Milkhouse Podcast S2 Ep 12 Finale - Peak 90's and 2000's Rom-Coms

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SPEAKER_01 0:06

Welcome to Milk House Podcast, episode 12, season finale. Steph, how are you?

SPEAKER_02 0:12

I am so good. Feeling really great. Good. Excited for this episode.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

Yes. Yeah. How are you doing? I am I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_02 0:21

It's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Yeah. This title of this episode is called The Peak Era of Romance and Rom coms. And this is coming from 90s kids and will hit some of the 2000s. But I thought of this topic because we watched a movie with the girls the other night called A Walk to Remember.

SPEAKER_02 0:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

I'm sure you remember that tearjerker.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

So it kind of set off. I say, you know what? Let's talk about it. Because I know movies now, which we'll get to that, are not the same.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

They're not.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

I think that uh we had some of the best romantic and rom-coms in the 90s and 2000s.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

Oh, a thousand percent.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

So we'll start off with listing some romantic movies that melted our hearts, our most favorite and memorable, and personal stories that are included. So what do you got? What do you got for the first one?

SPEAKER_02 1:19

My first one was Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

I haven't seen is that a horse movie?

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Okay. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

It's the story about the the girl, and she does the she gets on the diving course and she travels around the country, and then at one point she dives into the water. Um, she goes blind and then she learns how to dive blind. And it's a great story.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Is it a true story?

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Yeah, it's based on a true story.

unknown 1:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

And there's this beautiful romance because she falls in love with the trainer. And yeah. Well, they fell in love prior. Oh, okay. But then like he stands by her side and helps her. And beautiful. Yeah, it's a beautiful story.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Was it a 90s one?

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

So I don't know what year it came out. I forgot to check that, but that would have been from the 90s. Okay, because excellent movies.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

That's why I said a horse meal. I was like, it sounds vaguely familiar. Something my sister would have watched.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Oh, for sure.

unknown 2:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

That was a fantastic movie. That I think that was one of my most favorite movies growing up. So from the 90s.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

I'll have to I'll have to watch that with the kids.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

I I think they would like it. I think you would like it. Um it's it's great. It's got love, mystery, drama, blindness.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Tragic accidents.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

It's just so good. I don't know. She runs away from home. It's adventure. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Yeah. I will talk about Walk to Remember again. We watched that the other night with the kids. I wanted him them to experience something. I I remember he's kind of lighthearted, and it totally wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

And I will say this it held up. I mean, it really held. It was still a good movie. And my oldest daughter was commenting that she was getting nervous because it was going kind of well, and she's like, what's gonna happen? Um so awful. I feel like a lot of these films really took one of the characters and always made them sick, like terminally sick.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Yeah. And kudos to Mandy Moore. I mean, she played uh was it Jamie? Yeah, yeah, really, really well.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Yeah, she did.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Really well. To the point of she even, I believe she was sick with buukemia.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

She may have been.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:11

Yeah, she did a really good job in that movie.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Yeah. But that was one of mine, uh, the notebook, which both are Nicholas Sparks. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Um, My Best Friend's Wedding was one I thought of. That's a great one.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

That is such a good movie. Oh, I love that movie so much. I love the intro. I love everything about that movie. That was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

The soundtrack's great. The the cast is great. Oh man, I love that.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

Oh, it's Julia Roberts for one. Like, how can you not?

SPEAKER_01 4:44

She was iconic.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Yeah, she is iconic. Let's not well.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

I mean, uh I say she was because the film she does now. I think the last one I saw of hers was oh man, it was it was like a dystopian film on Netflix, like Leave the World Behind or something, something like that.

SPEAKER_02 5:09

I didn't watch that movie. I guess.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Yeah, it was kind of a uh kind of a horror futuristic thing. I don't know. She played a really intense character, and it just it doesn't feel the same.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

So she still has the same acting chops, it's just not maybe the directing and the screenplays, yeah, totally different than they were.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Yeah, but just to just to name a few more, failure to launch with Matthew McConaughey.

unknown 5:34

Great.

SPEAKER_02 5:35

That's an excellent one.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

She's all that.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

Uh yeah, that was another one we watched a million times.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

A million times? Yeah. Princess Diaries.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Also a million times.

SPEAKER_01 5:45

Just Friends, You've Got Mail. And I had an honorable mention for rom com. It takes two with the Olson Twins.

