Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
31:13 – 34:00… Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Sounds so fun. So fun. And then he has to get the ferret. A lot of ferret in this. The ferret with no name. I mean, listen, is this Apex Mountain for ferrets? So I had that read down as a strong yes. Ferrets had a moment of about a year and a half before people realized they were just overgrown rats and not fun to hang out with. And kind of stinky. And then it was over. I had it as the Big Lebowski. There's a nice marmot. There's a ferret. And then, is that the Richard Gere one or is that something different? I don't know. Who knows? Was he a ferret guy or was that gerbils? I can't …
The whole segment, as transcribed
Leading to Arnold going, shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Sounds so fun. So fun. And then he has to get the ferret. A lot of ferret in this. The ferret with no name. I mean, listen, is this Apex Mountain for ferrets? So I had that read down as a strong yes. Ferrets had a moment of about a year and a half before people realized they were just overgrown rats and not fun to hang out with. And kind of stinky. And then it was over. I had it as the Big Lebowski. There's a nice marmot. There's a ferret. And then, is that the Richard Gere one or is that something different? I don't know. Who knows? Was he a ferret guy or was that gerbils? I can't distinguish my marmoths. Arnold plays Who's Your Daddy? And what does he do? This has the It's Not a Tumor. It's Not a Tumor at all. This has confessions from the kids, including my daddy as a gynecologist. Fantastic. I don't think that they're playing Who's Your Daddy now in 2026. I'm guessing that got vetoed by the school principal. Especially what does he do? That's none of your business. We're not doing any of that. One of the reasons this is such a good scene is we just get to hang out with all these different kids. There's like 10 kids and it's like, all right, cool. I'm actually, it's not just like this anonymous classroom. I feel like I'm learning. It feels like what they would now put in as outtakes during the closing credits. Here's this cute stuff we recorded, but it's actually in the movie. I actually think one of the faults is I think they should have done more of that. The kids are on fire. The kids are cooking, especially the girl at the end who has to go to the bathroom and can't do the overalls. That stuff is all gold. I wish they would have done more. I agree. And I think if I had notes, if they had sent me the script and I could have weighed in on some stuff, I probably would have cut down on crisp a little bit. I would have had Arnold trying to get the kids ready for a play or something, like play it up more where he has to run a rehearsal. No, you came in too soon and do that whole thing. We could have done that with the Gettysburg Address. And you're onto something? Dude, my favorite word that Arnold Schwarzenegger says, he says like 12 times in this movie, he goes, come on, come on. He's a fire drill. Come on. And that's what he says in Predator. Come on, kill me. I'm here. He hits that one so hard. And every time he says, come on, I laugh and I want to run around with him. I have another idea for this that I have in a later part of the pod. The milk nap scene, I really like. Just like very tender scene. But just seeing kids drink milk. I don't know. Do they do that anymore? Probably not. No. Arnold reads a book and we have the nightmare doze off. That seems good. Arnold almost kills Pamela Reed's fiance. And she goes right from, I think, having sex to just diving into a plate of pasta. Unexplained. Where was the pasta?
75:32 – 79:11… I think don't look in the camera is probably the big one. I'm sure half of these kids probably just look. Everyone wants to look in the camera, even adults. Apex Mountain. Arnold. Yes. We said that. We got it. That's it. Richard Tyson. I still think it's two moon junction. Felt like he was going to be a big star after that. Penelope Miller. I don't know. Let me tell you something about this. Let's give her a credit. She has a very cool factoid about her that she, in a very small period of time, was in movies with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Marlon Brando. Like, all three godfathers. That's pretty badass. …
The whole segment, as transcribed
Listen, act natural, know your character, don't look in the camera, and be disciplined. I think don't look in the camera is probably the big one. I'm sure half of these kids probably just look. Everyone wants to look in the camera, even adults. Apex Mountain. Arnold. Yes. We said that. We got it. That's it. Richard Tyson. I still think it's two moon junction. Felt like he was going to be a big star after that. Penelope Miller. I don't know. Let me tell you something about this. Let's give her a credit. She has a very cool factoid about her that she, in a very small period of time, was in movies with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Marlon Brando. Like, all three godfathers. That's pretty badass. And she holds her own. And Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course. Yeah, so she... I forgot to do her little run. She's perfectly lovely. Very good actress. Still in the game. Like, she does her thing in this movie. Her IMDb, the known for a fun game, to see what IMDb decides to for. Yeah. Carlitos Way, Kindergarten Cop, The Artist, and The Freshman with Brando. Those are the four they went for. Apex Mountain, hybrid action kids movies? I think yes. Yeah, because we get so many kids sports movies, like Mighty Ducks and stuff like that, but not with shooting and killing and shotgunning people. Yeah. That's pretty rare. This is it. Ivan Reitman, probably Ghostbusters. Have to be. Astoria, yes. Undercover cop movies, no. Tumors, I think yes. Tuma. I mean, yeah. Imani Tumor did beat the 18-0 Patriots. Tumors in a fun way. Yes. Fun tumors. Honestly, if someone told you they sat you down and they're like, God, I have some really bad news. They discovered a tumor. There's a sick voice in your head that would say, it's not a tumor. It's not a tumor. That's just how we're programmed at this point. Not a tumor. Sorry. Those are the rules. And then I'm going to add this. I didn't have this in my initial notes, but you nailed it. Brookstone. Oh, fuck yeah. Because Brookstone has When Harry Met Sally the year before with Fringe on top. In front of Ira. Yes. But it has a whole, I think that's Brookstone. Is it Sharper Image or Brookstone in that? I don't remember. Brookstone. Those feel like the same stores to me. They basically work. I feel like Juliet Limon's going to crash into the taping right now. Be like, it's fucking Sharper Image, you dumbass. But yeah, Brookstone, it's right around here. And we all, I was in college back then. You would walk into the Brookstone. You weren't buying anything. Never. You couldn't. Walk around 45 minutes. Everything was like $180 or $60 or $90. The person would always come over and say, can you help you? No, you can't. And then you'd be like holding like a jelly hand crunch to make your grip better. You can do the grip and they would have those things where if you pull one marble to the right, it sets off the back and forth chain reaction of the marble. Try some headphones on. Whoa. These headphones are great. Like there was a thing of nails where if you put your hand in the nail tray, it would like make the shape of your hand. It's like for douchebags to have in their office. Like you think that they're 1990s Don Draper. That's the specialty there. The chairs were really the key. If you could sit in a massage chair for five minutes without going to yell that it was a big win. Cruz or Hanks? This is clearly Cruz. There's no question. You think it's Hanks? No, no, no. I, I can see Hanks with the kids. I want it to be Cruz for 50 different reasons. Why do you? Home run for Cruz. Uh, because Cruz never did a movie like this. And honestly, other than, uh, Jerry Maguire, I don't remember him interacting with kids. It's funny you say that because I feel like he's in the full Jerry Maguire, like desperation mode.
Open the full episode on Spotify — it cannot start at the timestamp, so the segment above is the mp3.
A grade for each call is not built yet. The board's answer is shown; whether the pod landed on it is a separate judgement, and it is not made here.