Fall & Dizzy Heights Hotel

Fall

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review, the podcast that is to movie reviews as a whoopee cushion is to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

This week's show sees us tackling acrophobia, the fear of heights, so prepare for us to scale the heights of absurdity

while plummeting

towards the depths of mediocrity, and possibly a visit to the dispensary as we discuss the top five high things in movies and TV. Our main feature this week is a review of Scott Mann's Fall, a 2022 survival thriller with a simple high concept premise that will give even the biggest thrill seekers sweaty palms.

And we finish things up with a look back at the

90s comedy and puppetry TV

program Dizzy High Heights Hotel, in which a character suffers a traumatic death. brain injury, something I would gladly receive myself if it would help

me rid

the memory of this excruciatingly awful horseshit. That reminds me, there might be the odd bad word or two, because after all it does say bad in the show name,

and we will be talking

spoilers, including the ludicrous third act twist when we learn that Becky has been hallucinating Hunter for half the movie.

So if you don't want to find out that before you watch it's too late, I'm afraid. Speaking of things that spoil everything, let's introduce the hosts, including Dan, the dad who's so old he needs a Sherpa just to climb the stairs. Then next, Hunky Chris, the man who makes the rest of us feel like we're auditioning for a role in The Elephant Man.

And i'm sure he'll be bringing you the full range of opinions from fell asleep to didn't watch it to didn't like it for his review this week After that, we have peter the man who has so many children He's not so much raising them as he's collecting them like they're pokemon and there's resident non enthusiast Zidey, who this week is raring to go but we're making him stay anyway and then there's me Reegs. Hello.

Sidey: Hello.

Dan: Hi.

G'day Strong intro, it's all going downhill from here, but yeah. Had a good week?

Sidey: Yeah, very good, yeah. Apart from, I fell off my bike, but

other than that,

Dan: Yeah,

Pete: going on

Dan: Yeah, he's got like, a little bit of eye shadow on there.

Sidey: few war wounds, but hanging in

Reegs: have the full Fight Club experience, where people wouldn't talk about it?

Or No,

Sidey: No everyone

at work's like,

oh, you're In

the pub. No, no, just fell off Yeah.

Dan: In my

lycra

Sidey: it was fully

lycra'd

Pete: been to the pub before you fell off

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. And I didn't, I don't think I've watched

Dan: you damage anything else which is your eye

Sidey: Both legs, my hand and my neck.

But not really

Nothing, I

mean, I cycled home after it. and I, you know, but yeah, hanging in there.

I don't think, yeah, like

I said, I don't think I watched anything.

I know, I watched a couple of Umbrella academies, but that was

it.

Dan: Okie dokie. What about yourself, Simon? Well,

Reegs: Well, the return of the football season, so when I did, watch, I got to watch a bit of that, so that was

Dan: fun.

Yeah, that's where I was this week as well. Well, but I wish I didn't. What about you, Pete? Ha ha ha

Pete: Um, I'll tell you what I have watched since I was last on the pod, that I'd never watched before.

Dan: Which was a while ago, actually,

Pete: a little while ago.

But I'd heard you nerds like jiffing over it plenty of times and thought, I'm not gonna bother. But I then did for whatever reason with the Deadpool movies. I watched one and two and I've watched half of the new one. And just haven't managed to finish it yet But I was I was into that as well really really like one and two really like them fucking.

Yeah Excellent. Yeah funny and cool and and laughing at themselves as much as you

Dan: And now you're a rexham fan

Pete: rectum fan I've i've always been a rectum fan danny. That was long before. It was ed paul. Yeah, but no really enjoyed them They yeah little gems

Chris?

Cris: Yeah, I've watched the Joe Rogan comedy special,

Sidey: Sounds like an oxymoron.

Reegs: Yeah,

Cris: I think that's what it's called.

Sidey: Yeah, but is it funny?

Cris: He's got some funny bits. He's got, he's got some, some funny bits. I wouldn't say everything. I wouldn't say everything. The only thing is that he kind of irritates me when he just keeps screaming. I don't know why he screams in

Sidey: He's

Pete: It's not

Cris: No, but he just kind of screams. He's like, he doesn't have to do that. Some bits are funny without him screaming, but yeah, he had some good points.

It was quite, quite funny. I do like his podcast occasionally, depending on the guests. So it was all right, I guess. And I've watched The first episode of a series called master slash spy, which is based in Romania, communist Romania, I think in 82 or something like that. I can't really remember late seventies, early eighties, something like that.

And it's about a Romanian intelligence officer who tries to defect to the Americans. And he goes to summer in Germany. I can't remember now.

Dan: it filmed in Romania? Is it half

Cris: in Romania, half in Germany. It has a communist look. It's half in speak, it's half the com. The dialogue is in Romania, half it is in English. I've only watched the first episode.

It's, it's quite good. And it's got, it's, it's got it ESCO's Villa, which is the Villa 12 in overseeing the Lake in Bucharest is like really, really cool for that time. Especially where he had a cinema in his

Sidey: So he wasn't really living

the communist vibe?

Cris: Oh no, he, no, he had. He had some pads.

Sidey: what he

Cris: No, no, no, he didn't do that. So it's, it's got Charles and his wife has got these high ranking secret police officials and they're all kind of spying on each other.

And he's connected with the Russians and then with the Americans and the relationship with his family and all that. So it's a, it's an interesting thing. I think it's only one season. Hopefully it's only one, but it's, it's an HBO

Sidey: production

No, but it's

Cris: no, but it's a, it's an HBO production. So it's not just like a shit Romanian TV is it should be all right.

I guess from the, the, the, the actor that plays the American agent is a known actor. I can't remember his name, but

it's,

Dan: I

just remembered that Chris doesn't want season twos of anything. . Yeah.

Pete: What if there's cliffhangers at the end of

Dan: No, he won't do it. He won't do it doesn't do two.

Pete: Is it just that you want to watch one season? So you might pick, say, Season 3, and only watch that?

Cris: no, I've watched, no, the first season or any, any season. What I have against all these things is that they keep adding. Why, why

Dan: one's enough?

I won't go back

Cris: Generally, if it's a good first season, the odds are the second one is not that good.

And they keep adding, Ooh, an uncle comes back. Or they go to prison, or, Oh, someone comes back from the dead. I thought he was dead, he wasn't. I was all like, fuck off. When you think, This

Pete: we might be here a while, guys,

Cris: When you think this should finish, it just adds something to it. Oh, another plot twist. Oh, God. All right.

It's too much. And I can't, I can't, I don't have enough time in my

Pete: How can you expect our listeners to keep coming back if they applied that same like

Cris: I

don't, listen,

Reegs: It's right. They aren't.

Cris: preacher. I'm

Dan: not a

Cris: preacher. I'm not

telling people what to do. You're

Pete: the son of a preacher man, aren't you?

Cris: Definitely not.

But that was the

electrician.

Sidey: I'll Do

it anyway. Yes.

Reegs: Yes.

Sidey: It, it was X. and we had a nomination on Discord,

Dan: Bill and Ted's excellent

Sidey: X rated one. It's from beaver. And it was a Charlie's

Angels spin off, but it's Charlie's Anals

Pete: Come

Cris: Come

on, Bieber.

Reegs: And it goes,

Sidey: He hasn't put the link in, which is very

selfish of him, but,

Dan: Can you make sure you find the poster though?

Sidey: So that's in, Charlie's Anals.

Dan: Nice.

Pete: anymore.

Sidey: Moving

on.

Cris: Yeah

Right top five

Sidey: Top five

high things.

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: said

Cris: high or tall can it be tall as well

Reegs: yeah, that's fine.

Dan: Tall. Tall is high.

Reegs: don't

Sidey: don't you set us off, Riggs?

Reegs: us off, please? Um Oh, Where

to start?

Dan: gee whiz.

Reegs: Well, effortlessly sort of standing on improbably tall stuff like Batman. That is one shot that I like throughout the movies. Him stood on the outside of a building watching over his city. Similarly, I like in martial arts films where they stand, like, beautifully balanced on, say, bamboo as they do in Crouching Tiger.

Hidden

Dragon or in have you ever seen iron monkey? Anyone seen that classic

Donnie Yen,

Who we saw last week didn't we?

Sidey: Yen, yeah.

Reegs: In

XXX and that was the they, They have a whole thing where they fight on poles at the end above. Like or ground covered in burning oil. Yeah

Dan: Wow,

Reegs: so, yeah, that's people standing on improbable

improbably high things doing crazy shit.

Dan: Yeah. Okay. I'm following your vibe. What you got for his pete

Pete: Well done the no look, You So I, I don't know why, but I only went for, didn't have much time to research this. I only went for people falling off things, high things. So, so it is, it is, so this is my own light subset that I will, I will stick with it.

