Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha Stephane never told your
Speaker 1: protection to by Heart Radio, and welcome to another edition
Speaker 1: of Happy Hour where we are just going to talk
Speaker 1: about movies. Hey, that's another another yearly round up, mainly
Speaker 1: because Yeah, you did something that I didn't think you
Speaker 1: would do. Gave me time. I'm very surprised by, but
Speaker 1: I thought we would do because we've talked about our
Speaker 1: movie traditions before. UM and I have some that I
Speaker 1: will call problematic fhaves because there's a lot that I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: when you look through with them, this loans this is
Speaker 1: a really problem. This is a big problem that should
Speaker 1: be a conversation. But I still loved them, and I
Speaker 1: think we have some overlapping ones. But before we start
Speaker 1: all of that, because yes, we're gonna get into movies,
Speaker 1: talking about movies and all that. It is a happy hour.
Speaker 1: This is one apparently, UM and I think, is it
Speaker 1: going to the New Year in the new year yet?
Speaker 1: We are not in the New Year yet as it
Speaker 1: comes out, but we are after the holiday, so this
Speaker 1: is a bit of a late one. But I will
Speaker 1: say one thing I noticed when I was watching your
Speaker 1: The Bliss of Movies that you gave me is a
Speaker 1: lot of them. Christmas was very much in the background,
Speaker 1: and New Year's might have been a bigger theme. So
Speaker 1: I think it's several of them. New Year's is kind
Speaker 1: of the theme and it um. But I love them
Speaker 1: and I will watch them throughout because if it involves
Speaker 1: a snow, yeah, I assume it's Christmas Eve. It's kind
Speaker 1: of that thing. Um. But we have some overlapping movies. Um,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about those first, because I think
Speaker 1: Elf is that one of yours as well? Or is
Speaker 1: it just me? Elf is one of mine? However, it
Speaker 1: is a new I would say a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: I saw it for the first time, so it's a
Speaker 1: new issue for me, but it is one that I
Speaker 1: watched for year. Yes, right, so that's that's that's one.
Speaker 1: And because of you, I think I've rewatch started watching
Speaker 1: Home alone. Yeah I didn't. That was never a part
Speaker 1: of my list, but then I was like, oh, yeah
Speaker 1: they existed. We really I really like that as a kid.
Speaker 1: Why shouldn't I watch it? That's that's two years, right?
Speaker 1: Do you do one and two? I do one in two.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for the Chris Columbus stud he's trying
Speaker 1: to release one without Donald Trump in it. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna try to put him out. It's really still.
Speaker 1: You don't need it like to be in there. So
Speaker 1: I think that's yeah, that should go. Um, I have
Speaker 1: a list. I'm looking at me list. Okay, okay, you
Speaker 1: tell me your list. I'm embarrassed. This is the safe space. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Um okay, everybody. I watched ELF, I watched
Speaker 1: the animated Branch, I watched Rudolf, the Claymation jingle all
Speaker 1: the Way Christmas Story, which I just watched the new
Speaker 1: one today and it made me cry. I did not
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Um. Like, remember when I was telling you
Speaker 1: how interesting I find it that when people who are
Speaker 1: younger and make these really optimistic movies, and then when
Speaker 1: they get older they make really depressing movies. That's what.
Speaker 1: And then Home Alone went into Santa Claus Spider Verse
Speaker 1: and I'm a big Christmas Carol, which is like my
Speaker 1: big one. That's okay, So that's the one I watched
Speaker 1: in honor of you watching all of my problematic face.
Speaker 1: I was like, I've never seen the Christmas Carol. I've
Speaker 1: actually never really watched a Christmas Story, mainly because it
Speaker 1: is on so much literally TBS. That's the twenty four
Speaker 1: hour that I feel like I've seen all of it.
