Last Looks: Vertical Limit

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1:34Why Applebee's is so good, but so bad. And June and I just got off our first cruise and we have thoughts. All this and more on a brand new episode of How Did This Get Made? Last Looks. Play the goddamn theme song. May I have your attention, please? How Did This Get Made? Last Looks. The summer of the stream.

2:03Hello, all you villains getting your cum muffins. It's me, your mountain guy, Paul Scheer, here to lead you on a treacherous ascent up. How did this get made? Last Lux Mountain. Today, you, the listener, get to voice your issues on Vertical Limit, a movie that Discord user FunFacts47, I like FunFacts47, thinks should have been called Funky Cold Edema. I couldn't even get through it. Thank you, FunFacts47 for that alt title. It made me laugh. And a big shout out to the Action Jackson 5 for that awesome Extreme Summer theme song. That's right. We are in the middle of Extreme Summer all summer long.

2:45That's why we call it Extreme Summer. Anyway, 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 theme song, I know on the previous Last Looks, Jason told you to send your songs to the Doughboys podcast at birdfuck.com. But to make sure we actually get the song, I suggest clicking on the Submit a Song button on our own website at hdtgm.com. Now, coming up on today's show, you'll be hearing all of our corrections and omissions on Vertical Limit. I'll even share a deleted scene from that episode with Lacey Mosley. And then the one and only Miss June Diane Raphael will be filling in for Jason today on Just Chat as we talk about a cruise.

3:30Yeah, we went on a cruise. We just got back. We are recording this fresh off the boat, which is a plug also for a show that I was on on ABC. No big deal. Remember, as always, at the end of the show, I will reveal the movie that we will be covering on next week's episode. people if you haven't watched yet check out Elle it's the Legally Blonde prequel series airing right now on Amazon Prime June is hilarious as Elle Woods's mom Eva Woods uh the cast is great the show is so good James Van Der Beek uh is awesome in it I just I love the show it's really really fun and if you didn't get a chance check out June in the New York Times she had a full two-page article in the New York Times.

4:14It was awesome. Los Angeles, we are going to be back at Largo on July 31st and August 1st. Go to hdtgm.com for tickets to see what movies we'll be covering. We are also selling a t-shirt in honor of our movie-picking producer, Averill Halley. 100 % of those proceeds will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in Averill's memory. Just click on the merch link on hdtgm.com to find out more. That's all for the plugs that we got today. So let's get into it. Last week, we talked at length about Vertical Limit. Well, we had questions and we might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight.

4:52Fact check us, if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions. As I said earlier, an opinion or context. We're asking to correct it. The assumption should be that we're always right. Instead of correction and omission, it should be opinion and context. I love it. Context and opinions. And you're right. You know what? I think Jason really came in here and set the record straight. This is context and opinions. You know, no more corrections. We weren't wrong. We're only right. All right. Thank you, John Steele, for that theme song. And Jason really put his thumb down on this. I love it so much.

5:50Let's go to the Discord. Android Lauren Hotel writes, with all the talk of climbers in the film having huge barbecues, I thought I'd point out that the amount of litter on K2 is a real problem. A lot of equipment and grossly human waste pollutes the landscape. Other climbers and independent foundations have to clean up the mountainside, but it is difficult in the altitude. Wow. Okay. Well, yeah. I mean, should we be putting in pay toilets on K2? I mean, I feel like that's what we're saying. Pay toilets and get a garbage truck up. They're not one of the big ones. One of the small ones, like the small buses, but the small garbage trucks.

6:26You ever see one of those small garbage trucks? I had a friend who lived on a pretty private block, and he got a small garbage truck. They make them. Go up there. Clean up that shit. By the way, I also heard that most people are never bringing anything up to K2 because it's like it's you're not making food up there. Anyway, Android Lauren Hotel writes, also, it's funny. Paul mentioned Applebee's on Survivor. Reminded me of Survivor player Liz Wilcox having a crash out because she lost the challenge and really wanted a burger. And she felt entitled to the prize as it was a tradition every Wednesday to have a burger with her daughter.

