Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
80:44 – 85:29… he does. Yeah. So I vaguely, vaguely remember the movie. They only keep a couple of kids from the first two movies. It is an absolute out and out atrocity. Apex mountain, Walter Matthau. I think it's the odd couple. Yeah, probably. So Tatum O'Neill probably winning an Oscar for paper moon, which gave her all the career juice for this. You think it's this? I think it's this. I think like her most, obviously the, the biggest moment in her career. Oh, this is all my, always my question about Apex mountain. The biggest moment in her career is definitely paper moon, right? The biggest moment of Tatum O'Neill as …
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Does Kelly leak fall in love with a girl in Japan? No, he sure does. No, he does. Yeah. So I vaguely, vaguely remember the movie. They only keep a couple of kids from the first two movies. It is an absolute out and out atrocity. Apex mountain, Walter Matthau. I think it's the odd couple. Yeah, probably. So Tatum O'Neill probably winning an Oscar for paper moon, which gave her all the career juice for this. You think it's this? I think it's this. I think like her most, obviously the, the biggest moment in her career. Oh, this is all my, always my question about Apex mountain. The biggest moment in her career is definitely paper moon, right? The biggest moment of Tatum O'Neill as an actress is this, like, this is a, I love that. We're now 340 movies in, and we still don't know what Apex mountain is. I always thought it was the apex of your career. Kind of options, everything where you're just at the peak of your powers. And now it could be like, all right, coming off this, I can do anything. So then it would be paper moon, but still, it would be paper moon. Yeah. If you ask people what they remember Tatum O'Neill. This is her career highlight. There's no question. Cause paper moon, nobody's seen that movie. And even though that was an awesome movie, the 1975 Harley Davidson Z90, I'm going to say apex mountain. That was Kelly league spike. Catfish hunter references. Oh, it's like a legitimate catfish hunter drop. Yeah. Jackie Earl Haley, who we had, we covered in breaking away. I actually think bad news bears are breaking training is his apex mountain. They really build the movie around him and finding his dad. He gets to drive a van. I think he's better. He came back and was like, like after little children. Yeah. Become a big character. Fucking big character actor. So yeah. Yeah. Air hockey. Has there ever been a more pivotal air hockey movie scene? That's what I can think of. There was one in the toy, which is a movie that I love, but it probably doesn't compare it to this one. I love the toy. Even though the people hate the toy. Yeah. People hate the toy. Yeah. Kids sports movies. Yes. And little league baseball, the apex mountain of little baseball. Yeah. Carmen. Yes. I'm saying. Yes. The 1964 Cadillac Deville convertible. Completely inappropriate. Archie Bunker, little kid characters. I'm going to say yes. Pizza hut in movies. Oh, that's a pizza hut. Yes. A lot of pizza hut in this. I think pizza hut, pizza hut used to be so good. You guys, you guys don't remember the, pizza hut looks lovely in this movie. What happened to pizza hut? Pizza hut used to be such a treat guys. I swear to God, man. Y'all pizza was good. It stopped. It stopped in like 92 when it, when they went super fast foodie, but it used to be so awesome to go to pizza hut, man. Little kids pouring beer on each other. No question. Oh, this'll be fun. Cruz or Hanks? I'm going to say Hanks because he basically played this part in league of their own. You know, it's always, this answer is Hanks too often. Cause we, that's why we have the category. We were pigeonholing Cruz a little bit more. I think, I think there's a version of Tom Cruise who could pull this off. I'm a zag here. It's probably, I mean, Hanks is like teed up for it, but I would be interested to see Tom Cruise as the wash up. Exactly. Now we have to go to Craig for the tiebreaker. Craig, what's the tiebreaker? It's Hanks. It's just Hanks. Of course it is. Hanks is now up seven to six. Wow. Hanks is crushing it. The racehorse rock band wrestler fantasy team name. It's either butter makers or Chico's bail bonds. I've actually been in fantasy leagues with people who named their team Chico's bail bonds. So there you go. All right. Pick a nets. I can't wait for this. Well, what's your biggest pick in it? I'll let you go first. Kelly scored. That's the biggest picking it to me. I watched it back. Like Kalika got annoyed. You slow-moed it? Yeah. I watched it back a bunch of times and I was like, tell me if he scored here. And she goes, man, could you go walk the dog? Who cares? You know what I mean? Boseman needs to go outside. Boseman needs to go outside. Your freeze frame, slow motioning. I'm watching it over and over again. Kelly scored. And that changes the whole movie because now the movie is also about the fact that Vic Morrow's character paid the umps off before the movie for some favorable calls, which by the way, the umps were assholes in this movie. Yeah, they were. They're reffing kids games like fucking Angel Hernandez is out there.
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