Speaker 1: Like I can tell you the scenes from it, the lamp,
Speaker 1: the tongue, the cursing, the gun, the rifle, the shoot
Speaker 1: your eye out that can be shoved down the slide
Speaker 1: by the Santa. I've never watched it, fully, I've never
Speaker 1: sat down to watch it, and I can tell you
Speaker 1: all these scenes. So I feel like I definitely have
Speaker 1: seen it, and I've just never gotten into it. I've
Speaker 1: never really watched Jingle all the way. I think that's
Speaker 1: so way out of my time frame that I just
Speaker 1: cannot appreciate it. I did watch Santa Claus because my
Speaker 1: father loves Santa Claus, like that was one of our
Speaker 1: traditional movies and I like it, But because like I
Speaker 1: didn't love it, and because I don't like Tim Allen,
Speaker 1: I just don't add that to my list. Um so
Speaker 1: that's not a thing that I watched. Elf for sure.
Speaker 1: Rudolph knows Raindeer. It was one of ours as well.
Speaker 1: But it makes me sad even though it's happy, but
Speaker 1: it's too like all of the claim patients are so
Speaker 1: sad to me that I cannot watch them. And this
Speaker 1: includes uh, Santa Claus is coming to town. That's the
Speaker 1: animation with Jessica be Mrs Claus. That's the I will say,
Speaker 1: meister meister Burger, right, everything we're talking about, which I
Speaker 1: think we're going to do it. I imagine very funny
Speaker 1: breakdown of like wow that look at these interesting differences
Speaker 1: in the movies we watch every year. Um that like
Speaker 1: a lot of these as we mentioned forever ago when
Speaker 1: my friend Katie came on and did her like breakdown
Speaker 1: of Hallmark. If you have nostalgia for a movie as
Speaker 1: a kid, watch it before you show it to your kids.
Speaker 1: I say, this is not a parent, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you Rudolph as one where I was like, yes, yes, Yo,
Speaker 1: that's fine to like watch it and then just picture
Speaker 1: your kids, know like you know, hey, you have to
Speaker 1: go through a nostalgic lens because you see all these
Speaker 1: things and you're like, wow, this is a big problem.
Speaker 1: Um the same thing with my parents. Loved the religious stuff,
Speaker 1: including the Walton's Christmas, which is one of the most
Speaker 1: traumatically I watched as a kid. I was upset four
Speaker 1: days because a little girl got a doll that she
Speaker 1: won who she was superor for and when she opened
Speaker 1: it had a broken face. And that was traumatic. Yes,
Speaker 1: a lot of these Christmas movies are. They couldn't find
Speaker 1: each other, they were stuck in snow. It was bad.
Speaker 1: It was a real bad and everybody was so upset.
Speaker 1: The mom they played the mom in this, and then
Speaker 1: they had the Walton's if you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: They had several different characters playing the mother. The mother
Speaker 1: that placed with this one was so unkind. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be religious, y'all. That I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is what I remember. I could be wrong. Why
Speaker 1: would you portray the mother in such a negative way
Speaker 1: for a Christian movie? This is a whole different conversation.
Speaker 1: But the things that I did not have you watched
Speaker 1: that I think that is on my list that you
Speaker 1: may have watched on your own, that are not the
Speaker 1: same type of I think it's more of the along
Speaker 1: the lines of your favorites. It would be Ernest Saves Christmas.
Speaker 1: I watched that every year and Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. It
Speaker 1: is a part of my tradition. I watched that with
Speaker 1: my family as well, and it was one that I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed growing up and thought it was hilarious. Watched
Speaker 1: it as an adult. Problematic obviously. If you know anything
Speaker 1: about Lampoon, if you know anything about Champy Chase, sexist
Speaker 1: as hell, a lot of problematic issues, really misogynistic, very
Speaker 1: capitalistic as well. Um, so all those things you can
Speaker 1: add to the bunch of this entirety. But I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna make you watch those. But I feel like they
Speaker 1: lean towards more of your father's a problem and or
Speaker 1: family issues or whatever what not, goopiness or ignorance of men. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was the biggest thing I noticed. Because you
Speaker 1: gave me five movies, which we're about to talk about.
