Feb. 14, 2025

Anti Valentine's Day Movies - You'll Be Glad You're Single (Or Wish You Were)

Anti Valentine's Day Movies - You'll Be Glad You're Single (Or Wish You Were)

Join us on this episode of http://podcast.popcultureweekly.com as Kyle McMahon and guest Amanda Baez explore the world of anti-Valentine's Day movies - movies that will make you glad you're single or make you wish you were.

We kick off with a lively...

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Join us on this episode of Pop Culture Weekly as Kyle McMahon and guest Amanda Baez explore the world of anti-Valentine's Day movies - movies that will make you glad you're single or make you wish you were.

We kick off with a lively discussion on the origins and relevance of Valentine's Day, questioning whether it's more of a heartfelt celebration or a commercial holiday created to sell greeting cards and candy.

Then dive into the feature presentation as Kyle and Amanda explore some of their favorite anti Valentine's Day movies.  From the hilarious "The Lost City" with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum to the mind-bending "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," their choices of films offer a refreshing look at movies which challenge conventional narratives surrounding love, romance and relationships.

Whether you're celebrating love or enjoying the single life, we've got movie recommendations to suit every mood on Valentine's Day, during a break up or anytime else. 

Kyle McMahon's Death, Grief & Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss is now streaming: https://www.deathandgrief.show/Chapter-One-The-Diagnosis-AKA-WTF/

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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, it's all about

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anti Valentine's Day movies that'll make you glad you're single.

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Let's go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon

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from My Heart Radio, your pop culture news, views, reviews

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and celebrity interviews on all the movies, TV, music, and

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pop culture u CRABE Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Netta Net, Hello, and welcome to pop Culture Weekly with

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Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon, and I

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welcome you. Thank you for joining me on the latest

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episode of pop Culture Weekly. I once again have Amanda

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Biez joining me for this episode. So today, in celebration

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or anti celebration of Valentine's Day, we're doing anti Valentine's

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Day movies, movies that make you wish your single or

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make you glad you're single. And I thought this was

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fun because I don't know. I think Valentine's Day is

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just a ridiculous holiday that was literally created by greeting

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card companies to sell stuff that you should be showing

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these sentiments all year.

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I'm not really a big Valentine's Day person, maybe because

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I'm single, but I don't hate it. You know, I

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actually enjoy watching other people, you know, in love, and

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I think it's beautiful.

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Okay, I have no problems with love or whatever, like

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that's cool obviously. I just think it's a dumb holiday.

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Like why it's just a holiday about showing that you

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love your significant others.

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Yeah, but you should be showing that all year.

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Well, I know what you mean, But I mean you

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could say the same thing for you know, for Christmas.

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Why do you have to only look at your family

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during the holidays. I mean you should be calling them

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all the time. I do, I know, but just for

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other people.

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Yeah, But like Christmas is like a religious holiday observed

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on December twenty fifth. Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day

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or the Feast of Saint Valentine is considered actually a

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Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine. But I

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feel like it was a holiday created by you know,

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greeting card companies to sell greeting cards and candy and stuff,

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you know what I mean. Yeah, And so I don't know,

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you should be going on a date with your Valentine,

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you know, throughout the year.

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Yeah, And when people do that it's just that this holiday,

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I guess, enforces it more. Yeah, which I don't think

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is a bad thing.

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No, No, I get it.

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I don't know. I think that I'm thinking more about

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healthy relationships, you know, relationships that are those stable relationships,

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like stable relationships where you know, Valentine's Day is just

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you go a little bit more because of you know,

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it being enforced. I don't know. I think that I

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like Valentine's Day, you know, even as a single person,

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because it's just nice to see, you know, the world

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connect with their significant other, even though I don't have one,

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which I'm I'm okay with. Yeah, but I just think

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it's really nice to see.

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I don't know, I don't obviously, I've you know, been

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in relationships during Valentine's Day and stuff, and it's you know,

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it's nice to like just just kind of arbitrary. I

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don't know. I don't know.

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I don't know. It gives a hater maybe maybe you're

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a little bitter.

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Not bitter, I just so this Wikipedia says that Valentine's

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Day is a major source of economic activity, with total

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expenditures topping eighteen point two billion dollars each year, which

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is one hundred and thirty six dollars per person wo

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which is insane. Now that's including giving cards to your mom,

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your sister, your you know if you're in school, or

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your little friends Valentine and like stuff like that. But

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I don't know, what do you guys think? Use the

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talkback button. If you're on the iHeartRadio app, It's free

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and it comes right to us, and let me know

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what you think about Valentine's Day. Is it a sham,

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is it a you know? What do you think? Or

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if you're not on the iHeartRadio app, you can go

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to leave a voicemail and you can leave a voicemail

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that comes directly to me. So in celebration of Valentine's Day,

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we are doing the top anti Valentine's Day movies that

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make you wish you were single or or make make you,

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you know, happy that you're single. So we'll get to that,

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but before we do, it's time for what do we

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watch this week? So I watched Heart Eyes, which is

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so so good and I'm actually going to talk about

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that later in the show. But I also saw the Monkey.

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I saw a screening of The Monkey because I'm going

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to be interviewing the cast. So The Monkey is based

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on a nineteen eighty horror short story by Stephen King

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that has like this essentially this monkey toy and it's

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cursed and every time the drum hits crazy death happens.

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I feel like I've heard this storyline before.

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Well it's from nineteen eighty. So it's so good. So

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it's written and directed by Osgood Perkins, who did I

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love him. He's done The Black Coat's Daughter, I Am

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the Pretty Things that the pretty thing that lives in

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the house Gretel and Hansel, which I loved Long Legs,

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which we both have to watch that movie. Yeah. Now

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The Monkey is his new one, and it is so good.

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It is outlandish and crazy and darkly funny. Really yeah,

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I didn't expect it to be funny, and it's like

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darkly funny, yeah, very much. So it is really really great.

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I love it, and the cast is great. Theo James

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stars in it and he's incredible. It's it's just so

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good and I can't wait. It comes out February twenty

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first in theaters, and I can't wait for everybody to

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see it next episode, we're going to have the cast on.

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Oh wow, Yeah, that's exciting.

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Yeah, so I'm really excited for that. Neon is releasing

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the film Love Neon. They always have great projects. They've

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done stuff like Long Legs, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady

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on Fire, Palm Springs. You know, they're great, great companies.

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So in an event, put that on your list to see.

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I just want you to put it on your radar now,

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especially if you're a horror fan. This is the one

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to watch and comes out February twenty first, put it

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on your calendar now to go see that opening weekend.

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You're not gonna want to miss it. So that's what

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I saw this week. I also finally twenty minutes left,

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but I started smile too, which is amazing and terrifying,

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And it was actually so disturbing that I ended up

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turning the lights on as I watched.

