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Speaker 1: of the box office, we're here to talk today about
Speaker 1: a box office queen and critical favorite. Hard to be both,
Speaker 1: hard to be both almost impossible to be both nowadays
Speaker 1: that's not true, Zendaya.
Speaker 2: But who else I guess. Also, we're just you know, houling.
Speaker 2: What's going through something right now? Let's just say it.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, Hollywood's going through it. And all we
Speaker 1: can do is wait. All we can do is wait.
Speaker 1: We're talking about miss Julia Robert from Alpharetta Georgia. Oh,
Speaker 1: this woman really did dominate and we were so grateful,
Speaker 1: weren't we.
Speaker 2: I mean, for me she still dominates to this day. Well,
Speaker 2: I mean, I was just going to bring up something that, like,
Speaker 2: isn't it. I am a little bit bummed out that
Speaker 2: like take it to paradise.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: You look at the post, you go, well, it's Clooney
Speaker 2: and Julia, and you go, there's no way this doesn't open.
Speaker 2: And you go, well, if even they can't like get
Speaker 2: a rom com to like do big numbers at the
Speaker 2: box office, then who can? But I don't want to
Speaker 2: write them off. Is like they don't have that same
Speaker 2: poll anymore at the box office. I don't even think it.
Speaker 1: Did that badly. I think internationally it's a big numbers.
Speaker 1: I think it's considered a success. Damn.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm just so you don't think about international enough.
Speaker 2: I don't think about international enough. Very national list here,
Speaker 2: Well you be a yellow nationalist? You actually not white?
Speaker 2: Well that's actually controversial. Bowen Yang is white.
Speaker 1: I'm a white And that's actually something I would like
Speaker 1: to start bringing back into the public consciousness, is that
Speaker 1: Bowen Yang is white and he's been lying. I know
Speaker 1: you're wearing head to toe American paraphernalia.
Speaker 2: It's true. And then if you if you really lick
Speaker 2: your thumb and smudge my face. The concealer comes right off.
Speaker 2: He's actually wearing a joy Luck club. It's a Joyluck
Speaker 2: clerb joy Luck Vintage bubble tea merch.
Speaker 1: There you go. So you're actually very international right now.
Speaker 1: But I do ignore international, but I never ignore Julia. No.
Speaker 1: Julia is an American treasurer who has international powers, and
Speaker 1: she's been in thousands of film thousands, but we narrowed
Speaker 1: it down to the top ten. Julia Roberts Films, Lost
Speaker 1: Culch Lost Coach number ten. Ben is back. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that.
Speaker 2: I haven't either, but that doesn't mean it's.
Speaker 1: Not number ten. It has a number ten quality to it. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, don't be don't forget about this one.
Speaker 1: Don't forget about when Julia played a concerned mother of
Speaker 1: a drug addict played by Lucas Hedges.
Speaker 2: And we have forgotten, and we're saying with this list,
Speaker 2: don't forget.
Speaker 1: You know what we're saying with this list, See it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: support it. Julia Momulia, Julia Mom, Julia Roberts, Julia Mom
Speaker 1: especially were a coach. Number eight Julia Mom.
Speaker 2: Julia Roberts playing a mother like a mother who is upset.
Speaker 2: You dress stress. You love to see that. This is
Speaker 2: something we love watching this woman do, and yet neither
Speaker 2: of us have. But we liked it enough on paper,
Speaker 2: a sort of on premise alone, on poster alone, to
Speaker 2: put it on the list on premise and poster alone.
Speaker 2: Oscar Oscar, I don't.
Speaker 1: Know who else was in this film, Julia Lucas could
Speaker 1: be anyone from Adam. I think it was like Peter
Speaker 1: O'Toole played the grandpa. You think he came back from
Speaker 1: the dead to play the grandpa. I think at the
Speaker 1: time he might have still been alive. This is all
Speaker 1: why benis Back is number ten on top ten. Julia
Speaker 1: Roberts Films.
Speaker 2: Lost Coult number nine.
Speaker 1: August County A film we did see and.
Speaker 2: Fell asleep to.
Speaker 1: No way. I love this film.
