Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
78:24 – 83:47… of the power of this movie is that he dies at the end and that just wouldn't happen if if you saw an action movie of comparable quality that came out today Apex Mountain Russell Crowe yes yeah I vote yes I vote yes as well I think I think he peaks and any also coming out of this movie has as much career cachet to do whatever the fuck he wants including steel Meg Ryan from Dennis Quaid like he's really it's an all-time heat check after this I think this is also Hans Zimmer Apex Mountain oh great call oh wow yeah Hans Zimmer yeah where can you give me your your uh your favorite Hans in order okay it's the Hans …
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probably have made the deals for the first three oh yeah absolutely over the course of five years yeah that's a really notable thing and a really interesting thing going back to rewatch this is like wow they're just it's just over part of the power of this movie is that he dies at the end and that just wouldn't happen if if you saw an action movie of comparable quality that came out today Apex Mountain Russell Crowe yes yeah I vote yes I vote yes as well I think I think he peaks and any also coming out of this movie has as much career cachet to do whatever the fuck he wants including steel Meg Ryan from Dennis Quaid like he's really it's an all-time heat check after this I think this is also Hans Zimmer Apex Mountain oh great call oh wow yeah Hans Zimmer yeah where can you give me your your uh your favorite Hans in order okay it's the Hans it's this uh any number of the themes no a guy's name Hans not Hans Zimmer so it's Hans Gruber one that's how I feel Zimmer then Hans from Hans and Franz and then it's the field can we can we put Hans solo in there or is it Hans or Han no it has to be Hans you gotta you gotta put Hans from Inglourious Bastards at least in third place Shay you could have gone you could have gone Hans Serrano for one of your kids I feel like potentially could have maybe maybe uh Maury Apex Mountain Connie Nielsen unquestionably yes Gladiator movies yeah for sure yeah I mean is do you do you think that this is better than Spartacus I think Spartacus might have been bigger yeah I like this better than Spartacus Bill I'm just saying for impact in the moment I I think Spartacus might have actually somehow been bigger than this yes I think people went and saw Spartacus like 12 times yeah and I think Kirk Douglas came out of Spartacus as the biggest star in the world for yeah a few years there uh incest no I think it peaks later in Game of Thrones yeah um how about touching wheat I was gonna say that yes this is this is taking a move that it happens a lot in Days of Heaven they do this in Days of Heaven they touch wheat a lot you know like in the late 70s early 80s touching wheat starts to go mainstream but it really really goes pro in Gladiator where touching wheat becomes a signifier of being completely connected to the universe and nature and like the and the time continuum and and now it's just like everybody touches wheat Terrence Malick is like the velvet underground of touching wheat yeah so yes Bill great call great call yeah that was Chris's original name for his Chauncey Billups blog was touching we didn't catch on he had to audible uh any other apex mountain that's all I have picking knits I mean if we're really in real life doing this he's just killing he's killing the Spaniard immediately after that fight yeah he's not letting this guy live for five minutes no wait wait you take some bad PR for like two days till dawn you don't worry about it yeah why do they tell him to ride till dawn just kill him outside the tent what's the big deal he's having an accident if this guy murdered his father I'm pretty sure he's okay with killing Maximus within three minutes the geography is a big nit for me so he's fighting in Germany then he rides to Spain over how many like how long is that trip and he gets there when when you see that if you rewatch that scene I didn't notice it until this last time uh his hair is like crazy long in that one scene when he's on the horse and he's like how how long has he been on this fucking horse I think the only way we know it was a long time was the horse literally collapses the load management of the horse was not handled properly uh any nitpicks for you Chris no I mean there's a couple of uh so this guy can ride a horse from Germany to Spain and you know like that kind of stuff where it's just like that's that's some that's we're talking like nine months you know to get to get across Europe uh so there's a few few things like that and but my biggest one is is like in the beginning when they're gonna have him assassinated is taking him out way into the forest that just doesn't make any sense to me yeah okay uh best quote we mentioned a bunch of them I like what we do in life that goes to eternity well you are in Elysium and you're already dead brothers what we do in life echoes in eternity good senior year but quote uh at my single unleash hell it's we mentioned most that that one wins could this be remade as a 10 episode netflix show I would be upset if they did this it was my advice would be not to do this but of course um but I'm saying we do this specific thing just be like we blown out the Russell Crowe movie as a 10 episode they haven't done that no but they did Rome a couple years later and I think that and I honestly like the more that we've talked about it over the course of this podcast I bet Benioff and Weiss crushed this movie to before they made Game of Thrones oh I had that in unanswerable well let's just go there now um so I did gladiator paved the way for Game of Thrones we mentioned uh Joffrey and Commodus Maximus has a pet wolf incest set in in older time where there's big big ass battle scenes
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