Speaker 1: I just felt like, if I'm Gracie, maybe I have
Speaker 1: a different reaction to learning that just everybody has lied
Speaker 1: to me my whole life. And I have a different father.
Speaker 1: Who's this man named Brian who just showed up today,
Speaker 1: And I'm a thirteen year old girl. I'm going through
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions and this man's just standing at
Speaker 1: a window while I'm dancing, And that's my father, and
Speaker 1: I'm just riding right now.
Speaker 2: I was not saying it was accurate. I was not
Speaker 2: saying it was an accurate description of what actually would happen.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the rom com Rewine Podcast.
Speaker 2: Hi. I'm Sarah and I'm Devin, and like you, I
Speaker 2: love rewatching movies over and over again.
Speaker 1: You're here, you found us, you're listening to us. You
Speaker 1: probably love romantic comedies, which is great news because we
Speaker 1: do as well.
Speaker 2: So this is a show where we rewatch rom coms,
Speaker 2: break them down a bit for you, maybe take a
Speaker 2: peek behind the curtain, take beneath the surface, and aside
Speaker 2: does it still hold up today?
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Speaker 2: We have a message from Claire. This is actually off
Speaker 2: of something that we chatted about last podcast, Devon's what
Speaker 2: is it reenacting old rom coms into like new versions
Speaker 2: of them?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Claire said, love Devon's Nodding Hill sequel, But
Speaker 2: you'd have to account for the fact that Anna Scott
Speaker 2: was pregnant at the end of the original movie with
Speaker 2: Will Thacker's child.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's some creative license that we would just
Speaker 1: whisk away into the into the nether realm.
Speaker 2: She did say it would be interesting for him to
Speaker 2: go looking for his dad's old flame and find her
Speaker 2: and his half brother.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, that's better. Never mind, never mind, take it.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I do like it. That's good. That's new.
Speaker 2: No, thank you, Claire.
Speaker 1: Aloha is a twenty fifteen rom com directed by Cameron Crowe.
Speaker 1: We watched this on Netflix's the story of military contractor
Speaker 1: Brian Gilcrest, played by Bradley Cooper after a freak accident
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, and as well he has a history in
Speaker 1: the armed forces. Brian knabs a job with former employer
Speaker 1: Carson Welch. Carson also employed him back in Afghanistan, but
Speaker 1: Carson Waltz played by Bill Murray, Brian accompanies him on
Speaker 1: a land deal to launch a satellite from Hawaii. That's
Speaker 1: kind of the setting of our story. Brian has some
Speaker 1: history here though, history in an ex Tracy played by
Speaker 1: Rachel McAdams her now husband Woody played by John Krasinski.
Speaker 1: We learn, and I'm not going to tell you too
Speaker 1: much about it right now, but there was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a maybe a gray zone between those two
Speaker 1: relationships for Tracy, so those two know each other. His
Speaker 1: former military companions Ainger is played by Danny McBride is here,
Speaker 1: also General Dixon played by Alec Baldwin, and through his
Speaker 1: time in Hawaii working with Carson Wilch alongside the military,
Speaker 1: He's also shadowed by Alison played by Emma Stone. Brian
Speaker 1: has to contend with his past, reconcile with some of
Speaker 1: the mistakes he's made, and perhaps find some love along
Speaker 1: the way somewhere. That's your lead in for Aloha. You
Speaker 1: can't let one to small mouth out destroy the second
Speaker 1: chance doesn't want a second chance. Your old boss.
Speaker 3: Wants you back.
Speaker 2: It's Hawaii, our old stomping ground.
Speaker 1: A lalha, Gilcrest, You're back in the game.
Speaker 2: I want to introduce you to your Air Force liaison.
Speaker 1: She's a fast burner a double espresso, sir, I'm so jack,
Speaker 1: make that a triple the old ex girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Pause for the memories.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember why we broke up because you're
Speaker 1: a workaholic who creates work to avoid real work.
Speaker 4: Who I'm still working on that direct everything and I
Speaker 4: put my life back together.
Speaker 1: And of you, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 2: This movie has a massive and I mean massive cast, yes,
Speaker 2: but huge, but is somewhat of the most random movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Plot Like it's literally like I found like it's a
Speaker 2: weird good movie, but there's really nothing to it, and
Speaker 2: like you leave kind of like you're like, oh, like
Speaker 2: happy ending, great, but then you're like, what happened.
Speaker 1: I find in this era of rom coms like after
Speaker 1: like let's say, like the bottom fell out on rom
Speaker 1: coms in like the early to mid twenty tens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we ended up with some of these where.
Speaker 2: It was just kind of like find yourself, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: and pray love.
Speaker 1: It's exactly. It's almost like rom comms themselves are trying
Speaker 1: to find themselves. So they ended up making all these
Speaker 1: very like kind of odd movies where you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is like there is a plot here, there is
Speaker 1: a premise, but it kind of just plods along for
Speaker 1: a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Which it plods along. That's great. Like I love that.
Speaker 2: I've never heard you say that, but I love it.
Speaker 1: But like, and most of the time it drives me
Speaker 1: crazy in romantic comedies. This one I actually really loved.
Speaker 1: But we've done some other ones of this era where
Speaker 1: it's like, what is happening here? Nothing's happening. I think
Speaker 1: it's just because I love Emma Stone.
Speaker 2: I think it is because you love them Stone, But
Speaker 2: I will say I love Rachel McAdams and John Krasinski, Oh,
Speaker 2: Bradley Cooper too. Like I said, massive cast, I think
Speaker 2: the the cast I think carried the movie certainly. I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just an interesting take on a
Speaker 2: few things. But yeah, like it was a good movie again,
Speaker 2: just plodding along. I love that.
Speaker 1: I can tell I'm gonna like this a lot more
Speaker 1: than you. And that's okay because I I do see
Speaker 1: the knits that should be picked in this movie. But
Speaker 1: like I would say, my best way to describe it is,
Speaker 1: it felt very breezy.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, crazy, sure, you know, I mean it's
Speaker 2: in and I should actually look up where the filming
Speaker 2: of this movie was. But if it wasn't Hawaii, I mean.
Speaker 1: It certainly was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, breezy.
Speaker 1: I have a thing about movies shots and set in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Yes it it's oh okay, but yeah, I think thematically
Speaker 1: musically it hits a lot of those notes. It struck
Speaker 1: a really nice chord with me. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I'm doing music puns right now. It just started to happen.
Speaker 1: But me, but especially like us rewatching this, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of dog days of summer. We're in July.
Speaker 1: It felt very right and yeah, like should we just
Speaker 1: acknowledge the there is like a small elephant in the room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as soon as like, and I haven't seen this
Speaker 2: one in a while, but as soon as I rewatched
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that. That's weird.
