Pour The Wine, It's Rom-Com Time

Hallmark's Love on the Danube: Love Story

• Garry & Amy

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All aboard for another episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time! This week, Garry and Amy set sail on a romantic journey as they take a cruise down the Danube to review Love on the Danube: Love Song. When Sarah (Nazneen Contractor) and Jack (Wes Brown) meet on a scenic river cruise with their recently widowed, musically-gifted parents, they both secretly chart the same course: to play cupid for their folks. But as they compose romantic interludes, they find the tides turning on their own hearts. Did Garry and Amy enjoy the ride or did this rom-com miss the boat? Tune in now to find out!


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Amy:

welcome to pour the wine. It's rom-com time where we'll sip some wine and review all things rom-com on the hallmark channel. I'm amy and I'm gary and are you ready to pour it?

Garry:

I am ready to pour the wine.

Amy:

Let's do it, it's time and we're having drum roll a cab as per use as per use what we love yes we would speaking of love. Yes, love, if you have time, we would really appreciate it if you would click that follow button on your favorite podcast platform. Yes, please click it and if you have any opinions either way about our podcast, please be sure to leave us a review. Hopefully it's a five-star review, but if not, we'll accept it.

Garry:

That's right.

Amy:

Hopefully it's a positive review, but make sure you follow us wherever you can find us so you don't miss an episode. We're on all the socials Facebook, Instagram, blue sky.

Garry:

Falling on me.

Amy:

I still want to say Twitter, I know right, and threads, it's hard to not say it every once in a while. Here's your wine, thank you.

Garry:

I'm going to have a sip real quick.

Amy:

Oh, okay, you're going to dive into that, huh.

Garry:

I haven't even started yet and you're like I need a sip, had to wet my whistle, my whistle. So today we're reviewing the first of three Love on the Dan U movies, called Love Song, that aired on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, May 17th 2025. It originally aired on Hallmark Plus on September 10th 2024, when Hallmark Plus launched.

Amy:

That's almost a year ago. Can you believe that I know.

Garry:

Time is flying Woo Woo on Hallmark Plus on September 10th 2024, when Hallmark Plus launched. That's almost a year ago. Can you believe that I know Time is flying Woo?

Amy:

Woo, if you missed it, guess what? What, tell me.

Garry:

Lay it on me, it's still on Hallmark Plus.

Amy:

It's still on Hallmark Plus. It is there Without commercials, correct?

Garry:

Yes, correct. So do you want to tell us who's in this one?

Amy:

Sure, I will start with that, let's go. Nainzine Contractor plays Sarah. Her Hallmark work includes playing I think it's either Neela or Nyla, I'm not sure if it's a hard I or a soft I In four episodes of the Love Club and in the Love Club Mom's Tori movie in 2025. She was in two episodes of Holidays in 2024. Ooh loved.

Garry:

Holidays which we know we love that.

Amy:

The Perfect Pairing in 2022, which is super cute. We just watched that one A Winter Getaway in 2021. And it looks like her first Hallmark movie was the Christmas Ring in 2020. Wow, she's voiced a few animated series, including Star Wars, resistance and Mickey and the Roadster Racers. She was in a series called Ransom. She was in 39 episodes from 2017 to 2019, five episodes of Major Crimes which we loved in 2017.

Garry:

Another one you got me hooked on.

Amy:

And an episode of Person of Interest which you got me hooked on in 2014.

Garry:

The only one I got her hooked on. The only.

Amy:

That's not true. That's not true. Wes Brown plays Jack and he's a Hallmark favorite. Yes, that's a good-looking man right there.

Garry:

But let's be honest, I'm better looking, right, right you?

Amy:

are better looking, baby. That is true. That is true, wink wink you know who he reminds me of. I thought about during this movie and this is total sidebar. He reminds me of a young brendan frazier yes, he does, yes, yes yep, yep, yep. So I was thinking about that when we were watching this. I'm like you know what that's funny you said that.

Amy:

That's what he reminds me of Anyhoot. We could call him practically Mr Hallmark. He has something like 19 Hallmark movies shows productions that he has done so far, and he was in four movies in 2024, including Holiday Touchdown Deck, the Walls, autumn at Apple Hill and this one. They were all in 2024. He was in one of our faves, biltmore Christmas in 2023, and the Holly movies in 2023 and 2022. We love those two, those are so cute.

