Speaker 1: Hey, evolks, it is Thursday, April thirtieth, and this weekend
Speaker 1: one of the biggest movies of the year is coming out.
Speaker 1: It is already guaranteed to be a hit, and fellas
Speaker 1: just sit this one out.
Speaker 2: And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2: Do you all even want? Do you care if we
Speaker 2: accompany you all to see Devil Wears Prada too this weekend?
Speaker 3: I think it depends on the woman and the relationship
Speaker 3: she has with her guide.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk. It's just say in general generally speaking,
Speaker 2: of course, it's individual, but is this a thing that
Speaker 2: guys just need to, Hey, enjoy this one with you girls?
Speaker 3: Well, I would just say it depends on the guy,
Speaker 3: because look this obviously this movie is spurring all sorts
Speaker 3: of girls' night out parties.
Speaker 4: Yes, all the.
Speaker 3: Women who watched this movie twenty years ago. The original
Speaker 3: Devilwar's product was out in two thousand and six, so
Speaker 3: a lot of us women who are around at that
Speaker 3: age might be getting together with old friends, good friends,
Speaker 3: new friends to watch this together. But I had this
Speaker 3: discussion with you, and this prompted this episode because I said, hey, obviously, yeah,
Speaker 3: we could. I could get a group of girls together.
Speaker 3: But I'm in an age now where look the truth
Speaker 3: is I I love being with you. And I said,
Speaker 3: would you want to go see this? Would you go
Speaker 3: see this with me? Should I go outsour this, outsource
Speaker 3: this and seek seeing this movie out maybe with my.
Speaker 4: Daughters or my girlfriends, or would you see this with me?
Speaker 4: And what did you say?
Speaker 2: Of course, I'll see it with you. But I didn't
Speaker 2: want to take away from an experience you might want
Speaker 2: to have. This is going to be a Barbie type
Speaker 2: phenomenon and maybe not make the same type of money,
Speaker 2: but as far as culturally the experience and how women
Speaker 2: are excited about it, it's that type of equivalent. Maybe
Speaker 2: this would even skews a little older type thing, so
Speaker 2: I didn't want to take that away. But I'm not
Speaker 2: sitting it out as so, oh my god, I don't
Speaker 2: want to see that thing. I enjoy going to any
Speaker 2: movie with you, And maybe that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: It depends on the health of a relationship. Yes, and well,
Speaker 2: of course I would love to go. I'll go anywhere
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: In fact, so here's the deal.
Speaker 3: This might be so sappy, but I actually when I
Speaker 3: really enjoy something and have a blast with watching something
Speaker 3: or just taking something in. I always want to share
Speaker 3: it with you. So I actually wanted you to come,
Speaker 3: but I didn't want you to feel like you had
Speaker 3: to come. And then it just got me thinking how
Speaker 3: many guys are just like whooho, wifey.
Speaker 4: Or girlfriends got her thing with their girls.
Speaker 3: And I can go sit there and watch golf all day,
Speaker 3: or I can go golf with the guys, or I
Speaker 3: can go whatever, do my thing because she's got her thing.
Speaker 4: So and that probably.
Speaker 3: Is generally speaking, how most couples are probably going to
Speaker 3: approach devilwares proud of too. But not everybody.
Speaker 2: But that is the question. What generally should women do?
Speaker 2: What should guys do? Is this one where guys would
Speaker 2: just sit out and say, hey, honey, go enjoy it
Speaker 2: with the girls. Is this one that the girls prefer
Speaker 2: to go see it with the girls?
Speaker 4: Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, I would say, as long as you didn't because
Speaker 3: you were oh this is so stupid or eye rolling
Speaker 3: or groaning. If you're going to ruin the experience and
Speaker 3: yuck and yuff the yum, then you should stay home. Okay,
Speaker 3: But if you can have some fun and laugh and
Speaker 3: just maybe try to understand why this is so appealing
Speaker 3: to so many of us women. Then I think it's
Speaker 3: cool if you want to be a part of it,
Speaker 3: want to experience it, want to see it, as long
Speaker 3: as you keep your negative opinions to yourself, you know.
