Casey & Millie’s Most Romantic Movies Ever

Love is in the air this week on Dear Movies, I Love You! Millie and Casey ponder the ultimate February question—just in time for Valentine’s Day: What is the most romantic movie ever? Millie is out for revenge with this week’s movie quiz, featuring films with “Love” in the title. Plus, entries in their Film Diaries and fresh recommendations for Employee Picks.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, Casey, what's happening?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hi? Millie. It's so good to see you again, it
really is. It's good to see you. It's good to
hear you. It's good to be in each other's presences.
This is a romantic episode we're about to talk about, Millie.
It's thrilling romance baby coming up in this episode. We're
gonna do another installment of our film diary segment, and

(00:25):
I believe we're gonna be talking about some romantic movies.
Isn't that right, Millie?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, we're gonna do a thing where Casey and I
are both gonna pick our top three favorite romantic films.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Right, that's right. And Mill's got another game for me.
She tried to stump me last time with her. Actually
I didn't stup you at all, Dixie dream Girl trivia,
and it didn't work. She didn't jump stump me.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh, I through the soft of softballs at you this time, though.
Bet you're gonna fucking cry, You're gonna You're gonna fail it.
I just know it.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
We'll see, we'll see. You don't know, you don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Uh, it's gonna be a great episode, don't you think
I know?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
It's gonna be a great episode.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yes, we are gonna be in love with this episode
for sure, and hope that you are too. On this
episode of Dear Movies, I Love You.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Dear, I love you, and I've got to know you
love me to check the box.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Hi, and welcome to another episode of Dear Movies, I
Love You. This is the podcast where we talk about
movies as if they were our romantic partners and whatnot.
My name is Millie to Jericho.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
That's right, and in case your brain the other host, yes,
I mean it's very apropos We're talking about love, we're
talking about romance, and this is a podcast all about
our love and romantic feelings towards movies. So it's very
simpatico with the theme of today's show. But we have
a great show today. Millie, I'm so thrilled to be

(02:20):
talking about romantic movies. But first we must get into
our film diary. We have to open up our diaries
and read aloud our innermost thoughts, basically just pertaining to
the movies we watched. But what movies have you seen
in the past week or so?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Hold on, I'm unlocking my diary with the tiniest little key.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yep. And the key is on a necklace around your neck.
Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
And the key is so flimsy that it sometimes bends
in the lock and then you're just like you have
to pop it open with like a pen or something.
All right, it's open now, Okay. So this week I
rewatched Slow or the One hundred and Twenty Days of
Sodom by Pierre Paulo Pasolini. Very not for the faint

(03:08):
of heart, very notorious film. As you know.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I would say it's in the top five most notorious
films of all time, wouldn't you say. I would argue
out there, I.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Would argue it's number one.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
It could be number one. That's not a crazy thing
to say.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
That's not crazy. Let me tell you right now. I
have not seen Solo since the late nineties. I mean
I watched it pretty much when I was in film
school because it was again, it was like this, it
feels like it feels like an achievement or something. When
you've watched it for the first time, you're like, oh,
I went I went through some shit. Literally, okay, I

(03:45):
watched well here did that come out? Let us say
it's like seventy oh yeah, seventy five, seventy five, Okay,
but I saw it again. And the reason why I
saw it again is because it was playing at my
local movie theater. You know, I think we all know why,
because we have a new president in office and there
was a series that has been going on there called like,

(04:08):
you know, Cinema of Resistance or Resistance Cinema or something,
which is brilliant, brilliant programming by the Plaza Theater by
the way. But yeah, so I saw it in the
movie theater. I'm thirty five, and I mean it is
such a film like it it is. There are moments
of disgusting this I mean, obviously the whole thing is

(04:31):
is basically, you know, an allegory for fascism, right yeah,
And it's very intense, a lot of nudity, a lot
of you know, body fluid stuff. Obviously really crazy. However,
as an artistic statement, I gotta say it is fucking insane,

(04:53):
Like it is such such a big swing and I
think that's why it's number one, because it's just it
is literally like one of the hardest but most interesting
films I've ever seen in my life.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
For those who haven't seen it, it is about it's
set in World War two and it's a group of fascists.
It's kind of like during wartime when people are like
kind of getting away with just doing horrible stuff. And
it's set it's a group of fascists round up nine
adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred
and twenty days of physical, mental, and sexual torture. And

(05:32):
these group of fascists are kind of like, oh, won't
it be interesting to do these little experiments and do
these little games. It's all kind of like fun and
or it's just they're doing it at their own sort
of fancy because they want to and they can, you know, and.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Right, the representative is this sort of like bourgeoisie, these
like you know, leaders in power who are like walking
around in their opulent outfits and then like torturing young
people sexually and physically and emotionally. So it's really but
you know, again, like as a person who has written
and studied and been a part of like cult movies

(06:11):
for you know, twenty years, you know, there are like
films that you're kind of like, oh, this is a
big one. This is like one of the big you know,
this movie is a challenge and is unpleasant, and you know,
but but I have to say, like, I'm glad I
saw it again. I'm so glad I saw it now
that I'm as old as I am, versus what I

(06:33):
saw it when I was in college and I was,
as you call, in your shithead phase where you're just
watching provocative things just to watch them. And now I'm like, oh,
I can watch this as an adult and process at
at you know, a higher level, if you will. So
I don't know it was. I still think it's It's
one of the most interesting movies I've ever seen in

(06:54):
my entire life.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
So there's that. I would say, Cello, is you know,
if this was a ski mountain grade, it would be
a black diamond in terms of difficulty to like in
your film journey. It's a tough one. It ain't the
Bunny slopes, So I would you know, if you don't

(07:15):
know what it is and you don't know what you
you might want to do some research on it before
you watch that one. But it is. I it's a
it's amazing, it exists, and it is wild.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yes, it is wild. Speaking of wild, and maybe wild
in a slightly different way, maybe not. I also watched
for the very first time this movie called Two Moon Junction,
which is this movie from nineteen eighty eight, and it
was directed by another sort of notorious director, Zalman King.

