Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
87:09 – 92:58… cruise confronts max at the end he's wearing a dark hood and it's mayor is the opening of a 1957 movie called the seventh seal yes oh yeah so there you go apex mountain i got one for you what do you got you've ever heard of the made-up genre called nokia wave or nokia wave depending on how you pronounce the swedish phone company you know about this i don't so it's basically uh an idea slash subgenre that was coined by a critic named david rudnik and it it's loosely spans from golden eye through the born movies so like 95 to like early 2000s and it's all about like it's like enemy of the state it's like …
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but uh criteria orgasm criteria orgasm cruise confronts max at the end he's wearing a dark hood and it's mayor is the opening of a 1957 movie called the seventh seal yes oh yeah so there you go apex mountain i got one for you what do you got you've ever heard of the made-up genre called nokia wave or nokia wave depending on how you pronounce the swedish phone company you know about this i don't so it's basically uh an idea slash subgenre that was coined by a critic named david rudnik and it it's loosely spans from golden eye through the born movies so like 95 to like early 2000s and it's all about like it's like enemy of the state it's like matrix it's stuff where it's like the technology is futuristic but it's still tactile so you were talking about like little floppy disks ! but it was basically clear disks people are still wearing earbuds you know like the phones are like almost there but they're not super in the future and everything is about paranoia and a state surveilling you and basically this is like it's this Ronin spy game mission impossible bunch of these but minority report is apex mountain for nokia wave do you think they would make me watch more koozies no that was great that's a great point but he did it on purpose that time you know that was great no you're right this was a four year run of inferior technology being presented as awesome technology yes where it's like we can't find Jason Bourne because like the internet is busy like the modem is not working almost like contemporary steampunk like to where it's you know what I mean that's a really good apex mountain yeah cruise no spielberg no cruise spielberg collapse yeah because this is it yeah war of the worlds no this is better than war of the worlds I love war of the worlds though I think it's a real I think war of the worlds Tom Cruise throwing a baseball you're just mad because he's a Yankees fan in that movie throwing a baseball at his son's face um he just has to come out and say I had a torn rotator cuff but I gotta throw it um because I threw the baseball for seven straight months before filming because I wanted to get it right spielbergian shattered my spielbergian techno noir like between this and AI oh that's good yeah I like this movie so much more than AI I really didn't feel like AI worked not a lot of AI conversations lately although I guess the title is important movie though yeah I get it yeah how about evil max characters because this wasn't the most evil CR knows what the most evil is strange brew no he was he was the the good Nazi in victory oh right yeah the Nazis were all evil in victory but Pele's bicycle kick was so good he stood up and applauded it yeah but you know what you're still a fucking Nazi you're a Nazi yeah sorry buddy Samantha Morton Apex Mountain it's her time Morvyn Keller this yeah I actually think she's cooking right there Dorchester's Neil McDonough no way no hell no no his his Apex Mountain is a 25 year Apex Mountain he got a deep bag 25 year Apex he got a deep bag he got a deep bag of recognizable characters yeah when they first year Yellowstone I'm like Neil's gonna be in this and in second year he is he's in there yeah precogs definitely Washington DC movies no precime precrime departments I don't remember seeing this in another movie predictive predictive crime yeah yeah I don't think so Phil Dick movies we just said no we just said no yeah alright Cruz or Hanks Scorsese or Spielberg this is the first time this has ever happened the double wow yeah what role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played no I have him in the Colin Farrell role it's an interesting idea of him playing Witwer cause it's a little bit more of a twerp a little less hot a little less like the fight scene suffers probably the fight scene suffers maybe the running and all of that kinda he wasn't known for but like he also was kinda sneaky athletic and people don't talk about it like he was a good ball player and all of that stuff yeah he never really gotten to that bag on screen I guess that much but I think he could've he could've been the eye doctor oh for sure yeah he could've been the eye doctor he could've been Gideon but I think he's the Dweezil Zappa if we're doing this again he just comes in hot for five minutes but in 2002 yeah he's just like doing a favor for Cruz they're buddies Craig's Choice Flex category what do you got Craig? well I kinda wanna do a hottest take which is just that Lamar was super right in that we should get the precogs back in the milk in that even if it's like a 98% hit rate what are we doing here? see this is the problem with his generation see I'm telling you he's just like I wanna take Waymo I want a world without murder even if innocent people are going to jail spoiler alert innocent people go to jail all the time we have a 98% hit rate he means it this is the problem this is intellectually what's our hit rate now like 60% I can tell you I can get 98% it's just average guys are clear like 20% yeah I'm just running the numbers here this still looks like a pretty good move to me see this would be an unbelievable first take segment think about what you give up Craig we have to get the precogs back in the milk an ethically utilitarian generation I'm telling you Craig I really enjoyed the take pick and nits swapping eyeballs let's like really
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