Last Looks: Expend4bles w/ Jack McBrayer & David Wain

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1:36Venmo balance account required to get a card and use a balance. The Venmo MasterCard is issued by the Bancorp Bank N.A. Stallone calls, Jack McBrayer visits, and we give Charisma Carpenter a little bit of justice. All this and more on today's Last Looks. Hit the theme!

1:55How did this get made? I don't know. How did this get made? I told you, I don't know. How did this get made? I don't know. How did this get made? I don't know. I just know, you know? Hello, all you Salesforce employees. And we still don't know what your company does, but we appreciate you nonetheless. I am your men's studies class professor, Paul Scheer, and welcome to How Did This Get Made? Less Looks, where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on Expendables 4, a movie that Discord user Corgi Herder thinks should have had the tagline, Expendables 4, covering more senior citizens' health insurance through SAG-AFTRA than the VA.

2:37Thank you, Corgi Herder, for that. That's pretty good. Alt movie tagline and a big shout out to John Cohen for his Stallone summer opening song. I know, John, you've separated from your brother and no longer are you the Cohen brothers. so I really appreciate this solo song on your own behalf. Remember, if you have an alt movie tagline or title, submit it to us on our Discord at discord.gg slash hdtgm. And if you have a Last Looks theme, maybe an episode theme song, you can go to hdtgm and click on Submit a Song right there. Just click right there, and you can just upload your song to our Dropbox.

3:18Keep them short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. Now, coming up on today's episode, We'll be hearing all your corrections and omissions on Expendables 4, and I'll be playing an exclusive deleted scene from the episode. That's right. More content. Plus, I'll be sharing more of my lost Sylvester Stallone podcast featuring guests like Jack McBrayer, David Wayne, and even my own mom. And as always, at the end of the show, I will reveal the movie for next week's episode. Just a heads up, on August 8th, you can catch June on the big screen in both Freakier Friday and Weapons. So get your butts to the movie theater.

3:59Weapons is fantastic. You will love it. I also want to give a shout out to my friends who made The Naked Gun. It is very, very funny. Apparently, according to Rotten Tomatoes, this is the best reviewed comedy or second best reviewed comedy in over a decade. So get yourself to the movies, people. Every Monday, the dark web is on YouTube. Absolutely for free. Me, Rob Hubel. And this week we talked about a cowboy who likes to give you sex tips. Pretty great. Anyway, our amazing movie producer, Avril Halley, is on the road to recovery with her brain cancer. the love the outpouring of just support that you've given her through snail mail at po box 641 agorahills california 91376 or through email at andrew at movie bitches dot xyz has been amazing if you want to keep it going she loves it we love it just want to thank you all for doing that for her and it's just amazing that her prognosis has been getting uh so much better um as we get into it, I want to just remind you that today we are going to figure out Expendables 4.

5:14If you left with any questions, don't worry, because by the end of this episode, you will be like, Paul, I know what's up. And you know what? Let's start it right now with a little corrections and omissions.

5:52Thank you, Anyhow Blues, for that theme song. Let's go to the Discord. Sean McBee, what do you got? Well, I'm going to read it. I think my biggest issue with this movie, other than every single minute of it being the dumbest thing I've ever seen is that the bad guy's plan hinges on capturing everyone and then convincing the government to do a prisoner exchange to save the team called the Expendables. Well, I don't know if their government calls them that. Timu Judy Dench should have said they're called the Expendables for a reason, asshole. But no, this is a world in which she had to send a memo requesting a prisoner exchange for a team explicitly used for their expendability.

6:38Now, Sean, I don't want to get into the nitty gritty. I don't believe they are called the expendables. Like, I don't know if they like go to the expendables headquarters. I think that they just put their mercenaries, right? They, you know, I hear what you're saying. I don't think that anyone in this world is saying, get your team of expendables. But you know what? As I say that, it probably is a line that there is in the movie. So you know what? You're right. Dr. Guts 1003 writes, why is a popular social media influencer putting an ad in a newspaper to find a new bodyguard? Dr. Guts, that's old man logic for you.

