Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
75:14 – 79:34… No purchase necessary. Must be 18 years or older. And a resident of the continental U.S. Voidware prohibited. See official rules and details at luminary.link. Apex Mountain. Redford, no. Absolutely not. Glenn Close, no. Is it- Duval, no. Is it no one? It might be no one. I had one name. Although Darren McGavin, if he had been credited, it might have been his Apex Mountain. I have two names, actually. You could make us- There's a small case to be made for Kim Basinger. LA Confidential. I think so. Well, she got nominated. I think- Did she win for LA Confidential? But that was at the tail end of her career. This …
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Luminary.link slash rewatchables. Sign up. Luminary Premium. No purchase necessary. Must be 18 years or older. And a resident of the continental U.S. Voidware prohibited. See official rules and details at luminary.link. Apex Mountain. Redford, no. Absolutely not. Glenn Close, no. Is it- Duval, no. Is it no one? It might be no one. I had one name. Although Darren McGavin, if he had been credited, it might have been his Apex Mountain. I have two names, actually. You could make us- There's a small case to be made for Kim Basinger. LA Confidential. I think so. Well, she got nominated. I think- Did she win for LA Confidential? But that was at the tail end of her career. This got her career really moving to the next level. I say no for her. I just wanted to throw that out. Okay. I think you make a case this is Brimley's Apex Mountain. Wow. I feel like you just stabbed Chris Ryan through the heart. What about the firm? I just texted Chris to do- To come in just to do evil Wilfrid Brimley as the manager in The Natural. I think you make a case. I think his chest hair was Apex Mountain. At least let's settle on that. It's the size of an Apex Mountain. Certainly. It's a mountain. It's an Apex Mountain of chest hair. What about Roger Towne, screenwriter? Didn't do much else. Sure. That was the best I could do. Or Bat Boy Bobby. Bat Boy Bobby. I mean, Levinson, it's Diner Rain Man, right? Levinson, no way. So it's definitely not him. I would say Rain Man for him. Redford. No way. You were going to say All the President's Men, right? For Redford. I would say- It's something in the 70s. Yeah. I mean, he won an Oscar for Ordinary People as director. We did the All the President's Men rewatchables and decided that actually was his Apex Mountain because not only was he the biggest star in Hollywood, but had the juice to make a movie like that and produce it. You know, that's my favorite movie of all time. All the President's Men? Ordinary People. Really? Yeah. I love Ordinary People. It's my favorite movie of all time. So we'll do 40-year anniversary rewatchable. Count me in. I can't wait for the divorce rewatchables with me, you, Sean, and Amanda. Do you know we're doing that, Craig? Mm-mm. You're bringing the chocolate chip ice cream. Okay. I gotta watch it. The greatest divorce movie of all time. Every kid of divorce has bonded over it. Anyone who says Squid and the Whale for best divorce movie, I just want to fight. Oh, my God. It is Kramer versus Kramer, 1,000%. Joey Pants Aware, Darren McGavin, we talked about him. He's one of those guys. I actually didn't know what his name was, but it's very recognizable. Again, that's his fault. Saw Rubinick overacting. They knew. I gotta say, Madsen, I really want to give this to him. I felt like he's over the top, and I don't know what his character is, and he just is kind of a dumbass. Who would you go with? I think you can make a case for literally everyone in the movie. Wow. Like, you can make a case for everyone in the movie, but I think you really can make a case for Kim Basinger, for Memo. It's really over the top. I mean, deliberately, obviously, intentionally. So she, you know, she talks about how she, you know, when she's wooing Roy in the first place, how she went out to Hollywood to be a starlet and how she can make herself someone else. So obviously part of that is actually the nature of the role, is that you know when she's with him or when she's with anyone, she's performing. And that's actually part of the question is like, well, which of those guys, Gus, Roy, anyone, is actually seeing her true self, if anyone? And then I think Prosky, the judge. I mean. He's so over the top. I love Prosky. The lamp goes on, he's like. No! Basinger's a good one. Yeah. The scene when she tries to shoot Roy, there's some bad acting in that. That's good. I'll go with Basinger. I'm down with that. All right. Picking nets. I'm sure you have a few as well. I have a hundred. Come. I'll keep it to like five. We mentioned the Wrigley Field Clock. Mm-hmm. At the beginning of one of the games, the national anthem is being sung. That didn't happen until after World War II. Right. Yeah. A lot of time frame stuff. A lot of time frame issues. Hobbs really doesn't put two and two together that it might be his son.
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