(07:50):
If you don't know Zalmon King, he was kind of
a director and peddler of sort of what they would
call like softcore porn in the eighties and nineties. He
would responsible for the Red Shoe Diaries. Ah, yes, you know,
he did a couple of great like there was a
couple of films that he did early on that I
had actually programmed on TC Underground, like some call it

(08:12):
Loving and Blue Sunshine and whatnot. But he is mostly
known for kind of like that Wild Orchid slash, Red
Shoe Diaries, softcore porn stuff. Now Two Moon Junction, this
was something that I watched with my I have a
group of friends who I started a club with actually
many many many many years ago before I moved to

(08:34):
La actually, and it was called and I gotta tell you,
we were ground floor about this. We decided to create
a film club called Consenting Adults, and it was all about,
you know, our movie club was going to watch erotic thrillers.
And know we were, like I said, ground floor on
the resurgence of erotic thrillers. I mean, it was like
a decade before Baby Girl. Okay, so you know, but

(08:59):
we were kind of interested in rewatching a lot of
these sort of erotic thriller classics, and we've seen them
all at this point, it's been going for years and years, right,
So Two Moon Junction literally just came up and we
decided to watch it. And I gotta tell you, it
is fucking fantastic. Yeo.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
I mean the cover looks great. There Shehriylyn Fenn is
in the throes of passion with who's that actor? The
actor is name Richard Tyson.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yes, who played the bad guy from Kindergarten Cop if
you'll remember. Yes, Yes, he is wild in this. So
this movie is so insane and Sherylyn Fenn, I gotta
tell you, Like, I know.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
That twin peaks fame.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Of course, she was known for being in kind of
risque and slightly controversial films in her career, and this
was definitely one of them. I know that she has
talked about being in this movie, uh subsequently, and you know,
I don't know if she had like such a positive experience.
I don't know. I mean, you're gonna have to go

(10:07):
and do your research about that. But basically, like in
this film, it's kind of this like crazy southern gothic
erotic thriller where she plays like this woman who's about
to be married to this like fucking southern college football
nightmare guy. And then she meets the Richard Tyson character

(10:28):
at the carnival and he's this like total like Brando,
wanna be like fucking Tennessee Williams guy. He doesn't wear
a shirt ever, He's never wearing a shirt, and they
end up having this like affair, and I mean, there's
so many wonderful details in this movie. It's so good

(10:48):
and funny and weird and corny and amazing. So anyway,
gotta tell you, if you're into this kind of weird
world of like the kind of shitty skin type of stuff,
this is really this is for you. This is the
fil a baby you are gonna eat.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, so it's it for me, wonderful, wonderful. Well, let
me crack my knuckles, crack open my diary here. Uh okay.
I finally saw Anora, which we discussed on a previous episode.
Loved it, Love Sean Baker. This is a very fun movie.
I had a great time. It's not as it's not you.

(11:28):
You worry with movies like these that it's gonna be
you super tragic, but it's just I just had a
great time. Okay, then you know this. We recorded an
episode of my favorite Murder. You remember that I do
Karon and Georgia.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Of course I remember that.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
And I mentioned that I saw this movie truly, madly, deeply. Yes,
so that's in my film diary here. Watched truly madly,
deeply and loved it five stars on letterbox.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Oh wow, wow wow.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah. I was just very deeply moved by that film.
More people should see it. It's from nineteen ninety. It
stars Alan Rickman. It's directed by Anthony mcguela, stars Juliet Stevenson.
Her boyfriend dies and he comes back as a ghost,
and you're like, why is he coming back as a ghost?
What unfinished business? Mighty have? Well watch the movie and

(12:21):
you'll find out. And recently, I don't know if I
log this on letterbox, but I recently rewatched Romey and
Michelle's High School Reunion, which is one of my favorite
movies of all time. I think came out in nineteen
ninety seven, mi Or Cervino and Lisa Kudro. They go
to their high school reunion and it is just a silly, bright,

(12:41):
fun I love friendship movies, and it's a really great
girl friendship galpal friendship movie. And yes, it's very sweet
and I love it. And I wish more movies took
big swings like that movie did.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
In the you know who I love in that movie?
Uh uh duh, are you kidding me? Like she's amazing
in that she makes the cigarette paper that burns faster.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Our cigarette smoking queen. You know, I was thinking about this, Millie.
We should do a whole cigarette episode.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh I would love that, as you know, I would.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Love and maybe we can smoke cigarettes while we the episode.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
We'll be like, you know, French new wave directors while
we're like puffing away at the end of this episode. Yeah. No,
she's fantastic my movie. I just like love her whole vibe,
like her like she just hates everybody in her high school.
I mean that was me. I mean I won't say
she's exactly me, uh because I wasn't that antagonistic. She
like fucking hates it and eviscerates everyone. In their high school.

(13:45):
Uh I was. I still wanted to be liked by
all the people that I hated, but it was pretty
much like I hate you all, you know?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
So yeah, yeah, I just I've never been to a
high school reunion, and I don't think I ever will.
I kind of I wish I had one like Rome
and Michelle, but I don't think. I don't think my
school organ I don't think those happen anymore because Facebook
destroyed the high school reunion.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
But yeah, oh I could never. Sorry, I could never.
I've been invited, I think like twice, and I'm just
like nope, Like, do not have enough positive memories about
that experience? Unfortunately I really don't. And the people that
I liked for my high school I more or less
still talk to, which is like literally like a tiny
handful of people. So why do I need to go

(14:30):
to a reunion? Who gives a shit?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
That's true? Very true? Sorry, that is my film diary.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Alrighty, well that was fun. Yeah, pretty ready to talk
about love.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Talk about LORV, Millie. Let's talk about LORV. Are you
do you like romantic movies? Milly?

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Of course I do? Are you kidding? I I've got
a record so much about this On my previous podcast,
I saw what you did, which is that I I
fronted for so many years, maybe decades, in fact of
being a type of person that was not interested in
like romance and you know, kind of like lovey Dovey's stuff.