And the first thing I thought of. Because I just closed my eyes and thought of someone like hitting the deck and almost like exploding like Splatting bit of like jam and stuff like coming out and it was the departed. So this was Queenen this is Martin Sheen's character. So it's the point where Billy Costigan thinks he's gonna be like What's the word like outed

Sidey: Yeah,

whatever.

Pete: from from his cover blown?

That's it, right? So Queen is like, look, don't, you know, don't worry. I'll meet you. Let's, let's meet somewhere really like inconspicuous on the roof of a building, but he's been followed. And just as like Costigan, so DiCaprio's character is arriving. Yeah, you, you don't really see it coming and then you just see this like Right in front of him. In fact, it like splatters blood all up him. And he straight away has got to deal with the fact that this is one of his like colleagues from the police force. But then the people have thrown the people who've thrown him off the roof have come down, but then other cars are arriving.

It's all people from the mob. And he's like rattled by what he's just seen but then he still has to stay like in character And somehow black and one of them's suspicious of him. It's like hang on like I told you I gave you the wrong address Wasn't it? It was like that's where he finds out that. Yeah one of the one of the other guys is also been an informant because he's like I knew I gave you the wrong address and you turned up at the right place So I know that you're you're on it, but that was quite iconic for me Am I right in thinking side you don't like the departed or is it just you like the original more?

You

Sidey: I think, I think at one point I didn't like it. I didn't like it when I first saw it cinema, but I think I've come to enjoy the swearing and stuff in it.

Pete: duper good. And Mark Wahlberg's character is so

Dan: It is brilliant, but the original is

just I've

Pete: seen it, I should

Dan: Oh, the original is just an

Pete: Has it got someone falling off a roof?

Because that would be

Dan: that would be Loads of that Pete, yeah. Is there? Yeah,

Pete: But is there?

Dan: probably. Right,

Sidey: Chris?

Cris: I've got a film, obviously, I'm Romanian, so, called My Giant, with Gita Muresan. He used to be an NBA

Sidey: Yes. I remember him.

Reegs: Billy

Crystal,

Yeah.

Cris: and Billy Crystal is like this. Talent spotter and he goes to rural Romania and he finds this giant and he gets him to in the end gets a contract in the NBA, which is it's more of a Not how it's a more chance life actually happened he is from a village in Romania, but He was very tall and he played basketball professionally in Romania and then Serbia and then he went to the NBA, but he was seven foot

plus and like, I don't know, this giant man.

So he's, I've got a few basketball players in movies. So it's,

Sidey: this

Cris: this is one the movie itself is not great, but it was a big hit in Romania, obviously, because this is a Romanian guy and he was famous and all that stuff. So I'll

Dan: He sounds outstanding.

He's they're always Good ones to have giants. I got cyclops jack and the beanstalk. They're all giants

Reegs: Yeah, they are.

well, Jack and the giant Slayer was a terrible, I think it was Brian singer. Wasn't it? Did anyone see that? Yeah,

Dan: Well, i've i'm going rooftops anyway and i've got the paris um sort of skyline lit lit by moonlight and the aristocrats as they Kind of just get all romantic and perry on

Pete: oh, There is Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: Okay. Like Eiffel Tower. You want

to chuck something that's really tall in

Dan: Well, they're just, they're, they're on a rooftop, aren't they? They're on

Sidey: we're just going rooftops

Dan: I'm going, rooftops are

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: I've got,

Pete: often than not. Yeah,

Sidey: I've got, I've got, mine are all divided into subsets.

Dan: they cost,

Pete: What rooftops?

Sidey: Sky's the limit,

Dan: I guess. No, nothing, they're on the house.

Reegs: Oh, that's very good.

Pete: like side easel is like straight from the hip those but they were both decent

Sidey: Yeah, like I said, I've got mine into subsets and I have got a rooftop section.

And one that, one that cropped up was Caesar's Palace. No, Caesars Palace in the hangover.

but they Start off up there.

When they, they do the wolf pack thing

and they

Dan: and they end up

Sidey: and then

all the, like carnage that goes on and they've lost their mate and it turns out he's up on the

Dan: He never left the

Sidey: never left, Yeah,

because, what's his face, despite their drinks.

Great film, diminishing returns with each following.

Dan: and I jumped in there with that other Rooftop one the the beetles because I thought that's what you might say. Get back. On the on

Sidey: it was very good, Yeah.

Dan: pretty high up there.

Reegs: Marvel love, a big fallas shaped skyscraper. There's Stark

Sidey: Tower.

Reegs: Spider-Man has the Osborne Tower Tower and Fantastic Four has the Baxter building.

But yeah, and there's others probably as well.

Sidey: There's been some stuff this week about, Pedro Pascal and he was being a bit gropey with,

his.

soon

to

Cris: When she grabs her, he grabs her hand and stuff, no?

Sidey: Yeah, people

Cris: apparently he's like really, he's got high

Sidey: got anxiety and she was trying to comfort him, but people are still trying to like, cancel him for touching being

Reegs: For

Cris: because he kinda, you can see his hands shaking and then she just kinda grabs him and, but she does it, She probably knows. So she does it more than him.

Reegs: or

they're fucking or something, I mean, she didn't seem uncomfortable.

Cris: she wasn't, yeah, she wasn't upset with it. I don't know, yeah, I'm

Reegs: I, I've got the tallest fictional buildings in films as a

diagram here. Are you, are you interested in that? Do you wanna know what number

Pete: start us with number 50 and work your way

Sidey: is A great

medium for a, a audio Yeah. delivered format.

Reegs: Yeah, it is, yeah. But we can have the, you could guess where

Dan: line, keep going.

Sidey: Okay. Fictional

building.

Pete: buildings. Fictional, Jesus Christ.

Sidey: I can't even

think of one.

Reegs: Well, how about buildings?

them

like you've got like that

Lord of the Rings tower in here versus the biggest building on Coon, for

Sidey: Well, so Soans Tower.

Reegs: Yeah. Well, the,

so the Barad Dur,

Pete: Itron, right?

Sidey: sorry. yeah.

Reegs: Borad Dur. Yeah. Is that,

that's, in Here, that's number

three in the list apparently.

Yeah, the Tyrell Corporation's

Pyramid

is number two.

Dan: What about that bridge that goes over,

Reegs: even make the list. I don't know what bridge

you're talking about.

to be fair.

Sidey: What's number one, come on, put me out

of my misery.

Reegs: of my misery.

From Star Wars Episode 1, The Phantom Menace. the

I think it's called the 500 Republica.

Sidey: What,

Pete: Coruscant.

And how tall is it,

Reegs: is 4040 meters.

Sidey: Wow.

Pete: I'm calling bullshit on

Sidey: so, our mate was over last week,

Easton, who lives in Dubai and he's,

Dan: he built one twice as big.

Sidey: but he did work on the Burj Khalifa, which spinning movies. remember Tom

cruise sat

Reegs: Cruise's house?

Sidey: He's working on one that is now

400 meters taller than that. 400 meters

on top of that

Reegs: epic.

Pete: a

Sidey: That's, right

Reegs: it's in

Sidey: or it's

in the Gulf,

Yeah

Pete: Oh, that's the one that they, they stopped a few years ago and now they kicked, kicked it off again.

Yeah, but everyone's at it. The Chinese are at it. They're all, they all just want the, the tallest building in

Sidey: and it's only ever going to be temporary because someone will build

another one, it's crazy, yeah.

Pete: Yeah. So interesting. Talking about Tom Cruise this isn't a note of mine, but talking about Tom Cruise, his height is often. Yeah, and you're talking about heights as well But for years every like I think it was he like he's basically ashamed of his height And he wanted co stars like he you had to wear like fucking

Sidey: big Cuban Hills. Yeah. Lift. He's got

Reegs: Imagine doing a scene with him and he stood on a

box like that and you're having to just kind

of

Cris: he's not that

Pete: short.

Five

foot six

Cris: he's not, he's not like four foot, he's not a dwarf.

Sidey: are tight.

Reegs: it's two inches shorter than me.

Pete: Are you

Reegs: Nearly. Depends on

the shoes.

Pete: Yeah, yeah, okay,

Sidey: yeah.

he wears lifts and all that sort of stuff.

Yeah.

You can get your legs like, lengthened and

stuff.

Reegs: You can get your legs, you can get your fucking, you can get your nose

Sidey: is not like,

Pete: that is not I

Dan: get

Sidey: you. I meant in general, you can do.

Pete: you. Personal attacks going on now. Yeah.

Reegs: going on there.

Sidey: where we were.

Pete: I think, I think it was me. I've got a double bill. Also, like, segwaying nicely from Star Wars, a double bill from Star Wars. Because again, I was thinking, like, falling down things or off things.

So definitely Empire Strikes Back Luke when he's Like he's having a stinker, cause not only has he had his hand chopped off, he's also then found out that the main baddie is

Sidey: He's found his dad. He's found his dad after all those years.

