Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
81:06 – 86:29… tournament won a Volvo white truck and trail mobile trailer worth about $250,000. His name was John Bresnik. Okay. He inspired Lincoln Hawks. There you go. Apex Mountain. Slice Stallone, definitely not. No. Golan Globus were kind of in the vicinity because they released 31 movies this year. Bloodsport is in production. Over the Top's being made. They kind of have figured out who they are. They're doing Runaway Train with John Voight, which was actually a good movie. And this is kind of the peak. So I'm going to say yes, because you watched the documentary. This seemed like the heyday. Yeah. I'm trying to …
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The real guy who won that trucker's class over-the-top tournament won a Volvo white truck and trail mobile trailer worth about $250,000. His name was John Bresnik. Okay. He inspired Lincoln Hawks. There you go. Apex Mountain. Slice Stallone, definitely not. No. Golan Globus were kind of in the vicinity because they released 31 movies this year. Bloodsport is in production. Over the Top's being made. They kind of have figured out who they are. They're doing Runaway Train with John Voight, which was actually a good movie. And this is kind of the peak. So I'm going to say yes, because you watched the documentary. This seemed like the heyday. Yeah. I'm trying to think watching the doc. What is their best movie? Like, what's their Hall of Fame plaque movie? Is it Bloodsport? It's Runaway Train, Barfly, and Street Smart were the three kind of best movies they made. But I think Bloodsport's probably the biggest success. Bloodsport's fucking awesome. Okay. It has to be, right? Yeah. I mean, for you, it's Cobra. Definitely Cobra for me. There's very few movies ever made that I love more than Cobra. Yeah. So yeah. It's crazy that they didn't make Roadhouse. That feels like something they would have made. They were probably pissed. That was our idea of a cooler and Jasper. Right here. How did we not have this? Arm Wrestling, Apex Mountain, unquestionably yes. I can't imagine it ever got bigger for arm wrestling. No, the only other movie I remember seeing it in was in The Fly with Goldblum. He like rips a guy's arm off because he has the powers of a fly. Yeah. But this is years and years later. They even just did, on Hard Knocks recently, when Tyson Bajit was playing, they showed his father and they played the song from the movie, HBO NFL Films did it. And this is going on 40 years later. This is the arm wrestling movie. It's the Citizen Kane of arm wrestling movies. It's not Apex Mountain for divorce movies. Do you have one? It's Kramer versus Kramer, I think. Yeah. That wasn't an Oscar. It wasn't multiple Oscars. It's still probably the best one, I think. Yeah. It was a little before my time. Mrs. Doubtfire fucked me up. I was going through my stuff with my parents. That movie is such a downer at some points. Bob Beatey, whatever his name is, definitely Apex Mountain. He has really important roles. He has a lot of lines. He could have been a Dion Waiter's possibility. The Hilton in Vegas. Sure. Probably not. Probably had some big boxing things, but not an unimpressive performance by then. Terry Funk. I'm sure Bernard Hopkins fought at the Hilton in Vegas at some point. Yeah, there must have been a big boxing thing. Terry Funk, no. No. Evil Loggia? Scarface? Scarface for sure. Consider him evil in Scarface or no? I mean, he put a hit on Tony, but he kind of deserved it. Yeah, he's mixed up in some very evil things. And by the way, I don't think he's the evil one in this movie. I think he's actually trying to be the hero. Annoying Kids of Divorce? Apex Mountain? Has there been a more annoying kid in a divorce movie? I'm going to probably say no. I'm trying to think of those three kids in Doubtfire. They're all right. They seem like nice kids. No, nobody's as annoying as this. Rick Selma, yes. Truck Driving? Probably not, right? Because Smokey and the Bandit. Yeah, I mean- Jerry Reed in the truck was Smokey. Or was he Bandit? No, Reynolds was Bandit. It's probably as far as I'm concerned, there's not a lot of pure truck driving movies that I watch with regularity. Paul Walker was the one called Joyride. It was like a horror movie. I like Joyride. I like Joyride too. Convoy happened. It really had its peak in the late 70s. Yeah. They made a bunch of them. Yeah. Sammy Hagar, unquestionably yes, because this is also the year his first Van Halen album comes out. So he's got Winner Takes It All. Then he comes out with the first Van Halen album. 5150? Yeah, 5150. Is that one? This is what dreams are made of? By the way, I'm going to defend 5150. I think that album kind of rocks. Listen, I'm a big Van Hagar guy. I know the take is that he turned the best rock band in the world into Journey. Yeah. You know what? I like Journey too. I don't give a shit. I like it. It's not true. 5150 is a good album, period. I like Carnal Knowledge too. I don't care. Right now, it's the biggest. Crystal Pepsi, pass it over. He's huge. I don't go after Sammy Hagar for that. I really appreciate that. Yeah, man. I'm with you. I like that stuff. Van Hagar was good. Yeah. Las Vegas, no. And then drinking motor oil? Has it ever been done better? He says, I'm going to go through you like gasoline through a funnel, and then drinks motor oil. It's really a gimmick. It would immediately kill you, I'm sure. But it fires him up. I like it. It would at least send you in some sort of tailspin for like five minutes. Yeah. All right. This is an easy one. Cruise or Hanks? Well, I mean, it's got to be Cruise. I can't see Hanks in an arm wrestling movie. And it's the added benefit, Bill, of there's really no female with which he has to try to have sexual chemistry with. So that's fine. It can just be Cruise. He'll kill this role. Yeah. We didn't even talk about that. There's no love interest whatsoever with Stallone in this. He doesn't even interact with a woman in this. Except his wife, who gets along with Great and had ditched 10 years ago and hasn't raised their son. He's just on two phone calls. Yeah. He says, Brigitte, you'll soon me get mad if I have a little bit of interest in this. This was prime Brigitte time. I got to be honest. This is a pretty Cruise-y Cruise movie. Yeah. Like, I could have seen him in this in like 1993, 1994 range.
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