Apex is spoiled early: this is the Apex for Billy Crystal.
Palance winning the Oscar for this while Crystal hosted is called the ultimate apex mountain moment; it wasn't going to get better for Crystal.
Billy Crystal: yes.
Bruno Kirby: no, because he played young Clemenza in Godfather II.
Daniel Stern: unquestionably yes.
Cattle vacations get a yes, but another reply says it depends on whether Westworld counts as a cattle vacation, which is called a good call.
Shooting the running of the bulls in Pamplona for one scene is called a real Hollywood flex, with a joke about a missed Rossellini movie.
Jack Palance: Shane, not this, despite the Oscar.
Helen Slater's apex is The Legend of Billie Jean; she also played Supergirl.
Patricia Wedig gets a 'definitely' with a thirtysomething reference, which is not clearly a yes for this movie.

Most Rewatchable Scene

Best Day, Worst Day scene; plane ride home from running with the bulls; Nancy confronting Phil at the party

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The plane ride back from running with the bulls is a favorite: Mitch's sore-rear dad jokes, Ed being told he'll soon be dating sperm, Phil pretending to sleep, and the question of when it will ever be enough.
The Crystal-Tambor office scene is called weird, but the pizza ad is perfect, and the 'as good as you're ever going to look' line sets up the movie.
The school scene with the guy from Total Recall is called crushing it, and it marks Jake Gyllenhaal's debut with a spiked haircut.
The fireplace scene where Kirby and Stern fight is nominated.
The harmonica scene between Jack and Billy is quoted and all their scenes together are praised.
Curly's 'one thing' secret-of-life scene is quoted.
Best Day, Worst Day is called 'my favorite, most rewatchable... the best scene,' with the story of standing up to his father quoted.
Mitch's description of first walking into Yankee Stadium after seeing it on black-and-white TV is called pretty awesome, but his being a Mets fan is flagged as the number one nit.
One answer says the movie falls apart in the last 40 minutes with no rewatchable scenes there, and picks Nancy the cashier confronting Phil about her pregnancy at the party.
Best Day, Worst Day is the pick, and Kirby is phenomenal in that scene. — Sean Fennessey
Underwood's staging of the stampede is floated as most rewatchable; the reply grants parts are beautiful but calls it a flat-looking Western with a good script and great bones, likened to Raiders.

Midlife-crisis angle; Curly's shocking death; young Jake Gyllenhaal; Palance's one-armed pushups; the title spoken in dialogue; Crystal's one-liners; the classroom life-stages monologue; normal people in a Western setting; the supporting cast

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The midlife-crisis angle actually works, and Curly's death is still shocking on repeat viewings and well handled.
Young Jake Gyllenhaal has aged great and looks pretty similar now.
Palance's one-armed pushups became one of the five most famous Oscars moments, recreated the next year when he dragged out a giant Oscar statuette.
Saying the title in the dialogue ('you city slickers') is appreciated, along with fortune-cookie one-liners such as 'at this age, you are who you are.'
The idea that at a certain age you are who you are is rejected in two replies; 39 is not a peak, and CR is joked to be running an NBA team in ten years.
Crystal was 43 during the making, looks 51, and plays a character turning 39; men in older movies like Mikey and Nicky looked far older than their ages.
Crystal's terrible one-liners are enjoyed, such as women needing a reason to have sex and men a place; he is said to have written them, sneaking in Tonight Show material.
Mitch's classroom monologue on life by decade is played and called really good script writing.
Normal people in a Western setting, a fish-out-of-water tale, works well, and the surrounding cast is well cast and fun to be around.
One potential item is held back as a probably unanswerable question.

What’s Aged the Worst?

