April 25, 2025 • 26 mins
A long weekend is a perfect time for bingeing amazing movies and for many reasons, life is feeling a bit tough right now for most of us. So we’re calling in the power of movies because we’re all in need of some escapism and pleasant distraction.
From epic romances to fantasy adventures and movies that will have you dancing on a bar, these are the films that will immediately fix your life (at least for a few hours).
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So much you're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia
acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this
podcast is recorded on. Hello, Spillers, this is Laura Brodnick,
just popping into your ears to say that. Because it
is a public holiday in Australia today, we are not
releasing a new episode. Instead, we've gone back into the
vault to reshare one of our favorite episodes of all time,
(00:34):
and that is an episode dedicated to movies that will
immediately fix your life. So life can get a bit
tough for us a lot of the time. You know,
things can feel hard and sometimes you need a movie
that feels like a hug, feels like a sweet treat,
something that offers you some beautiful escapism from real life.
And that's what this episode is dedicated to. From epic
(00:55):
romances to fantasy adventures and movies that will have you
dancing on a bar that probably gave one of our
options away. Please enjoy this episode where we discuss the
movies that will immediately fix your life. From Mama Mia.
Welcome to the spill your daily pop culture fix. I'm
Laura Brodney and I'm Mbannam and we have a very
(01:17):
special episode for you today because I don't know about
the rest of you, but I look forward to our
Friday episodes so much.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
They're my favorite episodes, and they're also my favorite episodes
to listen to.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think, well, I think our audience also tell us
that from the numbers, little tell me peek behind the curtains.
You're just listening over and over and over again because
Friday is most of the time, are the shows where
we can just deep dive into nostalgia movies and TV
shows and there's not drama from celebrities. It's just actual
things that you want to race home and sit in
front of your TV, maybe hug your TV. I don't
(01:47):
judge what you do. And today we are talking about
the movies that are our happy place, our ultimate escapism.
I tend to be very dramatic when I speak, so
I'm going to say they will fix all the problems
in your life. We'll put a caveat the show notes.
They might not, but they'll you know, they'll they'll work
as hard as they can. Yeah, because movies have such
a kind of I think, a special place in our
(02:09):
lives in terms of, like so many of our core
memories are formed around the movies that we grew up with,
movies that we've watched with families, movies that we've watched
a sleepovers with friends, movies that you went on a
first date, movies that you've watched on a plane going
on an adventure. Like So it was really hard to
kind of narrow it down. But we've both picked some
movies that are kind of the ultimate escapism from real life.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yes, and we have talked about escapism movies before, but
this is I think more in the sense of that
are so far removed from our lives.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Like look, I think our last escapeism Movies episode, which
will link in the show notes, was more based on
travels were I was about to go on my cruise
with the psychic predicted. So movies that literally helped you
escape by taking you to another country.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
But also movies that I'm like, that could happen to me. Yeah,
I tried really hard.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Whereas I feel like the movies I picked in particular,
I'm like, this could not happen.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh me too, movies because I feel like there are
some TV shows that you watch where I've got a
lot of comfort. TV shows in particular that are about
like women living in beautiful cities and they wear beautiful
close and they go into their the mini project jobs,
yeah MINDI project bold type younger, all those kind of
sex and city to an extent, but sometimes those on
escapism because they actually are dealing with problems that we
(03:21):
have in our own lives, just with a slightly better
wardrobe and a bigger apartment. Whereas today we've tried to
pick movies that you right have like a. I mean,
we haven't told each other what we're picking, so we
don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I went down the dystopian kind of line.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I maybe one a bit fantasy and it gets sexy
at the end, and I'm just gonna say.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh, okay, okay. So also another reason why we're doing this.
I love how much were justifying it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I know, because I'm like, okay, I promise, I promise.
This is a bit different.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I was just telling LB, like, how coming up, we've
as you would have seen if you follow us on
Instagram or you're a listener to the podcast, We've had
a lot of premieres recently, Gladiator and Wicked being two
big ones this last week, and those movies only come
out either like next week or the week after, and
we do want to do a full like Briodly honest reviews.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We love our Briodley honesty.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Say out Gladiator, really honest review You're gonna get hard.
I have been dreaming of the things I say about
that movie. I actually cannot believe some of the things
that happened in it now that I think about it,
now that I like sobered up from poor Mescal and
also all the wine I drink, I'm just like, what
was that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I've already started scripting.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, okay, I'm kind of selling it, but it's gonna
be good.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's a time of scripting where I wake up at
two I'm going, oh, I need to say that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yes, I put a little voice note to myself.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So we have like those big like which we will
include analysis and like interviews that we've done with the cast,
like that's coming up in the next few weeks. But
now we're in a bit of a lull, and I
feel like we need to take advantage of this, especially
after the election this week, which I'm sure majority of
our listeners are as upset as we are. It's just
a bit of a hard time to kind of be
(04:56):
a woman right now seeing how people are voting against
like your rights basically, and it's also important to know
that this is a worldwide issue. I think on the
out loud they said a quote that like has stuck
with me, where if the US has a call, the
whole world sneezes one hundred percent, And it's so true,
like this affects everyone, not just people who are living
(05:17):
the US, although that would be absolutely drastic if you are.
