Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
45:39 – 51:03… Nance as he's being sworn at the end. The son is Jason Reitman. He became a famous director. So you can look for Jason Reitman in the Nance scene. All right. Apex Mountain. Kevin Kline? Hmm. So this is objective, right? It's coming off? This is not personal opinion. When did he have the most power? When did he have the most success? When was his career going the absolute best? So you could say a fish called Wanda, but now you have this. So you have that coming off this. I would say he has more power after this. I think it's Grand Canyon. Because he's already got an Oscar, but it's not so far removed from his …
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They were together for 30 years. I have no idea. Last internet research thing. Ivan Reitman's wife and son are the wife and son of Vice President Nance as he's being sworn at the end. The son is Jason Reitman. He became a famous director. So you can look for Jason Reitman in the Nance scene. All right. Apex Mountain. Kevin Kline? Hmm. So this is objective, right? It's coming off? This is not personal opinion. When did he have the most power? When did he have the most success? When was his career going the absolute best? So you could say a fish called Wanda, but now you have this. So you have that coming off this. I would say he has more power after this. I think it's Grand Canyon. Because he's already got an Oscar, but it's not so far removed from his Oscar. This is like five years after the Oscar. Grand Canyon's a movie about somebody that made a wrong turn leaving a Laker game. Yeah. It's my life every goddamn day when I drive home on the 101. It's like, oh shit, I shouldn't take that left. Uh-oh, guys are coming to me. It plays on every fear of everybody leaving the Staples Center that there's a detour and then you just don't know what's going to happen. I vote yes, you guys vote no. Frank Langella? Oh my God. Is this where we talk about Frank Langella? We can talk about him right now. Frank Langella, my actorly God. Frank Langella has been a lot of different guys over time. Frank Langella in the 70s was Dracula. He was like a hit Dracula. That's how I know him. In a Dracula movie. I saw that movie in the theater, Amanda. I'm not sure. I mean, he was the star of Mel Brooks' first movie, The Twelve Chairs, which is a really good movie that not a lot of people have seen. I would encourage people to buy the Mel Brooks Blu-ray set. It's fucking amazing. It's like 50 bucks for all of Mel Brooks' movies. He's on a Showtime show right now, and he's really good in it. It's called Kidding. Him falling for Whoopi Goldberg is in the running for me for weirdest celebrity couple over the last 30 years. I don't know if it's the winner, but it at least should be mentioned. The Power of Eddie. Yeah. Eddie. Great movie. A lot of great things happen from it. I love him in this movie because he dials it up where it's like... At some point, he said to Ivan Reitman, should I scale it back? And Ivan Reitman's like, no. No, go for it. That scene when Dave's balancing the budget, and it cuts to Frank Langella, and he's just looking at the window, and he's bulging his eyes like a freaking maniac. He really dials it up. I go yes for Frank Langella. This is his signature move. His signature performance, in my opinion. I agree with that. Yeah. I don't know if this was the apex of his career, but... It's his most fun performance. I guess maybe Dracula was his apex. Dracula's probably his apex. Yeah, Dracula's probably his apex. Nobody else in this movie is apex mountain worthy. Sigourney had peaked. What about Kevin Dunn? Yeah, maybe. He's coming up. Okay. We can go to him right now in the Joe Pinaliano Award. Kevin Dunn. I never knew his name was Kevin Dunn until I started researching the movie. Really? Yeah, he was... For me, he was always that guy from Dave and Mad Love with Drew Barrymore, which I know I'm in this scene. He's had a good career. Have I? Drew Barrymore and Chris O'Donnell. They had a Mad Love. Oh, yeah. I think that's how they sold it in the room. Good stuff. That's good. Kevin Dunn has been in a lot of stuff. He's one of those guys. He is truly that guy. Yeah. Mississippi Burning, Hot Shots, 1492, Chaplin, Dave, Beethoven 2nd, Little Big League, Nixon, Chain Reaction, Picture Perfect, Godzilla, Stir of Echo, Snake Eyes, I Heart Huckabees. He's in a bunch of the Transformers movies. I mean, Warrior. He's in a lot of movies. And he's been on Veep for the last five years. And he's really funny on Veep. You're saying we should call it the Kevin Dunn award? I mean, he is... Hall of fame, that guy. He really is. Yeah. There were no other candidates for this award. The Saul Rubinick they knew over acting award. For me, it comes down to Grodin or Langella. Because Langella really dials it up a couple times as much as I loved him in this. I don't really know what Grodin's going for in this movie. I think it's one of his worst performances. I love Charles Grodin. I don't really get it. Is this guy partially brain damaged? What is going on with Murray? I think he's just really stressed out. And he's also supposed to be the audience stand-in, right? Of being like, really? We're doing this? He's supposed to be the skepticism in this movie. He has my single favorite line reading in the whole movie. Which is after he helps him balance the budget. And he puts him and he sends him out in his car. And then Grodin says, Get out of here as fast as you can. And it's like, that is how most people would react to the situation. I liked when they're about to balance the budget and he starts ordering food. And then he's like, how about some bratwurst with some mustard? Charles Grodin's like, what's going on here? Charles Grodin's like, I love bratwurst. Yeah. Who wins this one? Who overacts in this movie? I think it's Frank Langella. And Frank Langella's like, he's not a president. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person. You can kill a hundred. That's pretty. He's going for it. It's a great rhythm, though. He's really bringing his own spin to it.
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