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79:02 – 82:59… body count. Shay. Want to guess dead bodies in this movie? 51. So it's somewhere between 39 and 42, depending on how many deaths happen in techno are. Yeah. Apex mountain. Next category. Arnold. No. James Cameron. No. Linda Hamilton. No. What about our guy, Mike, Chris? I think aliens. I think beans better in aliens than he is in Terminator. 80s, Los Angeles. I mean, do you include blade runner in that? You can. Do you include fletch in that? I don't know. So you can make a case. Terminator and fletch. They're, they're right around the same time. This could have been apex. Beverly Hills cop, Beverly Hills …
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Yeah. Estimated body count. Shay. Want to guess dead bodies in this movie? 51. So it's somewhere between 39 and 42, depending on how many deaths happen in techno are. Yeah. Apex mountain. Next category. Arnold. No. James Cameron. No. Linda Hamilton. No. What about our guy, Mike, Chris? I think aliens. I think beans better in aliens than he is in Terminator. 80s, Los Angeles. I mean, do you include blade runner in that? You can. Do you include fletch in that? I don't know. So you can make a case. Terminator and fletch. They're, they're right around the same time. This could have been apex. Beverly Hills cop, Beverly Hills cop, Terminator and fletch. Yeah. This is it. This is a mid 80s, Los Angeles. Plus we have the Lakers. We got magic. We got the 85 Lakers. I'm going to say, yeah. Downhill from there. What, what, what was a, what's James Cameron's apex? Well, I mean, I would say Titanic. Yeah. In terms of like the, the strict reading of apex mountain is probably a Titanic. Yeah. He's okay. I thought, uh, I thought Aquaman in entourage. That's what I was hoping for. Uh, um, cheesy 80s hotel room sex might be the apex. I don't know. I'm just trying to rack my brain trying to remember if there was, uh, anything more. So you guys think that this is the best version of time travel? Like, is this apex mountain for time travel? Because it's like time travel where they're like a good conversation to have. They make it as a good, it's just like clean. Like they're like, I came back in time to protect you from this person who came back in time to kill you. All movies after that with time travel, it gets into all this, like Marty McFly disappearing from the, the picture. And here are all the rules. And here's how like the loops work. And here's how like, we get to tenant where like, it's basically incomprehensible. So old school, old school time travel. Just like I showed up in a ball of lightning naked and that's it. That's time. How about Ray-Bans? Ray-Bans? Apex for Ray-Bans? Maybe. Are Ray-Bans, is that what he's wearing? What Arnold is wearing? I don't know. Sunglasses is good though. I think, I think Top Gun is a better sunglasses movie. Okay. Ah, you got me there. All right. Fuck. Rasevich, no. Yeah, it's Top Gun. The Pico 80s bar scene, Chris? I don't think it gets any better than Tech Noir. It's on Pico. It's basically, I would say Los Angeles nightclubs in general. There's this, and then there's BJ's on Alvarado from Heat. And that's it. Meet me at BJ's on Alvarado at 2 a.m. Motherfucker. Be there. Pick and nits. So Sarah Connor's 18 in this movie, and I didn't really fully realize that, even though I've seen this movie a million times, and Terminator 2 a million times. And in Terminator 2, they say how old she is, and they say she's 28, and it's been 10 years since Terminator 1. She's doing a lot for an 18-year-old. Like, she's on her own in an apartment with a roommate who seems like she's 25. Rick Rostovich seems like he's in his mid-20s. She's got a waitressing job. It just seems young. Yeah. All of it seems young to me. I think a thing happens in your brain when you watch a movie that has somebody in it who's older than you. Even if they're like, even if you're 12 when you watch this, that's about how old I was. And I watched it, and I see Lena Hamilton. She's not 18. She's like automatically in her mid-20s. Like, every adult when you're younger is somewhere around there. Like, they just know shit. You get older, and you realize, oh, she was 18. Like, this is a child. We're talking about a child right here. You know what I'm saying? She's two and a half years older than my daughter, which is what really strikes me with that. It's like, my daughter's not ready to be living in LA on our own with a roommate and working as a waitress and fighting the Terminator. We mentioned 2029, how that seems too close.
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