Speaker 2: I think this film is a little too much. Meryll's
Speaker 2: doing too much. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Merrill is really
Speaker 2: going for it.
Speaker 1: You think Merrell's doing too much? In Augusta, Stage County, do.
Speaker 2: You think she wasn't?
Speaker 1: I think she was doing exactly what Violet Weston would
Speaker 1: be doing when she has her a little overdose moment
Speaker 1: and she's like remember I love it. She literally gave
Speaker 1: you like on luxibro and and then Julia Roberts said,
Speaker 1: eat the fish, bitch, this movie is cuckoo bananas. You
Speaker 1: know who I think could have been better as the
Speaker 1: daughter than Yeah, it's one of those roles I see
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that should have been me. I should
Speaker 1: have played the county daughter. Oh my god, you would
Speaker 1: have been who gets like finger by the uncle?
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But in like a fun playway, what's a movie? Well,
Speaker 1: it's a movie. Do you think it suffered that classic thing?
Speaker 1: I mean, I I choose to view this as an
Speaker 1: unsuccessful adaptation. I don't choose to view it that way
Speaker 1: because I've got Oscar nominations up the wazoo. This is
Speaker 1: one of Julia's Oscar noms.
Speaker 2: I know it is, I'm aware, but I feel like
Speaker 2: it's one of those things where it's like you needed,
Speaker 2: like Mike Nichols, may he rest to like adapt it
Speaker 2: just right in a way to make it film mt
Speaker 2: You know, for someone who stands Mike Nichols, you certainly
Speaker 2: have a lot of notes, and so did he. No,
Speaker 2: don't don't ever put me and him in the same sense.
Speaker 2: I revere him. I revere that man.
Speaker 1: Well, why do you talk so much shit about him
Speaker 1: now that he's dead. I don't know if there's another
Speaker 1: Mike Nichols film. Is this Mike Nichols?
Speaker 2: The next one is Mike Nichols. August Osh County is
Speaker 2: not mc nichols. It's not, it's not, it's not. Oh,
Speaker 2: I forget who, Well, this.
Speaker 1: Is August Wilson. No, it's not August Wilson at all.
Speaker 2: It's August August Osage County, which is Tracy Latt. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: but who directed it? Okay, let's see. Let's say, let's
Speaker 2: see who John Wells, John Wells, John Wells, who is
Speaker 2: of course known for the company Men Well and it
Speaker 2: probably could.
Speaker 1: Have gotten a better director for this. I guess That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like I literally was just like I'm
Speaker 1: watching a play.
Speaker 2: Even as a fucking twenty three year old who didn't
Speaker 2: know anything about anything, I said, I feel like.
Speaker 1: I'm watching a play. But Julia was amazing. Julia was amazing,
Speaker 1: and that's why it's number nine on top ten. Julia
Speaker 1: Roberts films Last Coach and speaking of plays, speaking of
Speaker 1: magnificel like place well, let's we can discuss this. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you of course stand this. It's number eight closer.
Speaker 2: I don't stand this. You stand this movie. I don't
Speaker 2: stand this movie.
Speaker 1: I know why you do well. Hit at the right time.
Speaker 2: It was Damien Rice Culture the Bluers, and so it is.
Speaker 1: I love this song. I played it out.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not familiar with the play version.
Speaker 1: I read the play.
Speaker 2: Look, the writing is rough, and that's not my Nickels's fault.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if the writing is rough. The
Speaker 1: writing is just such a play.
Speaker 2: It's such a play. It's very melodramatic, in the same
Speaker 2: vein as august Osage County. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I just love the end scene with Natalie and Dune,
Speaker 1: when she goes hit mean fuck her. That is then
Speaker 1: in slow motion he winds up and does hit her,
Speaker 1: and it's such like a stage slap. He does not
Speaker 1: make contact, and she goes a and her hair goes
Speaker 1: to the side and then she looks back like wind swept.
Speaker 1: And then my other favorite scene, obviously we like Natalie. No,
Speaker 1: that is iconic that I'm saying, that's Bill Jane. That
Speaker 1: makes it like I see it on stage. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: it is so much more powerful as a movie. In
Speaker 1: the scene when Natalie goes to Julia's photo studio, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Natalie is like faced away and then she goes,
Speaker 1: just take my picture and she's crying. One singles here
Speaker 1: iconic and Julia's like, she is beautiful and captures the
Speaker 1: most stunning picture of her that goes up in the
Speaker 1: gallery during that iconic scene sequence.
