Apex Mountain
Abbie Cornish; little-kid ice-skate attacks; Paul Leonard Morgan's score
In the discussion (10)
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- Cooper's Apex is American Sniper, which he funded and which is his action Apex; it is not this movie.
- Relativity Media is raised: they gamed the system, turning a $40 million movie into $170 million and proving their formula.
- Abbie Cornish gets a yes; she seemed to be having a moment, also with Ryan Philippe, before Brie Larson, in a garbled line, corrected her out of it.
- Little-kid ice-skate attacks are definitely a peak: choosing the eight-year-old's skate over gardening shears or a baseball bat is crazy.
- For skating-rink attempted murders The Good Son is chosen over this; a riff imagines the dad explaining the afternoon to his wife.
- Fake Russian accents are up there but not the top; Malcovich (as transcribed) in Rounders is in the conversation, preferred over Connery's 'one ping only' for quotable lines. — Chris Ryan
- Subway fights get a no: not even a podium finisher behind The Warriors, Fast and Furious 6 and Neo versus Agent Smith in The Matrix.
- Drugs that give all-being powers are floated as an Apex candidate without a stated answer.
- The guy version of the Pretty Woman glow-up montage, from extra-looking to perfectly fitted suit with sit-ups and great skin, is raised as a candidate without a stated answer. — Chris Ryan
- Composer Paul Leonard Morgan's score is called his Apex: it sounds like what becoming smart would sound like inside your head.