August 8, 2023 • 27 mins
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I love to look at the readouts and I love
to sort of go to the Lost Culture group text
and be like, so this episode was a hit. This
episode was our best first week in three weeks. This
episode is comparable to the episode of Jujo.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh you always know which episode it is comparable too,
And you're always like you get really billboard with it,
like granularly, like, well, what about most downloads in the
first week? What about in the first twenty four hours?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
What about?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And I commend you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I know when we're up, I know when we're down,
I know when we're rts, rts remaining the same. Oh
my god, I don't even know this stuff. Let's just
say I know our box office numbers. Oh, and speaking
of the box office, we're here to talk today about
a box office queen and critical favorite. Hard to be both,
(01:50):
hard to be both almost impossible to be both nowadays
that's not true, Zendaya.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But who else I guess. Also, we're just you know, houling.
What's going through something right now? Let's just say it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I mean, listen, Hollywood's going through it. And all we
can do is wait. All we can do is wait.
We're talking about miss Julia Robert from Alpharetta Georgia. Oh,
this woman really did dominate and we were so grateful,
weren't we.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I mean, for me she still dominates to this day. Well,
I mean, I was just going to bring up something that, like,
isn't it. I am a little bit bummed out that
like take it to paradise.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You look at the post, you go, well, it's Clooney
and Julia, and you go, there's no way this doesn't open.
And you go, well, if even they can't like get
a rom com to like do big numbers at the
box office, then who can? But I don't want to
write them off. Is like they don't have that same
poll anymore at the box office. I don't even think it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Did that badly. I think internationally it's a big numbers.
I think it's considered a success. Damn.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I guess I'm just so you don't think about international enough.
I don't think about international enough. Very national list here,
Well you be a yellow nationalist? You actually not white?
Well that's actually controversial. Bowen Yang is white.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I'm a white And that's actually something I would like
to start bringing back into the public consciousness, is that
Bowen Yang is white and he's been lying. I know
you're wearing head to toe American paraphernalia.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's true. And then if you if you really lick
your thumb and smudge my face. The concealer comes right off.
He's actually wearing a joy Luck club. It's a Joyluck
clerb joy Luck Vintage bubble tea merch.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There you go. So you're actually very international right now.
But I do ignore international, but I never ignore Julia. No.
Julia is an American treasurer who has international powers, and
she's been in thousands of film thousands, but we narrowed
it down to the top ten. Julia Roberts Films, Lost
Culch Lost Coach number ten. Ben is back. I haven't
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seen that.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I haven't either, but that doesn't mean it's.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Not number ten. It has a number ten quality to it. Yes,
you know, it's like, don't be don't forget about this one.
Don't forget about when Julia played a concerned mother of
a drug addict played by Lucas Hedges.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And we have forgotten, and we're saying with this list,
don't forget.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know what we're saying with this list, See it? Yeah,
support it. Julia Momulia, Julia Mom, Julia Roberts, Julia Mom
especially were a coach. Number eight Julia Mom.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Julia Roberts playing a mother like a mother who is upset.
You dress stress. You love to see that. This is
something we love watching this woman do, and yet neither
of us have. But we liked it enough on paper,
a sort of on premise alone, on poster alone, to
put it on the list on premise and poster alone.
Oscar Oscar, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Know who else was in this film, Julia Lucas could
be anyone from Adam. I think it was like Peter
O'Toole played the grandpa. You think he came back from
the dead to play the grandpa. I think at the
time he might have still been alive. This is all
why benis Back is number ten on top ten. Julia
Roberts Films.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Lost Coult number nine.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
August County A film we did see and.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Fell asleep to.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No way. I love this film.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I think this film is a little too much. Meryll's
doing too much. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Merrill is really
going for it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You think Merrell's doing too much? In Augusta, Stage County, do.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You think she wasn't?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think she was doing exactly what Violet Weston would
be doing when she has her a little overdose moment
and she's like remember I love it. She literally gave
you like on luxibro and and then Julia Roberts said,
eat the fish, bitch, this movie is cuckoo bananas. You
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know who I think could have been better as the
daughter than Yeah, it's one of those roles I see
and I'm like, that should have been me. I should
have played the county daughter. Oh my god, you would
have been who gets like finger by the uncle?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But in like a fun playway, what's a movie? Well,
it's a movie. Do you think it suffered that classic thing?
I mean, I I choose to view this as an
unsuccessful adaptation. I don't choose to view it that way
because I've got Oscar nominations up the wazoo. This is
one of Julia's Oscar noms.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I know it is, I'm aware, but I feel like
it's one of those things where it's like you needed,
like Mike Nichols, may he rest to like adapt it
just right in a way to make it film mt
You know, for someone who stands Mike Nichols, you certainly
have a lot of notes, and so did he. No,
don't don't ever put me and him in the same sense.
