Speaker 1: Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush Monday, the miniest
Speaker 1: edition of all tiny, tiny, tiny crushes on a Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all I got. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm doing here, Chuck, I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: What is that? It was a little song I made up,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't very inspired. But look at a cartoon theme.
Speaker 1: Well I appreciate that, Chuck. Our our, our good friend
Speaker 1: and compatriot, Miranda Um came up. She accidentally coined an
Speaker 1: amazing phrase. It's it's flying, No, it's getting by by
Speaker 1: the fly of my seat. I don't even have her
Speaker 1: on the show. What am I doing? Miranda is awesome?
Speaker 1: I don't even know where that well, so that would
Speaker 1: be a good chance to get to know her letter
Speaker 1: you can ask her about her little aphorisms like by
Speaker 1: the fly of your seat. Yeah, I'm gonna make a note, Noel,
Speaker 1: Miranda Randa Hawkins, that's the one. All right. Now, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and just jump right in here. Um.
Speaker 1: This week, we have a couple of things to go over,
Speaker 1: and one of them bears a little bit of explanation,
Speaker 1: I think, and that I asked the crushers what their
Speaker 1: favorite meat cute is. Do you want to define meat cute?
Speaker 1: And then I'll go over the history a bit I
Speaker 1: just described just to find it to somebody very recently. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm fresh with this terminology. It's it's a I
Speaker 1: would say, a a dramatic device wherein a bond is
Speaker 1: established between the audience and a couple to be because
Speaker 1: they run into each other and encountering each other in
Speaker 1: a quirky or memorable way. Yeah, there you go. It
Speaker 1: can be. Oh, they accidentally ran headlong into each other
Speaker 1: and fell down on their butts and and maybe there's
Speaker 1: a moment where they were upset, but then they caught
Speaker 1: the glint in each other's eyes and it all was,
Speaker 1: you know, downhill from there. Um, yeah, they eat cute.
Speaker 1: It's a Hollywood tradition. I'm reading this straight from Wikipedia, Knoll,
Speaker 1: because that's something that we're not allowed to do. Well,
Speaker 1: we choose not to do on stuff. You should know,
Speaker 1: we don't even use Wikipedia. But I don't care about
Speaker 1: using Wikipedia for this transparency, my friend. The origin of
Speaker 1: the term is unknown, but appears to have been familiar familiarly.
Speaker 1: Oh god, this is why we don't read from Wikipedia. Chuck, Familiarly.
Speaker 1: That's a hard word to say. It is a familiar familiarly.
Speaker 1: It is really hard. It's got a lot of weird
Speaker 1: like familiarly. What's the word vowel like roller coaster? You
Speaker 1: things in the middle. Hate that word. It's not good
Speaker 1: that they could have just said. Associated with Hollywood screenwriting
Speaker 1: by at least one earliest example given to the Oxford
Speaker 1: English Dictionary is Anthony Boucher's mystery novel The Case of
Speaker 1: the Solid Key in forty one, in which a character says,
Speaker 1: we met cute as they say in story conferences. As
Speaker 1: this example implies, the term was already well known, and
Speaker 1: in Paris Review interview, Billy Wilder, great screenwriter, referred to
Speaker 1: his ninety eight screwball comedy film blue Beard's Eighth Wife. Um,
Speaker 1: and these characters meet while shopping for pajamas. One has
Speaker 1: is looking for a pajama top, the other pajama bottom.
Speaker 1: That kind of personifies the meat cute. He says that
Speaker 1: concept was a staple of romantic comedies back then, and
Speaker 1: George Axelrod's play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter a character explains,
Speaker 1: dear boy at the beginning of a movie is childishly simple.
Speaker 1: The boy and girl meet. The only important thing to
Speaker 1: remember is that in a movie, the boy and the
Speaker 1: girl must meet in some cute way. They cannot meet
Speaker 1: like normal people. All Right, Well, that's like, like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's because it makes it memorable for
Speaker 1: the audience and it implies, you know, everybody, what does
Speaker 1: everybody want out of a relationship? They want some kind
Speaker 1: of quirky you know, stars aligne kind of magic, and
Speaker 1: that's how you established that from the start, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's I think it's also a a bit of
Speaker 1: a screenwriter challenge to come up with something good that
Speaker 1: no one's seen before, and good that really hooks people
Speaker 1: and you immediately want, uh, these people to get together.
Speaker 1: Like when Harry met Sally, their meat cute was the
Speaker 1: fact that they were paired together to drive to New
Speaker 1: York and didn't like each other very much. Um. I've tried.