Speaker 1: Yes, because it and and like we're not trying to
Speaker 1: poke holes that don't need to be poked, I guess,
Speaker 1: and we're not trying to you know. Uh Slam, a
Speaker 1: movie that might be very beloved for album, was very criticized.
Speaker 1: What you need You need to acknowledge that. As much
Speaker 1: as I love Emma Stone and RCR fam you know,
Speaker 1: listen to the pod She's on my Mount rushmore of
Speaker 1: rom com greatness. We have a character in Allison played
Speaker 1: by Emma Stone and did she talks at length throughout
Speaker 1: the movie how she is a quarter Chinese and a
Speaker 1: quarter Hawaiian, to which is inaccurate to who Emmastone is.
Speaker 1: And that faced a lot of backlash, especially this film
Speaker 1: came out in an era where like whitewashing in Hollywood
Speaker 1: was a big topic of conversation, and this was kind
Speaker 1: of part of that conversation. I mean Sandra Oh a
Speaker 1: few years later during the words ceremony at the Academy
Speaker 1: or no it was the Golden Globes she was hosting
Speaker 1: with Andy Samdberg, and she cracked a joke about this
Speaker 1: movie alongside like.
Speaker 5: Crazy Occasions is nominates and I Best Picture Musical. It
Speaker 5: is the first studio film with an Asian American lead
Speaker 5: since ghosts in Michell and Aloha.
Speaker 1: And you can hear Emma Stone in this clip actually
Speaker 1: yell from the sidelines because I think she was there
Speaker 1: for Lawa Land. She's like, I'm so sorry because everybody
Speaker 1: kind of acknowledged after the fact, like, yeah, that part
Speaker 1: of this movie did not land well, nor should it have,
Speaker 1: like with how they did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think it's it's that, you know, these
Speaker 2: are fictional characters that are written and then it's casted.
Speaker 2: There is little to no excuse as to why it
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been properly casted or you know, written to somebody,
Speaker 2: you know. I guess the question is did they have
Speaker 2: Emma Stone in mind or did they have this character
Speaker 2: written in mind? And so if it's the character written,
Speaker 2: then you should then cast it appropriately. It's an easy
Speaker 2: thing to do. And I think I think the writing
Speaker 2: came under fire for this movie quite a bit. I
Speaker 2: don't think necessarily that's Emma Stone's fault.
Speaker 1: She has acknowledged herself, yes, that in retrospect she regrets it.
Speaker 2: So I think there's just, you know, accountability to be
Speaker 2: held in some aspects. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can I just completely and a million percent agree with
Speaker 1: you because the director and a lot of the production
Speaker 1: staff and people like writers behind the scenes. Apparently their
Speaker 1: stance was like, listen, we always wrote this character to
Speaker 1: not look like her heritage. She's a quarter Chinese and
Speaker 1: a quarter Hawaiian, but like we wrote the character and
Speaker 1: she didn't look like that. Yeah, and you're like, this
Speaker 1: is a made up character. You can write them however
Speaker 1: you want, but like the way you wrote it has
Speaker 1: made it a problem, then.
Speaker 2: Fulfill it appropriately, exactly, knowledge appropriately, or just.
Speaker 1: Have Emma Stone's character be like I'm from Hawaii. They
Speaker 1: don't need to have all this huge backstory that causes
Speaker 1: an issue that, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's controversy exactly, like in this instance is warranted.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean again, we're not this is the
Speaker 2: only time, well you know, chat about it, but we
Speaker 2: did want to bring it up that that was something
Speaker 2: that it bothered me and I know bothered you.
Speaker 1: And and it's funny same as you, like I remember,
Speaker 1: like as I was rewatching, I'm like, oh, right, Sandra
Speaker 1: Oh made that joke about this movie at the Awards show,
Speaker 1: and it kind of was in the zeitgeist of conversation.
Speaker 1: So that's why we bring it up. We'd be remiss
Speaker 1: if we did this pod without mentioning that. I mean,
Speaker 1: as we're going to go through. Like, I thoroughly enjoy
Speaker 1: this movie, but it's kind of something I think we
Speaker 1: need to acknowledge upfront for sure. Let's dive in, shall we.
Speaker 2: We meet Brian Gilcrest. He, like you said, was in
Speaker 2: the military, leaves the military, does private consulting and is
Speaker 2: now heading back to Hawaii to do a good gate
Speaker 2: opening ceremony, and is put back on base again, still
Speaker 2: not back in the military, but working as a consultant
Speaker 2: on base for this project Brian Lance. He sees an
Speaker 2: old friend Fingers, and then his ex girlfriend Tracy. He
Speaker 2: then meets the captain Captain NG, who will be shadowing
Speaker 2: him and essentially babysitting him while he's on bass.
Speaker 1: Played by Emma Stone. She gives solid Golden Retriever energy
Speaker 1: when we meet her.
Speaker 2: She has crazy eyes and solid golden retriever energy. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: she is his liaison. While on base, Tracy, his ex girlfriend,
Speaker 2: shows up and starts talking to him, and clearly there
Speaker 2: are definitely things left unsaid between them. Hey, I refuse
Speaker 2: to talk to you. Who uses pro cap collars?
Speaker 1: Are you okay? That's so good, super super.
Speaker 4: Whody never told me you were coming, sir if I
Speaker 4: may talk to me? Oh yeah, that's because you do
Speaker 4: not marrying to him. Hey, I called you five times
Speaker 4: last year.
Speaker 2: I was worried about you.
Speaker 4: Would you believe I am had of the department.
Speaker 2: I make my own hours. It's not getting more beautiful.
Speaker 1: Last four second, I'm gonna end this.
Speaker 2: And it turns out Woody played by John Krasinski, is
Speaker 2: Tracy's husband. He's a pilot as well.
Speaker 1: So Sarah big lover of John Krasinsky.
Speaker 2: I have yep, I am huge crush.
Speaker 1: Who is our favorite John Krasinsky? And I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you four options.
Speaker 2: I can tell you right now.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you four options. There is early
Speaker 1: Years the Office, so like seasons one to three, seasons
Speaker 1: three on of the Office. This John Krasinski or Jack Ryan,
Speaker 1: Jack Ryan, Okay, Jack Ryan.
Speaker 2: I can tell you right now. I love the spy
Speaker 2: aspect of it all, and it makes him like a
Speaker 2: hundred times more attractive.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, So John Krasinski selling paper not attractive?
Speaker 2: No, Hey, I mean I could I could watch him
Speaker 2: watch paint dry. I could watch him watch paint dry.
Speaker 2: You know, like, Wow, that's a new level that would
Speaker 2: be appropriate for me.