I revere him. I revere that man.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, why do you talk so much shit about him
now that he's dead. I don't know if there's another
Mike Nichols film. Is this Mike Nichols?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
The next one is Mike Nichols. August Osh County is
not mc nichols. It's not, it's not, it's not. Oh,
I forget who, Well, this.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Is August Wilson. No, it's not August Wilson at all.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's August August Osage County, which is Tracy Latt. Yeah, okay,
but who directed it? Okay, let's see. Let's say, let's
see who John Wells, John Wells, John Wells, who is
of course known for the company Men Well and it
probably could.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Have gotten a better director for this. I guess That's
what I'm saying. Like I literally was just like I'm
watching a play.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Even as a fucking twenty three year old who didn't
know anything about anything, I said, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I'm watching a play. But Julia was amazing. Julia was amazing,
and that's why it's number nine on top ten. Julia
Roberts films Last Coach and speaking of plays, speaking of
magnificel like place well, let's we can discuss this. Oh
my god, you of course stand this. It's number eight closer.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't stand this. You stand this movie. I don't
stand this movie.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I know why you do well. Hit at the right time.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It was Damien Rice Culture the Bluers, and so it is.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I love this song. I played it out.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I mean, I'm not familiar with the play version.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I read the play.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Look, the writing is rough, and that's not my Nickels's fault.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't even know if the writing is rough. The
writing is just such a play.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's such a play. It's very melodramatic, in the same
vein as august Osage County. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I just love the end scene with Natalie and Dune,
when she goes hit mean fuck her. That is then
in slow motion he winds up and does hit her,
and it's such like a stage slap. He does not
make contact, and she goes a and her hair goes
to the side and then she looks back like wind swept.
And then my other favorite scene, obviously we like Natalie. No,
(08:31):
that is iconic that I'm saying, that's Bill Jane. That
makes it like I see it on stage. But I'm like,
it is so much more powerful as a movie. In
the scene when Natalie goes to Julia's photo studio, yeah,
and Natalie is like faced away and then she goes,
just take my picture and she's crying. One singles here
iconic and Julia's like, she is beautiful and captures the
most stunning picture of her that goes up in the
(08:53):
gallery during that iconic scene sequence.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Really, I think it's where the revisit it's. Look, it's
not the best, but it was for these huge A
lists and as a teen you eat that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Shut up one hundred percent, I said, without having seen
it as a teen, and I don't think I saw
it for years after it came out. I said, this
is the greatest film of the year. There you go.
I was like, my little Oscar bait ass like on
the sites was like closer as the film of the years,
a quiet film. And so you're saying you didn't see
it until much later or yeah, And I think the
first time I saw it, I was like in denial
about whether or not it was like quote unquote good
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or not, And so I was just like, this is stunning.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Make no mistake. I don't think it's a good movie
that is.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
In the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But it is fascinating to read about the way Mike
Nichols worked with these four and he was very like,
you know, he like took them out to dinners, like
they hung out, the five of them.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Well, that's amazing that the director would take factors. I'm
not just saying he would get maybe they would talk
about the script. I'm not getting detailed enough, but like
they interviewed Juliet and Natalie in the biography, they did
shut up and they and they like and they both
were like they were like, Mike really got to know us.
He took us out to dinner, We talked about the characters,
and before we got to set, we even rehearsed, like
(10:04):
showed them all these movies.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You be so blessed to your movie, so blessed to
have a director like that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Did he show them like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Not his own movies like other movies? Maybe Closer is amazing.
I also love the scene when Clive I went was
like what just come tastes like goes it's like yours
but sweeter, that's camping. And then he goes now fuck
off and die. Yeah, I said, get me on stage
doing this. Oh so you want to be Abigail and Clive?
(10:32):
That is range mother. I want to do all the roles.
I think I would be good to share with that story.
You would do all the roles in Closer that you
would be so good as all four? I think I
think I would be so good as all four.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Or how about it's closer but it's just you and
I and we each get the turn as each of them.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh my god, that's really good. We're like Cynthia Nixon
and Christine Vransky. No, I forget who else someone in
the play where they switched. I think that's a switch
that could be fun.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
But I would I would be uncomfortable playing Natalie in
front of you. Why because I get like you're so Natalie.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, I guess we would have to fucking you'd have
to take your panties down and bend over and show
hold to the whole audience.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I can I call DIBs on Naantalie in that scene though,
of still Jane, you can play that role because and
I'll be Clive. I'll sit there with my f such
a good Clive in that scene. Okay, but I get
to be Julia.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, of course. So here's the way that we're gonna
do Closer. You are Jude, and that's gonna be hard
because you have a lot of scenes together.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
No, no, no, But I'm saying we get to first
it's Jude Natalie, right, like jud and Natalie meeting. I'm one,
I'm Judior Natalie. Then it's like Clive and Julia, right,
and then like you're Julia, I'm Clive.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well, we'll figure it out. We'll figure out with our director.
He'll take us out to dinner and we'll figure it
all out. Readers on BMP Diamond cast it, cast it, Okay, okay,
and that's the Closer is number seven on top ten.
Jeleia Rapperts Films Last Coult number seven, Smurfs The Lost Village.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That's said, moving on, that is why.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Smurf's The Lost Village is number seven on top ten.
Julia Roberts Films Lost Coach, number six, Nodding Hill.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
This really is one of the iconic movies.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy
asking him to love her. That is movie star dot com.
Is ironic that she's playing a movie star in that. Yeah,
it would not be the last time she did.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
American Sweethearts, which did not make the list, did not
make the list. Yeah, I mean notting Hill. It's an
okay rom com. If you watch it back, you.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Know it's actually only okay, but like sort of the
public consciousness would make you think it was one of
the great classics. There's some people that are like, my
favorite Julia is nodding Hill, and I have to look
at them cock eyed.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You're like, there's better Julia, as is evidenced by this list. Look,
it made the top ten.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I mean I haven't even clearly haven't seen the top six.