Amy:

He's also going to be in Countdown to Christmas 2025 in A Newport Christmas with Gina Claire Mason from Hats Off to Love Awesome, the star of that one. So, yeah, that's pretty cool. Looking forward to that Some of his other work includes the movie Inheritance in 2024, one episode of Once Upon a Time in 2016, and 11 episodes of Deception in 2013. Wow, oh, and he was in an episode of Desperate Housewives in 2012. There's Desperate.

Garry:

Housewives again there's Desperate Housewives shows up.

Amy:

Catherine Drysdale plays Teddy. This is her Hallmark debut and she's in all three Love on the Danube movies. She was in 18 episodes of bridgerton the ever popular bridgerton. Between 2020 and 2024 she was in a series called the windsors. She was in 11 episodes of that from 2016 to 2023, where she played megan markle, and this is actually a comedy soap opera about the royals, okay so.

Garry:

So we might have to check that out. It might be kind of funny. Yes, we will.

Amy:

She's voiced a lot of animated series like Circle Square she was in 21 episodes of that Between 2021 and 2022,. Dennis and Nasher Unleashed she voiced 17 episodes of that from 2017 to 2020.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

And Dennis and Nasher on the big screen. She was a voice in 2020.

Garry:

Oh, wow, yeah, Gee crackers.

Amy:

Pamela Sinha plays Julia. This is her Hallmark debut. She was in the movie Shook in 2024. Okay, she was in ER. There's ER, there's ER 17 episodes between 1999 and 2005. And she was in one episode of Crossing Jordan in 2014. David Samartin plays Jack. He is actually a composer, really.

Garry:

Yeah, isn't that what he kind?

Amy:

of plays. In this he's the music teacher, the band right he has the band in the Thanksgiving Day Parade?

Garry:

Yeah, band right, he has the band in the. Yeah, I think I think he does have the man. Yeah, he has 10 the marching band credits. Yeah, I'm sorry, I was trying to think about it.

Amy:

I know you're like what, where am I?

Garry:

is it jack what's happening? Which one is it?

Amy:

he does play. Oh, I said jack, didn't I yes, you did you did. You are right.

Garry:

It's Andre. That's what made me. I was confused.

Amy:

I was like was there another man in this movie that was playing bad? Okay, maybe I need the wine.

Garry:

I take full credit for that.

Amy:

That's why you look so confused.

Garry:

I have to cherish this moment, y'all, because she doesn't mess up that much. Actually, I don't think she messes up at all.

Amy:

I don't think she messes up at all. No, I do, I do. Yes, I can't believe I said that. And I looked at you, like you were losing your mind. We have recorded evidence of that. That's so funny. Yeah, andre. Okay, let me start that over. David Smart plays Andre. Yes, he's actually a composer.

Garry:

That's pretty cool.

Amy:

Oh gosh, okay. He has 10 acting credits that include emergency la he was in seven episodes of that in 2023 and the series harry's law he was in one episode in 2011 and that starred kathy bates. Oh sweet, pretty cool. Mark holden plays the captain of the ship, captain magnusson yes, he has a ton of work that he's done.

Amy:

This is his homework debut, as far as I could see. He had a lot of acting credits. We will see him in all three Love on the Danube movies. He was in the movie Damaged in 2024 with Samuel L Jackson. He was in Discovery of Witches. Two episodes of that in 2021.

Garry:

Yeah, we watched like the first season.

Amy:

The first season, yeah world war z in 2013. That's what tom cruise right world war z.

Garry:

No, I think that was with um oh I'm wrong, I take it back.

Amy:

I need to drink some more wine uh, eight monkeys um brad pitt?

Garry:

yeah, I think oh okay, I don't know.

Amy:

Yeah, someone will tell us, or correct?

Garry:

us.

Amy:

I'm sure, or I could look it up. He was in final destination in 2000 isn't that crazy? And two episodes of one of your favorite shows, the x-files in 1997 in 1998, somewhere, richard hugh plays stanley. This is his hallmark premiere. His acting work dates all the way back to 1980.

Garry:

Wow.

Amy:

He was in the series the Diplomat. He was in two episodes in 2024, which we have to get back to.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

He was in the series the Bay four episodes in 2019. He was in Succession one episode in 2018.

Garry:

Another good movie there. No, it's a series or series, sorry progression.

