Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of any trend.
Speaker 2: But you do you see how we did that? My
Speaker 2: name is Jack.
Speaker 1: That over there, well that is Miles and we are
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by super.
Speaker 2: Producer on a Hosey talking coms today have com com Day.
Speaker 3: I Love a rom com and Anna loves a rom
Speaker 3: com and Anna.
Speaker 2: Jackie hat Jack are you how are you? Are you ambivalent?
Speaker 2: Are you? You embraced them?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: My love movies, it is, that's true a genre of
Speaker 1: movie that I really fuck with. Yeah, Nodding Hill I've
Speaker 1: talked about, like my deep love for Nodding Hill. There's
Speaker 1: something about Mary I guess is not really a rom
Speaker 1: because I.
Speaker 2: Sound like you're lying about watching. Nodding Hill is one
Speaker 2: that I have seen. So yeah, grant one, Yeah those
Speaker 2: are cool.
Speaker 1: But anyways, Anna, you came to us and you pointed
Speaker 1: out that there is a ron com boom and that
Speaker 1: that seems to be the case. There's been a long
Speaker 1: trend that we've talked about on the show of people
Speaker 1: like not fucking in movies anymore, like not wanting sex
Speaker 1: sexual content in movies, like the the avengerfication of movies
Speaker 1: where everyone's like hot and shredded and not horny at all,
Speaker 1: and there seems to be a thawing of that trend
Speaker 1: maybe happening, it.
Speaker 3: Says, just to frame it, because we were talking about
Speaker 3: like the lack of sexiness. I think we were talking
Speaker 3: about that with Chelsea DeVante's a couple months ago. But
Speaker 3: there is a Guardian piece that said since the millennium,
Speaker 3: there's substantially less eerrotic content on our screens, with changing
Speaker 3: audience tastes and intimacy coordinators to blame.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: About how that fuck you The Guardian and that's a
Speaker 3: weird headline, but anyway says that the sex scenes have
Speaker 3: declined by forty percent, and that feels about right because
Speaker 3: we have noticed.
Speaker 2: That it's they're very not horny anymore, but not anymore.
Speaker 1: Prected scientists to watch every movie and be like, how
Speaker 1: many how many times did you you know were you aroused?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Not many, not many? But where do we go? Where
Speaker 3: do we start? Where did take us? Take us on
Speaker 3: this journey? Because we watched a couple of movies.
Speaker 1: We watched two movies specifically because those felt like sort
Speaker 1: of the most relevant and better offers that we have
Speaker 1: out there considering what's out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, you know, I had the opportunity to see
Speaker 4: the new and Hathaway rom com, the Idea of You.
Speaker 4: I got to go to an early screening at Amazon,
Speaker 4: which was pretty cool, and I you know what, it
Speaker 4: really took me back to a different era where you know,
Speaker 4: rom coms working or excuse me, should I say queen queen?
Speaker 2: Anyway, thank you, thank you queen.
Speaker 5: They took me back to an earlier era.
Speaker 1: Also because the main character has a landline in the film.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, sure for sure. But I mean just
Speaker 4: like the era of like the How to Lose a
Speaker 4: Guy in ten Days thirteen going on thirty, these great
Speaker 4: rom coms that really, you know, these were like big
Speaker 4: budget studio movies. I mean they might not have been
Speaker 4: the biggest budget, but that at least they were studio
Speaker 4: films that went to theaters, right, and we got to
Speaker 4: enjoy them. It was literally content for women that we
Speaker 4: got to be like, oh fuck yeah, Kate Hudson, you
Speaker 4: fucking abuse Matthew McConaughey. You know, like that was the era,
Speaker 4: Like we loved those things. And they also here's the thing,
Speaker 4: they were well made, they were funny, they were entertaining.
Speaker 4: Like sometimes yeah, you go back and watch you're like, okay,
Speaker 4: this is odd. The same time you're like, but it
Speaker 4: still kind of hits, you know, sure, yeah it has
Speaker 4: ten things I hate about that movie iconic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it seems like.
Speaker 3: But we're still in that era too, of being like,
Speaker 3: remember how much ado about nothing? Or like remember this
Speaker 3: Taming of the Shree whatever Shakespeare thinks it has to
Speaker 3: be based on Shakespeare or else it is not art.
Speaker 4: She's all that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, exactly?
Speaker 4: Is that one based on.
Speaker 2: She's a Man?
