We Recommend: A Movie Podcast
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The Wedding Singer
Weddings, heartbreak, and finding love in the most unexpected places—The Wedding Singer takes us back to 1985, where Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) dreams of rock stardom but settles for being the most entertaining wedding singer in Richfield, New Jersey. When his own wedding plans collapse after being left at the altar, Robbie spirals into a bitter depression until he meets Julia (Drew Barrymore), a sweet waitress planning her own wedding to the perfectly wrong guy.
Whether you're experiencing it for the first time or revisiting an old favorite, The Wedding Singer combines nostalgic 80s charm with timeless romance in a way that continues to resonate with audiences decades later. Listen as we unpack what makes this film a standout in both Sandler's career and the romantic comedy genre. Give it a listen!
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast, where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. I'm Jason.
Speaker 2:Hey, buddy, I'm not paying you for your thoughts on life, I'm paying you to sing.
Speaker 1:Well, I have a microphone and you don't, so you will listen to every damn word I have to say, because this week we recommend the Wedding Singer. Yeah, so, bud, I mean like the movie. Yeah, is this his most like the movie? Yeah.
Speaker 2:Is this his most underrated movie, maybe.
Speaker 1:It's not one that anybody ever talks about, but it's my favorite of his.
Speaker 2:I had to watch this in secret because no one wanted to watch it at home.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:Not even your wife. It's a romantic comedy. She hates romantic comedies.
Speaker 1:But this one's a funny one. It is a funny one. It's like an actual funny romantic comedy it. But this one's a funny, it is a funny one. It's like an actual funny romantic comedy. It's like sandler humor romantic comedy. I don't know. I love it, though if you think about it, most of his movies are kind of rom-coms.
Speaker 2:It's always him and some girl yeah I mean outside of.
Speaker 1:I mean billy madison is happy gilmore, that's more of a sports movie, but he gets the girl at the end if you think about like all of his characters, his main characters, they're always kind of similar.
Speaker 2:They're like the, the guy with the really like mentally unstable oh yeah, very much so in a lot of cases, but it's also like somebody with a really good heart.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Who just is like a little misunderstood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's always such a little sweetie for good reason yeah, because he's absolutely insane.
Speaker 2:That's what I love about his his 90 movie.
Speaker 1:There's something just so charming and sweet and friendly, but also demented, about adam sandler's characters, but especially in this movie. Every time he sings you're just like come here, buddy come here, come here, makes everyone so happy. He's a good singer. He's like really good in this movie.
Speaker 2:Every time he's singing I'm like dude, fucking put out an album I had his first album, his comedy album yes, is that the one with like the goat and everything on it? Yeah, a piece of shit car. Yeah, uh, the uh.
Speaker 1:Hanukkah song yeah, yeah, I'm me and my buddy richard. Growing up, we, we used to listen to that a lot. It was great. We'd just be sitting in his room around his computer like, ah, I remember really loving the goat one. Yeah, the goat was so good, yeah, so, and this is probably what Sandler's most realistic comedy right. What do you mean? Well, one of them, he's a man. Child. That goes, it'd be geeky bitch the entire time and Billy Madison still a great movie.
Speaker 2:I wonder if you ever knew someone like that real cool.
Speaker 1:And then you got Happy Gilmore, a hockey guy that turns into a golf guy. He was never really a hockey guy. Yeah, it's like he was never really a honky guy. Yeah, it's like, it's like um Waterboy just well. I guess that could be realistic, but it's, you know, it's just. This one is just like hey, it's just some down on his luck guy that finds a girl that can kind of sing, but he's not super good at singing, so he's a wedding singer but he's really good at making people happy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then you got you know movies like Click Bedtime Stories, you know where it's like a little silly, I guess grownups is probably the most realistic out of all this. Middle aged men camping with their very attractive wives yeah, that's realistic and definitely Sandler is best with Drew Barrymore. I mean between this and 51st Dates. It's like that's his perfect rom-com girl. They're really great together.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I know he's done some movies with, like Jennifer Aniston and other girls, but it's just like I feel like he has no better chemistry with Drew Barrymore. But that actually just might be Drew Barrymore, because she's so charming and cute. That is true.
Speaker 2:Right, but like A lot of her movies, I'm not really into ET bro yeah, she's ET. Charlie's Angel yeah, I didn't care for her in those movies. Some of them just don't.
Speaker 1:I'm going to slap you silly. Whenever she's with Adam.
Speaker 2:Sandler, it's always pretty good, it's perfect.
Speaker 1:It's great. 51st Day. She makes me cry. They all do. Let's see what's I'm trying to think. Actually Never been kissed, never been seen by me.
Speaker 2:Good one Jesse.
Speaker 1:Fever pitch bro Her and Jimmy Made Jimmy Fallon seem like a good actor for a second. I don't think I saw that People hate that movie. I actually don't mind that movie she executive produced actually Donnie Darko, which is kind of wild, isn't it?
Speaker 2:She was good in that one, but she didn't really have a big role in it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't even remember in it, which is kind of crazy. She's a teacher, an English teacher. She's not a butterfly. So she does like the sexy movie or whatever, let's see man, she's a ficus Scream.
Speaker 2:Duh Scream.
Speaker 1:That's like, that's probably like my most like her most known movie probably, and she's like in it for five minutes. It's great, I don't remember that at all. She's at the beginning of Scream, you know. She's like oh, what's your favorite scary movie? The whole beginning. Yeah, it's been so long.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, wow, okay. Well, we're doing Scream this Halloween, so I this this halloween, so I hope so I remember liking it a lot. Holy shit, now that I'm looking at all our movies, I really just know from like scream and the adam stanley movies, that's crazy, huh. Well, weird, um, kind of makes me wish. Um, we still did wedding singers instead of djs at part. Well, have you ever been to? Uh?
Speaker 2:I've never been to one with a band, I've never had a wedding singer per se, but I have been to a place that had a lounge singer. Really and he was really bad at it. He was a good singer, but he would, in between songs, work with the crowd. Yeah, and he sucked ass, he sucks.
Speaker 1:Hey, anybody here about 9-11? How about that? That would have been kind of funny. I tell you what's not going down this marriage. Those snakes are right. Oh, that's so good, man, I can't wait to get to. That song has a very big part of my did not age. Well, I will say there is so much in this movie that's like yikes dude, they wouldn't make this movie anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like when they're all grabbing each other's asses. Yeah, and like he hands the girl that off to another boy.
Speaker 1:Yeah like man, oh, that's so funny, it's so sweet though oh yeah, there's probably nothing probably happened, you know? Yeah, I don't think so. Uh, we're not gonna talk this is kind of fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this was a fun scene.
Speaker 1:So let's get into some facts. Who do you think probably helped work on this script? Jesus, no, but let me tell you. So asked by director Frank Korkoczy. I don't know. No, no, he also did Waterboy. So asked by director Frank Korkoczy. Whatever, to polish the script.
