Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
61:14 – 65:25… doing that, you know? So they give Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, credit for, for popularizing it. But it's a, it's a recurring theme in the nineties. Apex Mountain. I think you got to go yes for Swayze. I think this is it. Dirty Dancing, then Roadhouse. Then he does this. It's like the world is his oyster at this point. Yeah. I'll accept it. Me too. I think because, you know, and then like this leads to Point Break and Point Break is probably the, the last best thing he does, right? Yeah. And the SNL and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. To, to me more, you could argue, yes, her IMDB is pretty choppy. And …
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It's like, it proves post-structuralism by doing that, you know? So they give Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, credit for, for popularizing it. But it's a, it's a recurring theme in the nineties. Apex Mountain. I think you got to go yes for Swayze. I think this is it. Dirty Dancing, then Roadhouse. Then he does this. It's like the world is his oyster at this point. Yeah. I'll accept it. Me too. I think because, you know, and then like this leads to Point Break and Point Break is probably the, the last best thing he does, right? Yeah. And the SNL and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. To, to me more, you could argue, yes, her IMDB is pretty choppy. And this leads to a few good men. This leads to the Vanity Fair cover. This leads to her making $20 million for striptease. This leads to Disclosure, G.I. Jane. This sets up a whole decade of her being an A plus lister. So I think you could make the case. This might've been Apex Mountain. It'll all, it paves the way for everything that's about to happen. Yeah. I was going to argue that the Vanity Fair cover is actually Apex Mountain. If we're allowed to have non-movie points as Apex Mountain. It's, it's, I accept the argument. Okay. Whoopi Goldberg. Yeah. I would say no, because she, Sister Act was like a real franchise that made lots of money. Yeah. I think Sister Act has to be her Apex. Yeah. I was going to say 92 is Sister Act and The Player. She's in both. So that, that's, that's my argument for her. Sister Act is really important to young Amanda also. Tony Goldman. Thankfully, no. It would have been sad if this was his Apex Mountain. I think actually playing the president in Scandal is a bigger move for him. Yeah. I think Fitz is the Apex. Being in gossip blogs for eight years about him and Kerry Washington. You can do the side effect of that. Jerry Zucker. I'm going to say yes, because I think he probably owned at least a little bit of this movie and probably made a lot of money and was capping off airplane, naked gun, all that stuff. Unchained Melody. Absolutely. Yeah. If you go to hell and shadows come out of the floor and drag you down, I think that was the apex of that, that premise. Do you think it's the apex of going to hell? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, I think so. It's up there. It's pretty good. I mean, what's like. What's a better depiction of going to hell in a movie than this movie? Well, I have a probably unanswerable question, but we could get into this now if you would like to. But it is a pretty binary view of the afterlife. Like what happens if you are just like an okay person? Like what do you just get trapped in purgatory forever until you like kind of move into one direction or another? Like because there's either the shadow demons or there's the light beam. And Sam runs away from the light, which I guess is because he has unfinished business. But like what do you do if you're just like Lyle Ferguson at the bank? You think there's like a G League for heaven? Maybe, you know, like a triple A, triple A heaven. So there's that guy in the hospital that they watch. Well, there are two guys at the hospital. There's the old guy who's explaining the rules of the afterlife to Patrick Swayze. And then there's another person who's on the operating table and the light comes out and they watch him die. And it seems like he gets to go to heaven. But you don't see that person walking around the hospital. It seems like it's an immediate departure straight to the light. So I'm wondering whether there's any choice involved in the decision to that you can negotiate with the light, but you can't negotiate with the gremlins. How about that? Isn't the premise that everyone goes to heaven unless they screw it up? It's it's definitely only like murderers who are deal with the gremlins in this movie, like people who have had a hand and someone else is dying. Right. Sure. Yeah. So that that scans to me. OK, so like. You know, going to jail for forgery, you probably still get to go to heaven, but maybe it's G League heaven.
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