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Episode 62: Picture Perfect
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Anna is up to bat for our last employee pick and the choice is Picture Perfect (1997). After lying about being engaged just to get a promotion, Jennifer Aniston finds that her web of deception might also land her Kevin Bacon in the process. Which is weird because the audience should be rooting for her to get together with faux-fiance Jay Mohr, but it’s a confused Rom Com. While it was profitable, it was certainly not indelible in any way and we’ll get into it all today, so tune in!
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Introduction and Movie Selection
00:00:41
Speaker
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to your favorite bad movie podcast. It's the only movie podcast that's brave enough to ask the question, if this movie's so bad, why did my wife like it so much?
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We're your hosts. ah My name is ah Chris Anderson. And ah with me, as always, i am struggling to even remember anything from this film. I have nothing off the top of my head it's to jokingly introduce you guys. It's very. I'll be the I'll be the ah the J. You're the character from the film. Yeah, I'll be the J. Moore's character character or something. Yeah, you're you're the Nick to my Sam.
00:01:23
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That's what you are. I was like, who's Nick? ah Yeah, okay, that's Jay Moore. All right, yeah. It's Greg Bossy. Hey, how are you? i am well.
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And yourself? i'm I'm hanging in. Sometimes it's by our fingertips, but we're hanging in. But you've still got a grasp on it. So that's something. said it. I haven't let go yet.
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No. And with us, as always, we have my wonderful wife, the ah Darcy to my Darcy's husband.
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It's Anna Anderson. anna anderson Hello. How are you doing today, my dove? I'm doing okay. All right. Okay is okay. That's what we always say.
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And you chose the movie this week. You chose the final entry in our employees picks series. You chose picture perfect.
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Speaker
Why?
00:02:22
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i chose picture perfect. ah
First Impressions and Cultural Impact
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Unlike the two of you who had a lot of investment in your picks and a lot of memories with them, I had no memories of Picture Perfect.
00:02:38
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I encountered it in a very specific context, which is that when I was 17... My ah maternal grandparents took their kids and grandkids on a cruise on a, like a small cruise ship around the Hawaiian islands. Okay. Um,
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i I kicked a coral reef before I even got on the boat and had 13 stitches in my foot the whole time. was going to say, that's not a good idea No, no. I was a real mopey the whole time. Anyway, because this was, you know, while it was a big, there were, I think, like 500 people on it.
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Yeah.
00:03:23
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you know, much smaller than these giant cruise ships. And so it did have a little cinema on and board, but it was only showing two movies. And those movies were my best friend's wedding with, uh, Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant and, um, picture perfect.
00:03:45
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So we watch me and my sister and our, uh, cousin, um, watch those two movies like over and over while we were on the boat. Cause there wasn't, you know, that much to do.
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And especially for me, like I, you know, was having trouble walking. So just parking, parking my ass in a cinema and watching movies was an activity that I could do.
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But,
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But while i I remember a little bit about my best friend's wedding, and I think it has a reputation as being, like, not bad, like, I could remember nothing about Picture Perfect.
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And it has, like... No cultural footprint. No. you know what I mean? It's not, has not been reclaimed as a classic or anything. No. I dare to say it will not be.
00:04:48
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I don't it will. No, I don't think it will be. um I truly, I wanted to explore the kind of bad movie that is that is merely ah ah aggressively mid- Yeah.
00:05:03
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Yeah. This is that. And kudos to you to offering some counter programming to us. yeah Very nice. This will be our, our final ah screening in our employee pick screening. This is the first time we' we're recording the episode before the screening, but it will be released after the screening. So you've already missed it listeners.
00:05:19
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That's right. But still join the discard. We have a screenings in there on the regular. We're hanging out in there. It's a lot of fun. Um, yeah, So I'm excited to see what the general audience response is going to be And I tell you, I'm not excited to watch it again, but I am excited to be there while others are seeing I will probably have my switch out if I'm being honest. Okay.
00:05:47
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ah Yeah, I had never seen this one before. i did not remember that it
Movie Summary and Production Insights
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existed. And I have a pretty decent memory for, you know, major box office romantic comedies of this era.
00:06:03
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That was, you know, like mainstream movies was what I was into at the time. Um, so I, And I had a much more up to date awareness of what was going on. So the fact that I have absolutely like this was like a 30 rock gag to me.
00:06:21
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This seems like a completely fake movie. ah Greg, what what how did how did you feel going into this? So I have a very funny story about Picture Perfect.
00:06:33
Speaker
Excellent. So when I was in high school, so it would' have been 16 when this came out. This is a time period when, um particularly at the time, like we lived in a small rural community, didn't have a lot to do. a friend and I like seeing movies.
00:06:48
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And sometimes we were usually like talking a little bit ahead of time or we'd be like, yeah it's Friday. We're going to go. what came out today? All this stuff, you know? And sometimes we just go, you know, cause it was Friday and we got nothing better to do.
00:06:59
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let's go. yeah And we arrived at the theater and I don't know if we didn't, don't know if we had seen everything else or whatever was playing that we hadn't seen, which is too far out, but basically we could just see picture perfect.
00:07:14
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Okay. And so we were like, all right. I mean, we liked friends, you know, i think he liked friends more than I did, but like we saw uh, ah i think we kind of enjoyed it in a sense, but I think we both understood that it wasn't good because we would then for like years be like, remember that time we went to the movies and all we could see was picture perfect.
00:07:38
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Like it became this like joke between us. Yeah. I think I did see it twice with someone else, which I'm just going to probably attribute to the fact that Jennifer Aniston was in it and I was 16.
00:07:51
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Fair enough. Makes some sense. Um, And I, the only thing, the only thing I could remember about it, and I thought it was a pretty hilarious joke was when, uh, the guy was like talking about the mustard commercial. He just says, and I don't know if she needs to be nude.
00:08:08
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Yeah. And I remember that. Yeah. And I also feel like this watching the movie again, I realized this was probably the start of me being like, yeah, men are kind of dumb because I feel like there's a kind of an undercurrent of that in this movie. It's a little like at times, at least in the first 10 to 15 minutes are just like, gosh, guys. Right.
00:08:29
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Yeah. And that was the start of me being like, yeah, guys. Right. That's interesting. Well, ah listeners, if you haven't seen Picture Perfect, and I imagine that you haven't. And if you have, you don't remember it.
00:08:43
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ah you At best, you saw it on cable in the afternoon, I'm going to say. But here's a short summary to hold in your mind of the feature-length film Picture Perfect.
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Advertising woman Kate tries to set up a fake relationship with a wedding videographer in order to advance her career and love life. But when her fake fiance wants to make their relationship real, things get a lot more complicated.
00:09:19
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Stop it.
00:09:25
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Sure. When, when I say it like that, it sounds like it should be like tight as a drum. Like when you think of nineties, romantic comedies, you think of like a high level of craft and a high level of like narrative story structure.
