Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
90:50 – 95:01… your comment up well enough. But yeah, it's usually a sign something not great is going on. Well, then maybe that explains Le Chiffre's reckless nature. Yeah. Apex Mountain. Daniel Craig, I'm going to say yes. I think so, too. He became like an A-plus lister after this. Definitively, I think it's pretty interesting that he's been able to hold onto it with Knives Out. Knives Out helped. Yeah. That is unusual because most Bonds go into a state of, you know, they've reduced their public awareness. You know? Yeah. Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, even Pierce Brosnan, who still works, but they're just not the same in …
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Sorry. I didn't follow your comment up well enough. But yeah, it's usually a sign something not great is going on. Well, then maybe that explains Le Chiffre's reckless nature. Yeah. Apex Mountain. Daniel Craig, I'm going to say yes. I think so, too. He became like an A-plus lister after this. Definitively, I think it's pretty interesting that he's been able to hold onto it with Knives Out. Knives Out helped. Yeah. That is unusual because most Bonds go into a state of, you know, they've reduced their public awareness. You know? Yeah. Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, even Pierce Brosnan, who still works, but they're just not the same in our culture. I feel like Daniel Craig is still an A-plus movie star. Knives Out really rejuvenated that. Totally. But it was, I mean, it was concurrent, you know? Like, Knives Out came out before No Time to Die. No Time to Die. It did. Yeah. The first. The only thing is that he married Rachel Weisz in 2011 and then Skyfall was released in 2012. So I would probably locate that as the Apex Mountain. Just in movies and in life. That's really powerful. Pretty solid. Eva Green. I'm going to say yeah. It's the biggest movie she's ever been in. Felt like she was headed for giant things after. Probably. Yeah. Then her agent fucked it up. The Aston Martin DB9? I'm going to say yes. James Bond? I don't. I'm going to say no. No. It felt like he meant more in the 60s, 70s. Probably Dr. No. Yeah. And then Dr. No Thunderball. Dr. No or Goldfinger? One of those. Yeah, Goldfinger. That period. That's the most important period. High stakes poker? No. Tuxedos? Apex Mountain for tuxedos. Yeah. Yeah. Has there ever been a better tuxedo moment in a movie? Oh my goodness. In a movie? Oh gosh. I mean, there have been up there. Modern movie, maybe not. All of like the old, you know, I thought you were going to say like the Rat Pack. They were doing some important things with tuxedos. Yeah. I'm with you. Classy dead bodies, yes. Yes. Definitively. How are we defining? I don't know. Emotional shower scenes? Okay. Is the classy dead body, Katerina Marino, being tangled up in a hammock? No, it's like that in the dead body exhibit. Okay. Oh, sorry. I honestly thought you were talking about the guys in the trunk. Oh. You know? And I was like, well, what makes them classy? Montenegro? Best racehorse name? Le Chiff? Le Chiff. Yeah. That's a great name until you know the backstory, but good name. Yeah. I also think James Bond is a great racehorse name. I mean, Vesper Linds. Probably not legal. Vesper's good. Yeah. Vesper's dead. That works for a horse, but not for- Vesper's dead. That's a great one. Okay. What about Aces Full of Eights? What about Hotel Splendid? Four Jacks? Four Jacks. Four Jacks. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Four Jacks is good. Picking Nits. We talked about most of these. Is it this easy to fight off being poisoned? Where it's just like, oh, thank God I had that thing in my car and I'm good and ready to play poker a minute later? I like to think that our intelligence organizations have at least figured out the anti-poison treatments. Okay. I anticipated this, so I brought some poison here today. So let's do a live experiment. What do you have for picking Nits? You said you had a couple. The plot is incoherent. I don't understand. So Felix Leiter is going to help him buy back in, but why doesn't Vesper want him to buy back in? Is it so that she can save him? Because then she can't execute the plot that she needs to. She's bluffing in her own way. She's bluffing that she's not going to give him the five million? Yeah. Also, does it matter because then, okay, well, she could be bluffing and or she's working for them. So if Bond doesn't buy back in, then the guy wins. Not necessarily, though. What if the Japanese guy wins? What if the black guy wins? Like, I don't understand. I mean, I would agree with you that let's win all our money back at a high stakes poker tournament in Montenegro is not a foolproof plan. Faulty strategy. For anyone. You know? It's not great for the CIA. Not great for MI6. Well, that might be the ultimate picking. Yeah. Yeah. And I think, obviously, I pointed out just that, like, I don't think that Eva Green's character, I don't think Vesper can die there in the road when they haven't yet secured
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