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Way.

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Yeah, it was very disturbing.

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I can imagine watching it in the movie theater in

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the doork. Yeah, it was insane. When I watched it.

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I watched it probably only one couple behind us, and

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needless to say, when the end credits came on, we

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were right behind that couple they were leaving, and I'm like,

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you know what, me too, We're we're not staying in

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this theater a second longer. That movie is one of

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my favorite movies ever. I don't know why I love

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it so much.

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It's a great movie and I still have twenty minutes

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to go to find out how it all right?

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What do you think is going to happen at the end.

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I'm curious.

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I don't know.

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Okay, that's valid because I didn't know either.

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Yeah, we'll talk about it more next week. Okay, after

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I finish it.

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But I can't believe you ended it.

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I think I fell asleep or something, not because because

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it was like four am. Oh, and I was like

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trying to stay up and I'm like, just twenty more minutes,

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you got this, And yeah, it didn't happen. In any event,

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What did you watch?

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I've watched a couple of movies because I'm trying to

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prepare for the Oscars. Yeah, so I watched Amelia Perez.

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Okay, how was that?

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I don't complicated.

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It is a complicated movie to describe. I mean, the

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storyline was interesting. I will say that it was nothing

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that I had ever seen before. I went into the

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movie not really knowing what to expect. I didn't know

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anything about this movie except that it was about a lawyer.

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That's literally all that I knew. And within the first

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fifteen minutes I was questioning everything about this movie.

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I just in a good way, in.

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A curious way, in a curious way as to how

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in the world is this movie going to go? I

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just I didn't see where the vision was heading. And

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it was a musical. The music was extremely, extremely disappointing,

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and the songs I felt lasted for forty seconds, thirty seconds,

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like they weren't even minute long songs. Okay, and it

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just wasn't it for me. But towards the you know,

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the middle of the movie, I feel like it's sort

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of picking up. It's an interesting movie, it really is,

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but I don't think that it's something that I would

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watch again. Okay, Yeah, I didn't really know how to

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feel about the whole entire plot, you know, and premise

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of it.

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And what else did you watch?

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I watched Hard Eyes as well, okay, and I watched

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Kunk Clive, Kunk.

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No c and cl Oh wait, yeah, yeah, oh okay.

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I was like, wait, maybe it's just talking about a

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different movie.

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Yeah, I watched that movie.

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How was that?

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Okay? That one was really interesting?

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Okay. I almost started watching that and then was like,

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I don't know if I'm in the mood for it

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right now. So I did it, but it's still on

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my list.

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I mean, it's not a movie that I would gravitate towards,

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but I do have to say that it was interesting

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to look at from a perspective of someone who is

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not Catholic. The whole entire process of determining the new Pope.

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I don't even know that was a real thing.

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Oh okay, And.

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So it was like really eye opening to me. And

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it was a little juicy. It had a little drama

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to it. It's like old people drama, I think, you know.

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I mean, this is a movie for I feel it's

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catered more so towards adults. It's just dialogue, you know,

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So it's like, you know, it's really just based on that.

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There's no murder plot, like an assassin or something.

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I really was hoping, I was honestly hoping that there

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would be something a little juicy, like the Pope was

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like a fraud or something. I don't know, but it was.

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It was really interesting. You know. I don't think I

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would watch it again, but I could appreciate you know,

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the whole entire you know, plot of it, okay, and

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the scenes, the shots, These shots were so amazing. Yeah,

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I do gotta say, like the cinematography for this movie

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was so beautiful.

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I okay, so I'll definitely watch it. Then I did

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grow up Catholic, and it's kind of wild what Catholicism.

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No, like the whole entire process to get to get

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a new pope. Oh yeah, yeah, like I didn't even

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know that was a thing.

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Yep, yep. And that's why I think I definitely interested

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in it, you know, and it's gotten rave reviews, so like,

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you know, I think.

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I didn't think it was Yeah, I didn't think it

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was like an amazing film, but like I could appreciate

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what the director was trying to accomplish. It's just I'm

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not Catholic, you know, I'm not really into that kind

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of you know, dialogue based movie. So it's like I

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don't want to base it off of my opinions.

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I mean I was going to any way, but yeah,

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now I'm like even more.

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Yeah, give it a shot.

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A right, next up, what's out this week? All right,

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So there's some awesome movies coming out this week. Captain America,

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Brave New World. I'm so hyped to see this me too.

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I can't help I really love Anthony Mackie as Captain America. Yeah,

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I just I mean that amazing.

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for the next Avengers movies. I'm just excited. I'm always

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excited when I knew MCU movie comes out. So, yeah,

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Paddington in Peru. Did you see the other Paddington movies?

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I didn't. I really want to watch them, though, I've.

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Heard they're like, really really good.

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I've heard that too, which I wouldn't really expect. I know,

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people are very passionate about them.

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They really are, and I don't know why. But I mean,

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I'm not against it.

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wouldn't expect it for a movie like that. Yeah, but

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people apparently are very excited that it's coming out, and

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they're very passionate about this franchise right, and I don't know.

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I don't know's it's not really a franchise that I

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would think would have such passionate fans. Yeah, you know,

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but I'm not gonna knock it.

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In music, Drake is releasing a new album with Party

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next Door, and I'm like so anti Drake. Now. I

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used to love him, and then I just like feel

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like I just saw through the facade. Like, Bro, you're

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not hardcore. You grow up rich in Canada. Take a seat, bro. Anyway,

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so he releases a new album called Some Sexy Songs

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for You. Sabrina Carpenter releases the deluxe edition of Short

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and Sweet. I am really falling for a Sabrina Carpenter.

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I love her.

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She is like so funny she is.

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She's hilarious. Her skits always have me cracking up.

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Yeah, she's so funny. So I'll definitely check out the

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deluxe edition of Short and Sweet. And then in streaming

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Waitress the musical, which is do you know who Sarah

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burrellis is?

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Yeah? I know her.

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So she wrote this musical called Waitress, which is I

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believe based on a movie, and but now she made

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it into a musical and it went on Broadway and

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now there's a movie they filmed, like the Broadway show.

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Oh, like how Hamilton did it?

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Yes, okay, So that's out on Max. The Gorge with

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Anna Taylor Joy and Miles Teller is out on Apple

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TV Plus, and that looks really good. It's kind of

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like a mystery scary sort of thing where there are

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two trained operatives that are on opposite sides of like

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this big gorge in the earth and their mission is

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to like keep these creatures from coming out, and so

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they kind of have this like long distance relationship through radio,

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you know, talking on like walkey to and stuff. So

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it looks pretty interesting. I'm excited for that. And then

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Cobra Kai Season six, Part three comes out, which if

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you're a fan of Cobra Kai, this looks awesome. The

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White Lotus did you watch any of that? No? I didn't, Okay,

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So it's like a social satire.