(15:33):
I was like, come on, I was watching Salo and
Kennibal Holocaust and things of that nature. I was like,
too based for love, right, Yeah, but you want to
watch Harmony Kareem's trash humpers.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
You don't want to watch something about love.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, I'm like, oh, God, like whatever, like uh, when
Harry met Sally. But now I'm here to admit, and
I've admitted most recently in the past several years that
I actually secretly loved romance and I snuck movies like
when Harry met Sally. So I was like, yeah, my

(16:13):
friends were watching fucking Wake and fright, yeah, fucking yeah.
And then I'm like secretly at home rewatching Untamed Heart
for the eighth time. I was like obsessed with love
and wanting boyfriends and having crushes on people, and you know,
I like would like really watch a lot of romantic stuff,

(16:37):
especially the stuff that would come on TV, like you know,
reruns of you know, rom coms and stuff that they
play constantly. I just was in front of that stuff
all the time, and I'm like, oh god, thirteen going
on thirty, I gotta watch it again. I've still loved
this movie. Yeah, but no one will know about it
because I'm too cool.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah. So anyway, the smoking SIGs with dark eyeshadow.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh yeah. I was like, I put I'd rather put
this out in my eye, is what I was telling you.
But inside I was, you know.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Feeling all sorts of feelings. Of course, I guess what
I guess. A question at the foundation of all of
this is what do you think makes a movie romantic?
Because you'll watch you know, you watch these Hallmark and
this is no slight to Hallmark movies, but they don't
necessarily make my heart feel that romantic pull that some

(17:34):
really excellent films. Do you know what is it that
makes you know, makes you yearn makes you feel romantic,
makes makes you want to experience love? What is it
in a movie? I know this is kind of a
big question, but what is it that makes a romantic movie?
For me?

Speaker 1 (17:55):
This is right off the dome. If you asked me
about this in like a week, I probably have a
more opinionated answer. I think there's two things for me
that really get me. Number one is longing, so wanting
to be with someone or a character that wants to
be with someone but can't. That might come up in
my choices for this one for this episode. And the

(18:17):
other is the idea of like two people against the
world or two people against society, right, because, like, let's
get serious, like, you know, I'm a I'm a fucking
I am Janine Garofflo. I was like really into goth
and punk and sort of less obvious forms of romance
my entire life, right, because I think a lot of

(18:41):
this is gonna get kind of deep and you'll have
to bear with me on this. But I think as
somebody who was not like really into dating and sort
of I wasn't like, you know, a personal experience sort
of like this really like you know, happy, sappy like

(19:01):
love life. When I was growing up, like I always
was like the obsessively crushed out like weirdo in the
back of the classroom. I was not like, you know,
some popular girl bouncing around like boyfriend or boyfriend, right,
So in my mind, I think, you know, I'm sitting
here being like all the stuff that I liked, which
was art and music, and you know, I was like

(19:24):
listening to the Smiths, dude, like sure. So that to
me when I when I watch films, those sort of
like unobvious forms of romance are the ones that get
to me. So, like, you know, a love I will
call it generically a sort of Bonnie and Clyde scenario
of like two people who are like kind of destined
to be together and then the world is against them

(19:46):
or society is against them, and they're they've got each other.
Or yeah, I mean tales about people who you know,
like maybe you mentioned this one car Wise in the
Mood for Love, two people that want to be together
but can't because there are external forces that keep them apart,
or you know, any kind of movie like that. So
those are what I think are or what make romantic

(20:07):
movies for me. But I don't know you have a
different answer.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Maybe No, I think you answered exactly. The movie needs
to make me feel like they really might not end
up together. I feel like there needs to be that
tension in the movie for it to feel romantic, because
if it just is like lovey dovey the whole time.
And it's like, you watch these rom coms and you're like, oh,

(20:32):
obviously they're gonna get together, but I think you have to. Like,
I think, actually that's what makes When Harry Met Sally
a good movie, because you're like, I don't like, I
don't remember the first time I watched it, but you know,
it feels like they might not end up together, you know,
and kind of hand in hand with that that longing
you mentioned. I love the visualization of longing. I'm bringing

(20:56):
up Wang kar Wai again. Wang in the Mood for
Love is such a romantic movie because there's all these
shots of Tony Lung like smoking a cigarette and slow
motion and you're like longing, I am longing actively on screen,
you know, and it's it's just it's just pulling these

(21:17):
feelings out of you because you just see these people
staring at each other. They're just looking at each other.
And I love that feeling. I love that that. That's
like what makes it a romantic genre is like that
palpable longing on screen.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, oh man, I have something to recommend for you
later than in our employee picks, because we'll put a
pin in that we'll talk about that later.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Put a pin.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
In and yeah, no, I agree, And like it's funny
because you know, I think that again, I want I
keep going back to this idea of uh, sort of
the ways in which love had been presented to me
when I was a young person. So again, like I
think that part of like what I leaned into when

(22:06):
I was first sort of you know, when I was
like a little girl, right, was that I was watching
like sixteen Candles and you know, the John Hughes universe.
And again, I was like pretty young when those movies
came out, like in the mid eighties, and you know
those were all about like invariably like nerdy people or

(22:26):
poor people who had crushes on people who were quote
unquote out of their league, and I was just status
higher status or like you know just sort of like
different vibes. And I mean, I will I can't even
tell you like when you know, I was presented with
the whole like sixteen Candles scenario of like Jake Ryan
and you know Molly Ringwold's character where he was this

(22:49):
like beautiful popular guy and she was this kind of
you know, boring nerd show. I don't even think she
was a nerd. I think she was just sort of
like a quiet, quiet or just sort of like cool
into music, and that that was the literal blueprint for
everything that I would love about romance. Subsequently, is the

(23:11):
like popular guy from high school who like hates being
popular and wants to get with like the cool girl
that likes music and is like has a good family
and is like an you know, like that kind of thing,
like she like loves hanging out with her parents or
something like that. Like that dynamic to me, I mean

(23:31):
it ruined my life, Casey, it has ruined my life.
It continues to ruin my life. But that's like the
thing is I think that's what creates the tension of
the will they are, won't they? It's just like there's
no way these two people can be together. He is
like he dates you know Carolyn, who you know, is
like the most beautiful blonde in their high school. He

