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It's movie night!
In the interest of light-heartedness during these dark times, we explore our favorite movies today and reminisce on some of the ones that left an impression on us throughout our lives. We get some nasty movie theater horror stories from Christina, and Molly’s stoner nightmare fuel moment of 2020. TW for mentions of childhood suicidal ideation and child abuse in fiction.
And yes, we do talk about Wicked.
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Hosts: Christina Bell & Molly Wilde
Music: The Confrontation, by Jonathan Boyle, licensed from Premium Beats by Shutterstock
Editing: Molly Wilde
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Introduction and Apologies
00:00:22
Speaker
I was just going to say, I want to put a blanket apology if you do hear background noise because of the thumpiness coming from upstairs. Gotcha. And that's to you and to the listeners. Nothing I can do about it if it comes through. so Gotcha. They weren't doing it 20 minutes ago. Of course not. But yeah.
Love for Wicked and Broadway
00:00:50
Speaker
I love, love, love, love, love that bit from Wicked during the pop, the song called Popular, where she's got the wand and she's trying to turn the throat into a ball gown. Yeah. And she's like. And ill yeah but she's all the way in the ground going. early Oh my God.
00:01:21
Speaker
You guys, we're talking about movies today.
00:01:27
Speaker
We're having ourselves ah a leisurely time. And we're going to talk about movies. yeah yeah And I think I need to make a promise to myself that we can't get that deep into Wicked because I could talk for fucking ever. And I have other ones that I should talk about. But like, I want to talk about Wicked 2 because it's so good. Oh my god. and but I've seen it four times in theaters. Let me let me bring up what you talked about when you first heard about the movie coming out or knew that the soundtrack was out soundtrack. Okay, out yeah. um And how you were like worried that it wasn't going to be true to like the musical like for Broadway production or whatever.
00:02:17
Speaker
And you were like... How long ago was this? I don't remember. Like three want three months, four months before... Was it like before you were coming out here for Thanksgiving? Or was it when we first knew that the movie was coming out? I don't know. It wasn't that long before I came out there from what I can remember. but my My memory is kind of weird anyways nowadays. But um I remember that you were like...
00:02:41
Speaker
i I heard the soundtrack came out, so I listened to it on like whatever you listened to your stuff on. And you said that you were so happy that it was that the music was like spot on and that you were like crying listening to it. And I was like, oh my God, but what is the deal with this movie? um But I had not ever seen the musical, um and you had.
00:03:11
Speaker
Like how many times? Twice, but the last time had been 15 years ago. And you still remember the mut and music from it? Well, I listen to the soundtrack all the time. Oh, okay. Okay. So there's a sound track. Like I don't, I don't listen to Broadway soundtracks the way that theater kids listen to Broadway soundtracks. I listen to Wicked and that's it. Okay. like i it's It's weird that I, it's probably weird that I have to Oh my God, there's a 777 in that phone number. Sorry. It was tamale. It was tamale.
00:03:52
Speaker
ah the His eyes just drifted upward and it's like, whoop, there it is. 777, you guys is everywhere with the numbers. They just keep happening. um i
00:04:08
Speaker
It's probably unnecessary that I have to clarify that I am not a theater, I'm not a theater person. I'm not a Broadway person. Like I have seen a decent amount of Broadway shows because my family would go and I was in choir in high school, but I like am not, I don't know Broadway. Like i I've never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack. Right. And that's like, no, not because I think I'm going to hate it, but because I'm just not that interested in general.
00:04:38
Speaker
Like, and I've listened to, I listened to the Book of Mormon soundtrack once, just because I was curious, because it was around the time that I was leaving the church. I'm like, that's it. I'm not seeing that. I've not seen the Book of Mormon musical award. I would see it. If I was given the opportunity to see it and it wasn't too expensive, I would. I'd go and see it, but I don't, I don't. You have seen it though, right? No. Hmm.
00:05:07
Speaker
No, I've never seen the Book of Mormon musical. I thought somebody was telling me, you should see that. It's so good. And I thought it was you. I mean, you should, you should probably see it if you want to, but like, um, I've never seen it. So no. I don't know who was telling me that then. Yeah. The soundtrack is entertaining. Okay. That much I can tell you. Um, but like, this is what I mean. It's like, I have the musicals that I like. It's, it's wicked.
00:05:36
Speaker
takes precedence, top top priority, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables. And that's it. I don't even really like Mamma Mia that much. I have seen Mamma Mia. I've seen the movie. I saw the movie. I liked the movie. I thought it was entertaining, but like, just this is not, I don't know. I mean, it's Alba.
00:05:57
Speaker
it's abba that's all i like um I like Abba music, but um that movie to me was just like, okay. It was fine. Yeah. um um yeah but like it's i just I like the high drama of the three musicals that I like, and I don't need more than that. That's okay. That's all I need.
Childhood Movie Memories
00:06:21
Speaker
Okay. so anyway I haven't seen Any of them, uh, no, I have seen the the Phantom of the Opera in, um, I think Montreal. And that was like in my early twenties, like 20 or 21 or something years old. Um, and I think my grandparents took me to see some iteration of the Wizard of Oz on, not Broadway, but in Detroit. Yeah.
00:06:54
Speaker
on stage in Detroit. I think, I feel like I might have seen a stage production of The Wizard of Oz at some point, but I also, I loved the movie The Wizard of Oz when I was a little girl. Speaking of movies, because we're talking about movies. Loved it. Loved it. Which is part of the reason that I got so into Wicked, because I was just like, oh, lore.
00:07:19
Speaker
Yeah. it's More. Yeah. Even if it's not canon, you know. I was such a purist about everything that like, I was very skeptical about Wicked. I was just kind of like, eh, I don't know if I'm going to like this, you know, whole backstory thing and it's just weird. And then when you kind of explained a couple of things to me before we saw the movie,
00:07:43
Speaker
about where her name, Alpha alphabe comes from. I was like, well, that's really cool. like i can I can get into that. you know um So and you know that helps me open my um my mind up a little bit to it more. And then just like from the beginning of the movie, it was just like, fuck yeah.