Speaker 4: She's the Man is based off Yeah? Yeah, She's that
Speaker 4: is also pretty good too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, also of the Shrew. It's just all yeah it
Speaker 2: who knows.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the idea of you is based on a
Speaker 1: novel that people really enjoyed, and there's a good interview
Speaker 1: that you sent for it to us that will link
Speaker 1: off to with the author who points out like this
Speaker 1: crazy double standard where like this would be considered a
Speaker 1: work of literature if the main character was a man,
Speaker 1: but because the main character is a woman, people are like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, such a cute you read, and like
Speaker 1: when readers like write to her. They're like, I don't
Speaker 1: normally like read this sort of thing. And people called
Speaker 1: it fan fiction, like Harry Styles fan Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's what they kept calling it, and the author was like,
Speaker 4: please stop reducing my work to fan fic when.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, it's not.
Speaker 4: This isn't a book that's based off Harry Styles. It's
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, it's also about the woman anyway. It's
Speaker 4: about like this woman reclaiming her sexual I mean, not
Speaker 4: even necessarily reclaiming her sexuality because she seems to be
Speaker 4: a sexual being, but being like, fuck it, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: fuck this pop star who's age and it's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay girl, right, yeah that'll do is yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean like she was saying, like the books author
Speaker 3: was saying, like yeah, I was approaching forty and I
Speaker 3: was wondering, like, you know, why the fuck? Like the
Speaker 3: roles I'm going being offered are like these like, yeah,
Speaker 3: your life's over.
Speaker 2: Kind of thing. She's like, no, fucking you can get
Speaker 2: shit poppin after forty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the writer is an expert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Robbin Lee Lee, Robin Lee. The idea of
Speaker 2: you is the Ann Hathaway. What's the guy's name? I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know, here's something.
Speaker 4: He's He's really everywhere right now, And I do actually
Speaker 4: have to google his name because it's kind of hard to.
Speaker 1: Take something like Galazini or something Nicholas Galaxyine Galaxy.
Speaker 4: Cholas Galazine, Gala sign galaxyin everywhere, the.
Speaker 1: End of that, because that makes it more met Gazin,
Speaker 1: Chicholas Galaxini.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh, he's everywhere. I feel like I've seen him
Speaker 4: in a bunch of stuff lately.
Speaker 2: In bottoms. Yeah, I remember, there's.
Speaker 4: That new show with Julianne Moore that he's in. But
Speaker 4: it is very much like they're trying to make fetch
Speaker 4: happen in a way. I mean, look, look, he's whatever.
Speaker 4: He's very handsome, he's very like he's like perfectly cast
Speaker 4: in this as the like pop star in this band
Speaker 4: called August Moon, which I thought was actually a good
Speaker 4: thing for the band.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, some of the videos were
Speaker 1: like a little silly and felt a little bit like this,
Speaker 1: this is like a movie's version of a music video.
Speaker 2: But I doesn't.
Speaker 4: I feel like they kind of nailed it because some
Speaker 4: of the music I was like, oh, this is kind
Speaker 4: of a bop.
Speaker 2: I was like, who wrote this?
Speaker 4: I look up same people that wrote like one Directions
Speaker 4: music wrote it. He hired pop star writing, which I
Speaker 4: was like quite impressed by because I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's why these like hit in a way, because I'm
Speaker 4: listening to real pop music and it's been a while
Speaker 4: since I've listened to like boy band's music, Like I
Speaker 4: missed the whole one direction train, like I only recently
Speaker 4: discovered Harry Styles. Sorry I'm a loser, And all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, I'm like, oh, pop music's fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about been.
Speaker 4: Doing all this time listening to James Blake and crying
Speaker 4: in my fucking rap fo, Like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: I could have this sacchers of hot Lakes.
Speaker 4: I mean seriously, I was like, I should be happier. Also,
Speaker 4: it's probably like the well Buttrin hitting and it's been like, girl, you.
Speaker 2: Like poprse embracing.
Speaker 4: Girl, Girl, you actually enjoy things.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, stuck, right, You're not this dark girl?
Speaker 2: Yeah pop on in but yeah.
Speaker 3: The the for people who don't know, just briefly, it's
Speaker 3: about a forty year old mom who's divorced who has
Speaker 3: a chance encounter with this pop megastar and then a
Speaker 3: romance goes from there and complicates things because this is
Speaker 3: also this guy is a member of the band of
Speaker 3: her daughter's favorite band, and that caused some little It
Speaker 3: happens to be there.
Speaker 1: Because it's like Coachella. She needs to take her teenage
Speaker 1: daughter to Coachella. Yeah, accidentally tries to pee in what
Speaker 1: she thinks is the bathroom, but it's actually his trailer.
Speaker 1: They have a chance encounter and are smitten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's or he becomes like obsessed with her
Speaker 4: and like comes and like seeks her out, and then
Speaker 4: at first she's like what the fuck? And then I
Speaker 4: do appreciate. She takes a moment to watch this really
Speaker 4: like terrible music video they do, which is like them
Speaker 4: dressed us as like dressed up as like school boy,
Speaker 4: and just goes like fuck it, I'm flying to New
Speaker 4: York to yes. Yeah, I'm fucking going like yes, yes,
Speaker 4: go ahead.