00:09:40
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Yeah. You know what I mean? Like they, they were, that was an era that really respected like storytelling in its romantic comedies. And I feel like this really misses the mark. Yeah.
00:09:51
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I also feel like your synopsis of it almost paints it with rose-colored glasses. Yeah. Because what I would say is that it's more about the movie about a woman who's accidentally thrust into a lie that helps her career, and she keeps running with it and then realizes, this isn't fun.
00:10:09
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Yeah. And that's about it. But we'll get into why and all of that. I i just... It's ah it's a... it's coming from the wrong direction going in a weird place. If that makes sense.
00:10:22
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It feels like this script needed like another three passes. Yeah. Three different writers. Yeah. Cause it also wasn't very funny. No, that was another problem.
00:10:35
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ah Do you guys want to hear what the context that I found out about this? Please. Sure.
00:10:53
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I wish I had some context about the background of the film. Script director, actors on set. What was going on on screen?
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want to hear some details. Gossip scene to all that shit. Can't imagine all the time.
00:11:21
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So Picture Perfect came out August 1st, 1997. I would have been 16.
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You got your director, Glenn Gordon Caron. Caron. C-A-R-O-N.
00:11:38
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It's got the tagline, She was prepared for anything until love stormed in. That doesn't seem accurate. No, that's the tagline for a movie about weathermen.
00:11:51
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Yes. yeah Well, the good news is there's another one. Maybe this one more up your alley. Okay. Yeah, we'll see. Kate always lived life by the rules. Some rules were meant to be broken.
00:12:03
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No. Throw it away. Yeah. Yeah, not... yeah That was another problem. Kate really didn't have much of a character. She was just sort of Jennifer Aniston.
00:12:14
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I feel like she was like... She's every dude in every romantic comedy you've ever seen where you're just like, why am I rooting for you again? Like, what what is the appeal of you other than the fact that you're the main character? Yeah.
00:12:29
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Yeah. I could see that. She was just sort of a protagonist. but Yeah. Yeah. yeah It's not like anything she's doing is commendable or like makes you go. Yeah. Yeah.
00:12:40
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Yeah. I'm not in her corner. Now, Glenn Gordon Caron might not be a household name, but I can guarantee that some of his work is, or at least was.
00:12:51
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Even if you aren't familiar with Picture Perfect, you probably know the work of ah Glenn Caron. He was born in 1954,
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He was born in 1954 in Oceanside, New York, to a Jewish family. He went to college at the State University of New York at Genesco before moving
Director's Career and Casting Choices
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to Chicago to work in advertising.
00:13:14
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While he was in Chicago, he studied under Dale Close at the Second City Theater. Boom. So he's part of that family. He was able to transition from advertising to TV work after meeting James L. Brooks, who brought in him in to write for a little bit of Taxi.
00:13:32
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He wrote like one episode of Taxi. Okay. ah From there, he went on to produce the first, i believe, 12 episodes of Remington Steel. Who doesn't love Remington Steel? Okay.
00:13:45
Speaker
No, no. I got a distant cousin was in Remington Steel. Stephanie Zimblist. yeah Shout out Stephanie Zimblist. ah From there, he was able to create the most successful work of his career, the television show Moonlighting.
00:14:00
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Oh, it ran for five seasons, launched Bruce Willis's career and was just a massive success. It was such a large success that when Sybil Shepard had Karen fired during season four, he was able to pivot towards making films.
00:14:17
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Why did, why did he get fired? What happened there? ah Creative differences, I believe. Sure. I'm sure that was a lot of drama. And there's a reason probably after that, why it wasn't picked up for a season six.
00:14:29
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Now, his first film clean and sober was a drama starring Michael Keaton as a realtor with a substance abuse problem. Mm-hmm. It came out in 1988 and lost millions of dollars.
00:14:42
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Okay. In 1993, he made a movie called Wilder Napalm, a romantic comedy about a pyrokinetic played by Dennis Quaid. Pyrokinetic means what?
00:14:55
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You can create fires with your mind. Oh. Dennis Quaid, you say? It's a romantic comedy? Yes, I'm very curious about Wilder Napalm, I must admit.
00:15:07
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it's I mean, with the title, I was just like, what could this even be? And then you said romantic comedy, and I was like, wait a second. And then you said the other words you said, and I was like, i'm my lexicon is failing me.
00:15:18
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I'm going to track that one down for sure. That movie only made $85,000 at the box office. wow He followed that up in 1994 with the remake of the 1939 film Love Affair, starring Warren Beatty and Annette Benick.
00:15:36
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That cost $60 million dollars to make, and it only brought in $18.3 million dollars at the box office. His track record isn't very good. He should get back to TV, I think.
00:15:47
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Yeah. I thought that movie did well. It did not. ah His next film, Picture Perfect, did turn this losing streak around. It made $44 million dollars on an $18 million dollars budget.
00:16:02
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But after that, he returned to TV for the rest of his career. The only other real hit he had was he created the show Medium in the mid-aughts. Oh. hu With Patricia Arquette?
00:16:15
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Yes, that's the one. but She's a medium. She's a size medium. It's a show about a medium woman. That's right. We need to get the medium. Now, obviously, ah the big draw for audiences was not, oh, there's a new Glenn Karen film.
00:16:32
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But what allowed Karen to break his losing streak was Jennifer Aniston. At this point, she had been on Friends for about three years and was largely considered the breakout star of that hit sitcom, I would say.
00:16:45
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This was her first leading role since friends blew up. And I'm sure all the Aniston heads were lining up. I don't think none of us were friends people. Right. I was not a friends person. great You said you were not big. So, no, no, I was a fan of friends. i know many people are um more into friends than I was. My other friend who I saw this with, I think, was like pretty into friends.
00:17:08
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I watched it because I watched TV. um Eventually I stopped and never really went back to it, but I hold it in high enough regard, I guess. and Okay, fair enough.
00:17:20
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ah Now, ah her co-star, Jay Moore, was much less of a draw at this point. He had been transitioning from standup comic to actor.
00:17:31
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His first big break was hosting a lip sync competition on MTV called the lip service. And from there, he was able to join up with Saturday night live. Unfortunately, the high pressure and toxic work environment of SNL caused more to start having panic attacks and to start plagiarizing jokes to keep up with the pressure of the work schedule.
00:17:52
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He left SNL after just two seasons.
Critical Reception and Comparisons
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This might be why Aniston allegedly had such an intense dislike of Jay Moore. It might also be that Moore was cast over Aniston's then-boyfriend, Tate Donovan.
00:18:08
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Donovan is an actor who you'd know if you saw him, ah but then you would almost instantly forget him. Okay. But in any case, she allegedly fucking hated Jay Moore.
00:18:19
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Well, it's good that they worked together then. Yeah. Yeah. Now, sometimes, obviously, in romantic comedies, ah this lack of off-screen chemistry can lead to ah real on-screen chemistry. But that didn't happen in this case, in my opinion.
