Speaker 1: Got anything good.
Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Yesterday on the show we were talking about rom coms,
Speaker 1: and I said that The Notebook was a rom com,
Speaker 1: and I thought today we could talk about what do
Speaker 1: we think are the greatest rom coms of all time?
Speaker 1: Because actually, when you think about there have been so many,
Speaker 1: so many really really great rom coms, also loads of
Speaker 1: very tepid, bang average ones like Adam Sander has made
Speaker 1: some good ones, but even more bad ones, and I
Speaker 1: love The Sandman. But today we want to find out
Speaker 1: what are the greatest of all time? The goat rom coms.
Speaker 1: So we're going to form Goat Island, and on go
Speaker 1: Island only four of the greatest of all time rom
Speaker 1: coms can be on there. So you've really got to
Speaker 1: make your pitch count which movie and why there's a
Speaker 1: scene you'd like us to dig out as well? To
Speaker 1: back up your case, let me know nine four one
Speaker 1: four one oh four three. Jackie boy, what are you going?
Speaker 1: Do you love rom coms? First of all, I do
Speaker 1: love a good rom com.
Speaker 3: I love a rom com And this is the first
Speaker 3: DVD I ever owned. Ten Things I Hate about You,
Speaker 3: Brilliant Rock com. This is Heath Ledgio iconic scene where
Speaker 3: he's singing to Julia Styles on the bleaches of the
Speaker 3: soccer field. This is a Shakespeare play, modern adapt adaptation
Speaker 3: into the best rong com of all time.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago during lockdown, we watched it, well,
Speaker 1: I watched it again. I watched it with my two
Speaker 1: teenage daughters. And it's still a great movie.
Speaker 3: It's still know what's the best thing about it? He
Speaker 3: didn't care what anybody think.
Speaker 4: It was his breakout movie, wasn't it. I think it
Speaker 4: probably is really discovered on an international scale. He was
Speaker 4: brilliant in it.
Speaker 5: Now tell me this what year was that out?
Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety nine?
Speaker 1: Patsy, what are you going there? What do you think
Speaker 1: is your contender for greatest rom com of all time?
Speaker 5: For Go Island?
Speaker 6: I could fill all four spots with Bridget Jones one, two, three,
Speaker 6: four equally only No, No, No, how Dare You deserves
Speaker 6: its place?
Speaker 4: Absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 6: I think there's every woman can relate to a little
Speaker 6: bit of Bridget, just that awkwardness sometimes when trying to
Speaker 6: meet a partner, but also just being authentically herself. And
Speaker 6: and the scene I love most is where at the
Speaker 6: dinner party, Mark Darcy and her go down the staircase
Speaker 6: and it's where he proclaims that he's into her, and
Speaker 6: he says to her, with all of your you know,
Speaker 6: weird bits and all your weird sort of tendencies, I
Speaker 6: love you just the way you are. You don't need
Speaker 6: to change, Bridget You're perfect.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I just having it re enacted. We've
Speaker 5: got the clip, but we don't bloody need it. You'll
Speaker 5: recreating the street band on a keyboard.
Speaker 1: Come surrounded by this real cast of.
Speaker 5: What this is a clip you're talking about?
Speaker 7: I think, I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous
Speaker 7: about you. Your mother's pretty interesting, and you really are
Speaker 7: an appallingly bad public speaker, and you tend to let
Speaker 7: whatever is in your head come out of your mouth
Speaker 7: without much consideration of the consequences. I realized that when
Speaker 7: I met you at the Turkey curry buffet that I
Speaker 7: was unforgivably rude and wearing a reindeer jumper that my
Speaker 7: mother had given me in the day before. But the
Speaker 7: thing is, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that,
Speaker 7: in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you very much.
Speaker 8: Apart from the smoking and the drinking and the vulcan
Speaker 8: mother and the verbal Diarry, I like him very much,
Speaker 8: just as you are.
Speaker 1: Bridgie Jones has to go on the Go Island. It's
Speaker 1: such a great It is one of the greatest rom
Speaker 1: comms of all time.
Speaker 5: You're right? And the fourth one, Patsy, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think I've got into saying this that throughout the
Speaker 1: other week. It's brilliant, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god? You're right.
Speaker 1: It is such a moving They really really they did
Speaker 1: something really special with that.
Speaker 5: I thought it was a great movie.
Speaker 1: I think it still leaves the door open for maybe
Speaker 1: even another one or two, but it is the fourth
Speaker 1: one is very very good.
Speaker 5: All right? What else should be on Go Island?
Speaker 7: The Christian O'Connell show podcast, What.
Speaker 1: Do you think is the greatest rom com of all time?
Speaker 1: We're looking to our four on Go Island? The greatest
Speaker 1: of all time?
