Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
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to earn two percent 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 apple card dot com so apex mountain in a way I think that even though I would count this as among the best work that a lot of these people did I wouldn't say it was necessarily their apex mountain boil obviously you know has won Oscars he's made Hollywood blockbusters he made 28 days later and Steve Jobs and Slumdog Millionaire and 127 hours McGregor I guess you could say this sets him up I mean he's the star of this movie he's essentially like the Malcolm McDowell of his generation and I think this obviously gets him the role in some ways in Star Wars but I would allow McGregor but McGregor's had so many peaks and valleys of his career since then Johnny Lee Miller I'd probably say this is his apex mountain you and Bremmer I would probably say this is his apex mountain not Kelly McDonald who went on to do a lot of really great things I have a question though it's a little meta does sick boy invent apex mountain it's his unifying theory of having it and losing it essentially the first appearance of apex mountain even if not by name but maybe by concept I love what you're saying and I do think it's worth I know look I don't come on this podcast enough to suggest changing the rules or anything but right there could be a category that comes up occasionally the sick boy inflection point or the sick boy come down where is this the movie where the descent begins from greatness to fineness or is the sick boy come down moment the in the name of the rose where it's just like someone who's already down down the other side of apex mountain suddenly hits a bump that lifts them back up again right so that's what they're talking about Sean Connery and then in the name of the rose as like this one thing that he does on the way down in his career that's worthwhile and and you McGregor's like what about the untouchables and he's just like I don't rate that at all remember the way the way you McGregor says Academy Award it reminds me the way my father used to say cheese steak it's like you put the emphasis on the wrong word and I've never stopped thinking what does he's like that means fuck all that's all right that one it's all it's that that whole thing yeah that's great basically this idea of at one you know at one time you've got it and then you lose it and it's gone forever all walks of life's George Best the famous footballer for example had it lost it David Bowie Lou Reed and Renton's like some of his solo stuff's not bad no it's not bad but it's not great either and in your heart you kind of know although it sounds all right it's actually shite which it is that is basically the description of apex mountain I think I think it's accurate I think I only have two nominees I don't know if you had more for this category one is Robert Carlyle I mean who's had a phenomenal career who I would love to see act in anything but he is on fire he's incredible in t2 though I would just say I mean that's why I picked mountain I was just mentioning that he's very very good in t2 I think I mean he's always good in everything but in just in terms of care right character right moment I mean it's pretty undeniable what he brings to this movie I this is probably breaking the rules because it should be an actor but and we already talked about it a little bit but I didn't actually say what I believe which is that born slippy in train spotting is the greatest needle drop of all time oh amazing it's an apex mountain for needle drops for needle drops and damn it nothing has ever made me feel in a movie musically the way this song makes me feel when it came in I'd never heard it before you know and it's it's not just when the drums hit it's how pre-nostalgic and melancholic those keys are leading up to them in the washes of sound and it feels like escape but escape into purgatory and you don't know what's coming and you can't control what's coming and then that crazy smile he gives it but re-watching it again I do think the brilliant thing about it and this may be Danny Boyle it may be Masahiro Hirakubo because Danny Boyle sent him the track and was like I want this at the end of the movie right but it was I think Hirakubo who started it when he did and it starts not when Renton in my memory the music is just playing when Renton decides to steal but when he steals the money it's not it starts when he decides to steal it and that moment is when Begbie humiliates him after the fight and says get me a fucking cigarette yeah put it in his mouth he puts the cigarette in his mouth he lights it and the first keys hit and you're like now we're going in a different direction and I get chills thinking about it that yeah that's apex mountain for me yeah I mean the way that they use music to illustrate certain emotional moments like you know whether it's like playing mile-end by pulp when he's in London and sort of enjoying his life and that kind of does capture this sort of cosmopolitan London life at the time it's it's pretty like it's really really subtle sometimes it adds a different emotional texture to the to the scenes yeah like you could make an argument that like born slippy Layla and Goodfellas I mean there's I'm sure people that that that's the other strong contender I didn't want to pretend that wasn't part of it but yeah that's a that's a great apex mountain let's go with that let's go with born slippy is apex mountain for needle drops Wow I can't believe I got you on my team that would never happen if Bill was here but I for Joey pants I have James Cosmo is Renton's dad he is basically James Cosmo and every movie there's any Scottish people including Braveheart he's also in his dark materials and then I had Highlander too yeah he's he gets after it and then I also had Shirley Henderson who is an actress I'm not exactly like super familiar with I think she's in the Harry Potter movies I love Shirley Henderson I will show up and show out for Shirley Henderson one of the most underrated underappreciated screen actors of our time Wow Scottish actress who has a small part in this movie happy Valley too right yes she was in happy Valley on TV she's always working but she's in this movie you know she's the one who has one of more quotable lines six bud casual sex as she's stripping him down but she is a favorite of two of my favorite directors who don't weren't super famous on the side of the ocean but Mike Lee she's incredible in one of his best movies topsy-turvy and she just owns in Michael Winterbottom movies there's a movie he made called Wonderland at the end of the 90s that she's the star of highly recommend and 24-hour party people yeah she's incredible in that and to your point yes I know this now if we'd done this podcast a year ago I couldn't have known it but she is she is moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter movies Chris just so you know contextually that is a ghost that lives in a woman's toilet okay well I mean like she was in good company and transpotting then exactly a lot of action and toilets the Vincent Hanna give me all you got over acting award I I guess you could go you know for Begbie I mean just because he's screaming for the entire movie I don't mean that in a bad way but you know the the this this last you know this we last got glassed you know just really just getting after it the only nominee I mean the movie's so well acted and it's also doesn't have a huge cast so it's kind of hard to grab someone unfairly I think the only real nominee is Irvine Welsh himself which is now let me say let me just be clear because he's not really good at acting but he's probably the best actor of any author who's ever had his works translated or adapted I mean he's phenomenal if you judge him by other authors it's just that there's a couple moments he sells the part of the drug dealer with the opium like he sells it not just the drugs but like I buy it it's that every of the two scenes that Irvine Welsh is in as Mikey he's in the opium suppository scene and then later
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