SPEAKER_02 5:52

Ah that's a classic.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

It's such a class. And what I was gonna say to distinguish 90s and 2000s romantic movies and rom-coms, you could watch them over and over and over. Or I think you can't do that now. Am I wrong?

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Yeah, I don't think that you're wrong. I I don't know what the difference is. I I think you're right on that. Because the amount of times we watch Princess Darius, or you you forgot to mention Sleepless in Seattle, which oh I didn't forget. I didn't fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

It wasn't it was pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

And what's I have to pause because it's it's the other one. Um while you were sleeping.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Oh, while you were sleeping, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

Yeah, like I I don't know what it was. Maybe it was the lack of CGI. I I don't really know. Everything was just better. Um I could watch serendipity, all these movies. So I don't I don't know what the difference was. Maybe it was just people had more passion for making those movies. It wasn't just about the money, it was how are people gonna respond? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

It it made it a lot of them are really lighthearted and everything now is so serious.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Maybe that's what it is. Yeah. My best friend's wedding. I would have hate to see that as like a drama. I'm sure they could make it like that.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

It wouldn't be funny. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

I might watch that again tonight.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

Dude, it's a great one. So great. I love it. Um, do you have any more you think of?

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Um, I I think that the ones we mentioned were pretty much the ones I watched all the time. Um what was the other one with Matthew McConaughey? Um the yellow dress.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Oh, uh something with a number 10 in it?

SPEAKER_02 7:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

How to lose a guy in 10 days?

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Yes, how to lose a guy in 10 days.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Yeah, I know you're talking about with Kate. Uh oh man, we're doing bad at the end.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Hudson, I know.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

Kate Hudson, yeah. And the golden dress on the cover.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Also, Hope Floats. I mean I don't know how to do it. Have you ever watched Hope Floats is so good.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

I don't remember. Who does it who's it?

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Sandra Bullock is in it, and Harry Connick Jr.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Okay, I can see the cover, but I don't think I've ever watched it.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

It's so good. It's one movie that we will still quote for one line um over and over again. Um, but excellent, excellent movie.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

We'll move on to favorite actor or actress, which we kind of touched on that, and authors that inspired the movie adaptations, and we've already mentioned the infamous Nicholas Sparks.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

Oh, the last song, by the way. I say that's a because that was a great movie and a great book. So loved both of them.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

So I have to say it sounded really dumb.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Well, you said it and the last was that with Miley Cyrus, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

And like I'm not a big Miley Cyrus fan, but that movie was so good, and Liam Hemsworth was in it. It was it was such a sweet story.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

So that's what sparked their relationship.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:18

Are they still married?

SPEAKER_02 9:20

No, they've not been together for a long time.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Oh man, hang on.

SPEAKER_02 9:25

Yeah, shed that tear. They're they're done so, but it was still an excellent movie, and I'll stand by that.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

So did you like the notebook?

SPEAKER_02 9:35

No, it wasn't one of my favorites. No, I mean, I think I've watched it one time. So I would give it like maybe three or four stars, which I love. Rachel McAdams, and I love Ryan Gosling. The storyline may have been a little too boring for me.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Somebody pointed out that it was a very violent and like abusive relationship because there is a lot of like physical slapping and hitting.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

It's a little toxic, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Yeah, it's a little toxic. Yeah, and then I mean, he went, I think that set the bar for women's dream, like, oh, I only love one woman, and then I'm gonna go build a house for her, sure, sure. And then they magically run into each other, and he's grown a beard, right? That's and that's uh yeah, she's engaged to some schmuck, and you know, it just starts all over, and then they die together simultaneously in the end.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

It's very precious, it's true love, yeah. And sometimes it does happen like that. I can share at the end, I think my parents' relationship was kind of like that, which I didn't know that story till much later, and I was like, uh, that's fun. Could write a movie on this, but I don't know. I I don't think that movie did much for love. I guess I'll say that.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

Well, Meg Ryan, she was one that stood out. Meg Ryan loves Meg Ryan.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

How could you not? Yeah, Meg Ryan.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

She was very, very lovable.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Yeah, yeah. She's great. And Julia Roberts still, she's one of my favorite. Um for sure. I think those two were in so many things. But yeah, I would say those two were my my top people.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

Matthew McConaughey.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

Yes. Great classic funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

He was in a lot of rom-coms.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

And I just wanted to read off some facts about Nicholas Spark since he has dominated the romantic movie and book industry. So he has published 24 novels, 16 of which are New York Times bestsellers. Over 130 million copies sold worldwide. And let's see, his highest grossing film. Can you guess which one do you think is the highest grossing one? I didn't guess it right.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

Okay. Was it the best of me?