Amy:

Oh, one episode in 2018, another. No, it's a series or series. Sorry, he was also in um line of duty. Four episodes in 2014 and y'all. If you haven't seen line of duty, it is an excellent series yes, it is excellent, excellent. I was hoping that would come back, but it won't. It's a british series but yeah so good the gaffa the gaffer.

Amy:

The gaffer. Catherine Disher plays Betty. She has been in several Hallmark productions, including all three of the Love on the Danube movies. She was in my Sweet Austrian Holiday, which is also known as the Christmas Chocolatier, in 2024. That was really cute. We know and love her from the Good Witch series, where she played Martha Tinsdale in 76 episodes from 2015 to 2021. And she's in all of the Good Witch movies dating back to 2008.

Garry:

She's awesome.

Amy:

We could figure out how the movies fit in with the series. We didn't watch any of the movies, but I think we watched one, but it was a weird.

Garry:

Yeah, yeah.

Amy:

There was some missing there, but we loved the good witch series. Love, love, loved it. She was in law and order, toronto, criminal intent, for two episodes between 2024 and 2025, and she too has voiced a lot. I mean a lot of animated work uh like x-men 97. She did six episodes of that in 2024. Thomas and friends all engines go 11 episodes between 2021 and 2023. Daniel spellbound 20 episodes between 2022 and 2023. And roly-poly-oly, which the kids watched.

Garry:

You remember that?

Amy:

roly-poly-oly. She voiced in 75 episodes of that between 1998 and 2004.

Garry:

Wow.

Amy:

And she was in a series called the Border for 38 episodes between 2008 and 2010. Wow that was a lot. There you go. I love her though.

Garry:

Yeah, she's a great actress. I really enjoy her stuff. Yeah, she's a great actress, I really enjoy her stuff.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, she's good.

Garry:

And I'm kind of anxious to see how she plays out in this particular series. I agree In this series.

Amy:

What's going to be her storyline? Does it grow she?

Garry:

probably owns the boat.

Amy:

She probably does own the boat. Yeah, we don't know it's her floating home. Yeah, it's her floating. It might be. I'm gonna be curious to see.

Garry:

Yeah, yeah, that's a good point that would be funny, if that's what it was yep so what?

Amy:

did you think what did I think? Should I drop the synopsis or?

Garry:

should I? Goodness I am, we are. Maybe I should take a sip of wine, is it?

Amy:

friday. Is it monday?

Garry:

I don't know what day it is now. It's only Tuesday. It's Monday. This guy's is Tuesday. Okay, it's time to drop this. Enough, okay.

Amy:

Here we go A daughter traveling with her widowed mother, a musical theater performer, and a son traveling with his widowed father, a pianist, meet on a cruise and decide that their musical parents would make the perfect couple. They just need to help them realize it. They spend the rest of the trip trying to engineer a romance, only to discover it might not be their parents who are falling in love.

Garry:

Right, right.

Amy:

Okay, right. So what did you think?

Garry:

I loved the movie. I loved the concept, definitely loved the locations.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

I enjoyed the various stops that you know the boat took along the way. However, I did feel like it was a little slow.

Amy:

You did.

Garry:

Yeah, yeah, I didn't feel like it flowed like the other movies. That we've watched, but that's okay. I also felt like the characters didn't grow a lot in this one.

Amy:

Right.

Garry:

Well, maybe Julia.

Amy:

We might have to disagree a little bit about that, but yeah, we can disagree but that's how I felt about this particular one. Well, I think too. We're coming off of watching the Chicken Sisters, where we had monumental growth for all these characters, and this is not the same. That's fair.

Garry:

This is not the same. That's fair. This is not the same. Yeah, so tell me what you thought.

Amy:

Well, I was sort of I mean, it'll be similar to yours in that I enjoyed it. I actually thought it was really cute. I thought the cast had really good chemistry.

Garry:

Mm-hmm.

Amy:

And I actually, you know, love the location shoot, of course, right, and it was filmed. I did read that it was filmed mainly in Budapest.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Hungary. They didn't make all the stops, but it was still beautiful, right.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

The architecture. One of the shoes was literally at one of the baths there when they were in the pool.

Garry:

That was pretty cool yeah.

Amy:

Yeah, that's called the Gellert I don't know how to pronounce that thermal bath. It was built on historical healing hot springs in 1918. Wow, and I read that the camera crew had to get on bathing suits because the angles they wanted they had to get in the water. Oh, wow To shoot, which I thought was pretty cool, and then the church scene that they filmed in. It was the first time that that church ever allowed a filming crew inside to film.