7:00Don't blame her. She was really hungry for Applebee's. Oh, believe me, I am very familiar with this clip because it is a classic. And if you don't know what we're talking about, take a listen. I'm pissed! Y 'all say you ain't gone without eating? I see you eat every day? I don't even want to be around y 'all I'm over it now Thank y 'all for letting me have that I feel better I just exploded I'm sorry I love Liz She did deserve it It was her tradition People go nuts over Applebee's They go so nuts that I'm like Am I crazy for not eating more Applebee's? Like I don't crave it like these people And then I sometimes have it I'm like it's not bad But I don't know.

7:50I guess if I'm starved, Applebee's would be pretty good. But again, like I said, you'd be shitting your brains out. It would be good, but terrible. I got poisoned recently. Yeah. I went to a restaurant. I didn't get, look, I'm lactose intolerant. I know that. And I poisoned myself. Honestly, I poisoned myself. I had too much creamy stuff. And I had what could only be described as a full level of, I mean, I've never felt this way. Chills, headache, muscle aches. I read online that in severe cases of lactose intolerance, I could get this. I lived, I got to talk to Jason about this with the egg allergy.

8:31I was in such insane pain and then all of a sudden all went away, just done. Look, sometimes you bring a creamy pasta, a creamy dessert to me. And I shouldn't have done it. I don't even like that stuff, but I was like pushed into ordering the stuff I didn't even want because then I feel bad. I'm like letting down the waiter. I shouldn't feel bad about that. I should have just gotten what I wanted. Anyway, I poisoned myself. Dr. Guts, 1003 writes, one scene with clunky exposition that made me laugh was when the helicopter flew over base camp and caused a magazine's pages to blow over and reveal a cover showing that Annie was the fastest woman to scale a mountain.

9:10was there no easier or more natural way to share that info with the audience? Yeah, I mean, truly, that's the easiest thing you could have communicated. You didn't need to be on a magazine. And also, like, it seems like that's actually the hardest way to communicate that information. All right, it is time for a quick break. But when we come back, we'll head to the phone lines for more corrections and omissions. Or, as Jason likes to say, more context and opinions. We'll be right back. Today's podcast is brought to you by our friends over at Squarespace. You know, I love Squarespace because with Squarespace, everything that you need to succeed online is in one spot.

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11:38Every Tuesday, we release a classic episode. Last week was the roll-abating masterpiece, Airborne, with all-star guests Scott Aukerman, Kumail Nanjiani, and Daniel Schneider. And next week, we will be revisiting the John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis movie, Perfect, with guest Seth Morris. So keep checking out all of our replays of classic episodes every Tuesday. Now, let's go to the phones. Dakota from Toledo, what do you got? Hi, Paul. A longtime listener of your podcast. I'm a big fan. I love you guys. And your episodes are always such a blast to listen to, especially this week with Vertical Limit.

12:18It was such a blast, pun intended. But anyway, I noticed that in the podcast, you guys called out a young Ben Mendelsohn. And I was a little surprised you didn't call out the other Star Wars alum who is in this movie. And that is Tamara Morrison, a.k.a. Boba and Jango Fett. He played the helicopter pilot and the guy who throws the shoe bomb. And I thought he did a great job in this film. Also, often on the podcast, you guys talk about your disgust for wet mouth noises. and I was surprised that you guys didn't also talk about just how disgusting all of the coughing and wheezing and deep breathing sounds in this movie were.

13:02By the end, I was so happy that the sister got saved, more so because I didn't want to hear her cough anymore. It was making me truly uncomfortable, and so I was a little surprised you guys didn't talk about it. But anyway, love you guys. Bye. Okay. Here's the thing. I got to tell you, Dakota, I knew, and I had it written down and I'm like, you know what? All this is going to do is just be a mention and then we're going to get off into Star Wars. And then I'm just going to further align myself as like someone who's going to get off on a tangent on Star Wars. I didn't want to do that. Didn't want to do that at all.

13:37Can I tell you one thing though? I once was in a hot tub with Tamara Morrison. Boom. Won't talk about the rest of that story now, but he was a lovely man, which makes it sound even more suspect. There was nothing that happened in that hot tub. I just happened to be in a hot tub with him.