(23:52):
could never find you know, interesting Molly Ringwall, but odd Tzar.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I you know, I think we share a history here
because I think both. I think the shared history is
that romantic movies have ruined our lives and have made
us worse people. And because I think that I was
like not a dater. I mean, I you know, I
kind of dated here and there, but I never had
a long term girlfriend in well into my twenties. And

(24:21):
I feel like how I thought romance was supposed to
go is very much based on movie romance, which real
life is not like that. Sadly, yeah, it's not like that.
And if you get caught up in that narrative of
wanting your real life romance is to always feel sometimes

(24:42):
they do, but they don't always feel like they do
in the movies.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I think when you go to therapy and you
grow up a little bit or something, you realize that
those that dynamic of being like of like the int intense,
insane longing is sort of disordered.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's disordered, it's unsustainable, and uh it certainly you have
that at the beginning of relationship and when that fades away,
that doesn't mean it's indicative of a bad relationship or anything.
But you can't you just can't. I think this really
got me in trouble in high school and college, where
I'm like, this is how romance needs to feel, or

(25:27):
it's fake. So Milli and I have picked our three
favorite romantic movies most romantic movies, and I don't know
what hers are. This is a complete surprise. So, uh, Millie,
what is your first These don't have to be in

(25:48):
our any particular order, but what.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
I'm put them in order, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
go from like three to one. How about that?

Speaker 2 (25:56):
If you pick one that I picked, I'm gonna be
so fucking pissed.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
I'm gonna this fist is gonna come through the screen
and punch.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
You right there. I'm gonna like, I'm gonna scream.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
But it wouldn't be cute. It wouldn't be cute. If
we picked things act saying three, it would be cute. Okay,
so let me go, let me go number three. So
my third most favorite romantic movie is a movie from
nineteen forty five. It was directed by a man named
David Lane. Mellie, No, did you counter?

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Did you break?

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Breathing counters?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
It's on my list, I swear to god, it's the
first one on my list, the first one.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
My god. Oh, okay, this we should have checked. We
should have fucking checked. Okay, so we both have this
one on our list. This is sort of okay? Would
you say this? This movie feels a little bit like

(27:01):
the blueprint for in the Mood.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
For Love, right in the Mood for Love and Carol.
This tell people what Brief Encounter is about. A perfect film. Oh, it's,
in my estimation, a perfect film.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
So this is a film about two strangers who meet
in a train station. Okay, they're both married. They're played
by the actors Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Okay, beautiful, there is so beautiful.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Beautiful, black and white, completely British. Wouldn't you say, like
there's this restraint to it that I feel like is
a British thing. They meet in this train station, they
fall in love, and then they're just sort of like
going through the machinations of like wanting to be with
each other, but they can't because it's they have a

(27:52):
lot of there's societal expectations. I mean, this is nineteen
forty five. I mean this is a different era for women,
but for men too. So it's like it's just this
like completely beautiful, tender, restrained film about unfulfilled desire.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
They are both yeah, they're both married, they can't. They
kind of fall in love accidentally, like they kind of
bump into each other a couple times randomly, and then
it's kind of like, oh, let's go see a movie.
And then they both I think there's a scene where
they're I think I can't remember who says it, but
they're like we both realized what has happened, don't we?

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, And it's like, you know, also like don't you
think sorry to mean they're upchu No? But also, isn't
this movie this movie is like a pure example of
how other people can fuck up your shit so badly?

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah? Yeah, yes, like all the.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
People that they run across, like they just they have
such a finite amount of time to be around each
other because they're both waiting for trains, and then it's
like they're trying to sit there and look into each
other's eyes and have a moment, and then this fucking
I know and like the fucking you know porter comes
in is like wassoup, Like can you get this fucking
guy out of here? He's routed vibe.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Like yeah, yeah. They literally have like thirty seconds in
between trains just to like look at each other, and
this guy's like, how's it going there? When I went, yeah, unbelievable.
What a film. Celia Johnson's face tells an entire story.
She has these big eyes, she looks like Audrey Tautteau,

(29:33):
and she just communicates this longing and this sadness and
this desire like, oh, it is a such good.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
And the ending is gonna put your fucking heart in
a vice and crush it forever.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
The ending you're you're gonna actually this is actually gonna
ruin your life forever. You will be sadder and in
a worse place. If you see this movie, Oh.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Big to say. Movie that's so fucking funny.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Oh my god. Okay, so I'm I but I have
to say three. I need to say a different one now, Okay,
so that one's been scratched, all right, Okay, I'm gonna
say number three. For Me is a film from nineteen
forty six, directed by Faint Frank Capra. It's a Wonderful Life.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Okay, I was getting nervous. Uh what a come on?
What a great movie.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
I love this movie. And there's a scene where, uh.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Don't say it, don't say it? Is it the scene
that I'm thinking of with Donna.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Reid with the phone. Oh my god, Casey what the
phone scene? They're both listening on a phone and he's
like smelling her hair. Uh, is that her? Is it?
Donna Reid? Yes, Donna Reid, Jimmy Stewart. It's a wonderful life.
It's known as a Christmas movie, but it's so much
more than and I love Christmas movies, but it's so

(31:00):
much more than that. It's like about life and romance
and the fulfillment of life. And I think it gets
to something that I think I really love in romance
movies too, where part of the romance is discovering the
joy of life rather than just the love of this person.