Garry:

Wow, Hallmark got the first shoot. Church of Our.

Amy:

Lady of Buddha Castle. It's also known as St Matthias Church.

Garry:

It was beautiful inside.

Amy:

Yeah, I thought that was cool. So the location shoot I always love that when they do that. You know, I actually thought it flowed smoothly. I just kept thinking like soft and smooth as we were going through it. Right, the story, the location shoot, the actors Did it blow me away. No right, you know. But it doesn't have to knock my socks off to just be an enjoyable, heartfelt movie. Yeah so that's kind of how I felt, I mean I wasn't sad that we watched it, you know I mean I thought.

Amy:

I thought it was enjoyable, but it didn't like blow me away, like some of our other favorite homework movies. So, yeah, we're kind of on the same page there. Okay, yeah.

Garry:

What about favorite scenes? Did you have any?

Amy:

A few the location shoot in general.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

I just loved all the shots.

Garry:

It was beautiful.

Amy:

So yeah, so I have to give a shout out to that. I thought the meet cute worked on the steps when she was trying to get reception right on the steps.

Garry:

Okay, so what do?

Amy:

you what do you? That's one of your favorite scenes.

Garry:

It's one of my favorite scenes where she's walking up the steps trying to get a signal on her phone yeah she's talking to herself and then, um jack comes up behind her like he's dancing and then she turns around and they start to talk and you know, they introduce themselves to each other. But then, as they're saying goodbye, he turns around to her and says talk typos later. Yeah, and he was like why did I say?

Amy:

that that was just seemed like a. They did seem so genuine.

Garry:

And.

Amy:

I don't know. Yeah, I thought that, so I'm glad we agree with that. That was just such a cute meet cute, so to speak. Yeah, I enjoyed that. Any other scenes that you liked?

Garry:

I loved the cake scene that they did the cake scene. Yeah, where Jack and Sarah went to go taste the cake.

Amy:

Oh, yes, yes, where they?

Garry:

And I think his name was Lucas, the character who was, you know, providing the cakes.

Amy:

Yeah, was it cheesecake, or was it it was just cake?

Garry:

I'm not sure. I think some of it might have been cheesecake.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

But the way the guy or Lucas, he was really serious about them enjoying the tasting of these cakes.

Amy:

Yes, it was very serious business.

Garry:

But then you have Sarah and Jake, you know, trying to make fun of the moment and they decided, oh, you know, we're getting engaged. And then the guy was like, well, there's no spots for weddings because it takes years to book it right. And they're like, oh, that would take too long. But there was a courthouse across the street, so they talked about going there.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

But then they said oh, can we get a to-go box In?

Amy:

his face In his face Like what, yeah, yeah what.

Garry:

A to-go box. Yeah, are you serious? That whole scene really worked. It was cute and fun.

Amy:

So I thought that was fun. Yeah, the library scene too, just because I love the library you know just all the books, the cool architecture, you know, I just thought it looked cool and then walking through it, and then of course.

Garry:

Then they go to the music room right, that's in the library or a part of the library, right?

Amy:

And they go in into the music room, which again I thought was really cool, and I didn't look up to see what library that was. I bet that was a real.

Garry:

It was. Oh, did you look it up? I didn't write it down. It kind of reminded me of the Library of Congress.

Amy:

Yeah, I mean, that's a beautiful library too.

Garry:

Yes, but yeah, because I had that down as one of my favorites too, did you?

Amy:

Yeah, so they go in and he gifts his father.

Garry:

His name is going to be in the book and the oldest book, I think of marching bands.

Amy:

Every time she said Guggenheim, I kept thinking Guggenheim, like the Guggenheim.

Garry:

Yeah, it was interesting though, Because when he sat down and, I think, sarah came up with the idea, and so they booked this private viewing of this book.

Amy:

Oh, that's right, she did.

Garry:

You're right, he got his name in, and then they take a picture of Andre and his father. And yeah, I liked that scene too. I thought it was pretty cool.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, did you have any other? No, no.

Garry:

What about you?

Amy:

The other one that I had listed was when Julia and Betty sing the trolley song. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. That was really good. Yeah, I thought that was really good. Do you know what that's?

Garry:

from no, that's from the musical no, it's.

Amy:

Meet Me in St Louis.