Speaker 1:Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia spent six months on it, making it her special mission to add heart and strength and dimension to the Drew Barrymore character, Julia. Thereafter, when she was asked what her secret sauce for script doctoring, she replied make the woman smarter and the love scenes better. Judd Apatow and Sandler also worked on the screenplay, so Carrie Fisher and Judd Apatow that's awesome.
Speaker 2:I didn't know she did that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she actually. She spent like a lot of the 90s and 2000s doctoring scripts and stuff Like they'd bring her in to add like comedy and stuff to it. Yeah, that's cool On a lot of movies. I wish I had all those movies in front of me right now so I could tell you. So there's a musical adaptation of this movie that opened at Al Hirschfeld Theater on April 27, 2006, and ran for 285 performances. It was nominated for the 2006 Tony Awards for Best Musical. Is that not crazy? That's awesome. It won for Best Musical.
Speaker 2:That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1:You could make a theater production of this, yeah, yeah, it would be super easy and be hilarious. Like I would love to go to a wedding singer play and I don't even like plays I do. I love it. I like being in the. I like being in them not as a main part, because I like to be five, five to six different characters and then I just mainly got to hang out backstage making it's just like you in the same costume where they're like changing out your facial hair between the scenes.
Speaker 2:A lot yeah.
Speaker 1:I was always. I just play like a bunch of small parts. I come in, be like guys someone talks on the phone with that, come out and I like had to kill somebody this was in Guys and Dolls and so I got to like took a phone call. I was, and so I got to like took a phone call, it's like, yeah, I'll get you some stuff. Now I go in, I'm like pretending I'm killing somebody, Don't ever steal from me again.
Speaker 2:Bang, bang bang oh that was so fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Jim Jim Carrey was considered for the role of Glenn you know the bad guy yeah, and Christopher McDonald, who had played a similar role in Shooter McGavin, yes, charlie Sheen also was up for the role. Jack Black, owen Wilson and Matthew Broderick was all considered and I guess the director pushed to cast Christopher McDonald as Glenn because of his role as Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore, but this was vetoed. That's a big part of it. Yeah, but this was vetoed by Sandler, as McDonald in real life is 20 years older than Drew Barrymore who plays Julia, and he wanted a younger actor for the role. Mcdonald has tried to work with Sandler again since Happy Gilmore, but Sandler has turned him down, even though they are friends in real life. Sandler always insists that McDonald's will always be remembered as Shooter.
Speaker 1:Broderick was the next choice, but was rejected because Sandler thought that he was too nice to play a villain. Sandler asked Ben Stiller, who also appeared in Happy Gilmore, but he was busy with there's Something About Mary. David Spade was also considered, but that would have been too funny. He was considered but wasn't ready to take on a big role in a movie again because of problems on set in Black Sheep, which I do not know what those problems were. I think there's something about the guy in this one what's his name? Matthew Glaive, that plays Glenn that he's perfectly douchey and nothing about him makes you want him to change his life and make him better. It's like you know what? Fuck you dude. Do not like you. You will never like you.
Speaker 2:I'm pretty sure he was the guy in Empire Records. That was like the same kind of douchey character, but he was a pop star. I've actually never seen Empire Records. Empire Records was pretty good.
Speaker 1:It's very yeah it's like a cult movie Like people love it. Something cool about this? Did I like a cult movie? Like people love it? Something cool about this? Did I say this was first the Sandler's first comedy to gross over 100 million?
Speaker 2:oh shit, yeah and it's funny because Billy Madison didn't. No, I doubt it.
Speaker 1:It made 100 million right here in my heart in your heart my life love is Billy Madison. It's great. Oh my god. She's like oh, we gotta watch Billy Madison. It's great. Oh my god, all right, she's like oh, we gotta watch billy madison. And so we did. And I was like oh yeah, I remember billy madison, it's fun. And then, just immediately, I was like what I don't remember this.
Speaker 2:It's on porno or a magazine day, yeah, and he pulls up the women over 80 catalog his fight with, uh, the penguin.
Speaker 1:And then, uh, oh, what's his name? Tommy Boy, guy Blanking. Chris Farley yeah, as the school bus driver. Yes, dude, he's the best part. I was like I will run this thing into a tree.
Speaker 2:So good and he gets shirtless and takes off his top.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, Teach him the tutoring yeah, I actually thought this was my favorite fact. So do you watch the movie George of the Jungle? Yeah, with uh, what's his name?
Speaker 2:that's the guy I was trying to think of earlier. I think I can't remember his name, but I used to love the. Can't remember his name but I used to love the cartoon. I was, I remember, being disappointed Brendan Fraser and Leslie Mann's in that.
Speaker 1:Um well, originally they were considered. Uh, adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore were considered for Georgia the Jungle. That would have been such a different movie dude. That would have been wild.
Speaker 2:A different movie dude that would have been wild. He'd be making, like Billy Madison, noises swinging on ropes he wouldn't do, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I think this movie is just. It's so fucking sweet and I just wish I lived in this movie, it seems like a great world in the 80s.
Speaker 2:You get meatballs from old ladies that girl.
Speaker 1:It's just, it's so fucking sweet and I just wish I lived in this movie. It seems like a great world In the 80s. You get meatballs from old ladies. That girl she crushes. She's so sweet and she's got like the best voice.
Speaker 2:It's like Patricia Dow or something, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I absolutely love her, though. She's so good. I guess we should probably just go ahead and get into the plot. I can't wait to start just yelling about this movie. But before we get into the plot, make sure that while we go through it you try to figure out what's the point of this movie. Is it just to entertain? Is it just to make you laugh, or is there an overall messaging to this movie? So think about that as we go through the plot. Which will we be doing right now? So movie starts. We meet Robbie, who dreamed of one day becoming a big rock star, but instead he has become one of the most entertaining wedding singers in town of Richfield, new Jersey, in 1985. He only plays two weddings in the movie called Wedding Singer.
Speaker 2:He does the Jewish one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he does the bar mitzv. Does the bar mitzvah? Bar mitzvah and I love that. What's her name? George the boy George or whatever his name is he like plays the same song in both of them. He's got one song, one song it was a one hit wonder.
Speaker 2:You can call it that?
Speaker 1:yeah, so robbie bands includes george stitzer, played by alexis marquette, keyboardist and singer, played by randy razz and john vanna. Um movie opens with like spin me right around um, you got grandma dancing, um big lady eating cake and kid drinking yes that's with his friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love how all like Adam Settler's friends in their movies are like they're kind of they're nice, but they're just such pieces of shit, such pieces of shit.
Speaker 1:It's like yeah, if you talk to any of them, they'll be like oh, he seems like a pretty good guy, but they're always doing something bad in the background. At Robbie's latest wedding gig, he saves the wedding toast from being ruined by the groom's alcoholic brother, David.
Speaker 1:David played by Steve Buscemi Hell, yeah, he's so good he looks at George, he's like I like her, yeah, by telling him he understands love because he has a lady as well and catches the eye of a waitress at the function named Julia. Yeah, yeah, so good. I put prostitutes. I'm a person too. I don't remember what that was supposed to be about. I don't know, yeah, maybe his speech.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it must have been oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like hey, yeah, that was great he talks about the prostitutes like him and the groom I think they were prostitutes, but I don't remember paying them and then, like he ends his speech, like I'm a person too. I'm a person too.