(31:21):
It's discovering yourself too. I think that's what makes a
good romantic movie too, where it's like a person is
going through self discovery. And you know, Jimmy Stewart, you know,
down on his luck guy, he's visited by. He's like,
I wish I was dead, I wish I was never born,
And an angel comes and shows him his life and

(31:41):
what the world would be like without George Bailey. And
there's this beautiful scene. Yeah, like I already mentioned, he's
smelling her hair while they're listening on the phone and
it is hoked. It's hoked, and they look great and
it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
I gotta tell you, Like I I think that there
are a few moments in early Jimmy Stewart's career where
I was like, I would kiss that man on the
mouth with tongue perhaps.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
And this is the number one, like he has kissable
mouth syndrome.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Oh my god, he was so cute, like back in
his early career, I mean later, like every a lot
of people think, oh yeah vertigo, no, no, uh uh now,
oh man, like everything. I mean even in Mister Smith
Ghost Washington, I'm like that little wispy hair when he
gets all stressed out, I'm like, he's so cute. So

(32:34):
but this one is. I mean honestly, every time I
watched that scene of them on the phone, I get
butterflies in my stomach.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yes, yeah, And then he's all like, oh no.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Oh god, now you just ruined it. You've ruined my fush.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
I thought that was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Impress, You've completely nailed it. But then you remember Jimmy
Stewart tall, tall, like.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Not on the bank, it's out of the Frank's house.
I love that. WIT's a wonderful life, just such a
beautiful I love a scene too where someone's running happily.
It's like a great Marry Chrissmass. You know where he's running.
It's great. Ye okay, that's my number three.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, thanks, thanks for picking that American classic my number
two selection. I hope to God even pick this, because
we are fucked if you did. But this movie is
from nineteen fifty and h it was directed by Joseph H. Lewis.
It's called Gun Crazy.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Gun Crazy. I have not seen this movie.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Okay, okay, so you gotta fix that asm. This better
be on your film diary next week or else. Gun
Crazy is a noir, a noir film. It is an
early entry into that sort of thing that I mentioned earlier,
that kind of Bonnie and Clyde set up. It's you

(34:06):
know very much that it's so it's and you're thinking,
I'm saying this right now, and you're thinking, what about
this is romantic? I'll tell you two people against the world,
two people who are misunderstood by literally everybody but themselves,
And that to me is I mean, I cannot think

(34:27):
of a more romantic scenario.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
You've got John Dall. If you were a fan of
the actor John Dall like I am, please for the
Love of God. Email me at Deer Movies at exactlyrightmedia
dot com. I'm a huge John dolphan. He wasn't in
a ton of films, but like the movies that he
was in are fantastic. Speaking of Jimmy Stewart, he was
in Rope. That's probably his most famous movie. He was

(34:55):
the guy that wasn't Farley Granger. But he plays basically
this kid, like a wayward kid that grows up that's
obsessed with guns, just like wants to shoot shoot shoot guns.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
He's gone crazy.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
He's absolutely goun crazy. It's like that Nirvana song in
bloom Right. So basically he goes to a carnival and
he meets like you know, goes to the sharpshooter tent
and it's this hot lady who was played by the
actress Peggy Cummins, and he's like, I have to have her,

(35:29):
I need to know her, like she loves guns just
as much as me. And then they get together and
it was like, let me tell you right now, the
actor John Dall from all accounts was a gay man, right,
but him and Peggy Cummings in this film, their chemistry

(35:49):
is unfucking real and what I've read, you know a
little bit about the production. I mean basically the director
was basically like, all right, you guys act like you
want to fuck each other all day and all night,
and they like did the task. They basically were like,
that's what this is on screen in the nineteen fifties,

(36:11):
like production code way. It's about as sexy as you
can get nice in that way. And they're so good
and it's romantic, and they're lovers on the run because
of course, you know they love guns. They gotta start
Robin Banks, and it's so wonderful, and like again you're thinking,
oh my god, a noir, how can it be romantic?
It is, I'm telling you it is. It's so so romantic.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Love it fabulous? Pick I need to see it. I
got to add it to my cue. Yeah, yeah, So
I'm eliminating. I had some other things on my list.
In the Mood for Love. We talked about that movie already.
I don't want to discuss that, so I'm booting it
from my list. But I really think the movie Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a very romance from

(36:58):
two thousand and four with Kate Winslet, directed by Michelle Gondry.
Is a very romantic movie in the sense it all
takes place in Jim Carrey's mind, So that is kind
of a romantic notion too, that things are happening within
your own mind. But it's also sort of the dissection

(37:19):
of what you liked about that person and basically the
whole In this world, you can erase people from your memories.
And Jim Carrey had a bad breakup with Kate Winslet,
and he's erasing her from his memories, and the movie
takes place in his brain and he's like, I regret it.

(37:44):
I regret this procedure and erasing her. So he's running
through his brain trying to save these memories basically, and
I feel like there's all this is. There's a lot
of sadness because it's about the end of a relationship,
but it is there's a lot of longing and there's

(38:07):
a lot of introspection about this person that you love
and you know it didn't work out necessarily in this movie,
but I don't know. I think there's something very sweet
about that and sad and I just love that movie
so much and I like that romance is the it's

(38:30):
like a relationship is the center of It's not like
there's a plot, something else is happening, and then there's
a romance in the movie. The romance is the structure
of the film, or a relationship is the structure of
the film, you know what I mean. So I love it.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
I mean, lit'sten. There's something super romantic about somebody who
against sort of like their better judgment, is like desperate
to like remember this person, you know what I mean.
So there's that I think that's such a romantic concepts right,
But also it goes back to what I was saying
earlier about these kind of like oddball romances. I mean,

(39:08):
that's the thing about that movie that I love about
it is that, like, you know, you've got like these
two people who are kind of like good for nobody
except for each other in a way, Like Jim Carrey
is is kind of like depressed, like you know, teetering
on sort of like I don't know, having like maybe
a mental break, and he finds like this kind of

(39:28):
like I mean, we we've talked about this in the
in the in the second episode about you know, kind
of the manic pixie ish kind of dreamgirl trope. But
she is also kind of like quirky and maybe like
you know, has her own stuff, but did they find
each other and they have like this whirlwind romance and
I know there's it's such a romantic movie. I'm so

(39:49):
glad you picked up.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Thank you, thank you. Okay, you're number one.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Oh my god, my number one most romantic movie of
all time. I actually rewatched it before we recorded to
make sure that it was still my number one, and
it is. This is another classic film. And I gotta say,
like the movies that I picked, you know, are all
basically old films, like they're made in the forties and fifties.

