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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

The Big Chill 1983

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey · 26 September 2023 · 24,402 feet

The claim

53:13 – 56:00

… to do a lot of this He's very reckless with his pills Truly I mean he's just kinda like Well lost a few of those Yeah They went down the Do you have this as Apex Mountain for Quaaludes or no? No Ludes is Wolf of Wall Street Wolf of Wall Street Okay Lemon Ludes Yeah The Michigan football game I just enjoy it It's not even that great of a scene But I just like I This is totally what would happen with all these people Like oh my god the game's on Like the Alex is just whatever It's funny It's also they're all just like Complete addicts for it Yeah Like no matter where they come in their life They're just like …

The whole segment, as transcribed

Was it meant for distribution? Or was it meant for party time? I think both I think both I think he does a little bit of both Okay Yeah Okay I think it's like This is gonna be fun to do a lot of this He's very reckless with his pills Truly I mean he's just kinda like Well lost a few of those Yeah They went down the Do you have this as Apex Mountain for Quaaludes or no? No Ludes is Wolf of Wall Street Wolf of Wall Street Okay Lemon Ludes Yeah The Michigan football game I just enjoy it It's not even that great of a scene But I just like I This is totally what would happen with all these people Like oh my god the game's on Like the Alex is just whatever It's funny It's also they're all just like Complete addicts for it Yeah Like no matter where they come in their life They're just like yelling about Bo Schembechler Yeah I'll get back to you in the third quarter too I love Megan, Michael The Alex recon With the big argument Which we talked about Wise up folks We're all alone out there He was classier than that When Nick's basically explaining Why he didn't leave the thing And then Berenger and Hurt just fucking go at it This is happening because We all really miss him And we're really hurting I think that's a crock of shit I think we're afraid Just the opposite is true Alex died for most of us a long time ago I think you're a crock of shit Don't speak for me or anybody else here You hate your life That's your problem Don't tell us how we feel, okay? That's it That's all I'm saying If I hate my life That's my problem Today we went around to comfort Alex Just as compassionately Hey Nick We go back a long way And I'm not gonna piss that away Because you're higher than a kite Wrong A long time ago We knew each other for a short period You don't know anything about me It was easy back then No one ever had a cushier birth Than we did It's not surprising Our friendship could survive that It's only out here in the world That it gets tough Nick I don't care what you say I know I loved you And everybody else here And I'll go on believing that Till I kick What's wrong with you? What's happened to you? I don't care what you say I know I loved you And everyone else here I'll go on believing that Till I kick And then Jo Beth Williams Comes in with the What's the matter with you? What happened to you? Just good stuff That scene's just elite Yeah Where you at on Jo Beth? You wanna do this now? I'd like to know your take I really like her in this movie Super pro This is a great era for her And I bought I bought stock and everything And then she was in like Teachers And then it just kinda never Totally happened for her Kramer vs. Kramer Poltergeist Big chill Yeah

94:16 – 98:50

… Attempt to reckon with that I completely agree with that He's created seven characters And you're not supposed To agree with them Right Like with everything Apex Mountain No for Close No for Kevin Kline Meg Tilly It's probably the Rob Lowe movie Which one? Masquerade Felt like she was like A major star after that For like a year Okay That's her Apex Mountain? I don't know What is it then? She never really had like It's either this Or Masquerade I think it's this Because I've never heard Of Masquerade I feel like it was Psycho 2 Oh You're right It's this Because it's this And Psycho 2 Yeah It was the same year …