Speaker 1: I've written a meet cute or two in my day,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a challenge. It's not easy to write
Speaker 1: a good one because they all seem kind of canned
Speaker 1: and hokey, but they can't seem that. And uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. The term meet cute just makes me think
Speaker 1: of cute meat, um for some reason, just like a
Speaker 1: really cute slab of beef. Oh good lord, have you
Speaker 1: ever seen the movie Dead Alive, the early Peter Jackson
Speaker 1: movie with a long saw in college. There's a part
Speaker 1: where like there's like a like an animated piece of
Speaker 1: meat that keeps popping up and at one point it's
Speaker 1: looking at itself in the mirror and kind of preening.
Speaker 1: I always think of that as the the quintessential cute meat. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Um yeah, they are tough to write because
Speaker 1: what I think you really also depend on. It's gotta
Speaker 1: be good writing and stuff, but the performance has got
Speaker 1: to be there, you know, or else you're doomed. Alright,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start it off with Lillian Rolf probably really cheesy,
Speaker 1: but and and Kristof's early scenes from Frozen not cheesy,
Speaker 1: great meat cute? But isn't that exactly that? Don't they
Speaker 1: like bumble around a little bit or like they there's
Speaker 1: like a fall, like a like a pratt fall of
Speaker 1: some sort when they meet, like involving think um, Molly, Molly,
Speaker 1: Thibodeaux comments and says absolutely he calls her insane too. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is good stuff. They were friends first, that's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Let me see here. Courtney Hoober says, you've got Mayo.
Speaker 1: When Tom Hanks takes his aunt and little brother to
Speaker 1: meet to the Street Fair and the children's bookstory and
Speaker 1: meets Meg Ryan, the little brother can spell f o
Speaker 1: x because that's his name, not the animal. Can you
Speaker 1: spell dog fo x? That was very cute. And what
Speaker 1: sound does the fox make? No one knows. Benjamin Clement says,
Speaker 1: Julia Styles and Heath ledgeren ten things that hate about
Speaker 1: you and Helena Norton Pitt in Fight Club. Uh, that
Speaker 1: was a That was David Fincher's version of a meet cute.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, more like a cute meat you know,
Speaker 1: if you ask me. Yeah, but also with you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a traditional meat cute. He had his own
Speaker 1: spin on it, which was they were going to um.
Speaker 1: I think the first one was like a cancer was
Speaker 1: a cancer, and then there was alcoholics anonymous and you know,
Speaker 1: like narcotics narcotics anonymous and all that kind of stuff. Uh.
Speaker 1: Sadie Broilette says, Han Solo and Princess Leiah into the
Speaker 1: garbage shoot Flyboy, great idea, What an incredible smell you've discovered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff too. I know you hate Star Wars,
Speaker 1: but I don't hate Star Wars. I know you love
Speaker 1: Harry Potter more than don't love Harry Potter. I'm I'm, I'm,
Speaker 1: I'm firmly in the middle with both of those. I
Speaker 1: really like The Mandalorian, though I have still yet to
Speaker 1: start the new season. It's it's happening soon. Are you called?
Speaker 1: Are you fresh? Are you called? Not all the way.
Speaker 1: There's apparently some big ship that happens in the Latin
Speaker 1: the last two episodes, so I haven't seen, but I
Speaker 1: really quite like all Right, I can't wait. Becca Lou
Speaker 1: says the explanation of a meat cute scene in The
Speaker 1: Holiday between Kate Winslett and Eli Wallack. It's just the
Speaker 1: sweetest scene. I think it qualifies as a meat cute. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree, And you know what, I'll go out here
Speaker 1: and say it. No, I liked The Holiday. The Holiday.
Speaker 1: I don't know. The Holiday is a holiday film. Kate Winslet,
Speaker 1: Yep and uh Jack Black and Cameron Diaz and Jude Law.
Speaker 1: They do one of those house swaps. Cammie Diaz as
Speaker 1: an actor in l A and she swaps house with
Speaker 1: an English countryside cottage with Kate Winslet and they both
Speaker 1: end up falling in love in their respective places. And uh,
Speaker 1: it is it is actually a very hate saying this,
Speaker 1: but it's a very cute, romantic comedy. I liked it
Speaker 1: The Holiday from two thousand six. Yeah, it's a good movie.
Speaker 1: Classic already. Okay, I mean good actors. Oh, definitely have
Speaker 1: you seen We should probably save this for a stream
Speaker 1: this segment. But there's a there's a new series on
Speaker 1: HBO with Jude Laan it called The Third Day and
Speaker 1: it's sort of like a wicker Man and Culti kind
Speaker 1: of thing. It's a mini series. Uh and as Jude
Speaker 1: Law really kicking ass. It's really really really good, very
Speaker 1: physical role. Um. If you're in a spooky ship, highly
Speaker 1: recommend The Third Day. All right, I'll check that out.