If they think of this one as number one, because
it's number six.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's number six, so not even in the fiftieth percentile,
No of top ten. I should say.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Do we love Hugh Grant? I think so.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He's at his most hu Grant in this and it
is most like charming, harmless Hugrant and that it's when
Hugh Grant is in the fucking what's that movie? It's
such show with Nicole.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh the I'm doing I'm doing that, I'm doing where
you're like, you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Can't be Hu Grant in this because you're the character
has done something awful.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And weirdly enough. That was my favorite Hugh Grant. But
I also haven't seen Paddington Too, which I heard it
should have been Hugh Grant's Oscars. A lot of the
craziest people in the world say that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Same people who say America Ferrera deserves an Oscar for Barbie.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I saw Barbarie again, and you know what I say,
America for Oscar. Wow?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What I will say the monologue she delivers should have
been like the last monologue.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That is the whole thesis of the movie.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I did think that America was a very winning in
the film. Winning does not mean nominate for Oscar. But
also it might be a weird year, a weird year.
All these reasons are why notting Hill is number six
on the top ten Lea Roberts Films.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Last Culture number five not a movie, but the dream
Girl music video for Dave Matthews band. She is famously
in White Girl. Dreads in this and guess what you
don't care?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, we didn't care until now you brought it up.
Oh I didn't bring it up to get us to care.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I'm saying, well, now I can't say, you know it
works because it's Dave Matthews watching her. He's sitting alone
in a theater, in a movie theater, watching this projection
on screen of Julia Roberts.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
For some reason.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
She's in White Girl Dreads and she is going through
different dream states. She's at the laundromat, she's at a party.
She's very like where am I? But it's the thing
where you go. This is why people get movie stars
for music videos, because it is, like, I mean, it's undeniable,
the star quality on this woman.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You're just with it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I was like, this video whatever, and Dave Matthews, I
feel ambivalent to fond of Yea and the song is
pretty average Dave Matthews band, I would say sorry to
anyone who might disagree, but the video really makes it
pop and she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Sorry, I'm just distracted because you said she did White
Girl Dreads and now I'm not saw her. I'm not.
I can't about it. I can't stop thinking about it.
I have a response why people don't like the cancel culture. Okay,
people would be loving the cancel culture if it wasn't
for people like me. It's true. Oh, this is why
(15:27):
not a movie. But the Dreamgirl music video for Dave
Matthews Band is number five on top ten. Julia Roberts
films Lost Culture, number four, Magnolias her first Oscar nomination.
She Drank the Juice Shelby. Wow, isn't that interesting? She
started with drink the Juice Shelby, and then later on
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it would be eat the Fish.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Fish and start out with mystic pizzat of lots of fun, Julia, Julia,
what is that about?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Have you seen steel Magnolia's recently in like a fiveish years.
It's a fun one.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It is so so sad, it's so sad. It's not
like this fun, steal good movie.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
No, it is not at all. It ends with sort
of anguish but sisterhood. Julia Roberts is again in playing
movie star charm though, because you really have to fall
in love with the character, and you do, and it's
a little bit of a tough character too. Yeah, but
you fall in love, You fall in love and then
Sally just Sally knocks it out at the damp part.
God damn, it's really Sally's performance.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It is Sally's performance.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And Dolly Dolly too, and Olympia Daryl Hannah, darryl Oh
my god, Daryl, Hannah, Shirley McLain rely, hmmm, I just.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Want to hit somebody, hit her, hit ha hit hit weeza,
hit weeza.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And I forget what Olympia says, but it's some like Southern.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Now, go ahead, go ahead. She gives a lot of Olympia,
a lot of Olympia. But we love it, we love it,
and all these reasons are why number four on top
ten Julia Roberts Films Lost Coult Number three, pretty woman.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This one holds up. I haven't seen it in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
She plays. Uh, you know, there's the only one way
to say it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
A sex worker.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Okay, anyways, hooker hooker, I say, bring back hooker, hooker.
I don't think hooker has a Well that's not for
me to say. I guess it's not for you to
say it all, certainly not for me to say it.
And yet here bring back hooker. Like, look at that hooker.
You look like a hooker. So what do you do.
I'm a hooker. I'm a hooker. Oh no, me coming
(17:33):
home after a long time home. No, my daughter is
a hooker. We see that makes it sound like, oh no, well,
how do you know she's not saying, oh no, my
daughter is a hooker, Like I'm so jealous of my daughter.
You're so right, I know my daughter's a hooker. I
should I wish I was the hooker. I wish I
(17:55):
was a hooker like my daughter. Well, anyone would want
to be a hooker. If I saw Julia robertson this film.
Glamazon dot Com got a safe girl. She had all
those condoms. She said, I'm a safety girl, safety girl.
Anyone would want to be a hooker walking out up
Rodeo Drive. Honestly, this was another Oscar nomination for Julia.
She did not win this time, but I believe that
(18:18):
this was when it was truly solidified, like MoMA is
a the A List queen.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, pretty woman was the moment.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And she was so good with Richard Gear, who was
so hot in this movie. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Random thought that I meant to tell you was we
were watching Oppenheimer famously and we walked out. But Josh
Hartnett aging like Richard Gear. He looked unbelievable, But he
and Richard Gear are on the same track. Yeah, they
both looked and obviously, you know, very attractive men throughout
their whole lives.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, Josh Hartnet being an openheimer was one of the
jump scares of the movie for me, where I was
just like, oh my god, I can't believe this cast thing.
But I was happy the whole time because he looked amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's amazing. He seemed he did okay with that role.
I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I mean, there wasn't much to it. And it's a
Christopher Nolan movie. Oh god, it's not about the acting.
It's about the damn score. Trust your actors for ones
in your life, Christopher Nolan. I'd love to see a scene.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Let Harry styles like do something more than like sweat
and scream and Dunkirk Dunkirk done nothing done. Oh and
all those reasons are White Woman is number three on
top ten.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Julia Roberts Films Lost Culture, number two My best friend's wedding.
