Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
75:35 – 82:08Breath of the Needle. Love it. Great stuff. Did Chris convert to Christianity in Chicago? We're watching too much True Detective, I'll tell you that. Apex Mountain. I think yes for Tom Hanks. This is it. After back-to-back Oscars and he makes this movie work for $680 million, like, what movie would they not say yes to Tom Hanks for? Yeah. And then he's right into Apollo 13 in Toy Story. We get Woody right on the heels of this. Tom Hanks. Love that guy. I wish Sean liked you a little more, Tom Hanks. So it's not Cloud Atlas? No, it's not. It's a cheap shot. Robin Wright. No. House of Cards. Yeah. I …
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Breath of the Needle. Love it. Great stuff. Did Chris convert to Christianity in Chicago? We're watching too much True Detective, I'll tell you that. Apex Mountain. I think yes for Tom Hanks. This is it. After back-to-back Oscars and he makes this movie work for $680 million, like, what movie would they not say yes to Tom Hanks for? Yeah. And then he's right into Apollo 13 in Toy Story. We get Woody right on the heels of this. Tom Hanks. Love that guy. I wish Sean liked you a little more, Tom Hanks. So it's not Cloud Atlas? No, it's not. It's a cheap shot. Robin Wright. No. House of Cards. Yeah. I can't believe I mentioned Frantic last night and House of Cards. What is wrong with me? Two of your favorites. All your problematic face. But she was nominated for four Emmys for that. I mean, it's got to be that. She's great at that, yeah. Zemeckis? No. Back to the Future. Okay. Premature Ejaculation? CR? I think so, yeah. I mean, it broke the record by, like, two seconds. It's a shocker around the world. Yeah. What about, uh... Bobby Thompson or Forrest Gump? For boomer pop culture, would you go this or Big Chill? Oh. Big Chill. Yeah. Yeah. What would you say, Sean? It's a tough one, because this movie comes out post-Clinton. And I always think of Clinton as, like, you guys did it, you old bastards. You know? Like, you got your guy in there. You know? You just really wanted to take over the world, and you fucking did it, and then you made Forrest Gump, you assholes. Now you just won't give up the goddamn crown at all. Just step back. Just step back. Let Mallory go forward as a leader of this world. Apex Mountain shrimp? There is, like, a seven-minute stretch of this movie where every single possible preparation of shrimp is enumerated in full. And it made me kind of want shrimp. Joe House is out there somewhere. It made him hungry. Gary Sinise, Apollo 13, or this? I think it is. Okay. Snake Eyes. Love that. The Oscars. Apex Mountain. The 1994 Oscars, which had David Letterman hosting, and it was the Oprah-Oma one. It became super controversial. And then we had Shawshank versus Pulp Fiction versus Forrest Gump. And it was, like, baby boomers against newer people. Old school Hollywood against new school Hollywood. Gen X. Your generation. Gen X. Yeah. My generation. Can I give you a data point about this? Yeah. In 1995, when this Oscars took place, 49 million people watched the Oscars. 83 million people watched the Super Bowl that year. In 2023, 19 million people watched the Oscars and 112 million people watched the Super Bowl. The Oscars fucked up. That's terrible. What happened? I felt like the Oscars meant the most, mattered the most, and resonated the most in the 90s. Because we had enough movie history at that point. I really cared who won. There was that whole movie-making culture. All the magazines. It's just, like, I really cared. And now I care because you care. Yeah. Yeah. You care so that you can watch all the movies and be like, you know that movie you loved and talked about? Hated it. Yeah. Up and I was just too long. But, Sean, how many people are on Letterboxd every day? You're fine. You're fine. I see each and every one of you, and I love to respect all of you. Ridiculous. Michael T. Williamson? Apex Mountain? No, it's Heat. You fucking ain't right, it's Heat. Myth-amphetamines. Movies built around a dumb character? Would you go, this or Dumb and Dumber? Ooh. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would rather watch Dumb and Dumber right now. Okay. The Washington Monument, I'm going to say no. I just think they've probably had better moments. Sure. Spider-Man Homecoming. Tragic hot female movie characters? It's a long list. How much more do we have to go on the show? Yeah. All right. All right, moving on. Best racehorse name has to be Magic Legs, if we're having a racehorse from this moment. Like, you're betting on Magic Legs. I'm going with I'm so dizzy. Yeah. 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