00:18:36
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but And that sort of explains the tepid response from both audiences and critics. oh i did I took down Roger Ebert's ah quote from Roger Ebert. ah He had an additional theory why Picture Perfect didn't quite connect.
00:18:51
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This is from his contemporaneous review. A distraction during the last third of the movie is Jennifer Aniston's neckline. After the agency boss advises her to buy a new dress, she appears in a series of plunging frocks, seemed to have designed to advertise the powers of the Wonderbra.
00:19:12
Speaker
Aniston is pretty, and she has a swell body, but these dresses get to be a joke after a while. Is she auditioning for Playboy's Girls of Summer? It was W.C. Fields who hated to appear in the same scene with a child, a dog, or a plunging neckline because nobody in the audience would be looking at him.
00:19:29
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Jennifer Aniston has the same problem in this movie, even when she's in the scenes all by herself.
00:19:37
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Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Roger Ebert, famously distracted by big boobs. Gotta shout out Roger Ebert and his love of just big boobs. So...
00:19:50
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Well, you guys want to. ah Oh, wait. No, hang on. Other romantic comedies of 1997. Yes. This is what it's up against. You correctly. You have my best friend's wedding. Your story checks out, my dove.
00:20:02
Speaker
You also have got as good as it gets with Jack Nicholson. Classic. I love that one. uh chasing amy any for the kevin smith heads sure fools rush in with selma hayek and the other the guy from friends matthew perry r.i.p matthew perry oh yes i think i saw that one yeah uh uh the beautician and the beast ah fran drescher yeah you got fran and uh the guy from james bond
00:20:35
Speaker
Yep. Timothy Dalton? Timothy Dalton as the least. I should watch that, actually. and i bet it has some good moments. I'm a much bigger fan of The Nanny than I am Friends, actually.
00:20:49
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. I bet it holds up better. ah You've also got For Richer, For Poorer. You guys remember that one? i want to say yes. Kirstie Alley and Tim Allen and they go undercover or something as Amish people. yeah Yeah, it's probably not very good.
00:21:09
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Probably not, but shout out to late Wichita native Kirstie Alley. Okay. Late, terrible Wichita native Kirstie Alley.
00:21:20
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Late, horrible woman Kirstie Alley. R.I.P. ah We guys want to talk about the plot of a picture. Perfect. Why? It is. Why not?
00:21:49
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Plot bumper, listen to me. I'm gonna give you the plot summary.
Plot Development and Character Dynamics
00:21:57
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Come on, baby. Here's the synopsis.
00:22:02
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Plot bumper, plot bumper.
00:22:15
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So we have been on Kate played by Jennifer Aniston. She's about to have sex with a man on her couch, but she kicks him out for refusing to wear a condom. I don't know why we started the movie this way, I guess to show that Kate's unlucky in love.
00:22:32
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Mia. ah Yeah. And obviously it's the 90s. Men are dogs. Yeah. Yeah. Condoms are and and no glove, no love.
00:22:44
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Yeah, because she's kind of quirky. But not particularly quirky. No. Just a little bit. Just is a little bit. is Jennifer Aniston, after all. This isn't Lisa Kudrow.
00:22:59
Speaker
No. what do you guys What do you guys think about Jennifer Aniston in general? You know, it's a weird question to be asked for some reason. um Yeah, i I truly don't have a lot of thoughts about Jennifer Aniston.
00:23:13
Speaker
She's very hard for me to think about. She's hard to hold in my mind. It's like I have aphantasia when I'm thinking about Jennifer Aniston. Yeah. I like her, I think. But I also, yeah, it's hard to, like, formulate opinions about her.
00:23:27
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Yeah, I don't really have... Yeah, I have no beef with her, really. No. I don't think I've heard anything bad about her, and I... I feel like she never elevates her material, but she never makes it any worse.
00:23:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. She shows up and she does her job. Yeah. She's very functional. Yeah. You need a star for your romantic comedy. How about Jennifer Aniston?
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah. Sure. Let's throw her in. Let's but put her in coach. i do I do have to say that in this movie though, I, the first thing I wrote was like her character. She just, cause I, I don't remember at what point in this that I wrote that if it was in like at the 10 minute mark or whatever, but she said something. was like, yeah, all right. She seems like my type of person.
00:24:13
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And then if you look on the next page, it says it's hard to like her. Yeah. It's the first time I've watched a movie where I have genuinely grown to dislike the main character more and more as the film goes on.
00:24:27
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Oddly enough. Yeah, that would be off. ah And yeah, I, I don't know. She's like your eyes glaze over her. like she's not there.
00:24:39
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Um, we see her bopping down the city street, wearing a backwards baseball cap and rimless sunglasses and a black tank dress over a white t-shirt.
00:24:52
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The, uh, final nineties touch braided pigtails. yep She, she is a nineties it girl off to do whatever, off to do advertising.
00:25:05
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Um, she is cool. I, uh, then she, uh, she talks to her friend Darcy played by Ileana Douglas that she's through with men after last night's no glove, no love situation.
00:25:18
Speaker
She's over it. She's going to focus on her career at the advertising firm. What did you guys think of Ileana Douglas? Always a treat to see Ileana Douglas. Yeah, like though she has like her quite bit. nothing to do here. Yeah, I like her quite bit. Yeah, I mean, was wonderful. I loved all her costumes.
00:25:32
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actually I actually, thought the costuming in this was was really good. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. um The two of them, they work at a big time advertising firm.
00:25:45
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And the firm is trying to get the Goulden's Mustard account. Mm-hmm. Now, also at the ad firm is Kate's office crush, Sam, played by Kevin Bacon, and he's the office bad boy.
00:26:01
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In fact, he insists that he's too bad for Kate. He's just too nasty. He likes to get too freaky. It's it's so weird to me that a person who calls himself a bad boy would have a person that looks like Jennifer Aniston say, I'm into you. And they'd be like, man you're not you're just not bad enough for me. It's like you'd think that they would probably use her and then not.
00:26:27
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You know what I mean? Like, it's just weird that he's like the bad heart of gold in a lot of ways. I feel like it's he's because he works with her, so it'd be more trouble than it was worth.
00:26:39
Speaker
I mean, that's possible. Because would just be a whole thing. But he never brings that up. He's never like, you know that if we did it, it would be better. He's always just like, you're not bad enough for me, Kate. You just don't have any kind of bad streak. I think she i think he thinks she's going to be a bad leg.
00:26:54
Speaker
That could be. That would make more sense to me than just that he would be like, I won't sleep with her because she's just not mean enough. Like, he he could sleep with anything, it feels like.
00:27:06
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Like, he doesn't very discreet. He's got great head of hair. of course he does. He's Kevin Bacon. He's fantastic in this movie. My God. You almost forget that he has absolutely no lips and neither does Jay Moore. Neither of them have any lips. It's an interesting, yeah you're going to get a paper cut.
