Disasters In the Making 01-29-26 Scraping (The)Rock Bottom on a “Skyscraper”

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everybody doing? This is your Thursday, which means it's your
early introduction to the week. This disaster is in the making.
How's everybody doing. I'm Brad Schlager getting ready to uh
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(04:32):
We're gonna bring the movies to you here, but not
gonna buy myself joining me every two weeks on this
dark venture into cinema. From school lay dot com. It's PAULI,
Young Paul. What's going on today?

Speaker 4 (04:46):
What is happening? My friend Brad? Happy new year to
you finally, my friend.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yes, it is a new year and we've uh we've
just you know, got to get back into the swing
of things, do we not? We have to uh once
again delve into the dark side of things. Now, Any
new listeners that are out there, what Paul and I
like to do as we delve into the specifics of
any kind of poor cinema is. Uh, we'd like to
tie it into something that took place, and there was

(05:13):
a pretty good events on Netflix this weekend. Did you
watch the skyscraper event on Netflix?

Speaker 4 (05:20):
I did. Let me say, Alex, was it Hoden? Hold
hold hold on? I don't know how you pronounce his name.
I think it's hold on. Let me hold holding hone
old hone old. I don't know. This isn't America Alex
big old Alex h He was the guy who did

(05:40):
free Solo and uh uh scaled Ol Capitan a few
years back, decided he was going to uh scale Taipei
one oh one. Uh not. My son turned this thing
and goes, oh, that dude's climbing the skyscraper. I won't lie.
We watched an hour and a half of this dude
just slow they climbing up a wall like he's like

(06:02):
he's Mario Brothers and Donkey Kong, and uh it was interesting.
I mean, the dude is clearly talented, and he's very strong,
and I mean parts of it looked like it was
kind of ridiculous. Right, He's just doing the same thing
over and over again. Uh, but you know I can't
do it. I have a hard time climb out of
bed in the morning. This is climbing a climbing a

(06:24):
freaking tower with no we're no support or braces or
ropes or any.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
That was it was pretty interesting. I've been watching myself
because I was watching sporting events, but I picked up
some highlights and watched them behind the scenes stuff as well,
and it was It was kind of cool the way
they had camera crews basically repelling down the building with him,
so they were like side by side. Well, he's just
knocking around. It was kind of interesting too to see

(06:52):
cameras inside the building. He's on the outside, he's mugging
and waving to the people indoors and such.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
I mean, they had Mark Rover, who looks insanely old
compared to his YouTube videos now inside the building and
he'd take the elevator up every few floors and would
catch him as he was going by, like on the
outside in the interview room for a minute or two.
And that was neat. But I think that was the
only commentator I needed to see. They had these three
idiots at the bottom of the bottom of the building,

(07:22):
like it's a red carpet event. You got three commentators
watching one dude climb a building, and they're all talking
and each one has nothing to say. It's like they've
pulled up the Netflix like hired the worst influences they
could and then asked them to come talk about this
dude climbing. We watch football. Sixty thousand fans will watch football.

(07:45):
Millions will watch the the super Bowl here in the
next couple of weeks. There's two commentators, and they've been
doing They've been either covering the sport or playing the
sport for decades. These were three out of shape idiots
talking about this dude that is just scaling this building.

(08:06):
I'm like, look, Netflix, do this again, because it was.
I enjoyed watching him do it. I like watching people
who are good at what they do. I like watching
them do that. It's I find it interesting, it's fascinating.
Get rid of those other three idiots, put on some
sort of background music and just have this dude just
climb for an hour and a half. But bringing up John,
let John Williams score the whole thing done. Well.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Here's the difference. When you when you talk about football commentators,
you generally have people that have played the game before
and know what they're talking about not influencers who were
just filling up airtime. And on top of that, heard
I saw a ton of people planning that while he's
climbing the building. Who was miked up? So who would

(08:50):
be making comments? And they would just be talking over
him and blabbering away, And it's like, we're here for him,
not you zip it. A little less is more, if
you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
So they okay, they had l Duncan. I don't even
know who that is. That's the lady that offered him
chocolate pie or something if chocolate Croissanse when he came down.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Very vital. That's the kind of Yeah, commentary Union American sports.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
I've never heard of her in my life. I watched
a lot of sports. I don't know who that is.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, what what sports does she do?

Speaker 4 (09:27):
And then WWE Superstar seth Rawlins was the other guy,
and then professional climber Emily Harrington and Pete Woods. The
climbers might have been the only people we needed to
hear speak, but truthfully, we didn't hear anybody speak. And
did you know they've planned they had already had plans
for a.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
If he had fallen, Well, I know that they were
on like a ten second delay, so if something happened,
they would be cut away from it more than that.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Uh yeah, some Cary said he said he falls off
the building and dies. So she said there was gonna
hand him a card and said he falls off the
roof and falls off the thing to die, and they
were going to move to a memorial memorial video. Wow.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Wow, dude, they had that queue up and ready to
go just in case in the truck.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
How about well, I mean that's that's still more than
what the w w F had played when Owen Hart
fell during the cage match on live live pay per
view and they just wheeled him out of there and
kept going.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Shows. This is yeah, Aggie and I kicked this around
a little bit on Tuesday and I said to you,
weren't he to fall? Were would Netflix pull this from
the rotation? Like would it be on the would still
be on the platform where you just see it disappear entirely.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, you know, it's a it was a big risk
on on Netflix part to even allow him to do
this live, right, because look, it's he's very much in
control of what he does. He did not just say
I'm going to pick this building and then parkour his
way up the side of it. He's been planning this
out for you know, a couple of years. Probably He's

(11:19):
got the route in his mind. He's been training. It's
a different type of climbing, right, He's he's basically on
metal the whole time, as opposed to rock. There's a
more of a wind force that high up. I mean,
it's a big deal. I get it. It's that's good training.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
I saw a video of his too, where they were
interviewing him in the basement of his home where he's
got rock walls, you know, set up, and a couple
of them, or at least one of them has a
mechanical basis to it. He could program the angle of
the wall so it'll actually start to fall forward to
replicate certain climbing environments that he's going to be in.

(11:59):
And if he knows he's going to be on a
rock facer, in this case, a building that has slanted
angles that he has to travail, he can do that
in his home and practice it. So that's kind of cool.
He's I mean that much a professional. This guy knows
what he's doing for sure.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, he and he didn't he would. I think he
would have climbed this building, whether a camera was on
him or not. If he had gotten permission for somebody
to climb this film climb this building, I think they
would have just said, yeah, go ahead, and he would
have just done it, and it would have just been
filmed for YouTube. Mark Rover would have filmed it for
YouTube or something. Netflix just capitalized and gain. It's like
the dude, the red bull, red bull guy that jumped

(12:35):
from the you know, from the stratosphere right free what
was a freebase or whatever you call it, or base
jumping freebase is something.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Different and more dangerous sometimes. But yeah, he said he
only got half a million dollars for this. What that
was his payout?

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Yeah, yeah, so he would. He doesn't. He didn't care
about the money. He wanted to He wanted to reach it.
I'll tell you what that dude's dude's wife is a saint.
My wife we were watching my wife's like, I don't
even know, I how does she watching him? How she
cheering her out and stuff? How was he like? They
have the same personality if you look at him, they

(13:15):
have the same personality. He gets to the top of
that building, He's sixteen hundred and sixty seven feet in
the air, standing on top of the sphere with nothing
but the you know, the ground below him, and he
goes sick like like that was the most That was
the realist comment from anybody that's ever done anything, that
this was not for video. This was for him, that's

(13:38):
all it was, and everybody else was just a spectator
watching along.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
And honestly, I would have been more interested. Did they
airlift him off the top?

Speaker 4 (13:47):
They did not, bro I had to climb back down.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
So I'm curious because you know, a lot of times
when you're watching climbers, when you're doing free climbing and
stuff like that, they'll they'll be in a position and
not quite jumped, but you know they'll spring off their
hand to go get the next foothold or handhold that
you can't really do coming down. So I was curious,

(14:10):
especially like he's on top. It was like a partial
dome that he's on. He would have to slide down it.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well, he had kind of a there was a more
precarious position near the top where the needle is. So
the building itself has all sorts of nooks and crannies.
I mean, it's a building, and he can grab one
the things. But when he got to the spire, it
is smooth aluminum.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
It's just my wall.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
So they installed a ladder for him to climb. It
was the jankiest ladder I have ever seen in my life.
It was like not even a foot wide, and it
was probably three hundred foot or one hundred and fifty
foot tall, and he just hold them onto the thing
and it's just knocking back and forth in the wind,
and he climbs to the top of it. I mean,

(14:57):
that alone is impressive. Right if you ever tried to
do one of those little ladders, will you balance yourself
on to try to hit the button at the cardival
to win a basketball or something? And he followed, that's
what would have happened to me in this scenario. And
he just scaled it. But he had to come he
had to come back down from that from on that
little ladder, he had to come back down to the base,

(15:18):
and then he walked inside, met his wife at the
at a level. They took a bunch of pictures and selfies,
and then he took the elevator back down. I mean,
it was unrealistic to think he was gonna be able
to scale. He repelled basically I think, from the sphere
and then got an elevator with his wife and they
took off. And I have been climbing Raptor thank you
very much. Just let you know that joined us in

