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Tom Hanks's Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, and Toy Story period is treated as his apex.

Speed was framed as the peak of the Die Hard-derived action premise, with other possible apexes debated.

The film is treated as the apex of Mini Cooper cinematic prominence.

The sequel is presented as a major career peak for Machio, though the first film remains a contender.

They treat the film’s success as a peak moment for indie horror and similar microbudget genre films.

They place Will Smith’s peak elsewhere, while Eva Mendes and Kevin James get discussed as possible peak candidates for this movie.

Burns is treated as the clear Apex Mountain answer for the movie and the moment in his career.

They agree this is Keaton's apex, while noting it's a slightly poisoned apex because of the movie itself.

Across the Apex Mountain chatter, Seattle's pop-culture moment and De Mornay's peak both come up, with Seattle treated as the broader winner.

They explicitly declare Bridget Fonda's 1992 moment the peak for her career and screen image.

They agree this is the movie that made Kubrick famous to the public and represents the peak of his power as a director.

They treat Belushi as the clearest apex-mountain winner, while also saying the film pushed Tim Matheson to a peak.

They agree this was Sacha Baron Cohen’s biggest peak, with the movie making him huge and untouchable afterward.

They treat Downey as the strongest Apex Mountain candidate, while Cruise is also discussed as a possible peak.

Across the various Apex Mountain side discussions, they decide the Farrelly brothers as a duo are at their peak here.

They decide Ghostbusters has the best ghost-fighting combat, edging out Ghost.

They say Arnold is at Apex Mountain here, while also giving Richard Tyson his best showing and noting the hybrid kids-action genre’s peak.

The hosts call Sharon Stone's performance the peak of the film's star power in this category run.

They pick Crowe as the film’s Apex Mountain because this breakout firmly launches him into star status.

They give the movie-era apex nod to Gosling, while also debating Shane Black's broader career peak separately.

They settle on the idea of a post-prime peak and cite Damon in The Martian as a strong example, with Steph Curry and others as alternates.

They treated Petersen as the movie’s Apex Mountain because the role kicked off his career peak trajectory.

They most clearly frame the movie itself as the apex of the Minnesota depiction, with some side talk about Macy and Buscemi also peaking here.

They land on Del Toro as the apex choice, while also debating Brolin's broader peak in Marvel terms.

They land on Ryan Gosling as the apex choice, though they note Emma Stone and the film’s era as part of the case.

They decide this is Brosnan’s peak Bond moment and also note Isabella Scorupco as an apex candidate for her own career.

They agree Carrey's 1994 run is the clearest apex, with the Dolphins' Marino era also mentioned as a team-specific peak.

They call Denise Richards' performance the apex for the movie, with Neve Campbell also in the conversation.

They treat this as an Eddie Murphy Apex Mountain discussion, with Nolte also mentioned as rising but not the focus.

They describe the film as Apex Mountain for most of the cast and the director, though not Sherilyn Fenn specifically.

They treat this as Kosinski’s apex because it follows Top Gun: Maverick and now adds F1 as a second giant hit.

They explicitly pick Zuniga as the apex-mountain winner, noting the next year's Spaceballs as part of the case.

After debating whether Cusack ever truly peaked, the hosts settle on his late-90s-to-2000 run as his apex.

Bill says Shampoo represents Beatty at the top of his powers because he owned the movie and could do anything afterward.

They lean toward Carl Weathers as the apex discussion, with Stallone and the Philadelphia setting also mentioned as contenders in the broader debate.

They settle on Piven's career peak around Entourage as the most convincing Apex Mountain choice, with USFL-footage movies also mentioned.

They treat Chet’s monstrous toad transformation as the high-water mark for that kind of movie gag.

Rather than giving a person or movie the award, they land on the idea of a boxing match inside a non-boxing movie as the category’s target.

They agreed this sits at or near Carrey’s peak, with strong cases also made for Weir, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, and Noah Emmerich.

They treated Redford’s directing run as the peak, with Ordinary People mentioned as the strongest competing high point.

They choose Hanks as the best fit for the role, with Cruise floated only as a hypothetical alternate version.

They treated the movie as Apex Mountain for mountains in movies, with a side note that Pollack's director Apex is probably Tootsie.

They treated this film as Redford’s apex and also made a strong case for George Roy Hill’s peak because of Butch Cassidy and The Sting.

They treat Kareem’s cameo as his peak cultural moment and also discuss the movie as a peak for the filmmakers.

Among the various candidates, Don Johnson's Miami Vice peak gets the strongest endorsement.

They cycled through a few candidates, but Helen Slater emerged as the main Apex Mountain answer.

They called this film the peak for sprawling, fragmented gangster movies and also argued the dope-kingpin biopic subgenre is up there.