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Is it a show?

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It is a show. Every season is kind of its

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own thing. So season three comes out on Max and

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then Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy. It's like the

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fourth Bridget Jones movie.

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Who was Bridget Jones?

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I don't even know? It was like I never watched

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any of them because they just looked they weren't for me. Yeah,

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I think they were like romance movies. Yeah. And then

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Better Man is out on digital to purchase.

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I really wanted to watch that in theaters. I'm actually

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really bummed out. I haven't seen it, and let me

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tell you why, because our regal took it out like

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the second day that it was released. Because I swear

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I really was going to watch it after you told

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me about how good it was. I went on letter

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box and the reviews are really good, and I was like, oh, okay,

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like this seems like really good. Actually, yeah, I wanna

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go watch it and literally no showing.

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Yeah, you will love it. So when you can rent

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or buy it, it is so amazing. One of my

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favorites of the year easily. And then Flow, which is

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a two time Oscar nominee. It's dialogue free. There's no

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talking throughout the whole movie. It's like animated.

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Oh it's up for Best Animation.

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Yeah. So it's like this little black cat is struggling

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to survive after the flood and then he gets like

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stranded on a sailboat with all these other animals and

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so he kind of has to learn to cooperate with

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the rest of the animals in order to stay alive. Yeah,

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so that is out on Max as well. I haven't

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seen that, but I do want to see it. I'll

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probably check it out this weekend.

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Watch it.

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Yeah so flow, So that's what's out this week. All right,

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We're gonna take a quick break and when we come back,

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we are going to get into Anti Valentine's Day movies.

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So we'll be back in sixty see you that all right.

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Thank you for joining us, and thank you for supporting

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our sponsors. They help this show continue to come every

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week and help me to get to do what I

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do for you, so thank you. All right. Our main

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event Anti Valentine's Day Movies. The movies that make you

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glad you're single or make you wish you were single.

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So I have a list of ten, which you'll find

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on my blog popculturewekly dot com. But we're going to

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go through five of them today and U F five

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two right.

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Yes, so, And they're in chronological order.

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Of when they were released, of how much I like them, Okay, mine,

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not in any order, they're just there. But Valentine's Day,

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you and I have talked about this before, but and

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we talked about it at the top of the show.

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This is for people that just ain't feeling it today.

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People that are bitter no, and heartbroken no, and haven't

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found their person and are low key very sad about

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it but don't want to express it.

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No.

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I have no problems being like, first of all, I

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don't need a relation joke. No, I know it's I know.

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I can tell you're very triggered by it, though I'm

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not okay, sorry, You're fine.

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I'm not bitter like I I am not the type

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of person who needs to be in a relationship to

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have validation period. Like I said, even when I was

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in relationships, I was just like, eh, it's just another day,

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Like so it's just another day Valentine's I mean, oh yeah,

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I thought you were waking up thinking that every day.

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Oh no. So this main event is for those people

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who just start feeling it today. You know, maybe they

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they're listening on Valentine's Day to this or before or

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after or whatever anytime throughout the year and you're just like,

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maybe you did just go through a breakup, or maybe

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you're just like screw love, yeah today or maybe you're

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just like, oh, I hate romancey cute stuff. It's also

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cliche in film. Let me watch things that aren't that.

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So that's what today's about. So what is your first one?

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My first one at number five is The Lost City.

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The Lost City, Oh and Channing Tatum.

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Yeah, I love that movie. I thought a movie when

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it came out, and it was so funny to me.

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I actually did watch this in the theaters. Yeah, and

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I did love it because it is very much an

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anti Valentine's Day movie.

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It's so funny. I just love her character. I can't

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remember her name. I just loved her character, and he

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was they were just so opposite. They worked so well. Yeah,

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because opposite the track. Yeah, I don't know. It was

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just it was just such a joy to watch.

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Yeah, it was really funny. It was not cliche. I

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feel like Loretta. Yes, Loretta Loretta Sage was a former

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archaeology researcher who writes romance novels centered on the fictional

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fictional doctor Angela Lovemore and her romantic interest Dash McMahon.

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Yeah, yes, yes, Oh my goodness. And then Brad Pitt's character,

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Oh god, yeah, oh my goodness cracked me up. I

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really was laughing so much in that theater.

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Yeah that is that actually is you know, that's a

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great choice. I didn't even think about that one. That

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is a really funny movie, very much anti Valentine's Day.

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And you know what, even if you are happily in

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a relationship, like, it's a great movie. Yeah, you know,

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it's funny, there's adventure, the cast is great, like, yeah,

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it's just that's a good one, all right. So my

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first one is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which

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you've never seen.

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Right, No, I haven't seen it.

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Shocking, So it is a sci fi romantic drama kind

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of its stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunn, s

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Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood.

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Yeah, great cat huh all people that I really like.

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Yeah, amazing cast. And basically it's these two people who

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were in love who undergo a procedure to get their

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memory erase so they can forget each other after they

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break up. What Yeah, it is, You've got to it

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is so good and it is how do you It

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is unique. I've never seen a movie like this. It's

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it's very much not your typical stays in the lines.

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You know what I'm saying. It is very much its

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own thing. It is heartbreaking, it is good, it is

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thought provoking. It made me think, Shoot, would I get

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a memory procedure to erase somebody?

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Would you?

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I don't know.

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I feel like I haven't met anybody as horrible to

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do that.

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Maybe not even necessarily horrible as it is heartbreaking. Maybe

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I loved you so much and it just didn't work

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out for whatever reason. You moved away for a job

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and I couldn't move, And it's just so painful that

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I don't even want to think about it. You know,

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it's very thought provoking, it is.

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I still don't think I would do it.

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I don't think I would.

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I think that that type of things is what makes

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a person that, you know, It's what helps them grow

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as a person.

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Yeah, And you know, I always it's just like death.

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You know. I grieve my mom all the time. I

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love her so much and I miss her every day.

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But you can't have the highs without the lows, right,

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you know what I mean. I grieve so hard because

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I love her so much, You know what I mean.

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One has to come with the other, Yeah, or you

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can't just be happy all the time or that's just normal,

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which means you don't have the highs. You just have

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this bassline all the time, you know what I'm saying.

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And it's not reality to be happy all the time, right,

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you know? And to have good perception to someone all

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the time. Yeah, like that's not really reality.

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Yep. Absolutely, So you've got to check out this movie.

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It is really incredible. It's become like this cult classic

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and one of the most interesting films I've ever seen

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by far.

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I'm gonna check it out.

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Really great. Yeah, it won Best Original Screenplay at the

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Academy Awards. That won the Oscar for that one Best

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Original Screenplay at the British Academy Film Awards. Actually, you

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know the Halsey song Ashley.