Speaker 1: It's it just came out. You can stream it on
Speaker 1: Prime right now. It's really good. I like my big thing.
Speaker 1: I don't I won't say it's a mistake, but like
Speaker 1: I am curious if they had cast the boy band
Speaker 1: role as one Harrison Styles, because I think he's start.
Speaker 4: Claiming in interviews, No not yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: Well the author was like, stop saying it's fan fiction
Speaker 1: about Harry Styles, so it wasn't a possibility. I just
Speaker 1: think he's like I don't know. The lead actor was
Speaker 1: like solid, but I didn't think he was like incredible,
Speaker 1: And the just like raises the question you're kind of
Speaker 1: like when I tell people what it's about, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of the idea of like what if somebody,
Speaker 1: like you know, who's in their late thirty he fell
Speaker 1: in love with Harry Styles is kind of it's.
Speaker 2: It's Stella got her groove back. Yes, I mean.
Speaker 1: That I think they fucked up. Is like this should
Speaker 1: have been released in theaters. Like I can't believe they
Speaker 1: did released this in theaters. Holy Ship, And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about anyone but you the other rom com that we watched,
Speaker 1: But that thing fucking crushed, like destroyed at the theater.
Speaker 1: And it's anyone, oh, anyone but you.
Speaker 2: You destroyed like it maybe millions of dollars? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: like why guy, they bought GM friend? Right? Wait, what
Speaker 2: was the TikTok trend for anyone?
Speaker 4: It's like people dancing at the end to that Natasha
Speaker 4: Ben written, I mean like here's something you want, a
Speaker 4: TikTok trend.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean for me, like I didn't think the
Speaker 1: movie was necessarily like groundbreaking or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: it felt I was nostalgic for it because it felt
Speaker 1: like peak late nine, these two thousands rom com where
Speaker 1: you're like, yes, this is a fun story and.
Speaker 3: You're like ooh yeah, oh sex, like we had all
Speaker 3: of those things. Uh, And for that, I was like
Speaker 3: they're hitting something there, because that is like a genre
Speaker 3: of movieses just like very like just easy to watch.
Speaker 2: It's fucking mindless.
Speaker 3: It's you know, there's a little bit of titillation and
Speaker 3: like some fantasy world ship where it's like, yeah, what
Speaker 3: would that be like if you get to go around
Speaker 3: Europe doing it up glamorous and live in this like
Speaker 3: you know, this celebrity adjacent lifestyle.
Speaker 2: I'd say nine out of ten on the tittle ish, Uh,
Speaker 2: how would you? Yeah? How how are we scoring the
Speaker 2: sex scenes?
Speaker 3: Do we?
Speaker 2: They were a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like a lot of making out scene.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a making out I mean then yeah,
Speaker 1: but then there's like some cheesy stuff.
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: I love the part like after they're like having sex
Speaker 1: like this, like the next scenes like this, dude's playing
Speaker 1: acoustic guitar and yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Baby.
Speaker 1: I started doing that Now every time I'm in bed,
Speaker 1: I just like pull out the acoustic guitar. Unfortunately I
Speaker 1: can't play it.
Speaker 2: Out of the bedroom. Now you have to keep tuning
Speaker 2: this rock star.
Speaker 4: Baby, He's got to like write a song about this moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it. I thought, like Miles said, it
Speaker 4: took me back to a different era. I'm like, here's
Speaker 4: the thing. Anne Hathaway, honey.
Speaker 2: Yeah still Hey.
Speaker 4: First of all, no, of course he wants to fuck
Speaker 4: Anne Hathaway, right, yeah, yeah, there's the shoulders alone. Girl.
Speaker 4: I was seeing so much Anne Hathaway's shoulder. I was like,
Speaker 4: am I.
Speaker 2: Trying to fuck an Hathway?
Speaker 4: It was incredible work.
Speaker 3: Well, Patrin, answer this question, am I like, well, Buttrin
Speaker 3: gave you like a digital assistant like Siri, Well, Beutrin.
Speaker 2: Do I want to fuck Anne Hathaway? Yes?
Speaker 4: Girl, you want to do everything.
Speaker 2: She's smoking. There's that one scene though, is so funny
Speaker 2: when she's like going there like hanging out at a
Speaker 2: pool and she notices like the other girlfriends of the
Speaker 2: other band members, and she sort of like gets self conscious,
Speaker 2: and you're like, Anne Hathaway, you're like fucking hot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've already seen that.
Speaker 1: Your body is incredible, like in the previous scene, like
Speaker 1: you're at the beach, just like incredible body.
Speaker 2: And then she has to be like, oh no, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna look bad.