Speaker 1: You're not even watching the paint dry. We're watching him
Speaker 1: watch the paint dry. I guess that could be more
Speaker 1: interesting than watching the paint ry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but yeah, I think that's probably my favorite
Speaker 2: John because I like, like he had like a little
Speaker 2: bit of a babyface in the office, but like he's
Speaker 2: in the Jack Ryan, you know, he's matured. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: looks very nice.
Speaker 1: He does. Yeah, And in this he looks very nice.
Speaker 1: And I think at the end of this scene we get.
Speaker 2: I actually like him in his uniform.
Speaker 1: Wow, in this movie, come on, they did that on purpose.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like a tall John Krasinski in a flight suit.
Speaker 1: That's clearly gonna work.
Speaker 2: Totally totally.
Speaker 1: But we do see Woody is his name, that is character.
Speaker 1: We see him with Tracy and their family, and he's
Speaker 1: returned home and he you know, kisses his daughter on
Speaker 1: the forehead and is chatting with his son. And I
Speaker 1: do think we get a sense as the audience Brian
Speaker 1: Gilcrest there's something missing in his life and Woody has
Speaker 1: found what he's missing. Yes, you know, like wood he
Speaker 1: has the thing that Brian probably subconsciously is yearning for
Speaker 1: what he's got it all. He still works for the military,
Speaker 1: he's living in Hawaii, he's got the wife, he's got
Speaker 1: the kids, he's got the family. He's kind of got
Speaker 1: it all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Alison NG brings Brian to his hotel. She
Speaker 2: also has a room in the hotel beside him. She
Speaker 2: wants to get a drink, but he declines and goes
Speaker 2: into his room. They're sharing, like I said, rooms beside
Speaker 2: each other. He leans over or sorry, he overhears Alison
Speaker 2: on a call with her mother. I guess it's on
Speaker 2: a frequency of some sort that he can overhear her talking,
Speaker 2: and it's all about him, basically about how he is
Speaker 2: a total like.
Speaker 3: Before that all came apart, there is greatness in this guy.
Speaker 3: Oh a couple of movie He's got kind of like
Speaker 3: a chili presence, Like you look into his eyes and
Speaker 3: it's miles of blue. He's just a brilliant, compelling, innovative, commanding,
Speaker 3: stop freaking wrack of a guy. He's like a sad
Speaker 3: city coyote.
Speaker 2: So the next day she's all about being his bestie,
Speaker 2: sucking up to him, and then he starts howling and
Speaker 2: she realizes he overheard her. Deeply embarrassed about it, they
Speaker 2: try to get to one of the island communities, but
Speaker 2: they can't get there, so they take a trail through
Speaker 2: the jungle and a first glance. When they get there,
Speaker 2: they aren't welcomed until Brian speaks with the king, but
Speaker 2: the king won't budge on providing a blessing for the
Speaker 2: ceremony that's in a few days. They eat in the
Speaker 2: community and then Brian tries to negotiate, but again the
Speaker 2: king says no. Brian says the military can give them
Speaker 2: forty more kilometers of land. He won't do it until
Speaker 2: he gets two mountains in cell phone service, and that
Speaker 2: is what is agreed upon. When they leave. The next night,
Speaker 2: Brian goes over to Tracy and Woody's house for dinner
Speaker 2: at the captain Captain Ing goes over as well, which
Speaker 2: I feel like, like, why do you need to go
Speaker 2: over there? I don't really know, Like, yes, you're his babysitter.
Speaker 2: I totally get that, but like, you also weren't invited.
Speaker 2: How did the invitation feats you?
Speaker 1: Oh? You don't like that. Emma Stone was there.
Speaker 2: I just don't understand why she would be there, but like,
Speaker 2: but it's funny that she was there, Like.
Speaker 1: Why she's got to watch him, She's got to shadow him,
Speaker 1: so if he goes do an awkward dinner with his
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend, she's gotta follow along. I guess it.
Speaker 2: Just that was a weird. Again, there are pieces of
Speaker 2: this movie that are just like there and they just
Speaker 2: happen and you're like, okay, like what he doesn't speak
Speaker 2: through the whole movie essentially, like John John Krasinski's character
Speaker 2: maybe has like I don't know, ten sentences in the
Speaker 2: entire movie. Yeah, half of them are unspoken.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's just such a bizarre aspect to the movie. It
Speaker 2: is my best scene at the end.
Speaker 1: But oh that's your best scene.
Speaker 2: Interesting, but it was just such a funny, like interesting
Speaker 2: take to the movie. Again, Alison ing joining this family
Speaker 2: close dinner, Yeah weird.
Speaker 1: I do agree. Like the woody John Krasinski thing, like
Speaker 1: he never talks is something you could have explained in dialogue,
Speaker 1: like Tracy is in this scene divulging all these feelings
Speaker 1: to Brian and you know, rehashing they why they weren't
Speaker 1: working out. But she could have just said, like wood
Speaker 1: he never talks to me. He doesn't talk about my feelings. Instead,
Speaker 1: like we had to really let the audience know, like
Speaker 1: he doesn't talk so much that you're never gonna see
Speaker 1: him talk, Like really, is that what we're doing?
Speaker 2: And at one point they have subtitles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at one point near the end there's subset at.
Speaker 2: Any way, it's just a little bizarre. The kids can
Speaker 2: totally tell that their mom Tracy has a little bit
Speaker 2: more pep beinner step with Brian.
Speaker 1: There yea.
Speaker 2: He finds an old photo of Tracy and realizes that
Speaker 2: it's one that he's actually in and then it's been
Speaker 2: folded over and goes back into the room and grabs
Speaker 2: a beer. And you can tell that there is still
Speaker 2: something between them and that it's not resolved. And I
Speaker 2: think Tracy would genuinely leave Woody if if the cards
Speaker 2: were on the table. She realizes that she doesn't have
Speaker 2: everything she wants with Woody. We find out that they
Speaker 2: broke up because he didn't show up for their vacation
Speaker 2: and he and Brian felt that it was an ultimatum.
Speaker 2: She tells them that they really needed to talk and
Speaker 2: that they had a lot to go through. She tells
Speaker 2: him that she really did love him Wood. He comes
Speaker 2: into the kitchen, doesn't say a word, but comes up
Speaker 2: to Brian, grabs his shoulder and says everything without saying
Speaker 2: a word. Just his body language tells Brian everything he
Speaker 2: needs to know, and Tracy just yeah. He says a
Speaker 2: lot without actually saying anything and basically says, yeah, you
Speaker 2: missed out. I got her welcome to my home.
Speaker 1: And I did get that for the great acting sad
Speaker 1: me too, I did get that, like the gist of
Speaker 1: what he was getting at.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Later on, they go to a holiday party that
Speaker 2: same night and something seems.
Speaker 1: To be up my best SA.