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I love that song.

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So the dialogue in Ashley is from the movie Oh.

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No Way, Okay. I definitely gotta watch it. Yeah, because

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hald is one of my favorite artists of all time.

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Yep. And the track Clementine that comes right after that, yes, yes,

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that is titled after Kate Winslet's character in the film.

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I'm putting this on my thing right now. Yeah, because

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that just screams a movie that I would love.

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Yeah, it's incredible. So in any event, Eternal Sunshine of

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the Spotless Mind is on my list for sure. So

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all right, what's your next one?

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So my fourth one is Gone Girl.

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Oh that's a good one.

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Yes with Ben Affleck. Yes, I love that movie.

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I love that movie. It is so good. What do

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you love about it?

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I just think that it's very dramatic. Yeah, and she's

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freaking psycho. What's Amy? Amy's freaking psycho. When I first

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saw it, I was thinking to myself, what in the world, Well,

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let me not say when I first saw it, because

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I read the book.

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I did.

464
00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:07.519
I read the book first because one of my good

465
00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.799
friends wanted me to read this book and I had

466
00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:13.720
no idea what it was about. So she told me

467
00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:16.640
a little gist of it, you know, and I was like, Okay,

468
00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:19.079
I like murder Mysteries, and I'm reading this book and

469
00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.000
it's very detailed, and I'm like thinking to myself, what

470
00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:27.480
is happening. It's such a psychological thriller that it literally

471
00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:30.759
takes the book and just embodies it in the movie. Okay,

472
00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.920
because you know how sometimes book and movie adaptations are

473
00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:37.559
just complete terrible. No, this one, it's like they speak

474
00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:39.599
lines word for word, not all of them, but it's

475
00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:42.440
like it's very, very close. I don't know, it's just

476
00:25:42.519 --> 00:25:46.000
so insane the lengths that this woman was willing to

477
00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:48.839
take me. I would have just left. And that's it.

478
00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:51.400
I don't know. I was just watching this movie and

479
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.559
it for the first time, and it was like, yeah,

480
00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:55.480
this is psychotic.

481
00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:58.880
Yeah. I had never read the book, but I did

482
00:25:58.920 --> 00:26:01.200
see the movie, and I you know, I really like

483
00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:04.119
Ben Affleck. Obviously do like as an actor.

484
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:06.119
No, I like him as an actor.

485
00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:08.319
You know that's what I mean. Oh okay, yeah, no,

486
00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:11.119
I love love him as an actor. I love the

487
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.079
director David Fincher and Rosamund Pike, who's been on the show.

488
00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:19.720
Shout out to her. She plays Amy. So I was like, okay,

489
00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:22.400
I'm in. It looks like a cool psychological thriller like

490
00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:25.680
mystery blah blah blah, and I was hooked on it.

491
00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:28.559
It is really, really a great movie. I actually I

492
00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:30.680
haven't watched it in a while, so I wanna you know,

493
00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:33.240
you've made me want to pull it back out. That

494
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:33.960
is a good one.

495
00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:37.000
Yeah. We watched it, I think on Tuesday. Oh, okay,

496
00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:38.480
for the for the podcast, ye. I was like, I

497
00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.880
want to watch it again. I haven't seen it in

498
00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:43.200
a while, and I don't know watching it from my

499
00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:45.920
perspective now that I'm a little older versus the time

500
00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:47.559
that I did watch it when I was a little younger,

501
00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:50.279
I just really see how unhinged this movie is. And

502
00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:54.359
I don't know. She's just very she was very determined.

503
00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:56.680
You know, I can I can. I can respect that.

504
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:58.400
Oh I thought you're gonna say I can relate.

505
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:00.759
I was like, no way.

506
00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:06.480
I mean, and the fact that what was his name, Nick,

507
00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:09.799
The fact that all Nick did was just honestly fall

508
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:12.519
out of love, Like he didn't I mean he did cheat.

509
00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:17.440
Okay, he did cheat, but he wasn't like like violent

510
00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:19.400
violent towards her. I mean, yeah, he pushed her a

511
00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:21.559
couple of times, but it's like you got people that

512
00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.160
are beating their wives for you.

513
00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:26.240
Went from he didn't really do anything wrong to well,

514
00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:30.039
he cheated and he kind of physically assaulted her besides that.

515
00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:35.920
Okay, but like honestly, yeah, but no, you know what yet,

516
00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:39.920
I don't know. I just think that just leave. Yeah,

517
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.359
you know, he fell out of love with you, he cheated, Okay,

518
00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:46.559
he pushed you I mean just you know, maybe do

519
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:49.440
something a little less mundane. But like, I don't know,

520
00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:52.039
it was just I would have liked that if Nick

521
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:54.480
was like this raging alcoholic, you know what I mean,

522
00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:56.799
like like this is such a terrible, terrible person. I mean,

523
00:27:56.839 --> 00:27:58.319
he was a bad person, but I don't think that

524
00:27:58.359 --> 00:28:00.000
he was like the fact that he was just like

525
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:00.920
regular guy.

526
00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:06.359
I mean, minus the cheating and the physical abuse.

527
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:12.200
But oh that's regular guys. I oh my god, am

528
00:28:12.200 --> 00:28:16.200
I But but you know, I just think that she

529
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:17.640
was just doing a little too much.

530
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.000
Yeah, she was doing a lot too much. But it

531
00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:24.079
is a really great I do really love that movie. Yeah,

532
00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:26.519
I'm glad you said that because I want to pull

533
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:29.519
that back out. All right. Well, my next one is

534
00:28:29.559 --> 00:28:32.640
Blue Valentine. I know that you haven't seen this one.

535
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:33.599
How do you know?

536
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:35.160
Have you seen this one?

537
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:35.920
No?

538
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.240
But how would you know if I haven't?

539
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:43.039
I just know. So. Blue Valentine is a movie with

540
00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:45.720
Ryan Gosling Michelle Williams. Have you seen it?

541
00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:46.599
No?

542
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:52.839
I haven't exactly, but it's basically a you okay there. Yeah,

543
00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:54.279
I was just trying to think of how to say

544
00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:58.279
it without spoilers. It's about a married couple Michelle Williams

545
00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:01.720
and Ryan Gosling, and like the film shifts back and

546
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:04.440
forth through their time from when they first met to

547
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:08.960
essentially their divorce years later. So it kind of goes

548
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:13.119
back and forth throughout it, and it's done really, really well,

549
00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:16.640
and it's I think what it is is such a

550
00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:21.200
different take on like, oh, a drama where people fall

551
00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:24.119
out of love and divorce. That that's what makes it

552
00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:26.960
super interesting. And then the actors, I mean Ryan Gosling

553
00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:31.000
and Michelle Williams, like they're awesome, incredible actors. So and

554
00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:35.640
then you know, combine that with the story how the

555
00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:38.000
storytelling is done of like going back and forth through time.

