Last Looks: The Arrival

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Tron Aries has arrived.

arrived.

Hostiles.

Repeat, we have hostiles.

Mayday, Mayday.

Oh my god, there's hundreds of them.

On October 10th.

We came here from the digital world.

The war for our world begins.

What in God's name is that?

You and I, Max.

This is the end to this world.

No, it's not.

But I can help you.

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Lozenges, love,

and letterbox.

All these things will be discussed today on how did this get made.

Last looks, hit the theme.

It used to be called a radio episode, but it's not called that anymore.

I don't understand anything in this world, but I know one thing for sure.

The explanation, home, my corrections, and omissions.

Maybe we'll do just that.

And right before the end of our next week's movie, what do you all think of that?

Last looks, take your last books.

Everybody take your last looks right now.

Hello, all my fellow MCDLT lovers.

That's right.

You all know the importance of keeping the hot side hot and the cool side cool.

Don't worry.

It's in styrofoam.

We don't have to worry about it.

It's the 80s.

I love that MCDLT run that we did.

in the last episode, so much so that we made a shirt, a MCDLT arrival shirt that is one of my favorite designs.

By the way, speaking of t-shirts, we just released our Toronto t-shirts, which are equally good.

Now, in addition to balcony monsters, we have gallery urchins.

I hope we get to play another theater with a gallery.

I want to see a lot of urchins out there.

I am your host, Paul Shearer, and welcome to How did Discet Made Last Looks, where you, the listener, get to voice your issues on Charlie Sheen's The Arrival.

A movie that Discord user Zilla21 thinks could have been called Some Aliens Like It Hot.

I like it.

Good.

All right.

Thank you, Zilla21, for that alt title.

Remember, if you have have an alt movie title or a tagline, submit it to us on our Discord at discord.gg/slash hdtgm, and we might just read it on the show.

All right, coming up on today's episode, I will do my best to solve your problems on The Return of Paul's Helpline.

That's right, baby.

It is back.

We'll be hearing all your corrections and omissions for the arrival.

And lastly, I will reveal the movie for next week.

But first, before we get into anything, I want to give a shout out to the one, the only Rob from Long Island.

Rob, you bring in the heat all the time.

You created that opening theme, and I love it.

It's really good.

We love these songs.

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And now for something that has no weight in the world, after that, it is now time for Paul's helpline.

Thank you, Action Jackson 5.

I did you dirty by making you come in after that moment where we talked about Averil.

But we had to switch topics because now I'm here to help you.

Jameson from D.C.,

what do you got?

Hi, Paul.

This is Jameson from D.C.

You might remember me as the father of Rowan, a.k.a.

Jason's godson.

Hi, Jason.

I'm wondering,

he's almost five now.

What age would it be appropriate to get him into the terrible awesomeness that is the fast and the furious franchise?

Come on, Pascal.

I'll hear from you.

Just come on Pasha.

This is a great question.

I

am a parent who values my kids' opinion of my taste.

So I never want to introduce something to them before they are ready for it, right?

I try to find a really good entry point.

And, you know,

We often think, well, I have to start at the beginning if I'm going to show them fast and furious.

No, no, no, no, no.

You don't.

You don't.

as a matter of fact i started showing my kids mission impossible but i started with ghost protocol that's right number four because i knew it would be the one that was the most fun for them and i'm going to avoid uh five rogue nation and i'm going to go to fallout we already saw the final reckoning they did not see dead reckoning uh but they are uh

They are interesting kids, and you want to make sure that you support them by delivering something that is not satisfactory for you, but for them.

So I I would say you got to at least wait until they're eight to 10.

In my opinion, that is the appropriate age.

Yes, they'll watch it, but they won't get it.

They won't love it.

I made that mistake with Raiders of the Lost Ark.

They liked it.

But you know what?

When I brought my eight and 11-year-old to Goonies, they fucking loved it.

So you got to make sure your kids are, you know, are ready for it.

You got to find the right entry point.

There's something about Fast and Furious, like Fast Five might be your prime example of it.

And I think you'd have to wait in about 10 or 11.

That's my gut.

And I know people don't want to hear that.

They want to be like, oh, Paul, show them when they're five.

They won't get it.

It's my same rule for Disney.

Don't bring kids there that can't ride on the rides.

Not until they're five years old.

Don't bring them to Disney.

They're not going to remember it.

But this is where we have to get our own ego out of the way.

Be a good parent by making them think that you have good taste.

But you show them something early.