But we are taking advantage of this opportunity of having
a bit of a lull in movies and cinema to
kind of showcase exactly the type of movies that we
are craving to watch right now. Coming up after the break,
we are going to be talking about our ultimate escapism
movies that has nothing to do with our lives.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But we'll fix your life.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We'll fix your life.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'm getting a little bit excited, so I'm going to
take a calming breath in because I already talk fast,
and so I'm going to say that you go first,
me go for you go first.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Okay, the first movie that came into my head immediately
when we were talking about this, it's also my number
one movie on my letterbox.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
If you don't follow me at Emily Venom, I definitely
don't Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know. I thought you were going to say,
angus whatever the things.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay, that yes, but that could be my life, like
I couldn't marry Aaron Dayler Jonson.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, Jurassic Park already I my life. I know some people. Obviously,
that movie scared the shit out of me. When I
was a kid, I was way too scared to go
to sleep in case a raptor was in my bed,
or the dinosaur with the thrill thing that kills that shoots.
Think obviously I war nothing but dinosaurs from this movie.
But as you're saying that, I am getting a little
bit of a company moment because I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you're looking out, Yeah that is John Williams famous theme.
And you're looking at like the beautiful rackeosauruses in like
eating the trees and watching them.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
There is a look. If you stop Jurassic Park at
a certain point, it's just a lovely family movie. If
you stop it before the t rex gets out, that's
just that's a cute movie.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The reason I picked this one because it's not okay.
I took the brief very seriously because good we said
happy place, escapism, nothing said anything about safety from dinosaurs.
So that's why I chose it. My favorite cast ever,
Sam Neil, Laura Den, Jeff Goldbloom, Richard Edinburgh who's David
(07:13):
Edinburgh's brother that I only realized recently.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Jeff Goldbloom, who we bumped shoulders with the other day
at the Wicked premiere when he said, that's this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
We know, and I missed my opportunity saying I love
Jurassic par Park, You're my favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
He would have loved that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Jurassic Park is just one of those movies that I
always go to because, as you said, it is quite
It has scary elements like these dinosaurs are trying to
eat these people, which can I say, Firstly, the t
rex wasn't actually in Jurassic period, so we've a bit
of a scientific failure on that part. So we just
go in knowing your science facts about dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's what makes it a fantasy because the dinosaur facts
are incorrect. But in this fantasy world, Samuel can take
on a t rex and you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Have to actually escape, right because it's like so like
the stakes are high in that movie. You don't know
what's gonna happen. I mean, that's your mean, you watch
one hundred times, you know what's happening. You can't be
looking at your phone, you can't be distracted by anything else.
It's also so fary removed from our everyday life. You
can't even make slight relations to your life.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I know, I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
This is why often when I'm stressed or like late
at night, I watch while you just watch The Walking
Dead over and over again. At the moment, I watch
from over and over again, and yes they're a bit
scary and perilous, but they're so removed from my life,
and you get to this place where you're just thinking
of like escaping or finding safety, or being with this
group of people you love, and it's really nice because
you're not thinking about the email you forgot to send
(08:35):
all your day at work. You just like survival mode.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And it's like the magical element of the very first movie.
That's why, because I do love the other Jurassic Park
and Jurassic World movie. Some of them are not going
I do love them. I do love them because I
love dinosaurs. But Jurassic Park has that like element of
like seeing what dinosaurs look like for the first time,
and it always takes me back to like how this
would have looked in a cinema for the first time,
and I'm like, oh, that would have been such a
(08:57):
beautiful experience.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's what we should do for you for your birthday
one year is have a big screen like screening of
Jurassic Park, maybe all the spillers, and you can see
it on the big screen, and then we can.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Keep pausing it and I can spit out dinosaur facts
and be like, this is that would be at I
think everyone would enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I agree, Thank you well, Jurassic Park, beautiful comfort Watch,
Thank you for you. Okay, I'm recommending one of my
favorite movies of all time, and I maybe I have
said on the spool before. I don't know, but I
haven't found a way to kind of put it into
one of our movie deep dives.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Wait don't know about this?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you know about this movie?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
This movie somehow gets brought up in the mameir office
all the time, and I feel like there's a line
in the sand between people who love it and people
who haven't seen it. It's star dust.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I've heard of this one. I haven't watched it. Well
you need, I've heard.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, we talk about it because it's so many people's
comfort escapism movie. You need to watch it. I had
the most vivid memory of I think I was like
a well it was two thousand and seven, so I
definitely adult when it came out. I took my little
sister to the movies to see it and we were
just in awe of this incredible movie. So it's a
romantic fantasy adventure film. The romantic fantasy adventure exactly the
(10:04):
three things you need for ultimate escapism. It's based on
Neil Gayman's nineteen ninety nine novel of the same name.
The novel is great, it's a bit launchyer than the movie.
The movie is a bit more geared towards family and kids.
So it tells the story of this young man called
Tristan Thorne played by Charlie Cox, and he's very hot
in this role. He's a young man. He lives in
this little fictional town in England called Wall and set
(10:25):
you know, olden day times, beautiful picturesque village, kind of
think like Biddy and the Beast vibes and Wall is
on the border of this magical fantasy kingdom called Stormhold,
and Tristan is in love with this beautiful but awful
girl in town called Victoria played by Sienna Miller in
what I think is her best role every really and
one day they see a falling star and she was like, yeah,
(10:46):
i'll marry if you go get me that star. So
he goes into Stormhall, the magical kingdom, only to find
that the star. He finds the star, but it's a
woman named a Vane who is a star, played by
Claire Danes. And then they go on this like wild
magical adventure where he's trying to get her back, and
there's witches, there's pirates, there's swashbuckling, there's all these everyone's
(11:06):
after them as they go through this magical world, and
it's just so romantic, so wonderful, Like it's one of
those movies that you can't look at your phone either,
because every second something incredible is happening on screen. And
I know I've already said a few big names with
the cast, Clare Dane's, Charlie Coxey and a Miller. We've
also got Michelle Pfeiffer in what I want to say
is her best and creepiest role. There's some genuinely creepy
moments in this movie. Robert de Niro's in there in
(11:28):
what I want to say, also his best role. Honestly,
you've never seen Robert Tairey lights before, Rupert Everett, Ricky Gervais, Like,
it's just yeah, so many, It's like a star studded cast.