(40:18):
And I feel like that's just my brain, Like I
love classic romances. I mean, no disrespect to the eternal sunshines,
but come on, like I got you gotta pick a
movie like this when you when you're shooting your shot, right.
So my number one, maybe the most romantic movie I've
ever seen in my life is a movie from nineteen

(40:39):
forty six. It was directed by a couple of fellows
who called themselves the Archers, but it was Michael Powell
and Emeric Presburger, and the movie is called A Matter
of Life and Death.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
I this is like the one Powell and Pressburger movie
I haven't seen.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Oh my god, dude, you like fucking scrap what I
just said earlier. You gotta see this movie.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
It is beautiful. It's this beautiful romantic fantasy film. It's
about this pilot, this like British pilot World War two,
played by David Niven, and he's like, at the very
beginning of the movie, the plane is fucking going down

(41:26):
and he's like, there's no fucking parachute and he's just
like it's going there, and he's like fuck and he's
like on the radio with like the radio operator be like,
my plane's going down. I'm sorry if illas love Joe,
you know what I mean. And like the radio operator
is this woman who's played by Kim Hunter, the actress
Kim Hunter, who was you probably know her from a

(41:48):
street card name Desire, amongst many other things. But she's
this American radio operator who like talks him through the crash,
like she's basically like, you know, I'm with you, and
they fall in love in that moment. And so what
happens is he's supposed to die in the crash, right,

(42:10):
turns out he didn't I, and they end up meeting
randomly after this horrific event, they fall in love. But
then it turns the movie is fucking so brilliant. It
basically is this I would say, like a scenario modeling
of like what would happen if Heaven was like, Okay,

(42:33):
we're expecting this guy because he died in an airplane
crash over the water in World War Two, but wait
a minute, he actually survived. Well, now we gotta go
get him. But now he's in love with this woman,
and it's so it's so lovely. It switches from black
and white to color, and so it's essentially like a

(42:57):
fantasy film about, you know, these angels from Heaven needing
to go get this guy because he technically should have died.
He's on their looks as a dead person who needs
to be in Heaven. But now it's complicated because he's
in love and sort of the whole thing, and now
he's on Earth, he's talking to these angels. It is

(43:18):
so romantic. It's literally like hurts my heart to talk
about it, that's how romantic it is. I love that
and beautiful shot beautifully. If you've ever seen an Archer's film,
if you've like a Powell press Reger movie. You know
exactly what I'm talking about, Red shoes like Black Narcissus,

(43:39):
that kind of technicolory. Oh my god, it's the best.
It is the best.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Well, I'm kind of embarrassed by my number one, okay,
but you know romance is embarrassing. Sure, And the movie
i'm picking is a from two thousand and one, And why.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Would you be embarrassed about that?

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Because it's it's sort of a basic bitch answer, I
feel like, but I just love Amillie so much. It's
so tender and sweet, and it's from two thousand and one.
It's French. It's stricted by Jean Pierre Janet, who you
might have seen direct other movies like Delicatessen or City

(44:28):
of Lost Children. He's a very fantastical, cartoonish director. But
Omily is about this woman played by Audrey Tetto named Omii,
and it's sort of the goings on of her cute
little life. She's trying to help out people in her
neighborhood by setting some people up in the cafe that

(44:51):
our lonely get them together. She's sort of pulling pranks
on mean guys to get even with them, and she
is trying to find this guy who keeps taking his
picture in photo booths. There's a lot of little mysteries
sort of going on, and all the while she's sort

(45:13):
of trying to figure out what she wants from life,
and she sort of keeps circling this other guy, you know,
and it's kind of long. There's like this other guy
who works at a sex shop that they kind of
keep almost connecting, and it's sort of scary and exciting,

(45:38):
and they're just sort of circling each other and you
can just tell they're the same kind of people, and
you just are like, these two are supposed to be together.
I don't quite even remember how we know that, but
you just know it. And there's a lot of like longing.
But it's very funny and cute, and it's such a

(46:01):
romantic world that it lives in. It's very red and
I just feel all sorts of butterflies with that movie.
And I love that movie so much, and that's my
number one.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Well listen, I even though you said it was a
basic bitch answer, I won't say it's not. But sometimes
the basic bitch answer is the answer. Do you know
what I'm saying, uh, that's yes, it is. It is,
and this is a preer example of that. I mean, honestly, Like,

(46:36):
so we talked about this movie, by the way, when
I saw what You Did, and I had a lot
to say about this because it was that kind of
thing where it felt like this movie like set the
table for like a lot of like kind of quirkburgery
romantic crap that I fucking hated in the two thousands. However,
this movie is so lovely that I feel like it is,

(46:59):
like it should be held up as a really beautiful, romantic, cute,
sweet film. And even though they tried a hundred different
ways to like remake it in the worst ways, like
this one, the og is still the best. And honestly,
like it is so romantic, like it really is. Like
by the end, you're just sort of like, oh my god,

(47:20):
I'm like crying my fucking brains out.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Yeah, I mean, and it has I think one of
the best kisses in film history, because a lot of
times when like the characters of a film, you're like
rooting for them to get together and then all of
a sudden they're smashing their faces into each other, and
film you know, but it's a very good kiss at

(47:44):
the end, which is sometimes hard to film.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
Yeah, I don't blame it all for being your number
one basic bitch, and that's totally fine with me.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
So that is my nature. Yeah, and I'm realizing that
as this podcast goes on, well fabulous. Uh. I feel
like we really did such a great job of getting
into the nitty gritty of romantic movies and we do.
You know, I think at our core we're just kind

(48:15):
of we're both too MUSHes.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
We are we are, and I hope that, like, if
you've not seen any of those movies, especially the older
ones that we mentioned, you should really seek them out.
I mean I think they're widely available. They're probably at
least on Amazon Prime. Definitely a lot of them are
on Criterion Collection, So yeah, check them out. I mean
they're just that's so fun to be to, you know,
have like actually to have a holiday like Valentine's Day