00:27:29
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So weird. Anyway. The office, they're pulling an all-nighter trying to come up with an ad campaign for Gouldens. And Kate eventually lands on Gouldens' number two.
00:27:41
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That's not that bad because it's the second most popular mustard in America. And Cindy Crawford graduated second. And she's pretty, she's pretty period, I guess.
00:27:53
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Yeah, she's pretty. so Yeah. We just got to find out how much Cindy's people want because obviously, but obviously this is going to be big for Gouldens. Everybody's going to be talking about it.
00:28:04
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Yeah.
00:28:06
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ah Everybody loves this idea, perhaps because they all want to go home and finally someone just has an idea. What do we think of this idea? What do you two actually think of this idea as an advertising concept?
00:28:19
Speaker
I think it's bad. I think it's bad too. I mean... I think it's fine. I don't know. i mean, it's mustard. How do you advertise mustard?
00:28:33
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It's true. You just need something to break through. And Cindy Crawford could break through. yeah That's true. You just want to be in the dialogue. This will get people talking. Sure.
00:28:44
Speaker
Fair enough. maybe it Maybe it's too postmodern for me.
00:28:50
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Now, ah the next day, Sam swings by Kate's office to tell her that they could never be involved because she's a good girl and he likes bad girls.
00:29:02
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She gets friend zoned. To add insult to injury, she's not part of the team that gets assigned to the Gouldens account, even though they're going with her concept.
00:29:14
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Darcy says she'll look into what's going on. She's going to put out some feelers.
00:29:20
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Kate then gets her hair styled by her mother, played by Olympia Dukakis. And mom says she wants to see her settle down. And she'll pop up every 20 minutes and be like, what are you doing? Yeah.
00:29:32
Speaker
What are you doing? She's playing a a variation on her character from Steel Magnolias, I feel like. Okay. Or maybe that's a variation on Olympia Dukakis' usual characters.
00:29:47
Speaker
I'm just going to say. Yeah. She does not get a lot to do here either. Not many people do. No, it's unfortunate. But now that she's had her hair styled, she's off to an interracial Hindu wedding in an Elks Lodge.
00:30:05
Speaker
Which is... Okay.
00:30:09
Speaker
Sure. And then two characters we'll never see ever again get married. But apparently they're friends with Kate. I think that's supposed to indicate that, you know, she lives in New York and she has a fun, diverse group of friends.
00:30:25
Speaker
Yeah. That we're not going to have time to really establish. So let's just, you know. I also thought it was kind of a joke when she was like, ma her mother's like, maybe you'll meet somebody there. And then they show it's like a ah Hindu wedding. And it's just like, she's probably not going to meet anybody here.
00:30:45
Speaker
That was my thinking with the joke, because it's so kind of out there and removed that she's not going to be able to find somebody there. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Just like, oh, weddings can be weird. The people that you read in a wedding, they're not always going to be your type of people.
00:30:59
Speaker
Yeah. And then she gets she thinks she's going to sit at the table with like eligible men. But it turns out, no, she gets at the table with all the spinsters. Yeah. Except that all of them are literally married. Yes, there are the two nuns there. Yeah.
00:31:14
Speaker
Well, anyway, it looks like a beautiful ceremony. I'll give it that. sure Oh, yeah. ah She steps out for some fresh air. And while she's out there, she makes the acquaintance of Nick, the friendly wedding videographer played by Jay Moore.
00:31:30
Speaker
They get slightly better acquainted later when Nick, who's actually also friends with the groom, ah snags the garter and Kate grabs the bouquet. And so they have to go. She has to go sit on her lap and somebody takes a picture of them.
00:31:44
Speaker
So but now we've introduced finally our ah male lead, Nick J. Moore. What did you guys think of jay Moore in this movie? He's fine.
00:31:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty much everybody in the movie. yeah it's it's it's really It's a really weird. The movie is like a glass of water. It's just like it happened.
00:32:09
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I wrote that down in my notes that it is a glass of water. That's crazy. ah Yeah. nobody's Nobody's messing up, but nobody's stepping up either. Yeah.
00:32:25
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Now, when Kate returns to work the next week, her boss, Mr. Mercer, played by Kevin Dunn, classic character actor, Nora Dunn's brother. Oh, didn't put that together.
00:32:36
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Yeah, yeah. You can see it in the eyes. Yeah, that makes sense now.
00:32:41
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So, Mr. Mercer, he drops the reason why Kate wasn't assigned to the Gouldens account. It turns out that he doesn't like to promote people that don't have family ties or large outstanding debts, because then he knows that their paychecks will buy their loyalty.
00:32:57
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So he's sort of saying the quiet part out loud about Capitals. Yeah. was just going say, it's a really weird theory. I do like that he says it, though. I like that someone just like, listen, you're not beholden to me, so I have no guarantee that you won't leave.
00:33:11
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Yeah. Like, I do think... I do think that the difficulty that Kate is having in her career is a genuine problem, especially especially for single women, but to some extent for single men.
00:33:26
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Yeah. That... people want to promote quote unquote, you know, family men. Right. And they, you know, and though you're not allowed to say it, I'm sure a lot of people are saying sooner or later, she's going to want to have a baby and then she's going to have to take a whole year off.
00:33:43
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No, thanks. You know?
00:33:47
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And frankly, it's disgusting. Mr. Mercer, you are disgusting. Oh yeah. Now, upon learning this, Kate runs to the bathroom to cry.
00:33:58
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But she's soon followed in by Darcy, who explains that Kate has nothing to worry about. Darcy showed the boss the picture of Kate and Nick together and ah told him that they are engaged.
00:34:13
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With that, she's now on the team and invited to a big s soiree with Gouldens. but she just has to buy a new dress. Here comes Roger Ebert's favorite part of the movie.
00:34:25
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I also just want to take a moment to say that the fact that Darcy is the one that enters her basically into the plot of this movie, I think is a real fatal flaw. Yeah.
00:34:38
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Yeah. She's got no agency in this decision. It's just kind of thrust upon her. She doesn't want to do it. She's not desperate. She doesn't even like it at first. Yeah. yeah It just feels weird.
00:34:50
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in but I think I think that's how they're trying to keep that good girl Jennifer Aniston image. I don't think they wanted her to be a natural schemer.
00:35:01
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Except that she'll spend the rest of the movie just scheming and not being the character she was in the first 15 minutes. Yeah. it I mean, trust in your actress's charisma to have her start off be having like a little naughty streak. i Have her being a schemer. Yeah, exactly.
00:35:21
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But instead, they they painted her into this boring corner. ah Now, ah she buys a very short chartreuse dress and heads to the Gouldens party.
00:35:33
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Sam sees her looking good, and now he thinks... And now that he thinks she's taken, he makes a move on her they go back to her apartment and they fuck.