Is like a massive, massive deal when it came out,
and every time I watch it, I just find like, oh,
this is so romantic and so beautiful and just so
lush to look at with all like the beautiful kind
(11:48):
of period costumes and the romance. And you know, also
when you're just watching a love story, you're like, I'm
not rooting for it or excited about it because I
know these two are going to get together. I've like,
I've seen them fall in love, I've seen the work.
And also we love an enemy's to lovers.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah story, you know what it reminds me?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, which I don't want to I don't want to
say it in case you get offended.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of Ella enchanted. No no, no,
you're on the right track account. It has a very
similar kind of look and vibe to Ella Enchanted. I
would say that Startus is a bit more elevated in
terms of the story, is a lot bigger and more intense,
and like the sets are better and the stakes are higher.
But if you love Ella Enchanted, if you watch, yeah,
I know you would love this. Okay, Okay, that's such
(12:31):
a good comparison.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Gay good, yes, and nailed it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So yeah, start Us. I mean you can watch in
lots of places. I was watching on stan and it's
just the most beautiful. I'm gonna watch it again this weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I want to watch it too.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh my god, Please can you just film some of
your reactions watching it? Because I would just love There's
some good plot twists, So don't read anything about it first.
Just got apart from what I've told you, But just
go with it and watch it's plot twists. Yeah, there's
some plot twists. Do not google. You don't want to
know who a few people really are in the story.
You just want to watch the story unfold.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Okay, my next one.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'm excited. This is so fun not knowing which movie.
By the way, because I'm leaning forward. My heart's beat,
like I feel like I don't know, is this how
people feel they played Bingo and their numbers. This is okay,
I love That's why I like it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
My next one, which I watched last weekend, and I
also watched like two months ago, and every time I
watch it, I'm like, I feel so good.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh my god, I nearly said Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Okay, I'm glad you nearly said it, because I mean,
we're on the same page.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We are so on the same page. We have a
lot of fantasy in here, but I guess that's where
escape is and growth because I have another fantasy one coming.
But I've recently watched Wizard of Oz with my six
year old nephew, my best friend. Whenever I go to
Queensland visit them my family there, I always want to watch, like,
you know, a new iconic movie that we loved as
kids with him, and watched it with him and he
loved it and also he really holds up, as you
(13:55):
would know from watching it recently.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I think it's like watching Wizard of Ours, which with
someone who's not in your generation is just such.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
A beautiful experience.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The first time I watched it was with my nana,
and I think my mom might have been there as well,
and they showed it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
To me because I think it no matter like what
nineteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Nine and they showed it to me, And I think
there's something so magical in watching a film that can
be so beautiful for no matter what your age is. Yeah,
and like you all enjoyed. It doesn't feel like you're
a parent watching having to watch this because your kid's
really into it, or you're a kid having to watch
something that your parents really into just because you want.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
To be there.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's just like a film that everyone loves and everyone understands.
And watching Judy Garland go from black and white to
color was just.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And the sound honestly no other movie moment I've really
seen like and again watching it recently with like younger kids,
it's like they like sat up when that moment happened
and like wow, like no other movie moment hits like that.
And again like you think now with like all like
the you know, wild cgi and stuff like that, like
you know, obviously that stuff is incredible. We've had some
great moments from that, but it's it goes to show
(15:03):
that you can create such magic with such a simple trip,
but it's so effective when they open the door and
it's into color, into munchkin Land.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, and it's like the music is beautiful. The music
is what like.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Got me into Okay, so a little bit about me.
I used to sing and play piano.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh I didn't know this about you. Yeah, I mean
I never played piano for me, so I wouldn't see.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, my dad sided foundly the very musical, Like my
nanna used to be an opera singer. My dad sings,
plays guitar, plays piano, like everyone is music all there,
and like that's the movie where they were able to
convince me to get into music. Yeah, and like somewhere
over the range, I feel like every child is forced
to sing in front them and then.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At some point and that was one of mine. And
it was just like so magical because like Judy.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Garland was like a young girl, and I'm like, oh,
I could be like that, Like I could be like that.
And it's weird now when I watch it because there
is a bit of me, Like it is quite a
tragic real life, as in the stuff that's happened to
the people in that movie.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I was gonna say it's a comfort movie until you
hear about what happened behind the scene.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's such a good movie and it's just like magical,
And I think it's what you say about like all
the movies that you sets rather than cgi. Yeah, a
lot of this was set, obviously, because it's like I'm
back in the day. But it's just so so magical,
a bit scary, like I had nightmares about the Wicked
Witch for years.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh me too. It's so funny, which is melting.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh my god, I'm like, but what happened? Like what
do they do with all of that?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So funny because as a kid, I all I wanted
was Glinda, and I wanted that pink dress so badly.
I was like, if I could just have that, I'd
be so happy. And now as an adult, now that
i'm a Wicked fan, I'm just like lies, Lies.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
We all want to be Cynthia.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
This is also fantasy, but guys, just go with it.
I have another non fantasy one coming later if that's
not your jam. But when I was thinking of the
movies that have been this movie, I can't even remember
the first time I watched it. I think I just
my life started the day I watched this movie as
a kid, and I've watched it so many times since
then that I can't even remember seeing I can't remember
a time my life where this movie wasn't a huge
part of it. And it is the ultimate escapism, Like
(17:05):
it's the ultimate feel good. I think we've took it
at this before and you don't like it, so that's fine.