Pete: but his dad's just chopped his hand off, like, it's not the way you want to find out. And his dad's like, the nastiest guy

Sidey: a miscommunication. Yeah. yeah.

Pete: And then he falls off that

Reegs: high exhaustion in Yeah,

Best bin. Is that a best

Pete: Bespin? It is in Bespin. Yeah, it is in Bespin.

Sidey: It lands, he lands on the little thing at the, at the very bottom of Cloud City.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: And

Pete: But I think it's like, but it's, it's like a, I think it must be like a garbage chute of some kind, which features quite prominently in Star Wars, the garbage chutes, because it sucks him

Sidey: that's where our franchise has gone.

Pete: I've always been worried about his stump whilst he's going around the pipes and stuff,

Sidey: it's been ized by the, it's one of the inconsistencies. of

Pete: Yeah, but it's still gonna hurt.

Yeah.

Okay, and then I thought both the emperor and darth maul Have similar kind of like falling down like massive shafts, but then are they from from

Reegs: stole that shot, didn't he, from that shitty movie that we watched, George Lucas.

He stole the shot of

Darth Maul. What was that, fucking Blind Fury or

Sidey: Yes, Yeah,

Pete: so yeah,

both of those star wars double bill

Reegs: What about, Just in the similar vein,

when, what's his chop? the old man goes off in Robocop with the comically long arms, he falls off the building.

And the

Pete: I've just remembered that, like, yeah, he does with his arms that's a strange, like, bit of, like, special effects going on there, but yeah, he falls off a building, tons of those, yeah, go.

Cris: I've got someone that climbs on a building famously, Godzilla.

Pete: yeah,

Cris: a

tall, tall creature.

Pete: high himself,

Cris: not gonna argue if it's an amphibian or if it's a lizard or whatever he is.

Pete: is. It's not a dinosaur. We established that.

Cris: But that, her, is it a woman or

Sidey: I don't think they've ever been

Cris: Anyway, she can't have sex anyway.

Sidey: Eggs. it has

Cris: Yeah, so anyway, Godzilla and and or Kong. Because they're kind of now in the same universe and they're tall. Really tall beings compared to all the other ones around them.

Reegs: Yeah, kaiju in general. There's in the ABCs of death, there's a

segment under W where a gigantic kaiju walrus

attacks a

city.

Cris: Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah. That

Dan: Okay. Nice. I've got a couple to do with pigeons.

Pete: Speckle. Jim.

Dan: I thought that was the way to go in ghost dog. And can you guess the other one?

Sidey: Pigeon

Dan: we're going, we're going back before Pigeon Street even is on the waterfront. Because oh Marlon was also a pigeon rustler much like our ghost dog, friend obviously on the rooftops there and both great pigeon films and you're right. Pigeon

Sidey: there as well.

Dan: is up there as well. Yeah

Sidey: Diving boards, Yeah. Things that people dive off

and they can be they can be quite high, They get 10 meter boards sometimes.

And they feature in films Caddyshack. In fact, I've got a double Rodney Dangerfield diving board subset.

Dan: But back

Reegs: do.

Sidey: For back

to school in 1986, he performs the triple lindy off the diving

board. And in

Caddyshack he takes over the Country Club swimming pool performing a series of outrageous dives.

And then It's a Wonderful Life has some diving board action in it. And then As does Pete's favorite movie, Meet the Parents, where Ben Stiller. Tries to perform some outrageous skills off the diamond Board and like flummoxes and embarrasses himself in front of The family to Hilarious

comedic

Pete: throw myself off a building than watch any of that shite again.

Reegs: How about a trio of acrophobes in movies? How about that? Yeah, Well, Pretty

woman, Richard Gere, his character the corporate titan that he was hiring a

prostitute, He was an acrophobe in the Climax LoL has him climbing up a fire escape where he conquers

his Acrophobia. Much like Vertigo, but much worse.

Hook, remember that one, the Spielberg?

Pete: Oh yeah,

Reegs: Williams plays Peter Pan, but he's forgotten that he's Peter Pan. And he's

actually Acrophobic

and has a fear of flying and all that sort of stuff. And he

gradually regains it as, something, something, something.

And Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise, the prosthetic mask. He has acrophobia from a incident with Cameron Diaz driving them off a bridge.

And then at the climax of the movie, he has to jump off a skyscraper,

Dan: overcome his

Reegs: to Overcome his fear. There you go. So a trio of

Pete: Excellent.

And we're dealing with scenes, we're dealing in like doubles and trios. I'm gonna do a double as well, so I've got a double again, falling from Great Heights.

Two different films, both of which involve Alan Rickman. Can we

Sidey: Well, the

Reegs: Die Hard?

Pete: Absolutely. There's one and the other one side. I'm looking at you more here. He's responsible for the falling off a

Sidey: he zaps um thingy.

Dumbledore

Pete: Yeah.

When he invited a cadavers, Dumbledore and Dumbledore falls from the, from the, his tower, his office in the top of the tower to then it's like, you know, prone on the floor and all the kids are looking around.

It's fucking massive beat pieces of cinema.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: got something that is massive and it's a massive

Pete: show

Cris: uh, Wicker man.

a, it's a massive man.

Sidey: Yeah, it

Cris: and that is from the movie with the same name, which we reviewed for the pod and I really enjoyed. And by all accounts you said that the actor, it was really, really tall as well. The lord sex guy, whatever his name

was.

Sidey: Lee.

Reegs: for Lee.

Yes, He was a tall guy,

Sidey: eight foot.

Reegs: Yeah

Cris: No, I'm pretty sure you guys said that he's really tall as

Sidey: so. Yeah. As

Cris: as a really tall person.

Like seven foot or something like that,

Pete: not seven foot.

Reegs: not seven foot, but

Cris: Oh, okay.

Sidey: If you read, read the list of

like all the, the, like, achievements he's done, like, it's amazing.

He's got two like heavy metal albums.

Cris: Oh, really?

Reegs: the SAS or something stupid, wasn't

he

Cris: Right, okay, well that wicker man.

Dan: Nice.

He's

Pete: five, so he is fairly tall.

Sidey: is pretty tall.

Reegs: that is tall. that is tall.

Cris: And him.

Dan: Okay,

well, I've got something that connects Newman, McQueen, Fred Astaire, Bobby Vaughn, Wagner

Sidey: Marilyn Monroe.

Dan: Towering Inferno.

Oh,

remember that disaster movie?

Reegs: Very vaguely.

Dan: Okay, we might have to midweek. This is a sunday

Sidey: I don't know, I don't know whether we do,

Dan: It's You've not seen it before

Sidey: Yeah, I have that's why I wouldn't necessarily do it again.

Dan: No, you, you've, I I'll

Sidey: can't. Maybe,

Dan: Yeah. It was, it was, it was a disaster movie, you know, but just with the, the cast and of, of everybody that was anybody was kind of in it.

And if we're going to double up, I've got something that's absolutely unrelated, but touching the void kind of, you know, reminds me of Pete's, kilimanjaro

Reegs: you

Dan: know, and this was this true story of climbers who tried to climb one dropped he thought he was dead and all that kind abandoned him and he wasn't dead and he crawled to back to base camp, like pretty much dead.

And there was that big ethical debate of well,

Sidey: Absolutely, right. Yeah 100

Dan: you should have been right to do it. Could he have done more to check that he was okay or whatever? Don't know the situation, but it was a really great film off a good book. So there's a couple.

Sidey: Quickly we're out with some hot air balloons 80 days.

The Mummy Returns.

great film Fucking great film up

Dan: Yeah

Sidey: Wank, load of

Dan: Love that. I

Sidey: And also Night at the Museum, Secrets of the Tomb. They go, they go round the museum in a hot air balloon. Have you ever been in a hot air balloon?

Pete: yeah, I've had champagne in a hot air balloon.

Sidey: We did it up in the Middle East and it's just sand.

Reegs: Yeah over

Pete: over Lake Bled in Slovenia. So it was much better

Sidey: Yeah, that was Better. Did you crash land?

you have to crash land. There's no other way to do it. Yeah. Yeah.

So hot E balloons And then I'm gonna nominate after that, I'm done.

Pete: Okay.

Reegs: Well, I just had one more category, Cause some people say, that high things like when people take

Sidey: Yeah. I

had a category of that

Reegs: So I've got just a couple of getting American Ultra.

Did anyone

see that? The Jesse Eisenberg. One Where he's just like this pot smoking convenience store guy who finds out, he's like a Jason Bourne type thing. Quite bizarre. The pig Lebowski has the dude the cabin in the woods that

Sidey: Mm-Hmm.

Reegs: Watched for this very pod had Marty,

the character

who was immune to the

bad stuff because of his imbibing of marijuana. And Paul.