Speaker 5: Island? Are the four the best romantic comedies? Make your case?
Speaker 5: Which movie you love? Nine? Four, one, four, one oh
Speaker 5: four three.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to work out which actor and
Speaker 1: actresses have been in the most like ten out of
Speaker 1: ten rom coms. I reckon it's between Julia Roberts and
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant, because Hugh Grant obviously has been in low's
Speaker 1: his hit rate. Actually, so, I think about a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying how much they love love Actually right,
Speaker 1: she got Hugh, and that Bridget Jones is in notting
Speaker 1: Hill with another huge rom com star and a great actress,
Speaker 1: Judy Roberts as well.
Speaker 5: They've been in so many The.
Speaker 3: Other two I think of is Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.
Speaker 1: Matthew Nay has a lower hit rate than anybody else,
Speaker 1: which is why since we realized and he's just stopped
Speaker 1: in rom Comms and actually become the true great actor
Speaker 1: I am, he just led them by. I can't count
Speaker 1: No one has mentioned any of the McConaughey he is
Speaker 1: when he was into rom Commons, which is so astonishing
Speaker 1: about his career. Then when he goes in and does
Speaker 1: like True Detective and all these incredible ether roles. Now
Speaker 1: you love Jack's contender then for greatest of all time,
Speaker 1: rom comm is a great one with Heath Ledger.
Speaker 5: Ten Things I Hate about.
Speaker 3: You, PATSI, You're absolutely right. It was his international breakout role.
Speaker 3: Ten Things I hate about you. And it was Heath
Speaker 3: Ledger's choice to sing can't take my eyes off of
Speaker 3: You on that clip that we listened to before, because
Speaker 3: originally it was going to be I touched myself by
Speaker 3: the the vinals.
Speaker 1: You don't want to hear a hormonal teenage boy college
Speaker 1: thing in this to audiences around the world.
Speaker 5: It's not the right.
Speaker 3: Thing, changes the whole.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: They're directors or someone that made a smarter choice. All right,
Speaker 1: there's sir tea some cools now nine four one four
Speaker 1: one o four three. What do you think is the
Speaker 1: greatest romantic comedy of all time? Danielle?
Speaker 5: What's it for you?
Speaker 2: When Harry met Sally?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's one of my favorite movies of all time.
Speaker 1: What do you love about it?
Speaker 8: Well, even apart from the cafe saying what my probably
Speaker 8: one of my favorite part is at the end on
Speaker 8: New Year's Eve when he finally realizes that he's they
Speaker 8: met for each other, and then he runs in and
Speaker 8: like you know, proclaims all the things that he doesn't
Speaker 8: understand about it, but despite all that, he just he
Speaker 8: loves her anyway.
Speaker 2: It's not because I'm lonely, and it's not for goods
Speaker 2: of New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when
Speaker 2: you realize you want to spend the rest of your
Speaker 2: life with somebody, you want the rest of your life
Speaker 2: to start as soon as passible.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's a great movie, right, watch it
Speaker 1: every couple of years. When it came out, it was
Speaker 1: like nineteen eighty nine, I think, or nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 1: That was the end of the eighties, and I was
Speaker 1: like sixteen or seventeen. I love that movie. Do you
Speaker 1: know it's only ninety six minutes, right. I think it's
Speaker 1: one of the perfect comedies. And what it is is
Speaker 1: like most romantic movies and romantic comedies, they're about the spark,
Speaker 1: they're about falling in love. What I loved about Harry
Speaker 1: When Harry Met Sallie's still now. It's about what happens
Speaker 1: over the years. I've been watching that as a young man,
Speaker 1: thinking if I get married, I hope it's someone like that.
Speaker 1: Next month, we're twenty seven years married together. I love
Speaker 1: When Harry Met Sally. It's such a great movie because
Speaker 1: over the ninety six odd minutes, their relationship grows over
Speaker 1: twelve years, they help each other through all these different breakups.
Speaker 1: There's a very different take on what it is not
Speaker 1: just to fall in love, but obviously to sustain it
Speaker 1: and to keep it going over the years. You're right,
Speaker 1: it's a great movie, Danielle.
Speaker 8: And then they have just quickly and then they have
Speaker 8: all those losses, all the old pop along the way, Yes,
Speaker 8: and just how they all may different stories. It's just
Speaker 8: the whole movie is just perfect.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also when you watch it right, you should watch it again.
Speaker 1: It's a time wheek and it is the definitely the eighties.
Speaker 1: Men are wearing very big chunky sweaters that's not yet
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 5: Around this winter in Melbourne. I want to bring back
Speaker 5: big chunky sweaters Danielle. Thank you very much for saying
Speaker 5: that one.
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