Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
82:18 – 88:44… North Dallas 40 she worked on SNL for a year in 80 to 81 and then did an uncredited pass on Ordinary People. And her brother played Ogie Oglethorpe. Yeah. Apex Mountain Newman? No. What's Apex Mountain for Newman? Butch? I think it's Butch. The Sting Butch, Sting somewhere in there. And then Towering Inferno in 73 and 74 the Sting winning best picture in 74 and then Towering Inferno comes out and it's the biggest movie of the year that's pretty tough to match. Do we need Towering Inferno type movies again? We have them. That's the problem. That's what George Butler does like one a year. No, but those type …
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but it got rewritten she was not happy about that. She did uncredited work on Straight Time North Dallas 40 she worked on SNL for a year in 80 to 81 and then did an uncredited pass on Ordinary People. And her brother played Ogie Oglethorpe. Yeah. Apex Mountain Newman? No. What's Apex Mountain for Newman? Butch? I think it's Butch. The Sting Butch, Sting somewhere in there. And then Towering Inferno in 73 and 74 the Sting winning best picture in 74 and then Towering Inferno comes out and it's the biggest movie of the year that's pretty tough to match. Do we need Towering Inferno type movies again? We have them. That's the problem. That's what George Butler does like one a year. No, but those type of movies but with basically it's the Ocean's Eleven cast in peril. Oh, like have Because part of Towering Inferno is they had some of the biggest stars from the 70s just in peril and then they did Airplane they did Beside Adventure. It would be cool if even better actors did those bad movies every once in a while. That's what happened for two years. I'm ready for the only version of me. Yeah, I mean I like those Irwin Allen movies. I feel like we deploy that in different ways now. Well now it's like Valentine's Day or like those Gary Marshall movies. Yeah, yeah. I mean some of the franchise movies I mean the Harry Potter movies were kind of a version of that where it was like every incredible English actor born after 1950 is in these movies. Right. More at Pexbon. Ankeen I would say yes. Twin Peaks. I feel like Twin Peaks. I mean he was one of the stars of Twin Peaks in 1990 when it was the biggest show on TV. Yeah. I think most people look at him and they're like that's the guy from Twin Peaks. Really? Over Ned Braden? I think so. Hockey fighting? I can't tell you how glorious this era was for hockey fights. The Bruins had at least a couple of games. It was one of the reasons to watch. It was part of the sport in a totally different way. Now when I watch hockey fights I feel like guys are going to get like really hurt. The guys know how to fight now and they're like they hold off and then they come in. This was like you're just like I was watching a bunch of videos of guys talking about how Rempe needs to learn how to fight because he's not protecting himself enough and he's just acting like it's the 80s or whatever. Yeah. George Roy Hill? No. Sports movies? I think you can make a case yes. I definitely think that 77 has a shout for the best sports movie year. And you're also coming off a bunch of great ones that happened the three years earlier. Yeah. And then everyone starts ripping off in all these different ways for the next three years. I feel like this isn't the center of like in terms of quality maybe but not you know there's the like Bull Durham Hoosiers Field of Dreams era where it's like these are the like the most important movies in America feeling. Yeah. You know when Field of Dreams came out it was like late 80s. Kind of. Almost like the sons of this era. Yeah. And it's like a lot of movies kind of coasted off of that too like Rudy and everything after that too. You know like that felt like the late 80s had Hoosiers Rudy not Rudy Hoosiers Major League Bull Durham Field of Dreams Eight Men Out The Natural's like 84 right? Yeah. You know like Eight Men Out is in the late 80s. Is there basketball? There's no basketball. Well it's White Man Can't Jump is 93. That's 90s. That's like a whole that moves into a whole other era. Basketball era. Because we go into White Man Jump the program Blue Chips. Yeah. I also feel like that kicked off a whole wave of kids sports movies in the early 90s too kind of cresting off the Field of Dreams thing. I don't know. Like the rookie thing. Yeah. I mean it's not the this is definitely one of the best ever. Maybe like prestige sports movies. Is this Apex Mountain from Movie Brothers? Carlson's? I guess the Corleone Brothers. I'd say Corleone. Yes. Yes. Lindsey Krauss. I'm still going with the verdict. House of Games for me. I wanted to be a nerd! She's good at House of Games. Great. Well she was married married to him. They got divorced. Oh yeah. They got divorced. Strother Martin. Cool hand Luke. Yeah. Definitely. Hockey movies. No question. Minor league hockey just in general? Or minor league. Well is it this or I was going to say minor league sports but I guess Bull Durham is probably. Hmm. 1970 Pontiac GTO hardtop In Baja gold! Can you find that right now? That car? Probably not. Movies that made CR want to bartend at a fucking dive bar in the middle of nowhere? And the bar Jimmy Conway's bar in Goodfellas. Yeah. Oh yeah. But that Jimmy Conway's bar is more dangerous. This bar you're just I bet the Aces gets pretty fucking dangerous. It's three o'clock you're watching soap operas with half of the Chiefs. Yeah but at like one in the morning when you're like trying to go last call at a hockey team? I don't know. Hmm. Cruiser Hanks. Yeah. This to me is such so clearly a Tom Hanks role. Yeah. But Cruz in the Ankeen role. Ooh. Yeah that's fair. But it's the lead role. It's the lead role. This is like Liv Sean always tries to rig the rules somehow. Hanks in League of Their Own is basically doing his version of Reg. Yeah. Hanks is better in this movie. Have we considered Hanks and Cruz as a possible wrinkle to the category? No. Is this movie better with Hanks and Cruz? One or the other. Cruz in the Ankeen role would be great because then it would be there would be the stories about how Cruz spent four months learning to skate. Yeah. He hired the top figure skating coach. Then he needed to be Pacino so that they could be the same height though. True. And think of how the subtext would hit when he's like is he gay? And he's like no he has huge cobs like a horse. Rock horse rock racehorse rock band wrestler fantasy team name. I mean there's 130 ways to go and I think a lot of them have been done already. I think the fourth Hanson brother would be a great racehorse name. The fourth Hanson brother? Yeah. I like it. Pickinets. Wouldn't there have been more fighting with the Charlestown Chiefs pre-Hansons? It's minor league hockey. Like everyone fought. They're bottom of the league though.
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