00:35:47
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Now the next day she's moving into her fancy new office and Sam steps in to apologize for having sex with her, even though she's engaged. And being like, we probably, we probably shouldn't do this again. The best thing to do is to never tell anyone and forget it ever happened. And she's like, Hmm.
00:36:05
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Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Um, uh, he does invite her to a tennis match this weekend as a friend. but She turns down.
00:36:16
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Yeah. yeah I'm sorry. Did you ask what we thought of Kevin Bacon? Because I think he's, he's, he's probably doing the best out of anybody. Like, nobody really stands out, but he's the closest to standing out because he's just so effortlessly slimy in literally everything this character does.
00:36:38
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Yes. but But still charming, I felt. Yeah, I still found him charming. And I think that's a that's a like you could see him coming a mile away, but you could still be like, all right, I'll you can still give me a wink, you know.
00:36:53
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ah So they go to this tennis tournament and then they have sex. Sam likes how present she is when they spend time together, perhaps because she's not actually involved with anyone else, unlike everyone else that he has sex with.
00:37:11
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Then Nick becomes headline news for saving a six-year-old girl from a wedding venue that had caught on fire. He's national headline news, and now everybody from Kate's office recognizes him from that one photo Darcy flashed around last week for about 50 seconds.
00:37:32
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And everybody wants to meet him, especially the Gouldens people.
00:37:38
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So Kate scrambles to track him down. This feels unnecessary to me. She would have had to produce the body sooner or later. You didn't need this complication in the script. It feels extraneous.
00:37:52
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I think it helps to like, quicken when the yeah event happens and thus kind of force her into a situation kind of so she doesn't have months to prepare for it but also i feel like she should have just been like let if the character just said i need to call that guy tonight i need to get him down here this weekend we'll get this banged out bing bang boom what's your what you're asking for is the main character to have some agency and i don't think they're really going to give her a lot of that in this Well, and the other thing is, if you move that up, then you could have spent more time in the fake relationship.
00:38:26
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That's what you want to see in a fake relationship movie. And this fake relationship only lasts like three scenes. It's a really weird movie in the way that it's focused. Because it's just like, this is about these two getting together. Now forget about him and look at this other guy.
00:38:40
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and it's just like, but why? And it's like, because he's a sleazeball. And you don't want her to be with him. It's like, so... So why do we spend so much time with these two people?
00:38:53
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I am really, it's a confusing movie in many ways. Yeah. Frankly, Yeah, if they had not had Kevin Bacon have sex with her two times, that's probably another good five, ten minutes that you could have spent.
00:39:09
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And it would just would have made the movie cleaner. could have spent more time in the fake relationship doing some farcical shenanigans. That's what you want in a false relationship movie. It's also weird, too, because it's just like, man, don't you feel bad for her that she can't be with Kevin Bacon? It's like, not particularly.
00:39:25
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No, I would. I'm more interested in this other thing. I'm more interested in the romantic comedy part of the romantic comedy, not the not the shitty guy part of the romantic comedy.
00:39:37
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Yeah. Yeah. Just like you said, this script needed another like three passes. Now, ah let's see. So ah Kate scrambles to track Nick down.
00:39:51
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And they soon meet up in a bean town diner where Kate finally proposes the premise of the movie.
Unraveling Deception and Personal Growth
00:39:57
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She will give him $1,000 plus expenses to come to New York, pretend to be her fiance before breaking up with her.
00:40:05
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Nick is on board, but he makes it clear that he would be much more interested in having just an actual relationship with her, which is weird. Yep. This guy is weird.
00:40:17
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Well, I mean, he says he was going to look her up. so yeah So, based on their interaction, I could see someone saying, you're Jennifer Aniston and I would like to kiss you.
00:40:30
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ah so I'm going to try to find some way to do that. I don't know a lot about you. This could be interesting. I don't really get anything that happens after she says all the things that she says and why he continues to feel that way after the way that she treats him.
00:40:46
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Yes. That's the confusing part to me. Yeah. And I also find it weird that he's like, I'm not going to take your money and I would like to go on a date with you in actuality.
00:40:57
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I'm going to leave and call you tomorrow that she doesn't seem to understand that he actually likes her. Yeah. Or she or she she just doesn't care. so yeah yeah yeah I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I got to deal with this work issue.
00:41:11
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Yeah.
00:41:14
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Now, let's see. Where was I? ah Soon Nick arrives in New York City. He makes a brief appearance at her office, ah making Sam a little jealous by grabbing her booty.
00:41:26
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Kate gives him a dossier of their fake relationship, including a loose script for their breakup. He sleeps on the couch and she in her bed that night.
00:41:39
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This really made me laugh the way that she was sleeping. Because she's got like a queen bed with side by side pillows and her head was on the very edge of the outside pillow, like scrunched up in a little fetal position.
00:41:55
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Like she was not using, I'm going to say 75% of her bed at least completely empty. It was a very funny position to be sleeping in.
00:42:07
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Trust me.
00:42:11
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It was. It was. He was also holding his pillow very strangely. Yes. I think the blocking here was not very naturalistic. The wrong ah firmness.
00:42:24
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Yeah. When you get those real thin pillows that were just for like decoration. ah Yeah. That's the worst.
00:42:32
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ah datatata But that night they have sort of a slumber party style dialogue through the wall ah where he learns more about her, including that her father once gave her a Cinderella watch and it meant a lot to her.
00:42:49
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Yeah. Yep. Now, ah then it's time for dinner with the boss and the big client. Oh, boy. Nick is impressing everyone with his down-home, small-town Boston charm.
00:43:06
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But when it comes time to run the breakup script, he gets cold feet.
00:43:13
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Kate has to take matters into her own hands, and so she accuses Nick of cheating. ah which gets the ball rolling. They have a very nasty breakup, and the whole dinner party takes Kate's side, obviously.
00:43:30
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And the fight actually lasts kind of a shocking amount of time, frankly. Yeah. Yes. It's unpleasant. Yeah, it is.
00:43:41
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Kate sneaks over to Sam's place for a screw, ah but he isn't interested now that she's single. Wah, wah, wah. Whatever will she do?
00:43:59
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Also, while she's leaving, he accidentally gives her a black eye with a stray elbow. It's a weird, it's weird blocking for that scene because it's very clear that he has to like actually hit her with his elbow and it doesn't look natural.
00:44:15
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And then there's this whole thing where it's like, God, is Nick like a wife beater? And it's like, no. Yeah. And it's just like, why did we do any of this? What was the point of any of this?
00:44:29
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Yeah. This would have been X'd out in one of those later drafts. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
00:44:37
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So she slinks back home only to find Nick still there. ah Kate gets a phone call from her mom and Nick hops on the second headset and charms mom a little bit.
00:44:47
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Nothing like seeing a fella charm mom. That was always part of my strategy.
00:44:53
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Now, the next day at the office, gossips are having a field day. Soon, even bigger news breaks out, though. Gouldens wants to shell out the money for a Super Bowl commercial.