You show them Monty Python.

You give them all this stuff.

And they don't get it.

They will not like it.

They won't respect you.

They will be mad at you.

Now, what have I shown my kids that they love?

Dodgeball.

They love dodgeball.

They love goonies.

They love elf.

I mean, elf is a classic.

I have a whole list on my letterbox of movies that my kids are into.

So you want to check that out.

You can see what I am watching with my kids that they love.

Nutty Professor, another great one.

Okay, Rachel from Baltimore.

What do you got?

Hey, Paul.

This is Rachel.

And I had a question about something that I have now done that is very out of character for myself.

I just booked a family camping trip for me and my two young kids and my husband.

And we are not campers.

We don't we've never gone camping.

So I wanted to know if you have any tips or tricks or anything to kind of

get us through two days of

car camping technically, but camping nonetheless.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks so much.

Have no idea for you.

I don't.

You know, look, here's the thing.

I have a big rule of thumb about this.

Again, same rule that Jameson had.

You want to make it fun for the kids.

So where are you camping?

What are you doing?

A lot of keep the activities coming.

Now, my wife will argue that one activity a day is enough.

I'm going to argue that when you're camping, you got to do a lot of activities and you got to be able to move.

You got to have a day that is flexible.

You're going to go fishing and you're going to go over here.

You know, you got to make it fun.

It's got to be the family-friendly Disney version of camping, in my opinion, to make them want to go and do it again.

You don't want to make them feel like they're being tortured, right?

Like they don't want to be like, oh, I can't get iPad service.

I I can't do this.

I can't, you know, you have to work overtime.

If that's cutting your vacation down a day to make it more jam-packed, then do it.

They're going to love sleeping outside.

They're also going to be scared about that too.

There's a lot of things here.

So I would say get some good games, fun games.

Create.

like challenges.

Do they like survivor?

Create like a little survivor thing out there.

You know, you have to gamify a lot of stuff, I think, in that way.

I love sleeping outside, but you get bored.

You get bored.

I think it can be done.

I want to know.

Rachel, let me know when we bring back this segment.

Jason from Minneapolis, what do we got?

Hey, Paul.

Had a question about how you handle picking movies and making them available.

Like, Date with an Angel was the movie that you showed here in November of 2023, but that never got a podcast episode.

So I'm wondering, I've heard from other discussions, Disconnect the Discord, that

you don't always share the podcast if the film isn't available to stream.

And I know it's complicated with licensing rights and movies disappear from online.

So I'm just wondering if that's the issue or if there was some other problem because I'd like to hear that episode and also welcome you back.

So please return.

Thanks.

You know, this is a great question.

I've seen this a few times.

The movie got pulled from all streaming and rental services right after the live show.

And we want to release it when it's actually available again.

So,

you know, it's just so people can watch the movie.

I know that not everybody watches the movie, but we have, we sometimes keep episodes in our back pocket.

You know, so,

and part of the fun of the show is having you all.

be able to correct and omit and all that sort of stuff.

I know that they're doing a DVD re-release because the actual director-writer reached out to me about it.

So

we will see.

We will keep our eyes on it.

Don't think we're hiding anything.

We're not gatekeeping.

We just want to create a great experience for the home audience.

And that's always our rule.

The live show is a live show.

The home audience is a whole different beast.

And we treat them differently.

So one day, soon, we hope.

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Anyway, stick around because we will be right back with your questions, comments, and concerns about Charlie Sheen's The Arrival.

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Tron Aries has arrived.

Hostiles!

Repeat, we have hostiles!

Meeting, matey!

Oh my god, there's hundreds of them.

On October 10th, we came here from the digital world.

The war for our world begins.

What in God's name is that?

You and I, Max.

This is the end to this world.

No, it's not.

I can help you.

Tron Aries, suited PG-13.

Maybe inappropriate for children under 13.

Only in theaters, October 10th.

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Welcome back, everybody.

Last week, we talked at length about the arrival.

Well, you know, we had questions, and we might have even missed a few things.

Here's your chance to set us straight.

Fact-check us, if you will.

It is now time for corrections and omissions.

We're baking the confections and dissecting the submissions.

We're faking the directions and collecting the musicians.

It's time for

corrections and omissions.

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Love to meet you.

Let's go to the Discord.

