Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
79:45 – 86:18… when he's an expert flyer, he's flying from his repulsors, and it looks like he's fighting against the physics. It's realistic. What it would be like, yeah. Apex Mountain. Downy, yes. Yeah, for sure. Favreau, yes. Wait a minute. Could I make an argument... For Mando? That... No, not for Mando. Can I make an argument that Downy's Apex Mountain is Avengers Endgame? No. You can't. Actually. I'm rejecting it. It's the biggest, like, it's the highest grossing movie of all time. The whole point of Apex Mountain is, not only is this a career mega highlight, but you have more juice after the movie than ever. Anytime …
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It's like, all of that stuff, like, added to the realism of it. The fact that he wasn't flying smooth, and he's stabilizing himself. Even when he's an expert flyer, he's flying from his repulsors, and it looks like he's fighting against the physics. It's realistic. What it would be like, yeah. Apex Mountain. Downy, yes. Yeah, for sure. Favreau, yes. Wait a minute. Could I make an argument... For Mando? That... No, not for Mando. Can I make an argument that Downy's Apex Mountain is Avengers Endgame? No. You can't. Actually. I'm rejecting it. It's the biggest, like, it's the highest grossing movie of all time. The whole point of Apex Mountain is, not only is this a career mega highlight, but you have more juice after the movie than ever. Anytime in your career. Okay, so you have more juice after you do this. After he does this movie, the world is his fucking oyster from that point on. That's fine. Yeah, for sure. And I say the same for Favreau. Favreau was hosting fucking Table for Five in the late 90s and scrapping it and making movies like Made. And all of a sudden, now it's like, oh, I am now an A-plus list director who made this monster movie. I like it when he makes small movies, though. I love Chef. I love Made. Chef's good. Chef is good. You like Made? I can never get there with Made. I like Made. I like Made just because Made is just a fucking dissertation in early 2000s cinema. Yeah. Puff pops up in that bitch. Have you seen Made, Craig? No. Love Chef, though. Yeah. Chef's good. Chef's good. I like Chef. Terrence Howard. Probably not. It's probably a couple years earlier. Hustle and Flow. It's in that mid-2000s Hustle and Flow. Yeah. He's in Crash. Hustle and Flow. Paltrow, no. No. Bridges, no. The Apogee Awards, I think yes, because I don't know what those are. I don't think those are real awards. I don't think so either. This is the apex for those. The Ten Rings, terrorist organization. Shang-Chi. Raised Pizza? From New York? Yeah. Yeah, probably. He goes and gets Raised Pizza because he's a fucking rich guy in Malibu and he can do shit like fly Raised Pizza. Yeah. But Raised Pizza, Favreau Love, that was the second movie he'd put Raised Pizza in because they had an elf too. Hollywood comebacks. I was thinking about this, whether this was the biggest Hollywood comeback of all time. And I don't, I think the answer is probably no, but I think it's in the discussion. Well, think about one that's bigger. So, Brendan Fraser. I was thinking Affleck getting the Argo, Argo being best film, winning the Oscar and making a ton of money. You're such a homer. Elizabeth Taylor had a couple. This guy almost died. And you're talking about Affleck made like a couple of bad movies and he came back. He was done. His career was over. I'm trying to think. Hollywood comeback. Who else? Mickey Rourke. The Wrestler. Is that like a life altering movie though? But I mean, he was, he was dead in the water. He hadn't worked in years. You know what I mean? Okay. But, okay. Let's stay there though. So, it's kind of like, so Mickey Rourke, Brendan Fraser is a big comeback. Who else? It's got to be somebody who was a very famous something and then hit rock bottom and came back. Hit rock bottom and came back. I think, I don't know enough about the 50s, 60s people, but I think people like Bette Davis and Rita Hayworth, Elizabeth Taylor. There's a lot of those in that era. Wasn't Brando kind of like on the outs for a while before Godfather? Is that true? He was. Brando's a pretty good one. Yeah. I mean. Yeah, that's a good one. Brando's a good one. There's got to be more because, oh, oh, oh, oh, I got one. I got a good one. Fantasy's just going to come flying through the window right now. He's just going to break through. He's like Iron Man. He's like, oh, my suit's activating. I got a classic one. Yeah. Travolta, Pulp Fiction. Oh, Travolta's the best. Yeah. Travolta, Pulp Fiction. I can't believe that took us two minutes to get there. Michael Keaton, not bad. Michael Keaton, not bad either. Travolta. Travolta's the best one, though. Travolta is the best. Because even when Russell Westbrook was coming back on the Clippers, I was calling him Vincent Vega, Westbrook on my podcast. Comic-Con? Apex Mountain? Oh, man. So Favreau goes there in 06 before they even made the movie. And then in 07 just to like whet everybody's appetite and spray some Iron Man juice around. And people like lost their fucking minds. Because that's what happens at Comic-Con. You go in there and just... Spray some Iron Man juice. Come on, everybody. Get excited. Here's my 90-second trailer. The nerd's like, oh! Right. Oh, I wasn't going to say. You know, Comic-Con... Yeah, maybe. I've been to Comic-Con a bunch of times. And there was... There is a part where Comic-Con lost its soul. Yes. But Comic-Con... That's like South by Southwest. But Comic-Con with the Avengers was a fucking big one. Could be. Malibu Houses and Movies. I think this has to be number one. I can't think of any other ones. I'm trying to think of a... Maybe Houses in general in a movie. That's fucking... It looks like Dr. Evil's compound crossed with a beach house. It was like its own character. It's unbelievable. Yeah. Best racehorse name? Jericho? Good racehorse name. Tony Stark? What if it was just a horse named Tony Stark? Pepper Potts is a good racehorse. Pepper Potts is a great Philly name. Yeah. That's good. Ironmonger? Yeah, but then there's like an evil... You feel like Ironmonger's going to fuck with the other horses. It's like coming out of the thingies. Picking nits. I can't wait for this. Okay. I have so many for you. Why was Tony demonstrated in a new Jericho missile in Afghanistan? He's worth like a kajillion dollars. They couldn't have just sent a video. He's got to go there. Like we're in the middle of a war. He's got... He's in a car with like three people. Huh. Like what is he doing? I don't know anything about how they do that. Do they typically like test these weapons on American soil? I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know anything about it. It's ridiculous. I don't know nothing about it. This one drove me crazy. Why doesn't Tony have like a full beard after three months? It's good. In a fucking cave. He's still got the good facial hair. But it was... No, hard it is to have that? It was scraggly though. Was it? It was a little scraggly. He was scraggled. Scraggled. Wouldn't he be like actual like full beard? What did the fucking terrorists give him like... Like a dick? Here's a new Gillette Mach 5. Gillette fucking... Want some good shaving cream? Fusion Proglot? Do you have sensitive skin, Tony? Right. Or do you want just regular shaving cream? It would just be weird to want to shave. Like shaving with the shards. But would it grow in in three months? You tell me. Three months would be pretty much... Hey, if he hit puberty, he's going to have some fucking facial hair. All right. So he has this electromagnetic heart.
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