00:08:04
Speaker
yeah but So captivating, dude. It's so good. And like yeah everything is so well done. like The movie is so well done. And did you did you catch the Gulch reference? Yes, I did. OK. So I don't remember what her first name was, something Gulch. And you know before Dorothy gets hit over the head and goes to Oz.
00:08:29
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, the neighbor. Yeah, something rather gulch and yeah that was referenced in the movie Wicked. And then, ah but she's so beautiful that like, I'm like enamored with her now. And I'm just like, I don't care if she's green, she's so beautiful. I love her. She's, you know, just great, just a great actress. I think I ultimately, like, frankly, what matters is her voice.
00:09:01
Speaker
if anything has to matter at all. Yeah, voice or performance. I mean, yeah, you know, and I've, I've heard this opinion, but I do think it's still an unpopular opinion. I think Cynthia Erivo's performance is better than Adina Menzel's. Oh, okay. Well, I've not seen Adina Menzel's, so I wouldn't know. Well, like you, I mean, like, I mean, her vocal performance. So if you were to listen to the Broadway original soundtrack, okay, she was Elphaba.
00:09:28
Speaker
in the Broadway original soundtrack. You know who Idina Menzel is, right? Yes. Okay, thank you. She was in the mood. I would even. She was in the mood. Yes, yes. But I mean, like, you've known what she's also been in, right? Like, she's been some huge, huge characters for musicals.
00:09:51
Speaker
Okay. So I'm not, I haven't been into musicals enough to like know her that way, but I know she's done some vocals for movies. She was in Rent. Okay. She was in the movie Rent once. Yeah. i saw it I don't remember the name of the character she was in because I i also only saw the movie once. But didn't she sing songs for Frozen? She did. She was also in Frozen. Okay. So let's let it go.
00:10:18
Speaker
Okay. So I saw probably her sing that in an Oscar's performance. um The one where John Travolta totally butchered her name. And yeah. Did you ever look that up and see that clip? Oh, I probably didn't have to look it up. I probably came across it on TikTok or something. Because I told you about it and you had no idea what I was talking about. And so like, I mean, I've heard about it ever since then. Like people don't people talk about it a ton now. Like now that everybody's talking about Wicked. like But like, and what I want to emphasize ah is that I didn't think it was possible for me to, like anybody else's performance of Elphaba over Adina Menzel's. Okay. Because I had heard, and I actually actively didn't look up or, you know, I avoided looking up other performances on Broadway of Elphaba.
00:11:18
Speaker
because I generally didn't like them. And then Cynthia Arivo came along.
00:11:26
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And it's like, yeah, like it's i just there's not a single vocal choice that she made that I disagreed with in listening, because I listened with a very, very sharp critical ear to the movie soundtrack when I first realized I could. Having the original Broadway soundtrack it like seared into my brain,
00:11:48
Speaker
And so I could pick out every single variance, every so every single deviation from the original soundtrack. And yeah, every single choice that was made was the right choice.
Musicals Discussion: Wicked vs. The Color Purple
00:11:58
Speaker
And I, frankly, I would even go so so far as to say that I liked Ariana Grande better as Glinda than Kristin Chenoweth. That's cool. And that is probably controversial to say, but like, let's be real. Let's, let's be fucking for real. Like.
00:12:18
Speaker
She fucking killed it. Yeah, she definitely did. I just wouldn't know any comparisons you know to talk about you. You should absolutely listen to the original soundtrack. OK. Because it's that good. It is that good. I believe you. And then you'll get familiar with the second half of the show, the whole thing. OK. And then you'll have a little taste of what's ah what's to come. Sweet.
00:12:49
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I was nominated for an Oscar. Oh, she is? Oh, yeah. I said to her announcement of it on Instagram to you earlier. Oh, okay. I'll have to take a look for that. So as a young child, and I've watched the Wizard of Oz multiple times,
00:13:09
Speaker
you Like I said, I'm a purist in in that I don't like the originals getting messed with in any way. Yeah. um I'm very often the same way.
00:13:21
Speaker
Yeah. But, like, everything overrode it. Like, she was so beautiful to look at, and she was so good, you know, with the singing and, like, the acting. Everything was perfect. And plus, I will say, I mean, obviously, the style is completely different than, like, Wizard of Oz. And, like, it's very... um It's, like, more... I don't want to say played up. It's more... I don't know how to describe what I'm thinking.
00:13:50
Speaker
um But, but along the lines of what I'm trying to say is that the wardrobe is, you know, the whole, the whole wardrobe but the thing is insane. It's gorgeous. It's like, holy crap, the way they dress, you know, all the clothing choices and all that. Yeah. I was going to say like, I had the very, very specific thought about like, how every single detail
00:14:22
Speaker
was intentional when it came to the wardrobe. like i When I had that thought was when I was at the scene where Bach, the munchkin boy, ah was telling Glinda that he would be waiting for a dance with her. And I noticed that his vest was asymmetrical.
00:14:52
Speaker
in like the width on the sides. And it was like, it was asymmetric. I was like, Oh my God, that was a choice. That was a deliberate choice that they made. And it is so perfect for the world that they curated, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I just absolutely loved all of Elphaba's outfits.
00:15:20
Speaker
Yeah. And like um the boots. the square toe boots with the extra wide sole like sticking out on the sides a little bit and stuff like that. I'm just like, those freaking boots were so cool, dude. I was like, I want those boots. And when I took Julie to go see the movie, she said that too. She's like, I want those boots. And I'm like, I know, me too. Literally, I remember seeing those boots and having the thought to myself that like in the coming months, like,
00:15:52
Speaker
fashion companies are going to design and sell them. And they're going to sell out so fast. I hope they do. Yeah. i want I mean, I want to be able to to have the chance to buy some if I can, because they're so cool. yeah um And also those glasses, the little, your A shape will not be, yeah, it's like a S sideways S shape on the frames a little bit. I was going to say, because you're a huge fan, and i we we do got to talk about other movies, you're a huge fan of the color purple.