I actually so get this, like peek behind the curtain.
We're doing this a sort of for fun. But these
are my top two. Oh, like the top two is
my top two.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
First agree Oh that's why I put them there, And
I knew you would agree with me.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You put it right where it needed to go. Yeah. Period.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Tops and bottoms can say that or verse or side this.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well, my Best Friend's Wedding is a movie for tops bottoms.
You put it where it needed to go one hundred percent.
And then I heard that and moved on to the
film since that's really what we came here to discuss.
But I think this is a movie for tops bottoms
versus sides and the like. I think anyone would love
My best Friend's Wedding. They can see themselves in so
many characters. This was, of course the I mean, not
the breakout for Cameron Diaz, but like the breakout. Sorry,
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and then this came along and she said, I'm giving range,
but Julia said, I am gonna play this unlikable character
who does monstrous things and you are still gonna fall
in love with me. That iconic bush of red hair, Jules,
you had to think.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
She went, I'm gonna go all in because this woman's
name is basically mine.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, it really really really does do something. I think
it's actually and this is gonna be controversial. I think
at the time she was playing close to her. I
think she was always getting what she wanted. I think
she was really toying here with the idea of like
the thing that you think is gonna happen in your
life doesn't happen. Like life can be unfair and cruel,
(20:45):
and I think that the idea that she was going
to end up with him is like so, And when
you start watching the movie, you're like, yeah, of course
you want her to win. And then at the end
when she loses the guy and she ends up like
needing to build her life, you know that's better for
her and better for them and better for us the audience.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It taught a lesson, A taught a lesson. The gazebo
scene walked so pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me, and
Gray's Anatomy could run the final image of that being
her and Rupert Everett Dan saying, I go, this is
what it was about.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
The moment I wake up, that great scene. Yeah, it's
so good kissing and when we should do that like
that that cold open being like so just like a video.
I love I love it. I also love fucking Rachel
Griffiths and Carrie Preston as the two sisters. They went
(21:41):
on to big careers, big career. My favorite scene in
this movie is when they're on the ferry and they
passed under a bridge and he goes. He goes, if
you love someone, you say it right then out loud,
Otherwise the moment just and she goes passes you by,
It just passes you by. And then the moment literally
(22:01):
passes them by, and she turns around with her hair
and he beautifully breaks silence. He goes, we don't even
have a song kimme and I, and then like if
they just move on, and then he starts singing some
day when Lelo and she starts to cry. The writing
is good, It's so good. This movie is so good.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That movie is Chicago.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It's more than Home Alone could ever And for these
reasons and all the other ones, that's why My best
Friend's Wedding is number two on top ten. Julia Roberts films,
Lost Colt and now for number one, number one that
I'm disputed, Aaron Brockovich. The Oscar Win, the perfect embodiment
of why Julia Roberts is a movie star, the perfect.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Embodiment of why Steven Soderberg is like who he is.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Certainly the best film she's ever been in, Holds Up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Holds Up has always held Up. I've watched it once
every two years since it came out since two thousand,
and I'm like, this is a great fucking movie.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It also says real things about like really pression topics,
like throughout time since and this was made in like
two thousands. It's like old but feels like it could
be made now. It's sort of timeless. She's so good inness,
she's so funny, and it codable lines, real dialogue, real scenes,
real character work, real dynamics, and incredible supporting cast.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Just her on the phone in the car crying m
at the baby's first word, Oh yeah, yeah yeah, just like,
oh my god, what's his face.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Aaron would go on to a big career in that
movie Hattie. In that movie, I didn't sort of like
him because of all the hair and the mustache. Years later,
I would see another Aaron Acart movie and I'd be like,
oh my god, that's that's the guy from Aaron Brockovich,
and it shook me to my core. I believe the
expression is uh huh, never forget Contrata Farrell, excuse me, yea,
(23:58):
I'm not talking to you, bitch. Oh wait, how does
get into that? Did you move my fucking files or
something like that?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Where are my files?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Where my files. The fuck it's so good this movie
really just like it rock seeps into my brain at
regular intervals, like that's all you got, lady, two rung
feet and fucking ugly shoes.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
She's had to lunch with the girls.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're a girl. I'm sorry, you're a girl. Why aren't
you at lunch? I guess I'm not the right kind?
So good.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Don't make me bag, don't make me ba it doesn't
work out, fire me, don't.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Make me bag. And then also gonna say who lives
like this? And then the iconic monolog which I was
taught later in college. I remember I was in screen
running one O one and my teacher brought in a
scene and it was the miss Wichita monologue. Oh my god,
this is how you explore a character at this certain
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part of the movie. And then I remember like someone
would bring in their work and she'd say, like, this
is your miss Wichita, like this is where you need
miss Witches.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That is they should put that in everything Wichita.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And I thought that meant that I was gonna be somebody.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's amazing, and that's right like that, like right when
she like fox Aaron for the first it's like the
love story, you know when like aptbreak or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
And before that, she has another one of the best
lines in the movie, which is when he gets on
the floor and he says to her like like, I'm
somebody I care about you, and she goes to him,
are you gonna be something else that I have to survive? Oh,
because I'll tell you what, I'm not up to it.
And then they kiss and she gives in, and then
later on didn't work out, and I remember he goes
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to her, what about me? And she goes, what about you?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is my work, my time away from my kids.
