Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
83:34 – 92:01… So, yeah, and fuel. And so Tony Scott wrote him a check to do it so that he could get the light he wanted. Jesus. Who knows? A couple more things like that. Apex Mountain, Tom Skerritt. Wait, did we do unanswerable questions? We're going to do it. Okay. Tom Skerritt. Aliens, Tom Skerritt. Yeah. Over this? Yeah. The most successful movie of the mid-'80s? I think he's- Yeah, he's the stick. He's- Five minutes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Kelly McGillis? Absolutely. Yeah, Kelly McGillis. This is it. This witness and then this in consecutive years and then vanishes basically. It's tough because she's not good in this. She …
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with one of his shots, and the captain of the ship turned it, and he asked him to turn the ship back, and the captain said it was going to be $25,000. That's how much it costs to make a turn. And fuel. So, yeah, and fuel. And so Tony Scott wrote him a check to do it so that he could get the light he wanted. Jesus. Who knows? A couple more things like that. Apex Mountain, Tom Skerritt. Wait, did we do unanswerable questions? We're going to do it. Okay. Tom Skerritt. Aliens, Tom Skerritt. Yeah. Over this? Yeah. The most successful movie of the mid-'80s? I think he's- Yeah, he's the stick. He's- Five minutes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Kelly McGillis? Absolutely. Yeah, Kelly McGillis. This is it. This witness and then this in consecutive years and then vanishes basically. It's tough because she's not good in this. She opens like a restaurant or something. Rasevich, I think, 100% definitely. Is there another Rasevich? I can't even think of another. The Air Force? It's the Navy. It's the Navy. Ratsy? Whatever? Ratsy. Do you think I did it? Maybe that Apex Mountain did. It is Apex Mountain for the Navy. This and- No, Zero Dark Thirty is Apex Mountain for the Navy. Simpson Bruckheimer? Oh. It wasn't the tower. Yeah, this time period. I mean, Beverly Hills Cop, this. It's Beverly Hills Cop, then this. So I would actually say this was their Apex Mountain because after those combo, you could do anything. Yeah. And the cocaine was probably never better than Navy. Yeah, it was a buyer's market at that time, so sure. Tom Cruise, no. Val Kilmer, no. Beach Volleyball? I think Karch Karai is Apex Mountain for Beach Volleyball. That's all I got. Any other Apexers? No. Yeah. So, Best That Guy. Ooh. A.K.A. The Joey Pants Award. Michael Ironside and Tom Skerritt do not count. There's only, for me, it's the bald guy. Who plays James Tolkien? I don't even know that guy's name. James Tolkien, Stinger. That's his name, James Tolkien? The principal from Back to the Future. Right? Right? I have a couple of James Stinger questions for unanswerable questions. Okay. Well, we're now picking, oh, this is a crucial category. The Saul Rubinick, they knew award for best overacting. Oh, man. You have every scene with the bald guy. Yeah. Tom Cruise crying, crying, and every Val Kilmer scene. Val Kilmer is grief breathing. Yeah. Val Kilmer is grief breathing. Grief breathing. Yeah. Oh, my God. We all liked Goose. Pick a nits? Want to pick some nits? Sure. I feel like we've done a lot of them. Yeah, we did. The Mav quits the volleyball game. Oh. We're okay with Goose dying like the way he died? Like, they don't know how to eject somebody out of these kajillion dollar planes? It was like a manual eject was the problem. Couldn't have figured that out in the trillion dollar planes? I will say it does seem like a design flaw. I would also just say another picking that I have can also be thought of as an unanswerable question, but Hollywood still being alive after getting shot out of the sky with a missile in the last dogfight. That's why Cruise is so excited to see him. He's on the deck, and he's just like, it's me. So you got blown out of the sky. Yeah. The cockpit was on fire. Yeah. You guys landed in the ocean, got rescued, and brought back to the deck in time to be dry and psyched when Tom Cruise gets back. Yeah, well, that's why Cruise is so excited. But Goose dies in Carlsbad. Yeah. Okay. Cruise, no. It's a nitpick. Why did Mav throw Goose's ID into the ocean? Yeah, I don't know. Wouldn't have kept that one? Give it to Carol? Yeah, give it to Carol. Maybe Carol wants the dog tags? I know, that was stupid. Her dead husband's dog tags? Maybe young Bradley wants them? I can't believe Maverick wasn't thinking about someone else's feelings in that moment. It seems very on brand for Maverick. Would you throw in Mallory's ID if she tried to be died? Would you throw it in the ocean? I'm also not, I'm not, I don't have, I'm not like