Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
70:14 – 78:23… overacting word. I didn't really feel like. Nobody really goes over the top. There was a notable overacting format. So I'm going to leave this one vacant. Apex Mountain. Could you make the case for Hooters? Is there ever been a better Hooters moment? This is the height of Hooters when they're opening Hooters all over the place. It's also like a really heartwarming Hooters scene. It's just like people like working through college. After being run through the mud in Big Daddy. Yes. That's right. Hooters is sort of redeemed and unstoppable. Sort of what is it? If you actually were a waitress at Hooters and you …
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So to actually see him in this big action, the kind of thing, playing, playing this kind of cool standout little characters like, Oh, Hey, that guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Linda Partridge. They knew overacting word. I didn't really feel like. Nobody really goes over the top. There was a notable overacting format. So I'm going to leave this one vacant. Apex Mountain. Could you make the case for Hooters? Is there ever been a better Hooters moment? This is the height of Hooters when they're opening Hooters all over the place. It's also like a really heartwarming Hooters scene. It's just like people like working through college. After being run through the mud in Big Daddy. Yes. That's right. Hooters is sort of redeemed and unstoppable. Sort of what is it? If you actually were a waitress at Hooters and you watch Big Daddy, Oh my God, all these jokes I got to listen to for the rest of my life. Oh, finally redemption. I have no other Apex Mountain unless you. Unless you guys think it's pine. That's really it. Well, no, that was what I was going to say. I actually think. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I think. I would have thought Star Trek for him, but I guess maybe it says. Well, Apex Mountain isn't the thing that launches you. True. I was trying to think when he would have the most kind of sway power or whatever. Yeah, I think this, you know, he gets it because of Star Trek. And this is his first chance to really show his movie star leading a big movie with a big director alongside a big star and holding his own. Yeah. And it's also a classic Hollywood move. Okay. This guy has established himself in this movie over here. Let's put him with an older established male actor and, you know, and then see the two of them work together. And that takes the guy along to the next step. And I think a case can be made that Pine hasn't taken the next big leap from Unstoppable. He's waiting for you. You just got to write him a great part. I'm the biggest fan of him. So if I had the right part, I would. For God's sakes. I would. I'd like to. The Half-Assed Internet Research. So we didn't mention the top. This was inspired by a 2001 incident where a runaway train ultimately traveled 66 miles through Northwest Ohio. And the Supply part, I think, in the beginning is relatively dead on. I don't know if he was as goofy. Like, they go to great pains to be like, here's all the procedures that this guy did follow. And they never named him in the sort of when they did the reporting. Like, he was never outed. But it sounds like, you know, he wasn't as goofy as Supply was in the mistakes that he made. Like, the air brakes thing, they don't attach the air brakes when they're in the yard. So it wasn't, like, completely stupid. Like, I'm just crushing a burrito and I forgot that the train was moving kind of thing. Well, two of the train's cars contained thousands of gallons of molten phenol, a toxic ingredient of paints and dyes. And that's what they were worried about. It got up to 51 miles an hour and then it stopped. Another one. Chris Pine performed all of his own stunts. Denzel... apparently does not like heights. Right. And did not want to get on top of the train. Tony Scott. Jedi mind tricked him into going up there. He was on wires and stuff. I think Denzel did an interview after the movie came out with Tony where they were asking about this. But he said, I did this stunt because I didn't want to be the guy doing interviews after the movie came out being like, why didn't you go up on the top of the train? Right. And apparently the train was empty. So it was rocking even more than usual. So it was pretty difficult. But he's a good athlete. That's all I got. There wasn't a lot of half-assed internet research on this one. The recasting couch. I'm not a Darcy fan in this movie. So maybe I would have maybe explored somebody different. A little Amy Smart. Something like that. Yeah. Like, who's 2011 Amy Smart? Well, you... Maybe a little Michelle Moynihan. It is Amy Smart. Yeah. I was like, is that