If that's not personal, I don't know. You gotta watch
the movie, guys, it's made of it. This is zinam
and that. All those reasons and more are why Aaron
Brockovich is number one on the top ten. Julia robertson
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Speaker 1 (01:04):
I love to look at the readouts and I love
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and be like, so this episode was a hit. This
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episode is comparable to the episode of Jujo.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh you always know which episode it is comparable too,
And you're always like you get really billboard with it,
like granularly, like, well, what about most downloads in the
first week? What about in the first twenty four hours?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
What about?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And I commend you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I know when we're up, I know when we're down,
I know when we're rts, rts remaining the same. Oh
my god, I don't even know this stuff. Let's just
say I know our box office numbers. Oh, and speaking
of the box office, we're here to talk today about
a box office queen and critical favorite. Hard to be both,
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hard to be both almost impossible to be both nowadays
that's not true, Zendaya.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But who else I guess. Also, we're just you know, houling.
What's going through something right now? Let's just say it.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I mean, listen, Hollywood's going through it. And all we
can do is wait. All we can do is wait.
We're talking about miss Julia Robert from Alpharetta Georgia. Oh,
this woman really did dominate and we were so grateful,
weren't we.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I mean, for me she still dominates to this day. Well,
I mean, I was just going to bring up something that, like,
isn't it. I am a little bit bummed out that
like take it to paradise.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
You look at the post, you go, well, it's Clooney
and Julia, and you go, there's no way this doesn't open.
And you go, well, if even they can't like get
a rom com to like do big numbers at the
box office, then who can? But I don't want to
write them off. Is like they don't have that same
poll anymore at the box office. I don't even think it.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Did that badly. I think internationally it's a big numbers.
I think it's considered a success. Damn.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I guess I'm just so you don't think about international enough.
I don't think about international enough. Very national list here,
Well you be a yellow nationalist? You actually not white?
Well that's actually controversial. Bowen Yang is white.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I'm a white And that's actually something I would like
to start bringing back into the public consciousness, is that
Bowen Yang is white and he's been lying. I know
you're wearing head to toe American paraphernalia.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's true. And then if you if you really lick
your thumb and smudge my face. The concealer comes right off.
He's actually wearing a joy Luck club. It's a Joyluck
clerb joy Luck Vintage bubble tea merch.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
There you go. So you're actually very international right now.
But I do ignore international, but I never ignore Julia. No.
Julia is an American treasurer who has international powers, and
she's been in thousands of film thousands, but we narrowed
it down to the top ten. Julia Roberts Films, Lost
Culch Lost Coach number ten. Ben is back. I haven't
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seen that.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I haven't either, but that doesn't mean it's.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Not number ten. It has a number ten quality to it. Yes,
you know, it's like, don't be don't forget about this one.
Don't forget about when Julia played a concerned mother of
a drug addict played by Lucas Hedges.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
And we have forgotten, and we're saying with this list,
don't forget.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You know what we're saying with this list, See it? Yeah,
support it. Julia Momulia, Julia Mom, Julia Roberts, Julia Mom
especially were a coach. Number eight Julia Mom.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Julia Roberts playing a mother like a mother who is upset.
You dress stress. You love to see that. This is
something we love watching this woman do, and yet neither
of us have. But we liked it enough on paper,
a sort of on premise alone, on poster alone, to
put it on the list on premise and poster alone.
Oscar Oscar, I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Know who else was in this film, Julia Lucas could
be anyone from Adam. I think it was like Peter
O'Toole played the grandpa. You think he came back from
the dead to play the grandpa. I think at the
time he might have still been alive. This is all
why benis Back is number ten on top ten. Julia
Roberts Films.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Lost Coult number nine.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
August County A film we did see and.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Fell asleep to.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
No way. I love this film.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I think this film is a little too much. Meryll's
doing too much. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Merrill is really
going for it.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You think Merrell's doing too much? In Augusta, Stage County, do.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You think she wasn't?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think she was doing exactly what Violet Weston would
be doing when she has her a little overdose moment
and she's like remember I love it. She literally gave
you like on luxibro and and then Julia Roberts said,
eat the fish, bitch, this movie is cuckoo bananas. You
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know who I think could have been better as the
daughter than Yeah, it's one of those roles I see
and I'm like, that should have been me. I should
have played the county daughter. Oh my god, you would
have been who gets like finger by the uncle?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But in like a fun playway, what's a movie? Well,
it's a movie. Do you think it suffered that classic thing?
I mean, I I choose to view this as an
unsuccessful adaptation. I don't choose to view it that way
because I've got Oscar nominations up the wazoo. This is
one of Julia's Oscar noms.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I know it is, I'm aware, but I feel like
it's one of those things where it's like you needed,
like Mike Nichols, may he rest to like adapt it
just right in a way to make it film mt
You know, for someone who stands Mike Nichols, you certainly
have a lot of notes, and so did he. No,
don't don't ever put me and him in the same sense.
I revere him. I revere that man.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Well, why do you talk so much shit about him
now that he's dead. I don't know if there's another
Mike Nichols film. Is this Mike Nichols?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
The next one is Mike Nichols. August Osh County is
not mc nichols. It's not, it's not, it's not. Oh,
I forget who, Well, this.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Is August Wilson. No, it's not August Wilson at all.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's August August Osage County, which is Tracy Latt. Yeah, okay,
but who directed it? Okay, let's see. Let's say, let's
see who John Wells, John Wells, John Wells, who is
of course known for the company Men Well and it
probably could.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Have gotten a better director for this. I guess That's
what I'm saying. Like I literally was just like I'm
watching a play.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Even as a fucking twenty three year old who didn't
know anything about anything, I said, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I'm watching a play. But Julia was amazing. Julia was amazing,
and that's why it's number nine on top ten. Julia
Roberts films Last Coach and speaking of plays, speaking of
magnificel like place well, let's we can discuss this. Oh
my god, you of course stand this. It's number eight closer.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I don't stand this. You stand this movie. I don't
stand this movie.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I know why you do well. Hit at the right time.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It was Damien Rice Culture the Bluers, and so it is.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I love this song. I played it out.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I mean, I'm not familiar with the play version.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I read the play.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Look, the writing is rough, and that's not my Nickels's fault.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't even know if the writing is rough. The
writing is just such a play.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's such a play. It's very melodramatic, in the same
vein as august Osage County. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I just love the end scene with Natalie and Dune,
when she goes hit mean fuck her. That is then
in slow motion he winds up and does hit her,
and it's such like a stage slap. He does not
make contact, and she goes a and her hair goes
to the side and then she looks back like wind swept.