Speaker 1: I gave you like one, but I knew you would
Speaker 1: see most of mine because I feel like mine are
Speaker 1: like more well in my spider verse. I need to
Speaker 1: add it to it, but I don't have. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: happens at Christmas. It's not a Christmas movie, but it happens.
Speaker 1: It counts. It counts. Oh, come on, it's beautiful watching
Speaker 1: anytime you can. But it was that all of mine
Speaker 1: are pretty much yet some kind of dysfunctional family dynamic
Speaker 1: usually the dad is not there, and yours are much
Speaker 1: more like romance. With that kind of I would say
Speaker 1: a hint of like love sucks, um but can't work out.
Speaker 1: But also essentially all of mine are rom coms, like
Speaker 1: all of mine fall into rom coms, which I would
Speaker 1: have never said that. That's the thing, Honestly. The Potter series,
Speaker 1: Harry Potter series, who typically it is a part of
Speaker 1: my Christmas I don't watch that. I try not to
Speaker 1: watch that because I don't want to give residuals to
Speaker 1: she who will not be named, who has come out
Speaker 1: as a lot worse recently, um, including a recent tweet
Speaker 1: of hers, I guess poking fun about it, um and
Speaker 1: really problematic, Like I was like, oh, she's just really
Speaker 1: trying to ostracize people during a time that a community
Speaker 1: of people are being murdered and applotted against literally cool. Um.
Speaker 1: So that is slowly trying to slide out. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard because it's gonna for me and for most people. Look,
Speaker 1: there's so many feels to that, obviously, and this is
Speaker 1: we've talked about it many times before, but that that
Speaker 1: was a part of my list as well. That I'm
Speaker 1: not going to talk about as in like celebrate it. Um,
Speaker 1: definitely don't want to talk about you should watch it,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't, especially if it's going to be giving residuals
Speaker 1: to people, which makes me sad because the actors get
Speaker 1: the residuals, they don't need money, but like the smaller
Speaker 1: actors in there. That made it really because we saw
Speaker 1: a lot of young kids who have never acted, who
Speaker 1: probably never act again in these movies. And I'm sad
Speaker 1: that we can't celebrate that. But whatever, that's a whole
Speaker 1: different conversation, hold different one. But yes, mine are all
Speaker 1: ended up being rom coms. And I'm listening it off
Speaker 1: for you and you're like, by the way, my partner
Speaker 1: refused to sit down and watch it with me either,
Speaker 1: But they are. And this is freaking heavy with Hugh Grant.
Speaker 1: I don't understand because I don't even like him as
Speaker 1: a person necessarily, I don't have anything wrong with him,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, yeah, he's fine, he's an individual, but yes,
Speaker 1: he ends up being a chunk of this list as
Speaker 1: the heartthrob and or you know, the bad guy, the
Speaker 1: bad boy. Um, so I don't even understand it. I
Speaker 1: did not try for it. It just happened, I promise.
Speaker 1: I think it was just during this era where Hugh
Speaker 1: Grant was a huge rom Calm star. It's true. So
Speaker 1: the movies include About a Boy, Bridget Jones Diary, Love Actually.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, there's this is a love hate movie.
Speaker 1: Either you love it or you hate it, like there's
Speaker 1: no in between. And by the way, apparently, um, the
Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary of that movie just happened, and so there
Speaker 1: is an abc S special revisiting this movie. Yes, and
Speaker 1: and the impact of this movie quarter for um and
Speaker 1: then adding to that While you were Sleeping still one
Speaker 1: of my favorites, as well as The Holiday. Uh, and
Speaker 1: it is so cheesy that I have for all for
Speaker 1: a long time been very ashamed of this movie. Actually
Speaker 1: a majority of these movies, I say, like, oh god,
Speaker 1: I love them. I love them. So you these are
Speaker 1: the five that you watched, correct? I think actually those
Speaker 1: are four. I also watched The Last Holiday. I have
Speaker 1: not watched that one. I need to watch it. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: because you saw you watched About a Boy The Holiday
Speaker 1: while you were sleeping, Bridge Jones Diary and Love Actually.
