Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
57:56 – 61:43… directors where people get asked to work for them and they do the, ah, you know, Michael's Michael. They say the name twice. He's definitely a double namer. Apex Mountain. Oh, wait, I had one more thing for this, uh, for Half-Fast Internet. The, uh, the lady who managed Google's information security engineer team said, quote, the most accurate information security film I've ever seen. Also explains why it was $70 million in Made 19. Cause I'm not sure what the competition was for information security film action movies. Probably not a long list. How many hacker movies have there been? I mean, that's actually …
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Post it on SoundCloud. Yeah. He's, he's definitely one of those directors where people get asked to work for them and they do the, ah, you know, Michael's Michael. They say the name twice. He's definitely a double namer. Apex Mountain. Oh, wait, I had one more thing for this, uh, for Half-Fast Internet. The, uh, the lady who managed Google's information security engineer team said, quote, the most accurate information security film I've ever seen. Also explains why it was $70 million in Made 19. Cause I'm not sure what the competition was for information security film action movies. Probably not a long list. How many hacker movies have there been? I mean, that's actually the thing. Angelina made one. Redford made one. Yeah. Matrix is kind of a hacker movie, but not, not after the first 20 minutes. Apex Mountain. Hacking on screen, obviously. You'd have hacking on screen for Apex Mountain? In this movie? Yeah. We haven't done better with hacking? I don't know. I think it's pretty cool. What about hackers with Robert Redford and River Phoenix? Sneakers. Sneakers? That's pretty good. Yeah. But that's like back in like the dial-in era. I really only had Soy Futures and Hamji Park Restaurant as Apex Mountains. Those are awesome, though. Yeah, that's it. That's all I got. Best racer or staying? Black, Black Hat or Ghostface? I like Ghost Man. Ghost Man. Ghost Man on the rail. Or Ghostface. On the rail, yeah. Pick and nets. Chris Hemsworth, way too handsome to be a hacker. I mean, you could take that to the end. I have a huge pick and net for the ending, which I've seen more than once. Mm-hmm. Nicholas and Sadak, they're talking to each other, but it's this huge cultural event. It's crazy. It's loud. There's people. He's like really far away. Yeah. Like he's like 50 yards away and he's like, you thought you could get away with it. There's just no way anyone hears anyone. There's a bunch of things. It's really bad. It's like what audio people can hear. One of my favorite parts is when they're in the chopper after DeWyze caught Hathaway with his sister. Yeah. And they're just like, switch to the private channel so that we can talk about this. Right. I can't believe you're dating my sister. Yeah. That scene's not great. That's a good pick and net scene. The, uh, yeah. And then all the other nits we've picked. Do you have any other ones? Just like they, they seem entirely prepared for the specific wounds he's about to get inflicted with at the end of the movie. Where she's like, I'm going to run to the drugstore. Yeah. And get some rubbing alcohol and gauze pads because you're definitely going to get shot with a machine gun and we're going to need it. And I guess like you just learn this stuff in prison, which is amazing. But his thing with this, you know, he's got like the scarf for the neck wound and then he's got all the magazines and he's just like. That's how I'm going to the Dodger game tonight with you. I'm wearing a scarf for my neck. I have magazines attached to my chest. Um, yeah, I think we hit all the nitpicks. We probably didn't go quite hard enough on how just replacing audio for the first 25 minutes of a movie because you've decided something should be in a different spot. It's just really weird for a movie that costs $70 million. I know we did, um, we did best quote, but I wanted to bring another category back because it's a Michael Mann movie. Yeah. A book about medals award for belatedly best quote or exchange. Yeah. So when they're in the Korean restaurant and then the chef or whoever the waiter comes up to them and is like basically like, uh, if you're not going to order anything else, you got to get up. And Hathaway looks up and he goes, you're really hurting for space because there's no one else in the restaurant. I've been saying this to myself in my head because now in LA, when you go in to any restaurant and you're like table for two, please. And it's an empty restaurant.
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