Speaker 1:I love that. I don't know if you watched like there was a Sandler, he was getting an award or something, and or is this like an appreciation for Adam Sandler and Buscemi came on stage and he was like I'd like to thank Adam Sandler for constantly giving me money by putting me in small parts in his movies and making me do the weirdest thing. You should watch some of that. It's like it's really heartwarming and moving. Everybody that talked there like absolutely loves Adam Sandler. He seems like a genuinely great guy. Yeah, that's cool. It's like he's Hollywood's favorite guy who wears hoodies.
Speaker 2:Flip flops to the red carpet events.
Speaker 1:Then George sings, do you?
Speaker 2:really want to hurt me.
Speaker 1:Everybody in the audience is like we don't know. It's like, oh, we don't understand the situation.
Speaker 2:We have questions. Does his friends say like horrifying or something, and then, as you, said earlier, steve, his friends say like horrifying, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, as you said earlier, steve Buscemi's like oh, nice, lady Robbie goes outside to talk to his best friend, sammy, who's eyeballing Julia, where he just goes talking. It's like it's like, yeah, that's Julia, oh, she's got it, she's going gonna get it. And she doesn't even know it. She's like okay, cool, I love sammy. He actually might be my favorite character in the movie. Yeah, he's so good his outfit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, michael jackson he just like beat it constantly saying the stupidest stuff. Afterwards. Julie and robert robbie meet outside and they both tell how they are engaged robbie to his girlfriend, linda, and jul Julia to her boyfriend Glenn. I can't wait till we find out Glenn's last name. It's like the best part of the movie, noting Robbie's handling of the situation inside the wedding. Julia wants him to sing at her wedding, to which Robbie happily agrees to Because they're not in love yet. He's like, yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 1:This won't become like a situation for an entire movie Linda's fiance, businessman and bond investor Glenn Guglia Hell yeah, what a last name Guglia, guglia.
Speaker 1:Has yet to set a date. They have engaged for two years and now Linda is starting to doubt Glenn's intentions. This is where you're immediately like Sandler and Barrymore perfect little couple. Wish they married in real life, star crossed. So Robbie is helping. We cut to Robbie helping an old lady with singing and they talk about his upcoming wedding. She asks if he's worried about sex on the wedding night because apparently she slept with eight men back in the day and she's like back then that was a sizable number feels like 100 now um, and then like as uh, you ever find out one of your grandparents was kind of a hoe.
Speaker 2:No, never talked to him about that no well, I found out much later about my grandfather. He was in the korean war, oh way to go, paul.
Speaker 1:It is like in korea there's like a bunch of like, uh, american, korean.
Speaker 2:Well, he'd be writing letters, and he wrote a bunch of letters home and some of them would talk about things that were obviously sex-related infections or something, Wow, hey, by the way, did you give me this?
Speaker 1:This is writing like 50 different girls from Korea. It's like no, that wasn't me. I wish you didn't say this in a letter. It's really weird. It's like this is 10 years later I'm married, me. I wish you didn't say this in a letter. It's really weird. It's like this is 10 years later I'm married. I really wish you didn't send me this letter. And as he leaves, she gives him like meatballs in his hands. Hell yeah, it's great. It's like I'm out of Tupperware here. Take these and he eats it.
Speaker 2:That's a good meatball. Would you wrap it in newspaper or something?
Speaker 1:I'd be like put it on a plate, put it in my pocket, give me a bowl and I'll bring it back to you the next time I see you, lady, don't put them in my hand.
Speaker 2:But it's great, she's so sweet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we learn. Julia moved to Richfield so she could be closer to Glenn. Angie is Julia's mother and asks her to fake a pregnancy to pressure Glenn into marrying her quickly. Here's the thing this lady she's in Friends as Monica's mother, oh nice Gives equally bad advice in that movie too, in that show too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's kind of a great bad mom. But yeah, it's just funny because we did Elliot Gould, who is Monica's dad, and now we're doing this movie because he's in Ocean's Eleven Right Now we're doing this and it's the mom. It's great. People really love that show. They're in everything. So eventually Robbie and Linda's wedding day arrives and everyone is there except for Linda. Bum, bum, bum. It soon becomes apparent that Linda has decided not to go through the wedding, leaving Robbie heartbroken and despondent. It's embarrassing. Just goes into his little like tent where I guess he's like getting ready. He's like. There is nothing better than Adam Sandler screaming. It's like even in his newer movies, even though they're all kind of bad. When he starts to scream, it's great. Like Hoobie, halloween is very mediocre comedy, yeah sure.
Speaker 2:But it's so funny and I watch it every year for Halloween.
Speaker 1:Just because there's the parts where, like, he's getting scared all the time by everybody, and so he's just constantly like, ah, and it always works. And plus, what's his name? Tim Robbins is in that. Not Tim Robbins, the ladies man? Yeah, Tim Meadows, yeah, one of the funniest people alive. Anytime he pops up in a movie, he's like this is the funniest guy because he's in Brooklyn Nine-Nine and he's like a cannibal, but like Jake Peralta doesn't know it, and he's like becoming friends with him. And then he starts figuring out because he's like in prison with him or for whatever reason, and then he's just like, yeah, you haven't done anything that bad. It's like, yeah, I only ate people. And he's like, oh, and then, like, the rest of his jokes are about cannibalism that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Walk the line.
Speaker 1:You never bought drugs of like walk the line. You never bought drugs. Stop once. Oh yeah, he's the best part of that movie too, oh.
Speaker 1:God. So after the wedding is called off, linda meets with Robbie and reels that she fell in love with him for his ambitions of being a rock star and his band being called Final Warning, which was six years ago. She reveals her concerns of the ending of ending up being stuck stuck in Richford, married to Robbie and raising kids in his sister's Kate's basement. Katie is married to Andy Frank Servo and has two kids, tyler and Petey. I love Andy because he's got like the like I don't know what you could type of hair you even call that. It's just really weird. He looks like he should be a Las Vegas singer and he just starts talking and it just goes on and on. It's like I don't even know what I was saying at the end of it so funny?
Speaker 2:is it kind of like the, the big feather hair like?
Speaker 1:well, it's almost kind of like adam sandler's hair, but like well, like his actual hair, I don't know how to explain it. It's weird. And he's constantly got his shirt like half open, oh yeah, and then. But like, the best part of him talking to Linda is the conversation, because at first she's like well, that'd been nice to know yesterday.
Speaker 1:And then later on it's like Linda, oh, yeah sure, living in your sister's basements with five kids while you're off every weekend doing wedding gigs at a whopping 60 bucks a pop. Once again, things that could have been brought to my attention yesterday things that could have been brought to my attention yesterday.