Speaker 1: But you see, yeah, the Last holiday is not mine
Speaker 1: because I've never seen that, right, But we were talking
Speaker 1: about it when we were discussing our feminist movie Friday,
Speaker 1: which one we do, that's why. But yeah, so I
Speaker 1: also watched that. I did a bonus one yes and
Speaker 1: watch Everybody in one Week. And I did this with
Speaker 1: a friend who liked these Yes, right, Katie and I
Speaker 1: are here, so yes because it loves Actually you've already
Speaker 1: seen and while you were sleeping correct the other three
Speaker 1: you hadn't. Yes. I saw. I saw Love actually why
Speaker 1: you're sleeping I saw when I was quite younger, and
Speaker 1: I so both of them. I didn't really remember. There
Speaker 1: were like a few parts in Love Actually, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I remember like Bill Nye's storyline, I remembered very well.
Speaker 1: I remembered like the classic you know cards at the
Speaker 1: end where he's pulling up the cards. That was about oh,
Speaker 1: and I remember to Alan Rickman cheated, but that was
Speaker 1: about it. That was hurt because that was too close
Speaker 1: to Emma Thompson's real life. And then Alan Rickman passing
Speaker 1: away it just makes it even harder because he seemed
Speaker 1: like a genuinely amazing person and you kind of fall
Speaker 1: in love with its characters, even when they're bad characters
Speaker 1: die Hard, which I didn't make you watch that. That's
Speaker 1: not my Christmas movie though I used to do that
Speaker 1: every Christmas. And then I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think every like three Christmas or so he spread
Speaker 1: it out better, all right, So I need to know
Speaker 1: out of the five that I've given you, and you
Speaker 1: could had the last holiday, because I don't know, how
Speaker 1: would you rank these movies as to enjoyability? Oh well,
Speaker 1: big caveat. I did watch them all on one day,
Speaker 1: I think one day. Um, so I think some of them,
Speaker 1: probably them being first or last or whatever. I I
Speaker 1: enjoyed all of them. I enjoyed all of them. Um.
Speaker 1: I really liked the Holiday. It was not what I
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be at all. Um. For
Speaker 1: some reason, I thought they were like essentially doing a
Speaker 1: spouse swap. Um. So I know, so I kept being like, wait,
Speaker 1: where's the where's the So I really liked the holiday.
Speaker 1: I liked about a Boil a lot, even I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting it, but it was just so like funny. I
Speaker 1: love how the part I like died laughing is when
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant just says, oh bloody Hill when they're like
Speaker 1: your life is meaningless and you know, have anybody that
Speaker 1: cares about you? Like like that's yeah, that's me. Um.
Speaker 1: I really liked While you were Sleeping. It took forever
Speaker 1: for Bill Pullman to show up, or maybe it didn't,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, where is he supposed to
Speaker 1: be here? Where did he go? Right? Right? So I
Speaker 1: had that kind of going in I love. Actually, I
Speaker 1: kept getting confused with um that creators. Also, he did
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, Yeah, one of them. I've never watched any
Speaker 1: other movies of hers, but yeah something, so I kept
Speaker 1: being like, where's Taylor Swift? Um, I liked it better
Speaker 1: than the first time I saw it. I think it's
Speaker 1: good to have the kushioning of like, oh this person
Speaker 1: does anything? I don't know. Yes, So I did enjoy
Speaker 1: it better than the first time I saw it. And
Speaker 1: then Bridget Jones Is I did a whole episode on.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that one too, and it was fun
Speaker 1: to watch it with my friend who was really into it.
