Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
59:59 – 64:42… but I mean, make it. Release the Snyder Cut of season three of The Hour. How about that? Okay. Dion Waiters Award goes to Ben Wishaw. Congratulations, Ben. Apex Mountain. Is it Daniel Craig's Apex Mountain? I think it is. I would argue, yes. Opens the Olympics, stars in a $1 billion James Bond movie that is considered the best James Bond movie ever. Now, has he done enough with it? Amanda and I have seen a movie called Knives Out. He's pretty great in Knives Out. It's not quite the same level of power. Yeah. But objectively, it's not the same amount of power. It's just him using his power to just do Southern …
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And this is right when he's starring on that show, The Hour, that BBC show. It's a tremendous show. Great show. Yeah. Release season three of The Hour. Did they shoot it and not put it out? No, but I mean, make it. Release the Snyder Cut of season three of The Hour. How about that? Okay. Dion Waiters Award goes to Ben Wishaw. Congratulations, Ben. Apex Mountain. Is it Daniel Craig's Apex Mountain? I think it is. I would argue, yes. Opens the Olympics, stars in a $1 billion James Bond movie that is considered the best James Bond movie ever. Now, has he done enough with it? Amanda and I have seen a movie called Knives Out. He's pretty great in Knives Out. It's not quite the same level of power. Yeah. But objectively, it's not the same amount of power. It's just him using his power to just do Southern accents in every movie he can for the next decade, which respect to my man, Mary Rachel Weisz, and was just like, now I only speak in a Virginia accent. Okay. Go with it. That's true. But in terms of actually having power, I think it has to be Skyfall. Yeah. Daniel Craig, Apex Mountain, Sam Mendes. I would probably say this was an earlier point for Mendes, like coming out of American Beauty, doing Jarhead. I think he was like kind of a bigger deal then. I think it's right after American Beauty. Yeah. He does Road to Perdition. And American Beauty made like $400 million. Yes. That's pretty crazy to think about and won all the Oscars. I don't particularly remember seven years ago Javier Bardem, it being like, now it's Javier Bardem's time. Any more so than it was in 2007 when he did No Country for Old Men. So it's hard for me to say this is like his apex mountain. I almost feel like this was like him being like, I can still do this if I want to. Yeah. I think you have to say objectively that after he won the Oscar for No Country, that's his apex mountain. I definitely agree with that. I'm just looking at what he did. Yeah. I mean, this is an interesting run. He goes No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Very good Woody Allen movie we're not allowed to talk about anymore. We're allowed to talk about it. It's good. In Ritu's Beautiful, which was kind of roasted upon release. He was in Eat, Pray, Love. Yeah. You guys remember that? He's the guy at the end, right? Yeah. Felipe. I know. Good for her. And then Skyfall. And then To the Wonder and then The Counselor, which is the greatest performance in the history of movies. I mean, actually, that's his apex mountain. That is the apex mountain of all apex mountains. It's pretty much. That's pretty much it for him. I really enjoyed him in Mother. He's great in Mother. Yeah, I forgot about that. Javier Bardem. Great career. He's tremendous. Yeah. Just tremendous. Also married to Penelope Cruz. Shout out to him. He's just wonderful. Okay. So let me. Oh, actually, let's do Joey Pants first. Joey Pants Award. I was trying to think of a British character actor to rename this after for this particular go around of the Joey Pants Award. Okay. For that guy who's just in everything. A lot of people here. Rory Kinnear. Yes. In pretty much every good television show to come out of England last year. Should we call this like the Denholm Elliott Award? Yeah, sure. That's good. The Denholm Elliott Award. Helen McCrory, who goes on to play Polly Shelby in Peaky Blinders, plays the minister who's questioning Judi Dench. Nicholas Woodison, who is doing word association with Bond in the psychological evaluation, is in everything. Yeah. I guess Albert Finney, sort of, because he's behind the beard. You're like, who's that guy? Who's that guy? Any other that guys? Ola Rapace. Noomi Rapace's ex-husband, who plays Patrice, who was murdered. That's him? Yeah. Noomi. Really? Yeah. He gets tossed off a building. He's like a very well-known actor in Sweden. Is he? Yeah. Okay. Just dropping some Swedish film takes. What do you got, Amanda? Anybody else? No, I think we covered him. Okay. I think this has to be Helen McCrory. I do, too. And she doesn't even actually get a straight-up close-up, but you hear her voice, and you're like, it's Polly. I think to most human beings, the pick would be Rory Kinnear. Yes. Sure. But you guys, the Anglophiles that you guys are, you're deeply familiar with Rory Kinnear's work. I am. I mean, I've seen several shows that star Rory Kinnear. But I think most humans would be like, oh, that guy who fucked the pig on Black Mirror that one time. I would recommend, if anybody wants to watch a really great Rory Kinnear show, they look up Southcliffe. It's a very, very excellent show. All right. Let's crack my back for this one. The Linda Partridge, don't call me lady, award for overacting. That's who it is? Yes. That's who it is. We changed it from- This is what I'm saying. It went from Saul Rubineck, Ruffalo to Rubineck, and now it's- They knew Robbie! Yes. And you stabbed me in the heart, and now it's Julianne Moore in Magnolia. Don't call me lady! Is this Bardem? No. No. I'm giving this name a Harris. No one's over- I already said this. I already did my whole case. I know. I'm just like- No one's overacting. He is acting just right. Don't say another fucking word against Javier Bardem. Let's talk about who's won this award before. Okay. We named it after Mark Ruffalo. Okay.
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