The whole segment, as transcribed

But You guys agree though That like Kasdan knew all this At the time You know It's a very self conscious Attempt to reckon with that I completely agree with that He's created seven characters And you're not supposed To agree with them Right Like with everything Apex Mountain No for Close No for Kevin Kline Meg Tilly It's probably the Rob Lowe movie Which one? Masquerade Felt like she was like A major star after that For like a year Okay That's her Apex Mountain? I don't know What is it then? She never really had like It's either this Or Masquerade I think it's this Because I've never heard Of Masquerade I feel like it was Psycho 2 Oh You're right It's this Because it's this And Psycho 2 Yeah It was the same year This is definitely Mary Kay plays us right? Yeah Behringer's? Probably Platoon Platoon Yeah Platoon What did we have for William Hurt? We already did William Hurt Probably winning an Oscar right? Did we say Broadcast News? Yeah Broadcast News Jo Beth Williams I'm going to say yes Poltergeist Right before this You said Poltergeist? I mean she did Poltergeist Right before this So if you want to say like 81 to 83 It's Or whatever it is Santini House Would you say this Or Santini? Probably the Santini How about the Porsche 1972 9-11 Targa? Anybody else ever own that? Like do we have any I don't know I should have researched that better How about Sleeping with your wife's friend Because she Is ovulating that weekend It's Apex Mountain CR Nobody ever asks me You know You never got the request Yeah If you got A fan letter From one of your boys That was like I want you to impregnate my wife Would you do it? I think Phoebe would stab me In the heart For asking You would check in with Phoebe first You'd be like I got this letter I'm interested What do you think? The wife is pimping it out Sierra's like Phoebe I gotta do it Lady's husband His hog is broken I have this as Apex Mountain For you saying Somebody's hog is broken Sierra's broken hogs That's a good spinoff show for you I'm stealing hogs Because John Fetterman Was like I guess if I got my hog cranked It would be okay But like That's my senator What about How about Kasdan? That's a good question I'm gonna say yes I think it is Because he's coming off All the Star Wars Who had more power than that dude? He's directing this too What about Backyard Football? This or Wedding Crashers? You know I should have had a whole Touch Football list It's weird to watch football From like the early 80s Because it's just so different now Can we do There's so much more violent Let's do this now I was gonna do this for Picking Nets But These Touch Football scenes I've never been satisfied Really with any of them Where it's always like 2v2 And somebody's hiking it And then Somebody's blitzing Nobody's calling 5 Mississippi Ever in any of the games And there's like Just a blitz And people heaving it up And The yard's always too small And they just never get it right This is why we need The sports consultants Yeah I'm right here Just call me out There's no route tree That people are following There's no hot routes You know Also Who plays 2-on-2 football? Like nobody does that There's all these other people too It's like I wanna see Lancer Fucking sling it Yeah Where's Lancer? I love doing this show With you guys You're so weird What are you guys talking about? Are you talking about Making a better 2-on-2 football scene? Is Lancer like a check down artist? Or does he go deep? He's taking shots I'm sitting here with Kyle Shanahan And Jeff Fisher Unfortunately Send gold To the stick You know The heart wants What the heart wants And I've never been satisfied With a movie Touch football scene Okay You can ask the Letterboxd community What their family said I'll call them up I'll see what they say Maybe there's a Touch football Like list thing Would you please Actually I'm sure there is Will you make a post That's like an Urgent letter Urgent message To my Letterboxd It's not a blog guys You can't just like Put a post up You can't put a post up That's like Please tell me What the greatest Put a post up where? In a review Of the big chill Dear sirs or madam Please tell me The best touch football scene Yes People probably would They would respond I've just never Been happy With any of them Not with this one That was when I knew I was gonna marry my wife By the way When she was dusting One of my college roommates In a touch football game

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
William Hurt24,940 ftBroadcast News, 1987, by 5,920 feet.
Glenn Close24,380 ftDangerous Liaisons, 1988, by 5,363 feet.
Kevin Kline23,970 ftDave, 1993, by 5,043 feet.
Jeff Goldblum25,030 ftThe Fly, 1986, by 6,165 feet.
JoBeth Williams19,540 ftPoltergeist, 1982, by 1,370 feet.
Kevin Costner27,030 ftDances with Wolves, 1990, by 9,365 feet.

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