Apex Mountain
Hawaiian shirts in space
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- Weaver's Apex is placed later around Ghostbusters, Aliens and Working Girl.
- Hurt's Apex is placed at The Elephant Man following Alien.
- Stanton's Apex alternatives include Paris, Texas as an iconic rather than commercially dominant role and his busy 1980s run through Red Dawn, Pretty in Pink and Escape from New York; his long association with Nicholson is jokingly proposed.
- Skerritt's Apex is Top Gun.
- Kotto's Apex alternatives are Homicide, Midnight Run and Live and Let Die, with debate about the Bond role's subsequent effect on his opportunities.
- Scott's Apex is assigned to Gladiator rather than Alien; Blade Runner is rejected on financial-success grounds.
- Alien movies as a category are rejected for Apex here.
- Dripping and secreting are proposed as an Apex with joking pushback.
- Movie cats are disputed against the Godfather cat.
- Hawaiian shirts in space receive affirmative Apex discussion, praising Stanton's timeless thermal-shirt, Hawaiian-shirt and trucker-hat look.
- Stealth Joseph Conrad references are proposed for Apex alongside Apocalypse Now, leaving a shared alternative rather than an unqualified sole choice.