Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
49:22 – 52:11… this movie is that you don't miss her when she's not there but when she is there you're like oh we got whoopee for a little bit this is great I had this in Apex Mountain this is definitely the Apex Mountain of the era of Whoopi Goldberg coming in hot for a few scenes and just stealing scenes Sister Act is also 1992 right and Ghost is right before this and it's just you drop her in a movie like a grenade for 15 minutes there's also two little mini moments in the movie that are so perfect the one is when she's in his office and she picks up the Academy Award and holds it and she's like oh this is heavy it's …
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that's LA where they arrest the wrong person I don't know every scene she's got is fantastic and it says a lot about how good this movie is that you don't miss her when she's not there but when she is there you're like oh we got whoopee for a little bit this is great I had this in Apex Mountain this is definitely the Apex Mountain of the era of Whoopi Goldberg coming in hot for a few scenes and just stealing scenes Sister Act is also 1992 right and Ghost is right before this and it's just you drop her in a movie like a grenade for 15 minutes there's also two little mini moments in the movie that are so perfect the one is when she's in his office and she picks up the Academy Award and holds it and she's like oh this is heavy it's like a year after she just won an Academy Award for Ghost so of course she knows what it's like to lift one and the other is the lineup when he gets called in to read the lineup and everything she's saying to the woman who's trying to identify the perp in the lineup when she's like trying to compel her to choose number three is so fucking funny I love her in this movie I have most I think we all do it's gotta be the opening scene right yeah it's just mesmerizing to watch yeah yeah although I have watched that Whoopi tampon scene a bunch of times but the opening sequence I always love those because you're just looking for like is there a tell here that lets me know that somebody involved in this sequence is not entirely sure what they're doing and and everybody is just dialed into their responsibilities to get the scene to work it's just it's just wonderful it's just wonderful what's age the best early 1990s Hollywood in this whole some of these movies like Grand Canyon has a couple Grand Canyon flawed movie but has like Steve Martin's like a producer we go in here Tarantino kind of dips into that that his version of LA with True Romance yeah I just like this version of LA where it's like pre-internet I had friends that just graduated college and were just like I'm going to LA to see if I can make it or new friends of friends things like that and it was like this great mystery where the only way we really knew about it was either the books or movies like this the concept of a movie with no stars when they're like no stars like they're just completely blown away his age is the best how about uh pre-toupee Jeremy Piven oh yeah with like the full kind of comb over he's like 31 yeah you you could see it all I mean it's all there he probably doesn't like this movie that's PCU Jeremy that's that's really he's getting ready to soar like an eagle a couple years later in PCU more what's age the best Griffin seeing Angelica Houston and John Cusack who just do not like him and it's like are you going to be a Telluride says to John Cusack
72:51 – 75:39… always happens the uh any other what's age the worst for you guys um the clothes oh man those double-breasted double-breasted yeah well they're coming up in apex mountain i i i have a funny one i feel like the range rover as like the the vehicle of power is a really funny one that's a good one that's a good one you know like he upgrades to the world's royce he does casting what ifs chevy chase wanted to play griffin mill warner brothers said thanks but no thanks allegedly robert ottman was considering john travolta for the lead at one point no it's a really interesting travolta sliding doors all of a sudden …
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she dies because the glass collapses on her which always happens the uh any other what's age the worst for you guys um the clothes oh man those double-breasted double-breasted yeah well they're coming up in apex mountain i i i have a funny one i feel like the range rover as like the the vehicle of power is a really funny one that's a good one that's a good one you know like he upgrades to the world's royce he does casting what ifs chevy chase wanted to play griffin mill warner brothers said thanks but no thanks allegedly robert ottman was considering john travolta for the lead at one point no it's a really interesting travolta sliding doors all of a sudden the pulp fiction effectiveness isn't the same and i'm kind of glad that didn't happen no me too i think robin needed this for his bull durham to the player to shawshank kind of the three-step arc this year was bob roberts also 92 i think it was yeah i think it was um i mean robert i mean tim robbins had a killer had a killer uh early 90s you know he was what he's what two years away from dead man walking yeah he's which that scene you know that shot of susan sarandon did you get the idea for the movie you know while shooting that scene it's so crazy this movie might be more important than we even know so predictive there's scenes with jeff daniels playing golf in a surgeon gown in a hospital and patrick swayze showing off karate moves that were filmed but cut but apparently you can find them on sean's blu-ray just go over to sean's house don't do not come to wesley can come to my house you can come bill but nobody else is invited this one floored me um the goddess gretta scotchy married to uh vincent d'onofrio in real life mm-hmm they were in a relationship no when it happened oh they have a daughter named lila george who's married to sean penn tim robbins directed sean penn in the movie dead man walking there's just all kinds of six degrees of separation stuff i believe sean penn and lila george broke up they probably did well they were together at some point best that guy aka the joey pants award um our runner-up is going to be richard e grant who plays tom oakley the pitcher of habeas corpus unbelievable oh oh so oh amazing hands are flying he's so into it the clove cigarette like the the sort of manic over caffeinated possibly coked up um and i would just love to know like you know dean stockwell is not with us anymore but yeah like their their thing like how did they work out dean's like i'm just i'm just gonna set some picks you do your thing yeah you go nuts our winner though for the best that guy oh the first person you see in this movie van damme's love interest in blood
84:46 – 92:17… peacock sounds exactly right you have an ep credit wesley congrats you could also call the show peacock if you want i really that's what we're gonna call it apex mountain tim robbins no vincent d'onofrio no though it does raise a good question of what his apex mountain was i don't know the answer to that vincent d'onofrio yeah um probably law and order right like that sees those seasons he spent on law and order and he was private pile yeah i mean he had a lot of good great movie moments i mean talk about dion waiters he's got he could win a few of those robert altman it's nash it's got to be nashville right …