7:16That is some Stallone logic. Okay. I think he's still writing movies that take place in the early 80s. um arkham player writes did anyone see the photo in statham's locker of him and megan fox his facial hair is hilarious considering megan fox wasn't in the earlier movies and statham hasn't had facial hair in any of the movies why did this character decide to grow a questionable uh like goatee between movies three and four um i did not notice that i think in my mind i thought that he drew that mustache on himself but when you look at this picture you can see it on discord it It is straight up like, I don't know, magician who hasn't gotten a lot of work lately.

8:00There is something so bizarre about this thing. It just feels like something funny that happened on set, and they just took a picture and they put it up there. Anyway, let's go to the phone. Tristan, what do you got? In the Expendables 4 show, Jason said Jean-Claude does get it, but he doesn't get it, when he suggested playing his twin brother, which I'd say would have been an amazing decision. If you had never seen it, check out Jean-Claude Van Johnson, which is an Amazon Prime series where Jean-Claude Van Damme plays himself, a version of himself where his undercover identity is Jean-Claude Van Johnson.

8:42As he goes in and all of his movie shoots around the world have been cover stories for him to do some secret agent nonsense off on the side. And he 100 % gets it and is kind of poking fun of himself and his career in that. It's excellent. You should check it out if you haven't seen it. Thanks. Bye. Okay. Yes, yes, yes. I know about this show. This is an older show, as a matter of fact. And I'm a fan. uh directed by a friend peter tensio uh who i believe is related to the man who wrote the song for the haunted mansion where did that fact live in my brain anyway uh it is created by dave callahan who wrote expendables one and across the spider-verse uh and shang chi it's good it's really good uh our friend heather campbell also in that show uh you know heather from how did this get played, but now I think it's just called something else, like just get played.

9:41Love Heather. It's great. Okay, next call. Now, I can't verify this, but my producer Scott is telling me that this next call is from Sylvester Stallone himself. Let me hear. Hey, Paul, it's Sly. What's this I hear about my movies being covered on a bad movies podcast? A bad movies podcast? That's all right. That's all right. Let me tell you something you already know it's not about how many bad movies you make how many bad movies you make you keep moving forward how many oscars you make and keep moving forward that's how winning is done that's how expendables was made expendables four and five anyway there better be a summer still on unspooled that's all i gotta say about that bye paul okay now that i've heard it i gotta to say, I believe that is Sylvester Stallone.

10:42Wow. I am honored. I would say the only note to that Stallone is, uh, I would say it, it doesn't matter how many Razzies you get, but you got to keep on getting up to get those Oscars. That's the only note I would say that Stallone, but you know what? Stallone, a great writer. Uh, I appreciate him calling in. Thank you Stallone. Uh, I loves, wow. I'm honored. And I, you know, we will talk about doing a potential unspooled series. By the way, unspooled, we've been doing a lot of fun movies. We just did Naked Gun, a fun kind of breakdown of that film. We've done a lot of new, interesting films on that show, so check it out if you haven't heard it in a bit.

11:19But thank you, Sylvester Stallone, for calling in. I appreciate it. I hope you're not offended, and I know you're not, because you're just a cool dude. Anyway, back to the Discord. George Glass writes, so I decided to watch all four of these, because I couldn't just hop in at the fourth one, and this was my biggest gripe. justice for charisma carpenter she has a couple of scenes in the first one shows up in the second one where her character and statham get engaged and then she disappears never to be seen again and in the fourth one statham is just randomly dating megan fox what happened to charisma carpenter i did some sleuthing and it turns out they cut a scene in the second one where they break up but they never allude to it in the third or fourth movie she just disappeared now i know that I'm a big Buffy fan.

12:05We've talked about this. I'm a big angel fan. Um, I love Charisma Carpenter. We worked out at the same gym and I did everything within my power never to make eye contact or speak to her. Uh, cause I would have just completely geeked out. Um, but I remember seeing Expendables 1 and being like, damn, she's good. She should be in more stuff. And you're Right. Justice for Charisma Carpenter. Now, you know, we also normally in this show have like a little deleted scene. And this week we wanted to add one in because we did talk about Charisma Carpenter in the actual show. So take a listen to this and you can kind of see how her absence is even kind of more egregious.

