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Apex Mountain

Sprawling, disjointed gangster films; Lymari Nadal; bad portrayals of 1960s and 1970s athletes; drug-kingpin biopics: yes

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  • Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Ridley Scott are rejected as apex choices
  • Sprawling, disjointed gangster films are assigned an apex
  • John Ortiz is discussed as near an apex performance
  • John Hawkes is judged not yet at his apex
  • Harlem films are rejected, with Mo’ Better Blues preferred
  • Miami Vice is selected for the Golden Triangle on screen
  • Josh Brolin is rejected because No Country for Old Men released the same year
  • Lymari Nadal is assigned her apex as Frank’s wife
  • Bad portrayals of 1960s and 1970s athletes are assigned an apex
  • Real drug-kingpin biopics are assigned an apex, with Blow and Paid in Full as comparators
American Gangster The Rewatchables
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American Gangster

Cruise or Hanks?

Tom Hanks as Richie Roberts

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American Gangster The Rewatchables
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Picking Nits

Frank’s market position, lack of consequences, unclear chronology, family awareness, and fabricated epilogue

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  • Frank’s superior direct supply should have let him eliminate Harlem competition
  • Territory and distribution relationships are offered as constraints on expansion
  • Frank faces no repercussions for shooting Tango in public
  • Harlem loyalty is offered as an explanation for the silence
  • Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are shown together before their real relationship and before Keaton was well known
  • The chronology is too unclear about whether scenes are weeks or years apart
  • Frank’s mother knowing he sells drugs is criticized as disconnected from the movie’s reality
  • The closing-title claims are mocked for extending the film’s fabrications
American Gangster The Rewatchables
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American Gangster

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

A satirical all-white remake

In the discussion (5)
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  • The usual all-Black-remake prompt is inverted into an all-white American Gangster
  • Mark Ruffalo and Adam Scott are proposed, with Scott as Nicky Barnes
  • Rob McElhenney is proposed as Tango and Tom Cruise as Frank
  • Sally Field is proposed as Frank’s mother
  • JJ Redick is proposed as Stevie, changing baseball to basketball
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Is This Movie Better With…?

A faux Bob Costas-style narration

In the discussion (2)
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  • The candidate list includes Wayne Jenkins, Danny Trejo, Mad Dog Russo, Doris Burke, Samuel L. Jackson, Nora Byer, Tony Romo, Chris Collinsworth, Daniel Plainview, Longlegs, Bangkok Craig, and Wilford Brimley
  • A mock historical-sports narration about Frank and Blue Magic is performed as the choice
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Absent actors, Denzel’s persona, ideal length, Trupo, Frank’s wife, and Stevie’s Yankees path

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  • How Mark Ruffalo missed the large ensemble is asked
  • Whether this performance created Jay Pharoah’s Denzel Washington impression is asked
  • The maximum acceptable length is debated; one participant would watch a six-hour event
  • More Vietnam, Jake, Stevie, and Frank-fall material is requested
  • Trupo’s home life and golf club are questioned
  • Whether Frank’s wife set him up by insisting on the fur coat is debated
  • The unexplained fake beard is raised as evidence of missing connective material
  • Whether Stevie could plausibly go from the street to the Yankees in 1974 is questioned
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