Apex Mountain
The panel runs apex judgments across Scorsese, gangster movies, a director rivalry, the Copacabana, gangster names, De Niro, garlic, Lufthansa, Pesci, mob codes, pistol-whipping, wigs, prison sauce, Bracco, Sorvino, profanity, Cutty Sark, and Pittsburgh drug dealers.
In the discussion (17)
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- Scorsese is selected at his artistic apex, with The Departed raised as a later juice-based alternative.
- Goodfellas is called a capstone for gangster movies before the form moved to television.
- The Scorsese–De Palma rivalry is placed at its apex around November 1990.
- The Goodfellas Copacabana sequence is favored over Barry Manilow’s song for the name “Copacabana.”
- Movie-gangster names are called an unquestionable apex.
- De Niro’s apex is debated between his late-1970s/early-1980s run and 1990-era juice.
- Razor-blading garlic is called a one-of-one apex.
- Goodfellas is treated as the apex for the Lufthansa heist.
- Joe Pesci is placed in an apex run spanning Lethal Weapon 2 through Casino.
- “It is what it is” from The Irishman is favored among mob murder-code justifications.
- The film is selected as an apex for pistol-whipping on film.
- Mobster wigs and prison tomato sauce receive affirmative apex rulings.
- Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco receive affirmative apex rulings.
- Paul Sorvino’s apex remains unresolved against his long career.
- Henny Youngman is rejected, while the word “fucko” receives an affirmative apex ruling.
- Cutty Sark is discussed as a once-prominent drink rarely seen now.
- Pittsburgh drug dealers receive a final joking apex nomination.