the crank girl? Michelle Moynihan, maybe? I don't know. Pick and nits. All right. It's time. Why not attempt the guy jumps into the car trick sooner? Yeah. Maybe try that. I don't know. Before you hang a guy out of the helicopter. I would have tried that before the helicopter. The helicopter would have been after it didn't work where people could just drive next to the car and somebody jumps on. Well, I mean, look... Decent nitpick. That is a decent nitpick. I mean, it's also one of those things that they could get out of the way by saying, well, you know, well, for the next 50 miles, there's no place where a car could actually catch up and do it. Yeah, exactly. Okay. How did they get, with the Pittsburgh local news, such fancy graphics and such great expertise from the anchors about what happens with runway trains? These people were versed the same way it would be versed during like a Lakers trade on ESPN. Look, I'm not trying to argue against this, but I mean, I think I see stuff all the time now. I mean, they're plugged in. Did you see the graphics though? They had like maps and color code. They were just ready to roll. Well, maybe runaway trains in central Pennsylvania are like carjackers in LA. Like they just have the runaway train graphics package. Well, no, wait a minute. No, I mean, look, they know that this is their local audience and people know about that X curve and they know about those tanks of whatever. So it's like, oh, so here's what could happen. I don't even feel like LA would treat it this extensively. It was probably the biggest thing to ever happen to fictional Stanton, Pennsylvania. It was a minute. They say, you know, and he stopped the train. He is a hero. Everyone in Pennsylvania, he is a new hero has risen in Pennsylvania. I should have put that in Apex Mountain, Pennsylvania. How long did it take before they put the train rescue on at Hooters? Because I'm going to say it is never on a TV there. They just have sports. So they've got like sports center on all day long. Nobody's like, hey, turn it to the runaway train. Well, no, the girls figure it out. The girls start figuring it out and somebody obviously calls the girls. So they make the manager put it on. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Okay. Some weird, some dudes in the corner. Don't you go to Hooters to watch the news? Yeah, I think they're watching sports. So this, I saw this on the internet, massive plot hole. When they send another locomotive on the track to try and slow down the runaway train, all they had to do was have the locomotive bump in front of the runaway train and then put a driver on the back of that train and just jump onto the other train. And there's a person on the internet that was claiming this would have worked and the movie ends immediately. That's no fun. I don't, my thing is then the movie's 10 minutes on. Well, they also, when they're doing that, they never connect. He's only bumping it. So that would have been a really difficult jump for him. Yeah, I don't know about that one. Yeah, I mean, jumps that seem like they, you know, one of the things that's interesting about this movie is stuff that you would think you'd be able to do. Even Ethan Supley. Catching the train. Catching the train. But then, you know, that stuff actually is harder in real life. Yeah. And the movie actually sells. When Denzel gets stuck, he can't go any further. Well, you know, why don't you do this? And why don't you do that? Well, Quentin, that's you just saying that. Yeah. I think they kind of, I'm buying their expertise of like, okay, now we're kind of screwed. Any other nitpicks? Yeah, a couple. Go ahead. A couple, Bill. Let's hear it. So we're basically made to think that this is a 80 mile an hour traveling Chernobyl. Right. But it seems like no one can get away from it. Like everybody is like at Instanton where it's like, if this thing goes around this curve, it's going to launch all this chemicals into fuel tanks. Also, the train itself has diesel gas. But in the meantime, the entire town seems to have turned up at the train tracks to watch this. Where it's like, I thought everybody was evacuating, but Darcy's like, I got to bring my kid to ground zero. Where it's going to crash. Yes. You can see it. All right. No, I mean, there's like, I thought the whole idea was to get rid of the town. Let me take my son to where the poison gas is going to be. There should be choppers and everyone else should be in Philadelphia. So you're saying like the state should be evacuated. I mean, at least that town. Well, no, at least that town. But the fact that they can actually show up to where ground zero is, where they're expecting a crash to be a looky loo. And you take your children to see that.
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