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Chick Flick SH**? The Devil Wears Prada 1 & 2 Ep. #119
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How can women like this sh--?!
On this episode -- #119 of the Triple FFF, we’re slipping into the world of prestige fashion, passive aggressively cruel bosses and serious life lessons as we discuss The Devil Wears Prada and its long-awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Directed by David Frankel, the original 2006 film stars Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and Adrian Grenier, while the 2026 sequel reunites much of the original cast with the addition of Justin Theroux, Kenneth Branagh, Lady Gaga and that heart-stopping toe-curling King of the Manhood Jungle, Patrick Brammall.
My two guests this week are no strangers to dressing well. Back again are David Johnson DMD and my kid sis and fashion icon.
Okay before we hit the runway, the synopses:
The Devil Wears Prada
A recent journalism graduate, Andy Sachs, is hired as an assistant to powerful fashion editor Miranda Priestly. She struggles to meet the demands of the job while adjusting to the fast-paced world of high fashion. As her career accelerates, her personal relationships begin to deteriorate.
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Years after leaving the fashion industry, Andy Sachs has moved into a new phase of her career. Miranda Priestly is facing changes in the media and fashion landscape that threaten her position. Their paths cross again as both navigate shifting professional and personal priorities.
Are these films comedy classics or are they just more in a long line of confused and manipulative chick flicks?
Find out!
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And now it's time for Fabulous Film Friends. On this episode, episode 119 of Fabulous Film Friends, we're slipping into the world of prestige fashion and passively aggressively cruel bosses and serious life lessons. As we discuss the Devil Wears Prada and its long-awaited sequel, The Devil Wears Prada 2. Directed by David Frankel, the original 2006 film stars Anne Hathaway, Merrill Street, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Adrian Grinier. While the 2026 sequel reunites much of the original cast with the addition of Justin Doreau, Kenneth Frata, Liddy Gaga, and that heart-stopping, oh-curling King of the Mountain, Patrick Brammel. My two guests this week are no strangers to dressing well themselves. Back again. This week are David Johnson DMD and my kid sis and fashion icon, Roseanne Caputi. Roseanne says something snitty about my clothes just to make me feel like the TJ Maxx loving boob that I am.
SPEAKER_00Uh, nothing compared to your hairline.
SPEAKER_01That sizzled.
SPEAKER_03At least you have a hairline.
SPEAKER_01Okay, before we hit the runway with the fans blaring at top speed, the synopsis. In the Devil Wears Prada, recent journalist graduate Andy Sachs is hired as an assistant to powerful fashion editor Miranda Priestley. Andy struggles to meet the demands of the job while adjusting to the fast-paced world of high fashion. As her career accelerates, her job her personal life begins to crumble. In the Devil Wars Prada 2, years after leaving the fashion industry, Andy Sachs has moved into a new phase of her career. Miranda Priestley is facing changes in the media and fashion landscape that threaten her position. Their paths cross again as both navigate shifting professional and personal priorities. Okay, um so uh why are we talking about these films, the the three of us? What what what the fuck are we talking about this? That's a good idea. Why are we talking about this film? Why what what do we think we're gonna get clicks? So two old bastards and a in a sourplose are gonna discuss this film.
SPEAKER_03What do you mean we're fashion icons ourselves?
SPEAKER_01Two schlumps. I'm a schlump in cargo shorts.
SPEAKER_00Anyway, I what are we talking about? What are we talking about when we're talking about this movie? Why are we talking about it? What do you want to talk about about it? I worry that you want to talk about it because you think it's a movie that women like.
SPEAKER_01It is a movie that women like.
SPEAKER_00Not this woman, right?
SPEAKER_01But you're an outlier.
unknownI don't know.
SPEAKER_00My wife didn't like it.
SPEAKER_01Right. My wife loved it. Yay, women!
SPEAKER_00Like, for some reason, I feel like you're gonna use these films to make women seem dumb. Is that why we're talking about the well, Gino?