Speaker 2: And help me. This is classified. This isn't rom com.
Speaker 3: It's called is what they say, like a it's like
Speaker 3: a rom calm drama like it.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 2: But the way minute the first one had a love
Speaker 2: story at the centerpiece.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was some. There was some love interest.
Speaker 3: Yes, Anne Hathaway was pulled between someone who she had
Speaker 3: been with and a new flashy journalist dude who she
Speaker 3: was potentially falling for, but the main focus. That wasn't
Speaker 3: the main focus. But it was a subplot. It was
Speaker 3: a subplot. It it's not a rom com for sure.
Speaker 3: It is not a flat out comedy, yes, but there's
Speaker 3: drama and there's romance, so there was Actually I think it's.
Speaker 4: A rom dram com. That's what I'm gonna call it.
Speaker 2: I'll start, still start.
Speaker 3: But right now, this movie they're saying is heavily skewed
Speaker 3: towards women over the age of thirty five.
Speaker 2: Research on the perfect sense.
Speaker 3: Although both of my daughters already have girl groups ready
Speaker 3: to go this weekend, they're all going to see the movie.
Speaker 3: They've already got their tickets. The core audience expected this
Speaker 3: weekend overwhelmingly female. Industry analysts are estimating seventy five to
Speaker 3: eighty percent of the opening weekend audience will be women.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that like a Milania I remember numbers from Malania
Speaker 2: being similar.
Speaker 3: But anyway, we went to go see that together.
Speaker 2: There was nothing but women in the audience of a
Speaker 2: certain age. But yes, that those numbers make perfect sense.
Speaker 1: Did you.
Speaker 4: Did you see too? I mean, do you ever feel uncomfortable?
Speaker 3: I guess to be in an audience with mostly women,
Speaker 3: and you're the only guy.
Speaker 2: I seek out those audiences.
Speaker 4: That's home for you.
Speaker 2: No, but do you know what I was just at
Speaker 2: an event with you, recently dressed for success in Atlanta, right.
Speaker 3: You were probably one of four men in a sea
Speaker 3: of two hundred and fifty three hundred women.
Speaker 4: Okay, I thought they were a little more.
Speaker 2: It's it's fine, it's okay. It's only when you're in
Speaker 2: that audience when it's Sometimes when the subject or the
Speaker 2: reason they're in the room is a really strictly female theme.
Speaker 2: It's like, I shouldn't be here. I feel like I'll
Speaker 2: be easy to drop along here.
Speaker 3: But I actually liked the idea of you being there
Speaker 3: because I think you being in on some of these jokes.
Speaker 4: So being in on some of what makes.
Speaker 3: Us happy, laugh, excited, whether it's fashion, humor whatever, I
Speaker 3: do think it's fun to have you be a part
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: I think it actually can bring a couple a little
Speaker 3: closer if the other person who's being exposed to something
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit different is open to it and
Speaker 3: looking at it as an opportunity to understand.
Speaker 4: Perhaps even more right, I am.
Speaker 2: With you there and rogues you know this. Yes, you're
Speaker 2: very familiar with this because you were there when this
Speaker 2: was all happening. I until at five years ago, I
Speaker 2: had never seen devil Ware's product, and it was a
Speaker 2: big deal made out of it on Air Live and
Speaker 2: Good Morning America. I had never seen the movie. I
Speaker 2: know what it is, I respect what it is, but
Speaker 2: I hadn't seen it. I went I think that weekend,
Speaker 2: came back and announced that I had seen it, and
Speaker 2: I wasn't moved. But here's the thing though, and this
Speaker 2: is where I would encourage any guy Robes. Some of
Speaker 2: my favorite, like in the top ten favorite actors working
Speaker 2: today are in this movie. And you know, Emily Blunt
Speaker 2: is one of my favorite humans walking and she I
Speaker 2: didn't realize she was in the first one.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a huge role, yes, and she plays such
Speaker 3: a bach it's so fun, a nervous, scared, kiss ass
Speaker 3: Batch Robes.