12:51What's her name? What's your question? Oh, my name's Charlie. I was just going to say, I know, Jason, you haven't seen the other Expendable movies. You said you saw the first two, but Cordelia in the first one was in a relationship with Jason Statham, and Sylvester Stallone's like, you can't be in relationships and do this life. She's pregnant in the second one. He's a father in this one. Oh, no. I forgot about that. Oh, no. I'm surprised there was never a kid Expendables, like a kid's team. Well, by the way, I am in the Fast and Furious kids cartoon on Netflix. I love that. Not a joke. I am in one episode of it.

13:27He's a father. Well, that gives a lot of gravitas to him deciding to go down with the ship. He doesn't have even one thought about his offspring. So, yeah, not only did they break up, but they broke up when she was pregnant. No wonder they cut it out. OK, because it's like, yeah, that makes Statham a fucking asshole. Anyway, so weird. So weird. And you know what? This is said with love because I actually think Megan Fox is pretty great too. Jennifer's body, A+. I'm just bummed. I'm bummed. I'm excited we get Megan. But I'm also bummed we lose Charisma. And I'm like, for the amount that Megan is in this movie, maybe Charisma couldn't do all those stuff.

14:17I don't know. Somebody talk to Charisma. Find out what's going on. No, don't talk to her. That would be weird. Somebody talk to Statham and be like, what's up? why didn't you producers want to put her in? Maybe she asked for some more money and I bet you cheap fuckers were like, no. Anyway, uh, I, as a matter of fact, I guarantee it. I guarantee it. Uh, Corgi Herter writes, I got a question for Paul. Ooh, that's me. Uh, let's say the series is rebooted in 20 years. Who is your cast? Now be careful with ages because, uh, Vin Diesel would be 78 years old. Uh, Corgi Herter says I would go with Jason Momoa and Chris Hemsworth as the leads.

14:51I believe Hemsworth was in one of these anyway. Keanu Reeves as their stone-faced sniper. Jake Gyllenhaal is a crazy demolitions expert. John Cena as their stealth guy. Jason Statham in a small role to connect the franchise and villains. Tom Hardy and Michelle Rodriguez. I love it, but you're leaving out some good people. Frank Grillo. I think Frank Grillo could be in this. I think that John Cena could definitely be in this. You haven't talked about The Rock at all. Let's put The Rock in this. Oh, hell yeah. I also think when you're looking at this movie and you're thinking like, all right, who could do this kind of cool action?

15:30You know, we mentioned a lot of dudes. Obviously, Michelle Rodriguez is in there. Charlize Theron? I mean, wouldn't she be a fucking badass? Ana de Armas? I could see her in this. But if we want to even go one step further, Tom Cruise leads the team. It's like Mission Impossible, but old Mission Impossible. Anyway, let's go to Waterboy 2. Okay, now the video game that Paul was talking about in the episode was called Def Jam Vendetta, which was basically Mortal Kombat with rappers. Yes, thank you, Waterboy, for getting me. But Expendables team members, 50 Cent, also had his own video game called 50 Cent Bulletproof, where he's basically a superhero Neo James Bond.

16:11Not like a Neo James Bond, like a superhero slash Neo slash James Bond. Now, our producer Scott looked up the Metacritic user score for this video game. It is a 4.4 out of 10, of course, right? But we've noticed the YouTube comments on this trailer are overwhelmingly different. Yeah. So we're going to briefly interrupt corrections and omissions because now it's time for 50 Cent Bulletproof Second Opinions. What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine. I've run these streets. This whole city is mine. I never understand how people forget that. All right. The trailer for 50 Cent Bulletproof on YouTube has 758 ,000 views, 6 ,500 likes, and 446 positive comments.

