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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

The Bourne Identity 2002

With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 23 December 2020 · 25,884 feet

The claim

68:24 – 72:45

… not really even close for me I think supremacy is probably better technically made and then I go to supremacy identity then legacy then ultimatum I think wow apex mountain there's a case for Damon here okay I mean certainly there is it's when he becomes a global action star yeah because he you would say the default would be goodwill hunting but I think he's done a lot of good stuff since I think we we talked about when we did the Martian whether that was his apex mountain I I gotta be honest I think he's had multiple apex mountains I think he's a multiple apex guy but you could tell me that this was his apex …

The whole segment, as transcribed

most of all the Bourne movies yeah it's and it's not really even close for me I think supremacy is probably better technically made and then I go to supremacy identity then legacy then ultimatum I think wow apex mountain there's a case for Damon here okay I mean certainly there is it's when he becomes a global action star yeah because he you would say the default would be goodwill hunting but I think he's done a lot of good stuff since I think we we talked about when we did the Martian whether that was his apex mountain I I gotta be honest I think he's had multiple apex mountains I think he's a multiple apex guy but you could tell me that this was his apex mountain I would believe it because this sets up the next 20 years of his career gives him a franchise turns him into one of the three biggest stars in the world again all that stuff so there's a case um franca patente definitely mm-hmm amnesia I mean the goal with amnesia is that you're like what you're forgetting is that you're actually really cool you know I don't like like amnesia movies where it's just like I was just this regular joe are not as interesting to me but when you forget that you're like an assassin that's the best yeah they haven't made an amnesia movie where somebody finds out that they made the donuts in somerville yeah for dunk a donuts they're in the four to twelve it would be just my luck to like have amnesia and then like think that I'm peyton pritchard and that like backup guard for the celtics uh mykonos no I there's really no other apex mountains other than I have I have a question for you spy movies I think we could have the argument apex mountain for small car chases hmm what are the other nominees uh italian job oh I like italian job yeah is that a rewatchables yeah another like I'm not saying it's good but it's very rewatchable maybe we do that also that would be like an all-time vincent hannah award to edward norton in that movie yeah that's one of those performances where you're like was he on something or how many zeros were in the check like like what charity were you able to start because of this check right all right pick and nits this is the biggest one for me how does born just not drown I guess he's floating up like with his face up yeah I don't think it's very long before they come across him I don't think he's in the water for that long but was it is his suit was like made it so that if he went in the water he would actually float yeah maybe there was like it's like a vest of some kind he's wearing I don't know I who floats on their back he's also been shot in the back so I don't think he has a lot of choice over how he winds up in the water and he recovers really nicely yes yeah it's like hey man any any lingering after effects from those two bullets in your back now I'm going to fight multiple he's like he's working the shrimp boat like two seconds later yeah he really could uh really could recover maybe maybe he uh maybe had LeBron's trainer the uh the car chase Lyman admits that if you know Paris it's kind of illogical um because some of the streets they use don't connect with each other this is a big thing for me with Boston movies which I really respected with the town when they did the north end chase it actually did kind of make sense with how it's used and where they ended up in Charlestown the worst one was blown away with jet bridges which I would do a blown away rewatchables just to break down how dumb the car chase was they're going downhill for 20 bucks and then end up right at the park in Beacon Hill it's so fucking stupid I don't know how many more movies you want to do on this feed you know before we we just we just turn into a beams of pure energy but I do I would make the argument that if I get to do my Tommy Lee Jones accent it should be the last rewatchables the Tommy Lee Jones blown away accent but this is the thing this is what people didn't understand about country strong which a choice I'll defend for the rest of my life plus I love Liz Kelly um doing country strong now opens the door for us to do blown away that's right it's

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Their apex is elsewhere
Matt Damon26,020 ftThe Martian, 2015, by 5,406 feet.

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