Speaker 2: So many of those people have become the biggest superstars working.
Speaker 2: Mel Streep was already in her own zone. Stanley Tucci, yes,
Speaker 2: but now between Tucci is his profile has even risen
Speaker 2: after the first one came out.
Speaker 4: But Anne Hathaway are.
Speaker 2: Aaaa lists yes now, So even if you're not interested
Speaker 2: in the movie, you love those people who are in it,
Speaker 2: negotie it and.
Speaker 3: The fact that they got all of them to return
Speaker 3: for this is such a big deal. Just and look,
Speaker 3: the reviews are in, I believe right now as of
Speaker 3: this recording, seventy eight percent and pretty much the critics
Speaker 3: are saying this, if you loved the first one, you're
Speaker 3: gonna love the second one.
Speaker 4: Period.
Speaker 3: There's a little bit of a modern twist in fact,
Speaker 3: they said, if you're a journalist, especially if you're in
Speaker 3: print or in any sort of magazine type journalism, this
Speaker 3: is a horror story or a horror movie, because yes,
Speaker 3: it clearly points out the declining numbers for folks in print, broadcast,
Speaker 3: et cetera. If you're a journalist right now, it is
Speaker 3: a well, let's just call it an evolving career that
Speaker 3: might not be as stable as it once was considered.
Speaker 4: And this movie goes there and talks about all of that.
Speaker 3: So it does have some modern elements to it, which
Speaker 3: makes it cool as well.
Speaker 4: Now, I actually went on to AI.
Speaker 3: I haven't used a lot of it, but I see
Speaker 3: my daughters doing it all the time, and I thought
Speaker 3: it would be funny. I actually put a search in
Speaker 3: saying should you bring your man to devil?
Speaker 4: Where's Prada?
Speaker 3: Tode? And it gives me a whole list reasons to
Speaker 3: bring him, and then a list of reasons he.
Speaker 4: Might not enjoy it.
Speaker 3: So I thought we could have some fun and go
Speaker 3: through that list with you, TJ, and then it will help.
Speaker 3: Maybe any of you are sitting at the on the
Speaker 3: fence thinking, hmm, should I bring my guy with me?
Speaker 4: Should I just go with my girlfriends.
Speaker 3: These are basically the pros and cons of bringing your
Speaker 3: guy to the theater to see Devilwaar's Prota Tow. We'll
Speaker 3: have those for you when we come back. And welcome
Speaker 3: back to this episode.
Speaker 4: Of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 3: We are talking about the Devilwaar's Prada to It opens
Speaker 3: this weekend. Lots of girls' night outs plan for so
Speaker 3: many women, but there might be some of us present
Speaker 3: party included, who were really wanting to see this movie
Speaker 3: with our guys and then wondering is he gonna like it?
Speaker 3: Is he not gonna like it? And what he thinks
Speaker 3: about it? And how much is that going to impact
Speaker 3: my experience of the movie. And DJ has said that
Speaker 3: he is more than willing and actually, would you say
Speaker 3: you're happy to go? You're willing to go? How would
Speaker 3: you categorize it?
Speaker 2: Robes, I love the four Leads. There's nothing else to
Speaker 2: talk about. I will go see Meryl Streep do anything.
Speaker 2: I don't give a damn if you tell Meryl Streeper
Speaker 2: is in a movie about a stripper and she's the stripper.
Speaker 2: Let's go see what that's about. I don't care if
Speaker 2: you're tell me that she plays. I don't care what
Speaker 2: she does. I will go watch MARYL. Streep and Hathaway is.
Speaker 2: She's close to Hollywood royalty in a way. I know,
Speaker 2: we got what really sexy actresses and all this not
Speaker 2: saying she obviously she's stunning, but robes. She is a
Speaker 2: throwback to a time that I just love and respect.
Speaker 2: You know how I feel about Emily Blunt. She's christ
Speaker 2: Stanley Tucci? How much? How much cooler can you get?