SPEAKER_01Hey, what is the difference? What's the difference? Wait, what's the difference between this and Predator or Die Hard or Spider-Man or any of it? It's girls like what they like, boys what they like. They like the fantasy of what they like, they like clothes, they like this. I I just watch it and again, I hadn't seen the I I was busy working in film shoots during the 2006 stretch and adopting my son. So I I just didn't even think about the film when it came out. So I never saw it in 2006.
SPEAKER_00Even the way you talk about it, it's just like, well, I was busy living, I didn't have time for such frippery.
SPEAKER_01Yes, correct. So I see the preview to the sequel. I thought, you know, this looks funny. You know, Meryl Streep going, Who are you again? I thought, oh, I love that gag. The old Mr. Burns doesn't know Homer. So I'm I was I was down for it. So I I say to myself, Gino I says, I might as well see the first movie and see what all the fuss is about. And I didn't like the first movie that much. I thought it was a little like, eh, yeah, Meryl Streep was great. She got nominated for Best Actress, did she not? For that one?
SPEAKER_00Did you did you look it up? Because I never did.
SPEAKER_01Look it up right now. Um let's look it up right now.
SPEAKER_03But dude, here's the question: do women really like this movie? Yes. I mean it's a smash. It is okay, and I'm a guy. Yeah, I mean, obviously, I'm a guy. Noted.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, and I'm like, I'm like, she got a nomination for best actress for Miranda Priestley. I remember that.
SPEAKER_00I mean, she is the reason I thought I liked the movie. She and Stanley Tucci talk about Sislin, you know, and Emily Blunt. They've they're they're snappy, they're it's you think for a second it's a movie that's working, and then you realize again, and then this is me watching it now, realizing God, this movie completely switches in the middle and it has no perspective. Like, what are we watching? Are we watching like Bright Light's Big City? Are we watching a fashion movie? Are we watching a rom-com? Which wouldn't work because everything, all the romantic impulses in both films are just the devil fucks the world's most unattractive Australian men, is what these films should be called. Because both Simon Baker and that poor bastard in the second one are just the worst. What what an old mop. Yeah. What Simon Baker in the first one is no great shakes either.
SPEAKER_01I'm just like, this is the guy that's still he's still TV sensation Simon Baker. I mean, who's this guy? Like, this is this is like this is like Michael McKeon's gay character cast and from best in show cast the men in this movie, including Kenneth Branagh. It's like Kenneth Branna with the scarf and the like the defeated look. Like, what the hell is going on? That said, I still think the second one was just I didn't love it, but I thought it was a little a little more cohesive than the first movie, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_00Who gives a shit? The cohesion isn't the good part of the movie. The the good part of the first movie is a how mean they are, and and b that the first half, Anne Hathaway, really is someone that you hate and you're on Miranda Priestley's side.
unknownReally?
SPEAKER_00For a second, I was thinking. I'm not gonna say that. I I really disliked her watching it again as a proper adult. I'm just like, this is this is only funny because she's so obnoxious. And I I find Anne Hathaway unlikable in both films as a character. I'm like, what am I doing?
SPEAKER_01I'm not a big Anne Hathaway fan. In fact, I you know, I I try to avoid her because every time she opens her mouth in an interview, I just want to avoid her. But I thought she, I think in both movies she's perfectly fine. I got no issues with her.
SPEAKER_00I'm looking at her, but why she's the intern.
SPEAKER_01She's the so I I'd say the problem with the first movie is it it definitely has a focus problem in terms of well, what is this girl about? But she as a presence is pleasing. But it's like, well, is she a snob who learns to who learns to appre or she's like a she's above it all and she learns to appreciate fashion? Because that that idea gets dropped.
SPEAKER_00Right. And they can't figure out whether earnest people don't like fashion, whether Andy is earnest, whether she's ambitious, and then again, ambitious people like fashion, but then ambitious people are evil. But then wait a second, in the end, everybody's ambitions get sort of uh you know, satisfied. So what that's why I just think of it as like a giant capitalist mess, where like and the other idea is is journalism this idea, this last bastion of integrity, of intellectual integrity in 2006?