Speaker 1: She was really into most of them. I think she
Speaker 1: hadn't seen two of them for a long time, but
Speaker 1: she was so into it. It was really infectious. Um,
Speaker 1: so that that was fun. But it was funny because
Speaker 1: I kept commenting on, well, where's the Christmas party? New
Speaker 1: Year's but the Christmas Holiday most of them had it.
Speaker 1: It was just like very subtle, or it was like
Speaker 1: not until like you know, the midway point or whatever,
Speaker 1: it became clear. It was just funny to me because
Speaker 1: I was like, I can see the differences between about
Speaker 1: Samantha and I leaned. I don't think that this has
Speaker 1: everything to do with my like challenge trauma and what
Speaker 1: I was raised with and what I did didn't watch.
Speaker 1: So those movies that typically you talk about other than Rudolph,
Speaker 1: Santa Claus and Home Alone, I've never really watched the
Speaker 1: other movies. But so how would you rank them? What
Speaker 1: was your top? I think I liked For the Holiday
Speaker 1: the most, and then About a Boy While you were sleeping,
Speaker 1: Bridget Jones Love actually okay, okay, oh, and you had
Speaker 1: to watch Bridget Jones for the for the Friday movie.
Speaker 1: I liked all of them. I had fun with all
Speaker 1: of them. Like I said, again, we because I watched
Speaker 1: them all in one day. I do think that a
Speaker 1: lot towards the end whatever was that the end together?
Speaker 1: I think the last watched was Bridget Jones, which was
Speaker 1: not smart. We should have started with that one because
Speaker 1: I knew when we were going to do this episode holiday.
Speaker 1: We started with the Last Holiday. Actually, she was very
Speaker 1: excited to watch that. Okay, what would that go on
Speaker 1: your list? I haven't seen it. Had all know they
Speaker 1: were all fun. I liked all of them. I had
Speaker 1: to rank them though, No, that's not the holiday spirit
Speaker 1: for me. Well, I don't know. I bet I could,
Speaker 1: Like you could literally ask me tomorrow after I've had
Speaker 1: more sleep, and I bet I would have a whole
Speaker 1: different ranking. I think a lot of it would be
Speaker 1: based on mood for me. Those I did enjoy all
Speaker 1: of them, Like I got a bunch of good laughs
Speaker 1: out of all of them. Yeah, so I think they
Speaker 1: could literally the next day, I could have a different
Speaker 1: a different ranking. Um, but you should watch the Last Holiday?
Speaker 1: Should Yeah? I need to because it's up on nothing Amazon.
Speaker 1: I need to watch it. But yeah, this is These
Speaker 1: are some of the things that I watched continuously that
Speaker 1: gives me like good feelings and the draw dramatic of
Speaker 1: like oh this is the Real About a boy is
Speaker 1: probably one of my favorite movies because I also really
Speaker 1: Love the book by Nick hornby Nicholas Hornby, and he
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite writers for a minute, like
Speaker 1: I will read all of this. High Fidelity was his
Speaker 1: as well. Um, And so I really liked the the
Speaker 1: conversations of looking at yourself and looking at others and
Speaker 1: the up and down. If you've watched High Fidelity, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's all over the place and and it's calling
Speaker 1: out this dude for being a dick essentially, But it
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with music too, and about
Speaker 1: boy he does too. Actually, there's a piece of it
Speaker 1: that is missing that's in the book that's not in
Speaker 1: the movie in which uh Ellie, who is the crush
Speaker 1: that the young boy has on the punk girl who
Speaker 1: is also in Harry Potter. Hello, they all mesh off
Speaker 1: the Um. She is in love with Vaughana like she
Speaker 1: is a die hard fan in the book of Nirvana.
