Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
70:09 – 74:02… prestigious 70s, 80s car. Elvis owned one. Sinatra owned one. It's kind of way too expensive for what a scumbag this guy was. So everything else we mentioned, Apex Mountain, Cage, I'm going to say no. I think it was right after he won the Oscar when he's ripping off $200 million action movies. Schumacher, no. Joaquin Phoenix, definitely not. King Delphini has Sopranos year one at the same time of this movie, but I don't think he hits his apex yet. I still think he's, Sopranos hadn't become a phenomenon yet. Yeah, I think his apex is at the peak of Sopranos. Yeah, he was one of the biggest stars in the world. …
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driving a Stutz Blackhawk in this movie, movie, which is a pretty prestigious 70s, 80s car. Elvis owned one. Sinatra owned one. It's kind of way too expensive for what a scumbag this guy was. So everything else we mentioned, Apex Mountain, Cage, I'm going to say no. I think it was right after he won the Oscar when he's ripping off $200 million action movies. Schumacher, no. Joaquin Phoenix, definitely not. King Delphini has Sopranos year one at the same time of this movie, but I don't think he hits his apex yet. I still think he's, Sopranos hadn't become a phenomenon yet. Yeah, I think his apex is at the peak of Sopranos. Yeah, he was one of the biggest stars in the world. Chris Bauer? Tough. He's Sabaka to most people. You also don't see his face except for the very end. Yeah, I'm going to say no. CD porn shops. Ooh. I can't think of very many CD porn shops that go on. Cinematically, you're probably right. You're probably right. I had it as the apex mountain for snuff film movies. I had that next, snuff films. I was trying to think of a better Hollywood treatment with a snuff film plot and could not come up with one. So I think you would say yes. And then I think this is apex mountain for this fake part of LA that was Times Square that didn't actually exist. Oh, yeah. If you're recreating CDLA and making shit up, it never got better than this. Early Meat District, before it became a cool place to live and completely transformed, it's in the running. I still think Fatal Attraction though, I think, did a better job with the Meat District. And then you could argue, what was the other one? Unfaithful with Diane Lane. Oh, yeah. The Meat District's been used correctly. Yeah, it changed when they started building those fancy hotels down like the Gainsvort and Gainsvort and whatever. Pick of Nets. Again, Catherine Keener, great actress, but doesn't need to be in this movie. why didn't the lawyer undermine Nick Cage during this entire process? It's a hard one after you watch this movie a few times. Why doesn't the lawyer burn the film when he opens the safe? Why didn't he just get rid of it? The lawyer has somebody open the safe. He sees he's got stocks and bonds and yada yada. Unless Mrs. Christian is standing behind him and is like, what's that movie? He could have just destroyed it. Or he could have just been like, yeah, that's a 1970s Cincinnati Reds game film. He was a huge fan. Either that, there's a bunch of different ways. Hey, we're going to take a look at it because it's old film and it needs to be processed. You don't know anything about this. And then she, hey, what happened to that movie? It didn't work. There's too many things that you could do for him to go along with this whole ruse. And if this guy was so smart, Mrs. Christian wants to hire somebody to investigate all of this, you just get your friend Bob. Hey, Bob, will you pretend to be a PI for 20 minutes with this old crazy lady and just say you're going to go look for the film and then we'll call her in a month and be like, hey, we couldn't find anything. Sorry. Bad job by the lawyer. Nick Cage's technology in 1999 with the digital imagery he was able to pull off and cutting things out and these perfect pictures of things and stuff. I was alive in 1999 and we did not have this stuff. I think I was still dialing into AOL to get emails and shit like that. I don't know where he had that kind of technology, but it always jumps out at me. Am I crazy on that one? They kind of allude to it. He goes to a place that you can see the Cinerama dome across the street, no arc light. I love stuff like that. They kind of allude to the fact that it took a long time and a lot of effort and a lot of money to do it and all he got was one picture.
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