Danny the Wall says, the biggest question I had throughout the movie is if the aliens are terraforming the earth so they're able to live on it how are they able to live on it while they are terraforming it bam boom bang now danny i didn't get that i didn't get that they were terraforming it for them to live on it i thought they were terraforming it to uh

like to bring back to their planet or maybe like to destroy it so then it would be good for their but you're right huh Maybe they're wearing oxygen packs.

I don't know.

Like that little breath thing that Obi-Wan Kenobi has in the Phantom Menace.

You You know what I'm talking about.

You know, his underwater breathing apparatus.

Mitch Kappa.

You know, Mitch, I don't know if I ever realized that your name is from old.

How did I not forget that?

Mitch Kappa writes, something about the mundanity of the day-to-day for most of the aliens we see in the movie got me thinking.

Are these aliens happy that they're just on Earth?

Is working in a greenhouse gas factory here better or worse?

Or the same as what they'd be doing back home?

I know somebody has to do it, pave the way for the full takeover.

But once that happens, will it be party city for them or just the same shit different day?

Mitch, I love this way you're thinking.

I mean, this is like the people who built the Death Star.

Like, are they getting satisfaction?

I mean, these are construction workers.

That's all they're doing, right?

These are, they're just looking for the next gig.

They are union workers.

They're getting a good wage.

This is neither, they don't, they're not like, oh my gosh, my race is going to live on.

It's like the people who built the Death Star are just like, yeah, this is a judge.

It's a gig.

It's a gig.

I'm working on an oil rig for a couple months.

That's kind of what I get from them.

Farfig Nugan.

Oh, wow.

Old reference.

Love that.

Was amused to hear the diversion about the classic Nazareth song, Hair of the Dog.

I loved it.

I was understandably confused about the name of the song and band and why a song with the refrain, now you're messing with a son of a bitch, would be called Hair of the Dog.

Now, the way I heard the story, that was originally called Son of a Bitch, but you can't say that on the radio.

So they figured, ah, well, bitch is a dog and son is an heir.

So since, you know, heir of the dog sounded more like a common expression, like hair of the dog, that's why they named named the song that oh yeah yeah yeah yeah okay i love that that is great perfect all right let's go to the phones wow i'm loving here i love that we can talk about nazareth on this show now to go messing with a son of a bitch i love that song so much all right here we go let's go to the phones alex from pasadeno what do you got hi paul love the podcast i'm calling in for the arrival they filmed this movie at the house behind mine in pasadena and i was about seven or eight years old and and I remember trying to look through the fence with my brother see what was going on but we couldn't really see anything except through a small hole.

So we fought over who could look through there and there was a grapefruit tree so naturally we started throwing grapefruits at each other and then my brother decided to throw one over the fence at the film.

Oh about 10 minutes later two police officers came to our house and apparently the grapefruit landed next to Charlie Sheen and he was not happy.

So I told the cops what had happened and I got blamed for it, but no big deal.

The funny thing is, instead of getting in trouble, though, my family was invited to watch the film.

And I think the scene we saw was where he was in the backyard yelling.

I don't really remember too much, but I do remember the crew being nice and giving me a ton of snacks.

So yeah, I can thank this movie for my first interaction with the police.

Thanks.

Whoa!

Oh!

That was great.

Oh, man.

Why did you throw a grapefruit at Charlie?

He's just trying to work.

You know, Pasadena has the piss bandit, right?

You're not the piss bandit, are you?

Yeah, you know about the piss bandit of Pasadena?

He's leaving his piss on these.

Doesn't do anything, just leaves piss like on like electrical transformers.

Just a jug of piss.

Check it out.

There's like a documentary on, I think, Last House on the left.

All right, back to the Discord.

Dr.

Guts1003 writes, when Charlie Sheen comes back from Mexico and confronts actor activist Ron Silva, he at one point takes something out of his mouth.

It looks like a red cough drop or a sucking candy, but then he holds onto it for the rest of the conversation.

And at one point, he he even points his finger with it stuck at the end of his finger.

Is this just an actor choice?

Is it meant to be a callback or reference to something I missed?

I mean, all I know is that I was disgusted to see him keeping that sticky, slimy thing on his hand.

Whoa, and you've included a screen grab of it.

Now, this movie has been long erased from my mind.

It wasn't a recording device.

No.

It wasn't like some way that he was using to get past security.

I don't know.

The aliens aren't red.

Maybe they hate Cherry?

That'd be a shame.

You've got to like Cherry.

I don't know.

Anyone know the answer to that?

No one answered Dr.

Gutt, so let's see.

I do want to get to the bottom of that.

But I'm going to say this.

