglasses, and I'm holding a suitcase. I am up to no good. Yeah. So RC Cola machines and products are all over this movie, leading to two Pick and Nick questions. One, would they really have a soda machine like that in a joint? I just feel like there's so many different ways you could use the cans as weapons. Well, I guess they probably hadn't thought of that until Mick did it. Right. You could use it either, like, put them in a pill case. You could cut the cans up and make little razor blades out of it. I just find that hard to believe. And then when Mick actually loads the suitcase, the sodas aren't RC Colas. They're just, like, generic sodas. Oh. So you think RC Cola was like, you can use the machines. But you can't kill somebody with them. Just not as weapons. Yeah. They're like, all right, we'll figure it out. They wouldn't have added to Mick's sentence for escaping. Well, I'm not even... Just this one time. So Mick didn't get in trouble for the brutal mugging of the guy in the beginning of the film, right? So he's already like... Yeah, he didn't get... So it's just vehicular manslaughter and attempted robbery. But then he escapes from Juvie. They catch him. They bring him back. And they're like, this one time.
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