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Apex Mountain
Sprawling, disjointed gangster films; Lymari Nadal; bad portrayals of 1960s and 1970s athletes; drug-kingpin biopics: yes
In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 01:40:44Read transcript
- Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Ridley Scott are rejected as apex choices — Chris Ryan
- Sprawling, disjointed gangster films are assigned an apex — Chris Ryan
- John Ortiz is discussed as near an apex performance — Bill Simmons
- John Hawkes is judged not yet at his apex — Bill Simmons
- Harlem films are rejected, with Mo’ Better Blues preferred — Van Lathan
- Miami Vice is selected for the Golden Triangle on screen — Bill Simmons
- Josh Brolin is rejected because No Country for Old Men released the same year
- Lymari Nadal is assigned her apex as Frank’s wife
- Bad portrayals of 1960s and 1970s athletes are assigned an apex
- Real drug-kingpin biopics are assigned an apex, with Blow and Paid in Full as comparators — Van Lathan
In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:34:48Read transcript
- John Ortiz is graduated from That Guy eligibility — Bill Simmons
- Roger Guenveur Smith as Nate is nominated and heavily praised
- Roger Bart as the prosecutor is nominated — Chris Ryan
- Jon Polito as Rossi is nominated
- KaDee Strickland is nominated
- Trupo’s police crew, including John Hawkes and Yul Vazquez, is nominated collectively
In the discussion (1)
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- John Hawkes is selected for repeatedly smoking cigarettes down to the filter — Chris Ryan
What’s Aged the Worst?
Ron Livingston’s underplayed father
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- The father is criticized as helpless and lacking clear traits, with an oddly subdued response to possession. — Bill Simmons
- The father’s strange hair raises the question of whether he is wearing a wig. — Sean Fennessey
- The film should either emphasize his absence as a long-haul trucker or introduce a darker quality; John C. Reilly and John Hawkes are floated as alternatives. — Chris Ryan
Apex Mountain
Catherine Han (as transcribed); Adam Scott (1 yes, 1 for Eastbound and Down); Adam McKay (one yes, proposer shifted to The Big Short)
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- Catherine Han is a yes, a hundred percent: this put her on the map in the greatest way possible in a movie people rewatch all the time.
- Will Ferrell is a no: after a clarification that Apex Mountain means the greatest moment of a career rather than just comedic performances, a host still thinks Anchorman is it, he was in the middle of a great run, and he was still at the tail end of SNL, having played Bush for a couple of years.
- Adam McKay gets a yes at first, the peak of his powers, making an iconic comedy out of nothing, with no plot, that let him do whatever he wants; then The Big Short, $140 million and a Best Director nomination, is raised and the same host changes his mind and goes Big Short, while another thinks McKay has not hit his apex yet and it is in front of him, citing the jittery Big Short camera work in Succession even though the show is mostly creator Jesse Armstrong's handiwork.
- Adam Scott gets a hundred percent from one host; another would instead name Eastbound and Down, where his agent Pat Anderson is mind-blowing in two and a half scenes, with the black-credit-card exchange with John Hawkes recited up to its crude punchline; Will Ferrell's Ashley Schaefer BMW plums speech from the same show gets a shout-out, and without Step Brothers Scott would not have been unleashed as a comedy dick in that role.
- Mary Steenburgen is a no, though she gives good stuff and is beautiful at around sixty; Richard Jenkins is a no; John C. Reilly is a no.
- For Reilly, Boogie Nights and Magnolia are offered, with Days of Thunder and Talladega Nights in the conversation; one host calls him his least favorite part of Magnolia and would cut the whole character, Walk Hard is mentioned, and Boogie Nights is given as the answer for his exercise dance behind the glass during the Mark Wahlberg song before Feel the Heat.
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