On it it's the Princess Bride. Oh yeah, what go on?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It's just I yeah, I agree with.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What the fact that it's a comfort me. Have you
seen it?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I've seen it?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
When did you?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes? Ago, Like when I was a kid and I
didn't understand it.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Really Oh okay, See, I feel like I feel like.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I needed to watch it in my twenties.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's such an intense on I feel like you need
to grow up with it, man. Really, yeah, it's too
late for you now, because I'll just say that it's
such a huge cult classic and so many people love
it and it means so much to so many people.
But I do feel like sometimes now when like adults,
I mean a few of my friends have watched His
Adults and have absolutely loved and become obsessed with it.
So it's not obviously not a blanket rule, but I
think some people watch it because it did come out
(17:49):
in nineteen eighty seven, and it is like, you know,
very kind of whimsy and cheesy and stuff like that,
but it's meant to be. Yeah, And I think sometimes
adults watch it and they're like, oh, that's you know,
it's a kid's movie. You're like, yes, but it's a
kids movie for everyone. So The Princess Bride, it stars
Robin Right, Harry Elvis, Mandy Petinkin in his greatest role ever.
And it's kind of set up as this young kid
(18:09):
being sick bed and his grandfather reads him this book
from his childhood and then you go into the book
and it's the story of the Princess Bride and it's
this farm hand called Wesley who falls in love with
the farm owner butter Cup, and she's really beautiful and
he goes away to make his fortune and then things unravel.
He's dead, she gets like promised to marry Prince Humpading
and then gets kidnapped by Yeah, it's a whole it's
(18:32):
a whole situation, but it's got everything. It's got like
one of the greatest love stories, I would say of
all time. It's got these sweeping like it's it's kind
of less. It's more like medieval than like magic or
anything like that. But it's got like the best sword
fighting scenes you've ever seen, the best adventure scenes, the
best script like you can my sometimes, my sisters and
I have whole conversations where we're only quoting The Princess Bride.
(18:56):
I quote for every moment in time. And it's just
also a tail of friendship and it just so has everything,
has everything you can billy crystals in it. What more
do you want?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I need to watch it again.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Walla Sean's in it, his greatest role ever. Like, it's
just the cast is incredible, and I think as a
reason it's held up as one of the most iconic
movies of all time for over thirty years. It's just
that nothing will make you feel good faster than The
Princess Bride. WHOA put that on a one hundred percent.
So you know, if you haven't seen it, go and
watch you just watch it with open eyes, knowing it's
(19:28):
like an older movie. It's you know, that's part of
cinema history. And if you watch it as a kid,
go back and watch it again, because god, you watch
it with new eyes as an adult. Really, this is
so much more romantic that I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Oh okay, now I got to watch it again.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, I I honestly want you to watch it again
now as an adult. Okay, okay, you got one more
to sneak in.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So Harry Potter is my is my last.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
For people who don't like fantasies, hang around till the end, guys.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Hang around to the end, because Harry Potter is the movie.
The whole series is what I watch every single Christmas.
It is like my magical Christmas.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Movie, just the first one.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I go in just wanting to watch the first one,
and then I have to watch them all because then
you're like kind of all of them. Yeah, every Christmas,
me and my sister, it's like our tradition.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh that's really cute.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's always during Like so we watched the first one
like on Christmas Eve or the twenty third. Oh, and
then those days between Christmas and New Year's we just
watched the whole All the other movies, it's not something
we plan, it's just something that happens. But Harry Potter
the like watching a little kid and being a little kid.
Because I watched it for the first time when I
was quite young, walk into like just the most magical
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castle and like seeing like the long tables and like
all these other kids, like cheering for them coming in
and buying the rope. Like I've watched that scene on
repeat of him and Hagrid shopping for like his school list.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
That is a great scene, So great because you're experiencing
those things.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
With Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
You're like, this is crazy, Harry, You're right, this is insane.
You need an owl. That's crazy. You needed wand and
it's like quite a scary one.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And the one guy's not telling you why it's w
that's crazy. Like so much has happened, just twelve year
old boy and now I have.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
To save the word. And it doesn't even know it's
getting stressed.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He just wants to escape his shitty family. He doesn't
even know it. Imagine having a family so bad.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And you're like, I'm just gonna go with you, strange
man size.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, yeah, Look, the first movie is very magical. I'll
give you that. I don't want you to hate me
if what I'm about to say, But I love the
Harry Potter books. I think they're exceptionally well written. Obviously JK.