(15:40):
live chat. I have been climbing. I'm not very good
at it, and I didn't get high off the ground,
but I still went climbing in the chat. Real quick,
if you if you're hearing me, answer this question. How
did he not run out of chalk? He climbed for
an hour and a half and every time he put
his hands in that bag he got chalk. How did
that run out of chalk?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, he was using it quite a bit, I noticed,
but I suppose you have to when you're dealing with metal,
and you know, primarily aluminum all over this thing, especially
on those cornices that he had to get up. There's
really not much traction outside of that. So definitely went
through a whole bag. I am certain. Well, what we

(16:23):
like to do is I said, tie things into an
event like this or what's in theaters, what's in the news,
And so we came to a round an obvious decision
in Paul I think you ought to thank me now
I didn't go with the inter Nicole Smith film.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
How do you not let me go? After watch? Watch?
A character named Carrie wink Ina. Nicole Smith is a
helicopter pilot. Come on, how did I miss that?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well? I spared you that I've I've seen this one
a couple of times over the years, and it's, uh,
it's not good. I mean er, Nicole Smith is a
chopper pilot. That should tell you everything right there. There
are sex scenes in it, of course, because it's in
a Nicole Smith and they are nobly unromantic. I'll say that.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Makes sense to you.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Had me and Anna Nicole Smith sex scenes though, Oh yeah,
they're They're definitely out there, and I uh, you know,
it is an enjoyable laugh riot of a film. But
we opted instead for one with a modicum of professionalism
attached to it, and that would be the summer blockbuster

(17:35):
sort of not really with The Rock, Dwain Johnson called Skyscraper.
Of course, this is back.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
On a weird a weird run with The Rock where
he could do no right, like, yeah, he had a
they were not good.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Here's the thing, Dwayne Johnson has pretty much two audiences
one states, one is international, and usually when he hits
a home run here in North America, movies don't do
too all overseas. Conversely, he can make a film that
doesn't do well here and the international market explodes, such

(18:20):
as the case this one because it was late summer release,
but it came out again Blue Tail Transylvania, which smoked
It is a fantastic This is a just your typical
popcorn movie. That's all you can say about this. Pretty

(18:42):
much akin to his disaster movie San Andreas, is pretty
much just him racing around San Francisco as an earthquake
disaster plays out. Curious note about.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
That New men An earthquake.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
The film San Andreas was a six month shoot. Two
weeks were filmed in California. Oh my gosh, makes sense
of that that the movie set in California, based all
around California, was not shot in California. But this one

(19:24):
is similar nature, but it's a what do you call it?
A cross continental production where American and Chinese studios co
produced it and play very well in China. This thing
made almost one hundred million dollars in China alone.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Well, I mean they do that a lot when they
pair up, they partner with a Chinese distribution group to
make the film. It's almost always going to get a
lot of promotion and do well in China because they're
flocked to it, not for not really for the Rock,
but for like everybody else that's in the film, or
just to see Hong Kong in general. I mean, it's

(20:01):
it's it's not like the United States where people go, oh,
it's is set in La, yeah, La. People won't even
come and see it. People live in Hong Kong will
come and see this movie. There's parts of this movie
where they've got all the extras down there staring up
as he climbs this tower, and it was very reminiscent
of the way the time Whenese were watching Alex Climb
Type one oh one, Like right, I mean it was

(20:24):
literally like it was fortuitous. It was, and it's almost
the same. Man. I was looking back at the Rocks
movies in this area because I was trying to figure
out like he had a series, right, So if you
go back to twenty eleven, you have to go all
the way back to twenty eleven to find a good
movie that he was in, which was fast five after

(20:47):
that he had a bunch of stingers, Bro Journey to
the Center of the Earth, two G I Toe, G
I Joe, Retaliation, Pain and Gain, Hercules, San Andreas, all
his Fast and Free movies. Okay, Central Intelligence, Uh, bay Watch,

(21:07):
what a stinker garbage that was? Jamanji was okay, it
was better. It was better than people give a rampage
if we've talked about.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh yeah, Rampage is a classic. This is a period
of his career where he actually came out and said
that he considered himself to be franchised Viagra, so he
would be cast in an existing franchise and supposedly rejuvenated
the box office for like G. I. Joe, Fast and

(21:37):
Furious movies. So he was selling himself as the guy
to save franchises that are flagging at the box I
see what you're doing their, Dwayne. But I'm gonna fall
on the side of accuracyne and go with no.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
I mean Ballers, the TV show Ballers that he had
was really good. I enjoyed Ballers. But like everything else
he does is as the kids would say today mid
he But but like you know, if you go watch
it like my son and I, we're gonna go watch
the Jason Stathan movie. This Sunday is probably We're Gonna
Do and the new one Wrecking something Other. You know

(22:12):
that was the Jason's Jason Moa movie. I don't know,
I don't stress. It could be stretcher and it doesn't
even matter. You get Jason Statham in a movie. I'm
watching it. I don't even care. I'm well watch all
the Jason says and that's what my son and I
like to do. January is made for Statham, and that
should be the tagline for all his films because he
knows where his audience at. He doesn't try to elevate

(22:34):
himself and be more than he is. And look, he
he makes good action films and they don't make any sense.
The plots irredeemable, and nobody cares because he's fighting.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
We're not kind of in that mesa of his career
now where all his movies are pretty straightforward. You know
what it's at. I'm gonna play them. I'm gonna be
myself and then I'm gonna go kill every person to
get revenge. Movie credits, the fun check.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
That's right, see you next, January.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
And that's pretty much what we get from him top
to bottom. We'll take it and it's great. That's the
only one that doesn't work.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Ratha Man, Yeah, uh, I liked Home Front. But here's
the thing is, we've never in our life ever picked
up and talked about a state of movie. You realize
that five years of doing this, actually we're going on
our seventh year of doing this, we've never spoken about Satan.
Why because we understand what we're going into and what

(23:37):
we want. He gives us what we're looking for, and
we don't worry about how it was made, what's the
what was the process behind it? How it was so stupid?
Because he gives you what you want to watch and
that's all you care about. What makes it so ridiculous
is that the rock goes Hey, uh, what if I
was a dude that lost his leg after trying to

(23:57):
save a kid and watching the husband blow everybody up,
and then I had to run across a beam with
this fake leg and then climb into some turbines and
save a Chinese man who's got a full digital screen
in his backyard. What like? What? What?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
And I think I know where things started to go awry,
and that is this is directed, written and produced by
Rawson Marshall Ferber. You don't know him by name, but
you're probably know him by product. You mentioned CIA Central Intelligence.

(24:37):
He's also the force behind this is Cracking Me Up Dodgeball,
the True Underdog movie.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
I like that movie though.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, yeah, these are comedies and they dropped one hundred
and thirty million dollars budget on an action summer epic.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
The more that the building the lane was six point
five billion. They said that in the in the I
don't know if they were ever going to make their
money back.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Well, yeah, they probably resold it and recruit at least
that investment. So but yeah, it didn't make too much
sense that this this was given to a comedy director.
I'm okay, I guess, but it was there. What Universal
and Legendary teamed on this one with Chinese production helped.
And the whole reason they can go with the Chinese

(25:29):
movie companies is because that means in China, the government
operates the movie industry, and so they give some breaks
to the studio, but they also give them a bigger
cut of the box office as a result, and so
it's the temptation to go with it. Most foreign markets,
the box office cut for the studio is around forty

(25:52):
percent or so, okay, give or take depending on you know,
currency exchange rates and stuff like that. But in China
it's only twenty five percent. They put a cap on
how many American movies can be shown, and so when
they go with this co production aspect of things, it's
not considered an American film, so it can get into

(26:13):
the theaters and they get a bigger like a forty
five to forty percent cut as a result.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Really okay, I was unaware of that.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, the the Chi coms they keep clamps on it.
They I think it's down mind maybe down to like
twenty five or thirty titles a year they allow from Hollywood.
They don't they don't want our culture corrupting them. And
at the same time, they want to learn how to
make movies so they can bypass us and technical communist fashion,

(26:43):
you know, it's like, and they'll they'll make determinations on
what movies can't be shown. They'll they'll say, oh, no,
that that kind of content we don't allow in China.
So like time travel movies are one that they don't
usually approve for some reason.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Yeah, any idea why that would be.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
No, they're it's kind of weird that way. And they'll
they'll also tell them at times, you know, like you
got to cut a scene out. It was one of
the tom Cruise Mission Impossible films. There was a chase
scene in China on foot and he ran by an
apartment complex and they were closed outside and people are
trying their close on the line, right, and he told

(27:25):
them we had to cut that aspect of the chase
scene out because they didn't want the rest of the
world to think Chinese people can't afford dryers, like they
go to that life to say, you got to cut
this out. And what was that one of the Spider
Man movies they had, the character was the Mandarin, right,
can't have that, so it was you know, they they'll

(27:53):
just arbitrarily come up with stuff. It's like, no, I'm
not in China, you can't do that. And then Hollywood
will actually serve themsels and cut their own movies like
it used to be back in the day. No, you
can't touch on this is art and that censorship and
we refused, and now China will say, well then you
can't show the movie. Okay, we'll do it. It's bizarre,
but that's where they're at now. So yeah, this is

