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… like, makes it easy for you to do that. Yes. We've been singing the praise of Tom Hanks. Would you say this is Tom Hanks at the apex of his career? No. On Apex Mountain? No, I'm not going to go that crazy. It's certainly, this streak is. The streak's amazing. But I think the thing that is so remarkable about this performance is, tossed off is not the word, but it's so natural. It's not his apex. He's not even trying that hard. This is what he can do. He just inhabits the clothes and the sensibilities so well. Yeah. You just want to hang with him in this movie. He seems fun. Exactly. What about Nora Ephron? …

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And it doesn't allow for the same sense of humor and the same chemistry and the same energy between the two people. Yeah, and you can't feel comfortable making the compromise along with the main character if you're not on board with her to begin with. That's a great point. And she, like, makes it easy for you to do that. Yes. We've been singing the praise of Tom Hanks. Would you say this is Tom Hanks at the apex of his career? No. On Apex Mountain? No, I'm not going to go that crazy. It's certainly, this streak is. The streak's amazing. But I think the thing that is so remarkable about this performance is, tossed off is not the word, but it's so natural. It's not his apex. He's not even trying that hard. This is what he can do. He just inhabits the clothes and the sensibilities so well. Yeah. You just want to hang with him in this movie. He seems fun. Exactly. What about Nora Ephron? Do you think it's her apex? No. It's, to me personally, are we talking, we're just talking film and not writing, right? Yeah, film. To me personally, it's certainly the one I've watched the most and the one that I can quote the most naturally. I think you can't deny the effect that when Harry Metzali had on. I agree. It's just changed everything. It's also a fucking phenomenal movie. It's incredible. Here's another thing that I would say is that I really love Heartburn, the movie. It's definitely not the best, but it's really underrated. It's a great, the performances are great. It's very funny. So it's not the peak Nora, but it's peak to me. How about that? Sure. I'm with you. I do think, however, this is peak Meg Ryan. I think it's a precipitous drop off from here. If you look at her IMDb, it would probably confirm that. I mean, let's just take a peek. Wow, you're going to slander Kate and Leopold like that? I'm sorry, but you got mail in 1998 to 2000, hanging up in Proof of Life, 2001, Kate and Leopold, 2003 in the cut, 2004 against the ropes. And I'll just stop there because it gets really sad. So I don't think we can feel great about anything after You've Got Mail. And we feel great about You've Got Mail. That's true. I think you've got to give her When Harry Met Sally as maybe the actual peak. Okay. Yeah, maybe I do. I'm sticking with this one. I just think she's so cute. She's great in it. It's hard to imagine this movie without her. It's impossible to imagine this movie without Tom Hanks. And it's really, and thus it is hard to imagine it without Meg Ryan because they have such chemistry. It's established at this point. And again, I think part of this film just borrows on the fact that we already know that they wind up together. You want to see them together more. So in that sense, it's impossible to imagine without her. But she also, Nora Ephron pushes her in her directing to be much more like physical movements than she does in most of her movies. Yes. Like at one point, she's like alone in the store and she's moving around. And then when she's kind of like getting herself fired up, she's like punching in the air and like walking around.

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