Which you guys all really liked, and I wasn't so

Pete: the alien one with like peg and what's it? Yeah.

Dan: Frost.

Reegs: And

Sidey: and

Reegs: then the Electric Mayhem in the Muppets. That band.

I

always suspected them of.

Pete: Yeah, duck teeth is blazing all day long, yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. Nice.

Pete: okay.

Sidey: Nos

none

Pete: others other than, Okay, we'll do the noms. Shout out the film that you nominated a long time ago, which wasn't necessarily my inspiration for, for Kilimanjaro, but your man Nim, what's his face there?

I can never remember the amount of peaks. It's either 12 or 14. 14, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dan: the higher one. It's

Sidey: doing a fortnight.

Pete: still an honor. Unbelievable feat of, just the, like the, like the make up of this guy is, is

Dan: No, he is

Pete: went, he went pretty high. Higher than me even, and I'm fucking

Sidey: Does he wear North Face stuff all the

time, like

Pete: Probably, but he had oxygen. No oxygen for me. In fact, I vaped at 6, 000 meters. So, uh.

Sidey: Yeah,

Cris: I've only got two left, both of them are based on basketball. One is the movie Hustle with Adam Sandler

and one show with Hernan Gomez and it's got Boban Marjanovic and Luka Doncic and a few other

Sidey: Pardon? Yes, yeah, yeah,

Cris: yeah. yeah. And it's also The whole movie has pretty much all the active all the good

basketball players are all active NBA players.

There's a short feature by Nowitzki that is quite

heavily Yeah, and

it's also, obviously, the fact that Adam Sandler always plays in the NBA All Star for the celebrities. He shoots threes and he's quite good at basketball, apparently. And Shaq. In another Sandler movie, only because it's the scene where he's a police officer and grownups too, and they all go to see Sandler's daughter's ballet show, but he's got this Lithuanian, she's got this Lithuanian dance teacher and she doesn't wear a bra.

She's this like, Proper stunner nips poking out everything and the wife goes like why is half of the city here? And why did you bring the police? Like oh, they're big fans of ballet and you can see shaq and the other guy just Mesmerized by this woman. So you have to have shaq if you can get him

Sidey: in

Dan: Well, he's hot enough, isn't he? So was Danny from Withnail and I.

Pretty high. Ramo, Ramo, Ramo. The purveyor of, purveyor of fine herbs and medicine. So that was one of my favorites, Withnail. Twins. You had a high one and a small one. Tall Girl. There was a film called Tall Girl.

Pete: What was it about, Dan?

Dan: It was about this. Tall gal, Pete. Yeah, yeah, that's what it says in the text.

Comedy, it was quite good. It was a kind of needing confidence to overcome. A coming of age kind of thing. But we're going to go round to Noms. Did you already put yours in?

Sidey: I'm going to nominate right now, I had a subset of bungee jumps, and I'm going to put in Piers Brosnan as James Bond, at the beginning of Golden Eye, way Back in 1905, where he Bungee jumps off

the towering Arkhangelsk Dam in Russia.

Cris: He's a good one.

Sidey: It's

in.

Reegs: Free Solo,

the Alex Honnold

documentary of him climbing El Capitan free handed. that was

pretty fucking amazing, so

I'll put that

in.

Pete: I didn't save one, so I'm going to go Alan Rickman double bill if I can.

Cris: Godzilla

Dan: So I will be the, the fifth and the only one I haven't spoke about that's written there. I'm going to have to kind of nominate it. Sleepless in Seattle on the empire states building

Sidey: Yuck.

Dan: Yeah, there you go.

Sidey: We've had a nomination online. Breachy,

She's I think she's complaining. She's pointing out that he's getting quite niche.

She's gone for Kareem

Abdul Jabbar. Yeah.

against Bruce Lee. in

Dan: Well, let's go for that for the fifth

rather than sleepless in

Reegs: Feep,

Sidey: That's the famous, that's the one with the

yellow jumpsuit.

Dan: I'm with you, Breachy.

Sidey: yeah. Yeah, good.

Reegs: So

this

week,

obviously, has been about

Sidey: Yeah,

and now we've got a 2022

Mark E. Smith documentary.

Yes.

Reegs: Yeah.

This is about Basaphobia, which is specifically the fear of falling.

Sidey: Right, okay. Yeah. And

fish.

Reegs: Yeah. And fish, yeah. exactly.

Yeah, so this is a 2022 Lionsgate picture.

Sidey: It's one of those, like, trapped in a box, trapped between a rock, trapped up a high thing.

Reegs: Yeah, like a high concept premise and as soon as you hear it, you think that's a good idea and

Dan: But un, unlike Stacked in a, in a rock or under something where you're kind of waiting for, for death in, in those kind of ways The fear of falling, you know, is just that.

when we go,

Sidey: if he's

Dan: it would do it that height. On that thing.

Yeah.

Sidey: But don't climb up there.

So

Dan: Well, why not? If you're not scared? I mean, it becomes a point, doesn't That's what these

Sidey: Yeah. But it

starts off, the so obviously the poster, everything, like there's no surprises going into this.

It's climbing off a great big fucking massive tab, but It starts off with a separate climbing adventure.

Reegs: It does. With them climbing up a sheer rock face. Them being Dan.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: Dan!

Reegs: Dan!

And

his wife, Becky, and their friend, Hunter, and they're scaling this wall, and she, Becky, is kind of there, I think, kind of at her husband's behest, although she's no mean climber, in that

Dan: know, you

Reegs: see her, do like, a big leap thing across, anyway, he gets himself in the way. carabinered, is that the word, into the, into the wall, into the rock, we've got all the terminology here,

But then he's startled,

Cris: sorry, sorry to interrupt you, Pete should know all about this.

Reegs: this.

Pete: Yeah. I mean, a carabiner is actually the clip that you use to feed the ropes and stuff like that.

Sidey: the one that they put into the hole?

Pete: don't know.

I don't use them. I just free climb. So,

Sidey: Yeah, so, but

Reegs: Hunter is free climbing, but the others

Sidey: scales

up to a bit, and there's a hole, and you can see a bird's nest in it and you think, well, I know what's coming here.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: coming here.

He couldn't see the bird's nest, and when the bird kind of pokes his head out and squawks, he's startled and falls back. The rope then catches him, and he's left dangling, but these little, like, rock grips that are holding in the, the little points they've set along their, their path pulling out, aren't they?

And we're three minutes in.

Sidey: like, it saves him, but he

isn't able at that point to, there's nothing for him to grab onto.

Reegs: Yeah, he's sort of spinning uselessly in the

air, and he's trying to reach for the ledge.

Pete: He needs more slack, so they come up with the genius idea of unclipping from, like, the rope, like

Sidey: Doesn't sound like a great idea.

Pete: great idea. No, so that it's just his his, his then weight on it and he falls even further. And

Sidey: And then the gorilla gives way. yeah.

Reegs: And then eventually he does give way.

and he's gone dead. In the worst, I think, green screen of the

movie.

Pete: I was going to say this bit, the special effects straight away. And I thought, well, if this is obviously going to be a theme throughout the film, like great heights and everything. This is not

Sidey: not a great opening gambit, is it?

Reegs: Yeah, same. I had a fear.

Pete: like the Robocop long arm guy.

Dan: Yeah.

I let, I let it go because to be honest, it was a great opening scene. It was, it was

Sidey: It's like Stallone

Pete: but yeah, it was good.

Dan: I really, I really enjoyed it. it was a good start. I, I, I was, enjoyed it in the sense that I didn't want to watch any more. I was like, fucking hell, have I got to really watch now? Like, just this nail biting,

Sidey: Because you know

Dan: don't know who's gonna fall, who's gonna do it, because you weren't sure then who's gonna make

Sidey: first of all, We get the aftermath, and Negan later. Yeah, Negan has put his baseball bat down down for long enough to be a father figure. She's an alcoholic, she's struggling to come to terms with her husband's death.

Reegs: terms with her husband's death.

Sidey: Yeah, In case you were uncertain. And yeah, her father played by Jeffrey Morgan. He has obviously never liked the guy and he's, basically telling her to get over it.

get over your dead husband

Reegs: the bar, do you think he would be, like, sitting here fucking her life up, basically, alone, drinking? Cause she's, like, almost at the stage where she's about to commit suicide.

which we see her.

Dan: she's depressed

Sidey: gets the pills out. Yeah,

Dan: she does exactly that gets the pills out, or just about to,

Sidey: takes one. And

the

Dan: the doorbell rings and it's Hunter, who she hasn't seen since That period of time when they've been a phone call. She's there and it's this kind of reunion which Dragged you out of her funk a little bit and she's Obviously got that girl who's been traveling ever since that that incident when they were rock

Reegs: Yeah, and she straight away is pretty transparent about her motivation. She talks about the tower straight away. You know,

why not get over your husband's grief

Sidey: she's a YouTuber. she's a content creator and she's lives on extreme

Xander Cage,

Dan: what's her name? Danger.

