Apex Mountain
Clive Owen; Jodie Foster; Juicy Fruit; Gangstas iz Genocide
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- Denzel: no. Spike Lee: no.
- Clive Owen: yes; 2006 with Children of Men and Inside Man was his apex, among the best two-film years ever.
- Jodie Foster in the 21st century: yes, though Flight Plan was a big hit.
- Juicy Fruit gets a yes as its best use in a movie, after wondering whether Chuck Yeager chewed it in The Right Stuff.
- Gangst is genocide, the in-film video game, also gets a yes.
- For fixers, Winston Wolf is apex over Michael Clayton, and Foster's character, who proves ineffective, ranks third.
- Bruce Willis's girlfriend in Pulp Fiction is the apex of worst movie girlfriends, with a promise to rip that stretch apart in an in-person Pulp Fiction episode after the pandemic.
- On whether it is apex for post-Heat heist movies, the answer is only that it is "in the carousel," mocked as a non-answer. — Chris Ryan
- Candidates weighed include Den of Thieves, The Dark Knight, Logan Lucky, Hell or High Water, Widows, Baby Driver, The Town and Fast Five.
- The final ranking puts The Town first, Fast Five second and Inside Man third, with Den of Thieves fourth.