(48:39):
being an excuse to watch a bunch of romantic movies.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
I don't know, I think it's kind totally totally.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
All right. So we got to move into this new section, yes,
because I have this game for you this week.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
That is is our game section.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yes, this this is very very on topic for our
episode this week. But I love creating games to break
your brain. And hopefully this will because like we said,
the last time we played a game, I said, I really,
I mean, you've got every one of them right.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
So I got every single one of them right. It
was really embarrassing for you, and uh so, yeah, I'm
excited to see what you got.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
All right. So this is a game. I don't have
a title for the game. You can come up with
it if you want. Listen, okay or casey, But these
are I'm gonna present to you five films, and I'm
gonna give you a synopsis of a film, okay, and
you're gonna have to name the film. Every film in

(49:51):
this list has the word love in it.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Okay, Okay, I'm scared now because I made fun of
you for the previous game easy, and then you're like,
I'm gonna fucking destroy you on this game, and so
I'm I am legitimately frightened.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Well, and here's to narrow the field a little bit,
because there's a lot of movies with love in them.
These five films are movies that I love, so I
love so these are movies that I like. So you
know you've done Potcas that's right. So these are movies
that if you know me and you know my sensibilities,

(50:31):
you might get them. So, like, you know, think about
it that way. So guess what love actually and on
this fucking list? Okay, get out of here. Yeah, so
this is stuff that I would like. So maybe something
a little you know, I'm not saying like underground, but
I'm saying, you know, a little off the beaten paths.
So some of them. All right, So here we go

(50:52):
number one. So the synopsis of this film is this
is a darkly comedic satire starring George C. Scott and
Peter Sellers, in which a rogue US general triggers a
nuclear crisis.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Doctor Strange Love or How I Learned to Love the
Atomic Bomb?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
I think it's technically how I learned to stop worrying.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
And love it.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Thank you Sting from nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
That was a little easy. Yeah no, yeah, So a
great film, A great film and actually features like maybe one.
Speaking of old actors, Sterling Hayden, who is one of
my favorite classic film actors, is great in this film.
It's probably his best film, wouldn't you say?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Maybe I have only I only saw him in The
Killing and Johnny Guitar and Nine to five. N I
love George Scott so much. He's one of my favorite actors.
I just rewatched Hardcore Where's Yes? I love him so much.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Speaking of hotties, I gotta tell you George C. Scott
in Doctor Strangelove with his like sleeves rolled up on
the list, right, sure, Oh my goodness?

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Great? All righty okay.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Second, So this is another film that we're doing for
this quiz. It is this synopsis. This is a hypnotic
romance directed by Jim Jarmush about two centuries old vampire
lovers who are reuniting in a decaying world.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
One of my faves, Only Lovers Left alivee A great film.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Very good, Yes, from twenty thirteen.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Of course I've never been to Detroit, I have that
movie said.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
But goddamn, I love that movie so much. Yes, I mean,
and I love it more now than I ever have.
I gotta tell you, why.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Would you say that's your favorite Jim Jarmush movie?

Speaker 1 (53:01):
You know it's up there. I mean, honestly, Down by
Law was such a huge, huge movie for me that
it feels like it's always gonna be my number one.
But like Only Lovers Left Life is definitely his. It's
like a masterpiece of his later work.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yes, totally and honestly.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Like I said, I don't think I think it's age.
But man, do I really love this movie now? Like
I love it, love it, love it.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
One of our great indie directors, Yes, Jim Jarmush okay
old on number.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Three, Okay, I don't see let's see what you where
you follow on this one?

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
This is a chilling horror tale about a brilliant but
deranged surgeon played by Peter Lorie who becomes obsessively infatuated
with an actress.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Uh wow, getting harder baby with an actress, Peter Lourie.
So you know that's an old one.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeh.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
You can use Google by the way that I mentioned.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
I can use Google. Okay, I mean.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
If you're stumped, you can look at your notes ri
open test.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Yes, my my favorite kind mad love that that is correct. Wow,
damn I've not seen this movie.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Oh man? Again another like weird like Hollywood film. I
mean it was just it's actually fantastic. It's really entertaining.
The best part about it. That ship is sixty eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Tight tight. I love the movie. M oh yeah with
how could you not Peter Lori, Yeah, yeah, such a
good movie.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
But yeah, I love it. If you can get a
movie under an hour and fifteen, Holy.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Fuck beautiful, that's beautiful. I'll watch the fut Okay, wow,
I got one wrong, my first ever.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
You can well, you know, we'll see. We got two
more left.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Maybe this, maybe this segment could be called like it
could be like a play on candy crush, Casey crush,
crush casey.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Let's call it casey crush Number four almost done, number four.
Synopsis is this? This is a stylish, brooding, neo noir
film about a motorcycle gang drifting through a small southern town,
and it just happens to be the directorial debut of
both Catherine Bigelow and Mony Montgomery and was the first

(55:34):
screen credit for the actor Willem Dafoe.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
I can see his face is the name of that movie? Uh,
I can see I know this movie.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Use your phone, call, use your phone.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Call my phone, call my my lifeline. I need my lifeline.
What is the I don't know what it is. I
have to look it up the list, that's.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Right, nineteen eighty one's the Loveless.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Okay, there's one more, one more, Okay, I got a
redeem You.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
Gotta try to get over five hundred, right, I know. Okay,
So last one in our love movie quiz or aka
Candy or Casey Crush.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Casey Crush.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
All right, you're if you get this one, I'll be
fucking amazed.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
But no.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
So this is a melancholic drama from the director of
the beloved cult hit Possession, all about a struggling actress
played by Romy Schneider who becomes entangled in a turbulent
love trigle with a photographer played by Fabio Testy and

(56:48):
her possessive husband played by Jacques dul Trunk.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
I do not know this The only other the only
other movie I know that, uh, the Possession director did
was like on the Silver Globe or something like that,
which has been on my TikTok a lot for some reason. Yeah,
I don't know. I'm not going to look it up.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Okay. This is the American title, the English title, okay, so,
I mean technically it's called something in French, right, but
it's called that Most Important Thing Love nineteen seventy five,
Andre's Mulwawski. If that's the that's the director you're thinking of,
dude Possession, Yeah, this is his, like I would say