Reegs: Danger. D.

Sidey: Double D's.

Dan: Yeah.

Pete: D's.

Sidey: And we are, we can legitimately talk about their breasts in this film because it is a plot point. She, when they, so she commits Becky to do it, and she turns up the

next day with a massive, like push up bra for the tits out. And she says tits for clicks.

Reegs: Tits. Yeah.

Pete: Can, can I say though that the suggestion of climbing this tower, especially if she's been estranged from her friends since her husband's through

Sidey: to hear from an expert, you know.

Pete: Exactly right. I, I, I think I can add quite a lot to this, but it's quite, it's an, it's an insensitive like suggestion. It's basically like, you know, if we did

Reegs: Well, she comes up with, you know that shit that people have in their toilets. I think Dan used to say something like, if you're afraid of dying, don't be too, it?

was, If you're afraid of dying, don't be

afraid to

live.

Dan: Yeah,

Sidey: she might As

well have said, live life,

Reegs: Yeah,

exactly.

Pete: can, I can imagine it a bit like suggesting doing something like, let's go on a holiday. Like, you know, we'll go for a bit of, you know, a bit of traveling, kick

Sidey: have a

Pete: drinks, like blow some guys, that kind of stuff. Yeah. But not like, let's go and climb

up something really dangerous.

The

Sidey: let's go and do

Pete: Let's go and do something exactly the same again.

Reegs: I think it's supposed to be about conquering

her fears, But anyway.

Sidey: Kicking

fear in the

dick.

Reegs: kicking fear in the

Pete: through in the dick, and getting clicks for tits,

Reegs: We stop at a diner for quite a lot of exposition that we'll need for the rest of the movie, including the fact that you can apparently charge your phone.

Cris: I was gonna ask that, you guys have been to America, what is a Oh, power ain't free. What, what do you

Sidey: I'm sure Most

of them would

let you charge your phone

Reegs: it was solely so that

they would have a mechanism to set up that thing so that we would

understand that it is apparently possible to charge a mobile

phone

Sidey: percent electrocuting yourself.

Pete: from a

Reegs: directly into a lamp

Pete: poking your finger, poking a ring in there with your finger. Yeah,

Reegs: And also to establish some geography and talk about how tall it is, and know that there's a motel and

Sidey: we've We have also had a flashback scene because she's having nightmares and what have You and you know, she's upset, blah.

Like Ghost, where Swayze wouldn't say I love you, he would say ditto, he won't say I love you, he does 1, 4, 3 as a tap, Yeah. Likes really shit.

I love

Dan: I love

Sidey: you, yeah. And so

that's their thing, and it's an important thing.

that crops up later

on.

Reegs: We've already seen as well, a suspicious photo. Whose hand is

Sidey: Oh, I've got boyfriend

Reegs: Whatever as well.

if you hadn't picked up on all of the stuff.

Dan: It was so clearly his hand. It was

suspiciously

Pete: the same color as Dan.

Dan: You just couldn't understand how she couldn't have picked up on that. Or maybe she did.

Reegs: Exactly, Dan, who knows? she didn't want to know. And so we get to the tower itself, the B67 television tower.

It was once, it's the fourth largest structure in the U. S. It's

2000

Sidey: It were once at one point, it was The Largest,

yeah.

Reegs: Way there, just they

see some vultures eating a dead

Sidey: No, it's not

dead

Reegs: Half alive Jackal? Coyote, maybe. At the base of the tower, which they chase off.

Vultures,

nasty fuckers.

And you get, like, the tower itself is introduced like a villain. You don't

even see the full bit of it. It gets like

a villain score so you know what you're in for. And it's basically bound off by a chain link fence, no

Dan: Well, they're going to take it down in a few months time or a few weeks time.

It's going to be their last chance

Sidey: been

Reegs: And you can see it's corroded to fuck. You don't have to go halfway up it to see that it's like, old and

Sidey: I mean the whole thing is fucking reckless, but to just look at it, you don't have to do a like,

you know, forensic examination to know this thing is fucking in, in, on its last legs, it's corroded to fuck.

Reegs: it's last

Dan: Well the,

Sidey: Some of the rust

on it it's like almost rusted completely through. And The first time that she puts her foot on a, you know, one of the fucking Ruts of the

you know, ladder and

it goes

I'm like, i'm out. I'm not fucking going. No way.

Dan: Well,

Reegs: So what they've got

Well, you

Dan: the floor, the ladder, you know, it does it is, or even that bit. It just shook me up. It's like, I want a

Sidey: But the

first bit, where they get where they walk, Because it's it's triangular shaped, right? And they go in it, and they look up.

That bit to me, I was like, woah. Yeah,

the camera

way worse for me, looking up at it like that, than looking down. I wouldn't be able

Dan: Once you get up high enough, then it's looking down. That's a, that's a pretty spectacular view. Spin out thing because as they get higher and higher and, and they have a rest, don't they like halfway?

Sidey: Yeah.

pretty quick. They're halfway up

Dan: and, and they look down and you just think,

Reegs: the height of the Eiffel

Dan: I think something drops, doesn't it? There's a, a rung of

Sidey: ladder I think a bolt comes out.

Dan: and you can just kind of hear it all rattling and

Sidey: Becky needs a lot of encouragement.

Understandably. She's not having the easiest Time getting up there. And, she.

needs

Plenty of,

pep

Dan: to go right to the top. So once they've done the stairs,

Reegs: Which is

sound. You can do

that. That's

Dan: Which is sound. You could do that. That's not that scary. Because you've got an internal ladder. You know, you could just climbing up. They're attached on

Reegs: I would not be climbing 1, 800 feet on a ladder. I'm pretty scared just getting up

to do the paint the bathroom

Dan: yeah, but I mean,

Reegs: ever do something like that.

Dan: At one point that tower was brand new in tip top condition and somebody had to go up and change the light bulb every now and again so somebody had to go up there and it's not, you know, I could do that kind of thing I reckon just to go straight up

Sidey: I could climb up that, I

Dan: new, you know, you've got like a rope on you all the

Reegs: the last 200 feet is an external ladder.

Sidey: Not sticking on that bit.

Dan: bit.

Reegs: and also,

Dan: there's

Reegs: Halfway up, there's a kind of set of satellite dishes as well that you sort of have to navigate your way around,

Dan: sort of have to navigate your way around, so And they

Sidey: thing. And we get plenty of shots

of Loose bolts. Yeah. And rattling round,

Reegs: final destination things falling out and

yeah. Yeah.

Dan: Well,

Pete: you also get is Hunter like pissing about on the ladder. Like

Reegs: shaking it. Yeah.

Pete: on like, what are you worried about? Look at it. Like shaking it, and as she's shaking it you see bolts like

unscrewing and popping out and stuff. Which is like quite irritating. Yeah. good tits.

Sidey: But they do, they do get to the top platform. There's then the bit with the.

it's

almost

looks unclimbable. It's a very narrow pole, just with the light bulb on the top,

Reegs: Yeah, it's

Sidey: it might be useful later. But there's the, the sort of platform where you can stand and that's where they get to. And what's the name? Debbie. Danny. Danny. No, d double d Hunter, sorry. She just hangs off it with one hand.

So

that they can do some fucking drone footage of her. hanging, And then convinces her mate.

to do the

same While she takes, like, selfies of the two

Reegs: And she's only holding

'em by

one, Her. Her own strength. And then a lot of this was not filmed green screen. A lot of this was filmed like on a

Sidey: they built a 200

foot. Yeah. On top of a mountain. Yeah. So that it was still looked really high. And they said, oh but they were only ever 200 That's still

Pete: Yeah, this is like,

Sidey: still pretty high.

Reegs: And it's shot in IMAX cameras and then sort of rescaled as well, so it looked pretty cool for that. so you get these huge expanse and the, these really like nerve jangling high shots.

Sometimes the camera will like timidly

peek over the edge like you might do, or like, Yeah, just your stomach swirling as the camera moves that sort of thing is pretty

Dan: It did kind of give you a little bit of a dizzy vertigo Spell when you were just when they dangled the camera

Sidey: it's gonna be time to go back down.

Right.

Reegs: going to

Sidey: Yeah. That's why they went. I was there for Loki type effort. . Yeah.

Reegs: go back down, right?

it's a Bobowski type country. Becky Jenner

first. Becky goes

first, yeah. And, is this,

Sidey: We, We, the audience, know that the ladder is because we've seen that the bolts go now. We know there's nothing holding it on. So when she starts to descend, you're like, well, she's Just waiting for it.

I was watching with my daughter as well.

Oh,

Dan: I was watching with my daughter as well.

Really? It should be.

Sidey: She is. Attached with a Harness.