And then my other favorite scene, obviously we like Natalie. No,
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that is iconic that I'm saying, that's Bill Jane. That
makes it like I see it on stage. But I'm like,
it is so much more powerful as a movie. In
the scene when Natalie goes to Julia's photo studio, yeah,
and Natalie is like faced away and then she goes,
just take my picture and she's crying. One singles here
iconic and Julia's like, she is beautiful and captures the
most stunning picture of her that goes up in the
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gallery during that iconic scene sequence.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Really, I think it's where the revisit it's. Look, it's
not the best, but it was for these huge A
lists and as a teen you eat that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Shut up one hundred percent, I said, without having seen
it as a teen, and I don't think I saw
it for years after it came out. I said, this
is the greatest film of the year. There you go.
I was like, my little Oscar bait ass like on
the sites was like closer as the film of the years,
a quiet film. And so you're saying you didn't see
it until much later or yeah, And I think the
first time I saw it, I was like in denial
about whether or not it was like quote unquote good
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or not, And so I was just like, this is stunning.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Make no mistake. I don't think it's a good movie
that is.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
In the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
But it is fascinating to read about the way Mike
Nichols worked with these four and he was very like,
you know, he like took them out to dinners, like
they hung out, the five of them.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Well, that's amazing that the director would take factors. I'm
not just saying he would get maybe they would talk
about the script. I'm not getting detailed enough, but like
they interviewed Juliet and Natalie in the biography, they did
shut up and they and they like and they both
were like they were like, Mike really got to know us.
He took us out to dinner, We talked about the characters,
and before we got to set, we even rehearsed, like
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showed them all these movies.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
You be so blessed to your movie, so blessed to
have a director like that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Did he show them like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Not his own movies like other movies? Maybe Closer is amazing.
I also love the scene when Clive I went was
like what just come tastes like goes it's like yours
but sweeter, that's camping. And then he goes now fuck
off and die. Yeah, I said, get me on stage
doing this. Oh so you want to be Abigail and Clive?
(10:32):
That is range mother. I want to do all the roles.
I think I would be good to share with that story.
You would do all the roles in Closer that you
would be so good as all four? I think I
think I would be so good as all four.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Or how about it's closer but it's just you and
I and we each get the turn as each of them.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh my god, that's really good. We're like Cynthia Nixon
and Christine Vransky. No, I forget who else someone in
the play where they switched. I think that's a switch
that could be fun.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
But I would I would be uncomfortable playing Natalie in
front of you. Why because I get like you're so Natalie.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Well, I guess we would have to fucking you'd have
to take your panties down and bend over and show
hold to the whole audience.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I can I call DIBs on Naantalie in that scene though,
of still Jane, you can play that role because and
I'll be Clive. I'll sit there with my f such
a good Clive in that scene. Okay, but I get
to be Julia.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, of course. So here's the way that we're gonna
do Closer. You are Jude, and that's gonna be hard
because you have a lot of scenes together.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
No, no, no, But I'm saying we get to first
it's Jude Natalie, right, like jud and Natalie meeting. I'm one,
I'm Judior Natalie. Then it's like Clive and Julia, right,
and then like you're Julia, I'm Clive.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Well, we'll figure it out. We'll figure out with our director.
He'll take us out to dinner and we'll figure it
all out. Readers on BMP Diamond cast it, cast it, Okay, okay,
and that's the Closer is number seven on top ten.
Jeleia Rapperts Films Last Coult number seven, Smurfs The Lost Village.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That's said, moving on, that is why.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Smurf's The Lost Village is number seven on top ten.
Julia Roberts Films Lost Coach, number six, Nodding Hill.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
This really is one of the iconic movies.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy
asking him to love her. That is movie star dot com.
Is ironic that she's playing a movie star in that. Yeah,
it would not be the last time she did.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
American Sweethearts, which did not make the list, did not
make the list. Yeah, I mean notting Hill. It's an
okay rom com. If you watch it back, you.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Know it's actually only okay, but like sort of the
public consciousness would make you think it was one of
the great classics. There's some people that are like, my
favorite Julia is nodding Hill, and I have to look
at them cock eyed.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You're like, there's better Julia, as is evidenced by this list. Look,
it made the top ten.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I mean I haven't even clearly haven't seen the top six.
If they think of this one as number one, because
it's number six.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's number six, so not even in the fiftieth percentile,
No of top ten. I should say.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Do we love Hugh Grant? I think so.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
He's at his most hu Grant in this and it
is most like charming, harmless Hugrant and that it's when
Hugh Grant is in the fucking what's that movie? It's
such show with Nicole.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Oh the I'm doing I'm doing that, I'm doing where
you're like, you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Can't be Hu Grant in this because you're the character
has done something awful.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
And weirdly enough. That was my favorite Hugh Grant. But
I also haven't seen Paddington Too, which I heard it
should have been Hugh Grant's Oscars. A lot of the
craziest people in the world say that.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Same people who say America Ferrera deserves an Oscar for Barbie.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I saw Barbarie again, and you know what I say,
America for Oscar. Wow?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What I will say the monologue she delivers should have
been like the last monologue.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
That is the whole thesis of the movie.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I did think that America was a very winning in
the film. Winning does not mean nominate for Oscar. But
also it might be a weird year, a weird year.