00:16:30
Speaker
Yeah. Did you know it's a musical as well? Hmm. I don't think I ever knew that. No. Because I didn't know that. And I also didn't know that Cynthia Arivo, I think, starred in it. The new version movie? No, not movie. Like, brought like the stage performance. Yeah, like the stage musical.
Nostalgic Search for Childhood Films
00:16:52
Speaker
Interesting. um Because I saw months ago, I saw a TikTok of her performing a song from the musical, The Color Purple. um And it apparently is,
00:17:06
Speaker
um actually I'd seen, you know what it was, it was two separate TikToks and it was one of her doing an interview talking about divine gravity not being the most challenging song she's ever sang. And that a song from The Color Purple is the most challenging song she's ever sang. I'll need to find that particular performance and send it to you.
00:17:29
Speaker
Because I think it'll blow your dick off.
00:17:35
Speaker
Because I did i saw like her interview about it, and then I saw separately like a video performance of her singing the song. One one thing visually that I particularly loved was during The Wizard and I, the song, when she's singing about potentially getting to be de-greenified.
00:18:00
Speaker
Right, right. And because of the like colors and the little pavilion that she's in, the light reflecting through them or refracting through them offsets the green of her skin, where she almost looks like brown skin. know I noticed that too. And I was just like, I noticed that the first time I saw it and I was just like, Ooh, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's perfect. Yeah.
00:18:30
Speaker
that's lee That's the thing, like this, that is what I was so grateful for in watching this movie production of this, you know, stage musical where there are things that are not possible on stage that like they were able to just do. Right. Yeah. I'm really glad that they went all in.
00:18:58
Speaker
on the flying around during Defying Gravity. That little cartoon sketch thingy that you- Oh my god. It's so funny. Oh my god, it's so funny. It's like what the guards are seeing from their perspective when she's flying around, it's like,
00:19:16
Speaker
Whoa!
00:19:20
Speaker
like They don't get to hear like a tenth of the song. They just hear like her singing something and she whizzes by. It's so good. It is so funny. Oh my god. Oh man. I'm so excited for part two. Oh my god, yes.
00:19:42
Speaker
yeah Yeah, I'm super excited for part two. And ah and let me just segue into what we we were kind of, getting little on that we were going to kind of talk about movies that influenced us as children, I think, right? I mean, it doesn't have to be that because like a lot of, I didn't get to see a lot of really good movies until I was no longer a child.
00:20:07
Speaker
Right, right. now like I don't want to just talk about Disney shit, you know? No, no. And that's kind of what I would be restricted to is all I'm saying. Okay. Well, I'll just throw this out there and we can do whatever we want with it. But um yeah when I was a kid and we were staying with my grandmother for a little while, like before my mom got her own place or if I was there, like, I don't know, hanging out on the weekends or whatever.
00:20:33
Speaker
She had a TV on ah on a rolly cart thing. And a dv DVD, no, sorry. Oh. I was like, DVDs were not a thing until you were like, twang-er. You see our ah player, the video cassette recorder player.
00:20:52
Speaker
um And that I had The Wizard of Oz and Annie, the mid 1980s version of Annie. um And I used to watch both of those movies like almost every single time I would go to her house. And so I love, love them both like so, so much. And one of them was recorded off the television because I remember there was a McDonald's commercial at the very beginning or near something. Maybe it was somewhere in the middle of the movie, whatever. But yeah.
00:21:28
Speaker
um It's like hilarious that I have a memory of the specific McDonald's commercial that would play when I was watching it. That's really funny because like one of the movies that impacted me really heavily when I was a kid was also one that my dad recorded off of the TV. you That's funny. But continue. I don't want to cut you off, but I know i will talk about it. Just a memory that I had about that. Yeah, no, that was that was really all I was going to say about that. cause ah Yeah.
00:22:00
Speaker
just Just talking about the Wizard of Oz just brought me, you know always brings me back to those memories of watching it at my grandma's house on her little rolly cart TV. Cute. Love it. Yeah.
00:22:13
Speaker
the The movie that my dad recorded off of TV, it honestly haunted me for a long time because we lost the VHS tape recording of it at some point, but I had loved it. I was like super, it's I don't know. I know that I have talked to you about this, but it's been a few years, probably since I brought it up. So I don't expect you to remember. But for a long time, I was like hoping I could figure out where to find this movie because I was like, I know it exists. ah And then the internet came along and I started just intermittently as I thought of it, just like sort of randomly Google all the different versions of Alice in Wonderland, which is the movie in question, or rather the story that a version of the movie is that I watched that I loved when I was a kid.
00:23:07
Speaker
And I was like, surely if I can find a list of every version of Alice in Wonderland that's ever been made, I'll be able to figure it out. But for whatever reason, I really struggled figuring it out. And what I realized when I took a chance on an Amazon Prime purchase in 2020.
00:23:34
Speaker
The version of this movie that I was looking for, the version of this story that I was looking for was a movie released in 1999. I really think it was, it has to have been made for TV because I can't think of it. I don't think it ever was in theaters, but it is star studded. Okay. Like shockingly star studded. I'm going to look it up. So am I, cause I'm curious. Well, I want to read it to you.
00:24:04
Speaker
So I, as I'm typing, the 2010 film version is popping up first for me. And I remember seeing that in the movies when that came out. Oh yeah. I saw that too. Or it might've been the 2016 one. Yeah. No, I don't know. It was one in 2009 or 2010 and one in 2016. Okay. Are you ready for this? Yeah. You ready for this cast list? Because holy shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do it.