556
00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:41.559
It's just super creative and really good, I think.

557
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.799
So it's just a movie about marriage and divorce.

558
00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:47.160
Yes, but it's like how it's done.

559
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.039
But it's more complex than that, Yeah, exactly.

560
00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:53.039
So it's it's just super it's told we're going back

561
00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:54.720
and forth in time basically, so is it.

562
00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:57.599
Like past and presence exactly present kind of like gone girl,

563
00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:58.160
how they were.

564
00:29:58.039 --> 00:30:02.200
Going back in yep. So it it's just unique and

565
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:07.440
how they're telling the story of this romantic partnership that

566
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:09.799
turns into a marriage that turns into divorce, you know

567
00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:13.559
what I mean. So I love it for that reason.

568
00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:18.400
It's just not your run of the mill drama about divorce.

569
00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:21.599
It's a great movie. It made a ton of top

570
00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:26.799
ten lists that year twenty ten as movie of the year,

571
00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:31.720
like The AP Club San Francisco Chronicle USA Today put

572
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:34.680
it at third their third best film of the year.

573
00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.039
I mean, it's a really yeah, it's a really really

574
00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:43.000
great movie that I think it very much encapsulates anti Valentine's.

575
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:43.440
Day and it's a drama.

576
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:47.480
Yes, yep. And Ryan Glossling Michelle Williams like, yeah, totally

577
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.119
and yeah yep. So add that to your list.

578
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:52.200
I gotta check that out.

579
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:53.319
What's your next one?

580
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.039
So my next one, my number three is Anura.

581
00:30:57.799 --> 00:30:58.759
Is this the recent one?

582
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:02.400
Yes, Mikey Madison. It's dominated for like.

583
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:05.240
A million Yeah, keep going.

584
00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:09.319
I saw that movie last year. So basically it's about

585
00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:12.079
a stripper sex worker.

586
00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:15.960
Oh yes, okay, keep going.

587
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.160
Okay, it's about it. Basically, it's about a stripper sex

588
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:24.400
worker and she gets into this whole entire situationship with

589
00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:28.799
this rich guy from Russia. They basically get married. I mean,

590
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:32.200
you could see in the trailer. They get married and

591
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:35.880
and then there's a whole entire situation of trying to

592
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:40.720
basically fight the marriage the parents, Oh okay, got you,

593
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:44.799
and they've just roamed through through New York and it's

594
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:49.599
just so Cinderella gone wrong type of movie. I don't know,

595
00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:52.720
I loved it. I mean, I love Mikey Madison, yeah

596
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.039
so much. Like her acting was so amazing in this movie.

597
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.599
It was just such a rollercoaster to see it on

598
00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.200
the big because I watched it in theaters. I don't know,

599
00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:05.920
it was so extremely funny and I just felt like

600
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:10.000
I felt like her, not with the whole like sex workers,

601
00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:12.960
but her attitude towards.

602
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:14.279
Life maybe what are you doing here?

603
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:20.279
Pause? But her attitude towards like life, and her attitude

604
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.480
of how people treat her and how she basically defends

605
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:25.680
herself and she is not afraid to like speak her mind.

606
00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:29.400
Like I saw myself in her in that point of view,

607
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:31.920
and it was just so funny because she's a fighter.

608
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.400
I don't know, Like, her character was just so complex

609
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:39.319
and it's really sad beside, like when you look underneath

610
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:41.559
all of the comedy and all of the you know,

611
00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:44.400
like drama, Itah, it's a really sad message that this

612
00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:47.720
movie is sending out. Okay, I hope it wins something

613
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:50.160
from the Oscars because it honestly deserves it.

614
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:54.839
So Sean Baker is the writer and director of this film,

615
00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.400
and I love Sean. Sean is he did the Florida Project.

616
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:01.720
Did you see that?

617
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:02.640
No?

618
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:06.640
Okay, Florida Project is so good. He has a very

619
00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:09.759
different way of how he makes films, like the Florida Project.

620
00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:11.880
I think that was the one he used all iPhones

621
00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:14.839
to make a film. Or No, that was Tangerine. I

622
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.240
think he used all iPhones the Florida.

623
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.440
Project, like to film the movie. Yeah, yeah, what, Yeah,

624
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:21.160
that's impressive.

625
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:24.279
It was Tangerine that was filmed with an iPhone. The

626
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:28.359
Florida Project was filmed on thirty five millimeter film, except

627
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:32.839
with an iPhone. Success plus in Disney World in Magic

628
00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:36.279
Kingdom without their knowledge. They didn't know that they were

629
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:38.000
Disney No.

630
00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:38.759
Oh my good.

631
00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:41.319
So they didn't have permission, they didn't, you know, They

632
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:45.640
just did it kind of like, oh, we're just here

633
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:52.279
as guests. The film is awesome, And I interviewed most

634
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.000
of the cast and the writer and everything. In a

635
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:57.160
previous episode, which I will link in the show notes.

636
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:01.240
But yes, he is. Sean Baker is incredible. So if

637
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:05.480
you like DeNora, you'll like The Florida Project, you'll like Tangerine.

638
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:11.519
He did Red Rocket last year maybe, which is with

639
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:16.559
Simon Rex, where Simon is a middle aged, like retired

640
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:19.719
porn star who leaves La to go back to this

641
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.639
like small town in Texas and tries to get his

642
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:25.639
life together or whatever. It's super All of Sean Baker's

643
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:26.880
films are super interesting.

644
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.719
Yeah, Nora was the first one that I saw from him,

645
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:33.199
and it was definitely it was definitely something.

646
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:33.719
Yeah.

647
00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:36.400
I mean I didn't really know what I was going

648
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:39.400
to go watch when I saw Honora. I mean I've

649
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:42.199
seen the trailer obviously and knew that she was a

650
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:44.920
stripper and she, you know, she gets with this guy

651
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:48.960
and there's a whole entire crazy rendezvous that they go through,

652
00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:51.559
but I didn't know the details of it. Yeah, And

653
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.480
I just think that it was so funny. I mean,

654
00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:57.840
it's really a funny movie, and I think that the

655
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.880
trailer didn't portray that for a reason. Okay, it looked

656
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:04.840
more like a drama, yeah, like a romance movie, but

657
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.079
it was actually extremely funny.

658
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:10.039
Okay, another movie that you might like of his Tanzerine

659
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:11.840
that I talked about, that was the one that was

660
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:16.880
shot with iPhones totally. That is about a transgender sex

661
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:19.519
worker who discovers that her boyfriend and pamp has been

662
00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:23.719
cheating on her. That's like a crazy movie. It's good.

663
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:24.280
You should.