(57:30):
probably his. Like second, I don't know, if you talk
about him and he's like pretty obscure director, I would
say yeah. But this is the other one that I think,
you know, people bring up from time to time only
because everybody knows, like you know, cenophiles know who Romy
Schneider and Fabio Testy is for sure. But anyway, it's
it's kind of nutty, very stylish. But yeah, I had

(57:55):
to add it at the end because I was like, yo,
if he gets this, I will I will write him
at check for ten. But you know this is to
make up for the softball quiz from last time. So
there you go.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Well, thank you Millie for another fascinating quiz. Last week.
I killed it. This week it killed me, so thank
you so much. Good effort though, good effort. Okay, moving

(58:34):
on to our final segment, Employee picks aka chicks picks.
But that's the box that my mom put at the
movie the video rental place. Your suffragette mom My suffragette mom. Yes,

(58:54):
Sandra O'Brien, we love her. Okay. So you know, I
was thinking about love a lot and love in movies,
and I think there's a like there was a lot
when we were trying to think of the most romantic movies.
I was trying to a lot of ideas came to

(59:15):
my mind, but they were I was like, this is
a really romantic movie, but I like love the romance
in it. If that makes sense it does to you.
So this is a movie that I've mentioned on this
show before, but I believe I have, but it is.

(59:37):
I wouldn't say it's a romance necessarily in a way
it is, but there's really good romance in it. And
that is a nineteen eighty five Japanese film called Tompopepo.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Ah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
And it's it's more about the love affair with Japanese cuisine,
but there's really sweet romances between a few different characters.
It's about a woman who owns a ramen shop and
this truck driver stops in town and he's kind of
a It happens in their shop, but he's stopping at

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romen spots all over the country because he's a truck
driver and he decides to help her kind of revitalize
her ramen shop. Yes, and there is some romance between them,
but it's all very like will they won't they? And
there's also there's a lot of different storylines in this
and there is just sort of a more There's like

(01:00:36):
a gangster character who has a romance with a woman
that's very sexy and kind of fleeting. You don't really
know exactly what's going on with that story, but they
kind of just swoop through sometimes. But overall it is
such a sweet, beautiful, funny movie. You can watch it
on HBO Max right now. Tom Popo which means Dandelion

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Cues in Japanese, and I love that movie so much.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Yeah, that's a good pick. Actually, that's kind of, you know,
like not a completely obvious choice, but like once you've
said it makes sense. Okay, So here's what I'm gonna do.
I I am gonna fuck this shit up so badly
because I'm this is technically not a movie. I gotta say,
I I know, and I can't help it in the

(01:01:27):
and the reason why I'm evoking these uh, these kind
of exceptional rules for this episode is because I literally
just finished it and I got it. I have to say,
it's probably the most romantic thing I've seen in a
very long time, maybe in years. And I'm not joking

(01:01:49):
when I tell you, I cried literally every single episode
of this show.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
WHOA.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
There was not one episode where I didn't cry.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Okay, So I my so my nephew who is about
to be nine or maybe he's about to be ten.
I think he's nine. He is really into anime, right,
and I have never really gotten into anime before. I mean,
obviously I like know what it is, and I've seen
like the Studio Ghibli movies and that kind of stuff,
but I've never seen like anime shows or anything like that.

(01:02:23):
Like I like, I know who like Naruto is, but
I don't. I've never seen all of it. Right, So
during the holidays, I started watching this. It's on Netflix.
It's this anime series that's called kimmin Ta Dooke. I
think I've said that right from me to you. It

(01:02:44):
started out as a Japanese manga, it got made into
a show. There was there's been three seasons of it.
The first two seasons came out in like the late
two thousands, So it's been like the first the very
first like one or two season and were like late twenty's,
early twenty tens. But then they made a third season

(01:03:05):
that came out within the past like six months, okay,
and it is this unbelievably sweet and adorable story of
this little I wouldn't say she's a little girl, she's
like a teenage girl. She the joke is that she
looks like the girl from the Ring, you know that

(01:03:28):
movie with the ring with the black hair. So she's
at her school and she looks like this horror movie character,
and everybody thinks she's weird and they don't like her.
But of course there's this one guy in her high
school that is like the nice popular guy sees beyond
her freakiness, and they just like slow talk about a

(01:03:48):
slow burn love holy fucking shit. Like over the course
of like the three seasons, they just like hang out
more and more and fall fall for each other, and
it's like it's this whole It is agonizing. The willmaw
won't they is so agonizing that I thought I was

(01:04:09):
gonna have a heart attack. Like I was like, they
have to get together or I will die. I will
literally drop dead, and it was like every episode was
so sweet and endearing, and like the girl Sodako, that's
the little girl character, and then her the guy that
she's in love with. His name is Kasa Hayah. Kasa

(01:04:33):
Hyah is the model for every boyfriend. Like he's this
like tall, dark haired guy with the messy, you know, BedHead,
and he's so fucking nice and like he protects her
from all these bullies and he's just like he always
tries to make her feel comfortable because she's socially awkward
because she was bullied in her school and so she

(01:04:54):
doesn't know how to be around people and she has
good intentions, but she's awkward and he's always like there
for her. Dude, I loved it so much. It is
unbelievable how much I loved it. I actually bought the
first book in the in the series, which I've never
even read manga before. I'm like a middle aged woman.

(01:05:16):
I'm like, oh, I guess I'm gonna read this manga
and it's like backwards, you know, I guess you have
to read it from the back or something. Right, Is
that right, good people?

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Yeah, yes, it's I I have read a few manga
and it is a little challenging at first to get
that done. But it is good.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Yes, it is so wonderful and I just had that
is like I said, it's not technically a movie, it's
technically a series. It's an animated series on Netflix. I've
not seen a live action. There's a live action one
on Netflix. I would say, start with the animated one
and you will die over how cute it is. I
loved it so much.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Okay, well that thank you for that wreck. It sounds great.
I'll have to check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
Yeah, please do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Oh my god, we reach the end of another episode.
Isn't that thrilling?

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
It is thrilling. It's very, very very thrilling. So uh okay, yeah, listen,
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Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
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Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
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