00:24:34
Speaker
Robbie Coltrane, aka Hagrid, okay Whoopi Goldberg, asked the Cheshire Cat. um I recognize Ben Kingsley's face, but I don't recognize his name. ah He was the caterpillar. Christopher Lloyd, who well Miranda Richardson, Martin Short,
00:25:02
Speaker
Uh, Jean Wilder. Oh. Tina Majorino. I don't know who that is. The only thing that I can like confidently reference that she was in is Napoleon Dynamite. Oh, she's Alice. Yeah. Okay, because I'm looking at the picture, you know, I recognize her face. who yeah And we'll see if there's any other big names in here that I'm not remembering.
00:25:31
Speaker
No, I don't see any other big, big names in here. Um, not that people wouldn't recognize them, but I don't. So anyway, star started for a made for TV movie that didn't get any traction seemingly. Right. Um, and the reason that I, cause I think I found a version of this movie on YouTube once and I started it from the beginning and I didn't recognize it. So I gave up.
00:25:59
Speaker
before I got to the part that I actually would have remembered. um Because, like I said, my dad recorded it off of the TV, and he didn't quite catch the beginning. So the very first scene that he did record was of the caucus race, which It's, I don't know. I know that I have read the original Alice in Wonderland book. I don't remember if this is something that's referencing or that is referenced from the original Alice in Wonderland book, but the caucus race took place in a, this is when Alice was small and it took place in somewhat of a library bookshelf situation.
00:26:46
Speaker
where everybody's running around and it's very confusing and everything's confusing in Alice in Wonderland. But I remember very distinctly, because they're running around on books, over books, up and down books, because they're stacked like stairs, and her running upside down on a set of stairs upside down that are made out of books. And a yellow dress. So very distinct movie or memory.
00:27:15
Speaker
and That was the opening scene of the version that was recorded from the TV. Right. But it's not the opening scene of the version, the whole, the actual movie. Right. um So when I took a chance and I had purchased that on Amazon Prime and I watched it and I got to that scene, I was like, this is it. Awesome. And incidentally, I was also really stoned.
00:27:45
Speaker
And that is not a good movie to watch, Wollstone. Oh my goodness.
00:27:54
Speaker
There is, as I got to it, I got to it, the scene that again, it's like, I don't know if it's specific, like exact from the book, but details definitely came from the book or at least came from also Alice Through the Looking Glass, the book.
00:28:13
Speaker
But the scene where she goes into this castle or manor house or something like that and people are shrieking and singing in the kitchen and content warning for child abuse, this woman is singing about hitting her son, her baby son. But yeah, it's, well, this is the thing is that like the shit, not none of it made sense. None of it made sense. It's like I beat him when he sees this and then they're like,
00:28:43
Speaker
using way too much pepper in the kitchen. So he's sneezing constant.
00:28:50
Speaker
And then she and it's, it's all very freaky. This is what I mean is visually freaky to look at. And so therefore not good to watch while high. um But she then takes the baby out of the house and is walking down the road with it and then baby turns into a pig and she puts it down and it runs away. Yeah.
00:29:09
Speaker
So, um, it's all so fucking weird, but point being that like seared itself so deeply into my brain as a child. And then I found it again in 2020 and just had a real wild time in my own brain. Cause I had no one to be like about that. You know,
00:29:35
Speaker
I tried to be i tried to like express to you like, oh my God, I can't believe I just found this movie. But you didn't know the impact. You didn't understand the depth of like the you know intensity of what I was experiencing. Right, right. But regardless, that's a fun
Exploring Personal Movie Preferences
00:29:52
Speaker
one. i would I think I would need to watch this at some point. You totally could.
00:29:57
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ah um
00:30:02
Speaker
Do you say, would you be able to say that you have a particular genre of movie that you particularly love? Uh, yes and no. and I don't know. I'm like one of those weird people. I like a lot of different things. Um, I, I will say that I was a huge horror fan back in the day. Like when I was a teenager and into my twenties and stuff.
00:30:29
Speaker
And probably into my thirties as well. I, I really liked a lot of scary movies and like, and I don't mean just like gory because I'm not like super into gory stuff, but like, like some of my favorite movies from when I was a teenager were the nightmare and Elm street series of movies, you know, like Halloween and all those kinds of movies. I never got, I never watched them a ton though. Those ones like Halloween and like, uh,
00:31:00
Speaker
ah Friday the 13th those two I had I never really got into but I liked you know Rob Zombie Yeah, and when I found out that he was redoing like one of those or whatever it was I can't remember which one he did we did now but or he did a couple but anyway He did a couple of his own Movies that he wrote himself and all that stuff, but he also redid like Halloween or something and I watched all those and I very gory like very well yeah um but visually also very you know intriguing and interesting and all that too so like i remember my mom took me to see the movie alien or aliens um i think alien is what it's called well aliens was part two so i don't remember which one it was i was
00:31:56
Speaker
Might've been the first one, but I don't remember for sure. Cause I don't remember the years that they came out, but I was young and, uh, and it was definitely not intended to be viewed by children the age that I was when she took me to see it. Yeah, no. Um, that I feel like it's a very common thing amongst Gen X and millennials is that, um, our parents took us, well, not mine because Mormons, but our general collectively, our parents took us to age-inappropriate movies in the theater. Yeah, probably. But anyway. Yeah. Oh, goodness. i I like documentaries. Yeah. Of course, depending on the subject matter, but but a lot of times I find documentaries very entertaining. um I like learning things. um I loved the color purple, the original 1980 version, the 80-something version.
00:32:55
Speaker
Um, and I haven't seen the new one yet, but I do have it, uh, like, uh, ready to be viewed. Um, and I'm not, I've never really been into like rom coms. Um, but there were like some Gen X, uh, type rom com type movies that were cool that I liked back in the day called singles. One of them was called singles no and another one I'm trying to remember the name of it right now.