Speaker 2: Really, I think it's where the revisit it's. Look, it's
Speaker 2: not the best, but it was for these huge A
Speaker 2: lists and as a teen you eat that.
Speaker 1: Shut up one hundred percent, I said, without having seen
Speaker 1: it as a teen, and I don't think I saw
Speaker 1: it for years after it came out. I said, this
Speaker 1: is the greatest film of the year. There you go.
Speaker 1: I was like, my little Oscar bait ass like on
Speaker 1: the sites was like closer as the film of the years,
Speaker 1: a quiet film. And so you're saying you didn't see
Speaker 1: it until much later or yeah, And I think the
Speaker 1: first time I saw it, I was like in denial
Speaker 1: about whether or not it was like quote unquote good
Speaker 1: or not, And so I was just like, this is stunning.
Speaker 2: Make no mistake. I don't think it's a good movie
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 1: In the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2: But it is fascinating to read about the way Mike
Speaker 2: Nichols worked with these four and he was very like,
Speaker 2: you know, he like took them out to dinners, like
Speaker 2: they hung out, the five of them.
Speaker 1: Well, that's amazing that the director would take factors. I'm
Speaker 1: not just saying he would get maybe they would talk
Speaker 1: about the script. I'm not getting detailed enough, but like
Speaker 1: they interviewed Juliet and Natalie in the biography, they did
Speaker 1: shut up and they and they like and they both
Speaker 1: were like they were like, Mike really got to know us.
Speaker 1: He took us out to dinner, We talked about the characters,
Speaker 1: and before we got to set, we even rehearsed, like
Speaker 1: showed them all these movies.
Speaker 2: You be so blessed to your movie, so blessed to
Speaker 2: have a director like that.
Speaker 1: Did he show them like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Speaker 1: Not his own movies like other movies? Maybe Closer is amazing.
Speaker 1: I also love the scene when Clive I went was
Speaker 1: like what just come tastes like goes it's like yours
Speaker 1: but sweeter, that's camping. And then he goes now fuck
Speaker 1: off and die. Yeah, I said, get me on stage
Speaker 1: doing this. Oh so you want to be Abigail and Clive?
Speaker 1: That is range mother. I want to do all the roles.
Speaker 1: I think I would be good to share with that story.
Speaker 1: You would do all the roles in Closer that you
Speaker 1: would be so good as all four? I think I
Speaker 1: think I would be so good as all four.
Speaker 2: Or how about it's closer but it's just you and
Speaker 2: I and we each get the turn as each of them.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's really good. We're like Cynthia Nixon
Speaker 1: and Christine Vransky. No, I forget who else someone in
Speaker 1: the play where they switched. I think that's a switch
Speaker 1: that could be fun.
Speaker 2: But I would I would be uncomfortable playing Natalie in
Speaker 2: front of you. Why because I get like you're so Natalie.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess we would have to fucking you'd have
Speaker 1: to take your panties down and bend over and show
Speaker 1: hold to the whole audience.
Speaker 2: I can I call DIBs on Naantalie in that scene though,
Speaker 2: of still Jane, you can play that role because and
Speaker 2: I'll be Clive. I'll sit there with my f such
Speaker 2: a good Clive in that scene. Okay, but I get
Speaker 2: to be Julia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. So here's the way that we're gonna
Speaker 1: do Closer. You are Jude, and that's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: because you have a lot of scenes together.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, But I'm saying we get to first
Speaker 2: it's Jude Natalie, right, like jud and Natalie meeting. I'm one,
Speaker 2: I'm Judior Natalie. Then it's like Clive and Julia, right,
Speaker 2: and then like you're Julia, I'm Clive.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll figure it out. We'll figure out with our director.
Speaker 1: He'll take us out to dinner and we'll figure it
Speaker 1: all out. Readers on BMP Diamond cast it, cast it, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and that's the Closer is number seven on top ten.
