Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
55:36 – 58:22… We're gonna revolutionize playlists and it's mixtapes. I have a shitload of what's age the best so give me yours. So I didn't know whether to do this here or Apex Mountain but this is the best breaking of the fourth wall in cinema history. It's really great. And with the exception of maybe Ferris Bueller Alfie. Sustained. Okay, yeah. I mean Alfie's up there. I would say this is my favorite. What else is on the list? Singles did it. Yeah. Singles did it. There's a lot of fourth wall breaking momentarily like in Spaceballs or something like that. But to have it be I am just addressing the camera and you are …
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an emergency meeting with the top two guys at Spotify. Finally. Gustav. Have you seen High Fidelity? I have this great idea. Yeah, Gustav. We're gonna revolutionize playlists and it's mixtapes. I have a shitload of what's age the best so give me yours. So I didn't know whether to do this here or Apex Mountain but this is the best breaking of the fourth wall in cinema history. It's really great. And with the exception of maybe Ferris Bueller Alfie. Sustained. Okay, yeah. I mean Alfie's up there. I would say this is my favorite. What else is on the list? Singles did it. Yeah. Singles did it. There's a lot of fourth wall breaking momentarily like in Spaceballs or something like that. But to have it be I am just addressing the camera and you are getting my mic. On the L. Ironically it was Closterman's biggest nitpick with the movie. Really? He doesn't like the staring into the camera. I love it because they're using like swaths of the book in that he's just like reciting the book. But also one of my favorite parts of the movie is when Laura comes back and she hears the fourth wall break. Yes. A very fleabag moment. And when he wakes up the morning after Marie he's like whispering it so he doesn't wake her. It's like all that stuff I think works texturally so well. The time when Joan Cusack calls him and is like I don't know how I feel about this Ian guy. And then Marie comes in and he goes out of his office for a minute and talks to Lisa Bonet and then comes back and he goes what? Fuck it! Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was just like in the back and percolating his brain the whole scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could you have done this movie blind? I'm finding that I don't need to look at my dick too much. Yeah. What else to do for what stage is the best? There's a very, very cool Cusack moment which is like I'll give him some honorary dap for smoking here but the beat that he takes between taking a drag on a cigarette and revealing the four pieces of information that Laura might have told Liz is like it's everything you need to know about Rob where he like takes this drag and he's like okay. And he's like you're an asshole but not without your charms and also probably probably getting laid off the back of a parent dying because we call this the Jesse from Reality Bites. That was a move back then. Classic move. What do you got Rob? Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. I mean only gets better with age to be honest with you. I think final relative to 2000 to your point Chris like it has boomed way beyond my wildest expectations to the point where I never thought I would own a single record. It seemed inconceivable. When I was 15 I would ever buy one and now you know you got your tidy little collection of your favorites and it's like a nice analog way to experience. What do you have Joanna? 30 something white dudes talking about records and books and movies. What are you talking about?
103:31 – 107:24… Fifty Shades of Grey was he inspired by this sequence who's to say I don't think so based on what we know about the Fifty Shades of Grey intimacy coordination Apex Mountain Cusack no what's the argument for no gross by blank I don't think it is but this run like 97 to 2000 that run he doesn't like these you don't like the run he doesn't like the run he likes the exact moment trust me I've tried to unlock this door so many times it's always fun when a new rewatch this person comes in what's Apex Mountain go again it's the most juice he didn't have the most juice in this movie is it they literally called him to …
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about who you're hiring in the crew but it turned out to be a hilarious scene fun fact the cinematographer of this movie Seamus McGarvey also was a cinematographer on Fifty Shades of Grey was he inspired by this sequence who's to say I don't think so based on what we know about the Fifty Shades of Grey intimacy coordination Apex Mountain Cusack no what's the argument for no gross by blank I don't think it is but this run like 97 to 2000 that run he doesn't like these you don't like the run he doesn't like the run he likes the exact moment trust me I've tried to unlock this door so many times it's always fun when a new rewatch this person comes in what's Apex Mountain go again it's the most juice he didn't have the most juice in this movie is it they literally called him to be like can you bail out our script because it doesn't work can you make this movie work and he's like yes I will do it I will star in it I will make an unlikable character quite survivable within the context of the movie like you want to spend time with Rob despite the fact that he sucks I think he's got a lot of juice here maybe he never had an Apex Mountain I think 96 just a couple mini-mounds 96, 97 is his Apex when he's in Con Air I think it's City Hall Gross Point Blank Con Air yeah I agree alright Sarah that's like Blockbuster Prestige Pacino you know but you stretch out a little bit and you go Thin Red Lion Malkovich this yes although he probably doesn't even know he was in Thin Red Lion I'm not sure anyone does no one knows they were in Thin Red Lion you could have been in it guys I don't know Apex Mountain I was cut out of Thin Red Lion The Weeded Smith Singles Microbangs Love Thy Neighbor oh yeah Microbangs I was thinking about that that was very attractive to me at the time Jack Black no no Beta Beat Beta Band Beta Band yeah yeah Bonae no Seda Jones no Katrina and the Waves maybe probably just that or when the song actually came out I think that yeah Ibn Yala Ibn Yala yes and her microbangs Sad Bastard Music maybe Breaking the Fourth Wall in a Movie CR brought that up earlier possible I guess he does like they do it in Annie Hall I'm trying to think of like when that would have been like I think Ferris Bueller was probably the most like I was ever like shh that might be the one but this is this is Ferris Bueller that's you're right that's what it is it's Ferris or it's Stanley Roper on Thru's Company or it's Fleabag Fleabag is great or Fleabag would you go for Todd Luizzo is it the Manny or is it this I think it's this it's this I think more people know him from the Manny wasn't he on that ABC show that has the name Ted in it it was like a workplace comedy do you know what I'm talking about that Better not Better Off Ted Better Off Ted no that's a thing he wasn't one of the light guys in the lab I'm maybe confusing him for another guy who looks like him Chicago movies no book movie combos from the last 35 years in terms of both are good yeah 35 last 35 years we'll go back to 1990 I think the answer is Fight Club let's just do 25 years 2000 on why are we involving the 90s I would say because I wanted to bring Fight Club into it as the answer what about Mystic River Atonement what is that my daughter Atonement Atonement really good Fight Club when was Bridges of Madison County was in the 90s Bridget Jones Bridget Jones Holes obviously obviously Holes 50 Shades we already cited yeah exactly Cruz or Hanks this is tough this is tough I think this is Cruz Hanks I'm never buying Cruz running a record store in Chicago I'm pretending he likes music it's Cruz as Ian that's the move yeah I don't think Cruz yeah yeah exactly Cruz as Ian Raymond unreal I agree so is that doable can Cruz win on that or does he have to be the lead no it has to be for the lead
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