00:33:24
Speaker
There was one that had Eddie Vedder in it. Um, he was like in a band in the movie, of course. And I think a couple of other Pearl Jam, you know, band members were also in that movie. Um, that was singles, I believe that one had, uh, names, names, Fonda, Bridget Fonda. And. Any relation to Jane? Yeah.
00:33:50
Speaker
She's like a niece or something. okay Bridget Fonda was the thing back in the 90s, man. She's beautiful. okay um She's like a niece or something like that. I don't remember. And what the hell was his name? Oh my God. He like fell off the map.
00:34:10
Speaker
I can't remember his name right now, but like people my age would definitely know it if I said it. For um which movie specifically? Singles, I believe it was. and I'm just going to look it up really quick. Yeah, I was going to say just look it up. Derpy derp derp. 1992. Ooh, Cameron Crow directed it. Wow. Matt Dillon. Never heard of him.
00:34:37
Speaker
Yeah, of course you wouldn't. Of course you wouldn't have heard of them. um And Kyra Sedgwick, which I think she's amazing. She's the one that's married to Bacon, Kevin Bacon. Oh, yeah, yeah. Kyra Sedgwick, wasn't it? Chris Cornell is in this movie. Oh. You might want to watch this movie. Maybe. Yeah.
00:35:02
Speaker
oh um It was very, very fucking grunge, early 90s grunge themed. Everything was grunge, grunge, grunge. I'm into that. um Yeah. So let me see. The other one that I was thinking of, who's the actress in Beetlejuice? Winona Wright. Winona Wright area. Oh, that's another good movie for my childhood. I'm surprised. It's always surprising, always left fielders that I was allowed to watch Beetlejuice.
00:35:32
Speaker
And that it was a family favorite and that drops the F-bomb. But I, I don't know if there was like, I don't know if they released a version that didn't have it or changed the word. Cause I don't remember it from when I was a kid. Um, so this other movie, I was thinking of the Gen X or, you know, mid nineties movie called Reality Bites. And that's Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke. The two big named people in that. Interesting.
00:36:02
Speaker
Yeah, they're not. No, they're not together. Ethan Hawke is with fuck is her name. I know ah Uma Thurman. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, because their daughter starred in the two most recent seasons of Stranger Things. Oh, I don't know. Actually, I admittedly I don't know if they are still together. But they did create a child who's maybe about my age. Cool. Yeah. My, my Hawke.
00:36:32
Speaker
Oh, I don't know. Something hot within him. Anyway, sorry. That's okay. That's okay. I
Humorous Fainting Anecdotes
00:36:39
Speaker
didn't know that. That's cool. It's cause he's cool to know that. So those are like, you know, my up and coming teenage, late teen years. Cool. What else was cool back in the day? Oh my gosh. You want to hear a really funny story? That's kind of gross. I don't know. Do I?
00:37:00
Speaker
I don't know. I probably don't, to be honest. Hold on. Oh my God. All right. So I was dating this dude. The one that um right after you were born, he asked me to be his girlfriend. Okay. I can't remember the name of this freaking movie. So we went to see this movie. I'm going to find it. It's called, I think it's called Alive.
00:37:29
Speaker
Um, it's, it's a true story of a, of an airplane that crashed. Um, and it's about the survivors. So let's see, is American bio biographical survival drama based on peers. Paul reads 1974 book alive. Um, the Uruguay and rugby team crashed.
00:37:53
Speaker
aboard Paraguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes Mountains, October 13th, 1972. So that really happened. And this movie was about the story of the survivors. But so there's a part during the crash, where some kind of rod or pole comes out of something and shoots into somebody's gut, like right into the plane.
00:38:18
Speaker
And my boyfriend at the time was super sensitive to that kind of crap and he immediately got ill. Oh, no. And he started puking. Oh, no. And they had to give him the bag of popcorn to barf into. Oh, no. So it was almost a cool bag. So he's puking into the popcorn bag. That's awful. And then he passed out. And then. Oh, my god. During the middle of the movie, he came to. And then.
00:38:50
Speaker
Oh, my god. mar like were Were you like fucking panicking? Because I would be. No. And probably he probably came to within a minute or two. It wasn't like a long time or nothing like that. I would have been been panicking if I couldn't have woke him up and he was out for a long time. So he must have just been out for a minute or two. Okay.
00:39:09
Speaker
So at the end of the movie, we go to get up, and because I always like pick up my garbage and take it with me to throw away, I go to pick up the bag of popcorn and all the stuff fell through the bottom of the bag because it was so saturated and it hit the floor. Oh my God! And I was just like, run!
00:39:34
Speaker
Oh, God. And then you got to be caught near that. I was just like, run. Oh, no. Let's go, let's go. Oh, Jesus. What a fucking weird story. What a weird situation. Yeah, and that was that was probably one of my most bizarre, like, date stories ever. It's kind of fucking sad, to be honest.
00:40:05
Speaker
I mean, it it was a crazy situation, but at the end when that happened and we were just like, oh my God, go, go, go, get out of here. Yeah, yeah. It was funny after the fact. Oh, yeah, for sure. Once you like knew that you were not going to be in trouble or anything for leaving a mess on the floor.
00:40:29
Speaker
Oh my God. I haven't thought about that in a long time. Oh my God. It just made me laugh now. Oh, good. That's good. shake it ah I passed out after being kissed for the first time in a movie, like French kissed. So hold on. Was it the first time you were ever a French kissed at all or the first time you were French kissed in a movie? Ever. Ever. And it happened in a movie.
00:40:58
Speaker
Why did you pass out? Because I think I had built it up in my head so much that like when it actually happened, I couldn't take it. I was like, ugh. Oh my God. I never told you that. No. Oh my God. Do you regularly pass out? No. Oh, because I never have passed out.
