Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
63:12 – 68:49… a good thing that they're deleted. I never knew that that existed. I did read about the Dennehy controversy, which I guess he didn't admit to. It's like 2000. Apex Mountain. Slash the loan. Not yet. You would have thought, but not yet. Because 85, he's got Rambo, First Blood 2, and Rocky IV same year, which was his Apex. Brian Dennehy. It's an interesting one. This is a major, major, major successful movie, and he's the number two star in it. And it does set him up for the rest of the decade. So I think you can make a case, yes. Well, him or the guy you don't, I guess you don't like that much, Richard Crenna. …
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Cut from the release, but you can find it on the special edition DVD in the deleted scenes menu. Probably a smart cut. As you know, my rule is deleted scenes are usually deleted for a reason. Yeah. Most often, it's a good thing that they're deleted. I never knew that that existed. I did read about the Dennehy controversy, which I guess he didn't admit to. It's like 2000. Apex Mountain. Slash the loan. Not yet. You would have thought, but not yet. Because 85, he's got Rambo, First Blood 2, and Rocky IV same year, which was his Apex. Brian Dennehy. It's an interesting one. This is a major, major, major successful movie, and he's the number two star in it. And it does set him up for the rest of the decade. So I think you can make a case, yes. Well, him or the guy you don't, I guess you don't like that much, Richard Crenna. But I think Richard Crenna. I don't like him as much as you. Crenna I have, I think definitely for Crenna. Because he basically plays this guy in Rambo 2. He plays him in the Charlie Sheen parody movie. Like, he keeps this going. I think Richard Crenna, I mean, yeah, Dennehy did after this get to star in a couple of movies, right? Like, he starred in that movie with James Woods or a couple of them. He became. Yeah, he's in the FX. Both of them. Those are good movies. I, yeah, he, I think you can make either, um, either argument there. David Murrell too, because it finally happened for him. And then all his books became bestsellers. Richard Crenna is basically like a little too good to be in the love boat fantasy island, Charlie's Angels, Kojak, Vortex. But also like, you know, you look at his, you look at his IMDb the same year he makes Flamingo Kid, a movie you love. A year later, he makes Rambo 2. And then he makes a TV movie called The Rape of Richard Beck. Sure. Listen, Crenna liked to work. But I would say that it's a really hard. There were a lot of TV movies in his IMDb. I'll put it that way. I would just say it's a really hard, that role, Colonel Tripp, you think about it. What does he have to do? He has to sell you on the whole idea of what and who John Rambo is and what it all means. Yeah. And he's basically just coming in to do Basil Exposition until the very end. And so the way he just chooses to pull it off is, I just say it's a high degree of difficulty part and he makes it look easy. That's all I'll say about that. Okay. And then if you watch Flamingo Kid, he's a totally different dude and is amazing in Flamingo He's really good in that movie. That's my suggestion. More Apex Mountain. Vietnam action movies? Sure. Okay. Hunting knives? Oh, oh, oh, what a great call. Trying to remember a better hunting knife movie. Well, I'm sure there's one where a bad guy does something with a hunting knife that's pretty amazing that people are going to yell at us for forgetting, but I love it. It's a great, great character in this. Early 80s movie graphics. How about that? Some good graphics in this. The old school, it really feels rooted in 1982. Opening credits. That's all I have for Apex Mountain. I guess Susie Pye. I guess we could put her in Apex Mountain too, even though she got deleted. Penthouse pet of the month in January 81. Exploding. I think exploding ammo. Oh, okay. Some picky nets. It's unclear when he's taking out the posse one at a time. At one point, he's just covered in mud. At another point, he's somehow scaled this 15-foot tree. I don't know how he got up there. It's way up there. It's like, what did you like? Shimmy up 15 feet? There's some liberties taken. Well, yeah. There are a few, I think. Like the way how quickly he got the haunch off the boar I mentioned. Also, I will say- The jump into the train, not dying immediately. I have a big nit to pick with the local cops getting to run this mission. Like the whole department's been depleted. They're all in the hospital except dead. Every one of them is basically hospitalized except for like Danny Caruso and the broken nose dude, right? The rest of them are super fucked up. I mean, one guy got the full garrow against the tree. Another guy, they probably had to amputate his legs to save him. I mean, it's like a lot of shit that happened. And then the whole thing is the state cop goes, I'm taking this. And then all that Teasel has to do is look at the guy and go, don't give me your jurisdictional bullshit, John. And then the guy's like, okay. Like, that's just not the way that would, I mean, have the FBI. It's just not the way that would be run, right? It's just not going to be run by- Yeah, this is a manhunt. Yeah, you're just not running. Will Teasel's not running this. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, because we're in like East Bumfuck, Oregon or East Bumfuck, Washington. Pacific Northwest, it seems like, maybe. And also that Will Teasel, I'll say another nit is, like, Rambo's obviously wearing a jacket of an army vet. And Will Teasel is like, hey, don't wear the flag that way. And Will Teasel, having been in the army, would recognize, I think, pretty quickly that this guy was a veteran of a foreign war. But never, right? I mean, he just would have recognized it. But he doesn't. And the movie doesn't work if he doesn't. So, you know. More picky nits. It never strikes me as anything but dumb when Rambo picks up the walkie-talkie the first time because he hears Richard Crenna. I think he's too smart to do that. He knows they're going to location device him within 30 seconds. Well, yeah. And the only along those lines, like the fact what you said about that they found that tarp lying around to make the jacket out of, I will say it just so happens that every place Rambo
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