Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
66:45 – 73:57… who made the storyboards, was like a pioneer in the comic industry, which I don't know enough about. Yeah, he's one of the most famous comic book artists. Apex Mountain. Wait, I got one more. I got one more. Half a Center in Research. If you read the original Wired article, do you know where the Studio 6 offices were? No. Sunset Gower. What? Yeah. I wonder what part. Michael Douglas's vacated China Syndrome offices. Is that in the courtyard? I don't know. Jesus. Amazing stuff. Need to find out more about this. All right. We're going to take one more break and then we're going to do Apex Mountain. This …
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So he did that thing. And then the character, Jack Kirby, who made the storyboards, was like a pioneer in the comic industry, which I don't know enough about. Yeah, he's one of the most famous comic book artists. Apex Mountain. Wait, I got one more. I got one more. Half a Center in Research. If you read the original Wired article, do you know where the Studio 6 offices were? No. Sunset Gower. What? Yeah. I wonder what part. Michael Douglas's vacated China Syndrome offices. Is that in the courtyard? I don't know. Jesus. Amazing stuff. Need to find out more about this. All right. We're going to take one more break and then we're going to do Apex Mountain. This message is brought to you by Apple Card. Shave Ice by the Beach. A trip to the State Fair. And a throwback flick at the local drive-in. They're more than just items to check off the summer bucket list. There are also opportunities to earn 2% daily cash back when you use your Apple Card with Apple Pay. Apply for Apple Card now. Use in minutes with Apple Pay. Subject to credit approval, Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch. Terms and more at AppleCard.com. Apex Mountain. Affleck? Wins the Oscar. Also becomes a sympathetic figure, which was even better than not getting nominated. Pulls it off. The comeback is complete. He's about to do a Fincher movie. When has he ever had more juice? I'm going to say yes. And then he gets Batman off the back of all that. So he basically goes, I say yes. The Town, you were like, oh, that's a good movie. The Town, huge blockbuster. Great movie. And he builds off of that. Wins Oscar. Like, the world's at his feet here. And then he does a Fincher movie off of a bestseller. So yeah, totally. Apex Mountain for Affleck. Scoot McNary? Yeah. I would probably say so. I say as well. Alan Arkin? Nah, Little Miss Sunshine. What are we doing that one? I haven't watched that since it was like an Oscar movie. That's a good example of a movie that wins an Oscar and you're like, okay, I'm never going to watch that again. Producer Craig, Little Miss Sunshine, where do you see another movie? I've only seen it once, but I remember really liking it. I think that's like the perfect independent movie. I might like it more than most people. I think that movie is so fucking funny. And I don't know. That's everything I want from a movie that probably costs like $720,000 to make or whatever they did. John Goodman, no. Movies or TV shows about the Iran hostage crisis? I'm going to say yes. Yeah. Has there been any others? No, probably not. The other five people, not Scoot McNary and the Argo Six? I'm going to say yes. Yeah, Tate Donovan's Apex Mountain's probably Friends, right? No, Tate Donovan's OC, season one of the OC. Wait, wasn't he dating Aniston at a certain point and like on Friends? Well, he dated Aniston and Sandra Bullock back to back. Yeah. No, it's OC. He's Jimmy Cooper. If Julia was here right now, she would slap you across the face and be furious. She'd be very upset. Any other Apex Mountain? No, I think Affleck was the one I wanted to, I was most important to get across. Oh, Cranston. No. Breaking Bad. Yeah, but you could argue Breaking Bad's about to, Breaking Bad is gaining viewers each year. It's headed toward its season finale, which was in, I think, 2013. Right? This is when everybody's catching up on it. Interesting. And he's in network on Broadway. He's in Argo. Now he's establishing himself as a movie actor. I actually think it is. Because I think Breaking Bad's at the point now where everybody knows how great it is. Because we're going into the final two seasons. Yeah. I think it is. I'm going, yes. The CIA? Did it ever get better? Coming off killing JFK 15 years ago. Great comeback for them. That's true. They had some rough moments there in the Vietnam War. Yeah. They started a war and killed our president. You know. But they didn't actually do anything in this situation. They like... They didn't fuck it up. They sent somebody. Is this the Apex Mountain for ex-fills? Ex-fills. So what does Russell Crowe do in Proof of Life? K&A? Would it be weird if we did the re-proof of life? The re-proof. I just watched it. Stuff of Legends! I just love that movie so much. I don't know why. Who else does ex-fills? Craig, what's an ex-fill? I don't know. Do you know what it stands for? No. Exfiltration. They're trying to exfiltrate rather than infiltrate. Yeah. Ex-fills. Yeah. Technically, they're doing an exfiltration. They're supposed to be exfilling people in Predator. But obviously, they get sidetracked. I remember in 2015 when we had to hire some ex-fills to get people out of ESPN. It was tough. A lot of meetings. Had to create a fake movie. That's right. Picking nits. Here, we mentioned all the plot stuff. The real Tony Mendez was 5'7", and apparently not a supermodel. And they're saying, not only was Affleck too handsome, but also the fact that he was 6'4", would have been just a red flag across the board for people in Iran. Yeah. They would have been like, what's Bill Walton doing here? Yeah. So, he just would have been on the radar immediately, I think. Also, I have some Swiss Air questions. Oh, like whether or not they have to turn around at all? Or whether that guy should have noticed all the cars coming at him? Yeah, it's just that there's some questions. Let me hear them. Couldn't they have radioed the plane and said, stop the fucking plane or we're shooting it down? But that didn't happen anyway. But yeah, of course. Right. Yes. When the cars are going behind them, don't they notice the cars? Wouldn't they have shot at the plane? I guess he doesn't have side view mirror. Well, they don't want to start an international incident. They just want these guys back. They just want the six back, right? Yeah. And then, I think this is the right spot to do it. The stuff with the housekeeper. Do you feel like it's tacked on? I either needed more or less. Because at the end, she goes, she crosses over to Iraq. And I guess I'm supposed to say, thank God she held the fort for these people. But it feels like there's a scene cut. I don't have enough. They come to get her and she basically, or they come to find out if the people are there. And she basically covers up for them. Right. And then she's, I think that you're supposed to leave that Iraq scene being like, for a
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