All these reasons are why notting Hill is number six
on the top ten Lea Roberts Films.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Last Culture number five not a movie, but the dream
Girl music video for Dave Matthews band. She is famously
in White Girl. Dreads in this and guess what you
don't care?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, we didn't care until now you brought it up.
Oh I didn't bring it up to get us to care.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I'm saying, well, now I can't say, you know it
works because it's Dave Matthews watching her. He's sitting alone
in a theater, in a movie theater, watching this projection
on screen of Julia Roberts.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
For some reason.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
She's in White Girl Dreads and she is going through
different dream states. She's at the laundromat, she's at a party.
She's very like where am I? But it's the thing
where you go. This is why people get movie stars
for music videos, because it is, like, I mean, it's undeniable,
the star quality on this woman.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You're just with it.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I was like, this video whatever, and Dave Matthews, I
feel ambivalent to fond of Yea and the song is
pretty average Dave Matthews band, I would say sorry to
anyone who might disagree, but the video really makes it
pop and she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Sorry, I'm just distracted because you said she did White
Girl Dreads and now I'm not saw her. I'm not.
I can't about it. I can't stop thinking about it.
I have a response why people don't like the cancel culture. Okay,
people would be loving the cancel culture if it wasn't
for people like me. It's true. Oh, this is why
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not a movie. But the Dreamgirl music video for Dave
Matthews Band is number five on top ten. Julia Roberts
films Lost Culture, number four, Magnolias her first Oscar nomination.
She Drank the Juice Shelby. Wow, isn't that interesting? She
started with drink the Juice Shelby, and then later on
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it would be eat the Fish.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Fish and start out with mystic pizzat of lots of fun, Julia, Julia,
what is that about?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Have you seen steel Magnolia's recently in like a fiveish years.
It's a fun one.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
It is so so sad, it's so sad. It's not
like this fun, steal good movie.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
No, it is not at all. It ends with sort
of anguish but sisterhood. Julia Roberts is again in playing
movie star charm though, because you really have to fall
in love with the character, and you do, and it's
a little bit of a tough character too. Yeah, but
you fall in love, You fall in love and then
Sally just Sally knocks it out at the damp part.
God damn, it's really Sally's performance.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It is Sally's performance.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
And Dolly Dolly too, and Olympia Daryl Hannah, darryl Oh
my god, Daryl, Hannah, Shirley McLain rely, hmmm, I just.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Want to hit somebody, hit her, hit ha hit hit weeza,
hit weeza.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And I forget what Olympia says, but it's some like Southern.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Now, go ahead, go ahead. She gives a lot of Olympia,
a lot of Olympia. But we love it, we love it,
and all these reasons are why number four on top
ten Julia Roberts Films Lost Coult Number three, pretty woman.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This one holds up. I haven't seen it in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
She plays. Uh, you know, there's the only one way
to say it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
A sex worker.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Okay, anyways, hooker hooker, I say, bring back hooker, hooker.
I don't think hooker has a Well that's not for
me to say. I guess it's not for you to
say it all, certainly not for me to say it.
And yet here bring back hooker. Like, look at that hooker.
You look like a hooker. So what do you do.
I'm a hooker. I'm a hooker. Oh no, me coming
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home after a long time home. No, my daughter is
a hooker. We see that makes it sound like, oh no, well,
how do you know she's not saying, oh no, my
daughter is a hooker, Like I'm so jealous of my daughter.
You're so right, I know my daughter's a hooker. I
should I wish I was the hooker. I wish I
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was a hooker like my daughter. Well, anyone would want
to be a hooker. If I saw Julia robertson this film.
Glamazon dot Com got a safe girl. She had all
those condoms. She said, I'm a safety girl, safety girl.
Anyone would want to be a hooker walking out up
Rodeo Drive. Honestly, this was another Oscar nomination for Julia.
She did not win this time, but I believe that
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this was when it was truly solidified, like MoMA is
a the A List queen.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, pretty woman was the moment.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And she was so good with Richard Gear, who was
so hot in this movie. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Random thought that I meant to tell you was we
were watching Oppenheimer famously and we walked out. But Josh
Hartnett aging like Richard Gear. He looked unbelievable, But he
and Richard Gear are on the same track. Yeah, they
both looked and obviously, you know, very attractive men throughout
their whole lives.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, Josh Hartnet being an openheimer was one of the
jump scares of the movie for me, where I was
just like, oh my god, I can't believe this cast thing.
But I was happy the whole time because he looked amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's amazing. He seemed he did okay with that role.
I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I mean, there wasn't much to it. And it's a
Christopher Nolan movie. Oh god, it's not about the acting.
It's about the damn score. Trust your actors for ones
in your life, Christopher Nolan. I'd love to see a scene.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Let Harry styles like do something more than like sweat
and scream and Dunkirk Dunkirk done nothing done. Oh and
all those reasons are White Woman is number three on
top ten.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Julia Roberts Films Lost Culture, number two My best friend's wedding.
I actually so get this, like peek behind the curtain.