Speaker 1:Always so funny. Oh, love it. Um, so, yeah, uh. Then we cut to glenn and julia. Glenn is gives julia two tickets to vegas, that gets married. But julia wants a wedding. Glenn agrees to a wedding in richfield. He seems nice. Yeah, so far. He's like that's whatever this wedding's for you, anyways, I I don't care yeah super nice.
Speaker 1:We see Robbie sinks in depression listening to the curable dude, of course causing his friends and family to be concerned. Robbie's best friend, Sammy, attempts to get him to snap out of it of his misery and play another wedding gig. I just got myself wet, that's so funny, just simple yeah, so funny just simple, quick one so we cut to Robbie, who's in like a bad mood, starts disrupting a wedding toast in which he insults the bride's father and breaks into a dour rendition of a song.
Speaker 2:Love stinks and this is where we get the quote at the beginning the people in the crowd who will never find love yeah, those guys.
Speaker 1:The fat guy, the guy with the side or the lady was yeah and then like all of table 13 or whatever table nine, yeah, they're like pretty much the in, uh, the entire, this entire scene does not age, very mean, spirited, and it's hilarious. Um. And then, like, so he starts singing and he gets all like you know the ugly people, quotations, um, singing, love sinks as well. And uh, then like the father gets up and punches his lights out, kind of the black and red wedding, kind of cool, yeah, actually kind of the red wedding is very very 80s but and probably wouldn't work now.
Speaker 1:But I was like this is kind of a fucking sick wedding I really enjoyed it. So julia meets with robbie afterwards and she's like who, talking to? Sammy is like who told him to do this? There's no reason he should be at a wedding. Sammy's like, oh yeah, I don't know, he just wanted to do it. But then julia and robbie meet afterwards, hoping that he'll still play for her and Glenn's wedding. However, he now expresses doubt about participating. He's like I don't know, I'm Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2:I'm sad he's so fucking pitiful. It's like drunk.
Speaker 1:He got thrown into a dumpster. He's like oh, I was just going to stay here. Yeah, so we're at Julia's engagement party. Glenn asked Julia to do all the wedding planning because he's bad at it.
Speaker 1:Uh oh, asshole alert, he's dressed like Miami Vice, which they give him a lot of shit for and it's funny because it probably was lame to like Miami Vice back in the day. No, I don't think so. Or it seems like there's probably like a Tom Selleck with a giant mustache. I feel like it was probably a very bro thing in the 80s.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Versus. Now everybody looks on it in a nostalgia way. It's like I saw it in the 90s a lot, because it was like always on something, and that's where I saw it. And then I started rewatching. I was like, oh yeah, this is the best thing I've never seen.
Speaker 1:Especially that first episode is maybe the best pilot ever made. Between that and Lost, have you ever seen the pilot? I don't think so. Oh, you should go home and watch the pilot. My movie has rules, dude. So, oh, you're talking about the movie. No, this show, oh, this show. Okay, never mind. The movie also good, okay. So Sammy and Robbie have fun picking on Sammy. He's like because he's kind of talking to her. Then Robbie's just like oh yeah, I don't know if you know this, julia, but apparently he was going to give it to you.
Speaker 1:It's like he's going to give it to you and you don't even know about it. It's like, oh really, what were you going to give me, sammy? He's like shut up and just walks away. Robbie asked about wedding planning and it turns out Robbie knows a lot about weddings. Because she's like, oh, I'm going to go to. What did she say? Like Marshall's or something. It's like don't go there.
Speaker 2:She's trying to be a professional wedding planner.
Speaker 1:No, she's just got to plan the wedding and her fiance will not help Glenn. So eventually, robbie's spirit starts to perk up and he ends up doing a bar mitzvah, with Julia acting as a waitress. Oh, we still got George. He's still playing. Do you really want to hurt?
Speaker 2:me Whatever Adam Sandler wants to take a break.
Speaker 1:That's the only song he knows. Robbie sees a sad kid sitting alone and makes him cool by having Julia dance with him. It's very sweet, um, and then you got like kids putting like his hands on her butt.
Speaker 2:She's like what? And Sailor's like yeah, he doesn't think with his mouth. There's a tongue in his fingers, yeah definitely does not do that.
Speaker 1:That'd be insane. Then robbie dances and everybody's just touching each other's butts and that's how every party should end everybody's butts being touched even his two buddy like friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they grab each other's butts.
Speaker 1:It's great so after the festivities, julia asked robbie if he'll help her plan her wedding because his advice with the flowers was right. Robbie agrees and him and Julia go out to the photographer and he lowers the price of her picture. He's like we don't do pictures that low and he's like I most certainly know that you do.
Speaker 1:The photographer thinks that the wedding is for them, so they act like brother and sister. At first it starts off like we're playful and then it gets like really aggressive and it's like that's such an adam sandler movie thing too and it's so great. But I just love it because drew barrymore's like just as much into it. Right, it's great and I feel like doesn't she do the same thing?
Speaker 2:and um the one where he's a billionaire?
Speaker 1:uh, which one's that?
Speaker 2:uh, where adam sandler's the son of the billionaire, or something. Oh, mr Deeds, mr Deeds.
Speaker 1:I don't, that wasn't her. Yeah, that wasn't her.
Speaker 2:She's on that.
Speaker 1:She's in 51st States and Blended yeah.
Speaker 2:I can't remember who's in.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's Wynonna Ryder's in Mr Deeds, I believe. Hell yeah. So next they look for a wedding singer and this is where we get John Lovitz. It's the best. He's very mean to Robbie Julia's like well, you just made this decision easy. You're not the wedding singer. Something about John Lovitz it's like. When I see him I'm just like I feel good. I feel good about this whole situation. He's the best. They're like running from the Nazis.
Speaker 2:Well, they go to a Nazi museum and they steal Hitler's car.
Speaker 1:And that's where you get like the kid. I'm prairie dogging over here. That was a big quote in high school for her At my high school. Anytime someone I go to the bathroom, I'm prairie dogging over here in high school for her at my high school, like anytime someone had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2:It's like I'm prairie dogging over here.
Speaker 1:It's like what's prairie? Dogging, it's like you know when the prairie dog goes in and out of the hole and it's like ah. Yeah, I had to explain that to my kids. We have got to do rat race. Robbie tells Julia he has always just wanted to be a songwriter. She encourages him to sing one of his songs. You don't know how much I need you.
Speaker 2:I think he's really ahead of his time, I know.
Speaker 1:But then it's like better the best.
Speaker 2:Oh, would you kill me? Please, please, please, please, kill me. I want to die. Pull a bullet in my head.
Speaker 1:It's the best, it's a good song I remember when I first watched this movie and it was on Comedy Central and that song happened and I was like I need to buy the soundtrack. And I did. I don't know where that soundtrack is, but I owned it. But now you can just listen to it on Spotify, which is nice. Yeah, but just I love Adam Sandler's song.
Speaker 2:It's great.
Speaker 1:I wonder if he wrote this song or if it was just in the script. I like to think he wrote it. Yeah, he did. And before he started singing that he's like I'm sorry, I've been listening to the Cure a lot lately. I like the Cure, yeah. And then as like he stops singing, john Lovett's, like he's losing his mind and I'm reaping all the benefits. Then he just like slowly goes behind the curtain and it's so good.