SPEAKER_01Like that's don't you think so? I I honestly think she should have been of like that's my problem with the and then the second film gets her back to where she should have been in the first film, which is writing snappy articles for runway, you know, like she goes off to the oh, she goes off to the other in you know, magazine with integrity and Miranda recommends her for it, where it's like it's just a it's a stupid ending, like and so she should have learned something about fashion, you know. She does, does she or doesn't she? I don't know.
SPEAKER_00That's the thing. At the end, that's what's so irritating. It's like, so if this is a film about fashion, the ostensibly the protagonist chooses to not be fashionable by the end.
SPEAKER_01And Meryl Streep, who's the bitch, helps her get the job against the like not working in fashion, which I you know, it's uh like this movie. So I finished it going. This is kind of a muddy movie. It doesn't really. I'm surprised it was such a smash hit. It doesn't, it doesn't land. The joke doesn't land.
SPEAKER_00Begs the question. So then what were people liking about it?
SPEAKER_01Because again, if you're a montage with her in different clothes, I don't even like that.
SPEAKER_00The best part, sorry, is Meryl's it's a tie three-way tie, the best fashion speeches of all time. Ozzie Davis in Joe vs. the volcano, Daniel Day Lewis talking about Sheik in Phantom Thread, which is a real fashion movie, unlike this piece of horse shit. And Meryl Streep talking about you think you you're too serious, or you're you know, you're too good for fashion, even though that lumpy sweater that you got at casual corner was the color was decided in this room. I was like, those are three, that's a great speech. And if it if that had been the focus, then that would have been an interesting film.
SPEAKER_01I think I think it drops it just drops the ball in favor of what I don't know.
SPEAKER_00That's the truth.
SPEAKER_01And so by the time you get her into that, she loses her boyfriend who's not even that great.
SPEAKER_00I keep thinking of this, like, we should just go to work. This guy, am I right? God, Adrian Grenier. God, that's like having Ricky Nelson playing your boyfriend. It's just like so weird and native and just shitty. Thank god they cut him, but honestly, we're gonna be happy to see him compared to God, yeah.
SPEAKER_01No, he doesn't factor in, and you you know they're gonna break up, but she breaks up because of not even because she cheated on him, she just breaks up because he's a boring, you know, like it's he starts not liking her because she's at work all the time.
SPEAKER_00Like, who who cares? Like, why would he care? And and her friends are mad because she's now fashionable, like it's the dumbest.
SPEAKER_01It's uh it's a it's a muddy movie for sure.
SPEAKER_00And I just when you say more of the same, I was like, yeah, except people are less charming, so it's sort of easier to hate it because I just found less distraction in it, and certainly it did so less fashion.
SPEAKER_01Well, definitely less fashion, no sense of Milan. Uh, what's there was no sense of place, which is always I think the first movie had a stronger sense of place than a and a stronger sense of like what world we live in.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, like there is quite a bit of, you know, it does seem you know, they build up the world of Condonast or whatever. And I'm like, okay, that seems fine. Um, and they don't do that in the second one at all. And then again, you get these like what the hell is Lucy Lou doing? Like that whole Lucy Lou subplot is just that's like holodeck shit. That's so dumb. Like, what are they saying about that? That's the thing that drives me crazy.
SPEAKER_01It's just like so rich women who get a settlement are awesome, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Rich billionaires, if they're women, kick ass.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and especially when they get a settlement from those jerk husbands from an idiot, and then they buy a corporate billionaires buying corporations.
SPEAKER_00It's okay if it's a woman who got it in a settlement. I'm just like, what a load of horse shit. And again, Andy is as ill-defined as ever. I'm just like, it's 20 years later, and again, I keep saying, like, she no, no, she won the Lois Lane Award for best story ever.
SPEAKER_01You get the Pulitzer Prize, did Superman do we really need Superman? Same, like, wait, wait, what's what did you win for? And then, oh my god, we're all getting fired. I wait again. Wait, shouldn't that have happened in 2006? For sure.
SPEAKER_00Again, I know I said this, but I keep thinking about Raphael saying print is dead, yeah, quoting 1984 Ghostbusters.
SPEAKER_02Right, right.
