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Eyes Wide Shut 1999

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey and Mallory Rubin · 15 August 2023 · 25,049 feet

The claim

72:59 – 75:58

… like on the 88th take of opening a door he was like goodbye i'm fucking out there are some worse stories we just recently heard about one that we can't share apex mountain apex mountain anybody i guess this is apex mountain for the eyes wide shut party yeah orgies just orgies in general big orgies with bass right because it i guess this was still at a time when like nobody believed they were real so it's like it's a little pre-unit still yeah how about movies filmed in london pretending to be in new york apex all right yeah picking nits want to pick some nits mal sure most of the ones i have for this are …

The whole segment, as transcribed

they're bringing pollack in to like make sure this doesn't go completely to pot there's all kinds of weird rumors about why kytel has taken off this project but i'm not going to mention it unfortunately there's also like gary oldman just told the story once where it's just like kytel just like lost it like on the 88th take of opening a door he was like goodbye i'm fucking out there are some worse stories we just recently heard about one that we can't share apex mountain apex mountain anybody i guess this is apex mountain for the eyes wide shut party yeah orgies just orgies in general big orgies with bass right because it i guess this was still at a time when like nobody believed they were real so it's like it's a little pre-unit still yeah how about movies filmed in london pretending to be in new york apex all right yeah picking nits want to pick some nits mal sure most of the ones i have for this are pretty small i have a hard time believing that alice got that high off a couple hits of one joint so my my follow-up to that is bad stoned you don't you don't act like that when you're stoned she acted like she was drunk well she's drunk too differently right she's drunk too it's after the party right i don't know i thought you'd mellow it out a little she's drinking a lot of champagne and she's spending a lot of time with our hungarian count she'd be sloppy i don't think this is later because they have the set the mirror sex right after that yeah mirror sex time passes this is a separate sequence of visits she is but bill was pretty often throwing down like he was ready so who knows how much time passed he's the guy those models in front of him that's right i i i was confused by even though every sequence with domino and her roommate is wonderful domino's roommate clearly knows all about bill right it says oh i heard from domino what a wonderful guy you are and yet doesn't know that they didn't sleep together but she wasn't there but she's implying that she heard all about him yeah and great that whole scene is really interesting because obviously if you just operate under the assumption that it's a dream then you don't have to worry about it making sense but i the fact that it's they gave her they gave domino hiv i guess it's like a really it's it's it's hard to untangle what that means i think it's just the threat of living dangerously yeah he by by changing his mind and staying safe he was able to survive you know and by committing to the concept of um marriage and and his spouse that he didn't he didn't kill himself i mean he almost killed himself at this party every time he gets close to making a bad choice he somehow avoids it and when he avoids it he stays alive which is this like the illusion of safety and marriage i think is like a big theme of the movie can we pick the nit that domino would have had a roommate and that there was somebody out there like oh this is domino's

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
Tom Cruise26,860 ftWar of the Worlds, 2005, by 6,802 feet.
Nicole Kidman25,420 ftMoulin Rouge!, 2001, by 5,971 feet.
Cate Blanchett24,470 ftCarol, 2015, by 6,807 feet.

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