13:56Anyway, you're right. The breathing sounds were gross, but they didn't bother me. I feel like it was the pulse of the movie, the cough of doom coming in. All right. Thank you, Dakota. You are the best. Who do we got? Oh, we got a guy named Dave. Dave, what do you got? Hey, guys, this is Dave. I am a vertical limit apologist. That movie is super fun. And I was actually really surprised that you guys were down on it so hard. It is unbelievable in the best way. I'm not going to get on you for not understanding why Scott Glenn shaved his beard. I mean, obviously, he was purifying himself and presenting himself, knew he was going to die and wanted to meet his wife again, looking like his old self.

14:44I'll let that one slide. But I don't understand why you guys kept harping on Bill Paxton wanting to make a commercial. It wasn't about the commercial. It was about his ego. I mean, come on. In this day and age, you don't understand a billionaire needing to be right and to control everything around him and to have his way all the time? I got to be honest. I was a little bit surprised, but still love you. Okay. First of all, Dave, you're telling me that Scott Glenn is going to go back in the same body to heaven? Is that the way it works in Scott Glenn's mind? He's not going to go as the perfect version of himself.

15:23So if you die with a goatee, you got to forever have a goatee. Come on, man. What kind of religion is that? Show me the religion that says if you die with a mustache, you got to keep that mustache for eternity. I don't think it exists. I think you die and you get into the version of your, like a version of yourself, right? Like that you like, maybe the best version of you. I don't know. I don't think, I don't know, you're telling me that like, uh, if I have a backache and I die and I go to heaven with that backache. Now, second of all, I like this movie. It's super dumb. It's the dumbest movie of all time.

15:55And that's what we're doing. That's what the whole show is. We're ragging on the movie. We're ragging on it too much. Really? That's the show. You think that this movie doesn't deserve ragging on? Because it is dumb as fuck. It's great. But you can't be like, well, come on, guys. It's two. It's dumb. It's dumber than dumb. And that's why it's on the show. And let me tell you something. It wasn't, yes, ego. Yeah, we get it. But it was also that commercial. Like, he was racing up the mountain. Not because he never said, I want to be the fastest up the mountain. He was like, I just want to get up.

16:33there to time it with the commercial. His goal wasn't to beat her record. His goal was to go with her so he could move quick to make the commercial. Like his ego, that's where the issue is, right? Like if his ego was, I need to climb this mountain, the commercial wasn't a dumb add-on. Like make it like, I want to be the world's fastest climber. Then, yeah, we're agreed. You're giving this movie too much. I love you. You're the best, but too much. Doug from Prince Edward Island. Hey Paul, this is Doug. I just wanted to regale you with my memories of scene Vertical Limit in theaters. It was on a Toonie Tuesday where you could see movies for two bucks and this was about the right price.

17:16I think the projectionist did something wrong because in about half of the movie you could see boom mics in almost every scene. You could see the memory. The main scene that I think of the most is someone's body was supposed to hit the snow like they had fallen, except you could see the body hovering off screen for a few seconds before it dropped and hit the snow. Anyways, that always stuck with me quite a bit. All these years, I just thought the movie was poorly edited and I assumed it was a really cheap movie, but I'm looking online and apparently no one else had this experience except me and my friends.

17:47So I think it must've been the projectionist. But when I think of vertical limit, I think of boom mics and just bad editing. Thanks for doing what you do. Take care, bye. Doug, I love that you brought this up. I didn't know it was possible in film because I know it's possible in like when they did widescreen TVs, like old episodes of Buffy. You can see, you know, extras and camera equipment, a whole bunch of stuff. That is really fascinating. I didn't realize you could do it for movies. I went on this deep dive because Scott told me that there's like really cool pictures online of like filmmaking.

18:22And I guess you're right. There's a mat that has to go over the film. And that's also the way that you project it. I think that a lot of movies work outside of that. Like the mat isn't as crucial as maybe a cheaper movie like this. And you're right. Uh, you probably got to see just some weird version of that, which is odd because it seems like it's pretty simple to do unless he had a different mat on it. That might've been the case as well. I don't know. Uh, but, uh, great. I'm glad. I'm sorry that you had that experience, but also great that you had that experience. Uh, look around for a lot of the old school TV shows that suffered from this in widescreen.

