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Film credit
Peter Berg
Also referred to as Pete Berg
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 3
- Movies in this archive
- 3
Rewatchables episodes featuring Peter Berg’s films
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- Berg is chosen and agreement cites the resulting television show. Thornton, Luke and Hedlund are praised separately for performances, without replacing the Berg choice. — Bill Simmons
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Apex Mountain
1980s wrestling movies; Frank Jasper
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Approx. transcript time · 01:00:19Read transcript
- Apex Mountain is cued and deferred for one more research item. — Chris Ryan
- For Modine, this versus Full Metal Jacket is raised, and the movie is called Apex Mountain for nobody.
- 1980s wrestling movies are named as Apex Mountain.
- Spokane gets a probable yes, and later a joking question whether it ever got better for Spokane than this movie.
- Michael Schoeffling is tied to 16 Candles instead.
- It is Frank Jasper's Apex Mountain.
- The singlet is tied instead to Saturday afternoon TV wrestling.
- For John Waite, Missing You may be the bigger song, so 1985 is offered as his overall Apex.
- For Fiorentino (transcribed "Thorntino"), the peak is placed with a Peter Berg movie rather than this one.
In the discussion (1)
Approx. transcript time · 01:04:48Read transcript
- The category is invented in the moment specifically for Berg’s tired detective. — Bill Simmons
In the discussion (5)
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- The stretch between Daniel’s club and Fever loses momentum around the hospital. — Bill Simmons
- Annie’s proposed route through La Brea and Sixth is challenged as a large loop rather than a useful shortcut. — Bill Simmons
- Pete Berg’s character is reduced to tiredness, skepticism, and apparent reluctance to leave bed. — Chris Ryan
- Ruffalo’s dated goatee-and-slicked-hair combination distracts from a performance that otherwise recalls his edgier early career. — Chris Ryan
- Max becomes implausibly adept at manipulating Felix and a room of armed men despite his terror shortly before. — Bill Simmons
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