Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
84:02 – 89:16… in like 2002. Yeah. I'm sure Norton was like pay me my fucking money. Red Dragon you will pay me in suitcases of cash. You will drop them on my mansion. Apex Mountain Brad Pitt no. No. No. Because the movie wasn't that successful. Ed Norton I'm going to say yes because it's rounders American History X and then this and then this movie the cult stuff from it and it's just like it just rounds out the six movie run that he had that by the end of it. Arguably he's never been as big of a star as he was at this moment whereas I think Pitt has. Yeah. Fincher I'm going to say still Social Network. Mm-hmm. …
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It seems like a disparity. That would cause a lot of problems in 2021 or in the NBA team. I think it probably caused a lot of problems in like 2002. Yeah. I'm sure Norton was like pay me my fucking money. Red Dragon you will pay me in suitcases of cash. You will drop them on my mansion. Apex Mountain Brad Pitt no. No. No. Because the movie wasn't that successful. Ed Norton I'm going to say yes because it's rounders American History X and then this and then this movie the cult stuff from it and it's just like it just rounds out the six movie run that he had that by the end of it. Arguably he's never been as big of a star as he was at this moment whereas I think Pitt has. Yeah. Fincher I'm going to say still Social Network. Mm-hmm. Generation X no. No. Rosie O'Donnell maybe. She had her own talk show. No I think the view She's starting fights with Fight Club. I think her getting into it with Meghan McCain was really where it all peaked for her. I can't believe it movie twists. Well this year certainly. So you have this and The Sixth Sense and Blair Witch and probably like two others that we're not thinking of. But like when has there ever been another year where people's heads were spinning like that coming out of movies? Plus pre internet's around but not around to the point that you could have your movie spoiled. Yes. Right. Helena Bonham Carter yes. I still don't love her in this movie. The Pixies no. No probably not. Although somewhere in 91 range. I do feel like having The Pixies at the end of this is like the start of like the like I'm going to have like the close of my movie or the close of the season of TV show we're going to put a pop song over it. I don't think we sold hard enough in What's Age the Best the ending with the Pixies song. I fucking loved it. I was so happy the first time I saw this when it was like that's how we're ending this with the fucking Pixies? God can I give can I give more money to somebody who's walking around? Can I pay the theater another $20? It's in the trailer too right? The Pixies. Yeah. It's just it's great great perfect song choice but if you're going to pick 90s songs it's definitely would be in the finals. It gives away the movie essentially. It really does. Yeah. It's they're nine inch nails maybe it could have been going there and you might have gone some sort of goofy Radiohead but even Radiohead as we talked earlier would have changed the feel a bit. Ikea I think Apex Mountain. I was going to say Ikea. Great job great job by them in the late 90s and then eventually maybe not. Were you a big Ikea consumer back then? No. No. Unreliable narrators Apex Mountain? Where do you stand on unreliable narrators? Well I'm into it. I sometimes think that it's an excuse people make for shoddy storytelling but I think I do like the idea that you can't trust the narrator. Because we had this and we had Memento which we just did on the rewatchables the next year and it's just this is like Well we talked about this too with like what Henry Hill's perception of the events of Goodfellas are. You know what I mean? Like it's like I enjoy that. I'm going to say no for unreliable narrators. Fight clubs definitely. I mean Fight Club sprung up all over the place. It's really nuts. the backyard wrestling and shit. Yeah. Blown up apartments? Probably not. Jared Leto, no. Meatloaf I still say 70s he probably peaked. Yeah. Paradise by the dashboard light. Definitely. Picking Nets. Feels like there would be just more facial damage from Fight Club. Like more broken eye sockets, broken noses, missing teeth. For as real as it is, they're like all you have to do is like cut your nails and keep your hair short and it's all good. You can just go to work. No, you have to wear these gloves, nothing. It's just I just feel like Ed Norton has double vision maybe at the hour 20 mark of this movie from his fractured orbital bone that never got healed and then he got punched in it again or something. That's right. He gets hit by a bus because he has no depth perception. Why didn't the Tyler face damage match the narrator face damage? Why did it? Or why didn't it? Why didn't it? That's a great question. This is why I think that the twist of this movie is like it's not sloppy at all but it is a little bit less important to the movie than the Sixth Sense twist is. Great and Marla is not exactly like swimming with options in this movie but at what point do you kind of realize maybe it's not going to work out with this dissociative bipolar fucking maniac? I think maybe Marla is attracted to these types but yeah I think that what Marla does on a day-to-day basis aside from steal clothing from laundromats and sell them to vintage stores I'm not really sure. Any other pick and nits? Oh I had one more. At what point does the police just shut down this house of domestic terrorists who are having fight clubs all over the city? Well but the thing is that there's cops in the fight club so there are cops in Project Mayhem. Any other pick and nits? No I have a probably unanswerable question though. Could this be remade as a 10 episode Netflix show? I mean it probably could but please no nobody out there please don't remake this. No. This movie belongs to 1999 and would not make sense
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