Speaker 1: Jeleia Rapperts Films Last Coult number seven, Smurfs The Lost Village.
Speaker 2: That's said, moving on, that is why.
Speaker 1: Smurf's The Lost Village is number seven on top ten.
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts Films Lost Coach, number six, Nodding Hill.
Speaker 2: This really is one of the iconic movies.
Speaker 1: I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy
Speaker 1: asking him to love her. That is movie star dot com.
Speaker 1: Is ironic that she's playing a movie star in that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would not be the last time she did.
Speaker 2: American Sweethearts, which did not make the list, did not
Speaker 2: make the list. Yeah, I mean notting Hill. It's an
Speaker 2: okay rom com. If you watch it back, you.
Speaker 1: Know it's actually only okay, but like sort of the
Speaker 1: public consciousness would make you think it was one of
Speaker 1: the great classics. There's some people that are like, my
Speaker 1: favorite Julia is nodding Hill, and I have to look
Speaker 1: at them cock eyed.
Speaker 2: You're like, there's better Julia, as is evidenced by this list. Look,
Speaker 2: it made the top ten.
Speaker 1: I mean I haven't even clearly haven't seen the top six.
Speaker 1: If they think of this one as number one, because
Speaker 1: it's number six.
Speaker 2: It's number six, so not even in the fiftieth percentile,
Speaker 2: No of top ten. I should say.
Speaker 1: Do we love Hugh Grant? I think so.
Speaker 2: He's at his most hu Grant in this and it
Speaker 2: is most like charming, harmless Hugrant and that it's when
Speaker 2: Hugh Grant is in the fucking what's that movie? It's
Speaker 2: such show with Nicole.
Speaker 1: Oh the I'm doing I'm doing that, I'm doing where
Speaker 1: you're like, you.
Speaker 2: Can't be Hu Grant in this because you're the character
Speaker 2: has done something awful.
Speaker 1: And weirdly enough. That was my favorite Hugh Grant. But
Speaker 1: I also haven't seen Paddington Too, which I heard it
Speaker 1: should have been Hugh Grant's Oscars. A lot of the
Speaker 1: craziest people in the world say that.
Speaker 2: Same people who say America Ferrera deserves an Oscar for Barbie.
Speaker 1: I saw Barbarie again, and you know what I say,
Speaker 1: America for Oscar. Wow?
Speaker 2: What I will say the monologue she delivers should have
Speaker 2: been like the last monologue.
Speaker 1: Mmmm.
Speaker 2: That is the whole thesis of the movie.
Speaker 1: I did think that America was a very winning in
Speaker 1: the film. Winning does not mean nominate for Oscar. But
Speaker 1: also it might be a weird year, a weird year.
Speaker 1: All these reasons are why notting Hill is number six
Speaker 1: on the top ten Lea Roberts Films.
Speaker 2: Last Culture number five not a movie, but the dream
Speaker 2: Girl music video for Dave Matthews band. She is famously
Speaker 2: in White Girl. Dreads in this and guess what you
Speaker 2: don't care?
Speaker 1: Well, we didn't care until now you brought it up.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't bring it up to get us to care.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, well, now I can't say, you know it
Speaker 2: works because it's Dave Matthews watching her. He's sitting alone
Speaker 2: in a theater, in a movie theater, watching this projection
Speaker 2: on screen of Julia Roberts.
Speaker 1: For some reason.
Speaker 2: She's in White Girl Dreads and she is going through
Speaker 2: different dream states. She's at the laundromat, she's at a party.
Speaker 2: She's very like where am I? But it's the thing
Speaker 2: where you go. This is why people get movie stars
Speaker 2: for music videos, because it is, like, I mean, it's undeniable,
Speaker 2: the star quality on this woman.
Speaker 1: You're just with it.
Speaker 2: I was like, this video whatever, and Dave Matthews, I
Speaker 2: feel ambivalent to fond of Yea and the song is
Speaker 2: pretty average Dave Matthews band, I would say sorry to
Speaker 2: anyone who might disagree, but the video really makes it
Speaker 2: pop and she's amazing.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm just distracted because you said she did White
Speaker 1: Girl Dreads and now I'm not saw her. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I can't about it. I can't stop thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I have a response why people don't like the cancel culture. Okay,
Speaker 1: people would be loving the cancel culture if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for people like me. It's true. Oh, this is why
Speaker 1: not a movie. But the Dreamgirl music video for Dave
Speaker 1: Matthews Band is number five on top ten. Julia Roberts
Speaker 1: films Lost Culture, number four, Magnolias her first Oscar nomination.