Everything I know about Charlie Sheen, that is an actor's choice.

Keep the lozenge on the finger.

I learned that in Michael Klein's acting class where he said, don't blink.

Spicy L-Y-F writes, here's a how did this get made connection I've been thinking about since hearing the arrival episode.

We learned in the classic Speed 2 episode that one of the many actors who passed on the role of Jack after Keanu dropped out was Patrick Muldoon.

This is in 97, and at this point, he's a soap actor with small film roles, but nothing major.

That's weird enough.

But then, in this episode, Paul tells us that Patrick Muldoon plays the lead in Arrival 2, which comes out right around the same time as Speed 2.

So, what on earth could have been so attractive about a direct-to-video sequel of the arrival that made him say yes compared to a terrible but theatrically released sequel to Speed?

Make it it make sense.

Spicy, I'm going to guess paycheck.

Paycheck, paycheck, paycheck.

Here's the thing: you do a rival two, no one sees it, no one talks about it.

You get that money and you go away.

You take speed two, everyone's looking at you, you never get a movie again.

So there's a part of me that feels like it may seem like, oh, a bad career choice, but it actually might be a great career choice because he got to be a lead in a movie and he could say, oh, yeah, it's a rival two.

And then he could get a bigger movie instead of being the lead of Speed 2 and everyone going, that guy sucks.

But Jason Patrick, I don't think really took the brunt of that either.

So who knows?

I don't know.

Can someone ask Patrick Maldoon?

Does anyone know Patrick Maldoon?

Let's ask him.

Ian Sold Out says, okay, I did not watch the movie and I did zero research, but I came up with a theory when Paul read the log line for Arrival 2, which contained the phrase, backwards knead aliens.

Do the writers who, I got the impression were trying to be a little too clever, create backward knees aliens because aliens have backwards needs, i.e., they need a hot atmosphere with lots of pollution, which is the opposite of human needs.

Ian sold out.

I don't think this movie is that clever, but I love that you are.

All right, so many great corrections and omissions this week, but there can only be one winner.

And look, I would normally give it to somebody who throws a grapefruit at Charlie Sheen, but you know what?

In my entire time.

of doing the show, I have not been left stumped in a very long time.

And Dr.

Guts, you stumped me.

So, Dr.

Guts, you are the winner this week for your lozenge question.

And you know what?

You get nothing, but you do get this amazing song from Super Flavor World.

Hit it.

You win.

You win, you win, you win.

You win.

You win.

You win.

I can't answer it's properly nothing.

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By now, I'm sure you've noticed that every Tuesday we re-release a classic How Did This Get Made episode.

This week, we covered the Stephen King film Dreamcatcher with Jess McKenna and Curtis Gwynn.

Next week's matinee will feature a character who definitely appreciates the cool staying cool in a MCDLT.

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Freeze.

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So keep on checking out all of our replays of classic episodes every Tuesday.

All right, without any further ado, it is finally time to announce our next movie.

All right, we are going from backwards knees to seven C's.

That's right, because next week we are watching the 1989 fantasy adventure Simbad.

of the seven seas starring Lou Ferigno as Simbad.

Here's a short breakdown of the plot.

Simbad now must recover five magical stones to free a city from a wizard's evil spell to help a prince win the hand of a beautiful princess.

There are not enough reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for a score, uh, you think?

So instead, we turn to Letterbox, where user Lil Command Il uh writes, It's quite possibly the worst movie I've ever watched.

Would watch again.

You know what?

That's how I felt too.

Take a listen to the trailer.

Mighty Lou Ferigno brings to light the amazing adventures of Simbad.

Simbad faces epic heralds and mighty armies

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Magical monsters and mighty warriors.

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I also want to remind you all to hit up Avril, send her an email, send her a card, send her your love, uh, and make sure that you visit us on social media.

You can find out all of Averil's information on our social media at HTTGM.

And a big thank you to our producer, Scott Sani, Molly Reynolds, and our movie picking producer, who I've talked about quite a lot today: Averill Halley, our engineer, Casey Holford, and Jess Cesneris, who makes our social videos.

Next week, we will see you for Simbad of the Seven Seas.

You ever wonder how far an EV can take you on one charge?

Well, most people drive about 40 miles a day, which means you can do all daily stuff no problem.

Go to work, grab the kids at school, get the groceries, and still have enough charge to visit your in-laws in the next county.

But they don't need to know that.

And the best part, you won't have to buy gas at all.

The way forward is electric.

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