Rowling not a fan of her anymore. Me and the
rest of the world. I don't love the Harry Potter movies. Okay,
they feel like pale but the first one is the
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first is the escapism because also with the first one,
the way it ends, you could pretend that to standalone movie.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think where it becomes more plot line over like
Magical is like second movie going forward. So you have
to be really into the Harry Potter universe to want
to know what happens.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I mean, we all know what happens, but I think
the first one is the one that can actually stand
alone as a movie, and you can pretend the others
aren't there if you want to.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I don't do that because I'm a diehard fan. Yeah, okay,
that's my true love.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That little under the radar, little indie recommendation, Harry Potter franchise.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I don't know if you guys heard of it, but okay.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I've swung in a wildly different way of my last
one here, so we're a non fantasy. So the way
I found this, I was getting very overwhelmed picking because
movies in my whole life. I was getting very overwhelmed
as we came into the studio trying to pick one,
and so in my stress induced state, I just went
through like all the different streamers I have, you know, Binge, Stand, Netflix, Prime,
all of those, looking through my recently watched list and
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my save list to see which movies. I'm like, God,
what have I watched recently? And what do I watch
over and over again? And I think I came up
with a real banger, the movie that defined my teenage
years and just made me feel like every single thing
could be fixed with a song. And that movie is
Cody Ugly.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Isn't that a great movie? It has recently come to
my attention when Lee and Rimes was in Australia because
she sung the theme song play Cody Ugly, Don't Fight
the Moonlight, one of the greatest songs of all time
and the backing track to my teenage years. And when
she was in Australia, people like, oh what has she
ever done? I'm like, only sing the best song in
the whole world, like put some respect on her name.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's also one of the movies that I watched when
I was a young kid. You should watch because there
were scenes where my mum made micholos my eyes.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah. It's the ultimate ultimate escapism. So it came out
in the year two thousand, if you want to cast
your mind back that long. Weirdly based on an article
that Elizabeth Gilbert wrote, No, yes, what yeah about a bar.
She wrote a story like she wrote like a yeah right.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
So this is all like an article.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
So like this and Pray Love in the same cinematic universe,
That's what I'm saying. Funny, it's such a great car.
So Piper Prebo is the lead actress. Oh I'm such
a Piper a Prebo fan just from this. Plays Violet
in this tiny little town. She wants to be a songwriter,
not a singer, because she's got terrible stage fright. Shows.
She goes to New York try and make it, and
she ends up getting a job in a bar called
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Coyote Ugly where she has to be a coyote and
which means and as a teen, I thought this was
the coolest job you could ever have. They're bartenders, but
they also get up and do these incredible choreograph dances
on the bar and they spray them in with soda, yeah,
and water and stuff, and so she's trying to like
get her songs heard. She also meets and falls in
love with Adam Garcia. It's just such an incredible cast. Sorry,
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it's such a fun movie. And you know what, it
got absolutely panned by critics when it came out. They
were like, this is the worst movie ever. Don't see it.
It's ridiculous. And then the people said, we won't stand
for that, and it ended up making quite a lot
of money and it went on to be an absolute
cult favorite. And I once pitched an article at Mamma
that every good life lesson I learned came from Cody
Ugly and it didn't get picked up. But there's a
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great scene when maybe now's your redemption Now. I write
it this week because I was just kind of entertainment now,
you know what, I have been promoted many times since
I so now I'm the boss. Maybe maybe I'll pitch
it now because I think there's a great scene where
they're sort of talking about their dreams, and everyone's dream
is to like hers is like to be a singer
or interde this and that, and Adam Garcia is like
it was just to be living in New York and
having my on my own two feet and like supporting myself,
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and like that's my dream and I'm living it and
sorry that you think is not good enough. And sometimes
I think, yeah, like sometimes your dream is just living
in the place you want and supporting yourself and just
enjoying your life every day. Adam Garcia, he was one
of the girls.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
He was one of the girls.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He was years too early for instagram ware. That quote
would have just gone off. So anyway, Cody Ugly, It's
just a rollicking good time. It's such a fun movie,
and all the when she actually does get up to sing,
all of the problems go away. Everything is fixed in
that moment. It's kind of like Center Stage, which was
my other movie obsession around that time, where everything is
fixed when she does the dance then or Save the
(25:52):
Last Dance, where everything is that's a good raise your voice,
where everything is six where she sings the end, or
when she sings the classroom, yeah, bring or on stage
to the end, Bring back movies where everything is fixed
with the song and a dance. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Thank you so much for listening to this episode of
the Spill as always if if you love our recommendations.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
We do a weekly article for all of our weekend watches.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
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Speaker 3 (26:29):
Have me covered. We will put a link to both
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Speaker 2 (26:32):
We will be back here in your podcast feed at
three pm on Monday.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Bye Bye It
So much you're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia
acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this
podcast is recorded on. Hello, Spillers, this is Laura Brodnick,
just popping into your ears to say that. Because it
is a public holiday in Australia today, we are not
releasing a new episode. Instead, we've gone back into the
vault to reshare one of our favorite episodes of all time,
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and that is an episode dedicated to movies that will
immediately fix your life. So life can get a bit
tough for us a lot of the time. You know,
things can feel hard and sometimes you need a movie
that feels like a hug, feels like a sweet treat,
something that offers you some beautiful escapism from real life.
And that's what this episode is dedicated to. From epic
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romances to fantasy adventures and movies that will have you
dancing on a bar that probably gave one of our
options away. Please enjoy this episode where we discuss the
movies that will immediately fix your life. From Mama Mia.
Welcome to the spill your daily pop culture fix. I'm
Laura Brodney and I'm Mbannam and we have a very
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special episode for you today because I don't know about
the rest of you, but I look forward to our
Friday episodes so much.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
They're my favorite episodes, and they're also my favorite episodes
to listen to.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I think, well, I think our audience also tell us
that from the numbers, little tell me peek behind the curtains.
You're just listening over and over and over again because
Friday is most of the time, are the shows where
we can just deep dive into nostalgia movies and TV
shows and there's not drama from celebrities. It's just actual
things that you want to race home and sit in
front of your TV, maybe hug your TV. I don't
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judge what you do. And today we are talking about
the movies that are our happy place, our ultimate escapism.
I tend to be very dramatic when I speak, so
I'm going to say they will fix all the problems
in your life. We'll put a caveat the show notes.