SPEAKER_00So it was hardly so having that plot line in 2026 was just every gag had whiskers.
SPEAKER_01I liked Emily Blunt as the the what the the head the marketing or whatever she was doing for what Fendi, what who was who she worked for?
SPEAKER_00No, she was No, she's Christian Dior?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Dior. She's working for Dior. I thought that was fine. I thought there was some growth, you know, but she just yeah, her getting hired back. That was all fine. I I I was liking it up until well, I again I I just felt like it was the same, so I didn't hate it as much as the first one. So I I I expected it to be rock bottom.
unknownDave.
SPEAKER_00Dave, what do you think?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I mean, I didn't really like either one. I'm trying to get my thoughts together because I went in um it had been a while since I watched the first one, and I'm thinking, okay, the second one's gotta be a comedy, right? That's what I'm going in thinking. And it was it wasn't, and um, it wasn't very funny. Um I'm not a big Ann Hathaway fan.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. For some reason it's like what T Max drag wasn't didn't that just slay you?
SPEAKER_03No. But uh it was okay. But I mean, I when I go to I I would I was hoping it was gonna be really funny. Because I picked we picked this over Michael before I saw Michael, and again, that's enough. We already discussed that one. But no, we didn't. Oh yeah, no, we didn't.
SPEAKER_01We will discuss that one, but um no, we discussed that one. It's fine.
SPEAKER_00Everyone's just assuming you're wearing the same ugly shirt for all these podcasts.
SPEAKER_03Yes, me, yeah, ugly shirt, yeah. What do you mean? I got this to TJ Max.
SPEAKER_01Um, but anyway, um this is genuine Indian cock. I just I linen actually. It's it's your favorite, Roseanne. It's linen.
SPEAKER_03I do love a linen shirt. Anyway, sorry. But no, that's all right. The the movie is I mean, I'm even having a hard time putting my thoughts together because it was all over the place. I think the only people that I actually like in I I did appreciate Emily Blunt's character. I thought she was uh she was interesting because she was you know kind of the villain. And damn it.
SPEAKER_01Then they did a Friends Forever coffee scene.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and yeah, Friends Forever again. And I hate this just infantilizing women, like it's all it took. We just wanted to know. I just wanted to know you wanted to be best friends with me, and then it's fine that we've been rivals forever.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and then back to Lucy Lou, like Roseanne said, that was an interesting twist. But her husband was an idiot in the show. Like, what kind of billionaire? Because I'm assuming who made the money in that relationship. I I do you guys know?
SPEAKER_01I don't I thought it was the guy, right?
SPEAKER_03Was it the guy or was it Lucy Lou? Anyway, if it was the guy, I don't know how he made the money because he was the moron. And uh anyway, it just I don't know, it just wasn't good. I'm sorry, that's about all I can say. I'm without words, I'm kind of speechless.
SPEAKER_01It just wasn't good. Dave, for the record, you volunteered to join this podcast.
SPEAKER_03I know, because I just like to see you guys, you know.
SPEAKER_01I like to be part of the team, you know. I haven't been on like a while friends forever.
SPEAKER_00Stanley Tucci, like Stanley Tucci recommending Ann Hathaway for that piece of shit, Ankless Job. Yes.
SPEAKER_01But I can't get any who do you think recommended, y'all?
SPEAKER_03You have a pretty good Stanley Tucci.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I've been I've been honing it for this podcast.
SPEAKER_00Paul Giamatti. So we you're like Adam Driver with Italians.
SPEAKER_03Or it's like, what do you think? And he's like, I think the bag should be crossbody, right? Didn't he say that in there? He's looking at the yeah, anyway. It was uh yeah.
SPEAKER_01No, I don't know. You got it wrong for Paul Giamatti. This is my Paul Giamatti. There's a lot more threat involved.
SPEAKER_03I mean, it's it's for watching. You are loose.
SPEAKER_01You are loose, you are you are fighting and fighting off with your fists.