Speaker 1: Next to these people who aren't next he's like twenty
Speaker 1: year old. Yeah, these people who don't happen to be
Speaker 1: the seven people who are as beautiful as me in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 5: So none if this makes any.
Speaker 2: I will put I will Donne Denham calf Den to
Speaker 2: the to the.
Speaker 5: Jealous funny though I like the Denim calf Den.
Speaker 3: I think the other thing though too, like yeah, despite
Speaker 3: you know, like I said, it's not nothing groundbreaking or
Speaker 3: anything like that, but it's still it has that familiar
Speaker 3: the thing I love like because Her Majesty and I
Speaker 3: were watching it.
Speaker 2: Whenever we watch these, we always go a, right, what's
Speaker 2: the second act? What's going to be?
Speaker 3: Is it a jealous is it a jealous person in
Speaker 3: the orbit? Is it are we finding out he's a
Speaker 3: fuck boy? And they kind of did a good version
Speaker 3: of like blending sort of those two things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what I like too, Like I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily That's what I'm saying, Like I don't necessarily need
Speaker 1: anything groundbreaking aside from maybe like more diverse cast, you know,
Speaker 1: which maybe we can get to in talking about like
Speaker 1: sort of how this story even came to be. But yeah,
Speaker 1: other than that, like it it's like it's really no
Speaker 1: notes as like a rom com.
Speaker 2: It's just it's it's a solid it was.
Speaker 1: Kind of a good like uh issue that pops up
Speaker 1: in that he like tends to date older women and
Speaker 1: so like, yeah, he kind of has a type which
Speaker 1: I feel like would be a problem. And like that's
Speaker 1: the thing that I think I've seen on like Reddit,
Speaker 1: Am I the asshole or like something like that where
Speaker 1: someone's like, yeah, like I just found out my boyfriend
Speaker 1: like has dated five women who look exactly like me,
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, Like that's gotta be
Speaker 1: a weird kind of dehumanizing feeling, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, it's like, and you probably
Speaker 4: date a bunch of dudes that look like you know,
Speaker 4: like y, yeah, exactly have what we like it's like,
Speaker 4: it doesn't make your relationship any less than it just
Speaker 4: sort of means like, Okay, well you found the person
Speaker 4: that you like the most out of your time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what it is, Yes, I'm pen paling.
Speaker 4: We are as humans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm penn paling with another woman on death row. Okay,
Speaker 3: so what yes exactly, I know what I like, I
Speaker 3: know what I like.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's interesting. So the writer, Uh, Robin is Robin.
Speaker 4: I think so Robin.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's RB I in n E. We'll call her
Speaker 2: Rob Robin or Robin. I'm sorry I was talking.
Speaker 3: You know, she wrote a previous book and that had
Speaker 3: sort of like you know, black protagonists in it.
Speaker 2: And she had trouble getting interest in that one.
Speaker 3: And then so when she started writing this, she did
Speaker 3: the thing, unfortunately that some people have to do, especially
Speaker 3: people of color in this industry, be like I hearde
Speaker 3: a story about white people and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, yes, thank you, waiting for you to make that decision. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't want to give that note.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean like, but that's what I'm hoping
Speaker 3: like with this obviously, maybe getting more momentum in the genre,
Speaker 3: we can.
Speaker 2: Begin to see something different because damn.
Speaker 3: Like this movie would have been interesting if it was
Speaker 3: just any other combination of characters other than Anne Hathaway
Speaker 3: and this Galaxyini guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but again, we just don't know his name Galax Sini.
Speaker 2: He is Galaxy, an Italian space traveler.
Speaker 4: Gazini Galazine, Galazine, Galine Galaxin Nicholas Galaxy. Okay, we do
Speaker 4: know his name. Look, I want to get invited to
Speaker 4: more screenings, so like.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, oh my god, we love it. This movie
Speaker 1: actually sucks. But on A told him we had to
Speaker 1: come on and this thing so she could keep going
Speaker 1: to school.
Speaker 4: Movie. I texted you guys, You're.
Speaker 2: Like, I have to come on. Yeah, yeah you did.
Speaker 2: You're like, we gotta talk about it.
Speaker 4: I've never been hornier. It's a hit. And the HR
Speaker 4: called me, which was sort of a whole thing, and
Speaker 4: I had to sort of get through that before I
Speaker 4: could come on here.
Speaker 1: But we copy the entire podcast division on training. But
Speaker 1: you know how it goes, Oh man, all right, we
Speaker 1: should take a break and come back and talk about
Speaker 1: anyone but you Yes, we'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're before we move off of the idea of you,
Speaker 1: I do have to talk about her ex husband is
Speaker 1: played by Dan from Deep The like real asshole, like
Speaker 1: young operative and in this one his name is Daniel.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, this guy has very specific range.
