Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
40:43 – 46:30… different level. Can I say my other favorite Jenkins performance is out of Cabin in the Woods? Oh, yeah. With Whitford. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's great in that. Apex Mountain. Catherine Han, yes. A hundred percent. Just on the map in the greatest way possible in a movie that people rewatch all the time. Fair on though. Are we talking Apex Mountain within the realm of their comedic performances? You always get confused by Apex Mountain. I'm not confused. I just want a little clarity. It's not the same thing. The greatest moment of their career. Sure. Okay. Fair on though. I still think Anchorman is. I think he's …
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But yeah, it's a belated renaissance that does not happen often, where you see somebody pass the age of 50 and then vault to a different level. Can I say my other favorite Jenkins performance is out of Cabin in the Woods? Oh, yeah. With Whitford. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's great in that. Apex Mountain. Catherine Han, yes. A hundred percent. Just on the map in the greatest way possible in a movie that people rewatch all the time. Fair on though. Are we talking Apex Mountain within the realm of their comedic performances? You always get confused by Apex Mountain. I'm not confused. I just want a little clarity. It's not the same thing. The greatest moment of their career. Sure. Okay. Fair on though. I still think Anchorman is. I think he's in the middle of a great run. There's also SNL moments that like- He's still on SNL. He's at the tail end of SNL. He's played Bush for a couple years. Can we spend a little time doing the hierarchy of Will Ferrell movies? Sure. What are your top fives? This is one. This is one? Ahead of Anchorman. Yeah. At this point, yes. Wow. This doesn't have parts of Anchorman that I skip. This doesn't have any skippable parts. I agree with that. That's bold though. Yeah. Anchorman definitely meant probably more to me at a time in my life where I was like, all I'm going to do is speak in Anchorman quotes, much to the detriment of my sex life. Yeah. You know, I think that this is a better movie in some ways. Yeah. Okay. I'm going Anchorman, Step Brothers, Old School, Zoolander. I'd probably go this, Anchorman, Old School. Can I take Wedding Crashers as a Will Ferrell movie just for Mom? I want some meat floats. That's one of the greatest he checks in the history of movies. People want Wedding Crashers for the rewatchables, by the way. We'll get there. Yeah. Okay. No love for Elf, huh? I'm not a big Elf guy. If I don't shout out Elf, my brother will kill me. So, shout out to Elf. I think his Zoolander performance in that whole movie in general slipped through the cracks. And the reason was it came out right after 9-11. And I remember seeing it in the theater. And it was, people were laughing, but they weren't sure of it. It was just like one of the worst time comedy releases we've had. That movie's really funny. And it had enough legs that it eventually led to Zoolander too. But he's really good in that movie. How do you guys feel about the other guys? I think it's a really genius idea that isn't executed as well as I want it to be. Yeah. It was like a little too much like a real cop movie. Yeah. But there's like really, really high moments of it. I didn't like Wahlberg in it. And I like Wahlberg in general. I just, I didn't think, I never understood whether he was playing a parody of the actor or whether he was trying to be Mark Wahlberg. I don't think he knew either. He didn't know. Yeah. I do think that without that movie, McKay wouldn't have been able to make the big short. Because it basically starts McKay taking things a little bit more seriously. Because that movie is more or less a satire of the financial crisis. Yeah. And it's like a indictment of big banking, which is a weird thing to find in a cop movie. But that's what it is. Adam McKay, Apex Mountain, yes. Unless you want to go big short. I would just go peak of his powers. He's now established himself in, he makes this iconic comedy movie. Really out of nothing with no plot and band-aids and just relationships. And this movie ends up being good enough that he can do whatever he wants in life. Big short. Or you could say big short. I mean, big short made $140 million and he was nominated for best director. Yeah, that's better. That's pretty impressive. I changed my mind. I'm going big short. And I think he's honestly not, has not hit his apex yet. I think it's in front of him. And other people have directed episodes of Succession. But you can see him taking a style and like being able to apply it to these other things. And I think Succession is actually way more like the creator Jesse Armstrong's handiwork than it is like McKay's. But that jittery, big short camera work is very much part of Succession's success. He's a good dude too. Adam Scott? 100%. His performance in Eastbound and Down, he's in two and a half scenes in Eastbound and Down, maybe. It's so mind-blowing. And I know that it might just be my personal affinity for Eastbound and Down. I would also say that I just need to shout out Ashley Schaefer, BMW, Will Ferrell from Eastbound and Down. And one of the greatest ever deleted scenes is the – or not even deleted scenes but extended scenes is if you go on YouTube and see Will Ferrell's scene with Craig Robinson and Danny McBride where they face off at the BMW dealership. And Will Ferrell does this long speech about his plums going to market. It's just like – it's eye-watering, man. It's so good. But I would say Adam Scott, I'm going to say Eastbound is my – So his character's name is Pat Anderson. He plays an agent in Eastbound and Down. Yeah. And he has an exchange with Dustin Powers, John Hawks. And John Hawks says, you got some credentials there, pal? And Pat Anderson says, yeah, I got some credentials. And he reveals a black credit card. And he says, business account, of course. And Dustin Powers says, what's black? Is black better than gold? And Pat Anderson says, yeah, gold might get you Jonas Brothers tickets. Black will have all three of them sucking your dick. Without – I think without Step Brothers, we don't get Adam Scott playing that role. He also – I think in that first appearance is a VP for the Rays. He's like a devil Rays fight by Scout.
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