We're doing this a sort of for fun. But these
are my top two. Oh, like the top two is
my top two.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
First agree Oh that's why I put them there, And
I knew you would agree with me.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
You put it right where it needed to go. Yeah. Period.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Tops and bottoms can say that or verse or side this.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well, my Best Friend's Wedding is a movie for tops bottoms.
You put it where it needed to go one hundred percent.
And then I heard that and moved on to the
film since that's really what we came here to discuss.
But I think this is a movie for tops bottoms
versus sides and the like. I think anyone would love
My best Friend's Wedding. They can see themselves in so
many characters. This was, of course the I mean, not
the breakout for Cameron Diaz, but like the breakout. Sorry,
(20:06):
and then this came along and she said, I'm giving range,
but Julia said, I am gonna play this unlikable character
who does monstrous things and you are still gonna fall
in love with me. That iconic bush of red hair, Jules,
you had to think.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
She went, I'm gonna go all in because this woman's
name is basically mine.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, it really really really does do something. I think
it's actually and this is gonna be controversial. I think
at the time she was playing close to her. I
think she was always getting what she wanted. I think
she was really toying here with the idea of like
the thing that you think is gonna happen in your
life doesn't happen. Like life can be unfair and cruel,
(20:45):
and I think that the idea that she was going
to end up with him is like so, And when
you start watching the movie, you're like, yeah, of course
you want her to win. And then at the end
when she loses the guy and she ends up like
needing to build her life, you know that's better for
her and better for them and better for us the audience.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It taught a lesson, A taught a lesson. The gazebo
scene walked so pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me, and
Gray's Anatomy could run the final image of that being
her and Rupert Everett Dan saying, I go, this is
what it was about.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
The moment I wake up, that great scene. Yeah, it's
so good kissing and when we should do that like
that that cold open being like so just like a video.
I love I love it. I also love fucking Rachel
Griffiths and Carrie Preston as the two sisters. They went
(21:41):
on to big careers, big career. My favorite scene in
this movie is when they're on the ferry and they
passed under a bridge and he goes. He goes, if
you love someone, you say it right then out loud,
Otherwise the moment just and she goes passes you by,
It just passes you by. And then the moment literally
(22:01):
passes them by, and she turns around with her hair
and he beautifully breaks silence. He goes, we don't even
have a song kimme and I, and then like if
they just move on, and then he starts singing some
day when Lelo and she starts to cry. The writing
is good, It's so good. This movie is so good.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That movie is Chicago.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
It's more than Home Alone could ever And for these
reasons and all the other ones, that's why My best
Friend's Wedding is number two on top ten. Julia Roberts films,
Lost Colt and now for number one, number one that
I'm disputed, Aaron Brockovich. The Oscar Win, the perfect embodiment
of why Julia Roberts is a movie star, the perfect.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Embodiment of why Steven Soderberg is like who he is.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Certainly the best film she's ever been in, Holds Up.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Holds Up has always held Up. I've watched it once
every two years since it came out since two thousand,
and I'm like, this is a great fucking movie.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It also says real things about like really pression topics,
like throughout time since and this was made in like
two thousands. It's like old but feels like it could
be made now. It's sort of timeless. She's so good inness,
she's so funny, and it codable lines, real dialogue, real scenes,
real character work, real dynamics, and incredible supporting cast.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Just her on the phone in the car crying m
at the baby's first word, Oh yeah, yeah yeah, just like,
oh my god, what's his face.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Aaron would go on to a big career in that
movie Hattie. In that movie, I didn't sort of like
him because of all the hair and the mustache. Years later,
I would see another Aaron Acart movie and I'd be like,
oh my god, that's that's the guy from Aaron Brockovich,
and it shook me to my core. I believe the
expression is uh huh, never forget Contrata Farrell, excuse me, yea,
(23:58):
I'm not talking to you, bitch. Oh wait, how does
get into that? Did you move my fucking files or
something like that?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Where are my files?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Where my files. The fuck it's so good this movie
really just like it rock seeps into my brain at
regular intervals, like that's all you got, lady, two rung
feet and fucking ugly shoes.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
She's had to lunch with the girls.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're a girl. I'm sorry, you're a girl. Why aren't
you at lunch? I guess I'm not the right kind?
So good.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Don't make me bag, don't make me ba it doesn't
work out, fire me, don't.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Make me bag. And then also gonna say who lives
like this? And then the iconic monolog which I was
taught later in college. I remember I was in screen
running one O one and my teacher brought in a
scene and it was the miss Wichita monologue. Oh my god,
this is how you explore a character at this certain
(24:56):
part of the movie. And then I remember like someone
would bring in their work and she'd say, like, this
is your miss Wichita, like this is where you need
miss Witches.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That is they should put that in everything Wichita.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And I thought that meant that I was gonna be somebody.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's amazing, and that's right like that, like right when
she like fox Aaron for the first it's like the
love story, you know when like aptbreak or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
And before that, she has another one of the best
lines in the movie, which is when he gets on
the floor and he says to her like like, I'm
somebody I care about you, and she goes to him,
are you gonna be something else that I have to survive? Oh,
because I'll tell you what, I'm not up to it.
And then they kiss and she gives in, and then
later on didn't work out, and I remember he goes
(25:41):
to her, what about me? And she goes, what about you?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
This is my work, my time away from my kids.
If that's not personal, I don't know. You gotta watch
the movie, guys, it's made of it. This is zinam
and that. All those reasons and more are why Aaron
Brockovich is number one on the top ten. Julia robertson
(26:07):
Movies Lost Cult as well as we in every episode
with the song every day it is a Winding. If
you want to see hear this song, watch Aaron Rokovich
plays at the end.
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