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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

No Way Out 1987

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey · 23 July 2024 · 22,394 feet

The claim

88:06 – 94:55

… half-assed internet research about this movie. I was surprised. Yeah, it's all like, did you know that Gene Hackman and Kevin Costner worked together again? Apex Mountain. Costner, no. Sean Young. It's probably that Stripes Blade Runner stretch where it felt like she was going to be one of the big actresses, which led to her getting Dune. I don't think it's this. I think Blade Runner is what she's most remembered for. Can I ask you? Apex Mountain for movie mistresses? Is it this or Debbie Mazar? Oh, wow. Movie mistresses? Yeah. Or Gumar? Well, I just mean... Gosh. Movie mistresses? Yeah. Oh, man. Why didn't …

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Costner rolled over the hood of a moving car during one of the chase sequences and got yelled at by everybody. And then Susan's house is on the corner of Queen and Union Streets in Alexandria, Virginia. There was not a lot of half-assed internet research about this movie. I was surprised. Yeah, it's all like, did you know that Gene Hackman and Kevin Costner worked together again? Apex Mountain. Costner, no. Sean Young. It's probably that Stripes Blade Runner stretch where it felt like she was going to be one of the big actresses, which led to her getting Dune. I don't think it's this. I think Blade Runner is what she's most remembered for. Can I ask you? Apex Mountain for movie mistresses? Is it this or Debbie Mazar? Oh, wow. Movie mistresses? Yeah. Or Gumar? Well, I just mean... Gosh. Movie mistresses? Yeah. Oh, man. Why didn't you... You should have texted me this. I would have done a deep dive. And there's got to be more memorable mistresses. Is there a mistresses channel on Tubi? That's a good idea. Should there be? Can't they just give us the car keys for Tubi? Half of their categories. I'm like, what are you doing, Tubi? What is this category? You want better categories on Tubi? They have 80 categories and 40 of them are like incoherent. Yeah. And then there's like film noir. It's like, oh, I know what that is. Fortunately, there's a listicle on Vogue.com called 25 Movie Mistresses with Looks We Love from Holly Golightly to Mrs. Robinson. Check that out. Oh, Mrs. Robinson's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She is a good one. No, but it's more... Debbie Mazar is probably the most influential one for a movie. She is very influential. Like for a major movie. Also... Maybe next episode we'll come back or down the road. The Mistress Pyramid, like Soprano has like four of them. I mean, Sharon Stone in... In Casino? In Casino? Who's the woman at the wedding that... Is James Woods count? Does he get to be on the Mistress Pyramid? The Mister. Who's the woman at the wedding that Sonny Corleone takes down? Oh! Yeah. Yeah. That's Andy Garcia's mom. Yeah. That's a good one. And she's like a big character in the book. Yeah. That's a good one. How about the one... There's a very vivid description of their sex scene in the novel. How about in Godfather 2, Tom Hagen's mistress, who we never know who it is, but Corleone says, And you could take your wife and your mistress and live happily ever after. Tom Hagen had a side piece. He had a little side action. That was the time. Can't hold it against them, you know? Hackman, no. DC film noir. I think so. I think so, too. I'm trying to think if there's a 40s movie set in DC. I don't really think so. There must be one that I'm going to understand. Is there like a Hitchcock... Like that... No? How about the 80s Russian sub scene? I mean, no. It's hot for October. George Zunza murders? Would you go this or Basic Instinct? Can you just say Zunza again? Zunza? That was good. George Zunza? Yeah. I mean, his name is spelled D-Z-U-N-D-Z-A. Yeah. Great name. Good deer hunter performance by him. I like him. He's a good actor. Yeah. He's a good one. Great Law & Order cop. He was an initial that guy who then graduated Joey Pantz. Yeah. He's like an above the fold Law & Order star. No question. He did. The Omni Shoreham Hotel. We've really been giving out some hotel love on the rewatchables. Will Patton, it's Remember the Titans. Yeah. That's his apex mountain? Yeah. Damn straight. For the Craig generation, they know him as the DC. We will blitz all night. Isn't he a... What's his... It would be incredible if you could have Will Patton be your coach in NCAA 25. I would run through a wall. They won't get another yard. Shane Gillis has the funniest Remember the Titans riff that he does about how it's like the setup of that movie and it's like deep racism in the South and blah, blah, blah. And then it's like, wait, those guys are 4-0. I love this coach. Polaroids. Probably not. Apex mountain for Polaroids. Yeah. For Polaroids and a movie. Memento. Memento. Great call. And then bellboys dressed like pirates being used as witnesses. In federal espionage cases. Incredible. Yes. I love how he's still in uniform when they're taking him around. Yeah. It's great. All right. So this next category, usually there's more suspense, but Cruz or Hanks, it's just a fucking wrap. It's Cruz. This is the cruisiest part. There's two fucking chase scenes. Yeah. I would argue Cruz saw this movie and was like, goddamn, man, I just love watching Kevin Costner sprint. From now on, I just want to sprint more of my movies. Cruz throwing himself into the windshield of a car. Cruz running through the mall. Cruz in the tighty whites. Cruz in a strip club in Manila. Yeah. It's a wild thing. Yeah. Cruz ripping a phone booth out of a wall for no reason. Cruz in the whites. He wore the whites five years later in a movie. This actually, I think might've been better with Cruz from an unintentional comedy standpoint. Might've been. Yeah. Might've been. Cruz talking Russian at the end. Although it's one of my favorite Costners, but I think it would've been. Cruz making the Tom Cruise face when he gets the document that Susan Atwell's dead and he does the... Yeah. I totally forgot what's age the worst. What? Is this... Is this the worst haircuts in a sexy movie of all time? It's... It was the age. For who? 19... Everybody. Scott's hair is insane. No, the woman. Scott... Sean Young's haircut is fucking horrible in this movie. Where she's got like... How about the cocktail party? Every haircut's off. Yeah. She has like mom hair, but she's like 24. Kevin Costner's hair is fucking weird. It's like cut awkwardly and not brushed. Yeah. It's always wet. Yeah. We didn't know what we were doing with hair in the late 80s. Very weird. I have some tough pictures. Racehorse, rock band, wrestler, or fantasy team name? 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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
Kevin Costner27,030 ftDances with Wolves, 1990, by 7,235 feet.
Gene Hackman25,890 ftUnforgiven, 1992, by 6,752 feet.

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