Speaker 2: This dude is wonderful. Bros. What I'm saying to you,
Speaker 2: I am excited to see those four people on a
Speaker 2: screen together.
Speaker 3: All right, So you just told me that we're gonna
Speaker 3: have a good time going to see Double Ware.
Speaker 2: And you know what, any guy out there, don't ruin
Speaker 2: an experience of any movie with If she's excited for
Speaker 2: you to be sitting there next to her, don't sit
Speaker 2: there and being asked, yeah, don't sit there and say
Speaker 2: this is dumb, but this is really Don't do that.
Speaker 2: Just come on, give her that and enjoy. We can
Speaker 2: sit there for two hours and bite your tongue or
Speaker 2: try to enjoy. Don't just that's not a good way
Speaker 2: to be. Okay, Really, I know we don't have a mass,
Speaker 2: huge male audience here, But my goodness, fellas give her that.
Speaker 4: I agree. It's not a lot to ask.
Speaker 3: They do have on AI the reasons to bring your
Speaker 3: guy and the reasons that he might not enjoy it.
Speaker 4: I wanted to get your take on this.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many you got on each?
Speaker 4: How many one two three four?
Speaker 3: One two three? So four reasons to bring him? Three
Speaker 3: reasons maybe why you shouldn't. Okay, all right, reasons to
Speaker 3: bring him. It's a good natured date movie.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: The sequel is described as fun, breezy and a serviceable comedy,
Speaker 3: making it a comfortable, lighthearted option for movie night. So
Speaker 3: just if you look at it as a date night,
Speaker 3: that would be one way to do it. High fashion appeal.
Speaker 3: Does your guy like your Gucci Prada?
Speaker 2: If it?
Speaker 3: If your guy likes style or has any interest in fashion,
Speaker 3: he might actually appreciate that part of the mo is.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a tougher sell for most men. Come on, honey,
Speaker 2: let's see this. They're gonna have the latest fashion. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's let's go to number three. Baby.
Speaker 3: I thought that's why you liked the Kardashian show. All
Speaker 3: that fun fashion, all's fair.
Speaker 2: It was fun to look at. I wasn't analyzing looking
Speaker 2: for a spring, all right.
Speaker 3: But it's just pretty to look at. They're okay, fine,
Speaker 3: that's more for the girls. Fine, the cast chemistry. And
Speaker 3: you've already talked about fans of the original enjoy seeing
Speaker 3: Meryl Streep and Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci reunite,
Speaker 3: so you're in on that. And then here's the other
Speaker 3: reason why. I don't know what this says about men. Oh,
Speaker 3: it's not too heavy. Unlike some dramatic sequels, this one
Speaker 3: is a celebratory reunion rather than a life changing film.
Speaker 3: I guess the implication is men don't like heavy films
Speaker 3: or life changing films.
Speaker 4: That doesn't seem fair, but.
Speaker 3: They're One of the reasons to bring him is it's
Speaker 3: just not too heavy, it's not too deep. It's just fun,
Speaker 3: just slighthearted, exactly, okay, all right. Reasons he might not enjoy.
Speaker 2: It, it's gotta be good.
Speaker 3: Repetitive plot reviews note that the plot relies heavily on
Speaker 3: the formula of the first film, which might be predictable.
Speaker 2: Wow, a movie being formulated formulaic shocker, I watch horror movies.
Speaker 4: Okay, wait, this one is. Yes, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3: This one is making me laugh so hard because I
Speaker 3: feel like this is a reason why you would like it.
Speaker 4: One of the reasons why they say he might not.
Speaker 3: Enjoy it the lack of rom The romantic subplots are
Speaker 3: described as dull and chemistry free, so it's not a
Speaker 3: strong romantic movie.
Speaker 4: That's a plus for most of them.
Speaker 2: That's fine. I don't want to see that savvy shit.
