Apex Mountain
Steve Carell; Catherine Keener; Six Million Dollar Man action figures; Malco; Asia's ironic phase
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- Steve Carell, definitely: the movie becomes a smash hit and he has The Office, the pinnacle of anyone's comedy career.
- Apatow is a no, to be litigated later; one could argue Knocked Up.
- Catherine Keener: after a decade as a respected indie actress peaking in 8mm, a smash hit makes this as good as it gets; she was also in Capote that year as Harper Lee, which is called a good call.
- Virgins in general prompt jokes about Last American Virgin, a Virgin Week with Last Temptation of Christ and A Midnight Clear, and making Craig watch with Liz; that movie ends with James Ingram.
- The Six Million Dollar Man action figures are definitely at Apex Mountain.
- Paul Rudd is first a no, but he gets praise: Brian Fantana in Anchorman, carrying stretches of this movie, his SmartTech meltdown and his souls-connected poker speech; one voice says you could make the case this is his Apex.
- Counter: Ant Man, from about 2014 or 2015, was great and a huge hit; the other host just doesn't like comic book movies and is teased about Munich.
- Malco: 'Yeah. Has to be.'
- Tech stores like Best Buy are raised as an Apex for that era; the reply calls it one of the speaker's unanswerable questions, with SmartTech badly run like a Boston chain and Circuit City, stores run by jackasses, as with Vince Vaughn's character in Old School.
- Asia's ironic phase: not the band's Apex, since the speaker says they won four or five Grammys one year, but the move into ironic 'Heat of the Moment' appreciation 20 years later; the hosts joke they are already in their own ironic phase.