Garry:

Oh, meet me in St Louis. That was a fun scene too, I thought that was a really fun scene. I just liked it and I liked that they got to sing. Yeah, yeah, I thought that was cute. I forgot about that scene. Yep, yep, yep.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

Any more.

Amy:

No, that's it for favorite scenes for me.

Garry:

So shall we move on to Cheers.

Amy:

Cheers, biggest cheer, from you. Or a cheer if you have several.

Garry:

No, my biggest cheer was that they actually shot it on location.

Amy:

Yep, I have that too and, like you said, mostly in.

Garry:

Budapest and Hungary.

Amy:

Yeah, budapest and Hungary, yeah, Budapest, hungary is Right, right, right, right and.

Garry:

The city? I didn't know, but along the way there's a lot of houses that are along the bank.

Amy:

Of the Danube.

Garry:

Yeah, oh yeah, because the Danube, I think it's. What did they say? It's like I don't know. Like 1,700 miles long.

Amy:

Did they talk about it in the movie? No, they didn't. I looked it up, yeah.

Garry:

Yeah, 1,770 miles long.

Amy:

And you know we've never been on a cruise, but that type of cruise, yeah, Boat.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

I mean, obviously, I guess you wouldn't have the big cruise ships on the Danube.

Garry:

I I don't really know. I mean, don't quote me on that, I don't really know. It's a river and you can't get under those bridges with a big old cruise ship.

Amy:

That's true, but I thought that was really just cool the way it was.

Garry:

I would do that, I would totally go over there and do that and you know they do have cruises and I looked that up by the way.

Amy:

Oh, okay, are we going.

Garry:

Did two to five days. They have standard cruises, which is seven to eight days, extended cruises, which is 10 to 14 days, and then the grand cruises, which is 15 to 22 plus days.

Amy:

Now is this a 22 plus days, so maybe that's what the one?

Garry:

what's her name?

Amy:

I forgot her name Betty, betty, the character Betty.

Garry:

Maybe that's what she booked is the long one. Maybe That'd be interesting, yeah to see and they have different places where you can get on and off for each of those cruises.

Amy:

So is that a particular cruise line?

Garry:

or you're just saying in general, it is danube, but I I, I think it's on the danube, or danube, anyways it's well, I hope it is because you're but the one that they shot on, the boat that they shot on, was actually one of the real ones and they had their pamphlets on there that you could see if you were paying attention.

Amy:

It's legit. Yes, oh, that's so cool. Look at you with the trivia. That's awesome yeah.

Garry:

I thought I'd drop that in there for you.

Amy:

Look at you.

Garry:

So did you have any cheers?

Amy:

Well, you said the location shoot. Um, I had a few I I loved that they didn't have. Julia regret her choice to um step down from her career not step down but step away from her career.

Amy:

When she became a parent and you know I mean so many times the movies are, it's like the old trope, you know, like oh gosh, I wish I wouldn't have done that, I should have have stayed. But she was like you know, I didn't regret it. I mean, you can be sad about something and you can miss it and not regret it.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Right. So I just I kind of enjoyed that storyline part of it. I actually thought the chemistry worked really well between everybody.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

It wasn't like explosive, but I just thought it flowed lovely.

Garry:

You know I thought it was just a lovely flow throughout the whole movie.

Amy:

I can see that. Yeah, those were. Do you have any other cheers? No, I don't have any other. You don't have any other? No, nothing else. The winery stop.

Garry:

We've got to shout that out. Well, that winery is pretty cool because they said the cellar goes on for miles. Yes, can you imagine?

Amy:

That would be so cool to see.

Garry:

So cool. I'm just giving a shout out to the winery. So I mean it's gotta be a cheer we have to.

Amy:

I love which we've already. You know which I've already mentioned um Catherine Disher I just love her she's, so I just love her quirkiness and the, the characters and how she kind of, you know, talked to everyone and Kind of cheered them up. Cheered them up, brought them around. You know it was cool, and the fact that she knew everything about them, she was like, oh my gosh, I know all your music.

Garry:

You know, and like that was funny.

Amy:

And I have a favorite play of yours to Stanley you know. So she kind of just like I just thought her character, I loved her character, so I character, so I'm okay, so I'm looking, I'm looking forward to seeing her in the other two movies, right, and like you said earlier, to see where she goes, where her character goes and what she does. Um, I kind of am digging the openings, the cartoony with the and the music. I thought that was really cool.

