Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
61:25 – 66:05… they were filming for homemade spaghetti from his wife to watch the No Mas, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran fight. Incredible tidbit. Awesome. Just perfect. Apex Mountain. Bill Murray, I'm going to say no. I think it was Ghostbusters. I think coming out of Ghostbusters, he has the most juice sway. Everything he's ever going to have. I agree with you. Harold Ramis is an interesting one. I think you could argue it might be here coming like as an actor slash director. After Groundhog Day, he became like one of the most important directors in all of Hollywood. But as a figure in the culture, Harold Ramis was at …
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This one we do know is true. John Candy invited everyone over to his house while they were filming for homemade spaghetti from his wife to watch the No Mas, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran fight. Incredible tidbit. Awesome. Just perfect. Apex Mountain. Bill Murray, I'm going to say no. I think it was Ghostbusters. I think coming out of Ghostbusters, he has the most juice sway. Everything he's ever going to have. I agree with you. Harold Ramis is an interesting one. I think you could argue it might be here coming like as an actor slash director. After Groundhog Day, he became like one of the most important directors in all of Hollywood. But as a figure in the culture, Harold Ramis was at the apex of... Harold Ramis probably for like this little moment in his life was cool. There was probably just like this one moment when he was like super cool because Egon is not cool, right? By the time he's playing Egon, he's doing something else. And of course, he got much wealthier. So it depends how you define it, right? Ghostbusters made Harold Ramis wealthy for the 10 lifetimes over or whatever. But this movie made Harold Ramis a movie star, which... You could say it set up Ghostbusters. I think so, right? I think so. I don't know. Maybe this wasn't in Zpex. I have to think about this one. John Candy, no. Military comedies. You could even say military movies because we have Private Benjamin in this movie. We also have Officer and a Gentleman in 82. And this was this weird era. We had Taps. We had Lords of Discipline. This was this really weird movie era with just kind of taking us under the hood with the military in all these different ways. So military comedies, definitely. And I think you could make a case for military movies, too. I think that's a weaker case because of Platoon and stuff. But yes. But that's a Vietnam movie, though. I'm saying like people joining the army. Oh, sure. Yeah, great. People going to school to become soldiers. This was kind of... Yes, this and Officer and a Gentleman. I love that. I love that as an idea. Yes, I love that idea. Yes. PJ Souls. I think Halloween is a apex mountain. It's the greatest horror movie of all time. Sean Young, no. Blade Runner, probably. That moment in her career, Blade Runner and then Wall Street. No Way Out. Before Wall Street turned bad. I mean, she's amazing in No Way Out. She's incredible in that movie. I agree with you. I want to do that No Way Out as a rewatchable just to give her the Dion Waiters award. Lara Kett, no. He became a massive TV star. Goofy closing credits that are actually really funny. I still feel like Animal House did the best. When it turns out Blutarski was a senator, that's the biggest laugh you're going to get from those gimmick in the future credit things. Right? It's Warren Oates, right? Warren Oates has to be the apex mount. He's an apex mount. No question. Reitman, no. Mud wrestling in a movie? Was this the greatest mud wrestling moment in the history of a movie? I feel like the answer has to be yes, right? I mean- Pom-poms. It's like MSG with the Sheik versus Sgt. Slaughter. I mean, getting- I mean, when Candy comes up, when Ox comes up with the- The bottoms. All the bikinis, yeah. When she comes up- And when he comes up with the bottoms, it's a pretty winning moment. And they're beating the shit out of him. Yeah, they really go at him. They go at him hard. It's like a five-on-one. Picking nits. We talked about why didn't those guys get their head shaved. Don't understand it. Why there was a raid on pom-poms. You tried to explain it. Why these jack-offs got promoted to the EM50 project in Italy based on showing up late for their ceremony- Self-starters. And then doing a That's the Fact Jack. They were self-starters. And the old crusty sergeant's like, let's get these guys for the EM50 project. That's tough. This is my biggest nitpick. Why was the EM50 so unimpressive? Couldn't they have spent like 100 grand on it? They just didn't have the budget for it. It looked like a fucking minivan. But I think they sold themselves on the idea that that will be funny. I think when they didn't have the budget, they sold themselves on the idea that everyone freaking out about this thing that just looks like a Winnebago will be funny. But I can't believe that this one nitpick slid past you and it's going to bother you now forever. I wasn't done, but go. Give it to me. Can I give you one? Is that right? You might have had it. I mean, you might have had this. But as a guy who's played more room basketball than almost anyone you know, I don't know what shot he was attempting when he threw the ball through the window. I don't know.
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