Speaker 2:What benefit?
Speaker 1:Because there's no other wedding singers, I guess.
Speaker 2:Trying to be like an evil genius, you know.
Speaker 1:I guess like $60 for a wedding, like singing at a wedding, isn't too bad in the 80s, right? You figured you'd at least get like a hundred or something, yeah, A weekend. Then hope you can do like two or three a weekend, I don't know, you could also work at McDonald's and pay rent in the 80s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:That's true. So Robbie and Julia go out to get ice cream. Julie asked about Robbie and Linda's breakup. She wants to know where it might have went wrong. He says that one time on his first date, linda didn't give up a window seat. Whenever they're in his like, his first flight or whatever she's like, she wouldn't let him have the window seat and he's like that's, that's how I knew it was not gonna work out, but that's true, that's such a thing though.
Speaker 1:It's a jerk, yeah. And then, uh, robbie, julia and sammy holly and julia's mom go out and do wedding cake tasting dress shopping. Uh, we see sammy tries out for lim driver, even though he's the only one in town and it's great. It's like it's like how did I do? It's like terrible, you still got to audition. It's like it's like you hit half the cones. If those were, those were her wedding guests. Like it's one of my favorite clothes. There were cones.
Speaker 2:Perfect.
Speaker 1:And then Sammy drives Robbie, oh, and then Sammy drives oh, and then also it was written by Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2:Was it the song hell yeah that?
Speaker 1:makes a lot of sense. That was great. And then when they're wedding dress shopping, you got Holly Julia's friend, you know, like kind of gets one. That's like a little see-through and stuff. And then George like picks the one that they're gonna actually use and it comes out and she's like spins it around and she gets so excited. So then, yeah, sammy drives Robbie home and Sammy tells him he likes her, he loves the fact that she left her jacket in the limo. He's like, oh, she left the jacket. Oh, that was when we were doing this and this. And Sammy's like, uh, oh, she left the jacket. Oh, that was when we were doing this and this. And Sammy's like, uh-oh, you like her dude. He's like no. So then Julia and Holly talk about the wedding.
Speaker 1:Kiss, bum, bum, bum. Oh yeah, everyone's going to be watching. It's like you don't want it to be like a purse. Lip kiss. It's like it's your first kiss as a couple. It lip kiss. It's like it's your first kiss as a couple. It should be open mouth a little bit. It's like it's like how much tongue should I do?
Speaker 2:it's like she's like you should use your tongue. She's like yeah, but like it should be like church tongue.
Speaker 1:It's like church. What is that? We all know? But then robbie comes in with julia's jacket and then holly's, like oh, we need to see what type of kiss it should be. It's like how about you two kiss oh?
Speaker 2:shit. No, that shouldn't happen, holly, what? Are you?
Speaker 1:talking about. She's getting married. So Holly and Julie has Julie and Robbie kiss and it's so romantic and then I love, they end up kissing. She's like I just came to give her a jacket and then Glenn comes in Me and her kiss it didn't mean anything. And then Glenn comes in Me and her kissed it didn't mean anything and Glenn's just like he doesn't care. He's like I don't care, dude. It's like whatever. Holly asked Julia if she can go out with Robbie, glenn says Robbie should get laid, which he will if he goes out with Holly. And then you see Julia, she's super bummed and it's like no, this tangled web, we weave, so Robbie's always trying to get his buddy laid.
Speaker 2:That's so nice. Yeah right, he's like Mary earlier. He's talking about marriage. He's like Mary, I just want to get someone to play with your ding dong. Yeah right, that's the truth.
Speaker 1:So Robbie is helping Rosie with working out the older lady. Rosie, she's just like she's like really strong.
Speaker 1:She asked if Robbie is uncomfortable showing his penis with a new woman. It's like. It's like I remember seeing you as a kid. It had good shape, she rolls, plays as a girl who, who he wants to ask out. So he's like hey, will you go out with me? No, your penis is too small. Um, and then, uh, she says you'll know when you meet the right girl. It's not how you feel about her, it's how she makes you feel about yourself. Hmm, I wonder if this could be the point of the movie. I don't know, that's what I was kind of thinking. So then Julia comes up. Julia shows up and asks if he will go out on a date with Holly. Robbie is bummed that she asked, but he says yes, anyways, it's like I just got to. He's just going to go out with Holly, hoping that maybe Glenn and Holly get together so he can be with Julia. I don't know, figure that out, I wouldn't know that would be a shitty plot line, yeah.
Speaker 1:So Robbie eventually goes out for a party with Holly, julia and Julia's fiance, glenn at Spanky's man 80s clubs back in the day they had the best names dude, it's kind of like Fuddruckers, yeah, even if you think about like. Toots is a bad name. Hooters is a terrible name. Yeah, what was the one with?
Speaker 2:the mountains, or it's just Boob Mountain? Oh uh shit. Oh yeah, because it's named after Twin Peaks.
Speaker 1:I went there because it was like for someone's birthday party. Oh, it was like Dakota's and they're like, yeah, we're going to go to Twin Peaks. And I was like, cool, it's like man. I didn't know they had like a Twin Peaks themed restaurant in Tennessee because I was thinking it was the show Twin Peaks. Then I got there and I was like, oh, this is girls in little clothing. I'm not going to lie, I was very disappointed. I was really hoping for a Twin Peaks.
Speaker 2:It would be great. Everybody's dressed like Kyle MacLachlan. This is great. That would have been incredible.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people dancing backwards in a red room. This is fun. So at the party Julie gets sick and Robbie gets to see that Glenn is anything but a nice guy. As he notices, glenn has no problem oogling other women on the dance floor. Robbie learns from Glenn that he cheats on Julia frequently and plans to continue after they are married. And Robbie also learns Julia will be Julia Guglia. He's like she's going to be Julia Guglia. He's like what's wrong with that? Oh sucks, man. Why'd Glenn have to be a shitty guy?
Speaker 1:You know it's like I get like all romantic comedies can have to be that. But I like when romantic comedies have like a like the guy, two guys are after one girl, girls already with a guy, but like I feel like it'd be more interesting if Glenn was actually a good guy. Oh, and then it's just like shit who do I pick? But then I guess at that point the movie.
Speaker 2:The movie would be more about Julia though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it should have been like a Julia movie, which I guess I'm sure there's one movie like that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Like every Hallmark movie ever made. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:It's like and if you know any movies like that, let me know I totally love to watch it. You can let us know at the link in our description or at we recommend movies, a mailbag at gmailcom. Um, so yeah, the the night ends and robbie helps julia to glenn's delorean and then when they open the door, it's miami vice theme playing. Yeah, um, after everyone leaves, holly tries to hook up with robbie 80s tropes.
Speaker 2:I know we squeeze in here.
Speaker 1:It's great. You know, we didn't even talk about how it's in the 80s, but I think that's what makes the movie so much better. Yeah, it's very nostalgic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very nostalgic it's great Um.