664
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:26.519
What is a ba sham Baker in these sex workers?

665
00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:30.039
He just likes telling stories, I guess from that's.

666
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.079
A pretty unique niche it is. But he did a

667
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:32.920
really good job.

668
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.079
With the Noras, so I mean, yeah, check out Red Rocket,

669
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:38.599
check out the Florida Project. The Florida Project is crazy.

670
00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:43.159
I highly recommend those. So all right, my next one,

671
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:48.960
Heart Eyes, which I just saw. I just saw it too,

672
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:53.079
but it is such a great anti Valentine's Day movie.

673
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:55.920
It's Oh and by the way, you can see my review,

674
00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.599
my one minute movie review of Heart Eyes on TikTok

675
00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:06.440
or YouTube shorts at pop Culture Minute on YouTube or

676
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.280
at pop Culture Weekly or on TikTok at Kyle to

677
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:12.639
you go to Kyle mcmahonnon it's there, but shout out

678
00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:15.960
to my social media channel and.

679
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:17.400
Subscribe and subscribe.

680
00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:23.159
But Hard Eyes, I had so much fun watching that movie.

681
00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:26.800
It is for me. It is like the perfect definition

682
00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:30.760
of an anti Valentine's Day movie. These two aren't in love,

683
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:34.519
you know, they're like co workers that just so happened

684
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:36.039
to kind of. And I don't want to give it

685
00:36:36.039 --> 00:36:41.440
away any spoilers, but accidentally kiss, incidentally kiss for a reason,

686
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:46.039
and the serial killer sees them and puts them on

687
00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:50.360
his hit list for his annual Valentine's Day couple killings

688
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:54.400
or whatever. And it was so funny, hilarious. Yeah, the

689
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.119
kills were ridiculous in a great way, just the whole thing.

690
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:01.599
And I love how it never took itself seriously, you know,

691
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:05.760
because some horror movies especially tend to take themselves seriously

692
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.000
in instances when they shouldn't. Some horror movies should be

693
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:11.039
taken seriously, but then there's some that are just like

694
00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:14.599
so ridiculous, like Heart Eyes leans into that like.

695
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:16.599
Half fun loosen exactly.

696
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:16.920
You know.

697
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:22.119
The kills were definitely ridiculous. Yeah, but I just I

698
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.679
love them. I mean they're ridiculously good. Yes, given the

699
00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:29.920
film's theme, Yeah, I think that the kills were really appropriate.

700
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:33.159
Yeah, me too. It was just so much fun. And

701
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:37.400
this is one that I would watch every Valentine's Station. Yeah,

702
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:41.440
just like Thanksgiving has become the Thanksgiving movie has become

703
00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.639
one that I watched in that time frame every year,

704
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:46.119
this will be one that I watch around this time

705
00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:46.679
frame every year.

706
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:48.719
I do have one thing though, that I wasn't a

707
00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:53.559
fan of. I wish that the mask heard eyes would

708
00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:56.960
glow twenty four to seven. Okay, that's the only thing.

709
00:37:57.119 --> 00:38:00.840
I was very upset when I know, I was very

710
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:04.719
upset really in the theater when the hard Eyes turned on,

711
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:08.280
I was like, that's kind of sleigh. Why are you

712
00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:10.519
not having that on twenty four seven? What like you

713
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:13.039
need like special batteries for it? What do we what

714
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:17.039
is like that just set the mask for me? I

715
00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:19.239
don't know. That's a very nitpicky thing for me, but

716
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:20.639
it really bothered me.

717
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.760
It was really dope when it happened. I was like, oh,

718
00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:25.920
it should it.

719
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:28.400
Should be the the thing.

720
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:29.519
Yeah, I don't know.

721
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:30.599
It was just really upset.

722
00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:34.920
But if it's night goggles on all the time, then

723
00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:38.440
in the days like blinding himself doesn't matter. I know

724
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:41.599
they could have found some dumb way around it, but it.

725
00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:44.320
Was just like, you know, it's such a sleigh mask.

726
00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:47.840
It really is. I hope that there's sequels, you know what,

727
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:48.280
me too.

728
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:51.119
When I was watching it, I was I was watching

729
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.159
it in the in the mindset of like, okay, maybe

730
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:56.199
it's going to take a scream type of route where

731
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:59.000
we know who the killer is. So I was watching

732
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:00.639
it and I was like, Okay, let me, let me

733
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:02.679
just cross off the people that are in this movie,

734
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:04.400
like what like, you know, let me just see if

735
00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:06.599
and you know, it was very interesting.

736
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.880
Yeah, I loved I loved it. I highly recommend it.

737
00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:12.800
If you haven't seen it, go see it Valentine's Day

738
00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.320
or Valentine's Weekend or not. Check it out. All right,

739
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:17.199
what's your next one?

740
00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:22.199
My next one is get Out by Jordan Peele.

741
00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:24.559
Jordan Peele is one of my favorite directors.

742
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:26.039
Oh me too, Me too?

743
00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:27.599
Okay, talk about it.

744
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:31.840
So I watched this movie for the first time many

745
00:39:31.880 --> 00:39:36.159
years ago. I rewatched it last night actually for this podcast,

746
00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:40.079
and my mind is still the same about it. I mean,

747
00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:43.079
it's a great film. When I watched it many years

748
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:45.480
ago for the first time, I'm not gonna lie, I

749
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.559
didn't understand most of it, Like I didn't understand like really,

750
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:53.440
what why these things were happening and why they were

751
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:57.239
choosing you know, black people as their experiments and you know,

752
00:39:57.320 --> 00:40:00.880
all that kind of stuff. And as the have gone by,

753
00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:04.119
and I, you know, me being a Hispanic woman and

754
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.920
I have experienced things myself, I really understood it. It

755
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:09.679
was one of those movies where it came full circle

756
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:11.159
for me. I was like, you know what, I was

757
00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:13.760
too young back then, yeah, but now it's like I

758
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:17.400
get it, yeah, and it is a masterpiece. I really

759
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:21.639
related to Chris as you know, a Latina. I really

760
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:26.039
I really related to him, and just he was the

761
00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:29.960
embodiment of I feel as though myself in situations like that,

762
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.320
because I've been in situations exactly like that, or I've

763
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.920
thought the exact same thing, and it's just really funny

764
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.639
to see it on screen and to know I'm not

765
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:41.400
the only one that sees this sketchy shit, yeah, you know,

766
00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:43.960
and I'm not the only one who thinks it's freaking weird.

767
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:47.119
So I don't know. I just that movie mind blew

768
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:51.119
me so much and I absolutely love it to this day.