Speaker 2: So there's like there's a few people that Ran interacts
Speaker 2: with throughout this movie that our old friends are old
Speaker 2: consulting buddies, and you can just kind of tell from
Speaker 2: the room that there's something else more to this satellite
Speaker 2: than what meets the eye.
Speaker 1: Well, sir, are you talking about us meeting Alec Baldwin here?
Speaker 2: Alec Baldwin. We meet Alec.
Speaker 1: Baldwin outside of the of the Officers Club, and that's
Speaker 1: where the thing's happening. Actually, you know what, why don't
Speaker 1: we play a game real quick?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Because now I think we've introduced every main character in
Speaker 1: our movie. We have Danny McBride, don't forget about him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, John Krazinski, Rachel McAdams,
Speaker 1: Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, this is a stack, Like.
Speaker 2: I said, huge cast, massive, Sarah.
Speaker 1: I've got a question for you, and I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about because we normally do like who's had the best movies?
Speaker 1: And that's very it's very hard to pin down who's
Speaker 1: had the best career. I want to ask you this
Speaker 1: group of talent has many accolades, who do you think
Speaker 1: has the best awards resume? Because because some of these
Speaker 1: people have gun on to do amazing things, some of
Speaker 1: these people had already done amazing things as of this
Speaker 1: movie coming out. Who would you say, is your your
Speaker 1: number one?
Speaker 2: Think Emma Stone is the only one with a Academy award?
Speaker 1: No? Is that your final answer? No? Putting Emma Stone
Speaker 1: on the board at NUMBERO.
Speaker 2: So are we talking like overall awards for the whole career?
Speaker 1: I'm talking no, no, no, I'm talking what you're talking like highlights?
Speaker 1: Give me like how many.
Speaker 2: Okay awards stolen globes?
Speaker 1: I think Emma Stone is a two to Bradley Cooper's
Speaker 1: number one. I think Emma Stone has two Academy Awards,
Speaker 1: two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globes. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she was Time Magazine. Uh oh, she was the highest
Speaker 1: pid actress in twenty seventeen and was on the one
Speaker 1: hundred Most Influential People in the World and now the
Speaker 1: Tale of the Tape for Bradley Cooper. He also won
Speaker 1: a baff up. He won two Grammy Awards.
Speaker 2: What oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been nominated for twelve Academy Awards. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's ever won.
Speaker 2: No, right, she's the only one.
Speaker 1: Six Golden Globe Awards, and he has a Tony and
Speaker 1: he was Times list of one hundred most Influential people
Speaker 1: in the world back in twenty fifteen. So I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're talking just Academy Awards, she's got two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of nominations. But yeah, now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you Alec Baldwin. He has not a nomination
Speaker 1: for an Academy Award, a BAFTA and a Tony. He's
Speaker 1: got three Golden Globes. Oh, and he has three Primetime
Speaker 1: Emmy Awards. Sorry, thirty Rocks is probably the show that
Speaker 1: that probably or maybe is Donald Trump impressions on us. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they just give those for one
Speaker 1: ops interestin Bill Murray.
Speaker 2: However, that was going to be my other one. Bill
Speaker 2: Murray was going to be my other top.
Speaker 1: He's also got a lot, He's got a Bafter Award,
Speaker 1: he's got two Emmys, he has a Golden Globe.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's so she's not the only one, can't
Speaker 2: got it?
Speaker 1: Well, well, oh, the Academy still doesn't have an Academy Award,
Speaker 1: though she has a nomination for Lost in Translation, but
Speaker 1: he never won, and John Krasinski also does not have
Speaker 1: an Academy So she's the only she's the only.
Speaker 2: Winner Academy Award winner two.
Speaker 1: And you are yelling at your pod saying, what about
Speaker 1: Rachel McAdams. Yes, yes, she also has a nomination for
Speaker 1: an Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics Choice Awards.
Speaker 1: She yeah, she has, funny enough, not been the most
Speaker 1: awarded person.
Speaker 2: Which is amazing to me because she's I think she's
Speaker 2: a phenomenal actor.
Speaker 1: She's so good, so good. Yeah, so you're probably right,
Speaker 1: it's Emma Stone, and then a close second is Bradley Cooper,
Speaker 1: which is I find out fascinating because all of this
Speaker 1: would have happened after this movie came in twenty fifteen, right,
Speaker 1: probably because The Star Is Born was twenty eighteen. Land
Speaker 1: was around the same time, like just a couple of
Speaker 1: years later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely, that's very cool. Thank you for that
Speaker 2: highlight for sure.
Speaker 1: And then we've got my best scene is just the
Speaker 1: zaniness of this party. So we have you know, Tracy's
Speaker 1: in there with Woody, Alison and Gilchrest are also there.
Speaker 1: They're grabbing beverages and whatever, and there's like a little
Speaker 1: secret meeting that happens with Bill Murray's character and Bradley
Speaker 1: Cooper's character in the hallway and he gives him like
Speaker 1: a little flash drive and he's like, you're the only
Speaker 1: one who knows this. It's stuff about the satellite kind
Speaker 1: of what you were alluding to, Sarah. But my favorite
Speaker 1: thing about this scene is after that, everybody's in this room,
Speaker 1: all of these high powered actors, and we get a
Speaker 1: scene where it's Bill Murray and Emma Stone dancing like
Speaker 1: having a mini dance off hilarious. Rachel McAdams is in
Speaker 1: the corner with John Krasinski still, Bradley Cooper's kind of
Speaker 1: just watching from the bar, like it's almost like a
Speaker 1: fever dream. I'm like, is this happening? Yeah, like all
Speaker 1: this is happening, and they're getting with Bill Murray dance
Speaker 1: off right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean I would yeah, like if Bill
Speaker 2: Murray was like, hey, let's get to the dance where
Speaker 2: I'd be like, yeah, sure, like let's go dance.
Speaker 1: It's a very Bill Murray thing to happen. But it
Speaker 1: feels weird in this in this movie, you know, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're doing this now. Interesting well, and it was.
Speaker 2: And I think the only reason why they really did
Speaker 2: this part of the scene was because earlier on in
Speaker 2: the movie they had prefaced the fact that she used
Speaker 2: to dance, right, yeah, but how did he know that
Speaker 2: she used to be such like he goes up to
Speaker 2: her and goes, I hear you have great dancing skills,
Speaker 2: Like how would he know that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? They do talk about how she's kind of like
Speaker 1: a hot shot, like an up and comer in the
Speaker 1: military there in Hawaii, but I have no idea, right.
Speaker 2: Like there's just some funny things that kind of just happen,
Speaker 2: and they just happened.
