MINI: GOAT ISLAND

We started something new this year, the GOAT Island. We pick a topic and you nominate the biggest and best who need to be part of the Greatest Of All Time. This week? Rom-Coms. Have a nomination? email us [e-mail]

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yesterday on the show we were talking about rom coms,
and I said that The Notebook was a rom com,
and I thought today we could talk about what do
we think are the greatest rom coms of all time?
Because actually, when you think about there have been so many,
so many really really great rom coms, also loads of
very tepid, bang average ones like Adam Sander has made

(00:33):
some good ones, but even more bad ones, and I
love The Sandman. But today we want to find out
what are the greatest of all time? The goat rom coms.
So we're going to form Goat Island, and on go
Island only four of the greatest of all time rom
coms can be on there. So you've really got to
make your pitch count which movie and why there's a

(00:56):
scene you'd like us to dig out as well? To
back up your case, let me know nine four one
four one oh four three. Jackie boy, what are you going?
Do you love rom coms? First of all, I do
love a good rom com.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I love a rom com And this is the first
DVD I ever owned. Ten Things I Hate about You,
Brilliant Rock com. This is Heath Ledgio iconic scene where
he's singing to Julia Styles on the bleaches of the
soccer field. This is a Shakespeare play, modern adapt adaptation

(01:28):
into the best rong com of all time.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
A couple of years ago during lockdown, we watched it, well,
I watched it again. I watched it with my two
teenage daughters. And it's still a great movie.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
It's still know what's the best thing about it? He
didn't care what anybody think.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
It was his breakout movie, wasn't it. I think it
probably is really discovered on an international scale. He was
brilliant in it.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Now tell me this what year was that out?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Nineteen ninety nine?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Patsy, what are you going there? What do you think
is your contender for greatest rom com of all time?

Speaker 5 (02:00):
For Go Island?

Speaker 6 (02:01):
I could fill all four spots with Bridget Jones one, two, three,
four equally only No, No, No, how Dare You deserves
its place?

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Absolutely brilliant.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
I think there's every woman can relate to a little
bit of Bridget, just that awkwardness sometimes when trying to
meet a partner, but also just being authentically herself. And
and the scene I love most is where at the
dinner party, Mark Darcy and her go down the staircase
and it's where he proclaims that he's into her, and

(02:37):
he says to her, with all of your you know,
weird bits and all your weird sort of tendencies, I
love you just the way you are. You don't need
to change, Bridget You're perfect.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
Oh my god, I just having it re enacted. We've
got the clip, but we don't bloody need it. You'll
recreating the street band on a keyboard.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Come surrounded by this real cast of.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
What this is a clip you're talking about?

Speaker 7 (03:10):
I think, I mean, there are elements of the ridiculous
about you. Your mother's pretty interesting, and you really are
an appallingly bad public speaker, and you tend to let
whatever is in your head come out of your mouth
without much consideration of the consequences. I realized that when
I met you at the Turkey curry buffet that I

(03:30):
was unforgivably rude and wearing a reindeer jumper that my
mother had given me in the day before. But the
thing is, what I'm trying to say, very inarticulately, is that,
in fact, perhaps despite appearances, I like you very much.

Speaker 8 (03:54):
Apart from the smoking and the drinking and the vulcan
mother and the verbal Diarry, I like him very much,
just as you are.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Bridgie Jones has to go on the Go Island. It's
such a great It is one of the greatest rom
comms of all time.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
You're right? And the fourth one, Patsy, I.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Don't think I've got into saying this that throughout the
other week. It's brilliant, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Oh my god? You're right.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
It is such a moving They really really they did
something really special with that.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
I thought it was a great movie.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I think it still leaves the door open for maybe
even another one or two, but it is the fourth
one is very very good.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
All right? What else should be on Go Island?

Speaker 7 (04:29):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast, What.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Do you think is the greatest rom com of all time?
We're looking to our four on Go Island? The greatest
of all time?

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Island? Are the four the best romantic comedies? Make your case?
Which movie you love? Nine? Four, one, four, one oh
four three.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I was just trying to work out which actor and
actresses have been in the most like ten out of
ten rom coms. I reckon it's between Julia Roberts and
Hugh Grant, because Hugh Grant obviously has been in low's
his hit rate. Actually, so, I think about a lot
of people saying how much they love love Actually right,
she got Hugh, and that Bridget Jones is in notting
Hill with another huge rom com star and a great actress,

(05:10):
Judy Roberts as well.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
They've been in so many The.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Other two I think of is Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Matthew Nay has a lower hit rate than anybody else,
which is why since we realized and he's just stopped
in rom Comms and actually become the true great actor
I am, he just led them by. I can't count
No one has mentioned any of the McConaughey he is
when he was into rom Commons, which is so astonishing
about his career. Then when he goes in and does
like True Detective and all these incredible ether roles. Now

(05:38):
you love Jack's contender then for greatest of all time,
rom comm is a great one with Heath Ledger.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Ten Things I Hate about.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
You, PATSI, You're absolutely right. It was his international breakout role.
Ten Things I hate about you. And it was Heath
Ledger's choice to sing can't take my eyes off of
You on that clip that we listened to before, because
originally it was going to be I touched myself by
the the vinals.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
You don't want to hear a hormonal teenage boy college
thing in this to audiences around the world.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
It's not the right.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Thing, changes the whole.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
They're directors or someone that made a smarter choice. All right,
there's sir tea some cools now nine four one four
one o four three. What do you think is the
greatest romantic comedy of all time? Danielle?

Speaker 5 (06:19):
What's it for you?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
When Harry met Sally?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yes, it's one of my favorite movies of all time.
What do you love about it?

Speaker 8 (06:26):
Well, even apart from the cafe saying what my probably
one of my favorite part is at the end on
New Year's Eve when he finally realizes that he's they
met for each other, and then he runs in and
like you know, proclaims all the things that he doesn't
understand about it, but despite all that, he just he
loves her anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's not because I'm lonely, and it's not for goods
of New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when
you realize you want to spend the rest of your
life with somebody, you want the rest of your life
to start as soon as passible.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh my god, it's a great movie, right, watch it
every couple of years. When it came out, it was
like nineteen eighty nine, I think, or nineteen ninety nine.
That was the end of the eighties, and I was
like sixteen or seventeen. I love that movie. Do you
know it's only ninety six minutes, right. I think it's
one of the perfect comedies. And what it is is
like most romantic movies and romantic comedies, they're about the spark,
they're about falling in love. What I loved about Harry

(07:18):
When Harry Met Sallie's still now. It's about what happens
over the years. I've been watching that as a young man,
thinking if I get married, I hope it's someone like that.
Next month, we're twenty seven years married together. I love
When Harry Met Sally. It's such a great movie because
over the ninety six odd minutes, their relationship grows over
twelve years, they help each other through all these different breakups.

(07:38):
There's a very different take on what it is not
just to fall in love, but obviously to sustain it
and to keep it going over the years. You're right,
it's a great movie, Danielle.

Speaker 8 (07:47):
And then they have just quickly and then they have
all those losses, all the old pop along the way, Yes,
and just how they all may different stories. It's just
the whole movie is just perfect.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Also when you watch it right, you should watch it again.
It's a time wheek and it is the definitely the eighties.
Men are wearing very big chunky sweaters that's not yet
come back.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
Around this winter in Melbourne. I want to bring back
big chunky sweaters Danielle. Thank you very much for saying
that one.

Speaker 7 (08:15):
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