Speaker 1:After everyone leaves, holly tries to. He likes julia. Julia and robbie are increasingly confused by their deepening feelings for each other because, like he just keeps asking holly things about like does glenn like stay over there? Often it's like dude, he's engaged like probably then holly's like oh shit.
Speaker 1:and this is where holly tells him. It's like she's only in it for the security and money that's, or just the security. She doesn't say money. And then she tells Robbie's like is that what she wants? He's like that's what all girls want Protection and security. It's like no, bro, that's not what all girls want.
Speaker 2:It's a connection, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's like it could just be being a good guy. It's the security and protection that people need, right? It's not all just about money. It's like you can just live in a small house. You don't need a big house. Everybody, you don't need a big house. Stop buying big houses.
Speaker 2:They're not worth it, unless you have like a giant family and then I get it at that point yeah, like 37 kids yeah, or even three. I feel like you need a pretty decent sized house, even with just three. Right, that's true.
Speaker 1:So the next day Holly tells Julia that Robbie doesn't like Glenn and tells Julia that the only reason she's marrying Glenn is for security. And she's like no, I'm not. It's like then why are you marrying her? And then she's got no answer.
Speaker 2:It's like great.
Speaker 1:And then she just like puts her head down. It's like, oh, julia, you're stuck in a situation here. So, uh. Then robbie unsuccessfully pursues a job at a bank trying to make some of that cash. Um, you got kevin nillin, that's the bank guy it's great, I love him julia likes him in weeds oh, I've never seen weeds.
Speaker 1:He's in like almost all of sandler's movies, so which is great. Um, julia's dismayed at his materialism because he immediately is just like you know, I'm just trying to earn my chunk of cash. You know, this is a material world, baby, and I'm a material guy. And he accuses her of the same and she becomes angry with him. She throws her gift for Robbie in the air and it's sheets of music paper with his name on it. It's like I fucking hate this part of rom-coms.
Speaker 1:Like I love, like I'm totally good with rom-coms, love them when the special gift is destroyed no, it's just like, you know, everything's all happy, like the whole time, like, oh, they're falling in love, and then it's like fuck why? Why do we always have to do this? I want a movie with no tension, ever and people just falling in love.
Speaker 2:It's the roller coaster of love. Why does there?
Speaker 1:have to be peaks and valleys in movies. Who made this structure? Oh, I guess you know a billion movies have Got you hooked, yeah. But then I was like I know, well, I just got to wait 10 minutes, I'll be back together. Like every wrong crime, so crime, so depressed. He decides to follow sammy's example of only having shallow relationships with women, in response to which sammy confides that he is unhappy and encourages robbie to tell julia how he feels. Um, and he's like like no one wants to see a 50 year old guy hit on chicks. And then you got the whole time. You got the old man and they're drinking next to him.
Speaker 1:He just like ends up joining. He's like all I want is a sammy's I just want a hug. And he just like ends up joining. He's like all I want is a hug. Sammy's like I just want a hug. And he's like I'm right here for you. I just love that. This old man comes out of nowhere and he's like I'm a part of the movie now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're the same. He's probably been through all the things he's thought about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that guy's in a few like you've. Probably he's not blue, is he from old school? I don't remember. Um. So robble robbie grapples with his feelings and eventually decides to tell julia his true feelings. Meanwhile, julia confines in her mother and that she has fallen out of love with glenn, has developed feelings for robbie, the wedding singer, she says, and bursts into tears thinking about becoming julia, julia, julia. When she cries like she, because she gets into the in front of a mirror and she said, she starts saying it's like mr, mrs, mr or mr and mrs julia julia starts crying.
Speaker 1:And then she's like, um, it's like mr and mrs robbie hart and she's like, oh, and she's like it's like Mr and Mrs Robbie Hart, and she's like oh, and she's like all smiley. And then you have Robbie down there like, oh, no, she's so happy. And then one other thing I feel like the mom is really bad at detecting what her daughter is going through. Right, she's like I just got cold feet, let's get out of here through. Right, of course, she's like, ah, you just got cold feet, toots, get out of here, oh. And then I love that the melody to the song that he plays on the airplane is the same song playing in the background of this scene.
Speaker 1:Actually, oh really, yeah, the I want to grow old with you yeah, oh god, dude, I might cry I literally might cry right now.
Speaker 1:So, heartbroken, robbie leaves to get drunk and finds glenn in the midst of his pre-wedding bachelor party, arm in arm with another woman. Bum, bum, bum. After a heated exchange, robbie's like all right, I've only fought one kid in fourth grade, but I beat the shit out of that kid. Now I'm going to beat the shit out of you. Old man goes to punch. He's like eh, he's like does nothing. And then Glenn punches the shit out of him and then he mocks them. He's like I got punched in the nose for sticking my nose in other people's business.
Speaker 2:It's like his weird little dance that he does.
Speaker 1:It's like his little hands are doing something. It's like, wow, this guy's hilarious. Actually I get why Julia is marrying him. So Robbie stumbles home to find Linda waiting for him wanting to reconcile. But whenever they go inside, passes out. The following morning Linda answers the door and introduces herself as fiancé to the crestfallen Julia. They just can't catch a fucking break here. They just keep like screwing everything up over and over and over.
Speaker 2:Ah, rom-coms they make me feel bad. But then, robbie, it's just peaking right now.
Speaker 1:I'm peaking dude, and all the screaming I've done during the quotes were peaking the audio, that's for sure. So Robbie wakes up and, after shaking off his hangover from the previous night, rejects Linda's Rejects Linda's wanting to get back together, having realized how shallow she is during this time with julia, and kicks her out. It's like also take off my van halen t-shirt. Before they break up the year after this movie is set, they broke up. That was the joke she's so horrible yeah, it's all her fault.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we see julia. She runs the glen who is sleeping off the events of the previous night and tells him she wants to be married immediately and she's like let's go to vegas. And he's like, I love when she wakes him up he's got a pretty funny face, or like he's got like what in? Like leopard print. It's so funny. After the yeah, after the 50th wedding anniversary party for his neighbor, rosie, to whom he has been giving singing lessons to, he realizes he wants to grow old with Julia and, with Rosie's encouragement, he decides to pursue her and then Rosie raps yes, hell yeah To the hip hop, hip hip.
Speaker 2:I love this old lady. Is that the song he's been helping her with?
Speaker 1:No, it's like, because at the beginning they're doing a little piano song. It's so sweet, yeah. So he goes to run to Julia. Just then Holly arrives and informs him of Julia's encounter with Linda. So Robbie rushes the airport and gets a first class ticket to Las Vegas. And you have the whole thing with, like him borrowing Sammy's credit card. He's like I'll pay you back. It's like, no, pay you back. It's like no, you won't. And then it's um, holly's like, oh, sammy, that was sweet and they're gonna get together and it's a perfect couple. I'm like, yes, sammy, he's gonna turn his life around. I could just see sammy having like a her sammy and holly having like five kids it's like they're totally overwhelmed, but it's like a perfect little fun couple.