Speaker 1: I also the scene right before that, before Gilchrist goes
Speaker 1: into the hallway, he has an interaction with Alec Baldwin's
Speaker 1: character and Baldwin's character goes up to the DJ. Oh
Speaker 1: I forgot the best part of my best scene. All
Speaker 1: this is happening and Danny freakin McBride is the DJ,
Speaker 1: and you're just like, what is going on? It's like
Speaker 1: a Santa hat. You're like, this is strange. Alec Baldwin's
Speaker 1: character is like, hey, turn on so good Tears for Fears.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to rule the world, which I think. I
Speaker 1: think like in fifty years, we're still going to be
Speaker 1: playing this song because I think it's still continued to
Speaker 1: be so relevant and this scene, I think that was
Speaker 1: a really cool like song to have in this scene
Speaker 1: because we're about to have an interaction in the hallway. Clearly,
Speaker 1: Bill Murray's character Welch is kind of like an Elon
Speaker 1: Musk type a villain. He's the villain, but he's very
Speaker 1: suave and a lot of people, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are illusioned by the fact that he's the villain. Maybe, Oh, absolutely,
Speaker 1: We've got the general over here playing everybody wants to
Speaker 1: rule the world like it feels very.
Speaker 2: Dangling a carrot in front of them and all they
Speaker 2: want is what he can give them.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, very very fascinating song to be played there,
Speaker 1: and it's been used a lot in pop culture lately too,
Speaker 1: which I like.
Speaker 2: I do love when a song can play what is
Speaker 2: exactly happening exactly without actually having too. You know, there's
Speaker 2: Woody who doesn't talk in this movie, and then there's
Speaker 2: this song that says so much by just playing it
Speaker 2: at this point in time and in the movie totally. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So later on that evening, Allison comes over to Brian's
Speaker 2: hotel room. They talk about the sky and everything, and
Speaker 2: then they end up sleeping together. Bang Captain ang Or.
Speaker 2: Allison goes over to Tracy and Woody's house to thank
Speaker 2: them and sees what their son had been filming in
Speaker 2: the middle of the night, and goes to resign to
Speaker 2: her superior and is told that the whole thing is
Speaker 2: being run by private money, global one company. She asks
Speaker 2: how much Brian knows and Finger says he probably knows enough,
Speaker 2: which really disappoints her. The next day, she meets for
Speaker 2: lunch with Brian, and Brian's totally like, I'm all in,
Speaker 2: I bought you this cute hat explains what it like,
Speaker 2: you know that he wants to be a couple with her,
Speaker 2: He is just like a goner. Then she says that
Speaker 2: she knows what he knows, and he still doesn't get it.
Speaker 2: Then he finally gets it. They argue, saying that he
Speaker 2: lied to the Hawaiians and that he is a lost individual.
Speaker 1: And back to my best scene, like including the hallway
Speaker 1: scene with Welch and Brian, Welch does reveal something that
Speaker 1: I think speaks a lot to Brian's character and that
Speaker 1: in his previous role with Welch he was skimming money
Speaker 1: off of a deal with people from Afghanistan. So we
Speaker 1: do get a sense from his character that maybe he's
Speaker 1: morally great ambiguous exactly, and this kind of speaks to
Speaker 1: that that you know, I mean, granted, he just learned
Speaker 1: this knowledge that something Shadey's going on with the satellite,
Speaker 1: but still it speaks a lot to his character that
Speaker 1: the ends justify the means, I think, and Allison's not
Speaker 1: down for that.
Speaker 2: Back at Tracy and what he gets home. There's distance
Speaker 2: between him and Tracy. He blames it on Gilcrest, but
Speaker 2: Tracy says, you know, we had problems before Gilcrest even
Speaker 2: came back. You don't want to talk to me. He
Speaker 2: tells Tracy that he's gonna leave. He leaves and starts
Speaker 2: trashing Santa in his front lawn. Tracy and her daughter
Speaker 2: Gracy I know. They go see Brian. She wants to
Speaker 2: talk to him about stuff, and she says, you know,
Speaker 2: we have to talk. We have to clear the air
Speaker 2: with certain things that we didn't get to talk about
Speaker 2: thirteen years ago. And he said, I think it's probably
Speaker 2: something that I already know. And she says, we'll just
Speaker 2: say it because I've been keeping this secret for thirteen years.
Speaker 2: And he says, let me put it this way. It's
Speaker 2: Father's Day. Do I celebrate or not? And she says,
Speaker 2: you celebrate.
Speaker 1: What a reveal.
Speaker 2: We find out that he is the father of Gracy
Speaker 2: and that she's been the only one to know for
Speaker 2: the past thirteen years. And she also tells him that
Speaker 2: Wood he left. I don't know, you just kind of
Speaker 2: read the room and then she just leaves. You just
Speaker 2: like drop this bomb. Wood he left and you leave,
Speaker 2: Like it was just kind of like, are you gonna
Speaker 2: wait to see what he says, or like is he interested?
Speaker 2: Maybe not? Do you want him to be interested? Maybe
Speaker 2: not anymore? Maybe you've you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think she had let go of him, but that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that thing of like but he's the father of my
Speaker 1: daughter has been and I think that's all she wanted
Speaker 1: to do, like I just want to tell you this,
Speaker 1: and that's massive.
Speaker 2: You kind of get some foreshadowing at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the movie. I don't know if you caught this, but
Speaker 2: in their very initial conversation in the kitchen when they're
Speaker 2: arguing about why he didn't show up to the vacation, Yes,
Speaker 2: she does say we had things we needed to talk about.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I was talking about a different line, No.
Speaker 2: She says, you know, I loved you so much, and
Speaker 2: she said I wanted to talk. I wanted I wanted
Speaker 2: to go away with you. We had things we needed
Speaker 2: to talk about.
Speaker 1: See, there was.
Speaker 2: A gets something to tell you, is what she said.
Speaker 1: There was a different line that I caught as well,
Speaker 1: where Brian is, you know, talking about Tracy's kids and
Speaker 1: he's like, wow, you know, Grace is just so beautiful
Speaker 1: and and she says, luckily she got my looks. And
Speaker 1: I I took it as like that would be a
Speaker 1: weird dig against Woody, her husband, So like it's a
Speaker 1: weird thing to say to somebody. John Krasinski's a good
Speaker 1: looking guy, so we can only assume like that's a
Speaker 1: jab at her real father, mister Gilcrest.