Speaker 1: Kelly Ferris Mark says Bridget Jones's Diary when Bridget Mark
Speaker 1: meat while she's wearing her mom's outfit and he's wearing
Speaker 1: a ridiculous Christmas sweater. Yeah that was good. These make
Speaker 1: me happy. No, that's what the meat kids all about,
Speaker 1: making Chuck happy. The device was invented exclusively to make
Speaker 1: Chuck happy. Make people happy. The people a people Brittany story,
Speaker 1: one of our oldest palas, says Little Women version, Joe
Speaker 1: clumsily stumbles into Laurie while trying to escape a party,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty adorable. Fast forward to a few
Speaker 1: minutes later when they're dancing like fools behind the scenes
Speaker 1: after realizing they had an instant connection went on a
Speaker 1: writer and Christian Bale were so charming and had the
Speaker 1: best banter in this adaptation. I I still haven't seen
Speaker 1: the new one, which everyone really loved, the Grettit Girlwig one.
Speaker 1: Did you see it? I did. I loved it, you
Speaker 1: loved it. I remember that, and I really want to
Speaker 1: see it now. That'd be a good holiday movie, right,
Speaker 1: it would be a good family kind of holiday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a little little Christmas action going on in there.
Speaker 1: I think I wouldn't say it's a Christmas movie, but
Speaker 1: I believe there is a It is a feel good movie, though,
Speaker 1: right it's nothing like super depressing happens like there maybe is.
Speaker 1: There's there's there's a pretty devastating yeah, forget it then,
Speaker 1: but it's good. What are you thinking about watching it
Speaker 1: like for your family this holiday? Yeah? No, I mean
Speaker 1: it's I'd say it. Throw it on the list. Everything
Speaker 1: turns out okay in the end, though, right chuck? Well
Speaker 1: for for most of them, nobody dies in the consumption?
Speaker 1: Do they chuck? Not of consumption? God? No, there there
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil. Uh. There are some sad part,
Speaker 1: got it one very sad part. Amanda Grossman says, serendipity.
Speaker 1: I never saw that one. That's the John Qusak Kate
Speaker 1: Beckinsale thing. Um, She says, I love that movie and
Speaker 1: the idea of everything happening when it's supposed to. And
Speaker 1: I mean Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack aren't bad either. Uh.
Speaker 1: Them meeting over the last pair of gloves in the
Speaker 1: store while last minute Chris Christmas shopping is such a
Speaker 1: meat cute. Okay, that's a great example totally, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: And the gloves. They reached for the gloves and at
Speaker 1: first maybe there's a little consternation where it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: these are my gloves. Sorry I was here first, and
Speaker 1: then before you know it, start up a conversation and
Speaker 1: and and to your point to chuck with when Harry
Speaker 1: mess Sally. A lot of time, these meat cutes start
Speaker 1: with like the characters hating each other, and then it
Speaker 1: gives you somewhere to go. Otherwise it's like boring. If
Speaker 1: they loves like Billy Crystal and Meg RNs. I mean,
Speaker 1: they didn't hate each other, but she thought he was
Speaker 1: very annoying. I thought Harry was very annoying. I wonder
Speaker 1: if any at any point in that meat cute with serendipity,
Speaker 1: if they thought about splitting those gloves up and each
Speaker 1: getting a glove, that'd be pretty cute. That'd be pretty cute,
Speaker 1: but not very functional. Chuck, it's very cold in New York.
Speaker 1: No nol, but the scene is that scene ends with
Speaker 1: him walking down the goddamn sidewalk holding hands with the
Speaker 1: gloved hand and their other hand in each of their
Speaker 1: own pockets. How cute? Is this really cute? They really
Speaker 1: dropped the ball? Or if you want to get even sex,
Speaker 1: or you can do the seventies eighties thing where you
Speaker 1: put your hand in the back pocket of your mate.
Speaker 1: No but I but I would argue that's too quick
Speaker 1: for them to be holding hands Chuck, where are we
Speaker 1: gonna go from there? Straight intercourse? I mean, come on
Speaker 1: straight too hardcore banging nole. Oh no, that's true. That's
Speaker 1: a good point, but maybe that happens later on, you know,
Speaker 1: with your gloves. I wrote that first. Everyone. Oh, I
Speaker 1: bet she's been used. I don't know, I've never seen it.
