Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
59:32 – 65:20… show. Let's get her in like season two of Last of Us. Oh, great idea. Yeah. I just think she needs one great role. She's still young. Well, this was not her Apex Mountain. No. It was also not Jesse Eisenberg's Apex Mountain. It was not Kristen Stewart's Apex Mountain. What was Kristen Stewart's Apex Mountain? Probably the last Twilight movie where she then could just kind of move on to whatever she wanted because everyone knew who she was. Or maybe the third one because she hadn't broken up with Robert Pattinson yet, but I think it was around that time. For Jam Session, it was probably when she was making out …
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Deuce was HBO, but I still like the thought. Let's get her on a big ticket HBO show. Let's get her in like season two of Last of Us. Oh, great idea. Yeah. I just think she needs one great role. She's still young. Well, this was not her Apex Mountain. No. It was also not Jesse Eisenberg's Apex Mountain. It was not Kristen Stewart's Apex Mountain. What was Kristen Stewart's Apex Mountain? Probably the last Twilight movie where she then could just kind of move on to whatever she wanted because everyone knew who she was. Or maybe the third one because she hadn't broken up with Robert Pattinson yet, but I think it was around that time. For Jam Session, it was probably when she was making out with the director. Definitely. Who was the director? Matthew Vaughn of X-Men fame, among other things. I think as a Chanel model, people really, or like Chanel spokesperson, people really like her. And, you know, people like her indie stuff. She's, I feel like her cachet is much higher, but now, but Apex Mountain was definitely like around 2011. Ryan Reynolds, though. How about Maintenance Men? Ryan, they're like, that's Connell, the maintenance guy. I feel like this is probably Apex Mountain for guys who fix stuff in movies. Somebody's saying the words, doing push-ups without pants on. I think this is Apex Mountain. I've never heard that before. SNL, Bill Hader, I'm going to say yes. This is a great, 2009 was a great year for him. It was really when people, Superbad had been out, Superbad was becoming a cult movie, not a cult movie, like a major DVD rewatchable movie at that point. He had this movie out, SNL, he had Stefan, so he had this character that hit. It just felt like it was like a Bill Hader year. His real Apex Mountain, I think, has to be one of the barriers. Mottola? I say yes. Oh, because I would say Superbad, because then that leads to him being able to make this movie. That's true. I guess I just think two good movies in a row, you thought he would have parlayed it into something. Like, is it possible for it to be your Apex Mountain, but you don't do anything with it? Well, he did Paul, which I think that was his next one, which I think the comedy community loved, but I don't think it did as well as maybe they were hoping. It's somewhere in here. Amusement park movies, I'm going to say yes. I think so too. I can't think of another one. Eisenberg getting dumped in the first scene of a movie, I'm going to say still Social Network for that. For sure. And then Falco and Rock Me Amadeus. I actually think this was their Apex Mountain because that song, it did well in 1980, whatever, came and went, but then it now gets to live on and adventure land and other rewatchables. So there you go. Best racehorse name, what'd you have for this? You know, I think there's quite a few different options from things that people say, but some of my options include laws of perspective, which is a reference to the basketball hoop or like the law of perspective. I really like that one. What about just giant ass panda? Could that be a racehorse name? It probably could. I should have a giant ass panda in Apex Mountain. Also, in like the first minute of the movie, they tell James to have sex with a plane looking, plane looking, lonely depressive. And I thought that would be a good racehorse name too. Hmm. What about adventure land? Oh, that's fun. Why not? Here comes adventure land. I think that could work. Picking nits. So, he can't just try to get a scholarship for grad school or not a scholarship, do financial aid or just... Right. Especially in the 1980s, people don't know how dangerous some of the financial aid stuff was. I just don't feel like you would give up on the school in 1987. You would figure out a way to do it and try to get it paid for and, you know, basically be like the credit... You'd basically be opening a credit card with the school that you don't realize that you'd be paying for the next 30 years. I don't think you would have given up on the dream. I agree. Also, if his friend was willing to pay for him in New York, why wasn't his friend willing to pay for him to go to Europe? Like, why don't you just move up that layaway that you're getting? Good point. I also have this is, I mean, this is really a nitpick, but this is the whole point of the pick and nits category. Not enough, like, Pittsburgh sports stuff. Huge Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, huge sports town. So you have the Penguins. Mary Lemieux is, like, really becoming, like, the next Gretzky right around now. Pirates, Barry Bonds is on there with Bobby Bonilla. Steelers, it's like Steelers country. It just felt like, just didn't feel like there was any sports stuff at all. Now, the characters weren't, like, jocks, but couldn't we have seen Ryan Reynolds wearing, I don't know, like, an old Bradshaw jersey or something? That's some indication that we're in Pittsburgh. There was a lot of great t-shirts, but no Pittsburgh t-shirts, and that would have been an easy way to do it. Like, have Frigo wearing a Pittsburgh shirt of some kind. Or, like, a Bonds. Like, if you're going 87, like, you really could have gotten distinct with the sports stuff. So, what do you have for picking nits? Anything? Oh, I thought it was weird that he was like, I was supposed to go to Europe, my family has money problems. Would even this character say my family has money problems like that to strangers? I thought that was pretty weird. Just the way that he presented some of the issues. Like, he's not a moron. He just is, like, hyper self-aware. So, I thought that was kind of strange. Also, are we supposed to believe that Em doesn't know that she's just, like, one of many for Connell? Like, everyone else knows that he brings
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