Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
61:18 – 64:06… century. Oh, Chihuahuas. I like it. That's a good one. I'm just like, okay, Taco Bell, we get it. I accept that. So, I don't know. We'll revisit Bruiser in Apex Mountain. What do you have for Deanne Waiters? I'd like to nominate Luke Wilson for Deanne Waiters. As previously discussed, he has absolutely nothing to do in this movie. Literally no character, nothing at all. And he's very charming. And at the end, I'm happy when they end up together. Wow. Okay. I appreciate that he shows up. I'm going Allie Larder. Awesome Allie Larder performance. And, you know, coming off of Varsity Blues, it's like, how do you …
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Counterpoint. I want to go with Bruiser being part of what's aged the worst. I should have mentioned it before. Chihuahuas are very turn of the century. Oh, Chihuahuas. I like it. That's a good one. I'm just like, okay, Taco Bell, we get it. I accept that. So, I don't know. We'll revisit Bruiser in Apex Mountain. What do you have for Deanne Waiters? I'd like to nominate Luke Wilson for Deanne Waiters. As previously discussed, he has absolutely nothing to do in this movie. Literally no character, nothing at all. And he's very charming. And at the end, I'm happy when they end up together. Wow. Okay. I appreciate that he shows up. I'm going Allie Larder. Awesome Allie Larder performance. And, you know, coming off of Varsity Blues, it's like, how do you move on from the whipped cream bikini? But here we are. She's awesome in this movie. The liposuction reveal was great. She's got great, great chemistry with Reese. She's in the movie with like a very short period of time, but she leaves a big mark. I love this Allie Larder performance. Huh? Liposuction! Oh, God! No. I know, I'm a fraud! It's not like normal women can have this ass! If my fans knew that I bought it, I would lose everything. I've already lost my husband. I'd rather go to jail than lose my reputation. Brooke. Every single outfit that she wears during the trial is incredible. I'd really forgotten the attention to detail in the jewelry and the ridiculous suits. Allie Larder personifies like the years 1997 to 2003 for me more than any other actress. Like, I don't know. I just feel like this is a pitch perfect Larder. I loved it. And she crushed it for me. I have a lot of Larder stock from way back when. Then Heroes came out and was able to cash in, make a lot of money on it. But yeah, she... To me, it's like the... For that era, what Kelly Preston was in the 80s of like, why aren't you a bigger star? What's... Yeah. Why can't you get the right part? What's going on here? Because I actually think she's a good actress. Yeah. She's really pretty. And it's just like, sometimes it just doesn't happen for people. But I have Coolidge just because I think in the moment she became a big piece of the story about this movie. It was like, Jennifer Coolidge does it again. She's great. Love her so much. All that stuff. So, recasting couch. So, I have two this time. Okay. Two big ones. And we haven't talked about one of them. Well, Selma Blair we talked about. Just give me Jennifer Garner in that spot. Good one. I don't know if Alias has started yet. She's not really famous yet. She hasn't dated Affleck yet, but she's old enough that she could have been in that spot. And I always thought she should have played more villains. I always thought she went to... Like, Alias tapped into like, there's a darker side to her and some of her stuff. And I think her as the villain, I think would have been good.