Garry:

Remind me of the royals, the royal series that's exactly what I had down.

Amy:

Yeah, the royal weekends that we had.

Garry:

Yeah, royalish, royalish and the.

Amy:

Royal we and yeah, where they had that cute little opening. So we should watch this one again and then see if it differs from the next one which I'm sure it probably will. Maybe it's the different stops or whatever, but I kind of like that, I think it's cute and, you know, a little quirky. And then the song slash music at the end just reminded me of the 80s music.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

It was very. I know it wasn't from the 80s, but it was reminiscent of that, so I love that. Well, cool yeah. So there you go.

Garry:

So that was all your cheers, huh.

Amy:

That was it. Those were my cheers.

Garry:

So we're going to move on to jeers.

Amy:

All right, let's move on to jeers and see what you got. What you got. Okay, my one of my, just Do you have a whole list? Well, I have a couple. Okay, I have like three.

Garry:

Okay, julia, I just I understand you know the fear of getting back up on stage, but I felt like there were too many scenes where she kept saying I don't want to go on there, I don't want to go up on stage, you know I don't want to go on there. I don't want to go up on stage, you know, I don't want to be the lead, I just want to be in the chorus. It just felt like I think it was like three or four scenes where she said that and then she takes, she leaves a note on her bed for Sarah that you know where she went and just kind of sat on a bench, contemplate you know her life or whatever, and then she tells her about how she doesn't want to do it, but then Sarah kind of talks her into it so that was one of my tears.

Garry:

I loved her as a character. Yeah, I just felt that part of it, just to me was Did you feel like it was too much?

Amy:

It was too much. It was too much for rehearsing.

Garry:

I mean for somebody that was on stage for a while. I wouldn't think the nerves would be that much as much as they portrayed in this.

Amy:

I don't know if you haven't done it in 35 years or however long. It was 30 years.

Garry:

And then I think another reason was because her husband's passing, who was always there for her plays musicals.

Amy:

Right.

Garry:

Maybe that has something to do with it too. Maybe, yeah, that was one of them. What about you?

Amy:

Okay, it looked like Jack and Andre could have been brothers and not father and son. I swear. I mean and you know and that's a compliment towards Andre if he is in fact old enough to be Jack's father. But I just felt like the age difference. You know, in certain angles just wasn't enough for me?

Garry:

Are there just not enough? Older actors? I don't know, I don't know. Wasn't enough for me, are there just not enough?

Amy:

older actors? I don't know. I don't know but it just they just seem closer in age than what I think they were trying to put off. And again, maybe that's just a testament to Andre or the actor who plays Andre.

Garry:

True.

Amy:

And, by the way, when I say, did you ever watch Project Runway with Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn?

Amy:

yeah, we watched it a little bit, but there was one of the first few seasons there was one of the contestants. His name was andre. So when we were watching this, tim gunn used to say andre, and he used to say it in such a way and it became like a thing right during that season. He'd go Andre, where are you? You know, oh, andre, and just the way he said so in my head the whole time we were watching this movie that's what I kept thinking of. So shout out to Project Runway for that.

Garry:

That is funny.

Amy:

What other jeers did you have?

Garry:

The scene when, with Jack and Sarah taking a carriage ride. Oh, oh, my God, that hurt my head Because it was bouncy, with Jack and Sarah taking a carriage ride.

Amy:

Oh, oh, my God, that hurt my head Because it was bouncy. Yeah, it was, it was, yeah.

Garry:

I don't know if that was a green screen, or if it was real, because the aperture on the camera I don't know.

Amy:

But yeah, I had to look away.

Garry:

It was hard to tell Because they kept bouncing, but I don't think their voices sounded like they were bouncing. They were like bouncing up and down. That's true. I didn't think about that when we were watching it and it just drove me crazy.

Amy:

I just didn't like that, yeah it was too like jerky almost, and up and down it was hurt my eyes I mean, I guess the fact that we couldn't tell if it was a green screen is not a bad thing, because that means it was decent, but it was like green screen and it was legit. And then other parts you know if they had to reshoot or whatever.

Garry:

And the car that was behind them. It was like if the carriage would have had a sudden stop, that car would have ran up on them.

Amy:

I didn't even know Was it right close.

Garry:

I didn't see it, I didn't even know.

Amy:

I was paying attention to the dialogue. Thank you very much.

Garry:

Okay, no, just kidding.