(28:15):
a This is considered a Chinese film in China, and
as a result, it did monster box office. I think
every other country in the international marketplace did less than
ten mil. In China was like ninety five dollars hundred million,
big movie. They love the rock. So what are we

(28:36):
dealing with here besides Dwayne Johnson and a tall building. Well, yeah,
that's pretty much it. Yeah, and a fake I mean it.
And I've lost Candra. How many movies they borrowed elements from,
I mean Diehard obviously. Yeah, it's right.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
There, Towering Inferno, which, by the way, never remade that movie.
It's a fantastic film, and they better never touch it.
They've remade Poseidon's Adventure, We've made Earthquake, They've never touched
tower in Inferno and it should stay stay that way.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah, that was that was back in the seventies. They
went through a period of time where it was various
disasters and you had to have a cast with like
twenty A list actors in it. It was there's, hey,
what do you know, there's everybody.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
I think that's back when they were they were still
have the studios still had people on contract, so you
had to make an X number of films for the
studio a year.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
It's possible, I don't. I think it was out of
that they but they were somewhere where they have like
exclusive deals as like first look, I think they call
it okay. Yeah, like if an actor wants to do
a film, they'll take it to the studio and they
have first refusal basically, and then then cold go elsewhere.
That kind of crap. But yeah, this seventies was all
about it side an adventure airport, the swarm. I mean,

(30:05):
you name a disaster, they came up with it. And
that was big money back then. So you also had
some of the elements of let's say Olympus has Fallen,
where you've got the best friend who turns out to
be in with the bad guys. And then there's also
the trope. We saw it in San Andreas, we saw
it in Volcano, where there's a massive disaster, tens of

(30:27):
thousands of people affected and the hero has to save
his family.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Oh yeah, pretty much that's what this was.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
I'll say this, I'll give him credit for sidestep and
one obvious thing, and that is having the male and
female leads be divorced, but the disaster has them reconcile.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yeah, he was a loving, doting father and everything happened,
you know which, Honestly, let's be honest, it's rare that
they have doting fathers.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Now.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
I mean, he plays a film not from necessarily the beginning,
but you know, more or less from the beginning all
the way to the end, and his sole purpose is
to rescue his family. They didn't make him a bubbling idiot.
They didn't make him some sort of lovable loser. They
didn't turn him into an alcoholic who fell back on
hard times because he lost his leg, you know what
I mean, Like they turned they kept him a very

(31:21):
solid husband figure, which is sort of rare. And I
wonder how much of that had to do with it
being released in China, because you don't see many Chinese
made films that feature the father like the Americans do,
like Hollywood does. Is like the laughing stock loser who
has to come to his own senses, overcome him his

(31:42):
own self, you know what I mean. Like this, I
give him credit for that.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well, the rock has to overcome one thing in this movie.
Sprugans and Nef Campbell well, you know, and he ends
up losing. What the hell are you doing? Dude? But
my wife?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Would you climb this building for me? No, you wouldn't do.
I look like I can climb that building for you.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
Yeah, I'd want to, honey, Am I able?

Speaker 4 (32:15):
It's not like i'd be lifting a car off a Todler.
You know. I'm not gonna get that kind of adrenaline lift.
I'm gonna go three or four feet up on that tower,
climbing it by hand and get winded, and I'm an
fall to my death. I'll see you in heaven, that's what.
That's how that's gonna work out.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
I'll keep a chair you.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
So we have to be ginning with a flashback ten
years ago. There's a domestic disturbance taking place, crap turn
of cars surrounding, and they don't really explain on this
aspect of it. I saw I don't know, eight or
ten municipal police cars and then we have federal agents

(32:53):
and fatigues rushing into the basement area of the home. Well,
I'm sorry, where did the FBI come into play here?
Is this is a local job here? Why do we
have feds? But we needed feds because that's the way
we get the rock on scene, which.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Is weird, right because he can still lose his leg
in an explosion. It has nothing to the husband blowing
up the child, which was pretty dark, to be honest
with you. But he he could have lost his leg
in an ied he.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Could well, how about a swat team.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
How about a bear trap. He's walking through the woods, boom,
bear trap takes his leg off.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Well, that wouldn't be gripping, Paul. It wouldn't be dark enough,
and it wouldn't be motivating our character to be a
brooding father who will no longer touch weapons. So we
gave a squadron that comes in silent places explosives on.
I'm not sure even how they pulled this off, but
they knew exactly where the kitchen was, blew a hole
in it and pinned down the father and the king

(33:54):
with his back to him. Show me where his turned around,
and as he does it, you know again, another plothole.
So he's got his hands up. They want him to
turn around as he's got his oops, and then we
come to find out he lets the kid go. Okay, cool,
we got this all squared away. It's all comb we'll

(34:16):
just do and he's wearing a bomb vest and Kerkpluey
fade the black current day Hong Kong, a bit of
a jump cut for you. Yeah. Ten years later, we
go away from a darkened American home on the flat lands,

(34:38):
and just like that, ten years later, we're in another continent,
blazing sun and there's Dwayne Lrod Johnson of fixing his
leg to his brew missing me. Second half of his
leg is gone. What the hell's going on. We've got
a lot of catching up to do. But before that,

(34:59):
he got we into a hospital and that's when nevmb
luned her cleavage over him with a mask on and said,
I'm going to save you. That's that's what they call
a meet cute in Hollywood, I think, Paul.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Yeah, Like, it would have been nice. They could have
gotten rid of the whole first opening scene with the
way he lost his leg, and they could have had
him lose his leg in an American elevator accident. Like
he's a building inspector. He's good at what he does.
H He's you know, trying to figure it out, and
something snaps while he's inside the building, the elevator and

(35:36):
he it crashes and his leg gets stuck and it
then you know, something falls on a beam and he
loses his leg cut. You do a jump cut, and
now he's you know, he's meeting Nev Campbell, he's getting
married or whatever. Anything. But what they originally did, it
would explain more why he was Suddenly he went from
being a swat team officer to being the building, the

(36:00):
most expensive building of the world's fire professor. I mean,
I don't well that it makes sense, right.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
It was kind of difficult for me because you know,
she's in scrubs. He's laying on a gurney with his
face completely charred up and cut up and a breathing
aspiration tube in. Yeah, that's the perfect time for us
to fall in love with each other. But that's what happened.
So we're in Hong Kong and we get this painfully

(36:30):
long moves montage about the tallest building in the world
is about to open, and they really stressed this point,
and they stressed this point. Three times older toller than
this one, twice as big as me a Khalifa, And
again look at the turbines and look at it and
it's just swirling images that just cut thang throw this in.

(36:54):
Put this on there, flash it and just okay, we
get it's a big building.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
And what's funny is that it we didn't. The audience
doesn't need to be impressed that this is the world's
largest building, bigger than you know. They don't need to
be that. It doesn't The story doesn't require it to
be that big. It can just be the most technologically
advanced building. That would be cool. You know, it's got
all these fire suppression systems you know you replant cause

(37:19):
they play that up. It could just be it's earthquake
proof and blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
But honestly, Paul, would you care?

Speaker 4 (37:26):
Yeah no, not really, truthfuly, so, what do.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
I care about this building? It's the tallest one in
the entire world. Okay, all right, now I'm on board.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
I bet you. They spend eight pages talking about this
how important this building is by being how big it is.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
And here's the shape, and it's got these two turbines
that I am still not even clear what they do,
and then in the shape of a dragon, and there's
a giant pearl at the top, and it's like, well,
what's the purpose of at And we don't really get
an explanation. Either it just looks cool and it's like, okay,
so we're supposed to be impressed that it's kind of
in the shape of a dragon and the tail is

(38:03):
on the ground floor curling around. Okay, got it, it's
a thing. We're there. Well, it's I guess opening in stages.
They have commercial real estate on the bottom of it.
The middle is going to be all I suppose office
spaces and such, and then the top third, which isn't

(38:25):
open yet, is going to be residential and that's where
the Rock comes into play.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
That's where his family is living.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Because the Rock is an FBI agent who is on
a first strike team. Naturally, now he's an expert in
fire systems.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
And apparently all electronic systems related to it.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Did They never said how this jump happened. I can understand, Okay,
after ten years, maybe he got out of the job.
He didn't like weapons anymore. He's gave that voice. But
he didn't say how he got into becoming a fire
expert on buildings. Oh, we're doing that now, Okay, to

(39:10):
such a degree that the most complex and important skyscraper
on the planet requires his approval, right, Okay, So weird
but this is the case and his good friend Ben,
who was with him on that tragic evening, is connected
to this and has him applying for the job as

(39:33):
the building fire purity director. So he has to go
in for the interview after he puts his leg on, and.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
After he puts his leg on, it's like.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
It's like Chekhov's leg, the way that they focused on
his own that it's like this is going to become
important later. You just know it. There's like three or
four of these elements throughout the film.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I think it would have been awesome they'd give him
like an actual wooden peg leg, like the lean into it.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
The one that got me there was like as he's
leaving the home, well, no, not the home. They're actually
in this building. He and his family are staying in
the building. As he's going to apply for the job.
It's like, wait, wouldn't that be to come after?

