Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
68:03 – 72:01… It was the demo version and they made it better when they actually released it. So if you listen to the two versions. Interesting. They're a little different. Apex Mountain. So Stallone has this and then First Blood a few months later and I think after First Blood I think that's his Apex Mountain. I don't think it gets any better for Stallone. He has like two of the seven biggest movies of 1982 and he's an A++++ plus lister and it's all set up for him to do Rocky IV. He's the he just he can do anything he can get anything greenlit. He wrote and directed this Rocky III. So I don't think it's here but we're …
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Muhammad Ali's house in Chicago. Yeah. And then apparently the Eye of the Tiger used in the film was never officially released. It was the demo version and they made it better when they actually released it. So if you listen to the two versions. Interesting. They're a little different. Apex Mountain. So Stallone has this and then First Blood a few months later and I think after First Blood I think that's his Apex Mountain. I don't think it gets any better for Stallone. He has like two of the seven biggest movies of 1982 and he's an A++++ plus lister and it's all set up for him to do Rocky IV. He's the he just he can do anything he can get anything greenlit. He wrote and directed this Rocky III. So I don't think it's here but we're close. I think it's First Blood right? You think it's right when he goes to the actual top of the mountain in Rocky IV is when he hits his Apex Mountain. Maybe that shouldn't have been Apex Mountain. He's actually climbed a mountain to get on Apex Mountain. I've said many times that's where he got the idea for Cliffhanger when he was standing on top of that mountain. Probably. Right. He was like what would happen if a plane crashed and there's a bad guy? I give well I think this is Burt Young's Apex Mountain. I would say that. You could say earlier Rocky or back to school and maybe he gets more playing time in Rocky V because there's a lot of sitting around the apartment but he was funny and at times scary and almost always pathetic and it worked and I think this is his Apex Mountain. You could make a mid-80s case for him because like Rocky IV is pretty close to back to school. Yeah. I don't know. What about Talia Shire? Talia Shire I was thinking the first Rocky probably because that's coming right after Godfather II. You would have said like she had this huge career ahead of her and as it turns out those were like the two big franchises for her but she never she tried to branch out never really made it. Mr. T not until A-Team. Carl Weathers you could probably say yeah right? Yeah. I mean he's in this movie the most of any Rocky movie and you know I would say I would go yes. Hulk Hogan no. The fairy in that Adam Sandler movie? No. This has got to be it. Action Jackson? I mean that that is a good movie Sharon Stone. Hulk Hogan I'm gonna say no. Yeah no not yet. Statues? Probably still Statue of Liberty. It's close though I had to think about it. Hmm. Survivor the band I'm gonna say yes. Yeah. Even though they did do some good work on Rocky IV. I don't want to belittle the work on Rocky IV. Some really good stuff back then. Listen they put they put Frank Stallone to shame and that was their mission and you know probably got a bonus from Sylvester Stallone from it. Stu Nahan yes. Leroy Neiman yes because he gets not only is he in a scene but then gets his painting at the end and that's all I got unless you guys have anything else. What's Burgess Meredith? I mean is he the as the penguin I guess? I think it's Rocky I because he gets nominated. Yeah. He's still the penguin like kids like us are watching Batman reruns where he's the penguin and at the same time he's in a movie Oscar nominee. Okay. Picking Nits. Just Joe Sack and Big Yank Ball. I still don't get that. Thunder Lips 390 pounds? Yeah. Stupid. Like did Andre the Giant weigh 390 pounds? That seems like a high number. He clearly wasn't 390 just looking at him unless he was like and he wasn't well how tall did they make him? They made him 7 feet taller. They said he was 7 feet but even 7 feet like he's going to be 390 pounds. Yeah. Right. No. Gus would Thunder Lips get arrested immediately after that match for the 6 cops he punched? You know it's all were they like the WWE cops? Or were they actual cops? I think those might have been real cops. I don't know.
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