Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
80:47 – 85:42… to us like that. Well, what if we're hanging out upside like an NBA game and we're next to the Jumbotron doing a live broadcast of it? It's like, sounds good. Apex Mountain. Jim Carrey, I'm going to say yes. Yeah. Is it Apex Mountain for Jim Carrey? I think this is right in the middle of this crazy run that he had. 1998, he's got, he's had all the success. This is his first drama. It's well-received. Liar, Liar's around there. I think he's like the most powerful actor in Hollywood other than maybe Hanks and Cruise. But Cruise is doing Eyes Wide Shut at this point. This is also a movie where you're like, well, …
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Yeah. Yeah. That's a bit much. We get podcasts pitched to us like that. Well, what if we're hanging out upside like an NBA game and we're next to the Jumbotron doing a live broadcast of it? It's like, sounds good. Apex Mountain. Jim Carrey, I'm going to say yes. Yeah. Is it Apex Mountain for Jim Carrey? I think this is right in the middle of this crazy run that he had. 1998, he's got, he's had all the success. This is his first drama. It's well-received. Liar, Liar's around there. I think he's like the most powerful actor in Hollywood other than maybe Hanks and Cruise. But Cruise is doing Eyes Wide Shut at this point. This is also a movie where you're like, well, you can do anything. Yeah, you're actually right. Yeah. Because this is like, yeah, you're right. This is the end. This is like, not the end of the run, but it is the third act of that crazy seven-year run that you're talking about. Yeah, I think it is. Laura Linney, not yet. Ed Harris. What is Laura Linney's Apex Mountain, just out of curiosity? She's had a bunch of them. Probably somewhere in the early 2000s, though, right? When she does You Can Count On Me and she just becomes one of the most respected actresses. Is that when Primal Fear? Primal Fear is right around here. Yeah, it's somewhere in here. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Ed Harris, I don't know, probably early 90s. This is like when he's doing action movies and stuff like that. He's in a couple of Michael Beck. Apollo 13s. Yeah. Apollo 13s. It's right around here. Yeah. Hidden camera movies, yes. Deaths at Sea, I still think Ordinary Peoples. Well, you made that category up. Yeah. You get to weird it out. I thought you'd be with me. You're like, what's going on here? I'm with you, but it's just one of those things where it's like, I have no idea. I don't have an opinion quite yet. I gotta think about it. I gotta think about it. Peter Weir, Dead Poets? Yes. You think this over Dead Poets? You know the thing about, I think this is a way more complex, I think the vision of this movie is way more complex than Dead Poets. Okay. I think even just the way, the camera angles of like, where you hide things, how you build this thing, it's much more of a world building thing. I think this is a very tough movie to drive. Huh. Mocha Coco Coffee, definitely. Yeah. Noah Emmerich, probably still Beautiful Girls. It's a big scene. He alerted the guys. He alerted the guys that, the Macdon characters get the shit kicked out of him. I don't know. Reality TV warning movies, definitely. Definitely. That's all I had for Apex Mountain. Cruiser, Hanks. We said Hanks. Scorsese or Spielberg? Spielberg. Spielberg. Yeah. What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? Oh, Truman's buddy. That Marlin. He would have crushed. Yeah, he would have easily. I think he was probably too young in 98. Yeah. Right? That's a great casting though. That's Marlin. He could have played the Peter Krause role, like the guy who works in the insurance agency with him. What if it was Marlin, but he played it exactly like Freddie in Talented Mr. Ripley? Hey, Truman. Hey, Truman. How's the peeping? How's the peeping? Picking nits. So in, I'm not even talking 98, when Truman's a kid, were the cameras and Wi-Fi really this good? No. Like in like 1981? That's a very good point. We were able to do this? Hardwired. Yeah, everything's hardwired. You're right. I was carrying in high school in the late 80s, carrying around like, you know, this giant video camera that would like sink your shoulder after 10 minutes. They shot 28 days later on like DV cameras that were really small. Like, I don't know when that comes out, like 2001. And that, you can barely watch that movie now because of like the film quality. Yeah. So I don't think Truman's show realistically would have looked like this, obviously, yeah. We mentioned how did you pay all the actors and extras and was this just their job forever and what was in it for them? If you really want to be, would you have wanted to be an actor in this for 10 years? I mean, it depends where, like, you know what one of my favorite scenes is, is when he gets on the bus and the guy like pretends to like, like stall out the car and whatever. It reminded me, like, it felt like we were in the far corners of the universe where like, he wasn't expecting this to happen. All the, all the background on the bus, like just kind of get up and like move. Like nobody's like, has like their own life. They're like, oh, this, nobody thought the C team was really going to make it on screen. Like it, I did, I did sort of like that world creation. It felt intentional that nobody felt real. It brings up a really good thing though, because on the bus, the little girl breaks. Yes. And is looking at him and is like, is that him? Is that him? How would you get kids to behave themselves on the show? You know what I mean? Like, how would you get a bunch of children to not be like, I watch your TV show. exactly. You wouldn't. But that's why this movie, we forgot to mention this to what's age the best, Craig, hour 41. I know, I would argue, and this is one of the rare cases where I could have taken 10 more minutes of this movie. Oh, Craig's very passionate and no movie should be more than 100 minutes unless there's an incredible reason. Two hours occasionally. Two hours maybe. Oh, wow. There was some, I just, you know, I love a quick movie, but I, like the woman they introduced to like be his new love interest,
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