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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Unfaithful 2002

With Bill Simmons and Wesley Morris · 15 September 2020 · 21,821 feet

The claim

77:48 – 80:35

… that is like, hey, as part of our foreplay, I'm going to give you a spin in this wheelchair that's just sitting around my apartment. Does this turn you on? Apex Mountain for killing someone with a snow globe. I don't ever remember seeing it in a movie. But don't you feel like you have? I couldn't put my finger on where I've seen that before, but I feel like there's so many snow globe murders that we just blocked out. I don't know. Maybe it's at Citizen Kane or something. Pick and Nits. We covered a couple of them. This is the big one from my mom. I texted my mom and I was like, hey, what's your biggest …

The whole segment, as transcribed

Okay. Yeah. You know what that's like? That's like somebody, I mean, that is like, hey, as part of our foreplay, I'm going to give you a spin in this wheelchair that's just sitting around my apartment. Does this turn you on? Apex Mountain for killing someone with a snow globe. I don't ever remember seeing it in a movie. But don't you feel like you have? I couldn't put my finger on where I've seen that before, but I feel like there's so many snow globe murders that we just blocked out. I don't know. Maybe it's at Citizen Kane or something. Pick and Nits. We covered a couple of them. This is the big one from my mom. I texted my mom and I was like, hey, what's your biggest nitpick from Unfaithful that you've seen 330 times? Hers was, nobody notices Richard Gere carrying a body and a rug out of a New York City apartment. I mean- It's not like that was an empty neighborhood. First of all- And a guy's walking toward him as he's doing it. Hey, you need some help? I said, no, I'm good. I can get this body in the truck myself. Everything about the murder is dumb. Everything. None of it makes any sense. Why he does it. The actual doing of it. The disposal. The disposal of the body, let alone the carrying, the removal of the body from the apartment. First of all, Olivia Martinez is like, I think, 6'2". Richard Gere, I believe, is 5'9". It's a heavy body. That's a lot of, I mean, and also, I don't know if you've ever dealt with the dead bill, but they don't do that when you fold them up and roll them in a carpet like that. Yeah, they just, they literally get rigor mortis because they're dead. That's what rigor mortis is. They're doing a pole. Yeah. Anyway, I just, like, and then to leave him at the dump like that, like, no, motherfucker, you gotta bury him. Like, you can't just, this, I mean, again, again, this just speaks to the, like, weird entitlements of being a well-off person in the suburbs. You just think, like, you're garbage. Just, I'm just gonna toss it on top of this landfill or this, um, the junkyard. I don't know. Whatever. It's, that murder makes no sense to me. How bad were the police investigators? Ugh. Again. There's DNA all over the place. It's 2002. We know how to look for DNA. Like, a pool of blood that he cleaned up. They can definitely find that. I mean. Fingerprints everywhere from his wife. His wife had just had sex in the bed in the hallway. Her number's there. I mean. She's got parking tickets in front of the place. I mean. I do like her lie about the parking ticket, though. That was a decent, that was a pretty decent lie. But, but there is that one shot where, like, after, after, I almost said Michael Douglas, after Richard Gere does the deed,

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What the board says

This film IS their apex
Diane Lane23,740 ftThe highest point of the career. Carries 88 of 100 of this film.
Their apex is elsewhere
Richard Gere23,640 ftChicago, 2002, by 4,560 feet.

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