17:07First up is a comment from 95BatmanLover. As a young kid, I honestly thought 50 Cent was a skilled mercenary like this in real life. You know, that is not too far off because we were taught as young people who love Steven Seagal that he was all these things too, not just like a karate teacher for rich dudes in Beverly Hills. Kid Gray, 3994 writes, this is one of the hardest clips ever. As a kid, my dream was to become a skilled killer like 50 Cent and gain respect around my whole city. I ended up with a minimum wage, nine to five, but thanks for the memories, Betty. Tev Dennis 11 writes, great times.

17:44I remember showing my mother this trailer, telling her how much I wanted this game. I still remember to this day when she saw 50 Cent shooting a guy hanging off the rooftop. She was like, oh my God, no, but still ended up buying it for me. Tev, that's a good mom. Adeloff 1 writes, before John Wick, we have 50 cent. You know, that's the thing. Like there was like that moment where there were a lot of biopics, but you know, I remember that like DMX did a movie with Jet Li. That was awesome. You know, I, and I feel like Fiddy had like his biopic movie, which is kind of a rip of the Eminem, not a rip, but like trying to steal thunder from that.

18:26I'm like, just put him in these fatigues and get him blowing shit up. Anyway, I love that. And I appreciate Scott finding that little 50 cent video game tangent. But you know what? Back to the business at hand. We have to pick the best correction and omission for this week. And you know what? I want to give it to somebody who talked about something that was very important. Yes, I know Stallone called and that was awesome. And I'm honored by it, but he doesn't need any more accolades. I want to give my accolade this week to our friend George Glass. George Glass, who says justice for charisma carpenter.

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23:43That's right. The Specialist with all-star Nicole Byer. So keep on checking out all of the replays of our classic episodes every Tuesday. I believe that Nicole Byer episode was the first live episode back after COVID. All right. Anyway, I've plugged it enough. It is now time to get back into my lost Sylvester Stallone podcast. on our previous last looks you heard how stallone agreed to guest on my podcast but cup on standing me up for every episode so does sly ever show up let's find out

24:29Hello? Hey mom. Hi. How are you? What's the matter? Just bummed out. What happened? I'm doing this so hard. Sylvester Stallone podcast, and I thought that I was going to get Sylvester Stallone to come in, and he has not come in.

24:53So what happens now? I don't know. They have me signed up for this contract, and I have to do this show, and people are listening, and I don't know. I feel like I'm going to look like a real jerk in front of everybody. Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know if I should. What? Did he have a contract to do what he promised? This is what I'm. So we talked to his people at one point. And we advertised this. I talked to the Wall Street Journal. I just was on Bloomberg today. And talking to these guys. And I was advertising. They said, oh, yeah, now he's not going to come now. So he's not coming. you know so it just it just just you know I don't know if you know how when you feel like you you put yourself out there in a way and you just you know now everyone I don't know sees it and I just feel like a jerk about it you know because I don't know what to do to recover from it well let me let me ask you this is it totally lost is there any way that you could personally reach out to him I mean yeah I guess that's I mean yeah yeah I guess I could I mean, I don't know if I know him or anything.

26:05You've never met him, right? You never saw him in the city or anything like that, no? Who are you saying that to, did you? No, I'm saying that to you. Sylvester Stallone? No, because I remember you ran into Chevy Chase in that liquor store one time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, I never met him in the city. Yeah, no. All right. But you know what? Can I tell you something? We had a similar thing happen at the hospital. Okay. where we thought we were going to have these hospitalists join the staff, right? Right. And at like 1201, they said, oh, by the way, we're not doing it. And the only thing that worked was for the chief medical officer to throw himself on the sword.

26:46And there was something that they didn't like. But rather than saying what they didn't like, they just said, we're not doing it. So he found out what it was that they didn't like. He couldn't correct it immediately, but we got them to start. and I'm thinking that the only, sometimes you have to kiss, well, I mean, in your business, you know it more than I do. You know, I think you have to kiss his ass a little bit. So maybe just like go in there and just kind of like, yeah, like just maybe like offer up something that he's not quite getting or something or just like kind of, yeah, follow my sword a little bit.