Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
80:41 – 84:40… moves into the house and there's something wrong with the house. If I was Gwyneth Adrian, I'd be like, hey, do a movie where something's wrong with the house. Apex Mountain. Wait, I did a little bit of research. Can I tell you two things? Yeah. Because I think you'd enjoy it because it talks about Chris Martin. Let's hear it. So Gwyneth Paltrow learned how to play the guitar from scratch over several months, whatever. She had never picked it up before. Her husband at the time, Chris Martin, told her, not only was he extremely supportive of her guitar playing, told her that she was better at playing the guitar …
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The one thing missing in her IMDb is a really good horror movie. I don't know why she didn't do that. I mean, she made like Flesh and Bone and stuff like that. But like just one where she moves into the house and there's something wrong with the house. If I was Gwyneth Adrian, I'd be like, hey, do a movie where something's wrong with the house. Apex Mountain. Wait, I did a little bit of research. Can I tell you two things? Yeah. Because I think you'd enjoy it because it talks about Chris Martin. Let's hear it. So Gwyneth Paltrow learned how to play the guitar from scratch over several months, whatever. She had never picked it up before. Her husband at the time, Chris Martin, told her, not only was he extremely supportive of her guitar playing, told her that she was better at playing the guitar than U2's frontman. Not better than The Edge, but apparently... I would hope that. Gwyneth Paltrow just absolutely blew Chris Martin out of the way with her guitar playing, which if you watch the movie, it's not great. Just a couple of strings here and there. And then also, Leighton Meester's real mother did give birth to her as an inmate in prison, which I thought was interesting because her in the movie, her real mom is apparently also in prison. Liz Kelly, bring it in. I had to. Yeah. Apex Mountain, Gwyneth Paltrow, no. Garrett Hedlund, you could make a case that... I mean, this is probably one of the issues with how it turned out. It was so far for him where this should have been his apex because he had Tron and Country Strong. These are two major movies for him and it didn't happen. So his apex was probably 04, but this was like his lost apex mountain. Tim McGraw, no. Leighton Meester, yeah. I agree on Leighton Meester. Because she's got some girls like season two or season three at this point. And I would say yes. Country music, no. Nashville, no. Movies about alcoholic, self-destructive singers who died at the end, no. And that's all I got. Picky Nits. We mentioned Kelly somehow as a sponsor who was also a huge potential country western star, crazy. Why Was Tim McGraw Such a Shitty Husband? We covered that. Did Bo like Childs or not? I actually asked this while watching the movie to Craig and I think he said yes. Like it's very confusing. I actually didn't really buy a genuine relationship out of them. I was surprised that they were like the real love story in the end. Can I just make a case here? Childs is great. Why wouldn't you like Childs? What's wrong with her? She represents everything he hates. She's Miss Dallas. Whatever. She's 22. She's good looking. What is he like? He's going to get married? There's more in the life. No, but it's like at the stage of life he's in. Like why was he so repulsed by her? It's like, all right. She's cute. She could sing. What are you looking for, dude? You're working as a janitor in a rehab center. You have both seen romantic comedies before. And you know that at the beginning the people have to not like each other. At the end they have to like each other. It's literally the only arc this movie has besides the really, really sad arc. Okay? So we got to take that. Number two, he thinks he's like a cool outlaw country Western guy. So he can't like the pageant queen. But then of course in the end, you know, they're both deeper than the stereotypes that are presented. I don't think they made her unlikable enough in the first 20 minutes to sustain the whole, oh, there's no way he can be with her. I never felt like it got there, which is yet another reason it's a flawed rewatchable. I was like, oh, she seems cool. Why wouldn't you? Well, maybe he is also, the problem is with his character because his character, as previously discussed, is not a responsible sponsor or medical standard of any kind. And he is also basically two-timing Kelly and Childs. Yeah. And, but you're just supposed to be rooting for him to find his voice or whatever. And I'm rooting for him to find some comment from decency as a person. I agree. He actually has a situation in the middle of the movie where he presumably sleeps with Gwyneth Paltrow. And then later that night meets up with Leighton Meester. And you're just, you're absolutely right, Amanda. You're like, you're supposed to believe that he and Gwyneth Paltrow have this like otherworldly, real deep connection and truth.
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