Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
84:17 – 92:06… in Reno. That was his revenge. It's pretty mean-spirited. Yeah. Pretty odd. Not unlike Miles. Pretty odd. It's true. Yeah. This is going to be a great apex mountain, guys. Giamatti? Wasn't he probably more famous for now at this point? Billions? I think John Adams. Oh, yeah. I think it's John Adams, too. That thing went like 20 minutes. That's right. Yeah. And then he had Billions coming right after that. And, you know, when Billions premiered, it was really, really noisy. I think mid-2010s is his apex man. Thomas Hagen Church? Yes. A lot of people watch Wings. He got nominated for an Academy Award. He …
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he wrote a sequel called Vertical and all we know about her is she's a prostitute in Reno. That was his revenge. It's pretty mean-spirited. Yeah. Pretty odd. Not unlike Miles. Pretty odd. It's true. Yeah. This is going to be a great apex mountain, guys. Giamatti? Wasn't he probably more famous for now at this point? Billions? I think John Adams. Oh, yeah. I think it's John Adams, too. That thing went like 20 minutes. That's right. Yeah. And then he had Billions coming right after that. And, you know, when Billions premiered, it was really, really noisy. I think mid-2010s is his apex man. Thomas Hagen Church? Yes. A lot of people watch Wings. He got nominated for an Academy Award. He did. He was in Spider-Man 3. And shows up again. And in No Way Home as well. I was thinking about him and he, like, I thought he just disappeared off the planet again. But in fact, he's just made one or two movies every year for the last 15 years. Did you guys pick up on that? He's around. He should have been Bruce Dern for the 2020s. Like, the old kind of weird guy. Like, who could have been in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood living in the ranch. I think I read that he won an Emmy for Broken Trail like two years later, too. Which, you've seen Broken Trail, right, Chris? Isn't that the Walter Hill thing? Oh, yeah. Yeah. With Robert Duvall. Did I say that? It's a good Western. San Enes Apex Mountain. I'm going to say yes. Yeah. Fucking cranked it up, that whole area. Los Olivos, Saw Vang. Just crank again. Crank it again. Bachelor Party's gone wrong in a movie. Mm-hmm. Some good... You got Bachelor Party. Yeah. Hangover. What's the movie with... It's gotta be Hangover, right? Pete Berg. Very Bad Things. Very Bad Things. I love that movie. Hangover. Chris's favorite movie. Not great. I would say it's The Hangover. That's based on your Bachelor Party? Did you know that Pete Berg used to live... Like when he first moved to LA, he lived with Ari Emanuel and Mark Maron? I did know that. I just found that out. Yeah. It's a cool house. Yeah. Yeah, that's why there's still Ari Emanuel and Pete Berg. They still do a bunch of stuff together. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Where's Mark Maron in that equation? I don't know. Obviously got bounced. Got cut out of Lone Survivor? Let's bring him in. Mark? Virginia Madsen. This is an interesting one for Apex Mountain. Got nominated for an Oscar. Yes. Pretty iconic scene in a really great, memorable movie. But you could also say like in the 80s, she's pretty big. I'm looking at what her biggest 80s thing was. Man, this probably was it. She was in like a Wes Craven movie, right? She never made it. Hotspot was a big one. And she's very, very hot in the Hotspot. Oh yeah, that's right. Forgot the Hotspot. Candyman. And then what? Was she in like Serpent and the Rainbow or something like that? Highlander 2? Craig, the Hotspot. It's a little Don Johnson movie for you. Let's talk about the Hotspot for a second. Is that a rewatchable? Directed by Dennis Hopper? I'll just give you the one sentence IMDb, Craig. Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets in trouble with local authorities and the local women after he robs a bank. Virginia Madsen and Jennifer Connelly. One word. This might need to be two month category. Also, it's Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Barry Corbin. It's like a that guy fest. I haven't seen that movie in a long time. Do you know who does the music for that movie? Who? Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker. Jesus. I gotta watch that one again. I'm gonna put that on the list. It's a huge bomb for some reason. It bombed. Yeah. Yeah. People are tired of Don Johnson. I think that was it. It was like one of those like, ah, fuck this guy movies. I'm gonna say yes for Madsen. I'm gonna say yes for the Saab Turbo, which fucking sucked. Okay. How about drinking champagne in the car? Yeah, well, that's the only time I've ever seen that happen. Yeah, I'm gonna say yes. Warm champagne is the most disgusting thing I can imagine. Like, you might as well drink urine. Sandra Oh? No. Comes off this and goes right into Grey's Anatomy. Yeah. Yeah. Which has to be her Apex Mountain. But I would almost say like in some ways killing Eve first season. I think that's her Apex Mountain. I would say Grey's Anatomy. That show is massive. It's a tough one. Definitely wouldn't say Arliss. No. I love the chair. She was great on the chair. I love Sandro. Apex Mountain for the Sandro-Alexander Payne marriage. I'm gonna say yes. Yeah, because two years later they break up. it was done. Apex Mountain for Pinot Noir. I think it might be. Completely invigorated. This was it. How about angry naked guys in a movie? No. Who is a scarier, more memorable angry naked guy? I mean, like, aren't there some angry naked guys in Eyes Wide Shut? Sure, yeah. Well, they're sort of, they're in a fit of passion. I'm not sure if it's anger. Sure. How about James Lep? The golfer. Apex Mountain? Yeah. Reachboard probably gets name dropped. Barely Legal Magazine, I think, has never had a greater moment in a movie. No, the new issue. You've been the publisher of Barely Legal for some time now. Seems like he's reading the articles when he gets home. So funny. God damn it. Special bonus category, we don't do that often. Was this their Hall of Fame plaque movie? Alexander Payne. Probably. I think so. What do you have, CR? I think it's election, but I, I, I, it's not like, it's pretty close. Okay. I think it's his biggest hit, and he won the Oscar for this, for screenplay. He changed wine forever. He did. You can claim that. What do you have for best racehorse name? I mean, I think we gotta do something with cranking my Johnson, you know? Yeah, smooched bone. Johnson crank. Smooched bone. Down the stretch, it's smooched bone! Smooched bone. I think, uh, back of an LA school bus. That's a great, that's a great moment. Pick of nits. Miles chugs a whole bottle of wine in 45 seconds when he's running down a hill after he finds out his ex-wife got married. And then sleeps it off and is like, okay. Whole bottle in 45 seconds, you know how fucking hard that is? It's a full-blown alcoholic. Yeah. Yeah. It's really, like, jarring when, like, he's just, like, any trigger, he's like, I gotta have, like, a huge amount of wine right now. My mom identified it. Um, sorry, mom. Would Miles be that dumb to mention Jack's wedding to Maya? So I have, Would you be that dumb? Would you be that bad of a friend? Is Jack can't figure this out? Or, like, there's just, like, he, they never resolve this, which I think is probably very true to life. It's just, like, this lingering thing. It would take two seconds for anybody to realize that Miles fucked this up. Right. But why did Miles do this? It's almost like he intentionally sabotaged it. Well, I think he fucked up, but then he, he doubles down by lying about it and, you know, being like, oh, it was the guy at the hitching post, you know? Like, obviously, Maya told Stephanie. Guy code, you're not saying that. And if somebody did say that, that's a breach. I mean, yeah, definitely, he betrayed his friend, who is a piece of shit. So it's a tricky. Still guy code. You're a piece of shit. That's one thing. But also, like, that's, that's an act of real betrayal as a friend. Here's a nitpick. Yeah. These guys are friends. I had that too.
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