Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
51:13 – 55:36… a great question. I don't think we know how he's paying the bills. Okay. That's something we can come back to in picking nits. We've got a long list here. Apex Mountain. We'll talk about Rachel McAdams and her incredible run in one moment. Can you make the case for anyone else? Yes. Who? Nick Casavitis. Okay. And Nicholas Sparks. Yes. Okay. Great. The two Nicks. I accept. You're right. You're right. I mean, with Nicholas Sparks, he really has made an industry off of this movie being successful. Yep. It's pretty remarkable. Andrew, what would compel you to read a Nicholas Sparks book? Just curious. As your …
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I think we got one close-up on the beautiful furniture that he's making in his studio workshop situation. Is that how he's paying the bills? I wondered about that. That's a great question. I don't think we know how he's paying the bills. Okay. That's something we can come back to in picking nits. We've got a long list here. Apex Mountain. We'll talk about Rachel McAdams and her incredible run in one moment. Can you make the case for anyone else? Yes. Who? Nick Casavitis. Okay. And Nicholas Sparks. Yes. Okay. Great. The two Nicks. I accept. You're right. You're right. I mean, with Nicholas Sparks, he really has made an industry off of this movie being successful. Yep. It's pretty remarkable. Andrew, what would compel you to read a Nicholas Sparks book? Just curious. As your colleague, I just want to know. Like a lot of money. Probably the only thing. Good to know. As your employer. Glad to know. Okay. Amanda? Anything? You are more likely to do it because you could just sit down on one flight for like five hours and tear through it. Yeah. But it's, I kind of. But we get the gist, right? I get the gist from the movies. And I have enough Southern authors or like kind of beach authors that I read. Which I'll just say, like Nicholas Sparks got in trouble recently for some fairly, I believe it was. Bigoted. Bigoted. Bigoted remarks. And like an email. And he apologized. But like, not great. It comes through in this movie, as we said. And it comes through in this movie. And I really appreciate the other aspects of this movie, but I don't really need to read his books. Yeah. All right. Let's just talk about Rachel McAdams. Great. It's just absolutely to me her apex mountain. This is. I'm going to go more than Mean Girls. Yes. Okay. I really think so. I just think her charm and her like infectious energy really comes through. I was just like taken with her last night. I know. So, but are we doing, because every time Bill is like apex mountain. Is not subjective. Apex mountain is about like the point in the career and not how you feel about it. Okay. Well, let's do point in career. And then we can do an emotional assessment. Okay. What is her objective career peak? Well, I think that it's wedding crashers because she has. She's writing this momentum. Mean Girls and notebook. And then she makes it to wedding crashers the next year. And that's a big thing. And it's kind of like. Would you say she crashed after that? Well, it doesn't work out. That was a wedding crashers joke. Yeah. No, I got it. I thought that was a red eye joke. Yeah. Oh my God. And it works both ways. Maybe she didn't capitalize on the moment the way that she wanted to. Though, you know, she makes it back. She was nominated for an Oscar for Spotlight. She was in Morning Glory, one of the great rom-coms of the 21st century. Agreed. Hard to agree. It's on Hulu. Check it out. And she's been working and is like really respected. But I think kind of wedding crashers is the moment where you're like, wow, she could do anything. Mm-hmm. Andrew, what do you think? It's her objective apex. I think it's this, I guess, I would say the notebook because it's the one-two punch of Mean Girls followed by the notebook that like you see two sides of Rachel McAdams and she's like killing both of these roles. Right. I would go with the notebook. I mean, I think movies-wise, it's undeniable wedding crashers. I mean, to your point, like riding that wave and everything. I would say maybe it's a notebook because of their relationship. I feel like their relationship makes them celebrities in addition to the people like loving this movie. Yeah, that's a good point. And so without that, she's not as like famous or beloved. And I believe they're dating by the time Wedding Crashers comes out because that's in the summer of 2005. Yeah. So I'm pretty sure they had been public for a few months, essentially. Is her apex the MTV VMA situation? Oh, it's so hot. That's a great question. I mean, it might be. Is that the best moment for Rachel McAdams' career? Recreating a hot kiss? Recreating is like aligned and it is certainly like one of the handful of moments that we reference with her. There's that. There's Mean Girls. Yeah. Yeah. It also, yeah, I think when you put into effect in kind of like a Tom Cruise way or a Julia Roberts way, like how we've talked about them previously on the Rewatchables, it's kind of like taking the career and then like what you make out of it in terms of taking the acting parts and how you turn it into being a celebrity, then it's a soaring high for her and Ryan Gosling together. But subjectively, the notebook is your personal Rachel McAdams apex. Yeah. Particularly upon a rewatch. Okay. I think. I mean, I just, she was, she was my winner of the movie.
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