19:02And finally, Iman, what do you got? Hi, Paul. Long time listener, first time caller on corrections and omissions, but I guess we're calling it opinion or context now. Hate it. Anywho, I don't know if you've listened to the unhinged fever dream that happened while you were away yet, but wow, did Jason have some nonsense opinions and contexts that you want to review ASAP. he did have one good one though speakpipe HDTGM is an absolutely ridiculous thing for a grown adult to say and that instead we should just use fuckingcallpaul.com so I set that up and now you can so hopefully this will let you conserve your energy for other things like never giving Jason control of the podcast love you, love the show, don't ever go away again finally, thank you Iman for getting my back in so many ways.

19:57Fucking call paul.com. Now that is what we need. Producer Scott, take listen, take note, fucking call paul.com. Uh, that will now forward to our speak pipe page. Um, well, Iman, we have to give you something special and honestly, I'm not going to even consider anyone else for this week's correction and omission winner. I am going to give it to you because you spent$10 of your own money to give us, you know, the privileges of using fucking call paul.com. And your grand prize is you've won a free subscription to K2 barbecue boxes, the only mail order barbecue meat that comes with poop bags to keep it clean.

20:38You know, when the rumblies come out your tumblies, you can kind of just boom. You know what we should do? And this is maybe the idea. We should have poop bags attached to drones. And then when you're climbing K2, you shit in the bag, you hit the drone, the drone goes up and it brings it down to like a port-a-potty location. I would love some more, uh, shit level technology, kind of like what they did on Pluribus, uh, when the drones were coming by to take out her trash. Uh, I think it could be done. We should do it. That's the way we have to clean K2. Get those shit drones running. All right.

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21:51We could have joined him for Looney Tuesdays. Take a listen to this deleted scene from our Vertical Limit episode where we read a bonus second opinion review. and I'll just read you this one because we've never seen this ever before in an Amazon review it's a five star review by Amazon customers with no name it says yes vertical limit was up to my expectations please stop emailing me now I appreciate you sending it to me but please stop emailing me thank you five stars like what? because I think when you buy stuff on Amazon it just says will you rate your will you rate your transaction and this person is so furious.

22:30Like, yes, yes, it's fine. You did it. It's up to my expectations. Yeah, and Bezos was real thirsty in 2000, so I know they were sending hell. Send a review. Leave a review. Comment, like, and subscribe. It's me, Q-Ball Bezos. Some flavors can only be crafted by nature. One sunny day, a honeybee discovered a mysterious apple blossom and carried its pollen to a honeycrisp tree. Months later, something extraordinary was born. The sugar bee apple with notes of honey, caramel, and molasses balanced by bright sweetness and an extra crisp crunch. Sugar Bee Apples elevate everything from charcuterie boards and salads to baked treats and everyday snacking.

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23:40Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. Find a pro for your project at Angie.com. All right, everybody. Welcome back. Without any further ado, it is now time to chat with my lovely and talented wife, Miss June Diane Rayfield, John Astonish, play us in. Jason and Paul, just chat. June and Paul, just chat. Paul, John Shear, just chat. How did this get made? Last look, just chat. So excited to have you here, June. Thank you for joining Just Chat. Happy to be here, Paul. Now, I would ask you what you've been into, what you've been watching. We've all been watching Elle, which you are fantastic in, and the show is so, so good.

24:21I love it so much. Thank you. I love it too. It's been amazing to see all the attention around it. And if you've not checked it out yet, June plays Eva Woods, the mother of Elle Woods from Legally Blonde. But this is a prequel, takes place before Legally Blonde. And it's been really fun to see like that world, which is like the 90s, which is the first. I guess I feel old now because I feel like, oh, I'm looking back at my high school experience. which is a little odd. Well, I was the age that Elle is in the TV show. Oh, man. In 1995. See, this is... So that was very strange. I remember getting my permit or something.

25:08I remember driving alone and finding out that Kurt Cobain had died. And that's one of the jokes in the first or second episode about this is the second worst thing that happened to Nirvana. and I was like, oh, wow. Like it, it just, it feels so current, but also I guess it's very far away. I was in the basement of Eileen Tehan's house. Oh. You know, so many basements. I was in so many basements that were redone, but to have a redone basement, I feel like in high school was the, or middle school, high school was like the best thing. I mean, I didn't have one, but I, certain people I knew did. And I was like, wow, that's living.