Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
16:35 – 19:26… Yeah. I still don't understand why the breakup didn't totally work. It was a hit. But it made a lot of money and it had two people like kind of at the, not Apex Mountain, but pretty close in their primes. And it's not a movie I would ever re-watch. It certainly won't make the re-watchables. Right. Right. But this is just, it's a pretty big achievement to make a movie where the guy spends pretty much the first hour blubbering. Like, you know, and it's like still, oh, I really want to watch this. This is compelling. You know what I think is the closest comparison? Just tonally, I think is High Fidelity. Yeah. …
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But there's not very many movies that start with the breakup. Yeah. That start and then put you through that. I think the movie The Breakup starts with the breakup. The breakup literally does. But I would argue that this is a better film. Oh, definitely. Yeah. I still don't understand why the breakup didn't totally work. It was a hit. But it made a lot of money and it had two people like kind of at the, not Apex Mountain, but pretty close in their primes. And it's not a movie I would ever re-watch. It certainly won't make the re-watchables. Right. Right. But this is just, it's a pretty big achievement to make a movie where the guy spends pretty much the first hour blubbering. Like, you know, and it's like still, oh, I really want to watch this. This is compelling. You know what I think is the closest comparison? Just tonally, I think is High Fidelity. Yeah. That's a good one. I thought you were going to say Kramer versus Kramer. No. No. Because that might be the greatest breakup movie of all time. But see, that's actually not really a breakup movie. That's a, that's a fatherhood, father-son movie. You know, that the bulk of that movie happens between the kid and the father. And there's some tough moments with Meryl Streep, but like High Fidelity is all about the breakup. Is Kicking and Screaming a breakup movie? It kind of is. Yeah. To some extent. It's a year after college, but it's also a we just broke up movie. Right. I think it's a little closer to the end that that becomes a breakup movie. What about Eternal Sunshine? That's a really good one. That's a great one. I feel like we're missing one and some reader's going to, or tweeter is going to hit us. Is Eyes Wide Shut a breakup movie? I mean. Stay tuned to the rewatchables. It's a lot. Mila Kunis after this became. She's really underrated. That's my take on Mila Kunis. Is she an A-lister? Because I feel like she is. I mean, she's. The two Bad Bombs movies made a shitload of money and she, and even in the positioning of those movies, which Kristen Bell is in, she's still positioned as the star of it. I feel like Kristen Bell is a pretty big star. I think she's probably at this point like one of the most recognizable actresses in Hollywood, even though you don't think of her that way. But between like being in Jim Beam commercials that are on for 15 hours every football Sunday and then being in 70s show and being in Bad Moms and this, like pretty much everybody knows who she is. I say this carefully and I know it's going to make Sean uncomfortable. Okay. So you're going to stare at him first to make him feel even more comfortable. I'm not making eye contact with Bill for the rest of this podcast. It's a very small and select group of actresses that guys can really like and women are okay with. Like my wife likes Mila Kunis. My wife looks at Mila Kunis. You're like Michelle Yamaguchi, Christy Yamaguchi skating over thin ice right now. It's great. My wife really likes Mila Kunis and is like, I could be friends with Mila Kunis. Same thing for Kristen Bell. Everybody likes Kristen Bell. I think it's very hard for somebody to pull that off. And conversely, I'm going to bring it all the way around. Same thing with actors.
53:33 – 59:38… life where my boss uses the phrase semi-chub. I didn't use the phrase. I was just reading a quote. So there you go. I guarantee the audience was interested. Apex Mountain. You guarantee the audience of the rewatchables? Yes. Yeah. Sure. Apex Mountain, Jason Siegel's dick. I highly doubt it. Apparently it's not the audience. I apparently doubt it. Yeah. Apparently it has more to grow. Listen, it was cold in the studio. One of the great little mini lines, and I don't know if this is only in the underrated version or not, is when Russell Brand starts singing on stage and Jonah Hill's character turns to Jason …
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All I could think about when you were talking was my parents working really hard to put me through college. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So I could get to this stage of my life where my boss uses the phrase semi-chub. I didn't use the phrase. I was just reading a quote. So there you go. I guarantee the audience was interested. Apex Mountain. You guarantee the audience of the rewatchables? Yes. Yeah. Sure. Apex Mountain, Jason Siegel's dick. I highly doubt it. Apparently it's not the audience. I apparently doubt it. Yeah. Apparently it has more to grow. Listen, it was cold in the studio. One of the great little mini lines, and I don't know if this is only in the underrated version or not, is when Russell Brand starts singing on stage and Jonah Hill's character turns to Jason Siegel and says, This went from six to midnight. Teach me. I bet you also, that seems suspiciously like Siegel saying, they ask you about my dick. Say that's not as big as it gets. Right. You know? It's like pretty, you know, you're doing your guy a favor there. It's cold in the