769
00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:55.039
Yeah. Jordan Pierle is a genius in my opinion, and

770
00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:59.480
it's so smart how he made a great horror film

771
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:03.519
on its own, but then underneath of it there's so

772
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:07.800
much meaning and subtex and like it's a commentary on

773
00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:14.119
you know, race in America. But I feel like, if

774
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:16.360
you're dumb, you wouldn't even know that, and you could

775
00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:18.920
still enjoy the movie. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah,

776
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:21.719
Or if you're oblivious, Yeah, like, if you're just like, oh,

777
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.920
everything's great, blah blah blah, you could still watch it

778
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:26.719
and be like, this is a great movie. I don't know.

779
00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:29.639
I think that that was me when I watched it.

780
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:33.320
I was sixteen, Yeah, and I knew about race, you know,

781
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.559
I knew about the issues with it, but I don't know,

782
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:38.000
I never really thought much about it because I'm sixteen

783
00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:41.440
years old, right, of course my English essay exact. But

784
00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:44.920
as an adult, yeah, I mean I really did look

785
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.480
at it through a new lens. Yeah, and I mean

786
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:49.039
it was just more impactful for me.

787
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:51.880
Yeah, he's a genius. I freaking love him and everything

788
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:55.920
he does. I love you, Jordan Peele, come on the show,

789
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:03.039
all right. Next up for me is Midsummer. Did you

790
00:42:03.079 --> 00:42:10.800
ever see this movie? I'm sorry, no, Okay, I'm shocked, shocked.

791
00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:12.679
You know what, I don't even know he wouldn't ask

792
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.360
me to come back. This movie you should know.

793
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:21.480
You know so Midsummer. I still don't know if it

794
00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:26.639
is horrible or amazing. Oh I hate movies like that,

795
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:31.920
but it's super interesting. It makes you start thinking yeah, yeah,

796
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:36.760
And so it is by Ari Astor, who I love.

797
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:41.400
He's done so many great movies like Hereditary and Belle's Afraid.

798
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.320
So and it's from A twenty four Who I Love

799
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:49.679
A twenty four their studio. It stars Florence Pugh.

800
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:51.239
Oh I love her.

801
00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:55.440
Yeah, she's amazing, and Will Poulter is also in it.

802
00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.440
So basically it is how do I do this without

803
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:04.760
any spoilers? Okay, Florence kind of invites herself to her

804
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:09.159
like guys trip, I mean to her boyfriend's like guys trip, uh,

805
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:14.960
to Sweden to this retreat for guys. No for like anybody.

806
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:18.239
But it was like a guy's trip. And that's really

807
00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:21.280
all I can say about it without giving it giving

808
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:25.239
any spoilers. But it is batshit insane.

809
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:29.679
What does she like find secrets and stuff so much?

810
00:43:32.039 --> 00:43:36.079
It's really hard to talk about without spoiling without giving

811
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:39.239
anything away. I literally had to close my eyes during

812
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:41.599
the movie numerous times at the movie theater.

813
00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:42.400
It's scary.

814
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:46.920
Yeah, it is disturbing. It gave me like a bad

815
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:50.000
feeling what yeah.

816
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:53.880
Like physically, like mentally, like.

817
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:57.800
Like I don't like this. But but then after the movie,

818
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.280
I literally sat there with this girl and the lights

819
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:03.639
came on and I'm like sitting there and she's like,

820
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.400
what that did we just watch? And I was like

821
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:11.079
I don't know, And she's like, what did you think?

822
00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:13.719
And I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. If

823
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:17.199
that was incredible, I don't know, if it was like

824
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:21.159
a masterpiece, I don't know, if it was trash, I

825
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:22.239
don't I don't know.

826
00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:24.840
You see, if I was ever a director, I would

827
00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:27.400
want my movies to impact people in that way.

828
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:27.840
Yeah.

829
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:31.599
I love it when I cannot decide on if I

830
00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:34.840
like a movie hate a movie. I love that.

831
00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:38.239
Yeah, yeah, I mean. And that's why I have talked

832
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:41.719
about it numerous times on the show, this movie, because

833
00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:44.400
I don't want to say it's a bad movie, because

834
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:49.079
it's not. You know, it's beautifully shot, it's well written,

835
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:53.480
the acting is great. I just I don't know, I

836
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:53.920
don't know.

837
00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:56.400
You know what that was? Honestly, me with the Amelia

838
00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:59.639
Perez movie. I didn't know how to feel about it. Yeah,

839
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.800
I still, honest to god, don't I don't know if

840
00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:04.440
I like it a little bit. I don't know if

841
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:07.039
I hate it. But I get what you're saying when

842
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:09.639
it comes to feeling that after a movie. Yeah, and

843
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:12.920
you just feel so conflicted because it's just so thought provoking.

844
00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:16.199
Exactly, And so that's what this movie is for me.

845
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:21.159
But by far, it is an amazing anti Valentine's Day movies.

846
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:22.880
Well that's what matters movie.

847
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:26.280
Uh, yeah, it's what matters for this episode anyway. But uh,

848
00:45:26.440 --> 00:45:30.960
but yeah, I I highly recommend it. It is so

849
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:33.840
thought provoking. Yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that.

850
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:38.800
Actually, I don't know nothing about this movie, though. Yeah,

851
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:39.719
tell me something else.

852
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:43.320
Let me see one thing, let me see what like.

853
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:47.480
IMDb says a couple travels to northern Europe to visit

854
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:52.400
a rural hometown's fabled Swedish Midsummer Festival. What begins is

855
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:56.719
an idyllic retreat quickly to evolve quickly devolves into an

856
00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:59.840
increasingly violent and bizarre competition.

857
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:01.199
Competition.

858
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:06.559
M it is wild. Do yourself a favor and don't

859
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:09.519
look up anything on it. Okay, if you're gonna watch it,

860
00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:12.719
you know what I'm saying, because you will be you

861
00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:17.000
going in with less knowledge will be it will be

862
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:19.719
more impactful for you when you watch it. Okay, But

863
00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:21.880
it's one of those movies that I'm just like, I

864
00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:24.199
don't know. I mean, even it's years later and I

865
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:28.400
just I don't know. I don't know. That's all I

866
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:28.840
can say.

867
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:31.119
It's gonna be the reviewing your litter box. I don't

868
00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:31.400
even know.

869
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:34.239
That's what I was actually just thinking of. I was like,

870
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:37.039
I should probably go in and review it on letterbox

871
00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.280
and just be like, I don't even know, I don't know.

872
00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:40.159
That's funny.

873
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:43.320
Yeah, but it's well worth your watch, A well worth watch,

874
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.079
especially as a film fan, you know what I mean.

875
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:48.800
I wouldn't recommend it to the average Joe who's just

876
00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:51.320
looking for like a big Hollywood blockbuster. It's not that

877
00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:54.039
you know what I mean, It's not what I would recommend.