They might not, but they'll you know, they'll they'll work
as hard as they can. Yeah, because movies have such
a kind of I think, a special place in our
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lives in terms of, like so many of our core
memories are formed around the movies that we grew up with,
movies that we've watched with families, movies that we've watched
a sleepovers with friends, movies that you went on a
first date, movies that you've watched on a plane going
on an adventure. Like So it was really hard to
kind of narrow it down. But we've both picked some
movies that are kind of the ultimate escapism from real life.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yes, and we have talked about escapism movies before, but
this is I think more in the sense of that
are so far removed from our lives.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Like look, I think our last escapeism Movies episode, which
will link in the show notes, was more based on
travels were I was about to go on my cruise
with the psychic predicted. So movies that literally helped you
escape by taking you to another country.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
But also movies that I'm like, that could happen to me. Yeah,
I tried really hard.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Whereas I feel like the movies I picked in particular,
I'm like, this could not happen.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh me too, movies because I feel like there are
some TV shows that you watch where I've got a
lot of comfort. TV shows in particular that are about
like women living in beautiful cities and they wear beautiful
close and they go into their the mini project jobs,
yeah MINDI project bold type younger, all those kind of
sex and city to an extent, but sometimes those on
escapism because they actually are dealing with problems that we
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have in our own lives, just with a slightly better
wardrobe and a bigger apartment. Whereas today we've tried to
pick movies that you right have like a. I mean,
we haven't told each other what we're picking, so we
don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I went down the dystopian kind of line.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I maybe one a bit fantasy and it gets sexy
at the end, and I'm just gonna say.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh, okay, okay. So also another reason why we're doing this.
I love how much were justifying it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I know, because I'm like, okay, I promise, I promise.
This is a bit different.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I was just telling LB, like, how coming up, we've
as you would have seen if you follow us on
Instagram or you're a listener to the podcast, We've had
a lot of premieres recently, Gladiator and Wicked being two
big ones this last week, and those movies only come
out either like next week or the week after, and
we do want to do a full like Briodly honest reviews.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
We love our Briodley honesty.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Say out Gladiator, really honest review You're gonna get hard.
I have been dreaming of the things I say about
that movie. I actually cannot believe some of the things
that happened in it now that I think about it,
now that I like sobered up from poor Mescal and
also all the wine I drink, I'm just like, what
was that.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I've already started scripting.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, okay, I'm kind of selling it, but it's gonna
be good.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's a time of scripting where I wake up at
two I'm going, oh, I need to say that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yes, I put a little voice note to myself.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
So we have like those big like which we will
include analysis and like interviews that we've done with the cast,
like that's coming up in the next few weeks. But
now we're in a bit of a lull, and I
feel like we need to take advantage of this, especially
after the election this week, which I'm sure majority of
our listeners are as upset as we are. It's just
a bit of a hard time to kind of be
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a woman right now seeing how people are voting against
like your rights basically, and it's also important to know
that this is a worldwide issue. I think on the
out loud they said a quote that like has stuck
with me, where if the US has a call, the
whole world sneezes one hundred percent, And it's so true,
like this affects everyone, not just people who are living
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the US, although that would be absolutely drastic if you are.
But we are taking advantage of this opportunity of having
a bit of a lull in movies and cinema to
kind of showcase exactly the type of movies that we
are craving to watch right now. Coming up after the break,
we are going to be talking about our ultimate escapism
movies that has nothing to do with our lives.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But we'll fix your life.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We'll fix your life.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'm getting a little bit excited, so I'm going to
take a calming breath in because I already talk fast,
and so I'm going to say that you go first,
me go for you go first.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Okay, the first movie that came into my head immediately
when we were talking about this, it's also my number
one movie on my letterbox.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
If you don't follow me at Emily Venom, I definitely
don't Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know. I thought you were going to say,
angus whatever the things.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Okay, that yes, but that could be my life, like
I couldn't marry Aaron Dayler Jonson.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, Jurassic Park already I my life. I know some people. Obviously,
that movie scared the shit out of me. When I
was a kid, I was way too scared to go
to sleep in case a raptor was in my bed,
or the dinosaur with the thrill thing that kills that shoots.
Think obviously I war nothing but dinosaurs from this movie.
But as you're saying that, I am getting a little
bit of a company moment because I'm hearing.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you're looking out, Yeah that is John Williams famous theme.
And you're looking at like the beautiful rackeosauruses in like
eating the trees and watching them.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
There is a look. If you stop Jurassic Park at
a certain point, it's just a lovely family movie. If
you stop it before the t rex gets out, that's
just that's a cute movie.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The reason I picked this one because it's not okay.
I took the brief very seriously because good we said
happy place, escapism, nothing said anything about safety from dinosaurs.
So that's why I chose it. My favorite cast ever,
Sam Neil, Laura Den, Jeff Goldbloom, Richard Edinburgh who's David
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Edinburgh's brother that I only realized recently.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Jeff Goldbloom, who we bumped shoulders with the other day
at the Wicked premiere when he said, that's this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
We know, and I missed my opportunity saying I love
Jurassic par Park, You're my favorite.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
He would have loved that.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Jurassic Park is just one of those movies that I
always go to because, as you said, it is quite
It has scary elements like these dinosaurs are trying to
eat these people, which can I say, Firstly, the t
rex wasn't actually in Jurassic period, so we've a bit
of a scientific failure on that part. So we just
go in knowing your science facts about dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's what makes it a fantasy because the dinosaur facts
are incorrect. But in this fantasy world, Samuel can take
on a t rex and you.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Have to actually escape, right because it's like so like
the stakes are high in that movie. You don't know
what's gonna happen. I mean, that's your mean, you watch
one hundred times, you know what's happening. You can't be
looking at your phone, you can't be distracted by anything else.