Speaker 1: Vanessa been too, says I would say, true romance. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: The scenes inside the cinema and then in his house
Speaker 1: are great. Yeah, that was great, those early scenes with
Speaker 1: the Christians. Later and Patricia Arquette. It's been a hot
Speaker 1: menus since I've seen that. I don't really remember much
Speaker 1: plot stuff from that. I need to get someone in
Speaker 1: here to do that movie. Yeah, it's good. We're gonna say.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna I've got another good one that
Speaker 1: I watched for the first time in many years the
Speaker 1: other night. Um The Fisher King, which is I think
Speaker 1: one of Terry Gilliam's best because it encompasses all of
Speaker 1: his weird ship but also all of his like more
Speaker 1: accessible sensibilities into like one movie. Uh, it's not so
Speaker 1: dark that it's unpleasant, and it's not so like you know, romancy,
Speaker 1: or that it's trite but Robin Williams character who plays
Speaker 1: this like this homeless man, um he's in love with
Speaker 1: Amanda Plumber's character, who's this quirky office worker, kind of
Speaker 1: sad loner, and he's basically stalking her. But it's adorable
Speaker 1: because he's really genuinely in love with her, And uh,
Speaker 1: that's kind of it's not really a me cube, but
Speaker 1: it's sort of like he's preparing for it, like he's
Speaker 1: watching er. He knows exactly her routine, and then eventually
Speaker 1: eventually they are they are. There is an arranged meat
Speaker 1: cute where he is like posing as a video store
Speaker 1: worker at this video store that Jack what's his name,
Speaker 1: Jeff Bridges girlfriend runs and they make it where she
Speaker 1: wins some competition and she comes in and he's the
Speaker 1: video store clerk and they're like, she's looking for a
Speaker 1: movie on the shelf and they both keep knocking all
Speaker 1: the video boxes off the shelf and scrambling. That's a
Speaker 1: meat cute, even if it's like originalized, that's definitely a
Speaker 1: meet cute. No, it totally is. Maddie and I crushed
Speaker 1: that one out not too long ago. Uh, Maddie Frederick,
Speaker 1: it was really good, super partner, fabulous, fabulous movie. Michael
Speaker 1: Fank says, out of sight with Clooney and Lopez and
Speaker 1: the trunk of that car. Talking about movies, beautiful scene, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is uh that's less cute. Uh. In the Googe,
Speaker 1: David Gooch points that out. I think it's still counts
Speaker 1: in that category, but it's just not super cute. It
Speaker 1: is hot. I was about to see Yah. Yeah that
Speaker 1: that that there's some parts in that movie that are
Speaker 1: the chemistry is U is quite intense. Yeah, but a great,
Speaker 1: great scene. One of my favorites is that. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen that since it came out. Oh dude, do yourself
Speaker 1: a favorite seat again? That do a double bill with that?
Speaker 1: In the Lime, which I know you haven't seen you
Speaker 1: I have seen the lie Me. Oh you did? I
Speaker 1: thought you did not? Did you see it recently? Now?
Speaker 1: I saw a long time ago by al right, I
Speaker 1: misremember I hadn't seen it for a long time. And
Speaker 1: then this girl that I dated for a while, it
Speaker 1: was like one of her favorite movies and she had
Speaker 1: it on DVD and we watched it, so I quite
Speaker 1: liked it. I think Josh hasn't seen the Limy. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's what I'm thinking that might be Fox Matthew says,
Speaker 1: Gen Wilder and Jill Claybourg and Silver Streak. I love
Speaker 1: the line. I know what goes where and why Silver
Speaker 1: Streak one of those uh Richard pryor Gene Wilder vehicles.
Speaker 1: And it's literally about a train, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I haven't seen a long time, but it
Speaker 1: is about a train. I think it features a train heavily.
Speaker 1: Amy Crowd says, I like the Big Sick when she
Speaker 1: heckles him during his show. Yeah, Big Sick was great that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be that guy, the shlubby you know,
Speaker 1: podcast guy that's upset because normal looking comedian is now
Speaker 1: fucking you always complained about him. I gotta give that up, nole.
Speaker 1: He got in shape. Good for him, all right, come on,
Speaker 1: he can have this. I'm proud of you. Come all.
Speaker 1: I'm letting you. He really cares. I know he does.