But it's still like

fuck it.

Dan: And it drops a couple more times and bits of ladder are going down whether she's attached to them or not they're just they're not attached to anything so they're just kind of hurtling down and the entire structure has come the ladder has just disappeared so all the ladders have gone

Reegs: They don't actually initially realize that. So she you know she's so focused on her escape and getting back up it's funny they have quite a good reaction where they both start laughing she's like i almost died like it was quite a genuine type reaction They're laughing about it. And then they realize, oh fuck, there's no ladder

anymore.

And

we've got no

water in.

Dan: And they're wishing they brought those

Pete: Yeah, the bag's fallen and dropped onto those, one of those

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: What, those little suits, the,

like, wing suits. That's what they needed.

Sidey: No.

Doesn't

Dan: No.

Sidey: it makes you

go faster.

You

Cris: you also

have to know what to do in them, but anyway, that's for

Pete: still wear parachutes when they do

Reegs: Yeah.

they are pretty calm about it. There's been a box that said emergency on it that they showed us a few times. So now's the time to

Sidey: to

Chill

about it.

She's the one who's like, just stay calm, it'll be fine, you know, blah, blah, blah. and but Becky's understandably way more stressed out about it. Yeah. Obviously probably internalizing it. There is an emergency box they see up there, it's got a flare. And she's like, right. don't, don't do it now, We need to wait till it's dark so people can see it.

She's quite methodical. Yeah. She's obviously got some sort of training in terms of like what

best to do in

Reegs: they both stay fairly calm to be honest.

They've also

spotted an rv so that's, that seems to be their best sort of breaking bad style rv. She

has a, Becky has a piss and hunter is grateful she didn't have a shit, which I think we

all were.

Pete: There's also binoculars in the, in the

Reegs: Yeah.

They do twig pretty quickly that they had. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. phone signal

at the base

of the tower,

because they were

sending messages to hunters followers. So they come up with this idea to take possibly my favorite supporting character out of the movie, the Wonderbra, and stuff it into a

Sidey: shiv. Because they're not getting signal at the top

Reegs: Yeah, and stuff their phone

into a wonder bra into a

shoe, and drop it down and hope that it will send

on the way down quite a good plan, I thought and we get this

terrific Shoes eye shot of it falling down and twitting off the

Pete: for Right. There's two, I had two issues with this bit. Number one is she only did the laces up to like the sort of, 'cause these are like happy birthday chucks, aren't they? Like the converse, the ankle light heights. But she's only done the laces up to like, you know, there's still like three or four eyelets left.

Well, if you want to maintain the phone within the shoe, surely to God you'd do it right up to the top and do it up as tight as possible. Secondly, and this is obviously now a plot point, she's taken off the shoe that then reveals the tattoo of 143. But she's taken off the shoe that's on the foot where she's got that tattoo.

Surely, she would be conscious of that and take off the other

Sidey: guess it's A

stressful situation, and she may

have forgotten. I think that why would you get a tattoo of something your best friend's husband says is a secret love thing?

It seems fucking

Pete: Yeah,

In a place where she's almost definitely going to see it if you just go swimming once.

Or something

Reegs: where Literally one other human in the whole world would understand what that is.

and you're gonna have it

emblazoned on

your

Sidey: Yeah. It's daft. It's a daft plot point.

Reegs: Yeah. Also I think climbers need their shoes. And I

think you might have used other

items of clothing

Dan: could have sent it down a little parachute or something,

Reegs: the plot point to pulling it apart is part of the fun as you watch it, but most of the time this is actually a pretty fun

thrill ride. Anyway it doesn't, we see the shoe just breaks apart and dies.

Then there's some vultures,

then there's the 1 4

3,

Sidey: the guy with his dog.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: with the binoculars and what have you, they're able to spot a guy. He looks fucking sketchy.

He's got long hair,

so therefore

Dan: hair. The dog can hear them. The dog

Sidey: hear them. The dog can hear them.

And he, he sort of hears the thing

land.

Well, And he's sort of, yeah.

Pete: Becky's now, like you said, you're sure, like, Clomis need their shoes.

Becky takes off both her shoes and lobs them off the tower to try and obviously, you know, get his, this fella's attention.

And

that doesn't

Sidey: he's just like no

So they He

doesn't leave, he's got

the

RV

there.

And they decided, this is where she's like, no, we'll wait till is dark, then we can use the

flare

which they do, we sort of hang around, There's, there's this guy and his mate.

And they

set off the flare, and the guy, like

fucking, oh, look at that. Yeah. look at these two dickhead. And they just go and nick their

Reegs: They're

celebrating on

the top and the music goes all the

elated And then as they're watching, they

just watch him start breaking the window

of the

van And then he

Sidey: there off. Amazing.

Reegs: off. Amazing.

Sidey: Yeah, when your luck is out, you know, it's really out.

So that that's like despair and so their their spirits start to like really

plummet

Reegs: And they have to have their first night, which would be fucking freezing and

it's bathed in that flashing red light. And this is where they, I don't know why. Yeah. I don't know, Why are you supposed to care about Dan died in the opening few minutes and the only thing we know about him is that he was a philandering shit. And yeah, now they both have a big cry about how amazing he was.

Baffling, baffling, baffling,

Sidey: well, It's like plan

Plan number two, what they gonna do? What have they got left? Well, fuck all because the bag is down. So someone is gonna have to try and

Reegs: Well, they're running, they've got, they're running out of supplies,

Sidey: They're getting sunburned, although one is not

getting, well that's afterwards.

but

Dan: Water's down

Sidey: the Water's

down there, the drone is down there. Like what can we do? We could maybe fly the drone out and do something that way. So,

Dan: They hatch a daring plan. Plot, didn't he?

Sidey: Hunter's gonna have to go, Hunter's the better she

Dan: she drops down on the rope, tied to the pole which Was silly because it could have got another sort of five or

Pete: six. Yeah, I was

Dan: they'd have just tied it to the end of the the

anyway on the platform, but She hasn't got enough rope anyway, so she's got to unclip herself and then swing to land 2 000 meters above the the floor on these Are the dishes that have fallen and bent themselves.

And, and

Pete: but luckily hold her weight initially.

Dan: but with a jump. Yeah, they, I mean they are big old sort of panels, aren't they? But she's, she's on there. She's got the water, she's able to hook it back up.

Sidey: Yeah, she used, I didn't really get that. Why was it, why was it attached to the bag? I don't Understand. anyway?

Reegs: She uses a selfie stick to

Sidey: Yeah, but why was the bag I didn't understand.

And, and there was earlier when she climbed, and she only single strapped. it. It was like.

you've gotta be climbing

like that double

Dan: yeah,

Sidey: got a Double strap. Anyway, she used a selfie stick

to had

Dan: I, I thought of the single strap when she's

Sidey: going and, And then they start to pull her back. So she's climbing, and, and then she'll take a break and Becky will pull her up.

But as she gets near the top, wouldn't you know it, If she fucks it and falls back down.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Injuring her hands in the

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

And Becky's

obviously like

flashbacks to like previous events, she's like fuck.

dead.

Dan: she looks over at the rope and it seems to be kind of loosed isn't it like there's nobody on there

Sidey: no

Dan: when she when she goes yeah no tension and there's loads of tension otherwise because she's peeking over the edge of the platform and there she is she's just fucked her hands are just holding on and she's

Sidey: rope bones is what have you. Yeah.

Dan: and she manages to pull her up and then we have this kind of you know, another crazy kind of time where she's got the water she's having a drink again, and they're trying to get the drone up and

Reegs: Yeah. But

they didn't bring any extra batteries. Or perhaps Hunter had used it in a dildo, I don't know.

Dan: And they, they go, they go and they fly the drone off, don't

Reegs: Yeah.

they

Dan: And and you think, oh no, she says it's not gonna have enough battery, let's, bring it back. And you think, For what

Sidey: If only you had shown us in the movie a way to charge something.

without a battery pack or a charger That would really come in handy now. So yeah, Becky's gonna scale up the thing

take the light bulb out.

Reegs: It's an extra 30 feet, but it's just like shimmying up this,

Sidey: It's like a single scaffolding pole. Yeah.

Dan: with with a vulture attacking her gammy leg, which we might not mention that she's got a she's injured from the first attack.

fall where she just

Sidey: On the ladder, yeah.

Dan: her life, her own life. And so this, this vulture keeps flying in and he's got the taste, isn't

Reegs: this, is where it starts with that while she's climbing, shimmying her way up. She

gets to the top unplugs the light bulb oh i need a bit of extra metal for superconductivity.

Just turns out that your ring that's

Sidey: becomes the hero in Yeah, So what? This guy's a

Reegs: So they use

the wedding ring to I don't know, hack.

the

blah blah. blah.

Sidey: Yeah, she has to hold onto it for God knows how many hours while it charges up.