Speaker 3: You're like, I don't really care about the romance part
Speaker 3: of it, so okay, I actually think that goes into
Speaker 3: the category of why you should bring him, and then
Speaker 3: reasons he might not enjoy it. It's described as a
Speaker 3: softer or more sugary version of the original, so it
Speaker 3: loses some of the sharp satire that it was known
Speaker 3: for in its original.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because most guys remember the sharp satire from the
Speaker 2: first one.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, this is this makes me laugh. They had like,
Speaker 3: I've never really done this ai thing. But they have
Speaker 3: a verdict if he loved the first one or enjoys
Speaker 3: snappy dialogue in fashion it's.
Speaker 4: A solid choice.
Speaker 3: Okay, if he hated the first or if he prefers
Speaker 3: action over fashion world drama.
Speaker 4: He might want to sit this one out.
Speaker 2: What's the's the that's the thing with gay best Friend.
Speaker 4: Gb GBF GBS.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously GBF is an obvious choice for a
Speaker 3: day night. Yes, OK on this one, but I do
Speaker 3: think it's funny they say basically, whether or not you
Speaker 3: should bring your man to this sequel is depends on
Speaker 3: whether he enjoys nostalgic, fashion driven comedy or does he
Speaker 3: prefer high stakes action. I believe that most women would
Speaker 3: be pretty safe to say that's fine that their men prefer.
Speaker 4: The latter of the two.
Speaker 3: But to what you say is maybe this isn't about
Speaker 3: what your man prefers, and just about the experience of
Speaker 3: the date night robes.
Speaker 2: There is I have gone to places with you. You've
Speaker 2: gone to places with me that you would never have
Speaker 2: chosen to do on your own.
Speaker 4: The entire month of March could fall into that category.
Speaker 2: That is true. But places I've taken you and people
Speaker 2: you've hung out with, places you've taken me, and I've
Speaker 2: hung out with folks and done things I've never would
Speaker 2: have done. They were experiences, and you know what, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have done it on my own, but I had
Speaker 2: a frickin' blast. Wat can you be happy or experiencing
Speaker 2: something new? It's just what it is. And if I
Speaker 2: said I didn't like it, you know what, you didn't
Speaker 2: take me the second, the third, of the fourth time.
Speaker 2: It's okay. This is what a relationship is. And yes,
Speaker 2: devil Wear's Brada is another opportunity, a simple one to
Speaker 2: compromise in a relationship, to concede, to give something in
Speaker 2: a relationship or from the other side, to offer something,
Speaker 2: to bring somebody into your experience robes. This is very
Speaker 2: I always say, this is simple stuff, and if your
Speaker 2: relationship is struggling, this is an easy way to ease
Speaker 2: into compromise. Meryl Streep can do it for you.
Speaker 4: I love that. That is such a good way to
Speaker 4: look at this.
Speaker 3: And you know what, I want to give you kudos
Speaker 3: because just two weeks ago you sat through a musical
Speaker 3: on Broadway about the Cold War, Yes, which the focus
Speaker 3: and theme of that musical was chess. Yes, And you
Speaker 3: knew I loved that musical and you came anyway, Yes.
Speaker 2: Because I love a night out. Because you know what,
Speaker 2: I had a hot date that night, I got a
Speaker 2: good dinner, I had good drinks, my woman dressed up.
Speaker 2: She looked amazing, and I said around, I learned new things,
Speaker 2: I saw new people, and I saw wonderful talent on stage. Yes, Robes,
Speaker 2: I had a good night. I never ever ever want
Speaker 2: to see Chess again, but I had a wonderful night
Speaker 2: at Chess.
Speaker 4: Amazing. So hope that helps.
Speaker 3: If any of you all were deciding who, when where
Speaker 3: to see the devil, Whar's prada to make it happen
Speaker 3: and let us know what you think.
Speaker 4: But we will find it.
Speaker 3: Not I don't know when we're seeing it, but when
Speaker 3: we do, if we have strong opinions, we'll walk back on.
Speaker 3: But otherwise I will we'll just enjoy it like the
Speaker 3: rest of you. And with that, everyone, thank you for
Speaker 3: listening to us. As always, we appreciate you. I made
Speaker 3: me Robock alongside TJ. Holmes.
Speaker 4: We will talk to you soon.