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Yeah, they're living on the one hundredth floor.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Yeah, and then he's going in to apply for the job.
It's like, how did you wait? They're they're putting you
up for the job interview? Is that what you're doing?
I'm not sure it works that way, but Okay, and
he goes in and the he meets the billionaire owner.
Jao long g is his name. And there's a couple

(40:44):
of instances in this film where like time jump seemed
to happen. They have the meeting, it's like, okay, you
got the job, and then next he turns around and says, Okay,
I've approved every single aspect. There's the safest building in
the world I've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Did I feel that? Yeah, like I feel that conversation
would have taken longer. And he's like, all I got
to do now is just check out your off site facility.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
What Yeah? And then in doing so well, And I
should point out to talking about Chekhov's leg that there
was a scene at the house before, in the apartment
before he goes up there, he and the wife have
an extended conversation. Her phone doesn't work, and he says,
like three or four times, did you turn it on
and turn it off? Turn it on and turn it off.
That'll work. Usually turning it off fixes it ninety percent

(41:30):
of the time. Okay, you're hammering this point home. That's
going to come and play later.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Oh that pissed off. It pissed me off so much.
When they brought that. When she says that at the
end of the movie, I just upset me to new end.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Or to hit on that for sure. But so he's
got the job and he's signed off on the building
safe at whatever. Nothing ever bad will happen in this building,
which pretty much means something bad is going to happen
almost right away, almost right away. So Jau gives him
a tablet, and it's his tablet, this Blogston's way. Nobody

(42:08):
else has this tablet. It's keyed onto his face, and
nobody else can even open this thing. That's gonna come
into play pretty soon. I'm damn sure too. So as
they're having this conversation, Ben, he turns around and starts
sending a text message he's got the tablet, and then
he gets a message back, make sure he's on the boat.

(42:31):
Damn it. Ben's a bad guy. Paul. I didn't know
this the second he walked into the apartment.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Yeah, I didn't see that coming in. I'll tell you what.
The guy who wrote this movie, really he had me going.
He just had me going.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Because he came in and I thought right away of
Dolmert mulrooney in Olympus has fallen. It's like, I just
got the vibe right. There's like, oh, he's gonna turn
on him, he's gonna be a bad guy. He's gonna
be connected. Sure enough, So he gets the job. And
the two of them were on a boat basically it's
like a cattle car on the water. I mean they're

(43:07):
like shoulder to shoulder with fifty other Chinese people on
the water. They get off the boat and as they're
disembarking going up the hallway, little guy in a hat
comes running up, steals the Rock's bag, takes off with it,
gets stabbed in the process by the way, and they

(43:28):
are The guy gets away and we're all concerned. Damn,
this guy's got control of the building now. But they
get back to the apartment and then the Rock reaches
into his jacket and pulls out the tablet and Ben's
face falls. He's like, that wasn't supposed to happen. Got
a plot hole for you here, Paul.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Only one. You've only discovered one.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
The first of men. Let's say, of this, how else
the cheese plot?

Speaker 4 (43:56):
How else is Alex supposed to climb this movie without
the plot holes of the grond onto here?

Speaker 2 (44:01):
You go. Those are the handholds he's gonna need. But
the entire thing is that you can't open his tablet
without Dwayne Johnson's face. This guy steals the bag and
ran away with it. How the hell's he gonna opened
up the tablet.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
He was supposed to steal his face as well?

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Is that it face off too?

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Face off to the face he the pearl?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
So yeah, that didn't quite work. So Ben's upset. He
goes in the bathroom and so the guy I just
gotta go with refreshments and he's having his conversation on
the phone that pretty much anybody in the apartment can hear.
But he's like, we're under the tablet. I got the tablet. Well,
then he turns on the rock, draws a gun on
him getting the tablet. You can't kill me. They have

(44:47):
a protracted fight. He gets the better of Ben and
done pretty much fades the black right there on the floor.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
But hey, Ben's whole uh motivation to trying to get
this tablet of this guy makes zero sense. They're like,
he's got something on me. No, he didn't have anything
on me. Uh, you don't understand he's got my family, No,
your family died. He'd already he'd already like talked about
that he didn't have a family.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, they said that on a boat where he's like, no,
fly means everything. He's like, dude, that's cold. I just
I don't have anybody. Oh I have nobody.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Okay, So what does this dude have over him that
makes him want to do it other than he's just
a pile of garbage because he doesn't say, well, you
don't understand. These guys are making me do it because
they've got something on me. Money.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Probably has a picture on his phone where his goldfish
and there's a guy with a gun pointed out the tank. No,
there you go. Okay, okay, I'll turn over a billion
dollar building to you. Then just don't kill Goldie. I'll
do it. Yeah, you're right. I mean there's like he
has this whoopie seen on the boat. Yeah, they get

(45:58):
the drop on him with what left bridge. Nobody loves you, dude,
and this is probably why. But Dwayne tries to leave
the apartment and there's a stormtrooper team racing up the steps.
They almost gun him down. He gets out the window,
but then they catch him in the alley because there's
eighty of these people apparently, and beat him up. And then, uh,

(46:22):
the woman that's in charge of this hit squad. She
cracked me up this whole movie. I loved her.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
She's like.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
This, you know, no shit gal with a severe haircut.
She kind of looked like Dana Losha a little bit,
with an Asian touch to her a little bit. Yeah,
And she doesn't say a lot, but she'll just give
a couple of orders. Here, myke, god, you're gonna follow
him because she's tough as nails, hard as steel, all
of that nonsense. She's a thing. So they kind of

(46:51):
beat the rock up there in the alley. He looks up.
She puts the uh tablet right in front of his face,
and then it opens up there you go, Bob, let's
go time to roll, kids, and we'll just leave him here.
We're not going to kill him. Why would we do that? Yeah,
I mean, if they got the tablin open, you don't
need the guy anymore. Cap him. He's not going to

(47:12):
be a problem. He's not going to climb the building
and save the day. Ruin your plans, you idiots. Yes,
that's that was me just promoting that they kill the rock.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
But you can't kill the rock away at him.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Contractual obligations, I guess, is what that was. So he's
now trying to figure out what to do, and meanwhile
terrorists break into the tower in rather curious Yeah, they

(47:46):
basically ripped off Dayne Johnson's tactic at the start of
the movie.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
And I don't get why they had to come in
that way, right, Like, what was the point of them
coming in that way?

Speaker 2 (48:00):
And they didn't even really show how. I mean, this
is kind of like the die Hard entrance where the
bad guys come in, but it wasn't in a truck.
It's during that I know, the guts of the building
and there's a worker on some floor and he sees
a crack developing the wall and suddenly just this four
foot wide hole blows up.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Well, it's subterranean. They're they're they're in the bottom where
all like the inner workings of the place are. So
then they're digging a hole through. Well, why make them
come in that way? It's never addressed again. Why would
if you're gonna if you know, you have to get
to the two hundred floors to the top, why would
you enter the building from the furthest lowest part possible.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
We have to get all the way up into another stratusphere.
Let's start in the basement.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
Yeah, and how did you get down there? To do
to drill a hole across into the end of the building.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Not important, moving on. So I just love the fact
that this hole blasted out, and the worker's first impression is, well,
I'm going to go check that out.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
Yeah, and he walks to it curiously. There's a crack
forman in this in the foundation of this building. My
first thing is on the radio, going, uh, guys, you
got a major crack down here.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Building might come down, and but this thing, you know,
he creeps up and when it explodes out, first thing
he does is get a flashlight.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
It starts looking at the hole.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
I don't know much about training like this, but if
I see an explosion, kind of the opposite direction is
where I'm going. You know. It's not something I'm that curious,
Like if there was one movie there's another, you know,
that kind of thing kind of floats through my head.
I probably want to go over there instead. But nonetheless,
he gets in two arms mysteriously reach out of a

(49:57):
hole and grab this guy in render him and then
everybody on the bad guys come pouring in that way. Okay,
good dramatic exit. I suppose that's what we're going for. Well,
I guess we're already on the third plot hole now
regarding the tablet, the bag to have access to everything.