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yo gay wesley what i want you have it rocks on no i want the fx version of that show you have oh i'm sorry it's peacock i read it wrong it's peacocks in okay oh peacock sounds exactly right you have an ep credit wesley congrats you could also call the show peacock if you want i really that's what we're gonna call it apex mountain tim robbins no vincent d'onofrio no though it does raise a good question of what his apex mountain was i don't know the answer to that vincent d'onofrio yeah um probably law and order right like that sees those seasons he spent on law and order and he was private pile yeah i mean he had a lot of good great movie moments i mean talk about dion waiters he's got he could win a few of those robert altman it's nash it's got to be nashville right apex mountain i mean peak of his powers is post mash i think because post mash it's in nashville because he but he i mean he makes brewster mcleod is the first movie he makes after mash which is a wild movie a movie that only a guy who has just made a out of nowhere smash hit that got nominated for oscars could make so yeah pure power is probably right after that sythony stevenson yes meta hollywood movies i guess it would be like this tropic thunder they're more on the tv side than the movie side well there's a i mean like i said singing in the rain is a classic example of this but i'm thinking about the actual like the like industry movies like modern the modern version of them where there's some judgment about the about the industry itself i mean yeah and i mean i don't know i don't know facing the crowd is still i mean that's you know facing the crowd um network um oh network's a good one bamboozled network i feel like is more a new york movie in my mind argo i mean argo is one of these movies i mean yeah i guess the alan arkin stuff but you have never seen a movie this acidic about you know the the and also involving the the level of i mean julia roberts and and bruce willis and susan sarandon and you know sally kellerman and i mean the range of people signing this petition young mc is playing the boyfriend of jan tim robbins secretary in this movie young mc so good i mean like the number of people signing robert altman's anti-hollywood petition is like then no no that's never happened before which is also probably why it's not nominated for best the funny thing about that though is this movie widely satirizes hollywood but it doesn't really take any shots at any specific people that's true no one takes a blow you could say well this person resembles this executive or resembles this agent john peters drive by exactly by shooting joke nothing like that yeah no but the joke isn't on anybody really except griffin i guess who ends up with the happiest possible ending for himself yeah but i also i mean just to sort of i mean i agree and i also think that one of the things that i mean talk about what's aged the best i mean it's it's prediction that what is happening to the movies right now is what is going to happen um you know the idea that we are talking about like the death of stars the death of of great screenwriting i mean this is these are the conversations that have been going on since before 1992 but the idea that they have like truly they're coming to pass in this major way um i think is not insignificant and the and the thing that that i would love to go back and read all the premiere magazines from from that you know i look i had um and i i didn't have the 92 issue so i i gotta work on my ebs skills i was all excited to dive into the there's a good la mag thing that you can find on that cinephile and beyond site they have the altman interview that really captures like where altman was at um can i also just say one other thing i'm really curious to know how i would love to read a piece about japanese people and japanese culture in the 80s and 90s because the way the japanese function here is the way they function all over the movies in the 80s and 90s which is like as tourists in an environment that they potentially are like possibly gonna buy or colonize but the movie isn't afraid of them the way they are everybody else from someplace else who comes into the movies that's um there's something about this share i mean los angeles i mean it's not like japanese people are foreign to los angeles but there's something about the way japan and japanese culture japanese people in japanese culture function simultaneously as like like punch lines and as wallpaper um and that's a thing that happens in this movie a couple times more apex mountain we'll do it quickly peter gallagher no some great peter gallagher is imdb i i continue to think is is just wildly underrated as you know i love to jillian on her 37th third 37th birthday it's one of my favorites just for pfeiffer peak pfeiffer just as a ghost but he's such a he does corporate so well i mean there's something about like he's such he's simultaneously so corporate and so dad um that's i mean that's why he was so good in sex lies and videotape he basically was in playing the same part the whole time right um kina gershon no oversized double-breasted suits it's either this or the talking heads movie i don't know they're in the finals i don't know who's the winner is this is definitely the winner and like hopefully to the death and it dies this is this your least favorite era of fashion ever wesley um yeah because it was also it had also infiltrated at this point the nba michael this is how michael jordan is dressing this is how all your lenny dykstra all those guys are dressing like this and it's terrible i'm gonna send you i'm gonna send you a couple pictures of me in college wayne gretzky i mean yeah it's rough lisa gibbons i'm gonna say yes i don't think things got better than her in 1992 a player cameo she's crushing on entertainment tonight she was a smoke show back then uh fred ward no brian james probably not i mean whoopi goldberg no i think but it's right around here i don't know maybe oh she won an oscar for ghost this is i mean the early the late like from 1985 to 1995 is whoopi's i mean she's one of the biggest stars i think it's ghost ghost is the number one movie of that year and she's yes it does get better sister act i think it's sister act because people were going to sister act and sister act 2 to see whoopi goldberg well sister act was the same year as this movie then the answer is yes yes she had a great she had a great 1992 greta scott scott scott scottie scottie i want to say scotchy but i know it's scotchy like scone deal you know you like scotchy greta scotchy i think it's presumed innocent for her that was a major major major major movie oh yes she was the new face and she was yes the breakout person that movie what about douchey outdoor la meals and drinks 2020 through 2022 fair randall back cough it never got better
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