SPEAKER_01 12:05

It was not.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

Ah, that was uh also a great movie.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

It was Message in a Bottle. Which I think that starred Amanda. I don't know her last name, like Seafrid or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

I don't remember the male part, but I don't even remember that movie at all.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

I didn't see it. I don't think my wife even saw it. Because she loves Nicholas Sparks.

SPEAKER_02 12:29

Yeah. I don't remember that at all. So I don't believe that, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Yeah, it sounded didn't sound correct, but the second one, I guess the notebook would be the first one, but it's the second. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Where did uh the best of me fall in? The best of me. Uh I don't have that tragic love story.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

I don't have that on here, but I bet you it's probably one of the top ones. Is that with Harry Connick Jr.?

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Isn't isn't that the one with James Marston? I think it's James Marston. Uh because I feel like that's probably why I watched it.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

You like Cyclops?

SPEAKER_02 13:05

Like, I love Oh, I and I love Harry Connick Jr.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

You like Cyclops?

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Um, no.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Well he's Cyclops next men.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Yeah, but you know, I don't watch those movies. So I don't know anything about that.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

If he if he's listening, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

No, but I still love you. Just know that. I think he's great.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

I don't support your violent movies.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

No, I don't support that, but I'm a fan. And he was also great in jury duty.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

So I didn't see that one, but no.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

Are you kidding me? You need to watch that. You need to watch that.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

You know what? Some of these I need to hit. I need to hit that.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Well, it's not a movie, by the way. It's like a short series, but it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

So I'll take your word for it. You have good taste.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

I do, yes. Um and that's sometimes a fantastic show. No, most times.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

I mean, you don't like X-Men, so that's fine.

SPEAKER_02 14:03

I don't think that like I can be judged.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

There's only like 20 movies, so you have plenty of time to watch them all.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

No, I will not be doing that at all.

SPEAKER_01 14:13

All right, let's move on to ridiculous casting. So a lot of these rom coms, especially, the actors that played in it, we we believe that they were actually high school kids when they were actually adults in their 30s or late 20s.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Um, so one of the films I always thought of that is she's all that.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

It's a great, great movie, but those people had to be in their mid-20s. Oh, for sure. Watching it when I was younger, it made me believe like uh when I was that old, I would be that mature, I'd be that tall, I'd have a five o'clock shadow, you know, like yeah, I would and the the money they have too is funny. Like these kids may or may not work a part-time job and they just have full wallets.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Yeah, it's wild. Yeah, yeah. It's such such good movie making. Yeah, it is though, with she saw that. I guess it was the opposite for me, because I'm like, okay, they definitely look older, which is why it was so confusing that everyone believed she was a boy because she looked young and girly.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

Oh yeah. So well, that's that's the thing of the movie. Well, hang on a second. She she's all that.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

Oh, I switched to um I totally switched.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Oh, Amanda Binds? Yes, is that called she's all that too?

SPEAKER_02 15:40

No, no, it's not. That's the best part. It's not at all. I she's the was it she's the man.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Oh, she's the man. Yes. Hang on, I'm looking at it.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

I totally switched, but yeah, she's all that's the man. She they all were so cool, and you're like, this is definitely college age for sure.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Yeah, but no, um for her, Channing Tatum was clearly not a yeah, no, not at all. And to talk about that, there's no way she wouldn't no, I mean it's not happening.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

No, not at all. Um, no, but and she saw that, yes, wonderful movie, but they they definitely look like they're in their 20s, and it was the same with the movie Um with Drew Barrymore, never been kissed. Like, there's no way none of them look like high school kids.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

They don't, and if I'm correct, I've I've seen bits and pieces of that, never been kissed. Isn't it about an adult woman? She's like a reporter that goes back to high school, but doesn't she have an intimate relationship with a high school kid?

SPEAKER_02 16:40

Well, she kind of gets this, it was a kind of with a thing with her teacher, like you can tell that they kind of like each other, but then but he is he thinks she's a high school student, yes, and then it it doesn't come like he doesn't I say do anything and I say that lightly until after it's out that she's a reporter. Oh, yeah, and then the big reveal he yeah, then he has to meet her at the ball felt, so it's like okay, you developed feelings for her as a high school student, a little weird, but when you're watching it as a teen, you're like, Oh, that's so oh sure.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

You're like, this is okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Yeah, you look back at now, it's like we were being groomed, yeah. Dude, that's still you should have no, nope, doesn't count. Um, but it was a Gary Marshall film, and I do like his stuff, especially in the the early 2000s.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

But so yeah, not you know, it reminds me of Blank Jack.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

Oh, yeah, it's a fantastic movie.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

Yeah, but you remember the ending?