It's also so fary removed from our everyday life. You
can't even make slight relations to your life.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I know, I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
This is why often when I'm stressed or like late
at night, I watch while you just watch The Walking
Dead over and over again. At the moment, I watch
from over and over again, and yes they're a bit
scary and perilous, but they're so removed from my life,
and you get to this place where you're just thinking
of like escaping or finding safety, or being with this
group of people you love, and it's really nice because
you're not thinking about the email you forgot to send
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all your day at work. You just like survival mode.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And it's like the magical element of the very first movie.
That's why, because I do love the other Jurassic Park
and Jurassic World movie. Some of them are not going
I do love them. I do love them because I
love dinosaurs. But Jurassic Park has that like element of
like seeing what dinosaurs look like for the first time,
and it always takes me back to like how this
would have looked in a cinema for the first time,
and I'm like, oh, that would have been such a
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beautiful experience.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's what we should do for you for your birthday
one year is have a big screen like screening of
Jurassic Park, maybe all the spillers, and you can see
it on the big screen, and then we can.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Keep pausing it and I can spit out dinosaur facts
and be like, this is that would be at I
think everyone would enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I agree, Thank you well, Jurassic Park, beautiful comfort Watch,
Thank you for you. Okay, I'm recommending one of my
favorite movies of all time, and I maybe I have
said on the spool before. I don't know, but I
haven't found a way to kind of put it into
one of our movie deep dives.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Wait don't know about this?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you know about this movie?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
This movie somehow gets brought up in the mameir office
all the time, and I feel like there's a line
in the sand between people who love it and people
who haven't seen it. It's star dust.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I've heard of this one. I haven't watched it. Well
you need, I've heard.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, we talk about it because it's so many people's
comfort escapism movie. You need to watch it. I had
the most vivid memory of I think I was like
a well it was two thousand and seven, so I
definitely adult when it came out. I took my little
sister to the movies to see it and we were
just in awe of this incredible movie. So it's a
romantic fantasy adventure film. The romantic fantasy adventure exactly the
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three things you need for ultimate escapism. It's based on
Neil Gayman's nineteen ninety nine novel of the same name.
The novel is great, it's a bit launchyer than the movie.
The movie is a bit more geared towards family and kids.
So it tells the story of this young man called
Tristan Thorne played by Charlie Cox, and he's very hot
in this role. He's a young man. He lives in
this little fictional town in England called Wall and set
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you know, olden day times, beautiful picturesque village, kind of
think like Biddy and the Beast vibes and Wall is
on the border of this magical fantasy kingdom called Stormhold,
and Tristan is in love with this beautiful but awful
girl in town called Victoria played by Sienna Miller in
what I think is her best role every really and
one day they see a falling star and she was like, yeah,
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i'll marry if you go get me that star. So
he goes into Stormhall, the magical kingdom, only to find
that the star. He finds the star, but it's a
woman named a Vane who is a star, played by
Claire Danes. And then they go on this like wild
magical adventure where he's trying to get her back, and
there's witches, there's pirates, there's swashbuckling, there's all these everyone's
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after them as they go through this magical world, and
it's just so romantic, so wonderful, Like it's one of
those movies that you can't look at your phone either,
because every second something incredible is happening on screen. And
I know I've already said a few big names with
the cast, Clare Dane's, Charlie Coxey and a Miller. We've
also got Michelle Pfeiffer in what I want to say
is her best and creepiest role. There's some genuinely creepy
moments in this movie. Robert de Niro's in there in
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what I want to say, also his best role. Honestly,
you've never seen Robert Tairey lights before, Rupert Everett, Ricky Gervais, Like,
it's just yeah, so many, It's like a star studded cast.
Is like a massive, massive deal when it came out,
and every time I watch it, I just find like, oh,
this is so romantic and so beautiful and just so
lush to look at with all like the beautiful kind
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of period costumes and the romance. And you know, also
when you're just watching a love story, you're like, I'm
not rooting for it or excited about it because I
know these two are going to get together. I've like,
I've seen them fall in love, I've seen the work.
And also we love an enemy's to lovers.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yeah story, you know what it reminds me?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, which I don't want to I don't want to
say it in case you get offended.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, it kind of reminds me of Ella enchanted. No no, no,
you're on the right track account. It has a very
similar kind of look and vibe to Ella Enchanted. I
would say that Startus is a bit more elevated in
terms of the story, is a lot bigger and more intense,
and like the sets are better and the stakes are higher.
But if you love Ella Enchanted, if you watch, yeah,
I know you would love this. Okay, Okay, that's such
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a good comparison.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Gay good, yes, and nailed it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So yeah, start Us. I mean you can watch in
lots of places. I was watching on stan and it's
just the most beautiful. I'm gonna watch it again this weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I want to watch it too.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Oh my god, Please can you just film some of
your reactions watching it? Because I would just love There's
some good plot twists, So don't read anything about it first.
Just got apart from what I've told you, But just
go with it and watch it's plot twists. Yeah, there's
some plot twists. Do not google. You don't want to
know who a few people really are in the story.
You just want to watch the story unfold.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Okay, my next one.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I'm excited. This is so fun not knowing which movie.
By the way, because I'm leaning forward. My heart's beat,
like I feel like I don't know, is this how
people feel they played Bingo and their numbers. This is okay,
I love That's why I like it.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
My next one, which I watched last weekend, and I
also watched like two months ago, and every time I
watch it, I'm like, I feel so good.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh my god, I nearly said Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Okay, I'm glad you nearly said it, because I mean,
we're on the same page.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We are so on the same page. We have a
lot of fantasy in here, but I guess that's where
escape is and growth because I have another fantasy one coming.
