Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
55:48 – 59:07… You're just cold and wet for three months. You're cold, you're wet, you need Dramamine, you get sick, you're disoriented half the time. It just sounds awful. Apex Mountain. Gloucester? Where's Manchester by the Sea set? I don't know. I think this is the best Gloucester movie though. What's the competition? I don't even know. Well, there you go. Apex Mountain for Gloucester. John C. Reilly, no. No. Wahlberg, no way. Clooney, no, but you could make a case. Bearded Clooney could be potentially. I think you could make the case that this is Apex Mountain for traditional movie star Clooney, but I can already hear …
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One of the lessons for the future actors out there is don't take a movie that's set on water. Yeah. It just sounds miserable for 97 different reasons. You're just cold and wet for three months. You're cold, you're wet, you need Dramamine, you get sick, you're disoriented half the time. It just sounds awful. Apex Mountain. Gloucester? Where's Manchester by the Sea set? I don't know. I think this is the best Gloucester movie though. What's the competition? I don't even know. Well, there you go. Apex Mountain for Gloucester. John C. Reilly, no. No. Wahlberg, no way. Clooney, no, but you could make a case. Bearded Clooney could be potentially. I think you could make the case that this is Apex Mountain for traditional movie star Clooney, but I can already hear people starting to scream at me about that. I don't feel like there's any Apex Mountain anything other than biggest wave in a movie. I don't know. Pick of nits. John Hawks. At the, what's the bar called? The Claw? The Crow's Nest? Crow's Nest? Yeah. Deciding that he likes this, you know, not attractive, bitter lady who's like chain smoking at the bar by herself. And just, he's like, this is the one. I'm taking my shot. And just that whole scene is so fucking weird. I have no explanation for it. I didn't put it in what stage is the worst because I honestly don't know what the hell's going on. Yeah. So do you think they just felt compelled to give him like a humane storyline of like why, what he has to live for? But then like in the funeral at the end, she's in the funeral. Like she's one of the wives. I was like, you guys talk for seven minutes at a bar? It's inexplicable. I don't understand why they did it. It makes no sense to me. At least, I'll just say it didn't make sense to me. Clooney, the character versus the real life guy, but Clooney just, his game plan of let's just drive right through the storm. Yeah. That's a nitpick. It's very Mike D'Antoni in any playoff series where she's like, no, no, keep shooting the threes. It'll be fine. Keep firing them up. It's one of these rare movies where a lot of expertise gets called into question. Because like on both boats, the captain is like basically dooming them. Yeah. And so people are just like, are you sure we should be turning into this? What Philly coach did he remind you of? Brett Brown? No, not Brett Brown. Mid-2000s Andy Reid? Kind of maybe like a late period Cotite. Oh, a Cotite. Okay. Yeah. Not good game planning. All right. And then I got to be honest. I don't care about the Coast Guards. I don't care about Cherry Jones, Bob Gutten, and Karen Allen and that whole plot. I don't know why they involved it. I guess they were thinking structurally if they just kept the guys on the boat, it would get monotonous. You needed to break it up. And maybe there's some aesthetic value to these guys would have been saved if this other thing hadn't happened. But I just think every time it takes you out of the movie, I just want to be on the boat with Clooney and Wahlberg and Hawks and John C. Reilly. And I don't care about these other people. I don't know where they came from.
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