Speaker 1: He listens. He's like, I'm a millionaire now and I'm
Speaker 1: super freaking hot. Uh, screw you, Sloby podcast guys. Podcast guys. No,
Speaker 1: us guys. You're right, us guys. I'll never look like
Speaker 1: that in the whole I mean, I want to drop
Speaker 1: some weight, but I'm not the kind of guy that's
Speaker 1: ever gonna be muscle and have six back at I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't care. Yeah, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: just look I'm not. I'm just gonna get on my
Speaker 1: tiny soapbox. Just for like two seconds, I was at
Speaker 1: my like most like proud of myself way pre COVID
Speaker 1: and then like I kind of like let it go,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm I've I've just ordered myself a fitbit
Speaker 1: because I really like the gamification of like exercise as
Speaker 1: something about it like does something for my brain. So
Speaker 1: I've got that coming in a couple of days. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. So I'm gonna get back on
Speaker 1: the horse. Yeah you know what. No, I've decided I
Speaker 1: have to do exercise that I enjoy as an activity
Speaker 1: and not just get on the spinning bike. That's okay,
Speaker 1: I will do that, But I'm gonna I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: some golf clubs for Christmas, which I haven't played golf.
Speaker 1: I used to play golf all the time. I haven't
Speaker 1: played golf in like twenty years, but I used to
Speaker 1: love playing golf and walking around playing eighteen holes of
Speaker 1: golf is good exercise. So that is a new activity
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. And uh, I just need to find
Speaker 1: one more. I got a basketball. Basketball is good. I
Speaker 1: love basketball. Shoot some hoops. Yeah. I used to be
Speaker 1: pretty good at basketball. You believe that. I do believe that.
Speaker 1: Could you see that? In absolutely? Yeah? That was a
Speaker 1: point guard I was. I was okay. I wasn't like varsity.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, like high school varsity. Okay, because our high
Speaker 1: school had a really really good basketball team. But um,
Speaker 1: I kind of tore up the church league, you know.
Speaker 1: How was the competition not bad? You know, but it's
Speaker 1: church league, so there's a range there. There were a
Speaker 1: few guys that are are pretty good, and then there's
Speaker 1: the kid that's picking his nose and like dribbles off
Speaker 1: his foot every time he touches the ball. So that
Speaker 1: that was a beauty of church sports. It was. It
Speaker 1: was fun. It was a nice range. All right. Let's
Speaker 1: do a couple of more here on the old meat cute,
Speaker 1: Kent Negrette, welcome, Kent. I don't think I know you yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not a traditional meat cute, but in the Royal Tin
Speaker 1: and Bombs, when Margot gets off that green bus line,
Speaker 1: and Richie is waiting for They stare at each other
Speaker 1: and Nico sings these Days in the background. Total goose bumps.
Speaker 1: I love that scene. It's only it's I mean, it's
Speaker 1: only my wildly tempered by the fact that they're siblings,
Speaker 1: you know, only only adopted siblings. Oh that's right, I forgot.
Speaker 1: That's the was that great line when Royal when he's
Speaker 1: he tells Royal he says something about it being legal,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I think it is, and he has
Speaker 1: well as he says something about it. Well, it's at
Speaker 1: least frowned upon, right, but he was kind of like,
Speaker 1: who cares exactly? Yeah, not quite a meat cute, but
Speaker 1: that is a great scene worth noting. Yeah, well, let
Speaker 1: let's let's calva at this. I would say, a meat
Speaker 1: cute needs to be a first ever meeting. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what it's supposed to be. Uh. And then on our
Speaker 1: old pal let's finish up. Um, let's finish up with
Speaker 1: a couple of these. The Bambo Debt says five Days
Speaker 1: of Summer. As soon as Summer began singing along to
Speaker 1: the music he was listening to in his headphones and
Speaker 1: the elevator they shared he knew he had to be
Speaker 1: with her. Yeah, wasn't that a Smith song? I don't
Speaker 1: recall I seem to remember that being a Smith song.
Speaker 1: I might be remembering that wrong. That was with Joseph
Speaker 1: Gordon Levitt, right, yeah? And what's her face? The manager
Speaker 1: in z d yep oh man. Um. I watched Elf
Speaker 1: again the other night, um, after having seen it for
Speaker 1: the first time. You and I you know, it was
Speaker 1: a thing, a challenge from you, and uh, it is
Speaker 1: a truly a delightful film. I I laughed many times,
Speaker 1: I had the fields, enjoyed it very much. And I
Speaker 1: don't really care for holiday movies, but that one really
Speaker 1: does it for me because it's it's greater than just that.
Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes holiday movies are branded that way, almost
Speaker 1: as like a caveat or it's like it's not that good,
Speaker 1: but it's a holiday movie, you know, right, Well, most
Speaker 1: of them aren't that great exactly, but Elf is definitely great.