00:41:21
Speaker
o I have never, never, ever, ever passed out. My body will do all other reactions before choosing to to black out. It happens because you've hold held your breath too long. That's all. That's what happens. Well, I mean like really anxious. those like if you're If you're prone to it, because some people are just prone to it. no no I literally lay my I have to be medically, medically forced to pass out. And even then it's hard. Even then I'm constantly warning the doctors, I could still hear you. That's a good thing. That's how I was scared to tell me awake during a surgery or something. Okay. So trigger warning. Oh no. Yeah. When I was like nine, eight or nine, maybe nine. Yeah, nine.
00:42:10
Speaker
Nine. Trigger warning for what? Trigger warning for what? For being a very depressed kid who didn't want to live anymore. Oh, okay. um I was like literally trying to hold my breath until I died when I was nine.
00:42:29
Speaker
And I was also trying to get ready for school at the same time. So I like was holding my breath and I think I was holding it for, I don't know how long. And I went to bend over to pick something up off the floor and I passed out. And I hit the floor and I was laying behind my bedroom door. And my mom heard the thump and was trying to get in.
00:42:51
Speaker
Oh no. And she was pushing the door into me and I was laying on the floor. Oh God. um So yeah, I was nine when that happened. And that was the first time I ever passed out. And that was like, I did not realize because I was too young and um unknowledgeable that just holding your breath that will only just make you pass out and it won't kill you. Right?
00:43:16
Speaker
so that was the first time. Then I think the movie theater kiss was the second time. And then I almost passed out giving birth because I was pushing so hard and not breathing enough. And like I felt like, I think it was was during my son's birth, not yours.
00:43:37
Speaker
I felt the darkness like closing in. It was like I was starting to see tunnel vision. And I think I realized it and said, I'm going to pass out. And somebody said, breathe. And I went, and then all of a sudden like the lights came back like in my in my vision. you know But yeah, that's it. So for passing out, no, it's not like a common thing for me. Those are the ones. But so yeah, I was watching Pretty Woman.
00:44:07
Speaker
I was on a date. Oh, I love that movie. Yeah. And at one point, he turned to me and kissed me and in the second I felt his tongue, I was out. And then like,
00:44:23
Speaker
and then um woke up, I don't know, a few minutes later because I i used to be able to pinpoint the exact part part of the movie that I don't remember from the theater. There was like, you know, a few minutes or something that were missing. and i And I went, oh, I i recognize this part now. I woke up at some point and like whatever. That was weird. That was definitely weird.
00:44:52
Speaker
um But it's just funny because you know when you're when things are all new to you in the sexual like realm of things happening, a I was so like anxious and nervous around this guy because he was so, you know in my mind, he was so cute and hot and whatever. And I was pretty young. you know I think I was 14 or 15. Gotcha.
00:45:23
Speaker
so then when that happened, it was just like too much for my brain. I was like, whoa. oh ah Shortly after that, though, I was not bashful anymore. Yeah, well, I mean, you get you get used to things. I mean, yeah, no, I mean, I understand though, because I mean, I told you about the adrenaline rush that I had when I first met out with a girl, right?
00:45:51
Speaker
Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was i speechless for an entire day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and that's- I get it. You know, the times that has happened for me were like, I was not sober. So it was like, I wish I could have had the same kind of experience that you had.
00:46:17
Speaker
But I was, I had liquid courage, so I was a little like, woohoo, you know, just like, go for it, you know, kind of crap. Yeah. I get that. Oh, those were the days. Yeah, I've been, I've been like, thinking not like, in like, super recent, but like, overarchingly, I've been thinking about like, to get back to the subject of this, of this episode.
00:46:47
Speaker
I've been thinking about like what kind of movies do I actually like? you know Because it is such a common question to be asked when you're like getting to know people, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. And I've never really felt like I could answer it because I was like i i just had such little exposure to things until I got older. And like I've also had to find that there's like a difference between movies that I enjoyed but I wouldn't watch again.
00:47:18
Speaker
and movies that like I will watch over and over and over again. And I found that it seems to be, I mean, we have established, it's been a while since we've talked about it, but we have established on this episode, or we have established on this podcast that we are massive Tarantino fans.
Favorite Movie Genres
00:47:38
Speaker
Oh yeah, for sure. Oh my God. So like that I became abundantly aware of as soon as I like,
00:47:47
Speaker
started to watch whatever was on Netflix available in like the 2013, 2014 era. But I had also in 2012, the first Tarantino film I ever saw was Django Unchained, which was incredible. Yeah, incredible.
00:48:05
Speaker
And so I really enjoyed that. I have found that I really enjoy adventure movies, but particularly ones that are not like fantasy or sci-fi, but just like life. Like I love the National Treasure movies. The National Treasure movies? Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. With Nick Cage. Well, not Nick Cage. Nicholas Cage. Same thing. timing oh I thought of Nick Cave because goth. I thought I was getting it mixed up with him, but no. Yeah, and ah admittedly, I don't really remember the second one, but the first one, I love. Yeah, yeah. But also, because you mentioned rom-coms, and see, like as you were talking, I was like compiling in my head, I was like, where where do I fall in this spectrum? And rom-coms?
00:49:01
Speaker
But romantic adventures? Fuck yeah. Enter Fool's Gold. Have you ever seen Fool's Gold? I don't think so. Starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. Oh, okay. I might have seen it. Yeah. I might have. I really enjoyed it. It's adventure, but it's treasure hunting and stuff, and that's fun. um I really love spy movies, o although I don't really love, well,
00:49:32
Speaker
they They do gotta be well-made, even if they're like hokey, even if they're like comedies by comedy, like ah Get Smart was really entertaining. But like, I was watching, I haven't gotten very far into it, but I was watching a movie. Oh, I can't even remember what it was called, but it came out literally this year, starring Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx. Yeah, I just saw something about that. Yeah, I don't remember what it was called, but it's on Netflix. And I started it and I was like,
00:50:01
Speaker
I don't think this is very well written. I don't know if I'm going to end up finishing it, but I like spy movies. I love the Mission Impossible movies. Oh my God. I haven't seen like the two most recent ones, I think, but I need to, but I love them. So like action in that arena, for sure. I do. I do like those kind of, um, thrillers. Um, yeah but I was going to say I actually have to like,
00:50:30
Speaker
acknowledge that I love dramas, like really emotional, like really emotional tearjerker type dramas. And I don't mean chick flicks, like, I don't know what, the no like like, like actual dramas, like The Help, for example. Well, that to me was more of a comedy. I think it had comedic undertones, but it was a drama.
