Apex Mountain
Christian Slater; Samantha Mathis; pirate radio movies; flipping switches; PO boxes; pre-Nevermind college radio era
In the discussion (8)
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- Christian Slater gets a yes, with two agreeing voices; the next level was expected via Young Guns and Robin Hood but never happened, though True Romance briefly revived the belief.
- Heathers and this film convinced everyone he was a leading man, given how many monologues he gets.
- Samantha Mathis is at her Apex, with a joke to rename it Nora De Niro Mountain or put her face on it.
- Pirate radio movies are at their Apex; the 2009 Pirate Radio with Philip Seymour Hoffman is called worse, and the agreement is "This was its best."
- The Pixies are raised for Apex: one voice says this is a bigger Pixies drop than Where Is My Mind in Fight Club "just because it's so perfect", the counterargument that Fight Club can still be watched is called fair, and the case ends only with "I can see that argument."
- Flipping switches is proposed because the switch sound design is so satisfying; the reply is "Great point."
- Asked whether this is Apex Mountain for PO boxes, the answer is yes, adding the claim that the Unabomber killed PO boxes. — Bill Simmons
- The last Apex is the pre-Nevermind alternative college-radio era, with 1990 called the peak before grunge; another voice agrees such a soundtrack could not be made a few years later.