Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
72:41 – 77:44… are the two. Art arc. I love that. He loves LeBron. Obama. This is a black excellence movie. This is big. This is going to end up in Black History Month. For Apex Mountain, which is when somebody reached the height of their career. Oh my goodness. I'm so excited. I think this might be the height of sappy Disney sports movies. They might have really mastered it here. This is the go-to one that people mentioned first. Unless you want to say Miracle, but I still feel like Remember the Titans is bigger. It's better. It's bigger and better. This is when they really figured out the formula. And then they kept doing …
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Hunger Games. LeBron James. Those are the two. Art arc. I love that. He loves LeBron. Obama. This is a black excellence movie. This is big. This is going to end up in Black History Month. For Apex Mountain, which is when somebody reached the height of their career. Oh my goodness. I'm so excited. I think this might be the height of sappy Disney sports movies. They might have really mastered it here. This is the go-to one that people mentioned first. Unless you want to say Miracle, but I still feel like Remember the Titans is bigger. It's better. It's bigger and better. This is when they really figured out the formula. And then they kept doing it with the rookie. They did it with Miracle. So on and so on. So it's going to be a competition between this one and Mighty Ducks. But sappy? Mighty Ducks isn't like... Oh, sappy. Angels in the outfield. That's the word. There are a couple times in this movie where I tear up and get the chills. When Denzel lowers his whole guard when he comes back home and puts his daughter over his shoulder. And we're going to win state. I'm like overwhelmed. I'm like, wow, Denzel did that to me. Again. I have a soft spot in my heart for McFarlane, USA. I love a Kevin Costner, White Savior movie. By the way. With the Mexicans in it too. That's a 1 million percent justifiable soft spot. I actually like that movie. It's just too long. But that movie's good. Yeah. I like it. I'm a fan of that movie. And by the way, Mexicans in a sports movie. That doesn't happen that often. As you might have guessed. I've been waiting. Yeah. That movie's good. I actually thought that should have done better. I do have a soft spot for Angels in the outfield though. That's fair. I just. That was. That's an important movie. You know, McFarlane, USA is the type of movie that. Now that we're in the Netflix era. If that movie had never been released. And Netflix is like, here's our new movie. McFarlane, USA. I feel like 75 million people would see it. Yeah. Yeah. It becomes a thing for a while. It just was like a tweener. It was like after people saw sports movies in a theater. But kind of before streaming. One of the issues with that movie. It came out in 2015. And Kevin Costner also had a movie that same year. I think it's called Black and White. Where he, White Savior is a little black girl. Like he was doing a lot of saving. And he did draft day. He saved the Browns. And I think that that cannibalized it a little bit. I don't have any other Apex Mountain. I think everybody else went on to do something better in this movie. Except for Blue. It's Blue's Apex Mountain. So is Apex Mountain like your favorite? Or like how famous they. It's the height of kind of their career professionally. It's when they have the most juice. It's when they're feeling the best about how things are going for themselves. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody else. Probably Ray Buds. Racist Ray. This is probably his high spot. Well, yeah. And his low spot. And Kip. Like, you know. Where else do you know? Oh, yeah. It's Kip. Kip Ardu. Yeah. It is Panettiere's best role though. Even though. Some would say Heroes or Nashfos. Yeah. I mean, she definitely had. You know. She's been like on network television. What about Beth Cooper? I love you, Beth Cooper. I just. I'm a big fan of the little girl in this movie. I just think she's perfectly annoying. It's too bad you're not a six foot nine Russian boxer. You might have had a chance. Picking nits. We're going to pick some nits. I thought Yost and Denzel. Well, that would have been. If I was the producer of this movie. I would have had the most notes on that. Like, hey. We got to develop this a little more. Can't they go get a beer? Or. No. Can they have one scene where they're connecting in any way? These are just like. Well. Two ships passing in the night for this entire movie. It was only through the daughters. Only through like the dropping off of the daughters. Was that like any non-football camaraderie. But yeah. They didn't really. But maybe that was realistic. But that's how dads become friends though. Especially in situations like this. You're just like. Oh, you've got a kid. I got a kid. I guess the kids can hang out. And me and you are going to sit outside by each other for two hours and not say anything. Yeah. And now we're best friends. Another nitpick. There's a TV crew broadcasting the championship game live in 1971. I just have some issues. I don't think this was. You can barely get like a Red Sox game in 1971 on TV. But that's because in Virginia. Football. Football. Maybe that's true. But the ending. Why wasn't the other team in a prevent defense? Everybody's up. There's 20 seconds left. They should have won that game. The Titans are on their own 24. And once they get past the first couple defenders, there's nobody for another 50 yards. Where's like the one safety who's on his own 20? It's cocky. Yeah. Nobody was. Sloppy, T.C. Williams. Sloppy. They weren't really throwing back then. Yeah. You know, you don't worry about safeties. That was bad. Middle school, high school football at the time. Any other nitpicks? We picked a lot of nets and Shay got upset a couple of times. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We might have to stop picking nets. I do. Shay really takes it personally. Yeah. This is always the worst part of all the rewatchables for me.
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