Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
85:52 – 91:46… two movies in this theater at the same time. Oh, I didn't read that. What Turturro movie? Illuminata or something like that. Oh, okay. I haven't seen that. Apex Mountain. I say yes for our girl Chloe. She's the it girl in New York. They're making this movie. She's about to do Boys Don't Cry. I don't know. Does she have more juice than she did right here? Probably not, right? Maybe right before she shot that scene in the brown bunny. Maybe like an hour beforehand. Kate Beckinsale. Maybe Broke Down Palace. I think Underworld probably is a little bit bigger for her. I agree. That first Underworld was a really …
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with John Turturro's movie and there's all this stuff where it's like they had to pay for the recarpeting of the place and then Turturro's people paid for the other, but it was like they were shooting two movies in this theater at the same time. Oh, I didn't read that. What Turturro movie? Illuminata or something like that. Oh, okay. I haven't seen that. Apex Mountain. I say yes for our girl Chloe. She's the it girl in New York. They're making this movie. She's about to do Boys Don't Cry. I don't know. Does she have more juice than she did right here? Probably not, right? Maybe right before she shot that scene in the brown bunny. Maybe like an hour beforehand. Kate Beckinsale. Maybe Broke Down Palace. I think Underworld probably is a little bit bigger for her. I agree. That first Underworld was a really big movie. Yeah. You ever see that one? As you know, I don't dabble. I also now, I would say her Instagram is pretty apex-y. Mackenzie Astin, yes. The Astin brothers as a combo. What was it? Wasn't Astin on like Facts of Life though? Yeah. I mean, that was pretty big. Yeah, he was at the tail end. You know what we didn't do for that guy and who I think, well, it doesn't matter. Finish it. I was just going to say we didn't mention Michael Weatherly. Oh. He plays Hap. Yeah. Then he went on to be in that show Bull. That was your favorite show, right? Yep. Robert Sean Leonard, no. Apex Mountain for the hatred for ad agency people? Yeah. Mad Men? Yeah, but it's so weird. It's like, what? It's so, they're so crazed about that. It's very specific and strange. Bernie really hates them. Vodka Tonics? That's a great little sequence. Yeah. Vodka Tonics is a cliche. Yeah. It's like, what's the best I'm 24 and trying to punch above my weight with a cocktail? I mean, it was Long Island Iced Tea when I was growing up. Well, that's getting punched. No, but trying to impress people. You're the one getting punched if you're doing Long Island Iced Teas. Yeah. Trying to seem like elegant. I think Martini. Whiskey Sours are a big one. Tom Collins' are a big one. Yeah. You mean like a sweeter drink that you can handle? Yeah. I mean, Red Bull and vodka kind of supplanted, I think, vodka tonic. At Sean's bachelor party, I drank a lot of Red Bull and tequila. We called it Gasolina. Yeah. Yeah. Then you took a speedboat to Cuba. Book publishers. In a manner of speaking. Did it get better for book publishers? Then, in the 2000s, having movies retroactively glamorizing book publishers, before book publishers flipped? Yeah. 2000s was the last great decade for book publishers. Yeah. I love that sly reference to what's the name of the Howard Hughes fake biographer? Yeah. You know, and her book about Tibet and the Dalai Lama and everything. It's another this situation. It's worse than that. Yeah. What about G&H infections? Apex Mountain for gonorrhea and herpes. As a movie reference. Chris Igerman, what's his Apex Mountain? I'd say Kicking and Screaming, but these are very, these are, these movies go hand in hand. Yeah. The run he does here. Because this movie didn't make it. This and Barcelona and the late 90s run for him. Yuppie Scum, Railroad Apartments, Whit Stillman, probably Barcelona. Right. I would say Metropolitan. Because he got nominated for an Oscar. Because he got nominated for an Oscar. I think he won a Sundance Prize. That was a big deal. Studio 54 movies that lost money. This was definitely the Apex Mountain. People, there weren't like three more rushing into the production right after the summer. Although, I have to say, the nightclub as a setting for a movie is pretty, when are we going to go back to that? Well, I think one of the problems is Boogie Nights did it so well, it kind of stepped on the idea of like going backwards in time to a 70s boogie club with disco and all that stuff. I think we're due for like a movie set in the early 2000s about lit or something like that. Oh, like a Meet Me in the Bathroom movie? Yeah, yeah. Where somebody plays Andy Greenwald? Yeah. Well, Andy could play it. Andy plays himself with the Irishman teaching technology. Nice, I love it. AI Andy, they're going to have AI. AI Andy plays, he just lends the voice. I'll be played by Ben Affleck though. After missing out on Last Days of Disco, he won't let this one pass him by no matter what. You know, ironically, it's the kind of movie that he should have been in in 1998. Like his instincts were right. He should have been in Last Days of Disco. He's always had good instincts, he just then also has bad instincts. I think he did the right thing by appearing in Armageddon in Shakespeare in Love. But maybe he could have done all three though. If he had done this movie, it would be like, how could things have worked out better for Affleck? Can you see him in Armageddon maybe? I mean, that duo was the funnier thing is to imagine Eigemann in Armageddon. See, that's what I missed. I mean, I would love to have seen it. He could have played the Steve Buscemi part in Armageddon. Or the Owen Wilson part. Yeah. I forgot to mention with Eigemann, he would have been a great diehard and a blank villain. Oh my God. Like if you put him in Sudden Death instead of Power's Booth. He could have actually been in the fourth one where Oliphant is the hacker. Right. It's like, come on man, Timothy Oliphant's too hot to be a hacker. Because he would have pulled off all like the sarcastic, mean-spirited lines. Yeah. I feel like we should write a movie that's like a spiritual sequel to this movie that's called like The Back Half of Des and it's just about him in the second half of his life. What do you think he's doing? He works for The Fan. He's Micah the Mad Dog's lead producer. No, he's a podcaster. He's obviously a podcaster. He's a phony baloney guy with a lot of opinions, lots of ambition, but no ideas. He's great at talking. Yeah. Just wearing like the corduroy suit jacket with the pads on the elbows. Yeah. Smoking a pipe. Best racehorse name. Days of Disco? I think G&H. G&H? G&H is good.
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