studio. Sure. Apex Mountain, Siegel's dick, no question. Siegel, I think he's on How I Met Your Mother, and then he's the writer and star of a movie. It's not getting any better for him than right here. I wanted to talk to you guys about him a little bit, just in general, because I don't think his career really went in the direction that I thought it was going to go. I think he had some issues. No, I actually think that this is his lane, though. Like, this is what... But I thought he was going to be like an Albert Brooks type. This movie reminds me a lot of Modern Romance. If you've never seen Modern Romance, I think it's Albert Brooks' second movie. And it's this like creation of a persona that is loosely based on him. It is very much about like the relationship that men and women have. It's kind of goofy, but it's kind of sincere. It's really well made. And I thought that he was going to take this on a little bit more. These sort of like crypto autobiographical broad comedies. And he didn't really do that. No, I mean, so I think... I don't even think he wrote another movie after The Muppets. I'm looking. He did. I mean, he worked on Five Year Engagement, and he also did Sex Tape with Cameron Diaz. He didn't write that, though. He did. He did write that? He co-wrote it, yeah. Okay. Yeah. It was five years ago. I mean, he hasn't really done a lot of stuff. I mean, he... End of the tour after that. He did the end of the tour, and he played David Foster Wallace, and that was a big part. But that's 2015. He was in This Is 40, but not really... But briefly. ...from a scene. Five Year Engagement. The Muppets. Very funny in This Is The End. Bad teacher. He's hilarious, yeah. I think he's had some issues, though. I think that was part of the problem. I have no idea. I think... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was also on How I Met Your Mother for, like, 10 years. Well, that's the thing. I think he's probably got a lot of money. I just mean, like, also, like, that will, like, slow down your, like, film career if you have to spend seven months of the year on a CBS show. Which makes you... It always is weird to me when somebody writes a really good movie and then doesn't keep doing it. Because you could say the same thing about Affleck and Damon. Like, it's just weird that they never wrote a movie together after Good Wanting. They spent all this time in this movie and it was great. And then they just never got back together. I guess sometimes you make too much money. I don't know if something's happened with him. I know that in interviews, he's always struck me as a really thoughtful and interesting guy who's pretty reflective about his place in the Hollywood landscape and what his career has been like. Also, famously, a successful high school basketball player at Harvard-Westlake. He was a teammate of Jason Collins. His character on How I Met Your Mother goes by the nickname White Chocolate. That's his basketball player. And his real nickname in high school was Dr. Dunk. Oh, yeah. I love Jason Segel and I hope... I want a second act. Yeah, me too. Write something. Apex Mountain... Other than that, nobody really... Mila Kunis, I think, did even bigger and better things after this. Kristen Bell obviously did. All the big characters did. Billy Baldwin. It's either back or after this movie. No, it's sliver. Sliver. What about Turtle Bay? Can we pick some nits? Because I have a Turtle Bay thing. We're almost there. Hold on. The Joey Pants Award. Steve Landisberg is in this movie. Former cast member Barney Miller. He plays the doctor. It's got to be that. Oh, yeah. He looks like Jay Segel's dick. Great that guy. I mean, I know I'm a Steve Landisberg, but he's really that guy as well. So I'm giving it to them. So Trejo Buscemi or Michael K. Williams. I can see Trejo in one of the bars there. I feel like Trejo could have been working for the hotel. We should remix this category soon. I feel like we do. It's getting stale. It is. Should we get rid of it? I would be curious to know if the listeners have a suggestion of either who we should replace these guys with or if there is another category we should introduce. How about... I'm getting rid of it. It's done. It was the last one. How about the new categories? Which guy should have shown their dick in this movie? Yeah, right. Right. How come we did not see McBrayer? The Jason Segel semi-fluff award? Why not share your semi-chub, you coward? Saul Rubinick. They knew for overacting. I think it's Segel. That's good. Have we ever had that? Have we ever had the star? The star of the movie also be the overactor? I think he's definitely the one who's playing it the most emotionally. He's crying and he's naked and he's just going for it and doing the most. I was going to go with Jack McBrayer. McBrayer and Maria Thayer as the couple are really... They really doubted up too. Yeah, that's true. I'd vote for that. Segel's good though. There are definitely scenes of Segel crying while watching TV that's like very broad sitcom comedy. Picking Nits. Yes. My biggest one is, wouldn't Peter have known that the crime show got canceled since he was one of the... Since he wrote music for it? What is this? What year did this come out? Oh, wait. So, I mean like, you're using your cell phone a fair amount, but I could see it not happening. All right. What do you have for Picking Nits? Does Rachel have the authority to give him that suite? The Kapua suite? No. And that's the thing that really bothered me. She gets fired within 10 minutes. It doesn't seem like there's a lot going on at Turtle Bay. She's like, I can just cut out and go on a hike with you.
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