00:50:55
Speaker
Okay. I felt, to me, didn't have the amount of drama that I would consider to be a drama movie. I think you need to watch it again. I think you need to watch it again, for sure. But another one that comes to mind is Steel Magnolias. If you have not seen that movie, I highly recommend it. Julia Roberts is in it. Was Steel Magnolias not the one that I told you to watch? No, that's fried green tomatoes.
00:51:23
Speaker
Yeah, no, I've seen steel magnolias many times over the years, like prior to like, knowing you and something. Friendling tomatoes is really good too. I think the word that I was looking for earlier is stylized.
00:51:37
Speaker
For the description of a type of of movies looking a certain way, they're like hyper stylized or whatever like that. That's what I was looking for. John actually came up with it for me because I knew he would. I see what you mean though. So hyper stylized, like Wicked is hyper stylized compared to like the the Wizard of Oz. You know what I'm saying? Right. Yeah.
00:51:58
Speaker
But I loved it. Anyway, so that was the whole point of me trying to come up with that word. um And like Pulp Fiction and like Quentin Tarantino movies are kind of like, in a way, also like stylized, because they're so you know, there's like a visually like handprint on them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get that. Absolutely. Yeah. um Kind of you could say the same of Martin Scorsese, which actually was going to bring me to like the main genre that I feel like is my absolute favorite, which it's funny because the biggest movies and shows in this genre I have not seen, but I know that I need to now. And it gets encompassed by this Corsese film, The Irishman, which really, it's mafia dramas.
00:52:50
Speaker
right I fucking love them, but I've never seen The Godfather. oh I, and I've never seen the Sopranos. Ah. My dad, he loved the Godfather. Okay. And the Sopranos. Um, no I have tried to watch Sopranos like I've gotten through part of season one.
00:53:13
Speaker
Maybe the whole season one, but like no further than that. Um, the godfathers, I don't know, like when they're dark mafia type genres or I don't know what, whatever stories, like those, those don't hold my attention quite as well. Oh, I am no riveted. Riveted. I'm trying to think if there's one that has held held my attention. Have you ever seen the Irishman?
00:53:40
Speaker
Yes. I've seen it once or twice because John loves that movie. Yeah. um But I just wanted to finish up my thought about Stellan. It's really quick. There's a, ah okay. So do you know Sally Field? Okay. You know who she is? I recognize the name. Okay. Shirley McLean. Recognize the name. Shirley McLean is Downton Abbey's American mother.
00:54:09
Speaker
The mother of... Oh, what's her face? Cora's mother. Cora's mother. Okay. Yeah, I know her. The first thing I ever saw her in was Valentine's Day from 2010. Okay. Dolly Parton is in this movie. Hell yeah. Olympia Dukakis, who was really big back in the 80s and 90s.
00:54:30
Speaker
i'll some that She sounds familiar too. a may Amazing actress in this movie. Daryl Hannah, who's from Splash, which she's one of the most beautiful women alive. oh my god do Julia Roberts. She was like the main character. said Sally Field was her mother in this movie. Anyway, I don't want to spoil anything because you haven't seen it, but I highly recommend that you do see it if possible.
00:54:55
Speaker
i yeah Well, I've also seen that there's, I don't know if it's a remake or if it's a reboot or something, but there is a Netflix show called Steel Magnolias now. Oh, I don't know anything about it. Okay. I mean, I've heard of it, but I don't know anything about it. Okay. But this movie,
00:55:16
Speaker
is it's a drama, but there's a scene where you start crying and then something funny fucking happens and you start laughing. And one of the actresses, because I don't want to give away what the scene is, what what causes this, but one of the actresses literally makes the comment, crying laughing through tears is my favorite emotion.
00:55:42
Speaker
And it was like it is exactly how that scene happens is like you start crying and then you start crying cracking the fuck up the laughing. yeah Something happens that's so funny. and And one of them actually calls that out and says it and it's just like so perfect. It's so fucking perfect. And I have chills. I got chills. The movie is so good. It's so good. Speaking of Julia Roberts. Yeah. and And speaking of aesthetics that directors do. Yeah. um What's his face? Gary something, something. The one who did, he did Pretty Woman, he did The Princess Diaries, and he also did Gary Marshall. That's his name. Oh, okay. He also did Runaway Bride. Ah. You ever see Runaway Bride? Yes. Julia Roberts. I love that movie. That is my favorite Autumn Vibes movie. Cool.
00:56:40
Speaker
Yeah, 100%. But yeah, like, I need to watch The Godfather, I need to watch The Pranos. I really, really enjoyed Griselda, which is a, really, it's like a, it's like a biopic type docu-series, not docu-series. Um, it's so it's like a limited series. It was like a, you know, six or eight episodes long series on Netflix, uh, telling the true story of a woman who becomes like the biggest like drug lord in like Florida. And it's starring Sophia Nergara. She was the, ma she was the Latina mom in
00:57:30
Speaker
modern family, the show. Okay. She was like the hot mom that was clearly a trophy wife. Yeah. um So the old man. who um That's Sofia Vergara. Okay. I love her. She's amazing. She's so beautiful. ah Yes, yes, yes, yes. I agree. Griselda is so good. And it's, it's not mafia specific, but it is like, like a drug lord drama type thing. It's really, really entertaining. And in that vein,
00:57:59
Speaker
Like, I mean, I know we're kind of veering into shows now, but like in that vein, like I loved Ozark for the same reason. Oh, I did like Ozark. Yeah. And like also in the same vein was part of why I loved and still love Sons of Anarchy. I haven't gotten into that one that much. Yeah. Cause that's, I mean, like it's again, less mafia, a little more cartel, but like,
00:58:28
Speaker
also gangs, gang wars, and it can get really gruesome. There's some really, really difficult parts, but like, God damn it, it's really good. easy Oh man. But i I think what I love so much about, particularly the Irishman, is just the attention to detail and the like closeness to reality that all the portrayals are. Like, oh my God, Joe Pesci in that movie? Holy fucking shit.