Speaker 1: I think she may have actually wear a T shirt
Speaker 1: in the movie. Um, And it's during when Kurt Cobain
Speaker 1: has died by suicide and she goes and runs away
Speaker 1: and tries to run away, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: conversation and the boy goes and finds her. Marcus goes
Speaker 1: in finds her to make sure she's okay, and it's
Speaker 1: this beautiful scene of her like having a moment in
Speaker 1: this connection and this love for a band that she
Speaker 1: really felt too. So I really it's too dark. I
Speaker 1: think that scene was so dark and we can't put
Speaker 1: this in the book. And from what I understand, Nick
Speaker 1: Hornby did help write the script and screenplay. Um, but
Speaker 1: it's such an amazing part to that story that I
Speaker 1: didn't really love this book and because he was part
Speaker 1: of it, Like I love the book as much as
Speaker 1: I love this movie. It could have been not watching
Speaker 1: the movie first, I think, and they love the book, um,
Speaker 1: because I liked it so much, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to read this, and yeah, it's it is
Speaker 1: part played out so well. Rachel VISs is kind of
Speaker 1: like she came in and this is the first time
Speaker 1: I've seen her the money I want to say that.
Speaker 1: I was like, she is her character's named Rachel that
Speaker 1: I love, and I love this awkward boy coming and
Speaker 1: how selfless he is. So it's it's it's not a
Speaker 1: rom com. It's more of a coming of age with
Speaker 1: two two boys and coming to me into themselves. So
Speaker 1: I loved it. I love this movie because of that
Speaker 1: feel um, and I think I'm always will Well. I
Speaker 1: feel like Hugh Grant really what this was his character
Speaker 1: to play like the main guy who's kind of kind
Speaker 1: of um endearing to some point, but I love his
Speaker 1: thing about like not wanting to be the Godfather. That's
Speaker 1: probably one of the favorite things that the kid is
Speaker 1: like no oh no oh no, yeah. I mean I
Speaker 1: think that's why it was pretty funny because I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting a lot of the movies I watch, UH don't
Speaker 1: have this kind of immediate like, um, you're watching a
Speaker 1: Christmas Carol, but that everyone knows that Christmas Carol. Um.
Speaker 1: So it was just funny. I lot of funny, like
Speaker 1: one liners. My friend kept being like a dead duck
Speaker 1: day is coming and I was like that, hell is
Speaker 1: that meaning? Now? I know? Right? Yeah. So it's already
Speaker 1: pretty dark with Tony Colette's character, which I loved seeing
Speaker 1: Tony Collette playing this character even though she's playing this
Speaker 1: dowdy mom and we know she's just like a big star.
Speaker 1: I think she was pretty big at this point anyway,
Speaker 1: but she's played these characters because she also plays the
Speaker 1: mom in um sixth sense that it kind of threw
Speaker 1: me off to see her playing these mom characters, which
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, because she's a phenomenal actress, but yeah, her,
Speaker 1: Like it was a pretty big cast. This is Nick
Speaker 1: what's his name, the actor Nicole, This was I think
Speaker 1: on his first movies, going yeah, yeah, he is British,
Speaker 1: I know, but I didn't know that. Oh I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. No, because I've only ever seen him in
Speaker 1: American movies. I was like, what, that's awesome, but yeah,
Speaker 1: this is one of the first movies, and I really
Speaker 1: love seeing him growing older and actually staying in the
Speaker 1: acting industry. I was like, oh, look at him. I
Speaker 1: hope he's normal, And I don't know, he seems normal.
Speaker 1: Who knows, because I haven't yet. No, I haven't, But yeah,
Speaker 1: all these other films have definitely a different vibe. The
Speaker 1: Holiday is a whole different vibe. Having Jack Black playing
Speaker 1: a romcom character is kind of funny to me threw
Speaker 1: me off. I was like, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: believe this. I don't know if I could Kate Winslet
Speaker 1: Jack Black connection. However, it worked for me enough to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, really, it's wholesome it's super cute. I
Speaker 1: hear a relationship with the older man, like the love
Speaker 1: of that. Of course they don't talk about the misogyny
Speaker 1: in the past, of like all the things that happened
Speaker 1: and how he was able to work his way up
Speaker 1: in m GM, but it's still like, oh you would.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear stories like that, Like that's
Speaker 1: definitely a fantasy thing. The entire thing was fantasy. Ran.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, Kate Winslett being Jake. Come on,
Speaker 1: she's not gonna be turned out who you're talking to?