Reegs: And so eventually it is

charged and again, the score swells to tell you that perhaps they're going to be rescued. They come up with this idea of writing a note in,

with using mascara or something that she'd already had for her makeup we knew about.

and putting it

to the drone

and flying

the drone to the diner and It's almost

there and

then it's I

Dan: believe that they can't see that thing coming. I mean, they've got the view of views, one of them's got binoculars. You must be able to see. Look,

Sidey: that

Dan: whoa,

Pete: say one of them's got binoculars, there's Yeah, like we, there's a reveal

Dan: There is a reveal, but at that stage, this is what I'm thinking. You know, how have you managed

Sidey: Well, what I couldn't believe is this guy's

Dan: There's one road, there's

Sidey: So this truck driver's going down the freeway, and Something fucking smashes into it, and he doesn't get out. he gets out, but he doesn't go and investigate what It was I'd be like, what the fuck was that?

Well, he's

Reegs: gets out, but it doesn't go and investigate.

what it was all

about.

Well

Sidey: well she's she's just falling asleep and she's trying to get her to speak and

Hunter's trying to get, This is reveal.

Hunter's, Hunter has been trying to keep her awake and she's been having no problem sleeping.

Sorry. No, she's never asleep and she's not quite as tired.

Reegs: she's

never drinking water. She's not

Sidey: quite as som burnt and she's relatively okay. and She's holding it together, whereas Becky is like looking really ravaged now by the elements and is just sort of doesn't want to force it because you're going to fall off the platform

and this is the reveal where

she says well

You know,

do you think your scorny ass could have fucking hauled me up there.

She

Reegs: She says about oh, we'll

throw another

shoe down and you're like We'll do it again. We'll do it better. And she's like, well, we can't like why?

Well, because i'm

down there and then he peeks over the edge and there's the dead body. of Hunter. Dun

Dan: I bled out I I never made it and then your mind goes back to that Rope that wasn't had any tension and you're like, yeah, I kind of knew it from the gut But they they played it like she'd made it.

So, but that was all in her mind. She just couldn't admit it .

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. So very silly. pot plot twist, but There we go. More thunder and lightning at night. Vultures attacking nightmares. And this

is then a very disturbing scene, really, where

she kind of.

I took

this as she lets

that vulture she sort of wakes up realizes

a vulture is chewing on

her

Sidey: her own bait.

Reegs: And then,

use yeah, exactly uses her leg as bait to then snap its neck brutally like white house. All the bloods.

Yeah, exactly.

Dan: me on the kite the other day with seagull

Reegs: Anyway, she eats from it and it like popeye style rejuvenates her.

Sidey: Yeah, and she's got no alternative but to try to get down to the bag. Yeah Because she's just gonna die out there So, try and get down to the bag to

try the note thing again, basically.

or

Reegs: well, no, we don't know what her plan is,

really, we just see her galvanize,

she puts her hair back in a ponytail and climbs down. There's a

vulture there,

Sidey: She

also has, like, they've downplayed

her breasts because they are epic.

Pete: she takes her, she has to take her top off at

Sidey: Yes so she's just in a sort of

Pete: big

Sidey: bra top. I don't know

if you looked her up on IMDb, but if

you click into

her photography section I would strongly recommend looking at photos 28

Reegs: Okay,

Sidey: 29.

coming

Pete: Yeah, coming back to her plan, it is the plan that she sort of was suggesting when you got the reveal which is oh there's another shoe so we'll do so that's her plan is to go and throw her phone off this time but in the shoe and do it make a better fist of it

Reegs: as she gets to stare

down a vulture she's covered in a vulture's blood and she stares one right in the eyes and it

Dan: Yeah.

that's

Reegs: She's taking her power

Dan: and, but she doesn't just put

Pete: well, she has a better idea when she gets down there because obviously the vultures have been having their their way with with Hunter's corpse and created a nice wound. And at first, I thought maybe just the phone's going to go in there but no, the entire

Sidey: Yeah, I thought that's not bad on the

Pete: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a moment. But the whole shoe with the phone inside, inside her.

Sidey: and then just

Pete: and all sorts goes in the big wound and

Sidey: But it's this time. It's it's you know, her dad's been messaging, We've seen him messaging her, nothing delivered, nothing delivered, if you want to talk, and this is your message to her dad, and Fox Hunter off off the satellite dish.

and then it's her dad.

You'd see him.

Dan: like trapped

Sidey: You just

Dan: down or

Sidey: Yeah,

well that's it.

You just see

him racing then towards, in his car.

And we

see the we see the blues and twos there.

and

Reegs: was such a baffling choice not to show the rescue to me in any way that there was, And then it's,

like presented like it's supposed to

be tense.

He's like, Oh my God! Oh my God!

But we already know, surely she's

going to be fine. And then when we go there, the first

shot is of a body on

the floor, which you know is Hunter. But she

suddenly calls

her attention, Dad, hi,

I'm in the back of the ambulance. Let's just go home I'm not in any

Sidey: not in any danger

Reegs: And I have, I might not be on a murder charge.

Sidey: states, wouldn't, you probably get the bill for all the fucking emergency services?

Yeah. Probably. I think, Yeah,

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: be hell to

Reegs: So, yeah.

Sidey: home

with

Reegs: And they let her go home with her severe sunburn,

Dan: and she's going to be okay. That's what she says. Don't worry, dad. I think I'm going to be okay now. I'm

Sidey: She's got her old man.

Pete: Yeah, yeah,

because so that the, the second like ridiculously traumatic experience has like nullified the first one. So, yeah.

Sidey: And she's effectively going through a man. Yeah. You were right about my

husband.

Dan: Yeah. I mean, that's basically what this film's about is about dads being, right.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: From the beginning. If she'd have just listened to him from the beginning and

Reegs: And that's why it's a strong,

Pete: Do we, do we know why, how he knew that she was there?

Sidey: you

Reegs: It pictures at the

Sidey: at the background? Did you see the comedy wedding photo?

Reegs: Yeah.

There's like, there's a wedding photo, which

in the background is Hunter. Look, they're kissing

Sidey: It's photobombing it with evils

Reegs: kissing and hunter is looking moody

in the background. and dad

is looking moody in the background

as well. so one photo, so much

Dan: photo so much exposition. Which they've never seen them, they've

Reegs: No. Yeah, Yeah.

Dan: before. Yeah, it was a keeper.

Yeah, but I really like this film. It was from the first few and I, I say I liked it. I didn't like it because I don't like these kind of films that make me like real nailed by an edge of the seat.

But afterwards and, and sort of. in it, there was moments, it makes you feel something, you know, edge of your seat and you're like, oh, I don't want to watch him turning away and what's going to happen. And it did all that. So it was fun. It was, you know, good pace really clever in the fact that it didn't have a lot of actors just like, you know, two people basically holding the whole show together.

And I like films like that, where they just got this kind of premise here and these two characters. I like the little twist bit at the end and the vultures and although it was ridiculous, it had me and it was good on.

Sidey: Yeah, I think you're right. Reeves the fun is just like, picking at it You I did enjoy it.

I sent my daughter away after I was like, this is not for you, Fuck off.

Reegs: yeah.

Sidey: It's like, it's ridiculous. you know, the weather, The hallucinating things, I was like, oh really? But all in all, I just went to quite enjoy it.

Pete: I'm not great at spotting twists or like I'm normally blindsided by that,

Sidey: that.

Pete: not immediately, obviously, but After a little while, I was just like, I was thinking to myself, now that you've completely mu because this bird was so like, overtly like, you know, in to some people like fun loving and cool and like to others, probably me, a bit of a twat, like a reckless

Sidey: she was really reckless,

Pete: seeking idiot.

And then, but they totally, like, and then I was thinking, like, what, she's being completely marginalized here, like, she's not wounded other than her hands are a bit sore, and then all of a sudden I was, it was just the way she was kind of, like, always sat there, like, almost behind her, talking to her, just offering little bits of advice, and I was like, Okay, like, is she dead?

Is this a ghost? Is it like, I was wondering where it was going to go and obviously they, they then gave the reveal. Well, I would say the vulture thing and the blood that, that is where she like drinks the blood and it rejuvenates her. I've read about a Like there's some guy in the Marathon de Sable who got lost in a sandstorm and was like two weeks lost in the desert, found like an old disused monastery and like fed off like the blood of bats and that's what kept him alive.

So that does, that is, that does ring true. But I, I'm like with what sounds like all of you guys, I mean it is, sometimes it's preposterous. I wasn't in love with the acting, a lot of the acting. I thought like, you know, the, the use of the, the overuse of the word freaking. was like quite

Reegs: well. So

do you know why

Pete: read that they wanted to make it like open it to a wider audience because it would have been an r rating

Reegs: it was done with ai. Yeah, they

they changed the rating afterwards so replaced all of the swearing right using the guy scott Mann, the director's own company to do an AI type switching thing. I had no

idea

never noticed The only

thing you notice is

Pete: well like deep fake stuff you mean yeah yeah Yeah.

