Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
89:15 – 95:50… in Charlestown was when Johnny's Food Master, which was the disgusting grocery store in downtown Charlestown, became a Whole Foods. That kind of summed it up. Apex Mountain. Rebecca Hall? No. What is it for her? What is Apex Mountain? I don't know. Apex Mountain is the peak of their career where they had the most juice, most power, most sway, most career options. I would probably say for her, Iron Man 3, just in terms of her commercial. Okay. I really liked her in this, though. I thought she was great. Me too. She was perfectly cast. And it couldn't be... Let's see. This is always going to sound like... There …
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You go there now, you're like the Met getting a gluten-free wrap. I mean, the biggest thing that happened in Charlestown was when Johnny's Food Master, which was the disgusting grocery store in downtown Charlestown, became a Whole Foods. That kind of summed it up. Apex Mountain. Rebecca Hall? No. What is it for her? What is Apex Mountain? I don't know. Apex Mountain is the peak of their career where they had the most juice, most power, most sway, most career options. I would probably say for her, Iron Man 3, just in terms of her commercial. Okay. I really liked her in this, though. I thought she was great. Me too. She was perfectly cast. And it couldn't be... Let's see. This is always going to sound like... There was a look that she had to have to make this character more believable, and they absolutely nailed it. I have a Rebecca Hall story. Do you want it or not? Sure. Is it good? 09 Book Tour. Did your wife strangle her? No. My wife did strangle her. 09 Book Tour. In Boston. It was the same day where I called the WEI guys, Deceitful Scumbags, and ended up getting suspended for Twitter for two weeks. Rebecca Hall called in. Ham is shooting the town in Boston. And I'm like, hey, I'm going to be in Boston. He's like, let's get a drink. So the J-bug and I meet Ham, and he brings Rebecca Hall. He's like, this is Rebecca. She's in the movie. And she was really charming and whatever. But it was interesting. The thing I remember is, it was like, where do you live? And she's like, I don't live anywhere. I live out of a suitcase. I've just been doing these movies. I don't have a home base. And we were like... Is she hitting on you? No. We were like... I don't have anywhere to go. We were so fascinated about it. We were like, you don't have... What is that? You just live in hotels? It's just like, yeah, I'm just... I'm going from movie to movie to movie. Why would I have an apartment? I'm not going to be there. And the J-bug do... I mean, she was one of the best looking people that are probably past your Boston. The J-bug is just... I could see the wheels fucking turning. Trying to soak all this in. This girl, she's dropped from heaven and also doesn't have a place to live. It was very strange. On the Charlestown thing, though, at the end of the movie, they're like, hey, by the way, you people are swell. There's this thing, this paragraph that pops up. Dedicated to the people who chose... Everything we just did for the last two and a half hours. You guys are great. You guys... But most of this is... Except for the bank robberies and the florists. Fenway Park, Apex Mountain. Coming off a two World Series. John Henry's invested a bunch of money in it. It's at the place now where we feel so good about it that... Yeah, sure. Shoot your giant bank high scene in here. It's fine. No? Apex Mountain? Yeah, it's day 83. For Fenway. Do you think that... So, you didn't answer this, but did... What's the conversation between Affleck and Henry about what they're going to shoot? Oh, yeah, yeah. And how does he get MLB to sign off on this? Where he's like, yeah, so we're going to go to a Yankees-Red Sox game and then there's going to be an absolute cop slaughter outside. MLB actually was like, can we make the scene three and a half hours? That's what I heard. Can you take an hour between each shot? Can you have Affleck and Renner talk about what they're going to do seven or eight times? At one point, can Affleck come out and replace Renner with two other left-handed actors? Your answer is there's no reason they should have let them shoot this scene in here. It is pure star fuckery. It is John Henry and Tom Werner being like, Ben Affleck wants to shoot a movie at Fenway Park. We'll have dinner with them. We get to hang out with them. Done. We'll do a screening. It's a fucking circle jerk. They do. And they let them do Moneyball there too, right? Yeah. It's a circle jerk. Okay. But honestly, that's not a critique. You're making it sound like a negative thing. Yeah. You think it's negative? No. I don't think it's negative. It's like, hey, we own this team and this is awesome. Yeah. Ben Affleck wants to shoot a movie here. This is great. And we can have dinner with them. It's a semi-critique. Charlestown, Apex Mountain? No. What's the... Anybody else? Slane? Occupation of Boston, 1775. Would you go Blake Lively, Apex Mountain? Yeah. For you. I mean, I don't... I feel awkward talking about her now. I think the thing about Blake is, though, this is... We're probably... I would love to know what other people think of Lively's performance. They didn't like it. Yeah. She got dumped on early on. It's the wrong opinion. And it's just... It's stupid. I swear, everybody that knocked her for this performance has never hung out in that town. Because she is... I'm getting emotional. Pick and nits. I'm getting emotional. Let's take a break. Pick and nits. The timing of Chris sees Doug in the Fenway Hotel and he boots her out and she gets a DUI 32 seconds later. Cask is right there. I think she's also already high when she gets there. And she's got a two-year-old kid? Two-year-old kid, too? It's like, hold on, Shaina. Stay in the car for one second. I just got to run into the casket flagging. How did that work? Maybe she's got something in her purse. I mean, I think she's already greased by the time she gets to the hotel. It's quick. But the fact that they said DWI instead of DUI, because I always felt like DWI masks was the only place... I know there's going to be other people in other states being like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. But I thought that was a really little thing that's like a mass thing that I still always hear. Blake Lively spilling to him when and where the Fenway heist was going down was the biggest nitpick of this movie. But then the deleted scenes add some color to it. And it makes more sense. They just had to cut it for time. Yeah. But then when you've watched this movie 19 times like we have, then you're like, wait, how did she know where the heist was? But that's the answer. Renner and Blake Lively being brother and sister? Tall. She's really tall. He's not. But we don't know. We don't... In modern family... Maybe like half-brother? Yeah, totally. That actually makes more sense. Wouldn't Renner just kill Claire? Just take her out? Why does he want her four bucks away? I think that he's really good friends with Doug. Wait, like in the beginning of the movie? When he's a driver's license and then... Yeah, but Doug's like, don't do that. You're going to have... We have too much heat on us. You can't go killing a witness. They'll bury you under the jail. You're acting like Renner's rational, though. Yeah. I think that he operates under a certain code of like, I'm still... These are my guys. I'm loyal to my guys. If Doug doesn't want to do this, then I'm not going to do it over his head. Wouldn't Claire be more of a police target as this whole thing is going along? She opened the safe. They let her out. Ham's a little suspicious all the time. Quits her job. That's a little weird. Then they find out she's dating Affleck. At that point, she's a real suspect. And that apartment... Arguably in jail. That apartment would definitely have its own washer dryer. You're right. That's a good nitpick.
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