Maverick. He just like only thinks about himself. I mean, that's, it's kind of like in character for him. Wouldn't he give that to Goose's son? Like, hey man, you might want. I'm sure that's going to come up in Top Gun Maverick. He's going to be like, fuck you, bro. You threw away my dad's necklace. Dad's thing. Where is it? The crowded noisy bar suddenly going silent when you lost the love and feeling started is ludicrous. And then the ending. Oh, I have one more picking nit from the bar. No, I, I, oh God. The guy that Charlie's on a date with. Yeah. Peter Pettigrew. A hundred years old. That's Peter Pettigrew. He's in there with a textbook and they're like reading it. She's definitely like the hottest bachelorette in Miramar. And she's dating like a thousand year old English professor. It's really weird. I think he's supposed to be her colleague. Sometimes at work, ages, but a number. I'll leave it at that. Okay. Everybody's buzzing the tower today. Jesus Christ. Why did Mav not want to fly? Are these unanswerable questions? No, this is my last nitpick. You're so eager to get to unanswerable questions. Why did Mav not want to fly anymore? He fought one battle in the Indian Ocean and Viper goes, you can pick anywhere you want to go. Yeah. And he's like, I think I want to teach again. It's like, he just graduated three days ago. He doesn't want to get 10 years in? It doesn't make any sense. Where are these naval pilots going? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's because they quit after one hour. Although, although it is, it is kind of Barry Sanders-esque. I mean, you go out setting all the records. You take out four Migs and you're like, it can only get worse from here. Like the next time I go up, I probably get shot out of the sky. I'm also probably wanted by whoever, whatever country set these Migs up. So maybe I just better chill in Miramar and sit in Kansas City barbecue and listen to a jukebox. I love also that in that last scene, he's definitely reading the USA Today's sports section. So that was- Gotta see how the brewers are doing. That was an apex mountain for the USA Today's sports section. Best quote, Mallory, you're allowed five. Five, okay. Stinger to Mav, son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. Obviously incredible. I'm going to leave some of the ones that I know you guys are going to pick to you so that I can cheat and say five while knowing other ones will be picked. Take me to bed or lose me forever. Hey, who's your big stud? That's me, honey. Take me to bed or lose me forever. Show me the way home, honey. All-timer. No one would say that in real life. And yet I think everyone would want to try after hearing that. I like Charlie's I'll have what he's having. Hemlock, is it? That's one of the only good line readings from her. Another really mean line by her. In the movie. Love to reference the death of Socrates. You got to do it whenever you can. Let's see. Goose saying the list is long but distinguished. And then Slider saying- So is my Johnson. Great stuff. Great 80s humor. Just incredible stuff. And I like when Goose says every time you go up there it's like you're flying against a ghost. The dad backstory doesn't totally work for me in general but for it all. What a shock that that tacked on. Got some unanswerable questions about that. But I like that line. I just like the implied idea that like you can become an elite fighter pilot like somehow through DNA. Through like muscle memory from the father you never knew. Well what about Tom Skerritt saying, explaining the real story of how Maverick's dad died. And he's like, he was hit pretty bad. He was hit pretty bad. And then he flew back and saved two more planes. Like what? What do you mean he was hit pretty bad and kept flying the plane and saved people? And then it went down? I think it's like he loses an engine and instead of going back he like helps out a couple other guys. Well why wouldn't they tell the family that? Well I guess because he's like flying over Cambodia at the time. But it's also like- This is a chief unanswerable question though. It's really like 30 seconds later they're like over Laos. Another like legally shady body of water and have a dog fight? Yeah. We still doing best quotes? Yeah I got- I'm leaving the big one for you guys. I have a- Well that- I feel the need for speed is- I feel the need for speed is yeah. I feel the need. The need for speed. Ow! Wait a second. You were in a 4G inverted dive with a MiG-28? Like she's just so completely blown away by this? Like international relations? Working on international relations? I think that's all about the way he like twists his hands and goes-
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