Speaker 1: His name must be Dan and it's not. He just
Speaker 1: like is type casts a guy named Dan read read Scott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he absolutely nails this toxic masculine asshole.
Speaker 4: Husband who's like, hey, I know I left you for
Speaker 4: a younger woman, but come over for dinner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, have you heard of pickleball? Get
Speaker 2: the fuck out of my face? Miserable?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: My favorite.
Speaker 3: The part that I laughed the most, and I think
Speaker 3: is when his like new partner Eva or whatever, like yeah,
Speaker 3: when he goes to confront her and he's got like
Speaker 3: the new car for the daughter.
Speaker 2: She's like hey, like I'm leaving him.
Speaker 1: She's like oh okay, and she's like do you want
Speaker 1: to get Thai food sometime?
Speaker 2: And athletes like absolutely not. It's like, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: That's a I was like, what, Yeah, such a weird exchange, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: I got.
Speaker 4: It, girl, good for you fucking that young boy girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, But everybody is like that.
Speaker 1: Everyone is that that part is realistic, like a lot
Speaker 1: of people are just like, oh, hey, I have five Yeah.
Speaker 2: That woman, she's like that was my daughter's favorite person.
Speaker 2: Sho had a crush on her. She's just how was it?
Speaker 2: I was it?
Speaker 1: So I thought they were going to dig more into
Speaker 1: like the sinister side, and I'm glad that, Like I
Speaker 1: think they nailed it. But have you read like this
Speaker 1: shit about like K pop boy bands and like how
Speaker 1: closely they control who they're allowed to date and oh
Speaker 1: yeah right, yeah for sure wid groups. Yeah that's not
Speaker 1: that's like entertainment.
Speaker 4: Media and marketing and branding. But I mean, like here's
Speaker 4: the thing that's like a very dark side of the
Speaker 4: industry where certain people are put together to create a
Speaker 4: certain buzz in order to like blow them up. You know,
Speaker 4: like that's a very normal thing in our industry. Like
Speaker 4: people are just dating to be like we're dating.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1: A little bit more realistic if like at least thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the headlines were just about how incredibly beautiful
Speaker 1: Anne Halfway was. Because all the headlines were like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like the remarkable about her is how amazingly beautiful she is,
Speaker 1: Like that would be the thing that most people would
Speaker 1: be like She's like, who is she?
Speaker 4: Yeah, ship, Yeah, she's a regular person.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and she's an Arsenal fan, so shout out
Speaker 2: to her. I gotta yeah.
Speaker 4: I think they both thought wasn't that thing? That's where
Speaker 4: they were both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were doing a press for it, and like
Speaker 2: Arsenal score. She's like, who truss Hard? Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I think she probably got her into because he's British.
Speaker 4: I assume yeah. I don't know else she would have
Speaker 4: discovered it.
Speaker 5: Maybe she got him into it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I really got it.
Speaker 1: Okay, anyone never even heard of footing anything.
Speaker 4: But I will say really quickly. Uh so obviously spoiler
Speaker 4: alert were kind of been spoiling the movie. But go
Speaker 4: I would assume you've watched this movie. If not, skip
Speaker 4: like ahead, you know, thirty seconds. But the end where
Speaker 4: he comes back five years later, let's talk about that facial.
Speaker 2: Sho that fake, fake ass facial hair he had on
Speaker 2: his chin.
Speaker 3: I was like, that looked like that scene in Jackass
Speaker 3: where everyone shaves their arm pit hair and their pubes
Speaker 3: for danger air.
Speaker 4: And you just put some pubes on this poor board.
Speaker 2: Yes, that ship was I was like this.
Speaker 3: We were immediately like okay, so a fake some fake
Speaker 3: chin hair and longer hair makes him five years yeah whatever.
Speaker 1: Work or yeah he did look five years older. Though
Speaker 1: to me, they don't zoom in the second they revealed
Speaker 1: that hair. I was like, Oh, the one thing is
Speaker 1: that I thought they should have, you know, shot of him.
Speaker 1: He's there for her reverse shot of her and like
Speaker 1: she sees the facial hair and you kind of see
Speaker 1: her like gag a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, you old face.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, it's funny because I guess in the
Speaker 3: book they don't rekindle after.
Speaker 4: No, they don't end up together. I heard the book's
Speaker 4: really dark. I'm going to read it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And in a way I kind of would have
Speaker 1: been down for that too of just being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was fun and that's kind of how life is.
Speaker 2: But I get it we also need to end on
Speaker 2: a happy ending. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's a Michael Showalter directed project, and
Speaker 4: I don't think he was trying to make like a dark,
Speaker 4: realistic break on what a relationship like that could be.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, are.
Speaker 1: There rom comms where the people don't end up together?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think.
Speaker 2: Com I remember they don't big them.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, big kind of a little five hundred days
Speaker 4: of summer.
