Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
76:09 – 79:21… up like Castle Rock leaving Columbia. Oh, okay. They were fighting about who deserved more credit, who did enough work, and they cut ties the following year. Apex Mountain. Clint, obviously not. Malkovich? Is this his most famous performance? I mean, do you think this or Rounders is the most famous? But Rounders wasn't successful when it came out. In the years since, it's kind of gone on to grow a lot. So I was thinking that being John Malkovich is actually his Apex Mountain. You're probably right. Where he's in the title of a movie. If you're named after him, yeah. Done by a really well-respected director, …
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And then there was a whole Columbia-Castle Rock debate about this movie that ended up like Castle Rock leaving Columbia. Oh, okay. They were fighting about who deserved more credit, who did enough work, and they cut ties the following year. Apex Mountain. Clint, obviously not. Malkovich? Is this his most famous performance? I mean, do you think this or Rounders is the most famous? But Rounders wasn't successful when it came out. In the years since, it's kind of gone on to grow a lot. So I was thinking that being John Malkovich is actually his Apex Mountain. You're probably right. Where he's in the title of a movie. If you're named after him, yeah. Done by a really well-respected director, that's got to be his Apex Mountain. Yeah. Plus, Rounders was starting to gain steam at that point. This movie was rewatchable the entire 90s. It was on all the time. Dangerous liaisons. They remade in Cruel Intentions. Russo, no. Probably Tin Cup for her. Yeah. No, we haven't done Tin Cup yet. She's unbelievable in that movie. Absolutely love her. Really good Don Johnson. Great job by her. She's in our favorite two for the money, too. That's right. I'm gambling again. That's right. She's Al Pacino's girlfriend in that. Yeah. Yeah. Not one of her better roles. No. Tobin Bell now. Roof chases. Pretty good roof chase. It's pretty great. It's pretty great. I'd like to open that up to the people. Maybe put in Chris's Twitter reply if there's a better roof chase. I feel like we're missing one. Born Supremacy. Oh. Skyfall. Matrix. I don't know. I'd put this one up against it. Because this one has so much drama to it when he puts the gun in his mouth. Yeah. Assassination movies? I think JFK probably takes it. Yeah. I agree. Wolfgang Peterson? Probably Das Boot 2. Das Boot the sequel? The sequel. Yeah. $300 million. $300 million. Weston Bonaventure, no question. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The era of adult thrillers? Yeah. I think- Somewhere in the 90s here. I think supercharged- 92 to 94. Genre movies like this. It's like The Firm and this and- Modern adult thrillers. Yeah. 93 movies. Washington DC is a movie location now. Because what, you think all the president's men is? Yeah, probably. Yeah. That's like around three days of the condor too. So it's like the 70s paranoid thriller. Yeah. Yeah. Pick and nits. Oh my God. A cynical, loveless, legitimately owed alcoholic request to be assigned to protect the current president. And they're like, sure thing. They're not even like, we got to run it up the flagpole. Yeah. They're just like, all right. Hold on. Can you take a fitness test first? Nope. They're like, sure thing. Back right. Tomorrow. If I just go up to Rob Thompson right now and I'm like, I really want to pitch in game seven. I've been down to it. All right. I hesitate every time with these movies to do this because I know part of losing yourself
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