Speaker 1: She Drank the Juice Shelby. Wow, isn't that interesting? She
Speaker 1: started with drink the Juice Shelby, and then later on
Speaker 1: it would be eat the Fish.
Speaker 2: Fish and start out with mystic pizzat of lots of fun, Julia, Julia,
Speaker 2: what is that about?
Speaker 1: Have you seen steel Magnolia's recently in like a fiveish years.
Speaker 1: It's a fun one.
Speaker 2: It is so so sad, it's so sad. It's not
Speaker 2: like this fun, steal good movie.
Speaker 1: No, it is not at all. It ends with sort
Speaker 1: of anguish but sisterhood. Julia Roberts is again in playing
Speaker 1: movie star charm though, because you really have to fall
Speaker 1: in love with the character, and you do, and it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a tough character too. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you fall in love, You fall in love and then
Speaker 1: Sally just Sally knocks it out at the damp part.
Speaker 1: God damn, it's really Sally's performance.
Speaker 2: It is Sally's performance.
Speaker 3: And Dolly Dolly too, and Olympia Daryl Hannah, darryl Oh
Speaker 3: my god, Daryl, Hannah, Shirley McLain rely, hmmm, I just.
Speaker 1: Want to hit somebody, hit her, hit ha hit hit weeza,
Speaker 1: hit weeza.
Speaker 2: And I forget what Olympia says, but it's some like Southern.
Speaker 1: Now, go ahead, go ahead. She gives a lot of Olympia,
Speaker 1: a lot of Olympia. But we love it, we love it,
Speaker 1: and all these reasons are why number four on top
Speaker 1: ten Julia Roberts Films Lost Coult Number three, pretty woman.
Speaker 2: This one holds up. I haven't seen it in a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: She plays. Uh, you know, there's the only one way
Speaker 1: to say it.
Speaker 2: A sex worker.
Speaker 1: Okay, anyways, hooker hooker, I say, bring back hooker, hooker.
Speaker 1: I don't think hooker has a Well that's not for
Speaker 1: me to say. I guess it's not for you to
Speaker 1: say it all, certainly not for me to say it.
Speaker 1: And yet here bring back hooker. Like, look at that hooker.
Speaker 1: You look like a hooker. So what do you do.
Speaker 1: I'm a hooker. I'm a hooker. Oh no, me coming
Speaker 1: home after a long time home. No, my daughter is
Speaker 1: a hooker. We see that makes it sound like, oh no, well,
Speaker 1: how do you know she's not saying, oh no, my
Speaker 1: daughter is a hooker, Like I'm so jealous of my daughter.
Speaker 1: You're so right, I know my daughter's a hooker. I
Speaker 1: should I wish I was the hooker. I wish I
Speaker 1: was a hooker like my daughter. Well, anyone would want
Speaker 1: to be a hooker. If I saw Julia robertson this film.
Speaker 1: Glamazon dot Com got a safe girl. She had all
Speaker 1: those condoms. She said, I'm a safety girl, safety girl.
Speaker 1: Anyone would want to be a hooker walking out up
Speaker 1: Rodeo Drive. Honestly, this was another Oscar nomination for Julia.
Speaker 1: She did not win this time, but I believe that
Speaker 1: this was when it was truly solidified, like MoMA is
Speaker 1: a the A List queen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty woman was the moment.
Speaker 1: And she was so good with Richard Gear, who was
Speaker 1: so hot in this movie. You know.
Speaker 2: Random thought that I meant to tell you was we
Speaker 2: were watching Oppenheimer famously and we walked out. But Josh
Speaker 2: Hartnett aging like Richard Gear. He looked unbelievable, But he
Speaker 2: and Richard Gear are on the same track. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: both looked and obviously, you know, very attractive men throughout
Speaker 2: their whole lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh Hartnet being an openheimer was one of the
Speaker 1: jump scares of the movie for me, where I was
Speaker 1: just like, oh my god, I can't believe this cast thing.