Speaker 2: Movies with lovers don't end up together.
Speaker 1: Don't call them lovers, Collider dot com You friends wedding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess they're not. My best friend's wedding.
Speaker 3: Her that's so brutal due to her because her exist
Speaker 3: lost in translation.
Speaker 5: Also on the uh A tone, all right, they have
Speaker 5: a very loose definition of.
Speaker 2: Anyone but you. This is Sydney sweety vehicle.
Speaker 4: Example of a great rom com that's dropped this year.
Speaker 4: And you know, one of the things I do want
Speaker 4: to say about rom coms is like, I think that
Speaker 4: us supporting these movies is important because the more we
Speaker 4: watch them and show these like studios and executives that
Speaker 4: were enjoying these, the more likely they're going to make
Speaker 4: more and potentially actually make really really great ones because
Speaker 4: they're open to the idea of reading people's scripts and
Speaker 4: taking them. So like, I fully support this rom com boom,
Speaker 4: like the don't call it a comeback, but it is
Speaker 4: a comeback. But us to see more rom coms. I
Speaker 4: want us to see more content made for women, because
Speaker 4: you know, we've seen in the last couple of years,
Speaker 4: like wherever you'd want to go see a rom com
Speaker 4: you'd have to go to like the Hallmark Channel and
Speaker 4: it wouldn't be like the greatest written thing. But that's
Speaker 4: just where we kept finding ourselves. You know, it's.
Speaker 2: Likesh doing some weird conservative shit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's like I think, you know the world
Speaker 4: views content made for women is less than and it's
Speaker 4: like a horrible sort of very real thing that like
Speaker 4: and you know, I think also the boom in sort
Speaker 4: of like fantasy romance books written by like Sarah J.
Speaker 4: Mass or like The Fourth Wing or Yeah, all these
Speaker 4: books that are coming out that are very popular show
Speaker 4: us that like, this content will sell, this content will
Speaker 4: be watched, Like you just need to give it the
Speaker 4: chance and make it and we will come a knock in. Okay.
Speaker 2: This is kind of thing though too.
Speaker 1: It's like, get off the fucking big budget bullshit, Like
Speaker 1: you can really obsessed with make rom coms, do these
Speaker 1: fucking things that don't take up seven hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in budget, and just like play small ball with it
Speaker 1: and you're gonna find it to get more hits than
Speaker 1: fucking just being betting the farm on some flying fuck
Speaker 1: with a Cape movie. Yeah, we were talking yesterday about
Speaker 1: how like the lesson learned from you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: out of Avenger, like the Avengers gun is out of bullets.
Speaker 1: They're they're like, we're kind of fucked on this one
Speaker 1: other than you know, a handful of characters. So what
Speaker 1: we have to like make a new sort of blockbuster
Speaker 1: that we can churn out. And their takeaway from Barbie
Speaker 1: was like, what if we like made a movie with
Speaker 1: like Ken in it as an action hero because they
Speaker 1: like open Fall, Like I think Fall Guy looks fun,
Speaker 1: but like it just it does feel like their takeaway
Speaker 1: from this movie that's like about feminism is like, let's
Speaker 1: let's make Ken.
Speaker 2: They want action hero? What about that ten guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they truly fucked up with because, by the way,
Speaker 1: like for people voting with their wallets on rom coms,
Speaker 1: anyone but you mission accomplished guys that the thing was
Speaker 1: a massive international hit to the point that I truly
Speaker 1: feel like the makers of the idea of You are
Speaker 1: probably like, what did we do?
Speaker 5: How did we get this in theaters?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: I agree it should have been in theaters and anyone
Speaker 4: but you is I thought, really enjoyable film. It's funny,
Speaker 4: it's silly, the characters there's a great Australian character who look,
Speaker 4: we love a crazy Australian bro who's just like a
Speaker 4: good time guy, but everyone's threatened by him because of
Speaker 4: how handsome he is.
Speaker 5: Scene was my favorite joke in the movie.
Speaker 2: Yeh fucking shark. Goddamn, Like, who is this guy? This
Speaker 2: came out of nowhere?
Speaker 4: It's so funny. It's just like nude half the time,
Speaker 4: just doesn't give a fuck, Like really great character. And
Speaker 4: you know what, I really enjoyed Glenn Pall and Sidney
Speaker 4: Sweeney in these roles. Uh yeah, more of that. Give
Speaker 4: us these big budget rom coms, like put these like
Speaker 4: great actors in act you know, like that are coming up.
Speaker 4: Put them in these movies.
Speaker 2: I'll watch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's see again, this isn't It was just another easy,
Speaker 1: easy sipper. You know, you just watch it. Nothing too crazy.
Speaker 1: There's some laughs in there, there's some good.
