Apex Mountain
Robert Richardson; Oliver Stone; JFK assassination conspiracies; Michael Rooker; Wayne Knight; Zapruder film
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- Costner: no; his peak is still Dances With Wolves, which won all the Oscars and made him the new Warren Beatty, with no argument.
- Oliver Stone: it might be this, since he got a studio to fund an assassination movie with his made-up theory and made The Doors and JFK in the same year; called a really good case.
- JFK assassination conspiracies peaked in the early 90s: agreed.
- Michael Rooker: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is his high point, with Henry and JFK in about a two-year span when it was all happening for him.
- Henry is recommended as a realistic, disturbing film; one participant recalls seeing it before a game at a theater near BU with seven other men; tangent: Henry and One False Move as a never-sleep-again home double feature.
- Rooker being the most normal-seeming character shows how crazy the movie is; his LBJ argument scene is called absurd and possibly cut down.
- Rooker is praised in Cliffhanger and now in the MCU; one participant has met with him.
- Wayne Knight, no question: Newman at the same time and Jurassic around then.
- The Zepruder (as transcribed) film as Apex Mountain: yes, with a reference to the Time-Life building.
- Also joked about: the Cowboys doing well in '91, and a Zupruder (as transcribed) NFT pushed by Gary Vee.
- Richardson: a filmography spanning Stone's films from Salvador through Nixon, John Sales (as transcribed), Scorsese and Tarantino; at the top of his game here; a jab that he's no Gordon Willis, but flexible with a distinctive blown-out overhead light.