Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
41:01 – 44:05… it's bigger than Full Metal Jacket. No. These guys said Full Metal Jacket was the biggest... No, the conversation was about what is the best... It was Apex Mountain. Basic Training movie. Yes. And we said Apex Mountain for Basic Training. Well, the best is Full Metal Jacket. That was what we were talking about. But Full Metal Jacket wasn't successful when it came out. But it was considered one of the great watches of all time watched by all these dorks. But that's not the context of Apex Mountain. You mean the movie... You're the one who invented Apex Mountain. And I'm telling you. This is like fucking …
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It was like the six biggest movie in 1980. But when the movie was released, no one under 35 was alive. They made a TV show about it. It was so... It became such a phenomenon. Did you just say it's bigger than Full Metal Jacket? Obviously, it's bigger than Full Metal Jacket. No. These guys said Full Metal Jacket was the biggest... No, the conversation was about what is the best... It was Apex Mountain. Basic Training movie. Yes. And we said Apex Mountain for Basic Training. Well, the best is Full Metal Jacket. That was what we were talking about. But Full Metal Jacket wasn't successful when it came out. But it was considered one of the great watches of all time watched by all these dorks. But that's not the context of Apex Mountain. You mean the movie... You're the one who invented Apex Mountain. And I'm telling you. This is like fucking playing basketball and finding out traveling is legal, right? Listen, you gotta bet your own way. When it came out, it was that Apex Fountain. It eventually became the best... Okay. But Private Benjamin was a phenomenon. So Private Benjamin next week on the Rewatchables. So Goldie Hawn month. No, we're definitely not doing Private Benjamin. We will do Full Metal Jacket. Can we... Before we stop the feed, can we do Wildcats? Oh, with Woody and Wesley? Yeah, I love that movie. How many Goldie Hawn movies have been done on the Rewatchables? None. Zero. We've never had the Goldie Hawn conversation. Well, Shampoo is one we gotta do at some place. Shampoo? That's great. Shampoo. Shampoo's amazing. Overboard? I was just gonna say Overboard. People love Overboard. Overboard, man. Overboard's classic. I love Goldie Hawn. Most adorable woman in Hollywood history. Next rewatchable scene. Forgot we were doing that. This has been a good one. We're veering. The lights finally go on and off and on and off. Love it. And finally go on. There's so many good moments in this. The garage extension cord that has 20 things plugged into it is so good. That is fucking iconic. It's so good. You just, everybody had that one weird part of the house where your dad had plugged in 62 things into one Kmart extension cord. Yeah. It's so good. So dangerous. And then he'd be like, you have to unplug that to plug that in. We just won't use the TV for an hour. I love when he's, Clark's emotional when it goes on and he says to his dad, thanks dad. You taught me everything I know about exterior illumination. Eddie just shows up in the middle of it. It's already a really good scene and all of a sudden Eddie's there. He's like, hey Eddie. And it's Eddie. And there's this SUV and he goes through his family and they look at the daughter and they're like, hey, what happened with Ruby Sue? It's like, funniest thing, her eyes aren't crossed anymore. And he goes, ah, she falls in a well, eyes get crossed, gets kicked by a mule and they uncross. Oh, you remember Ruby Sue? Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Her eyes aren't crossed anymore. That's something, ain't it? She falls in a well, eyes go crossed, she gets kicked by a mule, they go back to normal. I don't know. And this here is our pride and joy. Snots. How do you name it? Yeah, we named it that because he's got the sinus condition. Snots, you roll over and let Uncle Clark scratch your belly.
78:45 – 81:31… Flights, flights now like loom. Flights hanging over. It's circling the runway now. Yeah. Upside down. Upside down. It's inverted. Doing a 360. Upside down. Apex Mountain. Nobody in the cast. Being trapped in the attic. Does it ever work better in a movie? Everybody's worst fear, right? Oh shit. I'm trapped in the attic. That's also in Black Christmas. That's where, that's where some of the craziest shit happens is in the attic. Yeah. The Jelly of the Month Club. I don't think it's ever been better. Okay. He begs Mountain for the Jelly of the Month Club. Christmas lights. I'm going to say yes. Yeah. I have …
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I'm putting, oh, that's, I'm putting that on the, on the calendar. I watched Flight again, by the way. Flights, flights now like loom. Flights hanging over. It's circling the runway now. Yeah. Upside down. Upside down. It's inverted. Doing a 360. Upside down. Apex Mountain. Nobody in the cast. Being trapped in the attic. Does it ever work better in a movie? Everybody's worst fear, right? Oh shit. I'm trapped in the attic. That's also in Black Christmas. That's where, that's where some of the craziest shit happens is in the attic. Yeah. The Jelly of the Month Club. I don't think it's ever been better. Okay. He begs Mountain for the Jelly of the Month Club. Christmas lights. I'm going to say yes. Yeah. I have Christmas lights. For sure. 35 years of Christmas lights. Can we just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, my thinking is taking me here. There's been a lot of accomplishments in Chicago. 89, 90. Christmas in Chicago. Has it ever been better? Yep. MJ. Crushing. Suburban Chicago. The Haw, how are the Hawks doing? Yep. I'm not, I'm not a big, uh. Hockey guy. Hockey guy. I don't think the Hawks are doing great. What else is going on? Well, Kevin McAllister's stuck at Home Alone and Clark Griswold's got the fucking lights up. It's the, it's the Christmas town. Yeah. We're on the fumes of the 85 Bears, you know? Yeah. The last run of Walter Payton. We're still talking to Refrigerator Perry. It's pretty good. Obviously, Home Alone is right around the corner. I think you, for Chicago, you can make a case. I think we litigated this before, that 85, 86 was the peak. Ryan Sandberg. 85 Bears. His peak. Yeah. 85 Bears. They get Jordan. Ferris Bueller. All the Hughes movies are adjacent. It's a good argument. Septic tanks. Septic tanks getting empty in the street. Definitely. That's what I learned about them. They know it was. It's the top of Christmas movies. For me, it is. But everybody's answering. You know what's crazy? As we've been sitting here naming Christmas movies, now there's more competition for the top spot than I thought that there was because The Christmas Story is one of my favorite movies of all time. I didn't even think about it. But I still would put this one as my number one. What about Tyler Perry Puts a Star in the Tree? Did you love that one yet? No, I haven't. Like, here's the thing. And Bill, I want you to be careful. Because, because. All right. I'm just making title jokes. All right. Maxine's boy. Like, um, no. But no, it's my favorite Christmas movie of all time. A good category would be like, how could this be a Tyler Perry movie? I appreciate that. But you, it's, it's. Tyler Perry's Christmas bonus. It's a good category because like, all of his movies, they almost get there to a point to where you're like, oh shit. And then it's like, it's Tyler Perry. He knows what he's doing. But like, basic instinct could be like, Tyler Perry's I fucked a serial killer.
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