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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Witness 1985

With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 26 August 2025 · 25,135 feet

The claim

92:59 – 98:54

… to do with him. Watch the new season of Chad Powers on September 3rd streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers. Terms apply. All right. Apex Mountain. Yeah. I mean, I don't even know the answer for hair support. It's probably not this. It's. This is tough. Maybe somewhere in the 80s for him now. And I'm not sure. Oh, for sure. Definitely. It's this specific, but he does. He has Raiders 2, Indiana Jones, Temple of Doom. Yeah. Jedi has come out 18 months before this. He is. I think it actually might be this. I think there's a case because. He's the least competition. Yeah. For all the …

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This season, the walls are closing in on Chad's biggest secret. And with his future on the field hanging in the balance, he'll have to win back the one coach who wants nothing to do with him. Watch the new season of Chad Powers on September 3rd streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers. Terms apply. All right. Apex Mountain. Yeah. I mean, I don't even know the answer for hair support. It's probably not this. It's. This is tough. Maybe somewhere in the 80s for him now. And I'm not sure. Oh, for sure. Definitely. It's this specific, but he does. He has Raiders 2, Indiana Jones, Temple of Doom. Yeah. Jedi has come out 18 months before this. He is. I think it actually might be this. I think there's a case because. He's the least competition. Yeah. For all the parts. He got nominated for best actor. Like he's leveling up in terms of the prestige. I think he's the first phone call after this movie for any movie he wants. Yeah. For a couple of years there. Yeah. I mean. So maybe it is this. You could. It's hard to argue against 80, 81, 82 Empire Raiders Blade Runner. That's just. How does that even happen? But if you're talking about most juice. But then you build up toward and also after doing all those things. Yeah. After being Han Solo and Indiana Jones and Deckard. I got nominated for best actor for playing John Book. And this movie that nobody like everybody passed on and didn't want to make. Got nominated for. Eight Oscars and made 117 million dollars. Like because I'm in it. I'm a hero for the Amish. Yeah. No. McGillis. No, it's Top Gun. Top Gun. Yeah, for sure. It's her putting on the sunglasses in the elevator trying to get frisky for Cruise. We covered that in the rewatchables a long time ago. One of my favorite rewatchables ever. Two studios ago. Oh, yeah. A great one. Yeah. Another life. Amish movie characters? I cannot think of anything else that would be quite at this level. I think it's a yes. Yeah. Evil Philly Police. Campy. Probably campy, but I also couldn't think of another one. Seems impossible. How about Korn? Silos. Apex Mountain for Korn. Korn actually murdering somebody. With love and respect to the Apple TV Plus show, Silo, that I do enjoy. It's good, certainly for Korn Silos. I think this is number one. Not sure about Korn. Sponge baths? Korn silos, yeah. Sponge baths. It's got to be this, right? I had some questions about the sponge bath for later, but we can do it now. Tell me. Is it just the top of the waist sponge bath? There's not? I gotta be honest. I had some questions. We thought sponge baths were kind of like a full body experience. I had some questions about that, too, especially like it's clearly it's warm, it's sticky, it's sweaty. I think if you're about to be intimate with someone, you'd want to do some rinsing in some other areas. I think that would be my note for Rachel. But, you know, she's... Do you need a sponge bath, top half body, lower half body? I would feel like lower half would be the focal point, maybe? I think you'd do it all, ideally. That's what I thought was a sponge bath. I think you'd do it all. She's like a half bath. Well, when she was sponging Book, when he was being nursed, you know, he's got the poultice and the tea and she's dabbing him. That was presumably all above the waist. I don't think she went below the waist. Yeah. How did John Book go to the bathroom and was there a bedpan? It was questions I didn't even want to do and probably unanswerable questions. And yet here you are. Evil Danny Glover, Apex Mountain, 100% yes. Although, I will submit his performance in Shooter, a movie we've already done in the Rewatchables, when him and Ned Beatty are both evil. Great one. I really, I love Evil Danny Glover. Good enough, it's Die Hard. Die Hard, yeah. Lucas Haas, yes. Philly train station movie murders. Oh, interesting. I think it's Blowout. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, hmm. This is good, but I think Blowout's better and uses the station better. Interesting. I do like the, like, trip we take with Samuel through the station. We get to, like, look up at the war memorial. He mistakes the acidic Jew for an Amishman. Like, they make good use of the station. They're sitting, they're waiting. They've got to connect on the train to Baltimore. There's a delay. But yeah, it's a crowded field. Vigo, it's definitely him playing Oregon. What's the guy's name? Oregon? Aragorn? Aragorn. So when I say to you, the return of the king, it means nothing to you. Nothing at all. Okay. Well, that's a shame. Lucas Haas, I think it was a 2001 Victoria's Secret thing that him and Leo were invited to. That's fair. It could be any pussy posse escapade. It's probably truly his apex, but it could be this. What about Peter Weir? That's a hard one. I think it's Dead Poets. I think so, too, because this is his first American movie. So even though this was really successful and well-received and heavily nominated, when he then is nominated, what is that? Three years? Four years later? Four years later. He's nominated again for Best Director. Yeah. For Dead Poets. That's probably. That's probably. I think that movie had, as much as I love Witness, I think Dead Poets has a little more juice. Like just, even in the last 35 plus years with the cast it had. They're both great. The meaning for Robin Williams' career. Both of them are great, but I think Dead Poets, it's an interesting one. I think both of them have held up spectacularly well, which is crazy. I know. Because it's the 80s. Yeah. Cruise or Hanks? I think Cruise, you could, you could, Cruise could be Book. I think he could be. So I went Hanks. For Book? Yeah. No. And I, as you know, I almost always pick Hanks for these. No, I don't think so. What's your case? It's a tough one because I don't think either of them, I don't think it's a good role for either. But I think Hanks, I could believe more as like a Philly cop. Yeah.

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
Harrison Ford27,320 ftThe Empire Strikes Back, 1980, by 6,883 feet.
Kelly McGillis20,070 ftThe House on Carroll Street, 1988, by 1,276 feet.
Danny Glover22,100 ftLethal Weapon, 1987, by 4,099 feet.

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.