00:45:06
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Boom. They're going to tell the whole nation, we're the second best mustard. Yeah. Hey. That night, Nick swings by the office, and the two of them sort of break up for real this time.
00:45:21
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ah He leaves her the envelope with the $1,000 worth of cash in it, and he takes the next Chinatown bus back to Boston. Then we get the saddest working on an ad campaign for mustard montage ever. Yeah.
00:45:38
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Then Kate finally. oh Oh, and I believe that montage is set to I try by Macy Gray. That will be our closing credits. Okay. and okay
00:45:49
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Kate finally opens the envelope with the thousand dollars in it. In addition to the money, there's also ah Cinderella watch like the one she mentioned earlier.
00:46:00
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This causes him to confess everything to her company. Wow. He listened to that story I told in that one conversation. she can i and I know I'd seen this before, but as she was like getting up there to the podium, I just wrote it all in caps, throw it all away because I love that part in a romantic comedy where someone gets up to speak and they're like, you know what? Actually guys, I've been wrong this entire time and I have to end this facade.
00:46:26
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It's a great moment in every romantic comedy. This was actually the only scene that seems familiar. Yeah.
00:46:35
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Now, if you had to guess, how many times did you watch this movie on that cruise?
00:46:42
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Half a dozen? Half dozen? Okay. In the course of a week. You still forgot a lot of it. Something like that. Wow. Telling. Really telling.
00:46:53
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Oh, yeah.
00:46:56
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Nobody watch this movie on Rohypnol. You'll forget your entire life.
00:47:03
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So she does get up in the middle of her presentation and confess everything to the entire company.
00:47:11
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Sam later says that he's not not into her now with that her whole new lying crazy woman shtick. Yeah. but But she says she's still just a good girl.
00:47:23
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The boss tells her not to quit, but instead take some time off. Maybe go up to Boston. She does. She goes up to Boston. She finds Nick at work. She couldn't wait until she got he got out off of work for some reason. No, she can't no that's not No, what you should do is go and interrupt a wedding that he is videographing.
00:47:45
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Yep. And... The ceremony, even. Yeah, not even the reception. And, like, the entire and the priest does it is forever hold your peace. And she's like, why don't you like me?
00:47:57
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And the whole church turns around. was like, what is happening? yeah And then the two of them go through their whole thing through the course of the wedding. ah And they...
00:48:08
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I do like the bit, though, when they finally like they stop having the conversation and the entire congregation just like flips their head around and you can read like audibly hear them turn their heads. like That was a good little moment.
00:48:20
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I did enjoy that joke. That made me laugh. That was one of the gags that made me laugh for sure. ah But they do them kiss and ah then the movie's over.
00:48:31
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Boom. It's tough. we did Yay! Ruthless efficiency. Yes. Yeah, well, I don't... Something like that. Blessed brevity.
00:48:45
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ah So, what did you guys' final thoughts, five-star ratings on Picture Perfect? ah I guess I'll begin. ah i feel like I have some final thoughts I have to say first. As I said before, I really just feel like this is a film where I thought it was going to start out with this just like, oh, men are the worst.
00:49:05
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And then you just see her basically behave like every male you've ever seen in any romantic comedy where you're just like, I don't get why we're supposed to like you. i don't get why you want to be with this other person because you don't seem to want to be with this other person.
00:49:21
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They're obviously the better choice than the one you do want to be with. um but also you don't seem to like them. You don't really have any chemistry with them. You treat them terribly.
00:49:32
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ah She also really, I feel like she kind of embraces the bad girl thing when she gets into And she's like, I'm going to like send myself flowers so that it'll fuck me. And I just want that. And it just,
00:49:43
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It feels the whole movie because it's no, because she didn't make the choice to do any of this stuff. It doesn't feel like a desperate scramble to make it work. It just feels like someone's like, I made a deal with the devil for you And you're like, shit. Yeah. Okay, cool.
00:49:56
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ah And it's just like, I don't know why I'm supposed to like you for that. Okay. Hear me out. Okay. Hear me out. Yeah. What if this was originally written gender swapped?
00:50:11
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And then when they swapped it to put Jennifer Aniston was their lead. make a ton more sense to me, frankly. I think I would not be surprised if that's what happened with this movie.
00:50:23
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Yeah. That's also not a compliment. I don't think if anyone's just like that. don't think that movie would have been good either. No, no. It'd be like all the other shitty romantic comedies I've had to watch over time.
00:50:34
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As far as my rating goes, ah weirdness... I'm going to give it a one, i guess. It's not that weird. I might even go as low as a half a star. It's just a basic, as you said, it's aggressively mid, you know, it's very just like you, you could probably think of this romantic comedy plot.
00:50:56
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If you really tried hard and someone gave you a little bit of premise, you could come up with a lot of it. doesn't feel very ah innovative or interesting or different in a lot of ways. As far as watchability,
00:51:09
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Give it like a... I'm torn between a two and a half and a three. I don't think it's the worst thing to watch, but I also don't think it's really got... It's just very mid. it gets two and a half.
00:51:21
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Yeah. You wouldn't necessarily turn it off, but you're also not going to want to pay attention to it.
00:51:29
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how about you, my love? oh Well, I would similarly ah give it a ah watchability of about...
00:51:40
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About two and a half or three. um i don't think it's yeah I don't think it's difficult or challenging to watch. um Except it might be challenging to pay attention the... Well, I don't know.
00:51:53
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i don't know. i i didn't mind it. Yeah. um It's not weird, though. Not even a little bit weird. I could. Can I give it a zero?
00:52:03
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i gave it a zero. Yeah. yeah I'll switch it I'll switch mine to zero as well. I just haven't given anything a zero. No, this is the most aggressively normal movie. I think yeah it's very normcore. It's very normal.
00:52:18
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Yeah. I gave it a two and a half on watchability. I thought it was like we said, this is where I wrote down like drinking a sip of room temperature water.
Audience Reviews and Fun Games
00:52:27
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It goes down pretty smooth.
00:52:29
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There's nothing objectionable about it, but there's nothing interesting either. It's just sort of happening. This is be a movie that you would put on a bus. This is a perfect movie for a cruise. It is. because Nobody could complain about it.
00:52:41
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Yeah. For weirdness. Yeah. I put zero. Nothing weird or interesting happens at any point in this movie. Yeah.
00:52:51
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this yeah it was like i was asleep it was probably just ah you could probably watch us instead of sleeping it would be just as restorative that's maybe true well uh do you guys want to get to the third segment of the show yeah all right well first up you know with our strong feelings i gotta hear some other strong feelings so we're doing a review review excellent
00:53:54
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Review, review. La, la, la, la, la. All
00:54:04
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right, so I went to IMDb for this week's review, review. I got three reviews. All of them up towards the top. Good. First, we've got Joe MJV, who gave it 10 out of 10 on May 2nd, 2018.
00:54:22
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Motion picture perfect. Wow.