Speaker 3: Like every I think that was the one thing I
Speaker 3: liked that anyone, but you at least stayed faithful to
Speaker 3: like at least having some funnier comic relief characters on
Speaker 3: the fringes. Yeah, like that's where idea of you felt
Speaker 3: a little more straightforward, like romance, like a romantic flick
Speaker 3: with with comedic sort of you know, comic relief here
Speaker 3: and there. But this one definitely had like, you know,
Speaker 3: fun bits and shit with like that Kings Kingman spider
Speaker 3: whoever that giant fucking spider was, and she's like looking
Speaker 3: up his ass.
Speaker 2: If there's more spiders.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it just visually didn't make sense, but yeah
Speaker 1: it was just a funny.
Speaker 2: There's just some good funny shit in there. And I
Speaker 2: yeah it did the genre, did the genre right, I think. Also, yeah, Glen.
Speaker 4: That all went down while they were just looking at
Speaker 4: a koala.
Speaker 3: Yeah, justiping out on the koala, Like okay, yeah you
Speaker 3: can get Dermott mulroney.
Speaker 2: It had a little bit of.
Speaker 4: Dude Dermott flashback baby, Yeah for real, Well he was
Speaker 4: in my best friend's wedding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is he the husband or the love my best
Speaker 5: friend's wedding?
Speaker 4: He's the best friend, isn't he? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think that's right Dermott remember, Yeah those were the days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those were the days. But yeah, again, like another movie,
Speaker 2: just super.
Speaker 1: Like again they're like it's much ado about nothing, but
Speaker 1: it's about a destination wedding and you then that's all
Speaker 1: you kind of need to again make a thing that
Speaker 1: reminds you of like peak romance comedy whatever from yesteryear.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys have watched Runaway Bride recently,
Speaker 4: but god damn, Julia Roberts and Richard Gear what a
Speaker 4: fucking oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't they try and put them back together in
Speaker 2: a thing recently? And it's just an epic failure because
Speaker 2: they're like.
Speaker 4: No, I thought it was Julia Roberts Ticket to Paradise
Speaker 4: Julia Roberts and George Clooney were together, which I heard
Speaker 4: that was good. I should watch that, man.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well there it is. Yeah, I again, Yeah,
Speaker 1: good stuff. I can't not, I I'm not. I don't
Speaker 1: watch rom coms too deeply to have like too much
Speaker 1: of a critical analysis. It's more like a thing that
Speaker 1: can you put it on? Does it keep your attention
Speaker 1: and you're not on your phone? And if yes, then success?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Does it make you feel it was.
Speaker 3: Way hornier anyone? But you was way hornier than idea
Speaker 3: of you? I would say that, Yeah, what's hornier than
Speaker 3: the idea of you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: They had more like it felt like more ninety like
Speaker 3: sort of sex scenes of Yesteryear kind of shit, like
Speaker 3: back when it's like p.
Speaker 2: Corny in a romance comedy or romance. But yeah, horny
Speaker 2: calendar the I have is that one horny?
Speaker 4: It's pretty horny. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh I saw a headline but it was I think
Speaker 1: it was like on the front page of Drudge maybe,
Speaker 1: but it was like Zendaia in the Raunchiest movie Ever
Speaker 1: or something like that was like what the fuck?
Speaker 2: Like ever? Yeah, I don't know, you.
Speaker 4: Know whatever his name is movie. So it's more of
Speaker 4: like an art film about tennis that also includes like
Speaker 4: a threesome energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think people are getting back into the idea
Speaker 1: of sex and movies for.
Speaker 4: It's not even like it's not even like overt sex.
Speaker 4: It's all very much like hinted at. There's like tension
Speaker 4: and like you don't you don't ever see these people fucking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they give each other a kiss and then the
Speaker 1: camera pans over to the curtains like in the nineteen thirties,
Speaker 1: the pre Hayze Code sex scenes basically.
Speaker 4: But I mean I think that almost that does like
Speaker 4: I don't need to see full on intercourse.
Speaker 2: Right right, but you want to.
Speaker 1: It does its job what, Yeah, you want it to
Speaker 1: seem realistic, like in a way where it's like people
Speaker 1: don't talk to each other like that.
Speaker 3: Sometimes less is more, Yeah, in that sense for sure.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I definitely I want to see Challengers because
Speaker 3: you said that it's Trent Reznor Scorter, right, bro.
Speaker 4: Is it is so heavy on the techno every five
Speaker 4: minutes this whole show, this whole movie. It's like they're
Speaker 4: having a conversation, right, audio they stop talking, Audio cuts out,
Speaker 4: techno techno, techno, techno cuts out. It's quiet, intense, staring,
Speaker 4: techno cuts back in. It's like you're the whole movie
Speaker 4: you're I mean, I saw it in theaters, so maybe
Speaker 4: it was just like very loud and like in my business,
Speaker 4: but like I was stressed, right, Damn, I was shressed
Speaker 4: watching that movie because what no, Because I there was
Speaker 4: the techno was like laced over tennis and you're like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, yeah right, so there's all this other
Speaker 4: backstory behind everything that's going on, and you're.