SPEAKER_02 17:52

Yes, yes. I watched that just a couple months ago with my nieces and nephews, and I was like, wait a second.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

He is clear, he's not even in his he's like he's like 12.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

And then that was so weird.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

It was so weird because the dialogue, this adult woman who works what, for undercover the police or something, and she he's like, he asked her on a date or something, she's like, You were you're not 18, something like that. Yeah, and then they barter, she's like 16, and then they come to a number and then they kiss, and it's like it was the weirdest thing ever. You're like, dude, you're under arrest, like on the lips, like yeah, it yeah, again, I don't kiss.

SPEAKER_02 18:32

I I had totally forgot about that, and then yeah, it was one of those moments that you're like, Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

What were we watching as kids? And it was what was happening. Yeah, but and I guess parents wouldn't be like, oh, well, we don't need to watch that. Like, it's a little kid.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Oh, yeah. I mean, I watched blank check quite a bit. We had it on VHS tape. Yes, but yeah, my parents never were they maybe they never made it to the end, they got bored, but that could because they're like, okay, well, this is stupid. I mean, if I walked in now and my kids are watching that, I'd what are you watching?

SPEAKER_02 19:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Oh, it's just it's funny, I bet. No, no.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

Let me just go ahead and say, acceptable in the real world. No, not at all. I always thought that was super weird. Um very weird. But there were at that point, there was also not a lot of like online blogs that you could complain to, you know. So it wasn't causing much.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

There wasn't a comment section.

SPEAKER_02 19:38

There was not.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

No.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

You just kind of had to be like, well, we're not gonna watch that again, and then you know, never rent it from the library.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Still a funny movie.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Yeah, the things we re-watch as adults and think back like Wowzers.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Yeah, yeah, insane.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

Yeah, yeah, but did you find oh I'm sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

I was gonna say I'm just happy not to be a parent. Like, I'm glad that is not my job.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Yeah, sometimes it's scary. I have to say, as a parent, the scariest thing is watching, excuse me, is watching out for what they see on YouTube.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

I feel like YouTube has a really dark side that people don't really talk about, and you can sneak stuff in there.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

And you really gotta pay attention to what they watch. So especially all the shorts and TikToks and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

We found out when my niece was younger that she would get on YouTube and she'd be watching Peppa Pig, but then it's somehow it got it that it was Peppa Pig, but they were like adding in like the terrifying lady. And so I think they've it they s once they figured out what was going on, like they switched to YouTube kids. It's like that was so innocent they were just watching Peppa Pig and people.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

So you say that and actually saw the same thing with my kids. It was it was scaring, I think, my middle daughter at the time.

SPEAKER_02 21:08

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

I was like, it's Peppa Pig, why are you getting upset?

SPEAKER_02 21:12

Well, this would be why, yeah. Yes, it's desynthesizing for sure.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Yeah, the fact that people have time to actually make those things is really disturbing.

SPEAKER_02 21:21

It really is.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Did you find any memorable quotes from the movies you watched? Or did you ever use any of these? Or did anybody use a movie line on you in a relationship or during dating?

SPEAKER_02 21:37

Not during those movies. I like I said, as a family, we quoted one from Hope Floats all over, but it wasn't anything on the romantic side. It was just what we shouted in anger at people. But uh you'd have to watch the movie and then it might be funny, but uh no, I don't think so. I I'm not saying I didn't. But my my memory was not going back that far. What about you?

SPEAKER_01 22:06

I remember one like you did. No, I didn't quote any to anybody, but I remember the line from the notebook, which Noah says Ryan Gosling. He says, I want all of you forever, every day, you and me, every day. And I feel like people were like, ugh, my heart.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

That got I thought it was the one that ever okay, everyone quoted it the most, but if you're a bird, I'm a bird. Wasn't that the most famous line from that movie?