Amy:

So what about you? What's your cheer Sarah's boss? Can we just make bosses?

Garry:

be a boss. I know be a boss people.

Amy:

It was like a weird like we almost didn't even need that.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

You know, I mean, we didn't need that character. I didn't think and I just didn't. I don't know the whole over. You know you're fired if you don't get this in right.

Garry:

I know.

Amy:

I mean, they have these. I just our bosses. Really, I just wish they would get away from that. You know, you could have a boss who's you know hard on you and whatnot, but it just I don't know. I'm just maybe I'm kind of worn out from that, but I just didn't think it worked. Um, I didn't like when sarah acted, surprised that jack was into her when they were at their dinner, I know, she's like what?

Amy:

yeah, but she was flirting with. They were kind of like building it up a little bit. Yeah, I don't know.

Garry:

I just felt like in that part it didn't that one scene like oh, yeah, for the whole scene I'm like, but y'all just met yeah, well, yeah yeah so that was another one.

Amy:

Do you have any more?

Garry:

was that the scene where he kind of, you know, laid it out for her like he he was in love with her and all that? Yeah, it kind of reminded me of John Cusack's Say Anything.

Amy:

I gave her my heart. She gave me a pen.

Garry:

Yeah, that was funny, but no, I didn't have any more.

Amy:

No, that was it. The only other one that I had for a jeer was the hats.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

When Jack and Andre wear the hats, I didn't view it so much as Frank Sinatra. Did you think of Frank Sinatra when you saw those hats on them? No, no, I just didn't. And we love Frank Sinatra.

Garry:

Yes, Now.

Amy:

I don't know all of his stuff. I mean I know he wore what, do they call them Fedoras or whatever, so but I just didn't feel like it. He's like, oh, you look just like Frank Sinatra. And I'm like, yeah, no, not really.

Garry:

I didn't get that. Oh, I did have one more, Jerry it was the captain.

Amy:

The captain.

Garry:

It was kind of like a voiceover a couple of times throughout the movie where he was saying we're now stopping at whatever port, and why wouldn't you just show him he's there? I would rather them show him on the microphone saying okay, our next stop is blah blah blah. But it just kind of sounded like they were coming off the boat. And there's this voice, like God is speaking to you.

Amy:

Well, it's so interesting that you say that, because I kind of liked it.

Garry:

Oh, did you.

Amy:

The voiceover in that part of it. Yeah, where he was like next stop you know, vienna or whatever they would say, and then he would talk about some of the things.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

That's interesting. We have a different opinion about that.

Garry:

Yes, but yes.

Amy:

I understand your point, but I don't agree with it Because I'm not changing it. I didn't like the voiceover at the very beginning, when you hear Sarah and Julia talking in like the cab they're pulling up to get on the cruise.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And it's like a weird, like just show them.

Garry:

That's what I was saying.

Amy:

It's kind of like what you were just saying about the captain, but I felt like that kind of worked, but with them I just felt like why are we? We don't even know who they are. I don't know. I just thought that that was. It was weird, a little bit weird.

Garry:

Yeah, but that's it for me.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

What about you?

Amy:

That's all I got to say about that.

Garry:

No, that's it for me. So, out of five corks, then, how many would you give it? Oh, um, I'd probably give it a solid three and a half. Yeah, that's what I. What would you give it?

Amy:

three and a half really, we're the same. Yes, I almost went a four me too but that's bordering on what I really like and I know we've been freely giving away fives and stuff that we just really like, because we're just, you know, into the stuff that, and it wasn't bad acting.

Garry:

It was not bad acting. No, it wasn't the chemistry. It wasn't like love is in. No, no, it was not bad acting. No, it wasn't like it wasn't the chemistry. It wasn't like love is in the air, just some of the clips. Or love in the clouds Love in the clouds, love in the clouds, see I don't even know it was supposed to be called love in the air, but Whatever Love in the, but it was a nice movie night for us, don't you think? I enjoyed it. A nice Saturday night.

Amy:

Okay, yeah, there you go.

Garry:

Well, is that a wrap?

Amy:

That's a wrap.

Garry:

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Amy:

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Amy:

And we're gonna start with mistletoe murders. Yep, we we're going to start reviewing each episode because we have not watched that yet and we wanted to, and they do have a season two, so we need to watch it and catch up before season two premieres. Until then, fill up your glasses and push play. Thanks for listening, cheers.