(50:22):
So they go to the off site location and you know,
Miss Severe walks in the room and there's I don't know,
two dozen people working at councils, and she gets their attention.
We all look at her, and they happen to miss
the squadron of guys on the gangplank above them, who
promptly guns down everybody. Yeah, and their guy now uses

(50:45):
the tablet, plugs it in and gets control of everything.
Back at the tower, Jao says, Holy crap, I've been
locked out of the system you gave leave him the tablet.
Don't you have remote control of that tablet? Then? You know,
just in case, I know you're a billionaire. I want

(51:07):
to tell you how to do your job or any thing.
But you hand somebody this device that gives them access
to everything, maybe have a safeguarden place where you could
shut that down remotely.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
Just I mean, he's got that fancy watch that just
keeps tapping and waving to do all sorts of things
that would.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Be another plot hole because he's locked out of the system.
And yet somehow that's don't work later in the movies. Wait, wait,
you said you couldn't do that, and now you're doing
it again. Now this script is like Swiss cheese. What
the hell? But meanwhile, the guys had broken through the hole.
They went to one floor, poured a bunch of chemicals

(51:48):
on it and lit it on fire. And now the
entire what ninety second floor is burning.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
And my wife pointed this part of it out. This
is this is pretty funny. So they we've got these
masks on and they're dumping all this I guess it's
white phosphorus, is what I'm guessing, or whatever is it?
Or is it potassium whatever violently reacts to water when
you put it with something that violently reaction causes sparks
and heat. I think it's potassium. And uh, they're all

(52:15):
wearing these masks. By dumping this power, dumping all this
stuff out on the floor. They finished, he goes all right,
let's go, and they just all take their masks off
like it's still in the air. It's not just because
you dumped it on the floor doesn't mean it's not
still in the air. You're like, what if you had
to wear it to dump it, you've got.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
To wear it to walk out of it, dude, Yeah,
you want to clear the room before you start breathing heavy.
But again, technicality, that's what we're here to do, y'all
screw it up. So so now the fire starts, and
you know, jall is like, it's okay, it's okay. Every
floor has fire suppression to an extent. Like at one point,

(52:55):
some guy says, your building's on fire. He's like, no,
the ninety second floor is on fire. That's how cool.
He's about all this, like that's gonna work. Then he
tries to do it and it didn't work. Oh, he's
locked out of his system. And so now the merks
are in the off site location and the Rock sees

(53:19):
the fire breakout as he's blocks away. So he's gonna
race to the scene and do something. He doesn't have
a tablet, he's got no car, so he steals a
cop motorcycle, guns it, takes out for it, gets into
a crowd, and then there's a TV like in Times

(53:40):
Square fashion above everybody and suddenly the rock's face shows
up and he's a wanted man.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
What we couldn't figure it out. We could not figure
it out, Like okay, So I was like, how did
they even know who he is and have his picture
and then figure out where he's doing? And I'm like, oh, well,
this happened. And then I'm like, well, no, that didn't
That didn't happen. I know they must have done it
this way. I'm like, no, that doesn't make any sense either.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
I can only assume it's the bad guys with the
tablet that then put his face out because it's on
the tablet. But they never showed them doing this, and
and again time jump. This happened in like seconds. They
take over the off site location and by the time
he getstead of building, he's already on the six o'clock

(54:25):
Moon's being broadcast in the entire republic, and the cops like,
they don't get notice on the radio, they get noticed
me with television.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
Yeah, and I don't. I still don't understand why he
was a Is it because he they oh, they came
in there to find his friend Ben that he had
been fighting and he killed. Did they think that he
was wanted for murder for killing his his friend Ben.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Yeah, but it wasn't the cops that came in. It
was the bad guys.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
Yeah, Benchmin unless the cops were the bad guys. But
then they didn't. They didn't do any corrupt Chinese cops.
The whole rest of the movies pablished that at all.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
But it was just kind of funny because he's trying
to get to the building. He's in like a middle
of cop cars and a crowd and stuff, and he's like, Okay,
I gotta get up there, and then he's on television
and instantly the cops look up and go oh and
they pull their guns on them. There should have been
I don't know, notification on the radius first or something,

(55:21):
you know, like that's normally the first course of action.
The authorities are generally cued in before CNN, but I
guess right, it's not in Hong Kong. They're like, oh, bo,
it's on TV. We got to arrest them.

Speaker 4 (55:35):
Well, It's amazing what you can do when when the
state controls all the media.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
I mean, I just I like the cops. You see
the cops behind him at first, and then he looks
up and he's like, oh damn, that's not good. And
then the policemen are like, well, okay, come with us.
The TV told us to, and you know, he gets
to drop on him, throws them around. He escaped, and

(56:02):
now it's time for him to get into the building
but he can't. So what you do, Paulwick, when you're
facing a two hundred story building and your wife's on
the hundred floor above the fire, naturally you climb a
crane yep.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
Well, because the elevator was locked and he couldn't figure
out a way to break the chains.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
And I think we're a lot of change in this movie.
I think our fifth time jump takes place now. So
we see him start scaling the outer skeleton of the
crane tower. Okay, got it, great, no problem. I suppose
he's going to do this and the cops are onto him,
and I think it's the police helicopter that's flowing him.

(56:52):
They have every single move that he makes on camera,
and the crowd's down on the floor, down on the
ground watching on TV see his every move. Whatever the
rock does is on television.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
That one what that scene right there was the one
that was most indicative of or was the most like
what actually happened when Alex was climbing type one on one. Yeah,
you know what I mean? Like that was that is
how it was actually done in real life. So I
give him little bit of credit for predicting the future.
It's like the Simpsons wrote this episode.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
But I had to laugh though, because we've seen Dween
start climbing. And when they cut to the audience and
they look at the television like, oh, nobody knows who
the hell he is. Even if you caught the you know,
wanted man or something, you have no clue who he is.
But everybody's just riveted to what he's doing. Then they
cut back to Dwayne Johnson. He's at like the hundredth floor.

(57:49):
Now I couldn't no time at all. He's scaled this
entire crane, Okay, I suppose, And then he gets into
the cab. Is that what you call it, I'm one
of these skycraper creams. Yeah, I think so, I assume
the cabin. Maybe I don't know something. So the elevator

(58:10):
was locked, but not the cabin. And then as he's
in there, he realizes the authorities because they have him
on camera from every angle they get in the elevator.
They were able to unlock it apparently, so then he
had to go and chain the door shut at the
top of the elevator. And now he's swings the boom

(58:31):
around to face the skyscraper, but it's short, and so
he's operating the hook that's on the boom back and forth.
Now this thing doesn't travel, it fires. He pulls it
back and this thing shoots back fifty feet in a blink,
and he shoots forward in a blink. Oh yeah, I'm

(58:52):
pretty sure Osha would not approve of that type of activity.
But again, Hong Kong different standards. Or so he's doing
this in order to get the massive steel hook swinging
and crashing into the building and connecting it to it.
This is how he's getting into the building. What are

(59:14):
we even doing anymore? What is going on here?

Speaker 4 (59:17):
Well, I mean it gets what what occurs next enters
into myth, legend and fable when it comes to Hollywood
and how they love to over dramatize something as simple

(59:38):
as a leap like this. This, this enters into the
same realm as say, like the bus jump from speed,
the lamberghin, the Lamborghini jump from Fast, and the Furious
seven or eight or whatever movie it was, where they
jump the buildings from they jumping from building to building. This,

(01:00:00):
I mean, this gets up there into that realm, right,
except he has one.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Leg and the way we get here is just also ridiculous.
So the hook is on the building initially, and he
has I guess a plan where he's going to jump
down to it and then slide down the cable to
where it's connected, but then it disconnects from the building.

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The cops finally break through the elevator door because of
course they took a grinder with him. I mean, of
course you're chasing a guy on foot, of course you'll
have a wheel grinder available so he can cut through locks.
What the hell are we doing? And the helicopter that's
there both filming him, spotlighting him and drawing weapons on him.

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They tell him the freeze, tell him to turn around,
and then he runs for it, looping off of the
end of the boom towards the open window that he
had broken.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
And by the way, he's lumbering, lumbering on that run
and he's and his runway has been cut short because
the cops get up on the on the on the Gangway.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Pretty sure this has a lot to do with the
fact that Dwayne Johnson is an enbo morph. I mean,
just the guy has just packed with muscle so that
his limbs do not operate like yours and mine, so
running is not something he's akin to do on a
regular basis. And also he's got a fake leg.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
Well, then he and I also have that in common.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
So not all of these infirmaries. Uh. He there, he
is leaping off the end of it in slow motion.
Put it on the poster, put it in the trailer.
He's swinging his arms and legs traveling towards them. He
just makes it, Paul, I mean by a fingertip.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
But then grabs onto a jagged, sharp piece of metal
to hold on to to keep from At this point
in the movie, I'm rooting for him to fall.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
I lost count how many times he and others were
hanging by one hand before recovery.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
I think he has that written into his contract, much
like Tom Cruise does with running. In every movie, he
has to be able to hold onto something with one hand.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
But I mean, even when he was getting into the
the cab portion of the crane, you know, he's climbing
on the outside of it and he's on gammera the
people down on the street. Oh, then he's underneath of it.
Has to do the monkey bar swing to get to
the other side of it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
Yes, yes, he was crossfitting his way to the other side.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
All of the difficult caught on camera. By the way, some.

Speaker 4 (01:02:46):
I'm surprised he didn't have to flip a tire to
get it, like to get up past the initial part.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
And then you know he had tried to climb up,
lost his grip hanging by one hand. Okay, there he
goes and climbs up. So now he's in the building.
Finally he stands up, you know, and you hear the
helicopters say, we're losing altitude.