Speaker 1: Who you talking to? Jude Law I think was trying
Speaker 1: to clean up his reputation at this point, so playing
Speaker 1: this wholesome character but more believable than not. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was interesting to watch it too, just because of
Speaker 1: the changes in our technology and like how you do
Speaker 1: how sharing. Um So, I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons I liked it so much, is because I do.
Speaker 1: I am somebody who likes kind of like, oh that's
Speaker 1: new to me. I'm that's I wasn't expecting that, And
Speaker 1: I told you, I thought it was going to be
Speaker 1: a spouse swap thing. Um So it was nice because
Speaker 1: I was like Oh, this is cute, and I was glad.
Speaker 1: I knew it had to work where they were going
Speaker 1: to be in each other's lives like Cameron Diaz and
Speaker 1: Kate Winslet. Uh. And then I was like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: her brother, got it because they're gonna continue to be
Speaker 1: in the same orbit. But yeah, I did like it,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was really interesting job. I've never
Speaker 1: seen a movie about somebody who makes trailers, right, and
Speaker 1: they get tons of money off of it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it makes sense. No, it definitely makes sense. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I really liked it. It's funny because I um, like
Speaker 1: I said, these aren't normally things I would watch, but
Speaker 1: I I was. I was getting caught up and like, oh,
Speaker 1: they've got to get together, and you' like, no, they
Speaker 1: have to end up together. But there's so many obstacles.
Speaker 1: There's a tash, he's going to the airport. The airport
Speaker 1: isn't everyone while you were sleeping doesn't have an airport.
Speaker 1: They have a train station, train station. You're right, You're
Speaker 1: right if that one's tough too, because like having to
Speaker 1: pretend and knowing there's like this timeline and actually watched
Speaker 1: while you were sleeping and the fact that. I was like,
Speaker 1: they got engaged in three weeks. It went from right
Speaker 1: before Christmas to right after New Year's I was like,
Speaker 1: that's a three week span. What no one thought of that? Well,
Speaker 1: it's also interesting in that Peter Gallagher his name, that
Speaker 1: actor who the guy in the coma, Um, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the character's name. Who she she had, you know,
Speaker 1: falling forward seen it doesn't outright and imply it, but
Speaker 1: it kind of suddenly implies that he's sort of a jerk,
Speaker 1: but he's in their family, so it's like a weird
Speaker 1: but that's the thing. He's like, he is so far
Speaker 1: removed from his family, which you know, it's not always true.
Speaker 1: That's not necessarily why you're not with your family, But
Speaker 1: that's kind of the implication that that they didn't see
Speaker 1: him and he ignores them and he's too big for them,
Speaker 1: and they didn't know anything about his life except they
Speaker 1: did they do everything about is life. This is actually
Speaker 1: Bartlett Bacon. But yes, in Bill Pullman and and seeing
Speaker 1: Bill Pullman being the lead guy, he didn't play lead
Speaker 1: guys for much in this genre. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think maybe someone can tell me that if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: But like these again, like you have these very beautiful women,
Speaker 1: like this character we talked about Bridget Jones, so we're
Speaker 1: not gonna talk too much more about her, but like
Speaker 1: she's a gorgeous woman. And don't get me wrong, calling
Speaker 1: forth all day every day, any day, Hello, sir, com
Speaker 1: talk to me, but like pretending like they're not Kate Winslon,
Speaker 1: pretending like their secondary is the leading woman, like she's
Speaker 1: in leading I've never seen her in a co starring
Speaker 1: movie ever. I don't know. Maybe I think when she
Speaker 1: was younger that she was in a couple of them,
Speaker 1: but she was still co starring, not like like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, she was not the not the
Speaker 1: leading woman, she was not the best friend, which sounds interesting.