Speaker 3: Just like, yeah, well, and and with them too, like Trent,
Speaker 3: when Trent Renisder and Atticus Ross do something like it's
Speaker 3: going to have that electronic feel, but there's such an
Speaker 3: undercurrent of tension, like think of the passion they did
Speaker 3: like the Watchman soundtrack, or like the Social Network.
Speaker 2: It's never just like, oh, this is fun.
Speaker 1: So I was like, this is fucking creepy, right beginning
Speaker 1: a social network, You're like, what the fuck is about
Speaker 1: to happen? Man?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember just like nine inch nails.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you remember like nine inch nail.
Speaker 4: Remember that that movie that band.
Speaker 1: How long the nails were they did to Jesus. So
Speaker 1: that's what it was called that.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Why, that's what I heard in middle school, middle school thing,
Speaker 1: that's how long they did the nails was to Jesus.
Speaker 1: And that that's like the edgiest ship that you can
Speaker 1: say to like kids who like have been to Sunday School, Like.
Speaker 2: What they would name it? Like, now, God, why would
Speaker 2: he name it that? That's so scary?
Speaker 4: Okay, No, it says they he chose the name nine
Speaker 4: inch nails because it abbreviated easily rather than for any
Speaker 4: literal meaning.
Speaker 1: Okay, just like an I n baby and I am
Speaker 1: nine inch nails.
Speaker 4: Nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1: Well on A, I do appreciate you coming on. I
Speaker 1: do appreciate you recommending these movies it's been a while
Speaker 1: since I watched a rom com. They were both very enjoyable.
Speaker 1: Anyone but you very It's like B movie, but like
Speaker 1: a very well competently executed B movie rom com, the
Speaker 1: idea of you aspires to more. I think execute both
Speaker 1: really fun. I do take this as a victory in
Speaker 1: our ongoing conversation about movies versus TV. Movies are the
Speaker 1: superior medium, and you seem to be admitting that. So
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on and doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's crazy what you just did the right there,
Speaker 4: and that's sort of what's wrong with this country. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I great movie. I recommend you all watch it. Check
Speaker 4: out anyone but you and the idea of you both
Speaker 4: are out, I think anyone but use on Netflix, the
Speaker 4: idea of Us on Amazon Prime. And also go watch
Speaker 4: those other rom comps, because I was like looking up
Speaker 4: rom coms on Netflix and I was like, there is
Speaker 4: so many. Go watch Lindsey Lohan in that weird ass
Speaker 4: I Irish Wish.
Speaker 3: Movies trash, but you have fun, enjoy it so trash,
Speaker 3: like you just have fun tearing it down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just go enjoy these movies for what they are
Speaker 4: and like they'll make more content for us like that
Speaker 4: if we can show them that it's worth a damn time.
Speaker 2: And we also just need comedies too. That's another genre
Speaker 2: that is fully dying out too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so wild, but yeah, but at lease keep them Horney,
Speaker 1: please keep keeping Harney. I'm shock how well anyone but
Speaker 1: you did though, Like that's bof obio. It did officially.
Speaker 1: I've been consulting with our producers and we can officially
Speaker 1: say it did.
Speaker 2: Boff O Bio.
Speaker 3: So okay, damn two hundred nineteen to almost two undred
Speaker 3: and twenty million.
Speaker 1: Yeah for a movie that I would say doesn't deserve
Speaker 1: that much. Like it, but it's not like, yo, this
Speaker 1: is amazing. It's like very by the books rom com
Speaker 1: and that's what. Yeah, like that that would if I
Speaker 1: was a Hollywood movie producer, maybe the lesson from Barbie
Speaker 1: would be like more movies that aren't that don't look
Speaker 1: down on women as an audience, uh and in fact
Speaker 1: are made by them.
Speaker 5: I don't know, crazy idea.
Speaker 4: That's wild.
Speaker 2: That's it all right, I went too far. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: that's too crazy.
Speaker 5: On where can people find you? Follow you? All?
Speaker 2: That could stuff?
Speaker 4: I'm at selling hosts Nier on Instagram. Come follow me there.
Speaker 4: That is where I do most of my creative work.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, yeah, Miles Gray. Uh, just you know where
Speaker 1: fucking Miles Gray doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: Scrow Brian on Twitter or whatever.
Speaker 2: Fuck it.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for us this afternoon. We're back
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning with a who last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and
Speaker 1: we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Bye and and read more smart.
Speaker 2: Thank you,