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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Blood Diamond 2006

With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 14 June 2023 · 24,482 feet

The claim

62:12 – 65:28

… on like speakerphone with each other or bluetooth with each other but this is this sort of like lone wolf guy is obviously a dude that Leo has been chasing Apex Mountain I mean it's gotta still be Titanic for Leo by the way my last my only piece of internet research that we didn't hit is just that De Beers the actual diamond company not psyched about this movie right right we should mention that Apex Mountain Leo it's Titanic but this is kind of a second Apex Mountain for him yes this is like whoa okay you're Paul Newman got it and then the Revenant I think would be his third Apex Mountain he's had a three …

The whole segment, as transcribed

just can't totally get there yet you like it more than I do I think I do I like the first half of it when it's like the two of them on like speakerphone with each other or bluetooth with each other but this is this sort of like lone wolf guy is obviously a dude that Leo has been chasing Apex Mountain I mean it's gotta still be Titanic for Leo by the way my last my only piece of internet research that we didn't hit is just that De Beers the actual diamond company not psyched about this movie right right we should mention that Apex Mountain Leo it's Titanic but this is kind of a second Apex Mountain for him yes this is like whoa okay you're Paul Newman got it and then the Revenant I think would be his third Apex Mountain he's had a three Apex career also Apex Mountain for blonde Leo good call yeah what would you say for Connelly I think I mean it's really hard for me to pick anything but her standing in front of a fucking Porsche and Top Gun Maverick it's hard to not think it was Top Gun Maverick because I feel like she could get any role she wants right now after Top Gun Maverick like she's over Reese Reese Witherspoon anybody in her kind of her rookie class she's getting the first call I feel like out of all those people Jaiman Honsu I'm gonna say no okay I would say Amistad like probably I don't know because Gladiator he's great too I would say it's this just because like this is like a real part like I mean this is like he's got the arc yeah you're probably right you're right and Connelly we don't even know it's it's probably Top Gun we're probably good with that how about Diamond movies give me give me what are we talking about here Diamonds Are Forever Marathon Man Hot Rock no it's Marathon Man it's definitely Marathon Man it's Marathon Man I agree best racehorse name what about Diamond Mine yeah yeah or just Diamond I like something with Diamond in it would sound Danny Archer is a good horse name too I think I was gonna say TIA that's good I like that Picky Nits can't wait to throw this one at you as you know this is a big nitpick for me in action movies where days pass when people are on the road Leo's facial hair just just staying perfect shaved between the mouth and the chin I know just just perfectly tailored and the three quarter goatee yeah it's it's it should just be so much more disheveled by day eight any of us are just gonna look like a fucking mess and he's just got the perfectly it's like he's manscaping you know in a tent there's a there's a geographical nitpick where Danny gets arrested by Liberian border guards while crossing the border from Sierra Leone to Liberia which means he would end up in a prison in Liberia and not in Sierra Leone where he where he met Solomon

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What the board says

This film IS their apex
Djimon Hounsou20,520 ftThe highest point of the career. Carries 55 of 100 of this film.
Their apex is elsewhere
Leonardo DiCaprio28,760 ftTitanic, 1997, by 8,403 feet.
Jennifer Connelly21,620 ftA Beautiful Mind, 2001, by 3,147 feet.
Marius Weyers17,810 ftThe Gods Must Be Crazy, 1980, by 186 feet.

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