878
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:57.440
But for somebody like you, you know, and you listening

879
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.280
at home or in your car at work or whatever,

880
00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:03.559
you guys get it. So I do recommend it for you.

881
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:07.559
Okay, So any midsummer, let's get it.

882
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:08.719
What's your next one?

883
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.840
So my number one. This is one of my favorite

884
00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:15.000
movies of all time. And it's more of a dark Valentine,

885
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:18.760
dark anti Valentine, So it is a Last Night in

886
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:24.239
Soho Have you seen that movie? I am obsessed with

887
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:28.760
this movie. This movie is easily in my top three

888
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:34.679
favorite movies of all time. It is so good that movie.

889
00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:38.039
It's some of that movie. When I first watched that movie,

890
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:42.440
I could not even begin to describe the obsession that

891
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:47.960
I had with all things like nineteen fifties and the

892
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:51.360
Hollywood scheme back then, like I was obsessed with like

893
00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:56.400
the soundtrack Bomb, I love. I love everybody on that

894
00:47:56.440 --> 00:48:02.039
freaking cast, the storyline Bomb. That is pure art. Yeah

895
00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:05.079
to me, Yeah, I just I can't. I love that

896
00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:07.960
movie so much. I have posters of that movie like

897
00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:12.559
in my desk area. I am obsessed. I'm just completely

898
00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:14.199
in love with that movie.

899
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:17.039
It is so good. And if you don't know what

900
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:23.159
we're talking about. Twenty twenty one Psychological Harder Horror from

901
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:27.400
Edgar Wright, who I love Edgar Wright. He's another amazing

902
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:32.000
writer and director. He's done things like the World's End

903
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:35.679
aunt Man Scott Pilgrim versus the World showing to the Dead,

904
00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:41.480
Hot Fuzz incredible visionary director, writer, and he did this

905
00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:49.039
film with Anna Taylor Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg Thomasin McKenzie.

906
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:52.639
It's just the whole film. I agree. It's one of

907
00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:56.000
those movies that builds a world. Oh yeah, you know

908
00:48:56.039 --> 00:48:56.519
what I'm saying.

909
00:48:57.159 --> 00:48:58.320
Do I know what you're saying?

910
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:00.920
I love that. Yeah, that's that's a really good one.

911
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:03.199
You know those movies that you wish you could watch

912
00:49:03.239 --> 00:49:06.599
again for the first time. Yes, that would be my

913
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.840
number one movie that I would want to watch again

914
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:13.000
for the first time because of how much that movie

915
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:13.760
messed with me.

916
00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:14.960
Yeah, it was.

917
00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:17.920
It was just amazing. Very rarely do I ever leave

918
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:20.239
the theater that impacted from a movie.

919
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:21.599
Okay, I don't know.

920
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:22.960
I love that movie. I don't know why I love

921
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:23.639
the movie so much.

922
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:26.119
No, I agree, I love it too. It is such

923
00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:28.000
a good movie. That's like a great choice too.

924
00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.840
That movie's great. I'm just I can't even talk about it.

925
00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:36.599
Well. My last one is The Breakup, which from two

926
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:42.440
thousand and six. It's build as a romantic comedy slash drama. Okay,

927
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:47.000
I don't really agree with the building of it being

928
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.400
a rom com because it's not. I mean, it is

929
00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:54.719
funny and there is romance involved, but it's literally about

930
00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:59.679
their breakup, so it's not really a traditional rom com.

931
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:05.760
Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are starring it, and then

932
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:09.000
Joey laarn Adams is in it, and Margaret great Cast

933
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:14.480
justin long and it really just it is about the

934
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:18.360
breakup of this loving couple, and it's done in a

935
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:24.039
funny way. It's sad almost in a way, because you're like, damn,

936
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.000
they loved each other, but now they don't. Yeah, I mean,

937
00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:32.239
so this film is different in the fact that it's

938
00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:36.239
not you know, most movies are the movie ends once

939
00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:39.119
they do fall in love, right, this movie kind of

940
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:43.239
begins when they fall in love and ends with the breakup.

941
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:44.039
You know what I'm saying.

942
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:45.559
That's kind of interesting.

943
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:48.960
It really is. It is such a great movie that

944
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:51.559
I was just shocked at I only saw it. I

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love Vince Vaughan and Jennifer Anison. I will wear a

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diaper and have people throw pudding at me for her

947
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if she wanted me to.

948
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But I get it. I get it though.

949
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She's just gorgeous and talented and everything. But so I

950
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was like, all right, you know what, I'll say it whatever,

951
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And I loved it. I was like, wow, this is

952
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a really interesting way to look at a relationship. You

953
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don't see it all the time in movies as the

954
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point of the movie. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,

955
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So it's funny, it's real, it's sad, it's happy, it's depressing,

956
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it's great. It's the Breakup starring Vince Bones and Jennifer Aniston.

957
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:42.320
I feel like I'm selling it.

958
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Well, you kind of are.

959
00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:47.599
Yeah, true. So anyway, I recommend that if you're in

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your fields.

961
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But I'm never in my field, but.

962
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You definitely need to watch Midsummer.

963
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:56.199
Okay, I have that one, and I have the first one.

964
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The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Yes, and I

965
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want a full report on your letterboxed within the next

966
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couple of weeks.

967
00:52:04.079 --> 00:52:06.079
Let's not get too ahead of ourselves.

968
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:13.039
All Right. I'm excited for next episode because I'm interviewing

969
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the cast of The Monkey. I'm so excited.

970
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:18.280
That's gonna be fun. Yes, I love THEO James.

971
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:23.679
THEO James is amazing and he's amazing in The Monkey. A. Yeah,

972
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the whole cast is great and oscod Perkins. I love him.

973
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:29.079
I've talked about that. I just I can't wait for

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everybody to see this February twenty first.

975
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I wish that I would see so that I could

976
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share in the hype. I know, I'm like, just trusting

977
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.239
your word. I'm like, yeah, go ahead, yeah, I will.

978
00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:39.639
Like I want to watch it.

979
00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:42.159
You should. I want you to use your I mean,

980
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:43.960
you do whatever you want. You're an independent woman. You

981
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:50.159
don't need no man. But I would suggest to you

982
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to use your Regal unlimited and go next Thursday for

983
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preview night and see the Monkey and enjoy the hell

984
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out of it because it is so much much fun

985
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and terrifying and funny.

986
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I'm intrigued, I really am.

987
00:53:06.559 --> 00:53:11.079
It's good. So anyway, all right, well, thank you so much, Amanda.

988
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Thank you as always. It's always a pleasure to talk

989
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pop culture with you. And there's your anti Valentine's Day

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movie list. Thank you. I don't know what happened there,

991
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I rebooted or something. At any event, I will see

992
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you next time. I love you.

993
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We thank you for listening to pop Culture Weekly.

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