Speaker 1: And my need to shout out my friends daughters, my
Speaker 1: friend Eddie and Alice and their daughters. Um, who were
Speaker 1: you know, like my daughters grown up with them or
Speaker 1: they've grown up around me, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I was already old when they were born. Uh Nina
Speaker 1: and Emlyn did uh. He sent in us videos the
Speaker 1: other night of them recreating um buddies dance in the
Speaker 1: mail room, and they each did it, and it was honestly,
Speaker 1: and Emily and I had had a couple of glasses
Speaker 1: of wine. We died laughing. It was very, very funny
Speaker 1: to see a couple of cute little girls doing that
Speaker 1: that buddy the elf dance that clearly involved some like
Speaker 1: wire work when you say, like it did. And because
Speaker 1: they are young and uh nimble, they were able to
Speaker 1: sort of approximate that last bit with the wire work
Speaker 1: in a in a pretty fun way. That's amazing. But
Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. And I thought maybe
Speaker 1: I should try that and see how many muscles I
Speaker 1: pulled it. All right, that's it. Oh no, we're gonna
Speaker 1: finish with one more. Old pal Charles Martin Acres says,
Speaker 1: do short films count? Well, of course they do, he said,
Speaker 1: the Pixar animation short Paperman. It's a whole lot of
Speaker 1: fields the Paperman. I don't think I've seen that, have you.
Speaker 1: It's a short, that's what he said. Picks are short,
Speaker 1: the Paperman. No, I have not not to be confused
Speaker 1: with Spiderman, John Spiderman, Attorney at law. I ordered that
Speaker 1: Spiderman game. I asked you the Crushers what I needed.
Speaker 1: I finished Last of Us too, so I needed some
Speaker 1: new games and they had a lot of great Rex
Speaker 1: Noel and I ordered Uh, Day's End, which is another
Speaker 1: zombie thing. I ordered Ghost of Shoeshima supposed to be great.
Speaker 1: I ordered which which are three? And Spiderman? Did you
Speaker 1: get a PS five? Did I miss that part? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: these are all for PS four? Uh. And I asked
Speaker 1: for them for Christmas. Is what I did. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be part of my Christmas. That's awesome, man, I I
Speaker 1: that's great that the Ghost the that Samurai game is
Speaker 1: apparently really wonderful. Um. I am still working my way
Speaker 1: through the DLC for Borderlands three, which I quite love.
Speaker 1: It's a fun game. But I've been, like I think
Speaker 1: I told you, I've been so obsessed with just playing
Speaker 1: the Switch that I haven't been doing much of big
Speaker 1: story centered games. But I need to get Last of
Speaker 1: Us too, because I really loved Last of Us. So
Speaker 1: I think I might run out and grab that today,
Speaker 1: Chuck today, Yeah, you should. I mean it's divisive because
Speaker 1: I mean, again no spoilers, but like it's unpleasant you
Speaker 1: have to do bad things. Well, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: Maybe you and Annie and I can have a little
Speaker 1: chat about it on the show at some point. Um,
Speaker 1: And I won't ruin anything. I will say this, I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed while I was playing it, and because I
Speaker 1: don't stop to kind of nitpick storylines, I just enjoyed
Speaker 1: that world and I enjoyed that gameplay of of that world.
Speaker 1: It was only afterward that I started to have story issues.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. That's fine. Yeah, it's acceptable, and that's
Speaker 1: all I'll say. I mean, yeah, what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: I think it's acceptable to I think. I think. I
Speaker 1: think it's a video game. It can have like the
Speaker 1: occasional plot hole, as long as it's not so glaring
Speaker 1: when you're actually in it that it disrupts the experience,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, right, which it did for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. But I'm not I'm not. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about, gamers. I'm games like that.
Speaker 1: I don't get my my knickers in a twist. As
Speaker 1: they say, don't do England, not no, no, need. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna finish up though, my friend with a follow
Speaker 1: up to The Meat Cute, which is, what is your
Speaker 1: most devastating movie breakup? Interesting? You know you got one? Um,
Speaker 1: where do you give a ship? I don't give a
Speaker 1: ship about movie romance? Chuck, No, I mean a fake
Speaker 1: it's so well, I don't know. It's not really a breakup.
Speaker 1: But like when McCauley Culkins get killed by those bees
Speaker 1: and my girl, that was pretty devastating, and they were
Speaker 1: sort of a couple, kind of they were young love.
Speaker 1: It's quite a breakup. He broke off from being alive.