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
Because of the heat. Somehow they decided that physics was
going to be important in this movie. It hasn't been
important yet, but now suddenly physics is an important thing
that we sir, we've got to get on this helicopter
before the Air of Province us the hot air Provincess
from taking off. Oh fit, Now, physics is what you're
concerned about.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Okay. So now we watched the helicopter peel away to
the right and disappear, and yet somehow he's still on camera.
So he stands up, he's in the window and he's like, oh,
I made it. Everybody on the ground sees him and
starts cheering for the guy they've never met before, and
the one cop guy goes yes. Meanwhile, we're at the

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police headquarters and they're tapped into the video feed of
course and saw this, and yet so they're cheering him
on too. I still have no idea what the hell
he thinks he's going to do, because he's now in
the building above the fire, and he knows the fire

(01:04:09):
is not getting extinguished because they have the system overridden,
and he's gonna go get his family and then what
So take our word for it, he's going to be
our hero. Okay, now there's a problem. There's a problem,

(01:04:30):
Well another I should say sorry. He had spoken to
his wife and told him that hey, there's a fire
and you gotta climb. You got to get to the
top of the building, and so they're trying to do so.
Then at some point there's a major calamity with the crane.
Large price falls off and crashes through part of the

(01:04:50):
building just happens to be the part where his family's
at and the wife is now on one side of
the just formed Crevin. You know you know what we
call that, right, Brad, convenient good good aim. Yes, yes,

(01:05:13):
this is a very random roobar I should say, ibeam.
That's about forty feet in length. That breaks freeing through
the building right there, chops them in half. There. Now
she has to use a board to get to her kids.
She gets to one of the kids. Like you said,
this affected her back. Now her her career is affected

(01:05:34):
by this stunt that she walking with her son in
her arms across a two by six and then the
board slips away, falls away, and she separated from her
daughter because there's no other boards in this building. One
two by six. That's all there was.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
Yeah, you know we talked about a pre show. But
you know Nev Campbell had to get spine surgery after
this movie. Uh. And it was not from having to
carry the cast. It was from having to literally carry
her son. I guess apparently she she carries him in
parts of this movie. And she ruptured a disc how
heavy was this kid? He looked old? They gave him

(01:06:12):
asthma for no reason and it didn't come into play ever,
like I think I think the director, writers slash producer
had made this kid have asthma so that he could
introduce some sort of like you know, tension later on
in the film, had him breathe two sprays of prima
tene myst at the beginning of the beginning of like

(01:06:34):
the whole fire, it was never addressed again, and that
kid ran around there like he had no asthma at all,
Like he's just running around in this fire. They never
did you notice that. They like, they made a whole
scene about it. Take two breaths and then you know,
breathe deep and they show him doing it, and it
never comes into play like.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
Ever, no it And that would have been one of
those you know, like Chekhov's puffer something like that, where
figured it was but nope. So yeah, they had him
do that, and I guess he was good for the
rest of the film. So it works. How can you
be critical of that, Paul, what's the problem.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
Well, he's using some of that TMU private miss is
what he's got.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
But while this is all going on, the the bad
guy's name.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Is what Bertha, Big Bertha. I think he's like.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
The head terrorist. This is what I always love this
about these kind of movies. When there's a guy that
has an evil villain with a revenge scenario, right, that's
his motivation. All right, I'm cool with that. I get it.
I can understand that. What I don't understand are the
fifty other people that are signing on to his reprisal.

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
Yeah, like, how does he convince them?

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
But did he?

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
Just?

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Sure? But you've got what a the hnchman on the
floor with you. You've also got your whole squadron down
on the ground and at the remote location doing dirty
work for you. This guy's got like two football teams
with the bad guys that he's got on to his
revenge scenario. You got to be paying out a shit
ton of money to do that and for these people

(01:08:18):
to behave this way, But.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
And look, they should have. I know he didn't want
to make this into a heist film where they're trying
to steal something important, but they needed to make this
the highst film because the mcguffin that they throw in here,
that that little red thumb drive that he's running around with,
the custom opened up thumb drive. It was so dumb,
the whole backstory and when they when they finally reveal

(01:08:41):
this to what everybody's motivations are. It was so silly.
Just make it about robbery. That was one of the
best parts of Diehard. He's like, I thought you were
this big eco terrorist or whatever. He said it. At
the end of the day, you're just a bank robber,
you know, and like that plays. They should have just
stuck with it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
They didn't need to make it an ordinary thief. I'll
have you know, I'm an exceptional thief.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
That was a great line and sold everything right there here.
This is all about a guy that's trying to get
even with the billionaire because he screwed up one of
his business plans. Okay, how do you how do you
even motivate two dozen people to just shoot and kill
anybody on site for your thoughts all the time? Like that,
you don't even need to shoot.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
You don't even need to shoot most of these people.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Yeah, I mean, like, if you wanted to take over
the remote location, you've got a team of ten guys,
have them march in with your Mac tens, kurt everybody
out of the room, and take it over. Lock the
boll You're done. No, they had to sit there and
gun everybody down. Why go both the totals.

Speaker 4 (01:09:41):
Do, And it's it's not as if this billionaire didn't
take billionaire didn't know everything was coming. Like he talks
about how he knew he screwed these guys over or
how he refused to pay and do all this other
work get to it. But he had a handful of
men protecting him in this building. How they're not just
an army of guards everywhere on every floor. I mean,

(01:10:05):
it's China. How are they not just kung fu specialist
Jackie Chance police story has seven hundred extra stuntmen protecting
a building. How do you not have at least two dozen?

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
I mean that's kind of racist, Paul. They you know,
they could have they could have turned in Brazilian jiu
jitsu or something too, that didn't have to be martial arts.
I mean, that's just I'm sorry, you're you're type casting there.

Speaker 4 (01:10:30):
Well this, you know, and it's it's China. That's how
they work. Well, even at the beginning, the thing is
they China has earthquakes, and this building is the largest,
so you've got to figure there's there's you know, pilons
driven deep into the earth to prevent that and it's
probably got seismic meters all over it. So how did
they not even notice something as big as this dude

(01:10:51):
blowing a hole in the side of the wall, you
know what I mean, like on a on some of
the area that it needed, like just some of this
which just sillyd just silliness.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Not silly, Paul. Convenient. Another part of that was convenient.
Miss severe over in the remote location is able to
use the tablet and she can determine, Oh, hey, Will
is in the building and oh wait a second, there's
movement on the ninety ninth floor.

Speaker 4 (01:11:20):
Oh it's his family, like that family.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Yeah. Here, It's like this tablet can do anything except
allow the owner of the tablet in weird. So, so
the daughter is separated from mom and son. Will's trying
to look for everybody, and in the process both gets
a hold of the daughter. And this happens after he

(01:11:50):
was trying to get Jao, but Joo was able to
lose his watch to open up his ten inch thick
door to his office space or private quarters and get
in there before Boo can shoot him.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
Yeah, and he makes a comment, Yeah, this is solid titanium.
What it's a solid titanium door.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
What that's kind of like aluminum, because I mean, titanium
is better as an alloy. You know, it's usually combined
to make something very strong, but titanium himself. Now, But okay,
I'm just gonna go with it. So the guy that
couldn't get into his system can get into a system
with his watch convenient gets in behind the doors and such,

(01:12:32):
and now both as pissed off and gets a hold
of the daughter because somehow he knows Will's in the
building magic tablet. I guess now Will has to figure
out that somehow he knew that Jiao is now in
his residence. Did I miss how he figured that out?

Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
No. At some point though, he sent two of those
guys down, two of his his UH security team, to
go down there and get his family and bring them
back up to safety. And that's when the you know,
the fire everything exploded through the because he opened up
all the events, He got control of the of the
tablet again and opened all the fire suppression systems, and

(01:13:20):
you know, fed it fresh oxygen, is what he said, fetus,
some fresh oxygen, okay, and then the whole thing just
exploded straight up like a scene from back draft, and
the two security guards just died a horrible fire and
they're never spoken of again, So they were important. I
think that's where they I think that's how they figured

(01:13:42):
it out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Well. For some reason, the Dwayne Johnson comes to the
conclusion that the only way he can get into where
Jao is at is by climbing outside the building, climbing
through one of the turbines, and getting a control panel
that's in the spine of the tur buying why it's there,
I have no idea, but I didn't build it, so

(01:14:06):
what do I know. He does this successfully and then
is able to climb back out and back into the building,
although while the people on the ground are watching them
do this and cheering. By the way, again cameras what how, okay,
don't ask questions. Brad gets into Jao's quarters, Jao pulls

(01:14:29):
a gun on him and uh. A lot of talking
and yammering goes on, and then Hiao explains that the
plot of the movie the hole motivation for all this
is hilarious. The red electronic contraption he has and it's

(01:14:50):
I don't know but three inches long, but you hit
the middle of it and the sides flare out and
apparently it's like a very very complicated flash drive that
he has all the information on both of because both
of us trying to screw him over doing construction and

(01:15:11):
have workers stop working unless he paid him the extortion amount.
Jiao did this. He bought him the money, but he
put a tracker program in the electronic payments so that
as it got relouded to all kinds of banks and

(01:15:32):
everything else, that gave him every single piece of information
of every person connected to both the and his plot.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
So mafias and Russian mobs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Any crooked business, oligark, criminal family unit, he had them
all dozen something like the readout came out on screen.
It's like there's a crap town of bat He's right there,
and now that's what he was going to use as
counter leverage against any kind of extortion racket. Both I
got into this. So now he wants this flash drive,
which is why he's try to destroy the billion dollar building.