SPEAKER_00First of all, I think it's really unfair that we're saying fashion is way more substantial and interesting than what this movie what both movies are showing it to be. And I don't think that's fair because again, fashion isn't just wearing clothes, it is like interesting stuff and art and things like that. So the fact that that's not even coming across is a huge flaw in the film, unless they're but they have Stanley Tucci with the little monocle and you know, looking at the photos. Yes. But what about that?
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, they they keep showing it as sort of a a world, but they don't explore it. Again, the one scene is Meryl Streep explaining the sweater, right? And you think that's a you think that's gonna be a buildup. Again, we've I'm just repeating myself, but you think it's gonna be a buildup for her appreciation. The sequel doesn't do anything, truthfully. None of it. Like, she doesn't even she doesn't even start, you're like, she's not writing about it, and she's they don't show her writing about you know the white oleand or anything like that, you know?
SPEAKER_00Well, and the thing that makes no sense is in this world of AI, and again, design now being done by AI and stuff like that, why are they not making this plea for, you know, Mark Jacobs shows up, these people are showing up in this film, and they're not even mentioning like, okay, is fashion why do we why would we want to save runway? I mean, if it should be some sort of last stand about art and artist and individual style and you know, centuries-long history of culture and stuff like that, and it's nothing. I'm just like, this this isn't a fashion movie, and I think people have to stop talking about it like it is.
SPEAKER_01Uh I just was at the Facebook uh Devil Wars Prada 2 page, just for kicks, and every every woman on that page loves this movie, even though they can't.
SPEAKER_02I I didn't want to jump in and be a language.
SPEAKER_01This movie! I love it. They don't know why are they loving it? It's the same issue with why they love Toby McGuire's Spider-Man. They can't tell you, they just do.
SPEAKER_03I mean, does it does it make okay? Would this movie make a woman, Roseanne, feel empowered?
SPEAKER_00No, again, Dave.
SPEAKER_01First of all, I loved how it was about empowering women. Wait a second.
SPEAKER_00You're joking, right? I'm not shut up. First of all, what's empowering about busting your ass thanklessly for 20 years? Like, and then ending up exactly where you were in the first place.
SPEAKER_01No, but Lucy Lou empowered them to continue on in their trajectory.
SPEAKER_00Corporate empowering women.
SPEAKER_03What about what about Meryl Streep's character?
SPEAKER_00What about Meryl Streep's character?
SPEAKER_03Well, I mean, is that empowering?
SPEAKER_00Because she's been in this high position, trying to move up in the company to be over all the global in part two, all the global by no means, because Meryl's, first of all, they set uh they set her up to essentially again be Anna Wintour, which is this um sort of mirror of the patriarchy in a woman. And so no way is any of it empowering in any way, and and they never talk about how fashion empowers women just as women and why women would be attracted to fashion, not just because they want to look good. They never talk about this. 0.0% of this film empowers women, it empowers capitalism.
SPEAKER_01Well, I that's fair. You're so passionate, you're shaking your camera.
SPEAKER_00I am, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01But they're just saying you're cutting off your head, which is uh a de empowering position for a woman.
SPEAKER_00You think it's disempowering?
SPEAKER_01De empowering.
SPEAKER_00But also prefixes.
SPEAKER_01It's an unempowering.
SPEAKER_03So I guess because okay, so Roseanne, you see this, right? You see the problem. With this film, the Facebook page, according to Gino, they all love it. So that's a problem of these women. I'm just paraphrasing being indoctrinated from the patriarchy.
SPEAKER_01It's been my beef about women all my misogynist life. You're conditioned to like stupid shit. Care bears and strawberry shortcake and all and Barbie and all of it.
SPEAKER_00Care bears and strawberry shortcakes are adorable.
SPEAKER_01I meant strawberry shortcake the figure with this with the strawberry hair.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_03That's the core problem is the in programming, right? For the for women. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Correct.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Again, and then and where we we see empowerment where it doesn't exist at all. Yeah. And that's a huge problem. In this movie. In this movie, all over the place.
SPEAKER_03And this is a dis this is a Disney film, right?
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_03That explains it. I mean Walt Walt started this in media years ago.