Speaker 1:She's always so cute, yeah, and that was end up being Ben Stiller's wife for a while. They got divorced but I think they got back together. She's in. She's in Dodgeball, yeah, and I didn't know they were married. What's the other movie, fuck, zoolander? Yeah, and she's also in friends as Ross's girlfriend. So on the plane, julia asks Glenn for the window seat, but Glenn declines, but will let her lean over him to look out when they get to Las Vegas like what a fucking asshole, dude, god. And that's just like. Well, julia, as soon as you land, be like Glenn. Why don't you go get us a taxi and then you turn around and get?
Speaker 1:back on that flight it's like, oh sorry, I'm leaving, I want to sit by the window.
Speaker 2:Do that like just get back, right back on the same point oh no, well, you'll get like another ticket.
Speaker 1:Uh, meanwhile robbie is going somewhere else right, it's like I'll take it anyways.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, robbie is learning how to be on the first. Meanwhile Robbie is learning how to be on first class. Like I give him a towel and he's like I don't know what to do with this. These people like putting it on their face because it's a warm towel. It's funny.
Speaker 1:He notices Billy Idol on the plane. He starts telling some of the passengers about his story and it's like we'll cut back to Julia and Glenn and it's like they did something dumb or whatever. Or it's like she gets hit by the car. She's like, ooh, could you ask him for a drink when you come back. And then it cuts back to Robbie and then all of a sudden everybody is around him Like on first class. Even Billy Otto's like, oh man, she shouldn't be with Glenn, she should be with you. So after telling his story to the empathetic fellow passengers, which include Billy Otto, robbie learns that Glenn and Julie are on the same flight Because, like one of the stewardess come back. It's like this guy just tried to hit on me and asked me to go to the bathroom to join the Mile High Club.
Speaker 1:Then you have the one lady in first class. What's the Mile High club? Billy Idol's like eee. And with the help of Billy Idol and the flight crew over the loudspeaker, he sings a song he has written called Grow Old With you, dedicated to Julia, and I love that. Billy Idol's like we have a first class passenger who's going to sing to girl and coach, and since we let our first class passengers do whatever they like, we're going to let to girl and coach. And since we let our first class passengers do whatever they like, we're gonna let this happen. Then he comes out and it's a fucking great sweet song. Me and my wife we watched it earlier this year. We're both like gagging.
Speaker 1:This is this is a good movie, I don't know. It's just like a really sweet song and Adam Sandler is kind of a good singer and Drew Barrymore just crushes the happy tears and then Glenn starts getting all pissed. He's like I'm going to beat the shit out of him and he like runs into Billy, like people are pushing the carts into him. Then he goes the other aisle and then it's Billy Idol pushing a cart.
Speaker 1:And he's like get out of my way, billy idol. Then a guy with a billy auto shirt shirt stands up. He's like a biker guy's like. Nobody talks to billy idol that way. Uh, it's so funny and so sweet and it's almost too sweet.
Speaker 2:It's oh no, it's not sweet enough that jane on to my young, uh, to my daughter.
Speaker 1:She every time she's watching anything and there's any hint of a relationship like love or anything like that she just gets completely disgusted, that's so funny because I like well, we watch shows and stuff like, no matter what, it is guy girl talking to each other, girl girl talking to each other, guy guy talking to each other and I'm like, hey, this is kind of sweet. I'm like, kiss, everybody should just be kissing in the show. Sometimes it'd be like that.
Speaker 2:I like to think.
Speaker 1:I'm a romantic, especially when it comes to my movies. So as Robbie enters the main cabin scene, glenn tries to assault him. We already talked about all that. And then Robbie and Julia admit their love for each other and share a kiss. Billy, impressed by Robbie's song, offers to tell his record company executives about him. And then later, robbie and Julia are married and a band led by Robbie's friend Bushimi performs at their wedding. The end Aww. So, jason, now that we went through the plot of Wedding Singer, what's the point? What's the point?
Speaker 2:What's the?
Speaker 1:point of this movie.
Speaker 2:That love stinks.
Speaker 1:Sometimes in a good way.
Speaker 2:I think it's just Sometimes you got to leave the window rolled up so you don't let the stink out.
Speaker 1:I think it's just like the movie's just trying to tell us. This is like you don't know when you're going to find love, but when you find it, you know it and you have to go for it. You have to get it Because when someone makes you feel as good about yourself as you feel about them, that's when you know it's a good relationship. It's like a disease and plus, it's about growing up, learning how to be an adult. I feel like that's all Adam Sandler movies are about learning how to be an adult. That is true, yeah, even though he's the most adult in this one. But he lives in a basement and stuff. He's got no steady job, but he found the one girl. That's like, hey, you don't have to have a steady job, we could live in a box and I'd love you.
Speaker 1:We'd just be happy Until you're like 45, living in a basement. Then you might be like man.
Speaker 2:Well, if it was my sister's basement, that wouldn't be too bad, it's like, did I just really like his haircut?
Speaker 1:It's like I don't know. It's like, hmm, well, I think like this in the 90s, right? But yeah, that's why I kind of think the point is, just like you know, learning how to find love, learning how to be in love, going and getting what you want. Expressing going and getting what you want. So expressing yourself through music, music, yeah, because that's how you win every girl's heart.
Speaker 2:That's why everybody in the 90s play guitar. Yeah, hell, yeah, like the kid in the barbie movie. Yeah, we're on the beach. I love that they all brought different, or like some of them brought different instruments. Yeah, um, anyway, different movie.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think there was something I was watching where it's just like a guy brings a guitar and people are like, oh no, he fucking brought a guitar is that a movie? We did on this podcast.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Remember the one in Animal House. I've only seen Animal House once this guy's playing a guitar to the girls and he grabs it and smashes it. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:I've only seen Animal House once.
Speaker 2:This guy's playing guitar to the girls and he grabs it and smashes it. That's great. That's one of the funniest scenes.
Speaker 1:I remember watching that movie and I was like these guys are mean.
Speaker 2:I'd be one of the people that are getting all the shit from these guys.
Speaker 1:I don't like these guys. Same. So you know. All right, we're going to cut to our next category. It's called the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we discuss the good of the film something we liked. The bad of the film, something we didn't like. The ugly, something that didn't age well plenty. The fine, something that did age well. What do you got for the good? The songs, yeah, heck, yeah. Mine was just like how sweet the ending is. You said it was too sweet. I said give me more sugar, pour some sugar on me.
Speaker 1:So I was like it gets to the ending and I'm like Natalie, get the bag of sugar Just going to pour it on myself. I'm going to get the betas. Yeah, all right, what do you got for the bad?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I didn't really have anything for the bad.
Speaker 1:It kind of wraps up really quickly at the end. Yeah, it feels like it's rushed. It's really rushed, like once we get to the 50th anniversary for Rosie, it's just like it's like just cutting Like whoa, calm down, let us live in this moment. It's like seem like they're like I feel like a lot of romantic comedies do that. It is felt like maybe the producers were, before we run out of money, saying like we want this to be like an hour 30. Exactly, so you have to cut 10 minutes from it, because then they get to the wedding and it's like there's no fun wedding shenanigans.