69:01 – 74:32… Chihuahua. Chihuahua who played Bruiser was named Mooney. He's not with us anymore. Sorry. Okay. He died in 2016 at the age of 18. Great run for Mooney. Okay. Apex Mountain. Reese, no, because she won an Oscar. It's got to be the Oscar. Matthew Davis, definitely not. It's Blue Crush. Blue Crush for sure. IBM ThinkPads. Did it ever get better for IBM ThinkPads? There's two different law school scenes where everyone in the class has an IBM ThinkPad. So many of them. A lot of them. I will say I felt like the orange MacBook, the original MacBook really shined though. So I don't know. I just feel like it stole its …
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So there you go. The Chihuahua. Chihuahua. I don't know if I say Chihuahua. Chihuahua who played Bruiser was named Mooney. He's not with us anymore. Sorry. Okay. He died in 2016 at the age of 18. Great run for Mooney. Okay. Apex Mountain. Reese, no, because she won an Oscar. It's got to be the Oscar. Matthew Davis, definitely not. It's Blue Crush. Blue Crush for sure. IBM ThinkPads. Did it ever get better for IBM ThinkPads? There's two different law school scenes where everyone in the class has an IBM ThinkPad. So many of them. A lot of them. I will say I felt like the orange MacBook, the original MacBook really shined though. So I don't know. I just feel like it stole its thunder. Was that the first time you ever saw a MacBook in anything? Andy had one in Dawson's Creek in season three. So that was before. The Selma, Blair, Reese Witherspoon together in a movie combo. I feel like it really peaked here and then we never got them in a movie together again because Reese is like, oh wait, you're not a very good actress. Luke Wilson? I think they were main good friends, I believe. Oh, Luke Wilson? No, this is not his. No. I mean, I love Luke Wilson, but- What is Luke Wilson's? Is it old school? Yeah. Tenenbaums is in there too. I think old school. I think old school probably. Harvard? No. Jennifer Coolidge. What is Harvard's movie Apex Mountain? Is it Good Will Hunting? That's an important one. No, that's MIT. But Skylar goes to Harvard. No, I would say it's Social Network, isn't it? Oh, right. Yeah. Skylar. They do a lot of good social network stuff. Jennifer Coolidge, I think it was American Pie. Pink Scented Resumes, I think this was the Apex Mountain. Absolutely. Gives a little something extra. Also, I just want to say, everyone at home watching this movie, just a reminder, your resume is supposed to be one page. It's just like Elle had it. Somehow, here in 2021, resumes are like ballooned to like two or three pages. Just because it's electronic doesn't mean it should be more than one page. So just keep that in mind, people. Juliet looks at resumes. Listen to her, people. All the time. Here's a question, though. What does this resume smell like? They don't specify in the movie. I've spent a lot of time wondering about that. Probably perfume, right? I was just like baby powder. What kind of perfume? Like, is it citrus? Is it floral? Is it woodsy? It's definitely floral. You know, it's like pink floral. Okay. All right. Allie Larder, no. I think it's probably Heroes. Heroes was one of the last big shows we've ever had. Absolutely not. It's a whipped cream bikini for Allie Larder. Yeah. Come on. Varsity Blues? Come on, Bill. I thought that was for me, but no, Heroes was a phenomenon. I know, but Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere. She's a major star of Out of Heroes. That was a one season flame out. I mean, it went on for way too long. And I would say Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia overshadowed everyone else. Yeah. Chihuahuas? No. Taco Bell commercials. But wasn't Taco Bell, wasn't it taken off right around the same time? There's like a Chihuahua Renaissance. Any other Apex Mountains? The Australian director. Yeah, Australian director. Oh, Kukovic? For sure. Vukatek? We'll take one more break, then we're going to pick some nits, and I have a lot. This episode is brought to you by Sleep Doctor. Let's say a good sleep is wildly underrated. You can do everything right, eat well, work out, sleep seven or eight hours, and still feel exhausted. If you snore, wake up tired, or crash during the day, it might be worth looking into. Sleep Doctor offers an at-home sleep study done in your own bed. They accept most insurance plans, so you can pay as little as $0. Visit sleepdoctor.com. Okay, pick and nits. I mentioned, I don't know how Elle isn't getting more dates first year in law school. It's a flaw. Elle getting a 179 on her LSATs just seems high. That's like an amazing score. Yeah. It's like, you have to be really, really, really smart. And the movie doesn't seem to totally establish what her intelligence is like. She's clearly smart, but I don't know if she was 179 smart. Couldn't they just said she got 171? She got like one over? I think also, like, the movie is a little confused about if Elle knows that she's smart. Because in that very first shopping scene, when she's like, you know, talking about the fabric or whatever, you're like, oh, she's sharp, and she knows stuff. But then it goes to like, oh, she's a ditz. She just wants to get married. So I feel like the movie gets a little bit confused about if Elle knows her worth. Perhaps the movie just has a really evolved stance on standardized testing, which is that it's gameable, okay? That should have been a what's age the best. They just understand that if you just have enough money and you memorize enough, you can get that 179 too. Now they're picking it. Warner absolutely knows that Elle got into Harvard Law School. He's not blindsided by this on the first day of school. They go to the same college. They have all the same friends. He just has no idea she got into Harvard Law for six months. Come on. I mean, he is really dumb. That's one of the things that they want to communicate to us is that he's not aware of what's going on. So he got waitlisted. His dad had to make a call. The diversity of this movie, just as a picking it, like they're at Harvard. I'm positive Harvard is a lot more diverse than the movie. This movie looks like Melrose Place, the Harvard Law Scenes. It really does. It's just literally everybody's white. I thought that was weird. The murder confession came really fast from Linda Cardellini and her giant perm. Unfortunately, I didn't talk about Linda at all so far.
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