SPEAKER_01Again, 20th Century Fox produced it originally and Disney bought 20th century. Look, there's no I don't see much difference between the two films. The first film's a little stronger on the characterization, but the the the mud is throughout both films. I I'd say again, I Roseanne and I were arguing. I thought it'd be a good argument because I thought one is as good as the other. Roseanne disagrees with that. That was my premise. That each film, they're basically the same film. But I didn't think I didn't think the sea hold on. I just didn't think the sequel was such an egregious rehash. Like it's not Beverly Hills Cup 2, the the worst rehash of my life. That's like the most offensive. This didn't feel like an offensive rehash.
SPEAKER_03Or Star Trek 2 and 3.
SPEAKER_00Star Trek 2 and 3.
SPEAKER_03I've realized it's not. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Sorry, Gene. Hey, I love Star Trek. I guess the new Star Trek.
SPEAKER_01The new but I'm just saying this this film, as dumb as it is, it it's it's kind of like the first one. So I don't know.
SPEAKER_00So I I actually the truth is, and this is this concerns me about myself, honestly. Um I'm I watched it again and I just think you're right. I do find like uh the cast a little bit more like the the repartee more sparkling and sharper in the first one. But other than that, I think you're right. I think it's a hundred percent as muddy as it's ever been. And I think the whole thing behind it is women, can't we have it all? And the question is, what all? Like the the privilege to work and toil for money. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01But doesn't that give you purpose?
SPEAKER_00And to constantly be able to do that.
SPEAKER_01I'm not leading it. What do you want? What I'm not I just I'm I'm I'm not trying to be a jerk here. What do you want as a as a feminist? What do you want as a woman and in society? What do you want beyond a career and a family?
SPEAKER_00I nothing. I want to be able to hate my job as much as the next guy for the exact same reasons. I want to hate my job for the exact same reasons.
SPEAKER_01But wouldn't you just say that's stinking thinking? I mean, when what's like who's right here?
SPEAKER_00Who's right about what?
SPEAKER_01But you just being like you're saying, oh, I want to be free to be a misanthrope or free to be dark about my my shitty job, but that that's that's just an outlook, right? I mean, what's wrong with Meryl Streep saying, We want my job gives me purpose?
SPEAKER_00There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. The the hilarity, though, is just that this, you know, like her luxurious, amazing job gives her purpose, and she's hanging on to it again, you know, constantly. And what we see in her, though, is not because it gives her purpose, it's because it gives her power. She's literally referred to as the devil. So this isn't about women again. This is about uh like demonizing their ambition.
SPEAKER_01That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. I'm certainly all about that's good.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I haven't thought of that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. All right. Well, we're done. Fuck this movie.
SPEAKER_03This movie terrible movie. There's no redeeming quality in this movie whatsoever. Neither one.
SPEAKER_01Oh, well, wait a minute, wait a minute. Before we quit, I thought Justin Throw was fairly funny.
SPEAKER_00I don't know why you did.
SPEAKER_01Like, he just seemed like the weird kind of people I meet who were in software. He just seemed, I thought he studied, I thought he studied the routine. He seemed like one of those dumb software douchebags.
SPEAKER_03He was kind of forgettable for me.
SPEAKER_00At that point, I was like, uh, I don't even care.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so the interesting guy, though, was the the contractor because I thought, what the hell is this guy? Is the love interest? I don't know what his name is, but I'm like, yeah, that's my point about the old mop.
SPEAKER_01Like, what that, like I said, who chose that to be the romantic lead? That was that was a gay fashion guy's view of what a rugged man looks like.
SPEAKER_00First of all, you're way off. Gay fashion guys would have not chosen that guy in a million years. They would have chosen.
SPEAKER_01I said Michael McKeon.
SPEAKER_00I know, but still, I'm just saying they would have chosen someone 15 years younger, and just forget it. That was just the worst.
SPEAKER_01It's but come on, who would choose that guy to be Ann Hatha unless unless Anne Hathaway in her in her supreme d highness chose that guy?
SPEAKER_00Like, I think I would like I only want this. I only want to be romantically linked to people that no one wants to see touch me.