SPEAKER_01 22:35

Uh I don't remember. Doesn't sound familiar, but that doesn't mean anything.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Yeah. He was like yelling at her. If you're a bird, I'm a bird. Or she said it, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

I'll have to search that one. If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Yeah. Which, as we know, birds are fake, so it's really not really work for the game. That's true. I I I honestly I thought I can't think of anything. I'm sure from she's all that, if I thought about it a little bit more, um, but there was nothing I could really think of.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

So uh I had one more and I feel people still talk about it today. It's from Nottinghill. I don't know if you saw that Julie Roberts was in that.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

Yes, yes, it's in that.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her. Oh, yeah. I will say Hugh Grant is so awkward.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

It's I don't know. I thought he was cute.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

He's it's just a weird, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

That I did forget that line, but I yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

Yeah, I feel people use it, but they kind of switch it around a little bit, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:48

That is that was a good one.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Yes, indeed. Yeah, and we kind of touched on this. Why don't we think they make movies like this anymore?

SPEAKER_02 23:58

Again, I think right now it's all about the dollar sign and everything as sequels. And so there's yeah, yeah. So it doesn't feel like there's a lot of imagination. It's almost like everyone's tired. Like obviously, we know in these love stories it's gonna be the same storyline. They're gonna fall in love, hate each other, move to a different country, the other person's gonna chase them, or they're gonna die. Or they're gonna fall in love with a brother. It's just there's not a lot of storylines, but I don't know. It they were still different at the same time. I don't know how to explain that better.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

But no, it was well said. You're right. A lot of it's just uh a redo. It's almost yeah, like they've just ran out of material. Yeah, like they ran out of ideas, the the creativity and and everything is just so serious now. Yeah, you remember when independent films kind of became mainstream we were growing up? Like first, oh, it was kind of like oh, you hear about it now, they're they market it as may or independent, but it's totally a mainstream thing. But yeah, they're all filmed kind of raw. It's like the ugly stuff that you don't want to see. They just love pushing that in, like the weird you know, arguments between you know, real relationships. They love just putting and it's not fun. We watch movies because we want to have escapism. We want to be entertained, we want to be entertained, we wanted to man, that's so sweet. I wish it was real, but it's not. Yeah, the movie magic, if you will. But yeah, everything's just either not original or it's just too serious and it's depressing.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

Yeah, we just want the fun back in movies.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

That's all it's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

It is.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Um, are there any modern movies that you think can become nostalgic one day? Like any modern romantic or rom-coms that you think might hold up in 10 years?

SPEAKER_02 25:59

I think any of the Hallmark Christmas movies.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

You dude, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

I know, like if there's a a section of Christmas uh of movies, it's gonna be the Hallmark in a lifetime. Like those are classics, you know, some from the early 2000s, I think that will still hold, um, would be like ever after the Drew Barrymore. Um fantastic movie. I or are you talking about like now in the 2020s?

SPEAKER_01 26:33

In the 2020s, or you can go back and mid to that early 2000s, you know, just something that's newer. Like, say, for example, I had on I had written down, it was on Netflix with Anne Hathaway, the idea of you. Oh my wife asked me, and it really wasn't. Did you see it?

SPEAKER_02 26:52

No.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

It was about an older woman, I say old, like our age, but she falls in love with a like Justin Bieber type, but so he's way more manly and handsome and charming. But he buys, I think she works in an art studio, he buys and so, but he's much younger than she is, and it's kind of this you know, risque, forbidden, you know, love story, but it was actually pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

So, I mean, will it hold? I think it might hold up because it was an interesting story, but um, that's what I thought of.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

I haven't really seen a movie in the past couple years that was more of a romantic than I thought it would um hold its value. Uh but again, some of the in the 2000s, 2010, I think have some good options, just like heaven uh 13 going on 30. Movies during that time, I think, stock, but I don't know about the past couple years. I've not watched a movie that I thought was so great that I want to watch ten more times.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

So we can't think of it either.

SPEAKER_02 28:04

No, I'm I'm trying to think of the last new movie I watched prior to Project Hail Mary and that right. I I couldn't think of anything past or prior to 2010s.