Speaker 1: So when you see those characters, like you're like, come on, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've talked about that before. But that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that I hate that this is even a conversation,
Speaker 1: but it does burn me up because it's kind of
Speaker 1: a reality of our world about like women being defined
Speaker 1: by their looks and their sexual desirability to men that
Speaker 1: I hate when I see this that dynamic all the
Speaker 1: time where it's like yeah, man, it's like, oh I
Speaker 1: can do better than Kate Winslet, And I'm like, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah it was. And what's so funny? Also the two
Speaker 1: characters for Jack Black, Jack Black's partner who she she
Speaker 1: teaches on him, So it was rufus Sewell and uh
Speaker 1: she and and Sosiman they were in Nice Tale. So
Speaker 1: I really thought I was interesting. And I think it's
Speaker 1: around the same time that this came out. Rufus Sewell
Speaker 1: plays the bad guy surprise, surprise, because he also plays
Speaker 1: the bad guy in every day an movie Bless the Child.
Speaker 1: I believe he was the demon and that on the
Speaker 1: Devil and that one um and then she and so
Speaker 1: she's always the young woman. She was a princess in
Speaker 1: the Nice Cell. But I always connect those like they're
Speaker 1: just always together. Um. But I really really appreciated that
Speaker 1: the holiday having that type of feel to it. Jack
Speaker 1: Black again unexpected. I like it because he is funny,
Speaker 1: He's hilarious. I love giving trivia stuff. Dustin Hoffman. The
Speaker 1: scene that you see if you haven't seen it, is
Speaker 1: he's at the video store while Jack Black's character does
Speaker 1: the tune to the graduate. Um. He was apparently was
Speaker 1: next to where they were filming while they were eating
Speaker 1: and the director saw him and she's like, do you
Speaker 1: do you want to be just for a minute, and
Speaker 1: he's like okay. So they didn't even put makeup on.
Speaker 1: They just pretty much shoved him into the scene and
Speaker 1: that's all he did. But I thought that was funny. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't think they gave him a line. He did
Speaker 1: the line himself, like they did, say whatever you want. Essentially,
Speaker 1: there you go. There's there's a bit of a trivia. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but these these movies have that like conclusive ending, happy ending,
Speaker 1: and that's what I look for in a good holiday movie.
Speaker 1: And that's why I like him. One of the most
Speaker 1: traumatic films to me Christmas films, Prancer. I will never
Speaker 1: watch that again. Yeah. Stuff, that's tough. You know. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you shared this list. I'm glad I watched them.
Speaker 1: I love sharing entertainment, as you know with people. Um,
Speaker 1: and you did watch a Muffett Christmas Carol? I did.
Speaker 1: I did that doll for the present was horrifying. There horrifying. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's it looks like, yeah, it's frightening. I mean, as
Speaker 1: we discussed, Christmas Caroll is frightening. I think them up
Speaker 1: at one is the least frightening. My favorite musical number
Speaker 1: is Marley and Marley. I sing that all the time. Um,
Speaker 1: and I have a whole bit of trivia about they
Speaker 1: cut out the song the Love Is Gone. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I assume because they thought it was born
Speaker 1: for kids. But they've just announced they're gonna edit back in.
Speaker 1: So nice. If you missed it, if you were watching it,
Speaker 1: you're like, I could have sawn there's another song there
Speaker 1: was and they got it out. It's kind of back though,
Speaker 1: it is. It is, so thanks for sharing your list,
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching my suggestion. You only give you one,
Speaker 1: and I did watch it and I enjoyed it. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a fun one. It's a fun one. It was fun.
Speaker 1: I had a good time. So you know what, listeners,
Speaker 1: if you have any suggestions, we always love getting your
Speaker 1: entertainment suggestions. Please please let us know holiday are not
Speaker 1: we would love to get them. UM and yeah, I
Speaker 1: think this is like one of our last shows with
Speaker 1: the new year, So happy and safe new year. Um.
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