The two drunk cattle hands; the last third; the opening animated credits; the VCR recording conversation; Ron Underwood's filmography; veal; the ranch owner's sale speech; City Slickers II

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The two drunk cattle hands are bizarre: after Curly dies they play with guns and taunt Mitch about killing Norman, with no hint earlier that they were evil.
Many 80s and 90s movies invent two characters to supply 20 minutes of tension; these two only introduce Curly by threatening Helen Slater's character, and a Taylor Sheridan version would have had a shootout.
The last 35 minutes fall off, with crossing a river as the major tension.
The expensive animated opening credits of a cowboy doing a rope trick are a long time suck, unlike thematically coherent Pink Panther openings.
A conversation about recording on a different VCR channel could not have aged worse and would take an hour to explain to Craig.
Ron Underwood's IMDb is read: Tremors, City Slickers, Heart and Souls, Speechless, Mighty Joe Young, The Adventures of Pluto Nash and Stealing Sinatra, prompting a 'JV Rob Reiner' comparison.
The movie makes you feel bad about eating veal, though veal parm is still enjoyed.
The ranch owner's speech about selling the cattle is called a bit of a picking nit and jokingly credited as the birth of veganism.
Without being sure it counts as aged the worst, the era's tone, an extra bad dad joke in every scene and Mark Shaman's score with gospel music during the stampede, is called corny and soft and said to belong to an era.
City Slickers 2 is called a money grab; Kirby not returning is likened to Duvall not doing Godfather 3, Palance returns as a twin, and Lovitz replaces Kirby with Godfather 2 speeches.
City Slickers 2 was not fired up deliberately: it came on during a channel flip while Lovitz was doing Godfather 2, and watching started from there. — Bill Simmons
Kirby's absence from the sequel was never explained; a reported excuse is a horse allergy that required shots on set, and internet rumors of a falling-out and blackballing by Crystal are called absurd, though Kirby's IMDb fell apart.
Jeffrey Wells of Hollywood Elsewhere is quoted theorizing that actors labeled bad news get avoided, and the host stresses he is not saying Crystal did this.
A 2001 USA Today junket exchange for America's Sweethearts is recounted: asked about Kirby, the answer was not having seen or spoken to him in a long time but thinking they were still friends, followed by calling the reporter the worst junket story.
Kirby's later career dropped off apart from roles like Donnie Brasco and Sleepers, and he died young.

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

Robert Costanzo; Bill Henderson; Tracey Walter

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Robert Costanzo, in one scene speaking to the kids, is a That Guy known from Total Recall and much else.
Bill Henderson, the older dentist, will always be the cop from Clue; his son is said to be in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
Tracey Walter as Cookie, the cook, is also a That Guy.
Craig has not seen that television program.

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

Arlene, Phil's wife

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It has to be Daniel Stern's wife, Arlene.
Daniel Stern in the 'if he was a country, I'd be China' scene is an alternative, carrying over his Home Alone energy.
Stern put together a billion-dollar box office year with Home Alone and this, narrated The Wonder Years, and Sandlot was coming.
Kyle Secor, on the brink of Homicide, is raised for playing a mean-spirited cowboy, called pretty weird.

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

David Paymer and Josh Mostel as the Ben and Jerry's guys

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Nominees are Robert Costanzo and Noble Willingham ('find the fish or find new jobs').
A rare combo team vote goes to the Ben and Jerry's guys, Pamer and Mostel, with agreement that they are great in every scene.
A 1991 blockbuster scene hinging on pairing ice creams with meals is a riveting 90 seconds and a parody of Western showdowns, though the flavors like rum raisin are basic.
The ice-cream scene almost made the most rewatchable scenes list.
Mostel is more this character than Billy Madison's principal, got weirdly market corrected by Wayne Knight, and should have been in Jurassic.

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

10-episode Netflix series with grown-up Danny taking his aging father on a cattle drive

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The pitch: Jake Gyllenhaal's character is now his dad's age, Mitch has divorced and moved West, and Danny takes a 30-year-anniversary cattle drive to reconnect with his aging father.
A twist has Gyllenhaal back as Detective Loki investigating Kirby's murder; another floats a Brokeback Mountain twist with Curly Jr.
Crystal and Stern would be de-aged like The Irishman, and Lovitz would return doing Godfather 3 this time.

What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?

The first Ganz and Mandel script; the Mets hat; Curly's hat

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The first script from Babaloo and Lowell is one pick, drawing 'I would do that.'
The Mets hat is another pick; Norman in the shape of a veal parm hero is joked.
Curly's hat is another pick, voted for.

Who Won the Movie?

Billy Crystal

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The first answer is Crystal.
Asked about Underwood, the reply jokes about the mise-en-scene of 'Ryan Underwood.' — Sean Fennessey
Kirby is floated as a zag, but it has to be Billy Crystal, a box office superstar and almost an action star in this movie.

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