Speaker 2: Anyway, so we go to the gate blessing. Brian and
Speaker 2: Allison get called away quickly because the rocket has to
Speaker 2: be launched imminently because there is a hack coming in
Speaker 2: from China and they need to make sure that the
Speaker 2: hack doesn't go through and that they launch it before
Speaker 2: the data is corrupt. Brian realizes that he can't live
Speaker 2: with him doing this by launching this satellite into the
Speaker 2: air knowing that there are weapons on board destroys the
Speaker 2: satellite with sound. Would the cacophony of sound have a
Speaker 2: video in it too? Like That's what I think is hilarious,
Speaker 2: is yeah, when they're so okay when they released this
Speaker 2: sound from this other satellite that's up there, it's supposed
Speaker 2: to interact with this Brave Angel satellite that they've put
Speaker 2: up there with weapons, et cetera. Et cetera. And it's
Speaker 2: supposed to basically blow up the satellite with all of
Speaker 2: this sound, every piece of sound at every single frequency
Speaker 2: ever known to man, all at once. But the funny part,
Speaker 2: in order to show that happening, they also show all
Speaker 2: of the videos that are attributed to the sound. And
Speaker 2: it's a cacophony of sound. But it's just you also
Speaker 2: get the video. You'd never get the sound and see
Speaker 2: the videos. It's they're not one and the same.
Speaker 1: Also, another thing that just bugged me a little bit
Speaker 1: about this And you know what, like I said, knits
Speaker 1: to pick about this movie. I actually really love this movie.
Speaker 1: But as soon as I saw that, my first thought was,
Speaker 1: everybody knows sound doesn't travel in space. Guys. That has
Speaker 1: been proven time after time. It's the vibration of atoms
Speaker 1: in the air, in the atmosphere. So there's like assuming
Speaker 1: that satellite has reached orbit and now he's hitting it
Speaker 1: with this ooh this sound thing that I developed. Sound
Speaker 1: doesn't travel in space. Though I'm not a smart guy, okay,
Speaker 1: r cr fam, I'm not, Oh my god, but this
Speaker 1: is stuff you can easily google. It's yeah, yeah, I just.
Speaker 2: Thought that scene was very funny, but I know that
Speaker 2: they needed to show, you know, a movie in a
Speaker 2: movie what was happening, and that was the best way
Speaker 2: that they could. But it's just something that caught my
Speaker 2: eye again and I was like, I don't think that's
Speaker 2: a real thing. But the satellite explodes and he leaves
Speaker 2: and tells Alison that it's over between the two of them.
Speaker 2: He is going to be, you know, a toxic person
Speaker 2: and he can't be tied to her or sorry, she
Speaker 2: can't be. No, he can't be tied to her because
Speaker 2: it will ruin his career, ruin her career. Sorry. So Carshson,
Speaker 2: the villain in all this who owns the rocket, meets
Speaker 2: Brian Gilcrest at his hotel and basically says he's not
Speaker 2: going to get away with this. Gilcrest meets with the
Speaker 2: General afterwards and starts getting yelled at, and he tells
Speaker 2: the general this was bigger than you think it was.
Speaker 2: There were weapons on this satellite. But the General doesn't
Speaker 2: believe him because again that carrot dangling in front of them.
Speaker 2: They were going to get a new base. They were
Speaker 2: gonna get all these new things with Carson's money.
Speaker 1: Alec Baldwin, a great infuriated actor, like when he's really
Speaker 1: angry and just flying off the handle. He's very compelling.
Speaker 1: A great scene with him just just going off the rail. Yeah,
Speaker 1: losing his mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: General always speaks first.
Speaker 2: I don't say a word.
Speaker 1: You let him say what he has to say. You
Speaker 1: sit there, you take it. Hopefully the holiday spirit will
Speaker 1: have him in a good mood.
Speaker 3: Have you New Years?
Speaker 1: General?
Speaker 2: Happy New Year? And the General is here?
Speaker 3: Your death?
Speaker 1: Why, well, I remember the good times. There were no
Speaker 1: good times.
Speaker 2: Gilchrest goes over to Tracy's and she says, you know
Speaker 2: you did something to impress a girl, didn't you. And
Speaker 2: he says, yes, but I did get the girl. I
Speaker 2: let her go. Turns out that Woody in this instance,
Speaker 2: Tracy shares with Gilcrest that Woody wrote Tracy a letter,
Speaker 2: and oh my gosh, I like this was a little
Speaker 2: bit of a weep warning, a little bit a little
Speaker 2: I love Regional Gonds and I love John Krasinski. He says,
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 4: Hated the way you changed when Gilcrest came back to town.
Speaker 4: But I don't like to hate. It's bad for my brain.
Speaker 4: Every night when I come home, I start fresh. I
Speaker 4: don't bring what happens up there down here. I may
Speaker 4: not be the original owner of your heart, but I
Speaker 4: am the better owner and much healthier option too.
Speaker 2: I may not be the original owner of your heart.
Speaker 1: Oh so sweet, so sweet, so real so And I
Speaker 1: think that's such a relatable moment because I feel like
Speaker 1: so like everybody has a first love of fling that
Speaker 1: just kind of flames out, you know whatever, And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a very relatable kind of thing to
Speaker 1: have in this movie of you know, there's Gilcrest over here, who, yeah,
Speaker 1: at the time, was not the right choice for even
Speaker 1: though she loved him Wood. He is absolutely the right
Speaker 1: owner of her owner.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah. Tracy tells Brian to go and find
Speaker 2: Alison ng that she lit up his sky wood. He
Speaker 2: gets home and Gilcrest is there. This is my best
Speaker 2: scene and he tells him without any words that he
Speaker 2: knows that he's Gracie's father. That gives him a big hug,
Speaker 2: and that he wants his family back Wood. He unspokenly
Speaker 2: asks Gilcrest if he slept, if he slept with his wife.
Speaker 2: Brian tells him no, he slept with ing. Again, massive
Speaker 2: massive hug. Gilcrest goes to the bar to see the
Speaker 2: general again in some of his military buddies and says,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, Gilcrest, you were right, there were weapons
Speaker 2: on the satellite.
Speaker 1: We know you were doing the right thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, but because of his reputation, nobody took him seriously.
Speaker 2: Gilcrest goes to find Allison and he says.
Speaker 1: I want to know what you were like growing up.
Speaker 3: What's your favorite pair of shoes, what.
Speaker 1: Was your favorite cereal? What's the first car? Evertrow?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just getting started here. I know everything
Speaker 2: about you.
Speaker 3: Why are you still here?
Speaker 4: Wherever you're flying, come back, I'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 3: Ton words, it's a lot more than five prograss.
Speaker 4: I love you, Allison.
Speaker 2: You're heading out on another adventure. I will be here
Speaker 2: when you get back, and I love you, so he
Speaker 2: tells her.
Speaker 1: He says, I love you, and oh my gosh, Like
Speaker 1: I haven't really talked about the charm of Emma Stone
Speaker 1: throughout this movie, but I just I just want to
Speaker 1: make sure before we move on to other things. What
Speaker 1: a charming, lovely actress like. I just I love everything
Speaker 1: of Emma Stone, and even this character is kind of quirky,
Speaker 1: kind of like a little Golden Retriever better at the.