00:54:29
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I do not usually enjoy rom-com movies, but this one was really good and it kept me laughing. The cast is very talented and the performance by all of them was very good.
00:54:41
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The plot is somewhat predictable, but it was very well done, enjoyable and fun to watch. I feel this should at least deserve a 6.5 IMDB rating, so giving it 10 out of 10 to balance the rating.
00:54:56
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Would definitely recommend if you are a fan of the cast or enjoy romantic comedies. It was currently sitting at 5.5, as I would recall. Sorry, i saying this deserves 6.5, so I'm giving it 10 out of 10 is amazing. No, it's a really nice move.
00:55:15
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Really gaming the system. Mm-hmm. This next one comes from Queen Cav gave it nine out of 10, October 19th, 1998. So a little bit when it was probably just coming out on VHS, a star in the making. Ooh.
00:55:33
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After spying Jay Moore in Jerry Maguire, I was interested to see how he would fare in a romantic comedy. After watching picture perfect, I have to say i was blown away by his superb performance.
00:55:48
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well Whilst Kevin Bacon's character lacked substance, Jay Moore created a guy that even I fell in love with. Never in any movie have I ever seen anyone with as sincere a set of eyes as Jay did.
00:56:06
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It is enough to make one's legs turn into slush. Wow. He is surely a star in the making.
00:56:18
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She may not win an Academy Award, but Jennifer's performance was solid, if not far from her role as Rachel in Friends. One thing that I love, though, was her gorgeous wardrobe.
00:56:30
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Someone else agreeing with Ebert there. Yeah. yeah Last one by V. Canna. 10 out of 10 on April 18th, 2002. Maybe about when it would be coming out on DVD.
00:56:43
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So sweet! Four exclamation points. I only have two words to say. Kevin Bacon. Okay.
00:56:57
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He gives depth to a character that most actors would have made quite shallow and far less interesting. True. Sure. While watching this movie, I realized that Mr. Bacon is not only a great actor, which I already knew, but he is also very very attractive.
00:57:16
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And this movie was so incredibly sweet that I kept smiling the entire evening. Smiley emoticon. Okay. This movie was very sweet.
00:57:28
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Other than all the manipulating and lying. Yep. Yep. Yep. Other than that, very sweet. Do you guys want to want to play a game? Absolutely.
00:57:40
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Here we go We're going to do a little this guy played that guy. Nice.
00:57:50
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This guy played that guy. Yeah! This guy played that guy. This guy played that guy. In a film!
00:58:11
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Alright, we're doing This Guy Played That Guy and we're doing it with the films of Jay Moore. and Okay. So I will give you a title of the film and a brief synopsis, and then I will read out three characters that appear in the film.
00:58:24
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One of them will have been played by Jay Moore. It's a buzz in game. You'll buzz in by saying your own name. Your opponent will have the chance to steal. Everybody ready? Sure. Yes.
00:58:35
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All right. Hands on buzzers. Question number one. Powder pup. Sean is a Southern California surfer, so his dad's plan to move to the mountains of Montana crushes him until he meets a dog who can snowboard.
00:58:51
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Oh, God. Did Jay Moore play Sean Kendrick, Alec Masterson, or Bodie? Greg.
00:59:03
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Greg? Bodie.
00:59:07
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sorry Anakin you steal um what was the first one Sean Kendrick uh Sean Kendrick
00:59:21
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no I'm sorry he played Alec Masterson question number two hollow point A grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city.
00:59:38
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Did Jay Moore play Hank Carmack, Detective Chuck Bryant, or Trigger?
00:59:48
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Anna. Anna? Trigger. That's correct. Anna's on the board. Question number three. Dumbbells.
01:00:00
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Okay. A former basketball star suffering from a knee injury looks to rehab himself at a run-down L.A. gym. Did Jay Moore play Harold, cult leader, or Fabio?
01:00:18
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Greg. Greg. Cult leader.
01:00:24
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No, that was Jaleel White. and even this movie again This is Dumbbells. That's right. ah Anna. Anna.
01:00:35
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Fabio. No, that one was Fabio. He was played by Fabio. Okay. Question number four. Pauparazzi. London Bridges, a fast-rising Hollywood starlet, arrives on the set of her new film, There Will Be Oil.
01:00:53
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with her pampered Pomeranian latte, only to learn that neither of them will get the star treatment that they're accustomed to. What?
01:01:04
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Do you need me to say it again? No, no, I'm just having a reaction. was trying, yeah. ah Keep moving.
Conclusion and Future Topics
01:01:11
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Did Jay Moore play Walter White, Sidney Flo, or Latte?
01:01:20
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Greg. Greg? Latte.
01:01:25
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no i'm sorry greg that was kirstie swanson walter white no i'm sorry jay moore did not play walter white he was sydney flow it's hard to figure out what jay moore did is he's had a career yeah question number five holy cash Con artists Pablo and Guero exploit an ex-conduct preacher named Willie Dollars to create a successful religious show.
01:01:59
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Did Jay Moore play Guero, Pablo, or Willie Dollars?
01:02:07
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Anna. Anna? Willie Dollars?
01:02:12
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No, he didn't play Willie Dollars. Greg. Greg? Guero. guero You're correct. He did play Guero. Yes. It's a tie.
01:02:25
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Yep. It's all tied up. It's still anybody's game. Question number six. Pauly. A talking parrot named Pauly recounts his travels to look for his original owner.
01:02:39
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Did Jay Moore play Virgil the Janitor? Pauly or Misha Vilyenkov?
01:02:49
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Anna. Anna. Anna? Misha Valyankov.
01:02:55
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No, I'm sorry. That was Tony Shalhoub. What were the other two? Virgil the Janitor or Pauly? Let's do Virgil the Janitor. Oh, I'm sorry. He was the voice of Pauly the Parrot.
01:03:10
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Question number seven. Boy, I think I'm the big winner this week. ah Question number seven. Party Boat. Max is planning to throw a 25th birthday party for his best friend, Kylie.
01:03:25
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But when he finds out her boyfriend, Greg, plans to propose, he embarks on an adventure to win Kylie's heart and over and throw the best party ever.
01:03:37
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Did Jay Moore play Greg, Officer Walsh, or The Bro? Greg? Greg. Greg.
01:03:48
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greg
01:03:51
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I just wanted to hear Greg said three times in row. No, I agree. Unfortunately, but Greg was played by Sung Kang. Okay. You might remember from Tokyo Drift. Okay.
01:04:03
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Okay. ah The Bro. no I'm sorry. You played Officer Walsh. Wow. Question number eight. Interesting.
01:04:15
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Cherry Falls. In the small town of Cherry Falls, a psychotic murderer is killing off the virgins of the local high school.
01:04:27
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Did Jay Moore play Rod Harper, Sheriff Brent Markin, or Leonard Marleston? Greg?