Speaker 1: He broke up with living, all right, Courtney Huber says,
Speaker 1: not a devastating breakup. But I went to see the
Speaker 1: movie to Break Up in theaters with a friend of
Speaker 1: mine who was having a rough patch and or a
Speaker 1: big mistake. She stabbed through the whole movie. I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed that movie, NOL with Vince Vaughn and Jen Anniston,
Speaker 1: and it was it was not I think it was
Speaker 1: mismarketed as a romantic comedy and it was really a
Speaker 1: pretty big of a bummer movie. Did you ever see
Speaker 1: that it's about a breakup? Okay, like it says it
Speaker 1: on the thing, but you see those two. The trailer
Speaker 1: is a little misleading and you think, well, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a cute movie. Really, you know it's
Speaker 1: about a break Is there humor in it though? Or
Speaker 1: is it like pretty sure? Yeah, there's humor in it, um,
Speaker 1: but it's about a breakup. It's sad. Our old friend
Speaker 1: Anna Shressa says, cheating because it's not a movie. But spoiler,
Speaker 1: there's a spoiler an Outlander? What is that? A video
Speaker 1: game television series? It's like about time travel or something
Speaker 1: and like historical drama. All right, So there's a spoiler
Speaker 1: for Outlander folks coming up in a second, when Claire
Speaker 1: has to go back to get her time and leave
Speaker 1: Jamie to probably die in battle. I cried so goddamn hard. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are upset about that. Really. Yeah.
Speaker 1: On the on the thread, people are like chiming in
Speaker 1: knowing what the fund this person is talking about. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll have to check it out. Uh. Kathie Lowe McCrae
Speaker 1: one of our top friends friends friends of people say
Speaker 1: no friends is the thing people say my friends? Uh?
Speaker 1: The end of marriage and Mrs doubtfire, the fight they
Speaker 1: have after he throws a rager for the kid's birthday party.
Speaker 1: Never seen anything that felt so real. Yeah, Gabby Jarrett
Speaker 1: says Mulin rouge. When she has to pretend she doesn't
Speaker 1: love him, around that, around around this whole pretending she
Speaker 1: doesn't love it has to be jennevan Valan, one of
Speaker 1: our old friends, says poor, misunderstood and accidentally dangerous. Edwards
Speaker 1: says her hands as dough. That's that's the heartbreaking part.
Speaker 1: It really is that Frankenstein trope kind of you know
Speaker 1: where it's like he doesn't he means well, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't know his own his own strength, his own power. Yeah, totally. Uh.
Speaker 1: One of our oldest friends, Adam Pelettier, says, the Puffy Chair,
Speaker 1: they basically slowly break up the whole damn movie. Did
Speaker 1: you see that. It's called the Puffy Chair. It was
Speaker 1: a duplass thing. No du plas brothers, one of the
Speaker 1: early I hate saying this, but mumble core play. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the doplasts. The plass is Uh no, I'll
Speaker 1: check it out. I haven't seen many of those. I've seen.
Speaker 1: They're so interesting because they you know, we're in that show. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the younger one was in that show Transparent, UM with
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Tambor, which was great. It was I think the
Speaker 1: same showrunner that did UM, Joe Jill Soloway UM, who
Speaker 1: did uh um Six Feet Under, which one of my
Speaker 1: favorite shows of all time. Um. And then the older
Speaker 1: brother is in that show The Eage, which is kind
Speaker 1: of a goofball broad comedy showing on FXX that I
Speaker 1: really like with Nick Cole. But I knew them more, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I knew them more from those worlds than I realized
Speaker 1: after the fact that they made all these weirdo indie films,
Speaker 1: So I need to dig into that part of their Uh.
Speaker 1: Barry King says good will Hunting when Matt Damon's character
Speaker 1: tells many driver, I don't love you because he was
Speaker 1: too stubborn to let her help him, and it clearly
Speaker 1: breaks both their hearts. Oh boy, that was tough. I
Speaker 1: love that movie so good. How did you feel about
Speaker 1: the other one? Finding Forrester? It was sort of like
Speaker 1: almost too similar, but still quite good. Yeah, okay, it
Speaker 1: was no good while Hunting punched the keys, wasn't that
Speaker 1: the big line? Know? He was just yalled the man
Speaker 1: now Dog. That was the big one. Oh goodness, Kelly
Speaker 1: Ferris Marks says, Casablanca, Wuthering Heights and even though I
Speaker 1: didn't like the movie, when Carry sees Big in the
Speaker 1: street right after he leaves her at the altar, that
Speaker 1: got me sex in the city movie? Yeah, oh, I
Speaker 1: thought she was talking about the movie Big and referring
Speaker 1: to uh Tom Hanks's character as Big. That would have
Speaker 1: been funny. It was a sad breakup. That was a
Speaker 1: sad breakup. Emily and I went to a river cabin
Speaker 1: for a weekend for her birthday recently and did something
Speaker 1: we never do when we do something like that. We
Speaker 1: actually turned on the TV late at night and it
Speaker 1: had cable and haven't had a cable in so long.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like being in a hotel. You just
Speaker 1: flipping around so you see something. And Big came on
Speaker 1: and we had the best time watching that movie, so
Speaker 1: much fun. I just remember thinking it was really weird
Speaker 1: where when he has that sex scene and like he's
Speaker 1: a little kid, but he's you know, he's an adult
Speaker 1: on the outside, he's a little kid on the inside.