Speaker 2: End of the movie. Oh, I think she grows as
Speaker 2: a person as well throughout the throughout the movie and
Speaker 2: in the four days that this is spans Golden Retriever
Speaker 2: to like, I don't know, a trained Golden Retriever.
Speaker 1: See. I loved her as the Golden Retriever untrained. I
Speaker 1: thought she was brilliant and uh, yeah, by the end
Speaker 1: of this I think she's just yeah, she's she's great.
Speaker 2: I love how this movie ends, though. I like that, yes,
Speaker 2: he has he has I think fulfilled what he is
Speaker 2: looking for in life, so finding you know, alison ing,
Speaker 2: but also finding and coming to terms with that. He's
Speaker 2: also a father. So it ends with him going to
Speaker 2: see Gracie's hula class and Gracie realizing in that moment
Speaker 2: that he is her dad. She starts crying happy tears,
Speaker 2: and she runs out to hug him, and that is
Speaker 2: how it ends.
Speaker 1: You liked how this ended?
Speaker 2: I did? You didn't. I think I think it was
Speaker 2: like him fulfilling all aspects of things missing in his
Speaker 2: life on all levels, and that yes, this is a
Speaker 2: rom com, but also it fulfilled him in the family
Speaker 2: aspect as well. By finding his daughter.
Speaker 1: I just felt like, if I'm Gracie, maybe I have
Speaker 1: a different reaction to learning that everybody has lied to
Speaker 1: me my whole life. And I have a different father.
Speaker 1: Who's this man named Brian who just showed up today,
Speaker 1: And I'm a thirteen year old girl. I'm going through
Speaker 1: a lot of emotions and this man's just standing at
Speaker 1: a window while I'm dancing, and that's my father and
Speaker 1: I'm just riding right now.
Speaker 2: I was not saying it was accurate. I was not
Speaker 2: saying it was an accurate description of what actually would
Speaker 2: happen Hollywood. But the way they've already written this movie,
Speaker 2: it kind of went with this what was plotting along.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, You're right. I just she ran out,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, is she gonna confront him? No, cries,
Speaker 1: hugs him, goes back to dancing, happy tears, and like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like it would actually be a
Speaker 1: little different in real life. But okay, I think she.
Speaker 2: Too, though felt that there was something missing, but yeah,
Speaker 2: like I think I think. And actually, another note, they
Speaker 2: never really truly addressed all of the footage that the
Speaker 2: Little Boy took throughout this movie. That's a great point, say,
Speaker 2: like when he is definitely not allowed into those buildings
Speaker 2: and the footage that he takes is highly confidential.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great plot holes, Sarah, because when Gilcrest was like,
Speaker 1: oh my life's over, it's like, well, just grab the
Speaker 1: footage from the kid. It's all on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, just like funny things, right, Like it's like,
Speaker 2: why have this kid take video of it when it's
Speaker 2: not going to be addressed further than Alison finding it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't Alison bring that up the chain? You're right
Speaker 1: and you're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, just like interesting things.
Speaker 1: Quick facts.
Speaker 2: Among the massive trove of leaked that were released in
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen after Sony's computer systems were hacked were some
Speaker 2: that revealed that Sony executives were extremely critical of this
Speaker 2: movie's quality and pessimistic about its box office prospects long
Speaker 2: before it was films were released. In one of the emails,
Speaker 2: Amy Pascal, the co chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, wrote
Speaker 2: that many aspects of this movie's characters and plot made
Speaker 2: no sense. I'm never starting a movie again when the
Speaker 2: script is ridiculous and we all know it. I don't
Speaker 2: care how much I love the director or the actors.
Speaker 2: It never, not once ever works. As much as I
Speaker 2: want movies to release, this is way worse. At least
Speaker 2: the marketing departments at both studios have something to sell
Speaker 2: that looks big and glossy. We have this movie in
Speaker 2: for a lot of dough and we better look at that.
Speaker 2: Scott Ruden didn't once go to set or help us
Speaker 2: in the editing room or fix the script.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, remember when the Sony leaks happened, like so
Speaker 1: much stuff like that.
Speaker 2: That was crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean she's not wrong. Is the thing?
Speaker 1: Like that's a tough email to get out to public,
Speaker 1: but like it made twenty six million dollars on a
Speaker 1: budget of thirty seven And she's right. You have all
Speaker 1: these big names, you have Cameron crow a massive director.
Speaker 1: But like there's there's some things in this film that,
Speaker 1: like she said, doesn't necessarily make sense.
Speaker 2: Bumpy who is the King is the Hawaiian nationalist leader
Speaker 2: and Tittler head of State of the Group Nations of
Speaker 2: Hawaii In real life. Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon were
Speaker 2: both attached to star in this movie, but left due
Speaker 2: to scheduling conflicts. Cameron Crowe then spent four years rewriting
Speaker 2: the script, making the characters younger. A quote from doctor
Speaker 2: Peter Venkman Bill Murray's character from Ghostbusters from nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 2: Let's show this prehistoric be how we do things downtown,
Speaker 2: can be heard during the audio montage from.
Speaker 1: The satellite Oh That's Funny.
Speaker 2: On June second, twenty fifteen, director Cameron Crowe apologized and
Speaker 2: piece written for his blog The Uncool for what he
Speaker 2: described as an odd or misguided casting choice, having Emmastone
Speaker 2: played a character whose father is half Chinese and half Hawaiian.
Speaker 2: He took full responsibility for the presentation of the character
Speaker 2: after the film caused controversy and criticism for presenting a
Speaker 2: whitewashed version of Hawaii and its residents. In early twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: Ellen DeGeneres bumped into Emma Stone before she had officially
Speaker 2: met her and Cameron Crowe at a restaurant and said,
Speaker 2: whatever you two do, it'll be great. At the Christmas party.
Speaker 2: In the movie, some of the Air Force personnel can
Speaker 2: be seen playing a game of crud c rud on
Speaker 2: the pool table, a game awe often played by both
Speaker 2: Canadian and American military personnel, where two teams throw the
Speaker 2: balls by hand at a target ball. One of the
Speaker 2: songs playing during the satellite sequence is the theme from
Speaker 2: Stripes from nineteen eighty one. Rachel McAdams previously auditioned for
Speaker 2: a role in Cameron Crowe's previous feature We Bought a
Speaker 2: Zoo from twenty eleven. This reunite It's Bradley Cooper with
Speaker 2: Rachel McAdams after Wedding Crashers, and it also reunites Emma
Speaker 2: Stone and Bradley Cooper after The Rocket from two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight. This is Alec Baldwin's second time to be
Speaker 2: in a Crow film, after Elizabethtown came out in twenty
Speaker 2: two thousand and five. Early on, Bradley Cooper tells Emma
Speaker 2: Stone an anecdote involving comic books. Both have played in
Speaker 2: the Marvel Cinematic universe. Bradley Cooper played Rocket Raccoon and
Speaker 2: Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and Emma Stone plays Gwen
Speaker 2: Stacy in The Amazing Spider Man in twenty twelve and
Speaker 2: The Amazing Spider Man two in twenty fourteen. This is
Speaker 2: the third time Emma Stone has been in a film
Speaker 2: with one of the stars of the Office She previously
Speaker 2: appeared in Crazy Stupid Love with Steve Curll, and The
Speaker 2: Rocker in two thousand and eight with Rain Wilson, and
Speaker 2: then this movie, of Course with Jim Albert. Yes, Emma
Speaker 2: Stone's character was originally called Lisa.
