Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
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Me too. Great movie. Yeah. It's on the list. We couldn't do Jackie Brown without doing this. Even though the feed's going to end up. I thought this was the last episode. Well, but if the feed kept going we would do Jackie Brown. In the event, yeah. Let's take a break and then we'll do Apex Mountain. This episode is brought to you by Sleep Doctor. Let's say a good sleep is wildly underrated. You can do everything right, eat well, work out, sleep seven or eight hours and still feel exhausted. If you snore, wake up tired or crash during the day, it might be worth looking into. Sleep Doctor offers an at-home sleep study done in your own bed. They accept most insurance plans so you can pay as little as zero dollars. Visit sleepdoctor.com. This episode is brought to you by the Hulu original series Chad Powers starring our friend Glenn Powell. This season, the walls are closing in on Chad's biggest secret and with his future on the field hanging in the balance, he'll have to win back the one coach who wants nothing to do with him. Watch the new season of Chad Powers on September 3rd streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus. For bundle subscribers, terms apply. Alright, Apex Mountain. Sam Jackson? I say yes. Yep. You could say Die Hard 3 too. Which is the same time they're shooting. A year later. Yeah, but they were like, when they were promoting this, they were shooting Die Hard 3. But he got this, that because of this. I think it's right. And he's Oscar nominated. Cements him as a leading man. Tarantino, I say yes. I think he could do whatever the fuck he wanted after this movie. He could have. That is true. He could have said, I want to do a sequel to Untamed Heart with Marissa Tomei. And this time Slater lives. Trying to think of like, whether in some ways. Very random pull. In some ways it's like, I think, would you say he's got a couple of, like, because I think there's this, I think there's Inglourious Bastards is definitely one because it's like, look what I can do here. Like, while everybody else has got to make franchise movies, I can do this. Yep. But Once Upon a Time was the biggest movie he ever made. Yeah. I would say it's this though. Yeah, no filmmaker has had, in the last 30 years, has had, well, I guess maybe now Nolan with Oppenheimer is probably the. Yeah. Nolan is definitely, I mean, his movies have made more money than PTA, than QTs. But I don't know if they're like, as influential. It's kind of hard to say. They're both so singular in a way. I don't know if it's his, I guess it is his Apex Mountain because you're right, he could have done anything he wanted to. And he went off and did do a lot of things that were not making movies in that three-year window before Jack Brown. He's hosting, he's hosting Saturday Night Live. He's doing crazy things that no director did. Acting, taking acting parts. Directing ER. Yeah. Apex Mountain for Amsterdam? This is funny. This came up on Oceans 12, whether, this is Amsterdam's greatest movie appearance, was on Oceans 12. But now, I wonder whether it's The stories about Amsterdam. Yeah. How about MacGuffins? We haven't gotten to this yet. No. What do you think MacGuffin? I think the Ark of the Covenant is like the greatest MacGuffin. Okay. Travolta. You would be able to answer this better than us. I think it's Saturday Night Fever. I think that stardom in the 70s, if you hit with a movie, was just bigger and more impactful. Because there was just less going on. Same thing for Stallone with Rocky. Like those, you hit with a movie like that and when you're famous, you're at a whole other level of being famous. What about Diners? If you consider Jack Rabbit Slim as a diner, I guess it's more of like a Well, you'd have to go with the diner in the beginning and the Hawthorne Grill. but like the presence of diners in this movie. just diners in general. Yeah, probably. Because there's multiple diners. What about the movie Diner? Eh. You guys are not that in a diner. I actually really like Diner, but this is a $250 million cultural phenomenon. Diner's a 1982 movie about going backwards. Don't you think that if you hadn't seen this, you would not have gone to diners as much? No, I grew up on Long Island. Going to diners is like a major part of life. Seriously. All right. I believe you. I'm not, and I'm not bragging about it. It's sad. You're the coolest. No, it's not cool. It's pathetic. It's invented diners. No, it's just, it was something that was insisted upon in my life for some reason. Uma? Apex Mountain for Uma. Probably Kill Bill, right? Yeah, Kill Bill. Yes. Milkshakes. Is it this or there will be blood? Or just milkshakes being a great beverage dessert? I want to imagine it's just like in 1957. You just, you go to the corner candy shop. I feel milkshakes have had better moments. Five dollar milkshakes maybe not. The anti-lactose lobby has come from milkshakes in a pretty big way. It's a shame for me. I really can't, can't, can't have them. Milkshakes are the best. 1964's Chebelle Malibus. I'm going to say yes. Sure. Bruce Willis, no. No. Did you say Ving yet? I haven't gotten there. It's definitely Ving. Tarantino, three counts? One, two. Oh, yeah. It's a Tarantino device. There's another three count that I really enjoy from, you know, Fassbender and Glorious Bastards. Ving Rhames. Yeah. Because this gets him Mission Impossible. It gets him Don King only in America on HBO. It certainly does. Mexican standoffs? Probably still true romance. Reservoir Dogs. I mean, Reservoir Dogs. Yeah. The Twist? I think, I think Chubby Checker is The Twist feels like. Miramax? Wouldn't that be Shakespeare in Love? I think it's Shakespeare in Love. Souped Up Accurus? Yes. Also, bizarre vehicle for the wolf to be driving. Walk-in monologues? Pool Hall Junkies? What about the Thanksgiving one in Annie Hall? I say yes for walk-in monologues. How about Modesty Blaze? Yeah. I do want to say the comfort of strangers monologue that Walk-in gives in the beginning of the movie. Unbelievable if people are not familiar