Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
98:22 – 105:40… 13. Two picks for Dave Craig. A fun guy to bet against in the 90s. Made a few, made a few wagers against that guy. He was no Swenson. Akeman threw for 350. Apex Mountain. So this movie, you could argue, has more apexes of the stars in it than just about any movie we've done. Cuba Gooding. For sure. Renee Zellweger? This or Bridget Jones, yeah. Cameron Crowe? Sister Almost Famous. Probably this though. I think it's this. I think it's this. This is his biggest hit plus five Oscars. You guys really don't feel like, not to be argumentative, which I always am, you guys really don't feel like Cameron Crowe's apex …
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1995, Monday Night Football. Dallas 37, Arizona 13. Two picks for Dave Craig. A fun guy to bet against in the 90s. Made a few, made a few wagers against that guy. He was no Swenson. Akeman threw for 350. Apex Mountain. So this movie, you could argue, has more apexes of the stars in it than just about any movie we've done. Cuba Gooding. For sure. Renee Zellweger? This or Bridget Jones, yeah. Cameron Crowe? Sister Almost Famous. Probably this though. I think it's this. I think it's this. This is his biggest hit plus five Oscars. You guys really don't feel like, not to be argumentative, which I always am, you guys really don't feel like Cameron Crowe's apex is almost famous? Okay. It wasn't as big of a hit. It wasn't as big of a hit. It's got Tom Cruise in it. It's true. McGuire leads to almost famous. It seemed like almost famous was just more critically acclaimed. Critically darling and everybody talked about it. This movie did better and was a bigger deal. I also, yeah, I also would dare say almost famous has a little bit of like a kind of like ringer bubble, like it's the best movie ever, but I don't know if it's always like, I'm just saying. No, no, no. I'm with it. I'm with it. But it's like, I was beating myself. It's a good debate. I was beating myself up watching the movie literally going, People still walk around like show me the money. I like this movie better than almost famous. This movie is better than almost famous to me, but I thought that people would be a little gun shy about saying it. Have we landed on Cruise? Well, I'm going to get to him at the end. Bonnie Hunt. Yes. Gifford, Michaels, and Deardorff as a threesome. I think this was Apex Mountain because they kind of all suck together. Gifford was kind of out of it. This is when I started to write my sports guy column and Gifford was just great for material. It's funny in the beginning of the game where he's like leading the play-by-play. I'm like, Al Michaels is right next to you. What are you doing? That's what they would do and then they would bring in Gifford was kind of the elder statesman who would set the game up. People would be like, Drake, so many years. So many memories. It's weird that they did that. Yeah. Have you known Renee Zilberger yet? We said yes. Oh, okay. Lipnicki, yes. Jay Moore, I think maybe yes. Yeah. In a movie for sure. Probably. Roy Firestone, no question. Regina King, no. Roy Firestone instead of the Peabody's. What is it for Cruise? Where did we land on this? Did we say A Few Good Men? I mean, this is kind of the culmination of the 90s because it's, like you said, the fifth consecutive hundred million dollars. It's probably this because it's Mission Impossible and Jerry Maguire, same year. I think in some ways this is an act of such pure movie stardom to be able to be like, I'm carrying this movie. The title is the character I play. It's not like a lawyer or an action movie. I'm not flying planes. I'm fucking talking and running and emoting for two hours. Like, this is a real testament to this guy's wattage. You know what the problem with it being his Apex Mountain is to me is when you say Tom Cruise, for me, Apex Mountain, when you say Tom Cruise, I don't think that most people think right away Jerry Maguire. Like, when you say Tom Cruise, I don't think people think that. I think they think Maverick. They think other... They think Maverick probably first. Yeah, so to me, this might be the best I've ever... The best Tom Cruise for me. The most I've ever connected to Tom Cruise. I don't know. I just... I have... But what if you combine it with Mission Impossible five months earlier and you're starting an action franchise? Because honestly... Career-wise, this is Apex Mountain. This is Apex. There's also two absolute masterpiece movies still to this day. See our mission statements, Apex Mountain? Unabomber? Fair. Well, Unabomber's right around this time. Yeah. This is in the air. What? You just said that so contemplatively like you really considered it and then you decided that now is the time to share. So Apex Mountain for manifestos is the Unabomber. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You would call the Unabomber's a mission statement. I think that had more legs than Jerry Maguire being like, we should charge less for people than solutions. I can't argue with that. Sports agents. How about... What is the Apex Mountain for sports agents? That is a good question. Probably David Falk and Michael Jordan. Oh, I was going to say... David Falk was like the most powerful person in the NBA. Boris. But yeah. Oh, Boris is a good one. Boris is up there. How about Cruz laughing in bed during a sex scene over actually having sex? Yeah. This is a Tom Cruise move because they were like... Nobody... People get weirded out Nobody wants to see the Chicago style here. Yeah. Yeah. How about bass fishing accidents? Sure. Oh, I lost a leg. Yeah. The Cowboys, no. Hating ass brothers? Probably not. This is the Apex Mountain for Arizona Cardinals though. It actually... Not their appearance in the Super Bowl. They had no fucking shot though. Come on. They came down in the last minute. They almost won. They should have won. Sad Springsteen song movie drops. We could either go with this or Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Philadelphia, yeah. All right. It's time. It's the fucking Super Bowl. I'm glad you're still here. Cruiser Hanks. I mean, it's not close. It's not close. It has to be Cruz. Yeah. It's not close. Hanks was first choice. I actually don't think it's a great role for Tom Hanks. It's not. No. He's not slimy. This is easy Cruz. I don't think he's a great role. Easily Cruz. And I don't think he's quite good looking enough. But you could make the argument that this now ends the debate. If Cruz takes the role that was written for Hanks and is just like, this is now. Only because Hanks turned it down. I would say. Sloppy seconds, Tom Cruise. It is an interesting movie with Tom Hanks. I'd like to see Tom Hanks try this, but he already did something like this. Like Bonfire of the Vanities is a little bit of the same energy and he was a bad fit. He was too old. I think he's too old at this point. Yeah, he might be. Racehorse, rock band, wrestler, fantasy team name. Did you go to Quan? That's what I wrote. Tidwell's? It's good. All right. I'm going to do this again. Pick a nits. The big game. Do it. Monday Night Football. Van hasn't heard this. We did this the first time we talked about it. It's been a passion of mine for a long time. Monday Night Football game starts at 9.07 Eastern time, 1995. Or 1996. That is 7.07 Phoenix time. I looked up the time of Monday Night Football games back then. It's about 3.20. Game ends, 10.30 range, Phoenix time. Shower, press conference, Tidwell hug. 40 minutes at least? Yeah, I'm going to say 40. I'm going to say it's 11.15 Phoenix time. Jerry leaves Rod with his phone, sprints out. He's got to get out. Football traffic. Are they in Glendale for this? No, they're not in Glendale. It's in, I think, Sun Devil Stadium. Okay. So they probably, I'm going to say traffic out of the game. Airport, 11.45, 12 range, Arizona time. Best case scenario. Best case scenario flight is 12.30 to 12.45 a.m. Like, let's say 12.30. We're getting the benefit of the doubt. No TSA. He's just like running on the plane. Runs on. 12.30. Now, I looked up Southwest Phoenix to L.A. The latest flight is 9.40 p.m. So there's a nitpick right there. No flights go from Arizona after midnight to L.A. Whatever. 90-minute flight, time zone shift.
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