Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
75:43 – 79:04… her. And she hovered under her covers and said, I killed feminism. Why did I do that? I did not mean to do that. And then she got over it. So there you go. Apex Mountain. Rosamund Pike, I think, is definition of Apex Mountain. Absolutely. What's Fincher's Apex Mountain? We decided Social Network, right, for him? Gotta be. Right? It honestly changes all the time. It's Social Network. It's Social Network. Yeah. It's the best movie of this decade. Every time I watch one of his movies, I'm like, that's the best one. Except for Benjamin Button. I still don't get Benjamin Button at all. I don't really know why he …
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Flynn admitted the gender related critical response affected her. And she hovered under her covers and said, I killed feminism. Why did I do that? I did not mean to do that. And then she got over it. So there you go. Apex Mountain. Rosamund Pike, I think, is definition of Apex Mountain. Absolutely. What's Fincher's Apex Mountain? We decided Social Network, right, for him? Gotta be. Right? It honestly changes all the time. It's Social Network. It's Social Network. Yeah. It's the best movie of this decade. Every time I watch one of his movies, I'm like, that's the best one. Except for Benjamin Button. I still don't get Benjamin Button at all. I don't really know why he did that. That one's not perverted. I don't think it's the best movie of the decade, though. You know who's Apex Mountain this wasn't? Neil Patrick Harris. Because he fucking sucked in this movie. It's tough. Is this the Apex Mountain for Mountain Dew? Oh, it might be. Prominent product placement. Like, there's a lot. The whole. They spit it, though. Do you think they paid for that? You know, that part's tough. But we get. We're really focused. Like, there's a lot of junk food. You know, part of the reveal is the shopping montage. The hair. Because she's going to do her whole makeover. You get the little mini donuts. We see the hamburger later. The Coke. The Cheetos. The Fritos. And the pool later on. But Mountain Dew is the one we linger on. There's the. It's been poured into a glass so that we can see the spit. But. And yet the bottle is still there. You're thinking about that Mountain Dew for a while. And then when she sips it, she's like. I like that moment a lot. I like. She's not going to let any. Any slight go unpunished from now on. That's right. That's true. I think Cape Gerardo, Missouri, or wherever the fuck this was. Cape Gerardo. Cape Gerardo. Definitely Apex, man. Picking nits. I'm just going to go here right now. So Amy's this meticulous murder framer. She spends three years framing Ben Affleck and writing diaries and different pens and everything she does. She's a lunatic. A type A maniac lunatic. Obscones to this hotel room. Starts gaining weight. Has this whole plan. Can't figure out how to hide her money. Yeah. Like Josh Berlin in No Country for Old Men who's a fucking moron. And it's like, yeah, I'll put the money in that vent and push it through and has like a plan. And she's just like, ah. I'll just have a money belt. He got it. He left the hotel. And then he died. I understood this very clearly when I watched it last night. What's happening with this? And maybe this is obvious if I explain it. But it's the first time that she's ever been confronted with anything that is actually hard in her life. And she has no experience with the real world. She's a super privileged person. And she has no idea what it's like to sleep in a place like this. She has no idea what kind of people she's going to encounter. She's really isolated in her like fancy New York community. And then she's very isolated in Missouri. And it's the first time she's kind of on her own with scurrilous people. And she doesn't really consider the fact that someone would try to rob her and that there was no expectation. And when she drops the money the first time, it's like a kind of a shocking reveal a little bit. You know, you can see that there's like a little – there's a flaw there with her. But even then, she's still not totally sure that someone would take advantage of her because she's the person who's always taking advantage of someone else. I disagree. Same. Yeah. Okay. I disagree. Because you see her. She's ready to get out of there. Yeah. When they show up. And also, you don't hide the money. You keep the money on you. That's what she did. Her mistake was getting excited about getting a fucking hole in one during miniature golf. But that's the best place to have the money is on you.
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