Speaker 1: So something something was a little off, and you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I was a little kid, so
Speaker 1: it was kind of hot, Like I was like a
Speaker 1: little kid, get it. Yeah, Um, But looking at it now,
Speaker 1: it's a little a little strange. Yeah. Sure. One of
Speaker 1: our old friends Britain Story says, Up in the Air,
Speaker 1: George Clooney's character had finally opened up his jaded heart
Speaker 1: to the possibility of love, flew to Chicago to surprise
Speaker 1: a woman he wanted to be with, only to find
Speaker 1: out she was living a double life and was married
Speaker 1: with children. Broke my heart. Yeah, that was tough, man,
Speaker 1: because she just gives him that look, she denies knowing
Speaker 1: who he is, and it's like wrong number basically when
Speaker 1: her husband shows up. That was that was hard. I
Speaker 1: was so mad at her for that. I didn't see it. Oh,
Speaker 1: up in the ears, greaz that that was an Oscar movie,
Speaker 1: I believe. Yeah, it was a really really good movie. Great,
Speaker 1: just great all the way around. Great writing, great performances.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites that year. All right, let's finish
Speaker 1: up with a couple of more. Here are One of
Speaker 1: our oldest friends, Austin Handler says, it just happened to
Speaker 1: catch one while watching a bit of Chasing Amy during
Speaker 1: lunch when Holden breaks up with Alyssa after finding out
Speaker 1: the origins of her fingercuffs nickname just Brutal. Joey laurn
Speaker 1: Adams is an amazing job selling the devastation. Her performance
Speaker 1: is a raw and totally convincing. Yeah, man, she was
Speaker 1: great in that. I don't think she gets a lot
Speaker 1: of love as an actor, and at least in that role,
Speaker 1: she was fantastic. And that's one of the few uh
Speaker 1: Kevin Smith movies. I think it is good Chasing Amy
Speaker 1: m h. Yeah, I don't know, man, Kevin Smith's it's
Speaker 1: sort of his own thing. Like it's not none of
Speaker 1: it's like spectacular, but there's something I like dog Mine.
Speaker 1: Did you hate Dogma? People seemed divided by Dogma? Man,
Speaker 1: it's such a big swing. You know. I gotta give
Speaker 1: the guy props for making a gross out, you know,
Speaker 1: buddy comedy about the Apocalypse. You know, it was pretty
Speaker 1: forward thinking at the time. I love Clerks. When it
Speaker 1: came out, that was a big Clerks guy, and I was,
Speaker 1: I like mall rats, I was. I was on team
Speaker 1: Kevin Smith for a bit. He certainly was one of
Speaker 1: those early indie darlings that was like you look at
Speaker 1: you may look what you did and you did that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he came out of nowhere and made a
Speaker 1: movie for nothing and it was a big hit. I mean,
Speaker 1: kudos to him making Carroll, one of our old friends,
Speaker 1: says Broke Back Mountain after their last fight. You just
Speaker 1: see that they have that sick feeling that nothing will
Speaker 1: be the same after that. Oh boy, that movie was devastating.
Speaker 1: So so sad. Uh. And let's finish up here with
Speaker 1: a bunch of people said Blue Valentine, So we'll we'll
Speaker 1: go with David Lasoya says Blue Valentine. Movie takes the
Speaker 1: piss out of everyone. That's a tough movie. Nol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard another one that I kind of avoid it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's a tough one. So
Speaker 1: that's it for this week, my friend. We are knocking
Speaker 1: these out and regular with regularity for the next few
Speaker 1: weeks because we're gonna do something we don't normally do
Speaker 1: and stuck up a little and take a few weeks
Speaker 1: off there at the end of December, so we'll get
Speaker 1: into some Christmas content and holiday movie content coming up
Speaker 1: here probably next week. So that sound good, definitely does
Speaker 1: all right, Thanks for listening everyone. We'll see you next week.
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