(01:16:09):
Got it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
He's like he knew that the only way to get
me out of this building was to set it on
fire and make me fly out. I'm like, what, that's
that's the only way you get out of this building?
You don't go to any tech conference and you just
Howard hughes yourself up into this building up here and
never come out again. There's no other place to get you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Isn't why it even gets better? I mean there's plot holes,
and then there's this plot hole, which is the size
of the one that made in the basement to get
into place. Both. I had been planning this clearly for
what months, a year, maybe, bringing this team together, making
all this plot rangement, getting all the various tools assembled,

(01:16:50):
everything that he needed, months and months and months of planning,
and it all hinged on the fact that Dwayne Johnson
got hired two days ago. Yeh, So if you at
the job in the room, Shall was like, yeah, sorry, meathead,
I don't want you. I got I have something else

(01:17:11):
in mind. No, Both, his point has completely shot the
hell now, yes, the family, everything else was out. He
was going to leverage him to get the tablet. If
you didn't hire Dwayne Johnson, Uh, we're back to square one, guys. Sorry,
I mean, damn, it's this kind of stuff that makes

(01:17:34):
your head hurt. This is why you don't think through
these movies. Just eat more popcorn, Just keep shoveling that
in and oh something blew up? All right, cool, and
I got another plot hole?

Speaker 4 (01:17:48):
What? No, I don't understand how you could find more plotholes?

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
No I did, I just did. I looked under the desk,
look at look at that. There's another another screw up
in it. They were taking everybody up to the roof
recall Jao and his minions because they were gonna then
fly him out, get the flash drive, and then turned
Hiao over to all the bad guys so they could
do ever. But one of Jiao's bodyguards got shot but

(01:18:16):
not killed. He's laying on the ground, and then while
he's struggling and got his gun up, capped the helicopter
pilot as it was running. Helicopter tilts on the side,
runs into the building, blows up. That would have screwed
their entire plan.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
Yeah, he had this. He had this weird British dude
that was like infiltrated or embedded in his and his people. Yeah,
and then he turned on him, right, he turned on him,
but then provided he provided nothing and like a substance,
like why would Bertha even have him on there on
his team? He didn't provide anything. A substance. He didn't

(01:18:54):
help out with anything.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
Well, he didn't do anything for Jiao either, though. The
whole time he was like something going on? Should be
Should I be aware of this? Is what's going on over?

Speaker 4 (01:19:02):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
Why are you hurting? He didn't know what's happening, and
he didn't contribute anything. But then he turns once they're
on the helipad, he's like, well, I'm sorry Jeah on
both the side and then the gunfight breaks out. He
gets captain killed and okay, but then later the police,
Oh no, I'm sorry. Will's wife and kid get out

(01:19:25):
and they're with the police now monitoring everything. And she
figured out she saw some briand name on something and
she's like, wait a second, do you see that those
are parachutes?

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
That's how they're They did that earlier. That this is
like the second or third time they've done this, Like, uh,
what do they call it? It's not for boding me
where they show something at the beginning of the film
and then it pays off at the end of the
film because they.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Need to address the shadowing.

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
Foreshadowing, thank you, foreboding film is for voting, it's for boating. Yeah,
she just she sees them dragging these these boxes down
the hallway and it's got this sign name on it,
and you're like, what what is this even doing? What's
the point of this? And they never address it until
the end, and she's like, oh, I got an idea,

(01:20:18):
And did they just straight up google it? Like the
the the cops just google what it is?

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
Sir.

Speaker 4 (01:20:25):
She's right to scooby a parachute Like.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Okay, but if that was the plan, why did that
whole helicopter scene take place?

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
That was I guess maybe that was their backup plan,
was to come down on the helicopter.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
No, that's that's like a second you they suddenly we
have parachutes when they were going to fly off. And
the reason they're not I think the screenwriter was saying,
oh shit, we just the helicopter. Brew it. We're not
getting rid of it. We need a helicopter blowing up.
That's a rule. How do they get off the building? Uh, parachutes, perfect,

(01:21:00):
We'll stick parachutes in the first act. Okay, but why
would they have parachutes if they were flying up? Never mind?
It works now, got it? Well, there's another conflict now
because Will and Joao have two different plans. Jam needed
the flash drive in order to stay alive and save

(01:21:20):
the building. Where Will's like, screw it, I need to
get my daughter back after your building. And so they
are now at battle. They're uh, they're battling it up.
Oh and I forgot to mention how the leg came
into play.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
Oh, dude, that leg must have been made of titanium.
It must have been a titanium leg.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
There you go. Because after he climbed back into the building,
he would open the door, but both of us getting
the drop on roll and the door to the residence
that was open is now closing. So he had the
one tie it from the rope that he used to
get outside the building and get back into the building
and then getting ledget into the door. Camera hard focus

(01:22:06):
close up on the leg. It's like, thank you. I
was confused what that was with the shoe on it,
But okay, that's how he got into the residence with
the miracle leg from the makers of the Hurricane.

Speaker 4 (01:22:23):
You've heard of miracle ear now see Miracle Leg.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
At seton Team but also now available at Walmart and Amazon.
So we now have to get to a climax of
sorts of sorts another foreshadowing Chekhov's item. There was this
stupid scene earlier when he was with Shao where he

(01:22:50):
takes him in this room Florida ceiling. It's a hologram
and they're standing.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
It's called the par right, they call it the Pearl.
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
They were in the Pearl at that point, and they're
like standing in the air. They're like looking down on
a field or forest or something. And then you know,
I was like, hang out here and enjoy the view.
And he waves his hand and then a door appears
and swings open. He steps out. He leaves Dwayne Johnson
just hovering in a hologram. It made no damn sense.

(01:23:24):
But were they then in the Pearl with that moor
Fomer was in a different room.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
Entirely, No, it's the same room. He has all these
weird panels that come up out of the floor for
no reason, and then they have cameras on the inside
and outside so that he can see the outside from
the inside. That's called glass, bro That's just that's just
called glass. Just made you made you made glass? Good?

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Good job?

Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
Called the fishbowl.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
I mean, there's been a few movies over time that
had like a chase scene if you want to call
it that, in a you know, like a hall of
mirrors or something. John Wick had a great one when
they were in like this nightclub that was a hallway
of mirrors. And I'm still unaware of how they even
shot that without the camera appearing on any of them,
and yet it didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
There's a lot of CG.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
When I ruined at Paul, I was impressed until now, well, yeah, uh,
we got CG coming out the rectum in this scene.
So these panels pop up out of the ground. There's
like dozens.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
I don't know if you needed to save out the rectum.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
It's just that that's my reaction.

Speaker 4 (01:24:40):
I'm sorry, but.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
So this this is just panel after panel has popped up,
and they all are cantered and angled and such, and
you're looking looking at somebody and Fronk there in front
because there's somewhere else his gun n him with both
of them, while Dwayne's trying to find his daughter or
and then so many times, you know it's all a

(01:25:04):
fake out. Every time you get a gun point in
someone and shootout him. Oh jesus, a panel, it's not him, actually,
Dwayne Johnson's never been in this before, and yet somehow
he knows exactly how they operate, so that he could
get the fake on everybody and he could jump out
in front of someone and they shooting, oh you missed,
I'm behind it.

Speaker 9 (01:25:23):
Pam gets them, and then the guys are throwing grenades around,
which they should take out every most, if not all,
of them, that they don't.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
It's technology. It's not bulletproof glass.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Yeah. These are you know, like led panels or such,
you know, holograms everywhere. Just break them, dude, But instead
they're all creeping around and try to figure something out.
Is that you?

Speaker 4 (01:25:50):
Was it him?

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
Oh my god? All right, guys get wiped out. She
gets hurt, big climax hole on the floor, and there's
both with his daughter leaning her forward so she'll fall
into the hole while he's holding her grenade so you
can't shoot me. Put your weapon down, and Dwayne Johnson does,

(01:26:12):
and I'm thinking, oh my god, don't it's unless you
want to do dran and fake out because he's about
to kill him, and he's like, yeah, but I'm not
in front of you. I'm never harnd you. And that's
where he gets the drop on both the saves the
daughter pushes him into the hole, he falls twenty stories
and then the grenade goes off and turns them into

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pink dust. Saves the day, and.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
Then the whole place is burning down around him.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Now at some point in time, and I didn't really
catch this because at this point in time, why pay
attention to this movie? But his wife is no longer
in police headquarters. She's in the back of a cruise
down on the ground level.

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
Yeah, they brought her along so that they can at
arrest her. The Chinese policewoman in this movie annoyed the
absolute garbage out of me, like she was the most
annoying thing. Oh well, it could have been her plan
to ride an elevator down with her son at breakneck
speed and pulling the and pulling the cable at just

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the last moment, and then coming here so that he
could climb up the side of the building and then
go inside the building to set more of the building
on fire to make sure he completely burns. And that
what are you talking about? Like that? At some point,
I just I would have wish somebody would have slapped her. Goes,
you're not even making any sense there. Candice Owens, what
are you talking? What's happening? Where all these conspiracy theories

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coming from?

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
It was the Jews.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
It was like none of it made sense.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Uh yeah, and so and then it's like complete plot
convenience that you would take. NIF Campbell now down to
the cop where's her son? Like why is she in
the back of a cruise or by herself? And the
cops leave her there.

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
And then in real life she's not leaving her son.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
No, the entire movie, she refused to. And now all
of a sudden, she's like, I'm just gonna kick back here.
I guess can you put the radio on? Where you're going?
Where you geez? I'll just stay here. Well, the bad
guy squadron from the remote location now shows up, including
the severe haircut henchwoman.

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
And I mean, I'll give it to her.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
She looked kind of bad.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
She looked bad.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
Yeah, No, she was fierce. I'll give her credit. And
massive gunfight is now breaking out between them and the cops.
And as she's creeping along, she comes up alongside the
car with NEF Campbell, who opens the door, kicks it open,
bumps into her, and this really pisses her off. So
she jumps in the car and the two gals are
going at it, and you know where her name is?