01:04:38
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Greg? Leonard Marleston. Greg's running away with it. Hey! I remember that movie, and I think I don't want to spoil it for anybody, but going to tell you what my roommate said. He was like, Jay Moore's the killer in that one. And I was like, okay.
01:04:55
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I hadn't seen it yet, so I don't know what i't know if he was accurate or not. I just remember thinking, Jay Moore plays a killer in a movie called Cherry Falls. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
01:05:06
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That may be a spoiler. That might not be. I don't know. i Yeah. We report, you decide, listener. That's right. You'd have to watch Cherry Falls.
01:05:17
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All right, last question. The barefoot executive.
01:05:23
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A television executive at the bottom of the food chain starts moving up when he finds a chimpanzee with a knack for discovering hit TV shows. Wow.
01:05:36
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Did Jay Moore play Matt? Matt? Warm-up comic or Jace Wallenberg? Greg. Greg? Warm-up comic.
01:05:50
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No, I'm sorry. I didn't play warm-up comic. Anna, can you steal to tie it up? oh What was the first one? Matt. Matt. You're correct.
01:06:01
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hey Uh-oh. It's all tied up. Did you prepare a tiebreaker? All right. What I'm going to you might have noticed that I dropped the names of several real actors throughout our quiz.
01:06:15
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Yeah. We're going to go back and forth. Who can name the actors that I mentioned? Oh. We'll get one turn each. We'll start.
01:06:27
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I'm going to toss a coin. I don't have a coin. We're going to start with my lovely wife. Anna, you can go first.
01:06:36
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Uh, Jaleel White.
01:06:39
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And just keep going? ah No, now Greg has to name one. Oh, okay. Fabio.
01:06:46
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Correct. Anna, can you name one? Christy Swanson.
01:06:51
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Correct. Tony Shalhoub. Correct. Um...
01:07:06
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Five, four, three, one. a
01:07:18
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Greg, can you name it? I have to name one to to actually. You've named an equal amount at this point. Oh. um
01:07:30
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Oh. After this, I'll give a hint. Yeah. Yeah. I can't.
01:07:39
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Tokyo Drift. but Can anybody name? I can't his name. Sun Kang. Anna's the big winner. All right.
01:07:52
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Speaking of winners, it's time for the Batty Awards.
01:08:02
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Now you're messing with a Now you're messing with the Batty Awards. Now you're messing with the Batty Awards.
01:08:13
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Now you're messing with the Batty Awards.
01:08:18
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Congratulations to all the nominees.
01:08:27
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That's right. Congratulations to all the nominees. You're probably the only people nominated for any awards for Picture Perfect.
01:08:37
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You did it. Who wants to go first?
01:08:41
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I can go. I can start. Sure. All right. I'm going to give my award. ah Greg almost said it previously for the best proposed alternate ad campaign.
01:08:52
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And that's going to go to the executive who, when she was saying, maybe she's naked, maybe she's not, that's up to you. But the rest of his proposed ad campaign was that she was holding a bowl of mustard between her legs with the text spread this.
01:09:08
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Yeah. Which I thought was a shockingly vulgar joke for this movie. Very vulgar. Very vulgar. just Just out of left field. Once again, needed another couple of passes.
01:09:21
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Yeah, it sure did. It sure did. or maybe maybe in a previous draft when he was saying that to a male ad executive and it was like, oh, we're boys, we're joking around, you know, locker room talk.
01:09:33
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It would have made more sense, at least. Maybe. Maybe. and I'm going to put that up on my evidence board. Sure. Sure. I like your evidence board. Greg, do you do you have a many awards? So, so I do.
01:09:48
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And since we've gone pretty fast, I'm going to tell an additional story about this. um Please do. So, at one point... I forget. So it's like shortly after the news story breaks, they played like one, one lyric from a song called say what you want by Texas.
01:10:06
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And I've, I love that song. I'm a big fan of that album. And then it ended up being the closing credits song. So if you heard the closing credits, that was the song that I'm talking about.
01:10:17
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And the story I have to tell about that. So Texas is kind of like, More like adult contemporary kind of blue-eyed soul, I think made by Welsh people. Okay.
01:10:28
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And I had a job cutting ah custom frames and I, by that I mean picture frames and I got upgraded to cutting mats, which was much better because I didn't have to run a saw.
01:10:40
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And over there there was less noise so we could listen to music and the older lesbian woman who would ah inspect everything that I did, she put on some kind of music or something and I was like, this is great. And she was like, I'm a big fan of the band Texas. And I said,
01:10:55
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white on blonde is an amazing album. and she said, that's my favorite album by them. And then the next day, and that's what this song is off of Then she's like, I'm bringing that in tomorrow. And I was like, good. And then she put that on and the tube was just saying the whole thing ah from start to finish. And it was one of the best days of work I've ever had. So shout out to her.
01:11:13
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Yeah. Beautiful. She is. on to Check that out. Well, Anna, we've saved the best for last week. ah Sure, I'm going to go with a a joke that I thought was actually funny. You know, like, it's no sold in the film itself.
01:11:34
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um When they meet, when Nick and Kate meet, he refers to her as Susan's single friend, Kate. Oh, yes.
01:11:47
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And then he says, don't you think it's weird she only has one friend? And she doesn't even hear it. She has no response. Yeah. Yeah. but yeah Yeah. That was a good little bit of clever wordplay and they, and Jay Moore sold it and the film just wasted it.
01:12:05
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Yeah. it was like Such a strange movie. In its own way. yeah In the way that it's completely, absolutely boring.
01:12:17
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Yeah. Anodyne. Yeah. This is a, this is a cheese sandwich on white bread. Hmm. Not even grilled. No, no, just cheese.
01:12:29
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Well, I'm excited to watch it with people though. I think. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. We'll see if we can find the fun. That's certainly always a fun crew. You know, yeah we can throw in pretty much anything with the gang and I always have a good time.
01:12:41
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Oh, definitely. So, uh, listeners, Come join us in the discord. We'll be doing a bunch more screenings. We're planning Anna and I discussed with Greg. We're i'm going to throw this to you live on Mike since we' we're running.
01:12:57
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We've got time. Okay. maybe November. We do employee picks of Christmas movies. Okay. That can give me some time to get thinking. Yes. I've got a couple of ideas.
01:13:09
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Okay. Because Anna and I have seen a lot of great ones over the years. Bad Christmas movies were a real tradition in our household. thanks Okay. So keep an eye out for that listeners. Come join the discord plan on watching those of us and, uh, Hey, why don't you give us that five stars?
01:13:29
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01:14:01
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And yeah, until next week, we've got Gloria. Yes. Yes. um what was the, I can't remember the title. Future cops.
01:14:14
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Yeah. Future cops. How could I forget a title like future cops? Because it's going to be our first regular nouns put together, but it's going our first Hong Kong movie. If I'm very excited to check that out.
01:14:27
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So definitely tune in for that. And until next week, be good. and Goodbye. Goodbye.
01:14:44
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Things changing.