00:58:56
Speaker
like what I feel like he, I know him based on his portrayal of that character in that movie. The name of the character is escaping me now, but like, you know who Joe Pesci is. Yes, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also, of course, fucking Robert De Niro, you know? Yeah, yeah. Like, ah now I'm like, again, it's just layers upon layers upon layers, heist movies.
00:59:28
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like oceans. Well, I honestly, I can't remember much of the oceans 11, 12 and 13 oceans, eight, 10 out of 10.
00:59:43
Speaker
Cause I love girl power. Um, he but also, Oh, it was the one that it made me think of this. Fucking. Oh my God. I literally listened to the soundtrack all the time.
00:59:58
Speaker
American Hustle. Ah. You see that movie? Yes. Oh my god, I love that movie. And again, I think, is that also Scorsese? Oh, I'm not sure. I gotta like American Hustle. Nope, David O. Russell. But it's got like a similar vibe to it, where it's like It's the kind of acting, the kind of portrayal that like goes over the top, but it is, it goes over the top for what you're used to seeing in Hollywood film. But it is accurately portraying what you would be seeing in, if you were watching the scenes play out in real life in front of you. Like real people behaving the way that they would behave. Right, right.
01:00:45
Speaker
and You know, which includes just like tons of rambling and just like, you know, stuff that's like seemingly irrelevant and like emotions that seem like they come out of nowhere. But it's like, no, like people act this way, like in real life. Right. That makes sense. Yeah. Which one say this movie again? American Hustle. Okay, right. Yeah. And I did see it once, but it's been forever. Yeah, I like was tying it back into, in terms of like the similarities, I was tying it back into The Irishman for like why I thought it was also a Scorsese film, but like that it has that sort of over the top portrayal that puts it just right into ah true life territory. Gotcha. So good. Anywho, oh my god, this has been fun. Yeah, dude.
01:01:40
Speaker
I'm trying to think of more movies, but like. You don't need to because we've been recording for two hours almost. Okay. And we could certainly stand to have material left over to do this again. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I need to go and look at the DVDs that I've purchased over the years and refresh my memory. Yeah. Well, next time we'll plan ahead so that you can do that.
01:02:08
Speaker
But I love it. like i love love I love talking about this shit. And yet again, though, we still really haven't talked about Downton Abbey. True. But I feel like we would need to designate an entire episode.
Future Discussion Plans
01:02:20
Speaker
Let's do it. Multiple entire episodes if people care. But also, you don't have to care because we're going to talk about what we want to talk about anyway. so Also, Outlander. Ah, yeah. Especially once I finally watch the last episode.
01:02:38
Speaker
of the final season, or the seventh season. You haven't finished? No, I haven't had time, bitch. Oh, dude, I binged it. I binged it in one week. I have no time. no time. But I will. I've got time this weekend, so I will. um So you only have one left? Just one episode, yeah. OK. That's fine. i know what I know what's so dire, so don't worry.
01:03:05
Speaker
um but we're not gonna put spoilers in this episode. ah Yeah, no, like i I really though, like I think I told you about how I could write a dissertation on why Edith Crawley is the worst fucking person on planet earth. Yeah, dude, I was talking a jot about that again, because he, every time he gets bored, he starts watching Downton Abbey, and he'll like, put it on almost anywhere, like, you know, necessarily start it over in the middle, or we start over from the beginning, yeah pick up wherever.
01:03:35
Speaker
And, like, there were some episodes with her. Oh, it's the one where the cousin who supposedly, who died on the Titanic, supposedly was back. Oh, I fucking hate that episode. Oh, my God. I skip it every time. They actually freaking figured out how he could be faking it and, like, how he's a fake. And she's still like, how can you not see that it's him? Or, I don't know, she was all around defending it. You're so fucking gullible. You feel like chill.
01:04:05
Speaker
Yeah, that was annoying. And I was talking to John about that, and I was talking to him about how you were talking about Edith is the worst character in this whole series. She's just, she's just simply a better person. Yeah, she's pretty, I thought, yeah, Molly's pretty spot on about that. Yeah, I believe that's a, yeah, yeah, for sure. I still, I still, I already have my notes ready to get into why she's a terrible person.
01:04:32
Speaker
I wrote that dissertation like a year and a half ago or two years ago. So funny. Yeah. So we will we will be doing that sometime sometime soon maybe. But yeah, movies are fun. And if you want to chime in with any movies you think we need to watch or any opinions that you agree or disagree on that we have expressed in this episode, you need to email us about it. We'd love that. Yeah, dude. Yeah.
01:05:02
Speaker
I love you. I want to hear from you. Yes. I want definitely want words. I want words to come to my brain. Suggestions, ideas. Yes. Yeah. A show. but Anyway, I hope this episode has been entertaining, lighthearted for you. And I want i want to remind you to take care of yourself and to get you get rest and disengage from media, from the news when you need to because getting rest and taking care of yourself is an active protest and it's one that we can't afford to neglect. For sure.
01:05:55
Speaker
So watch your favorite movie. um but help It'll help regulate your nervous system. For sure, dude. Yeah. Anyway. Go find Downton Abbey and watch that, because that fucking show kicks ass. Oh my god, it's so good. It's addicting. i would It is. All right. Well, we hope you have a beautiful day, you guys, or night.
01:06:23
Speaker
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoyed my brain farts. Multiple of them. And we're grateful that you're here. Thank you for listening. Please join us again next week. We'll be back with more unpopular comments.