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
By the way, do you know where her name is
this girl Henchman, Yeah, nobody does. You would only know
if you went and looked it up on IMDb or
stay for the credits. Her name is Zia. It's not
spoken in this entire film.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
Yeah, I don't think spoken. I don't want to even
talk to her. All she did was give orders. Really,
you know, go here white.

Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
Yeah, the white hat she killed.

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
Over her shoulder at her, He's like, I can turn
this on. I could do this. I can get that taken. Yeah, okay,
got it. Forgot about that crucial scene. But yeah, they
they're digging on. She actually gets ned Campbell in the
front seat, choking her to death. I love the advice too.
Were never grabbing her head and sending it into the

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head rest? Dad?

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
Does that feel you like that? And they're comfortable? Enjoy that.
I hope this makes your head feel better.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
That cardinal Big bring out the company. Yeah, it's like,
not the head rest all that phone could get my eye.
But then while she's almost killing there, the cop comes
up draws' weapon. She when she comes out, and then

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Candle spins around and kicks her square in the head
and knocks her out. They dragged around of the car,
and what happens Paul? She leaves behind the tablet?

Speaker 4 (01:30:29):
What was it in the back of her pants when
she rolled around that that car. This whole scene is
reminiscent of a deadpool of wolverine fighting in a Nissan
quest or Odyssey, a Nissan Odyssey mini band. They're just
rolling around doing all sorts of stuff. And then when
she leaves this, not only is the tablet unbroken and

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not smashed, it's just laying there. Like the cops pull her.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
Out, they don't even see it, and nep Cammel's like,
I wonder what that is?

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
Like, why, what's the point?

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
Why did she take it with her? What was she
gonna do? All unanswered questions. But hey, Nef Campbell has
it now, so we are close to an ending here,
but the building is still on fire, Paul. How do
we how do we fix this? How do we how
do we ad trust this problem? As well? They've done

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off the fire suppression system we got that's gone. You
know what where did I say? Oh, that's right? Gwyn
Johnson was instructed. That's how she did. So she taps it,
hits fire depression and it's like unable to get into
the system, or we boot.

Speaker 4 (01:31:43):
Remember that he created that. They created this huge dramatic
moment with the rock and his daughter at the top
of the pearl being surrounded by fire, and he's like,
we're not gonna this is it. This is the end.
I'm sorry, baby, I'm sorry, and we're all gonna die now,
just you know, relax and just stay here and let
the fire consume you go into the light.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
Probably continue had technology.

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
Yeah, she doesn't know that. She's just trying to turn
the fire suppression system on. Now, why is she in
control of this? She doesn't know any better than the
police officers. Why don't you know I have a tech agent.
They're messing with it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
Because her husband explained the time to fix anything as
you turn it off and turn it back on. That
message registered and took root in her brain. Pan The
memory came back and she was like, wait a second,
this reminds me of this morning. What did he say?

(01:32:43):
What will tell me what? And so on screen it
said cancel or reboot. She hit reboot. Everything turned off
the entire bedroom shuts down, the entire building goes dark
with the exception of the six floors that are engulfed,
and then slowly comes back to life. And then in
her hand, the tablet says, offline fire suppression system online.

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
This is where I call utter bull crap. On most
technology and movies, they oversimplify it. Do you know what
I got to do? Just to open up an app,
to like reset the phones, just to turn my phone off,
just to turn it off, just to turn off an Apple,
you got to go to settings, then you gotta find general,
then you got to scroll down to off. Then you
gotta power off. And he goes, are you sure you

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want to do this?

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
You're telling me?

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
She just clicks one thing and goes reboot and it
doesn't ask her. Are you sure you want to reboot?

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Do you want to turn off all systems on the
billion dollar building? Yes? Are you sure? Yes? Once again?
Billion dollar building? All systems? Are you yes?

Speaker 4 (01:33:50):
There should be like fifteen stopgaps, just confirming once again?

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
You don't care everybody's in the elevator. We don't don't care.

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
Do you want to accept cookies? Nobody like you know
nothing on that, nothing like that on there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
Somebody having an iron lung on floor thirty, doesn't matter.
Shut it down, shut it down, okay, but I'm doing
my kidney dialysis. Can you shutting down all of it?
And then it boots and then the fires and systems
all kick in. Massive amount of chemicals come raining down

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on the rock and his daughter. No will effects on
the one that's halon.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
They're dead. That's halo.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
Their respiratory system is completely unaffected. Ball see what you're
talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
Let me tell you something at my job last year,
no year before. So twenty twenty three, sometime in twenty
twenty three, the fire suppression system inside of our contained
building with no windows. We have no windows in our building.
It went off and the halon disperses after ninety seconds.
Have you ever been inside of a building with halo

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goes off?

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
Have not? No?

Speaker 4 (01:35:02):
All right, so it's not you can't see, you can't
see anything, and it you can't go back into the
building until it all settles. You have to wait for
it for it to settle and be done because it
sucks the oxygen out of the building. So I've talked
to the I thought of the fire department. They got
there I said, how dangerous was it that we all
got sprayed with this stuff? As we were trying to leave,
we couldn't see anything, bro we were running into walls.

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We formed a congoline chain. We had to put my
hands on the other guy's shoulders, and we're all just
you know, uh, we're all human centipeding our way out
without the fecal matter out this door. And the guy's like, well,
if you had stayed in there for any length of time,
you would be dead. He said, It's the whole purpose

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of haylon is to suck the oxygen out. It removes
the fire's fuel source. He said, So if you stay
in there, you die. And if the mouse is in there,
he said, it kills anything that breeds oxygen. So that's
what she just did. She just she killed her husband
and her daughter. That's what she didoted So you rebooted

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your I.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Just you know, it's raining down on them and cascading
for quite a while. It wasn't like one shot or something.
It was like, okay, turn them on and let it
flow for a while. They didn't cough for anything one time. No,
and a hiccut nothing like that, tough one, but okay,
we lived nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
And the impression system everything is happy.

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Now everything's saved and I love this.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
Dwayne comes out with his daughter, screaming for his wife.
Where where's my kid? How many? Just a rough estimate, Paul,
how many those channels do you think there are in
Hong Kong?

Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
All of them? Because that's how many were there? All
of them?

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
I me ask, because as he's leaving the building, he
had to cut through a crowd of probably one oh easily,
not like you know, cameraman attack. Everybody's got a microphone.
He had to walk by probably three dozen microphones just

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to get out into the square in front of this building.
So just like every single cable channel in China or
Hong Kong area was there with a representative. Apparently. You
just wonder what the hell else they have on TV?
If it's all just news, it's amazing. But they have
a they have a reconciliation, and then they they're backwards, Yil,

(01:37:44):
what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
Your building is just trashed. We are going to rebuild.
And you know how he's gonna do it because the
rock hands him his firesticker or whatever for the device
is of his stick.

Speaker 4 (01:38:04):
Here's your fire stick. This could have been an Amazon movie.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
Here's if you're well, if we're gonna rebuild, you're definitely
gonna need this because the mob's coming after you. So
here you go.

Speaker 4 (01:38:15):
Ice Cream comes walking out, deliver over the Amazon primere.

Speaker 9 (01:38:23):
And uh.

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
And that's our movie with the happy ending. I guess
he's this thing.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
And happy and he means something different red.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
But there the that's the movie. That's the rock. That's skyscraper.
I'll say this, it's actually in the right friend of
mind is a fun movie. I suppose you know, don't
think at all, just sit back and it's like, Okay,
what you're gonna do next, We're gonna beat up, what's
gonna blow up and just let it wash over you
that way. For this show, we have to do heart

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analysis and that's where all this stuff comes up. But
what you talk about it about Chinese happy ending with
six roll. Oh my gosh, you're right, So that'll do it.
That's uh, that's our feature of the week. Dwayne Johnson Skyscraper.

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All right, Paul, why don't you let everybody know where
can they find some more of your content around?

Speaker 4 (01:39:24):
Uh? In two weeks will be right back here at
UH and then you can find me on ZiT Her
talking about things that don't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
And what's the account.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
At Movie Paul, But you can find it, you know
where it's at.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
I hope that the people listening might not. That's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
I'll like to keep people guessing.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
I want you to come trying to help them. That's
all it is. That's it's a mystery. And is that
what you're saying? Got it?

Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
That's right, That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
I meanwhile over at town Hall Dot, I've got a
media column day over there called Rift from the Headlines.
I'm also on the front page Red Stage, and i
got a media podcast. They are called Liable Sources. But
I'm heard elsewhere here at Kaylor. At next Thursday, it's
Monority Packard as we go through all the entertainment information

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So Paul, we got two weeks in front of us.
Figure out what we're gonna do next, coming into February,
and then the perfect Valentine movie.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
Oh my gosh, oh it is. We got Valentine's coming up.
Telling is that, uh, that'll be about about that time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
So we may have to come up with something, uh
rom Kamish lovey dove or some nonsense like that. We'll see,
we'll see. Well, we'll put our heads together and we'll
concoct something to bring to you of a deplorable nature
from Hollywood. Here on disasters in the making a sky

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