Speaker 1: But I was happy the whole time because he looked amazing.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. He seemed he did okay with that role.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't much to it. And it's a
Speaker 1: Christopher Nolan movie. Oh god, it's not about the acting.
Speaker 1: It's about the damn score. Trust your actors for ones
Speaker 1: in your life, Christopher Nolan. I'd love to see a scene.
Speaker 2: Let Harry styles like do something more than like sweat
Speaker 2: and scream and Dunkirk Dunkirk done nothing done. Oh and
Speaker 2: all those reasons are White Woman is number three on
Speaker 2: top ten.
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts Films Lost Culture, number two My best friend's wedding.
Speaker 1: I actually so get this, like peek behind the curtain.
Speaker 1: We're doing this a sort of for fun. But these
Speaker 1: are my top two. Oh, like the top two is
Speaker 1: my top two.
Speaker 2: First agree Oh that's why I put them there, And
Speaker 2: I knew you would agree with me.
Speaker 1: You put it right where it needed to go. Yeah. Period.
Speaker 2: Tops and bottoms can say that or verse or side this.
Speaker 1: Well, my Best Friend's Wedding is a movie for tops bottoms.
Speaker 1: You put it where it needed to go one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And then I heard that and moved on to the
Speaker 1: film since that's really what we came here to discuss.
Speaker 1: But I think this is a movie for tops bottoms
Speaker 1: versus sides and the like. I think anyone would love
Speaker 1: My best Friend's Wedding. They can see themselves in so
Speaker 1: many characters. This was, of course the I mean, not
Speaker 1: the breakout for Cameron Diaz, but like the breakout. Sorry,
Speaker 1: and then this came along and she said, I'm giving range,
Speaker 1: but Julia said, I am gonna play this unlikable character
Speaker 1: who does monstrous things and you are still gonna fall
Speaker 1: in love with me. That iconic bush of red hair, Jules,
Speaker 1: you had to think.
Speaker 2: She went, I'm gonna go all in because this woman's
Speaker 2: name is basically mine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really really really does do something. I think
Speaker 1: it's actually and this is gonna be controversial. I think
Speaker 1: at the time she was playing close to her. I
Speaker 1: think she was always getting what she wanted. I think
Speaker 1: she was really toying here with the idea of like
Speaker 1: the thing that you think is gonna happen in your
Speaker 1: life doesn't happen. Like life can be unfair and cruel,
Speaker 1: and I think that the idea that she was going
Speaker 1: to end up with him is like so, And when
Speaker 1: you start watching the movie, you're like, yeah, of course
Speaker 1: you want her to win. And then at the end
Speaker 1: when she loses the guy and she ends up like
Speaker 1: needing to build her life, you know that's better for
Speaker 1: her and better for them and better for us the audience.
Speaker 2: It taught a lesson, A taught a lesson. The gazebo
Speaker 2: scene walked so pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me, and
Speaker 2: Gray's Anatomy could run the final image of that being
Speaker 2: her and Rupert Everett Dan saying, I go, this is
Speaker 2: what it was about.
Speaker 1: The moment I wake up, that great scene. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so good kissing and when we should do that like
Speaker 1: that that cold open being like so just like a video.
Speaker 1: I love I love it. I also love fucking Rachel
Speaker 1: Griffiths and Carrie Preston as the two sisters. They went
Speaker 1: on to big careers, big career. My favorite scene in
Speaker 1: this movie is when they're on the ferry and they
Speaker 1: passed under a bridge and he goes. He goes, if
Speaker 1: you love someone, you say it right then out loud,
Speaker 1: Otherwise the moment just and she goes passes you by,
Speaker 1: It just passes you by. And then the moment literally
Speaker 1: passes them by, and she turns around with her hair
Speaker 1: and he beautifully breaks silence. He goes, we don't even
Speaker 1: have a song kimme and I, and then like if
Speaker 1: they just move on, and then he starts singing some
Speaker 1: day when Lelo and she starts to cry. The writing
Speaker 1: is good, It's so good. This movie is so good.