SPEAKER_01He was the biggest hoot. That was entertaining right there between Kenneth Branick's scarves and that guy. I was just like, what the hell is this? Yeah. Kenneth Brannock, man! You were Henry V. What are you doing in this movie?
SPEAKER_00That's 100% what happened, baby. Like, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_01He just gave those two points. They're gonna pay me a million bucks to wear a freaking scarf. So he can produce his next Shakespeare or no, uh puro film.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, right. Puro would be something right, right.
SPEAKER_01The art, yeah. Oh, uh Roseanne, you're a big fan. What did you think of the Lady Gaga cameo?
SPEAKER_00I just hated it. I hated it for both Lady Gaga and this film.
SPEAKER_01And I think it's there's nothing that can what's the line from Roger Rabbit? Damn.
SPEAKER_00Army ate my impervious pussy.
SPEAKER_01Army your impervious puss? Boy, you are a grump on this one. I really like eh, it was fine.
SPEAKER_00No, because you have nothing to lose when people like when women like this film. I do have something to lose when women like this film. Yeah, we're gonna work.
unknownYay!
SPEAKER_00When women are asking their husbands, sorry, Dave, no offense, to take them to this film. I lose.
SPEAKER_03Well, to be fair, she said, You want to see Michael or that one? This one, and I thought, oh, it's gotta be funny.
SPEAKER_01I I chose this film first over Michael, too, because I I can't stand the musical biopic.
SPEAKER_03Solidarity. Yeah, solidarity.
SPEAKER_01I was like, uh, this looks funny. Again, I will say this film was market. This film was marketed well. It looked like it was gonna be funny.
SPEAKER_03It wasn't funny, it wasn't funny at all.
SPEAKER_01It wasn't as funny as it could have been, for sure.
SPEAKER_03It wasn't funny at all. I didn't think it was funny. I didn't laugh.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm not so grumpy about it. I thought I I laughed a couple times, especially Justin Schrode lying on Emily Blunt with his stupid snicker. I I I I enjoyed some parts, I'll admit. I like I even fell for Anne Hathaway fishing. They played it, or we're played it for sure, but Anne Hathaway fishing for attention after she wrote the big story, I thought was mildly funny. I'll give it some parts. Not great. Sitcom, fine, but I I thought, ah, amusing.
SPEAKER_03Did you have some harrs?
SPEAKER_01No, I just don't know she's fishing for attention. That's cute.
SPEAKER_03I gave this a five out of ten, if that. If that. That's fine.
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna dispute. No way, it's a seven out of ten. I I don't care. I don't care about this movie, but uh you know. Well answer me this, Dave. What was better? Michael or this?
unknownOh wow.
SPEAKER_03Um Michael for the music. I'll say the music. Michael for the music.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I don't think either were written very well, and they were kind of all over the place.
SPEAKER_01Well, both giant hits. So leads me to believe we're deep. So so we were feeling good about those after train dreams. Did you see train dreams, Dave?
SPEAKER_03I have it. No. Uh oh.
SPEAKER_00You should have been on that podcast. Those were that was a good one.
SPEAKER_01We missed you, especially with that beard. You you have Joel Edgerton's beard. You we missed you on that podcast. We should have joined. I told you Train Dreams was a good one. But uh Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, keep me in the loop for other ones. Yeah, yeah. Not these kind, you know, these Michael and the worst problem.
SPEAKER_01The fact is, is we were bemoaning the fate of cinema, and now we're like, eh, train dreams, like, yeah, there's there's hope. And the drama, there's hope. Uh this dropping back in terms of mainstream cinema, it's looking pretty bleak.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. All right. What's the what's the new one? No, Christopher Nolan's coming out with a big, yeah. I can't wait to discuss that one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, we will. Certainly will.
SPEAKER_03Get ready.
SPEAKER_01Get ready. All right. Well, thank you, folks. We'll uh see you on the next one. Thanks, Dave. Thanks, Rosanne. Hey, thanks for having me. Love your work. I'm gonna go change shirts.
SPEAKER_03Okay. See you, Roseanne.
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