with that. Modesty Blaze, no. Because I think the movie Modesty Blaze, the adaptation of the comic strip starring Monica Vitti is Apex Mountain for that. Okay. Keitel? No. What is it? I mean... Taxi driver? Piano? Well... Ripping off some... I think this... Some cock? This is a big drop in trial in Lieutenant. Yeah, showing the badge Lieutenant. You know why he drops trial? Somewhere in the 90s. Why? Because of the Mets, the way the Mets are torturing him in that movie. He's got so much money on the Mets. 74 Chevy Novas, yes. He's going through every vehicle in this movie. I'm going to put Apex Mountain, Jimmy's Coffee, but also just coffee. Yeah. Coffee, I would say cinematic coffee, this is up there. This is probably Apex Mountain. How about this? Starbucks has taken off. This is just maybe the Apex Mountain for coffee. Apex Mountain of coffee. Shit's happening with coffee. I would say that this is... Coffee, like in the history of coffee? 30 years of coffee becoming this kajillion dollar industry starts with Jimmy. And I have to say, we've just gone downhill from there. Yeah. Because coffee was best when coffee was like, it's good coffee, it's okay coffee. We don't need all these different levels of coffee. We're in hot-to-steak territory. Diner coffee and then slightly better than diner coffee is all that is required. How about UC Santa Cruz merch? It's elite. Do you still drink coffee? What? No, sometimes you say shit like I'm like, do we even hang out? Do you even know me? I've never seen you order a cup of... You've seen me order a cup of black coffee. Yes. Many, many times. I drink a 16-ounce coffee first thing in the morning almost as I'm getting up with a nicotine lozenge and then I don't drink another coffee that day. And then you furiously masturbate and then you set off at the start of your day. I had... I'm so particular about my coffee. I had a breakfast the other day and I wanted to sleep later so I decided to have coffee at the breakfast instead of at my house. Okay. Did it just throw you off the whole day? I was prisoner of... They brought this giant coffee but I had no idea how much coffee I was drinking because it had those little tiny cup mugs and I'm like, okay... Oh, you had 18 cups? Yeah, I'm like, what approximates what I normally... And it's like, I've never figured this out. There's no way to figure it out. I was fucked up the rest of the day. It doesn't even matter if it's... You might only have drank nine ounces of coffee but when you're at a diner and they just keep refilling it, there comes a time... At some point, you're doing cocaine. Where you see God. It's Mia with the brown up your nose. Yeah. Yeah, it's terrible. Monster Joe's Truck and Toe, I'm going to say yes. Yeah. Apparently named after Joe Dante, director of Gremlins, who was a filmmaker that Quinn interviewed in the 80s when he was writing a book about directors and that was somebody who gave him time. I had wondered if it was Joe from Reservoir Dogs' Oh, maybe there's a connection there. I don't know. His landfill, his junkyard. Conversations About Pigs? I can't remember a better one. Animal Farm? They probably talk about pigs in Babe. Yeah. Horrifying male sodomy scenes in movies? Would you go here? Deliverance. Deliverance. I think Deliverance still has it, yeah. Okay. Anything else? Like a pig is still... Yeah. Another conversation about pigs. The Book of Ezekiel. Well, this is a misquote, though. But it's... Have you... I never even knew there was a Book of Ezekiel. Well, that's on you. Well, I was raised Quaker, so it wasn't really a number one... Did you know the Bible existed before this movie? I did, but it was more of like a literary piece than like a spiritual guide. Apex Mountain for the Bible. You're gonna say like no diners matter more this way. Okay. Cruiser Hanks. It's absolutely 1,002% Cruz. And if you suggest Hanks, I don't want to do this possibly anymore. It's Cruz as Butch. No, it's Cruz as Vincent. Cruz as Vincent. Yes. No way. He can't do it. Yes. Why don't I see it? And it's Hanks as Maynard. But Gump. Yeah. I don't see Cruz pulling off Vincent. Disagree. Yeah, I can totally see it. I don't see it. I think he... I think he goes over the top of Cruz. Is he that far from TJ Mackey? Is he that far from... He fucks up the dance scene. He tries too hard. He tries to learn the twist. It seems too choreographed. He won't understand how to be on heroin. Like, Cruz is a bad drunk. Anytime Cruz has had to be a drunk in a movie, it's bad. Because he's an alien. But he shouldn't be Hanks. He doesn't want to drink. I'm just saying that. No, I have Cruz as Butch. Okay. Cruz as Butch works. That's a very small boxer. Well, they have weight classes in boxing, right? They do. It could be like a welterweight. Not very imposing. Middleweight. Is Bruce Willis like gigantic? Did I miss the Bruce Willis memo? He has a kind of strength. He has like more of a 1950s face too. So where do you... You have Cruz as Vincent. I have Cruz as Vincent. I agree with him. Here's the other thing to consider. I don't see that at all. Fair points you're making, Cruz has never been directed by Quentin Tarantino. What do you have, Craig? I struggle to see Cruz as Vincent. I could see Cruz as Jules more than Vincent. Now that's crazy. Cruz as Jules is amazing. From the producers of Sean Young, listen to that. That's a Tasty Burger! That's a Tasty Burger! I'd be Hanks more as Vincent. There's a softness to Vincent. Hanks as Vincent would have been the part that he never played in his career, but it actually kind of... The dark. He would have had the Da Vinci Code haircut. Yeah. I mean, just no. There's just no way Hanks could play Vincent. You would have said that about Travolta. There's always... Come up, look who's talking. There's always been like a kind of a darkness to Travolta though. Like, Blowout is such a dark movie. There's no darkness to Hanks. Obviously, you didn't see the Family Ties episode where Uncle Ned had a drinking problem. So who's winning this? I have to mark this down. Cruz wins. Okay. Whether he's Butch or Vincent.
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