Speaker 2:It's just it's just.
Speaker 1:We just see David singing. I shenanigans. It's just. It's just david. We just see david singing. I really felt like we could have had a little more sammy and holly being like a conversation or something.
Speaker 2:It just I don't know. It felt like it could have been an hour 49, an hour 29. Yeah, you know they wanted to get married immediately. Yeah, it's yeah, that's true. Well, no, that was linda, never mind yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I just wonder like I wonder if they how much they cut out of it at the end Because it really felt like it. Sure, still a little perfect man, all right, the Ugly I put the fat and ugly shaming in. Yeah, that sucks the potential. I don't know about Alexis Arquette, the girl who plays George, but I don't know what gender she identifies as. But it seemed like they was making jokes about it, but they were like we don't know how to make a joke about it Right, it was, yeah, this was 1998.
Speaker 1:But yeah, there's a lot of the classic Adam Sandler meat spirited jokes. Sure, but Everybody loved it. We all laugh at it.
Speaker 2:They all laugh at it. Yeah, it's like. I mean at it, still laugh at it. Yeah, it's like I mean it's not his worst one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, you got anything? No, not really. It's pretty much the same stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, uh sucks on women day jerks yeah sorry, that's the thing that happens around here.
Speaker 1:often there's the earthquake, it's like oh yeah, you know, tectonic plates shifting, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Sweet right under your house.
Speaker 1:That must be comfortable, but yeah, I think it happens everywhere that I've lived, though, like even in Murfreesboro, andean I can't believe you didn't know about it until you came over to my house. Yeah, I haven't felt them, god, I really do prefer movies, romantic comedies and stuff where the the bad guy is like the guy. I just they don't always have to be such obvious dicks Right, like sometimes I wish that they were more like likable in their own way, like not just for because they're funny, but just because it's like it's actually not a bad guy. I just feel like it add like a more interesting elements to rom-coms Right yeah.
Speaker 2:They just don't work well together, even though they're both good people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or she does like them, it's just like not the one, it's like it's.
Speaker 2:I guess that would make it a little more too tragic for the other guy and then it's, but it's just like you want it to kind of be a clean break. Yeah, but I I guess I just like it to be a little more interesting that way, um kind of like, uh, tom hanks getting lost on the in the ocean?
Speaker 1:yeah, cast away cast away.
Speaker 2:That's kind of like how that was yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, because it's like his, his wife ends up getting remarried and then he goes and it's like, well, I don't know what to do anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah you kind of peaced out, so I moved on, yeah um.
Speaker 1:So what do you have for the fine?
Speaker 2:man, I think we should bring back wedding singers and we had, because the last wedding I went to we had uh, they didn't have a wedding singer yeah, they did have someone that kind of coordinated the activity like the fun yeah Of the evening. Yeah, I mean I really If he sang Hell yeah. If you could get.
Speaker 1:Adam Sandler as your God dang wedding singer. That would be the best wedding in the history of weddings and I would not have an issue with that, obviously. That would be amazing.
Speaker 2:Like this dude was so charismatic, he got me to dance, and I hate dancing, line dancing. It was a line dancing thing. They were trying to get nobody's going on dance floor. Yeah, of course he points at my ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah and people were like we're, if jason starts dancing, we'll start dancing, but it's like no one gets jason at the same time.
Speaker 2:I can't back out. It's my brother-in-law's wedding. You have to do it.
Speaker 1:I'd be like bye guys, I'm out.
Speaker 2:I did dip out. After everyone started dancing, I dipped out.
Speaker 1:It's like, you know what my job here is done. Everybody's going to remember that this was all me. I slow walked, my find was Sandler and Barrymore. They're so sweet together and they're very lovable and a perfect onscreen couple. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Really good together.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So all right, we'll hit our next category, the double feature. It's a movie we recommend alongside this movie. I'll tell you mine first. It's a 2016 movie called Sing Street. So, yeah, it takes place in Dublin in 1985. Yeah, a, it's called Sing Street. So, yeah, it takes place in. Dublin in 1985. A young lady notices a beautiful girl who begins to occupy his thoughts. While struggling with poverty, personal relationships and life woes, he starts a band hoping to catch her attention. It's so good, dude, it's sweet, it's great. Yeah, what do you got?
Speaker 2:If you could ever feel more romantic, you could watch 50 First Dates.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love it, sean Astin.
Speaker 2:so good in that it is really funny, you know, but it's kind of like it makes me your peanut butter cups it makes me think about dementia. Yeah, that scares me, it's a very sad.
Speaker 1:It's a very sad movie at the same time. Also, the ending is fucking crazy. I don't know, man, it's a great movie. Also the ending is fucking crazy.
Speaker 2:I don't know, man. It is good though.
Speaker 1:It's a great movie but then it's like, if you just think about it for too long, you're like you get sad again this is like everybody who's on board with her getting married like this you gotta spend the first like four hours of your day just being like, oh yeah, we like each other, but then it's like never gonna feel like it's growing, I don't. Then it's like never going to feel like it's growing, I don't know it's going to be like memento.
Speaker 2:It's wild the guy kills his wife.
Speaker 1:It's like eventually, like the first eight hours of the day is going to be watching an entire documentary about your life every time. God damn, maybe it's good every time. Yeah, it is great, it's wild that movie is. But yeah, that is our discussion on the Wedding Singer. Thank you for listening, so make sure you join us. Next week We'll be doing another romantic comedy from the 80s. It's honestly one of the best ever made by one of our one of the best like 80s and 90s filmmaker, cameron Crowe. It stars John Cusack and Lily Taylor, john Mahoney, ion Sky I don't actually know how to say her name, that's right, we're talking about Say Anything, baby, the boombox movie. Yeah, so join us next week for that. I actually have only seen this movie like once, and it was a couple years ago, and then after I watched it I was like this is very funny and very good and I understand why people would do the boombox thing.
Speaker 2:It's great. Hell yeah, I don't think I've ever seen it. I've seen that one clip.
Speaker 1:It's amazing. So, yeah, join us next week for that. Thank you for listening. Leave us some reviews, please. We got our first non-five-star review. I guess it was a four star review, because it took our five stars to 4.9. Oh no, so just leave us a review. I won't tell you to leave us five stars because I will do it.
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Speaker 2:What are we?
Speaker 1:doing here. I went from the first episode of the podcast being like it's like oh, I don't really cuss, but I got to do all this cussing for the quotes and stuff, so maybe I'll just start cussing. Yeah, Cut to John Wick. Every other word is the F word. I'm like okay, Did you just?
Speaker 2:say the N word no F word. So I was like maybe I went too far on the other way and I'm getting out like 30 years of not cussing out of my system.
Speaker 1:It's like oh, I didn't learn to control it because I didn't do it ever, so now it's just like every F word you've ever wanted to say is coming out during the podcast.
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Speaker 2:I will strangle you with this microphone. Bye Thanks for watching.