Speaker 1: Honorable mentions.
Speaker 2: Go, ah, this is the second movie. I'm going to
Speaker 2: say the cast, but I don't know, you know what,
Speaker 2: it's funny because I haven't seen Bill Murray in a
Speaker 2: movie in a really, really, really long time. His characters
Speaker 2: the villain was fun. You're gonna say am Stone, But
Speaker 2: I mean, do I like John Krasinski's ability to say
Speaker 2: nothing and get the points across?
Speaker 1: Kind of I'm not gonna say, am A Stone. Come on,
Speaker 1: an honorable mention can't be the star of the movie.
Speaker 1: The honorable mention this time around is the setting of Hawaii,
Speaker 1: which was such a big part of the premise of
Speaker 1: the story. So many of our plot lines go through
Speaker 1: the fact that this is Hawaii and our characters are Hawaiian.
Speaker 1: So I have for you, Sarah, I want the ranking,
Speaker 1: oh of best movies either filmed or based in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, I'm gonna give you, like, like, let's say,
Speaker 1: like a top seven and you hit me with like
Speaker 1: your one, two three, all right, because we got some biggies. Okay,
Speaker 1: some biggies out of nowhere. Let's put this one on
Speaker 1: the list.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: But let's also say hey forgetting Sarah Marshall. Set in Hawaii, yep,
Speaker 1: just go with it. Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Swai Sandler,
Speaker 1: Soul Surfer, I know you love it. Oh, set in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: obviously soul Surfer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Who's that with.
Speaker 1: Anna Sophia rob Oh, I've never seen it. It's the
Speaker 1: one where she, I mean, this is gonna be tough,
Speaker 1: but like I'm pretty sure she gets her arm bitten
Speaker 1: off by a shop. Oh yes, Oh wow, I thought
Speaker 1: you loved that one for some reason. Crash. Okay, hey,
Speaker 1: stop reading what I'm reading.
Speaker 2: But that's what the movie I love is. I love
Speaker 2: Blue Crush.
Speaker 1: Reading my notes here, fifty first dates.
Speaker 2: Oh, another Adam Sandler movie.
Speaker 1: Like a huge Adam Sandler we're ignoring like The Pearl
Speaker 1: Harbors and stuff like that. So I'll also put The
Speaker 1: Descendants with George Clooney on there. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen that one. No, okay, let's put it
Speaker 1: on the list, because that's a good one. Finding o'hanna
Speaker 1: as well is pretty good. Give me your top three.
Speaker 2: Though, okay, Sarah forgetting Sarah Marshall, Fifty First States, and
Speaker 2: Blue Crash. Like it because they show a lot of
Speaker 2: a lot more of Hawaii than some other movies, right,
Speaker 2: I see a lot of the bass in Aloha. Yes
Speaker 2: you do, but you don't see like you know, there's
Speaker 2: certain pieces to the movie that you get to see
Speaker 2: a little bit more of of Hawaii at the Island.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like it a lot. What should
Speaker 1: have been? I think, like for my what should have been,
Speaker 1: we've we've discussed the situation with some of the characters
Speaker 1: and how they are cast, so I don't feel the
Speaker 1: need to go over it again. But that would be
Speaker 1: my what should have been. Either change the background of
Speaker 1: the characters or alter who you're casting. That's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree. I would agree with that. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say the same like I do wholeheartedly
Speaker 2: agree with that. I think either have John Krasinski talk
Speaker 2: or don't. I don't know, like pick one, you know,
Speaker 2: I just like, you know, like you didn't need subtitles,
Speaker 2: just have him have dialogue, Like give him a few lines.
Speaker 2: He's fully capable.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's great, he's right, he'll do it.
Speaker 2: They prepped him for that movie that you can't talk
Speaker 2: because the aliens will get you or the monsters will.
Speaker 1: Get Oh A quiet place, quiet place.
Speaker 2: They prepped him for that. With this movie, you know
Speaker 2: that he.
Speaker 1: Wrote I a whole I just realized, Uh, you made
Speaker 1: a mistake in your quick facts, because you talked about
Speaker 1: all the characters who have been in the Marvel universe. Yes,
Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper. Yeah, did you say Rachel McAdams. No, No,
Speaker 1: because she's in Doctor Strange. She is.
Speaker 2: But I was talking about how there's a conversation that
Speaker 2: occurs where there's an anecdote that Bradley Cooper has or
Speaker 2: I should say Gilcrest has with in this movie, and
Speaker 2: that ties that they've been in it. But if we're
Speaker 2: talking in grand scheme of things, yes, you're correct, Rachel
Speaker 2: McAdams is in Doctor Faulty Universe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so is John Krasinski.
Speaker 2: What does he play?
Speaker 1: He is mister incredible, right, mister fantastic, Sorry, mister incredible.
Speaker 1: It's not Pixar. He's mister fantastic. He is read the leader.
Speaker 2: Of right the fantastic four.
Speaker 1: Look at that he turns into Swiss cheese in front
Speaker 1: of uh scarlet Witch. But you know we're getting off
Speaker 1: on a tangent of marvel stuff rewatchability.
Speaker 2: So my rewatchability is as follows. Chemistry three point nine,
Speaker 2: storyline two, there's factor four point seven, imagination two point
Speaker 2: seven five, soundtrack four cheese three for an overall score
Speaker 2: of three point three nine out of five.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've got I've got a slightly similar Okay, I've
Speaker 1: got slightly similar scores. I've got chemistry a little bit
Speaker 1: lower than you. A three point three five for chemistry,
Speaker 1: storyline two point nine to five, first factor four point
Speaker 1: seven nine. I totally agree the first factor across this
Speaker 1: movie is fantastic. I did have the imagination a little
Speaker 1: higher than you three point four to four. I feel
Speaker 1: like it is a fairly unique movie. Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: that way. Four point twenty five for soundtrack. Amazing soundtrack
Speaker 1: on this and a cheese three point one five. So
Speaker 1: I feel like I was just a little bit higher
Speaker 1: than you on everything, which makes sense because my overall
Speaker 1: score is a three point hold on I lost it
Speaker 1: real quick three point sixty five out of five This
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