Yeah.

Dan: What all these

Pete: acts? No, the

the, the, just the swears.

Reegs: just the swearing. Yeah,

Pete: like, freaking was, like, actually grating on me quite a bit how many times she used it. But, all of that

Reegs: in one

Pete: and all of the, like, the silliness and the, like, plot holes and all of that kind of stuff, I was sat there, In my chair feeling that kind of like not in the stomach feeling I get if I'm up really high looking over something or whatever I get that so it was Yeah, definitely.

I I did enjoy it despite all of its silliness

Dan: Yeah, having it finished and i've it's the kind of film that i'll go and recommend to people Is how you

Sidey: What about Christian?

Dan: feel something

Cris: because it

Reegs: not for you

Cris: Oh, no. Oh, no. Even when I watched the, I looked on the thing, what should we watch? I was working all week, so I didn't have time.

I watched, and I thought, right, which one am I going to watch first? And I've googled both of them. And I, I just looked at what this movie is about and I thought, I'll never watch But then obviously I knew I have to. So then this morning I woke up at seven and I didn't want to wake up this early.

So I thought, right, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to put this movie on because I'm definitely going to fall asleep. And obviously I did. And I've only watched it until the when she eats the vulture, the thing.

And then I fell asleep and I couldn't care less how

Sidey: how it

Cris: It was,

honestly, I don't understand why they made this movie, first of all, and I don't understand why anyone thinks that.

I'm not a climber, I'm not Pete. But I honestly don't understand, at the beginning when they climb like free solo and that. Ah, suckers, ah, fuck off, nobody talks when they do that. I've seen that free solo. Nobody talks you have to be focused. This is if anyone's a like an adventure seeker or whatever

Reegs: Yeah, exactly, yeah.

Sidey: that's why I died.

Cris: well Yeah, I don't know.

I

Dan: a, it's a

Reegs: thing at all though,

Cris: first half an hour, it doesn't matter. The first half an hour, I was just like, this is, it was just like one after the other. The scenes were just getting worse

Until

they got to the top and I was like, okay, well now I get it. It has to be something really shit to keep this because I looked like the time of the, when they got to the top, there was another hour at least of the movie.

So they have to fill this up somehow. When they're on a slice of pizza.

So, yeah, not for me

Sidey: Riggs,

Reegs: Oh,

I'm with you guys I enjoyed it, this

is a well made tense thriller.

I it has some ludicrous decisions as part of the fun. It may be stretch, like I was thinking, Fucking hell, how are they gonna make an hour and 46 out of this? And they do every trick in the book to do exactly that.

But I had a good time with it. So, yeah, I would

watch another one as well.

Pete: Yeah.

Sidey: Strong

recommend. two. Yeah. Yeah. Strong

recommend.

Cris: This time they go in the depth of the Mariana

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: DVD for Chris for Christmas.

Cris: Please do.

Sidey: Right, what was this?

kid's thing called?

Reegs: Dizzy

Heights High.

Sidey: and it said on the

description,

this is on YouTube that We watched it finally CBBC classic about, when I was like, okay classic, I don't Because it was 1992. I think

Reegs: This particular

Dan: I remember this

Reegs: 90 and 93. I vaguely remembered this

as well.

Sidey: And I think I was like, you know, we were in secondary school like

twelve thirteen. Definitely. I was Definitely too cool for this.

And I hated live action anyway. and this is right in the sweet spot of, like,

catastrophic ness.

Dan: I just finished my

Reegs: PhD. So

Sidey: starts, it starts off, it's a sort of animated bit of a hotel.

Reegs: bit of a

Sidey: so it does, it does. This is the best bit. He's in a broom cupboard it looks like.

Yeah,

Dan: he might still be there.

Pete: think you two go home.

Sidey: Yeah, and, yeah, then, then yeah, he introduced it. and Then we go into this sort of animated intro bit. And then it's turns into

a live action thing

with The ugliest looking puppets. Like

Reegs: spitting, they are some of the spitting image dolls. but

Dan: They're

like the ones they didn't want.

They're actually

Yeah, really strange

Sidey: Terrible aesthetic of this.

Reegs: this. Latex abominations. The the sort of concept is faulty towers but with spitting image muppets,

Sidey: Yeah, That's it. Yeah.

Reegs: and the

Dan: And boy does it work.

Reegs: Anchor the show are Heap and Wall. I

Sidey: because that's their actual names. Yeah.

Reegs: Heap of shit and Wall of shit. Wall of shit,

Sidey: junk, yeah.

Reegs: And they

subpar Chucklevision it around

for 25 minutes.

This episode has

the amusingly named mrs

Gristle she has a crash and

I think

she lands on heap which

Sidey: He

Reegs: him a brain injury and he thinks he's julius caesar. So to cut a long story short. They decide to Shutter island

him

Sidey: If

only they

had cut this story short.

Reegs: Yeah,

Shutter Island, what was it called? Shutter Island,

Sidey: yeah.

Shutter Island,

Reegs: Yeah, They sort of indulge his fantasy for a while,

Which involves a big Glaswegian chef off screen beating up one of the people.

Dan: people. Yeah finally they, they kind of go into the gladiators battle arena and he gets another whack over the head which

Sidey: He starts, he starts losing it and putting a styrofoam cup around his head.

Yeah. And I know that makes no sense to listen to now, but it makes no

sense when you watch it on the television screen.

It's just

Dan: And there's high budget. I hate this.

Reegs: No.

Occasionally there's some dismembered pig heads on the wall that do an impression of what are those fucking Muppets? The Statler

Sidey: that's exactly what they're supposed to be like and it just doesn't work.

Reegs: And also, I, did we talk about how monstrously ugly the puppets are?

Dan: they do a couple of half decent puns in in the early part of this episode.

Sidey: No They

Dan: They did. They did. Yeah. Yeah. You have

Reegs: you get any down? Because I must say they were, I

Dan: I know I didn't they weren't that memorable, but it made me have hope this was in the first sort of two or three minutes but Honestly, I couldn't believe it.

I started setting up the pod actually as this was was on because after 17 18 minutes my attention was seriously waving and it just carried on going the last three or four minutes were the longest You

Sidey: It's,

like, excruciatingly bad. I

Dan: have hated

Sidey: this now.

I would, I would've hated this if I'd seen it as a as a kid.

It's dreadful.

Reegs: The music

was pretty good. Can we hear that score now?

No.

Dan: was

Sidey: I don't want,

Reegs: It was pretty good though. I

Sidey: I don't want this on my hard drive. No, it is a hard no. Honestly, nothing, nothing to redeem this. It was just

Dan: awful.

Sidey: Not funny. I think Yeah,

not funny, too long, horrible to look at, just it's a hard no.

Reegs: I'm afraid we all

really rather agree on

that, but not everybody did. It racked up to 28 episodes over

the course of four

series and a couple of spinoffs. 1990 fours, The House of Gristle,

and 1990 fives, The Curious Case of

Dr. Hertz Van Rental.

Sidey: Title sounds good actually.

Reegs: Yeah, it, that suckered me in a bit as well, but no, this was awful. Mick Wall. He's dead.

Sidey: Good.

Reegs: And he was once Britain's top mime artist.

So, another reason to want him

Sidey: Okay.

Dan: mime banter

Sidey: Not huge fans of this, I have to say, but it's a Strong.

recommend from

me.

Dan: Oh, we didn't go through all the food that we brought today, did we? Okay. Do

Sidey: do you want a quick recap now?

Dan: Well,

Sidey: We

have enjoyed a tub of toxic waste.

Dan: There is some caram a la met.

Sidey: Yeah,

those are fake Werther's. They're foreign Werther's. We've had some

We've had, we've gone back onto

the cheese with some Roquefort and some brie.

And we've had beer, cider,

and wine.

And Saucisson. yeah.

So what, a veritable smorgasbord. of

Dan: been quite, quite good, hasn't it?

Sidey: We're Very nourished.

I don't know who's nominating for next week.

Dan: next week. Are you going

Sidey: I don't know if Pete's going to be here next

Pete: dunno,

Sidey: Because I've got some noms.

It's not, it's Definitely not my,

but You need to be here.

Pete: Oh. Oh, okay. Remember? Well, whose turn is it? It

Sidey: Was, was rigged. It was, mine the week before. Probably Chris or

Dan.

Pete: There we go.

Sidey: We'll come up with them later. Yeah?

Vertigo Week's been strong.

Strong. Apart from that, apart from that kids thing.

All that remains is to say Sidey signing

out.

Reegs: has left the building.

Pete: I'm gone.

Cris: We'll be there. Thanks.

Dan: Dan's gone.