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Yeah. I I feel a lot of it has to do with the it's not the complete removal, but we don't buy DVDs or Blu-ray discs anymore. No, you know, we don't we don't our favorite oh I love that movie. I can't wait till it comes out on DVD and I can buy a copy of it. We don't do that anymore. I I don't know the last time I bought a movie. I mean, we it was just it's been years since we even bought movies for the kids because it'll end up on one of the streaming platforms within a couple months. And now, my gosh, you can you can order, I don't know if it's called on demand or what, but like movies that are still in theaters, you can watch them at home. You may pay 50 bucks, but I mean, you're not paying for the $50 popcorn bowl bucket.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

So I mean it's that it's instant, you know, now versus before we, you know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Now I will say that if I am shopping and I see a movie that we watched growing up, but I have not been able to find it on streaming services. Like the best example I could give is Richie Rich. That was a great movie growing up, but it's not on the streaming services. So I happened to be walking around a store a couple months ago and I found it and I bought it. I don't even know where my DVD player is, but it was like Yeah, I have to buy it because you're not finding it on streaming services. So there's a couple movies like that. But I do have, I will say, in my stash of DVDs that I have, a majority of them are Christmas movies that I'll just watch over and over.

SPEAKER_01 29:55

So I agree. Yeah, I want to comment on the the Hallmark stuff. It's it's it's nostalgic. And then I don't know how they do it. Maybe because it's just not a mainstream, even though it kind of is now. The the the they can keep creating new stories that still like kind of makes you feel good.

SPEAKER_02 30:13

Yeah. I think that's it. I think that's it just makes you feel good.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Maybe because they have all year to write the story.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

They do, but also most speaking, people like the Christmas time and the lights and the snow, like it already captivates something just great. Um, and so I think they market on that, obviously. I I think it wouldn't be hard to make a good movie surrounded by lights and snow with any storyline.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

But they're kind of cheesy, which is fun.

SPEAKER_02 30:47

That's the best ever.

unknown 30:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Now there are some ones on Netflix that I think maybe we should have gone back to the writer's station for that. Um I've seen some real cringy ones. Yeah. There was one recently where there was like a snowman competition, and she puts a scarf around a snowman and it turns into a guy, and it's like, ah yeah, you really tried way too hard, and no one should have signed up on that one.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

But they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for that. Did you see? I don't know if it was Hallmark and it just made it on the Netflix or something. It was called A Knight's Tale, Night as in KI with Van uh Vanessa Hutchins. Is that her name? I think it was a cute movie. I think it was super cute. Yeah, yeah. I really liked it. I think it holds up. Like I'll watch it every season because I think it's fun. But I don't know if that was Hallmark or not.

SPEAKER_02 31:43

I honestly don't remember either, but that's a relatively new one. Um again, I think Christmas movies are often gonna hold up. I would say they're in their own category.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

To kind of cap this off, what would you tell others about realistic dating expectations versus what they see in film and TV shows?

SPEAKER_02 32:06

I think it's not the same. So I think you can write whatever type of relationship you want, but that's not gonna be the way in real life. It's a little bit messy and chaotic. I think there are good qualities. I think what's portrayed in the movie is is what people ultimately want, but you're creating a a perfect human and a perfect couple, and that's not I agree 100%.

SPEAKER_01 32:31

I think it's a quote from Paul Rudd in 40 Year Old Virgin, I think, where he says life is like an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, which is just not funny. There's no laugh track.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

I mean No, yeah, that's really good. Yeah, that's I think I just want to say that I think everyone loves Raymond for Tw portrayed. Like that seems more real from from what I've seen, and it's hilarious. So that's good to vote.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Yeah, I think we've come to the conclusion of uh episode 12 of season two.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

We did it.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

We did it.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

That's uh that feels good.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

And we'll go into season three, of course. No big what kind of uh what kind of things do you think the audience can expect for season three? What do you want to do to amp this up? Now we've of course we've added a lot of shows to this channel, which is cool. Yeah, but uh what what do you think we can do to amp this up? No promises, just to preface.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

Well listeners out there. Yeah, that's a good question. I think we have some more um new people that are gonna be on the show with us. Some younger additions maybe to the podcast family. Um I think we're gonna expect more laughs and more James and Stephanie. I think that's been a lacking a little bit, but we're back. So we're back. Yeah, I think a lot more fun. So that's my goal.

SPEAKER_01 34:11

Oh, I wanted to do movie reviews too.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

Okay, yeah. I like it.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

So that may be a separate thing or maybe part of this, but I feel we should watch certain movies and then just talk about that. Yes, like a breakdown, movie breakdown.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

I like that because you and I have such different opinions on movies. So yeah, I think that boil and water.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Yes, I know like it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:35

I like good.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

Well, any other comments before we close this off?

SPEAKER_02 34:42

No, I think it's been a good season too, and I'm ready for the next. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

You said it back. Said it back, excuse me. All right, we'll see you guys in the future. Peace out.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

Bye.