They debate Ford's career peak here versus his Star Wars/Indiana Jones run, with Ford ultimately treated as the big winner of the discussion.

They treat this as Coogler's peak of leverage and power, while also saying Jordan's star status is at an apex too.

They place James Caan’s career apex around this era, with Godfather and other 70s work keeping him at peak juice.

Across the Apex Mountain chatter, Verhoeven is treated as the clear peak of the film's creative forces.

Ledger was chosen as the apex pick, with Ang Lee also receiving strong support in the same stretch.

They agreed Henstridge's breakthrough performance was the apex, while Madsen's could be debated against Reservoir Dogs-era fame.

They call the water-skiing murder scene the Apex Mountain for water-skiing/pop-culture imagery, with the kids' summer hangout era also floated.

They call Griffin Dunne’s performance and career moment apex mountain, and separately give Rosanna Arquette a yes as well.

They treat the film as an apex moment for the Die Hard sequel run and for McClane’s sidekick setup, while also floating several other apex candidates.

They settle on Melanie Griffith as the clearest apex-mountain candidate, while noting strong cases for others.

They decide Seagal’s true peak is his next movie, Under Siege, though this film leads directly into it.

The hosts place Beatty's peak somewhere in the Shampoo/Reds run, with Shampoo getting the nod in the discussion.

They say the Apex Mountain choice goes to Richard Dreyfuss because of the film's scale and his star turn.

They treat this as Bronson's Apex Mountain because the film made him a much bigger star and helped define the vigilante-movie wave.

They identify Lucas as the clear Apex Mountain holder, then broaden it into a case that the film is the Apex Mountain of Apex Mountains.

They split Apex Mountain across several subjects, but named Philadelphia as Demme's peak and discussed a string of other possible peaks by role or object.

They debate several candidates, but Cruise is treated as the Apex Mountain answer for this movie.

They treated Burt Reynolds’s performance here as his career peak, while acknowledging other cast members and elements as apex-worthy too.

They identify this as DDL’s apex, while also saying it is probably PTA’s apex as well.

They name Redford as the peak beneficiary of the film’s success, though Hirsch also gets enthusiastic support as having his own career apex here.

They land on Oliver Stone as the apex pick, with Costner and the JFK-conspiracy moment also discussed as strong cases.

They declare Harrison Ford at Apex Mountain, with Karen Allen also getting an Apex Mountain mention.

They agree Scorsese himself is at his apex because Goodfellas resets his career and launches his later run.

They ultimately frame it as Apex Mountain for Schwarzenegger’s movies rather than for Schwarzenegger himself, while also giving strong cases for several other people.

They decide Vernon Wells' Bennett role is the performance most associated with his peak visibility and recognition.

The hosts agree Stallone's mid-1980s run around Rocky IV is an apex-mountain peak for his career.

They argue Freeman’s post-Shawshank run plus Seven gives him the strongest Apex Mountain case.

The hosts explicitly crowned Tom Cruise's late-80s star run as the movie's Apex Mountain, while also discussing other possible candidates.

They use Apex Mountain to argue that Fox's combination of TV fame and movie stardom marks the peak, while also elevating Zemeckis and others.

In the Apex Mountain roundup, they ultimately pick character-actor John Voight as the standout winner.

After considering Coppola, Pacino, De Niro, Paramount, and mafia movies, they give Apex Mountain to movies overall.

After debating Leo, Scorsese, and Bernthal, the conversation lands on Jonah Hill’s Donnie as the most plausible apex-mountain pick.

They decide Skyfall is Daniel Craig's Apex Mountain, while Bardem's peak is treated as a separate debate and not the final choice here.

Bill identifies Iron Man 3 as Rebecca Hall's apex, while the others mainly agree she is well cast here.

They ultimately treat Tarantino as a strong maybe, but Brad Pitt and several others are discussed as clear Apex Mountain candidates.

They treat Bardem’s Chigurh as the apex of his career, while also noting Brolin’s film as a career-changing moment.

They make the case that this film marks Robin Williams' peak as a movie star and major dramatic actor.

They joke that Segel's full-frontal scene is the apex for his on-screen anatomy, then broaden the discussion to Segel's career peak.

They choose Brimley's performance here as his Apex Mountain, arguing it is the most iconic and most fully Brimley version of Brimley.

They debate a few candidates, but Tony Scott is chosen as the person at the peak of his powers for this movie.

They debate several possibilities, but Willis is ultimately named the Apex Mountain winner for the movie.

After some back-and-forth, the room settles on Roy Scheider rather than Robert Shaw as the best career peak among the main players discussed.

In the formal Apex Mountain discussion, the group settles on Sorkin as the best peak pick, with Fincher debated as the main alternative.