Speaker 2: That movie is Chicago.
Speaker 1: It's more than Home Alone could ever And for these
Speaker 1: reasons and all the other ones, that's why My best
Speaker 1: Friend's Wedding is number two on top ten. Julia Roberts films,
Speaker 1: Lost Colt and now for number one, number one that
Speaker 1: I'm disputed, Aaron Brockovich. The Oscar Win, the perfect embodiment
Speaker 1: of why Julia Roberts is a movie star, the perfect.
Speaker 2: Embodiment of why Steven Soderberg is like who he is.
Speaker 1: Certainly the best film she's ever been in, Holds Up.
Speaker 2: Holds Up has always held Up. I've watched it once
Speaker 2: every two years since it came out since two thousand,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is a great fucking movie.
Speaker 1: It also says real things about like really pression topics,
Speaker 1: like throughout time since and this was made in like
Speaker 1: two thousands. It's like old but feels like it could
Speaker 1: be made now. It's sort of timeless. She's so good inness,
Speaker 1: she's so funny, and it codable lines, real dialogue, real scenes,
Speaker 1: real character work, real dynamics, and incredible supporting cast.
Speaker 2: Just her on the phone in the car crying m
Speaker 2: at the baby's first word, Oh yeah, yeah yeah, just like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, what's his face.
Speaker 1: Aaron would go on to a big career in that
Speaker 1: movie Hattie. In that movie, I didn't sort of like
Speaker 1: him because of all the hair and the mustache. Years later,
Speaker 1: I would see another Aaron Acart movie and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's that's the guy from Aaron Brockovich,
Speaker 1: and it shook me to my core. I believe the
Speaker 1: expression is uh huh, never forget Contrata Farrell, excuse me, yea,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to you, bitch. Oh wait, how does
Speaker 1: get into that? Did you move my fucking files or
Speaker 1: something like that?
Speaker 2: Where are my files?
Speaker 1: Where my files. The fuck it's so good this movie
Speaker 1: really just like it rock seeps into my brain at
Speaker 1: regular intervals, like that's all you got, lady, two rung
Speaker 1: feet and fucking ugly shoes.
Speaker 2: She's had to lunch with the girls.
Speaker 1: You're a girl. I'm sorry, you're a girl. Why aren't
Speaker 1: you at lunch? I guess I'm not the right kind?
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: Don't make me bag, don't make me ba it doesn't
Speaker 2: work out, fire me, don't.
Speaker 1: Make me bag. And then also gonna say who lives
Speaker 1: like this? And then the iconic monolog which I was
Speaker 1: taught later in college. I remember I was in screen
Speaker 1: running one O one and my teacher brought in a
Speaker 1: scene and it was the miss Wichita monologue. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is how you explore a character at this certain
Speaker 1: part of the movie. And then I remember like someone
Speaker 1: would bring in their work and she'd say, like, this
Speaker 1: is your miss Wichita, like this is where you need
Speaker 1: miss Witches.
Speaker 2: That is they should put that in everything Wichita.
Speaker 1: And I thought that meant that I was gonna be somebody.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, and that's right like that, like right when
Speaker 2: she like fox Aaron for the first it's like the
Speaker 2: love story, you know when like aptbreak or whatever.
Speaker 1: And before that, she has another one of the best
Speaker 1: lines in the movie, which is when he gets on
Speaker 1: the floor and he says to her like like, I'm
Speaker 1: somebody I care about you, and she goes to him,
Speaker 1: are you gonna be something else that I have to survive? Oh,
Speaker 1: because I'll tell you what, I'm not up to it.
Speaker 1: And then they kiss and she gives in, and then
Speaker 1: later on didn't work out, and I remember he goes
Speaker 1: to her, what about me? And she goes, what about you?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: This is my work, my time away from my kids.
Speaker 1: If that's not personal, I don't know. You gotta watch
Speaker 1: the movie, guys, it's made of it. This is zinam
Speaker 1: and that. All those reasons and more are why Aaron
Speaker 1: Brockovich is number one on the top ten. Julia robertson
Speaker 1: Movies Lost Cult as well as we in every episode
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Speaker 1: you want to see hear this song, watch Aaron Rokovich
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