But I've recently watched Wizard of Oz with my six
year old nephew, my best friend. Whenever I go to
Queensland visit them my family there, I always want to watch, like,
you know, a new iconic movie that we loved as
kids with him, and watched it with him and he
loved it and also he really holds up, as you
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would know from watching it recently.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I think it's like watching Wizard of Ours, which with
someone who's not in your generation is just such.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
A beautiful experience.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The first time I watched it was with my nana,
and I think my mom might have been there as well,
and they showed it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
To me because I think it no matter like what
nineteen thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Nine and they showed it to me, And I think
there's something so magical in watching a film that can
be so beautiful for no matter what your age is. Yeah,
and like you all enjoyed. It doesn't feel like you're
a parent watching having to watch this because your kid's
really into it, or you're a kid having to watch
something that your parents really into just because you want.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
To be there.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It's just like a film that everyone loves and everyone understands.
And watching Judy Garland go from black and white to
color was just.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
And the sound honestly no other movie moment I've really
seen like and again watching it recently with like younger kids,
it's like they like sat up when that moment happened
and like wow, like no other movie moment hits like that.
And again like you think now with like all like
the you know, wild cgi and stuff like that, like
you know, obviously that stuff is incredible. We've had some
great moments from that, but it's it goes to show
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that you can create such magic with such a simple trip,
but it's so effective when they open the door and
it's into color, into munchkin Land.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, and it's like the music is beautiful. The music
is what like.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Got me into Okay, so a little bit about me.
I used to sing and play piano.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Oh I didn't know this about you. Yeah, I mean
I never played piano for me, so I wouldn't see.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, my dad sided foundly the very musical, Like my
nanna used to be an opera singer. My dad sings,
plays guitar, plays piano, like everyone is music all there,
and like that's the movie where they were able to
convince me to get into music. Yeah, and like somewhere
over the range, I feel like every child is forced
to sing in front them and then.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At some point and that was one of mine. And
it was just like so magical because like Judy.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Garland was like a young girl, and I'm like, oh,
I could be like that, Like I could be like that.
And it's weird now when I watch it because there
is a bit of me, Like it is quite a
tragic real life, as in the stuff that's happened to
the people in that movie.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I was gonna say it's a comfort movie until you
hear about what happened behind the scene.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's such a good movie and it's just like magical,
And I think it's what you say about like all
the movies that you sets rather than cgi. Yeah, a
lot of this was set, obviously, because it's like I'm
back in the day. But it's just so so magical,
a bit scary, like I had nightmares about the Wicked
Witch for years.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Oh me too. It's so funny, which is melting.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh my god, I'm like, but what happened? Like what
do they do with all of that?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So funny because as a kid, I all I wanted
was Glinda, and I wanted that pink dress so badly.
I was like, if I could just have that, I'd
be so happy. And now as an adult, now that
i'm a Wicked fan, I'm just like lies, Lies.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
We all want to be Cynthia.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
This is also fantasy, but guys, just go with it.
I have another non fantasy one coming later if that's
not your jam. But when I was thinking of the
movies that have been this movie, I can't even remember
the first time I watched it. I think I just
my life started the day I watched this movie as
a kid, and I've watched it so many times since
then that I can't even remember seeing I can't remember
a time my life where this movie wasn't a huge
part of it. And it is the ultimate escapism, Like
(17:05):
it's the ultimate feel good. I think we've took it
at this before and you don't like it, so that's fine.
On it it's the Princess Bride. Oh yeah, what go on?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It's just I yeah, I agree with.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
What the fact that it's a comfort me. Have you
seen it?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I've seen it?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
When did you?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes? Ago, Like when I was a kid and I
didn't understand it.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Really Oh okay, See, I feel like I feel like.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I needed to watch it in my twenties.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
It's such an intense on I feel like you need
to grow up with it, man. Really, yeah, it's too
late for you now, because I'll just say that it's
such a huge cult classic and so many people love
it and it means so much to so many people.
But I do feel like sometimes now when like adults,
I mean a few of my friends have watched His
Adults and have absolutely loved and become obsessed with it.
So it's not obviously not a blanket rule, but I
think some people watch it because it did come out
(17:49):
in nineteen eighty seven, and it is like, you know,
very kind of whimsy and cheesy and stuff like that,
but it's meant to be. Yeah, And I think sometimes
adults watch it and they're like, oh, that's you know,
it's a kid's movie. You're like, yes, but it's a
kids movie for everyone. So The Princess Bride, it stars
Robin Right, Harry Elvis, Mandy Petinkin in his greatest role ever.
And it's kind of set up as this young kid
(18:09):
being sick bed and his grandfather reads him this book
from his childhood and then you go into the book
and it's the story of the Princess Bride and it's
this farm hand called Wesley who falls in love with
the farm owner butter Cup, and she's really beautiful and
he goes away to make his fortune and then things unravel.
He's dead, she gets like promised to marry Prince Humpading
and then gets kidnapped by Yeah, it's a whole it's
(18:32):
a whole situation, but it's got everything. It's got like
one of the greatest love stories, I would say of
all time. It's got these sweeping like it's it's kind
of less. It's more like medieval than like magic or
anything like that. But it's got like the best sword
fighting scenes you've ever seen, the best adventure scenes, the
best script like you can my sometimes, my sisters and
I have whole conversations where we're only quoting The Princess Bride.
(18:56):
I quote for every moment in time. And it's just
also a tail of friendship and it just so has everything,
has everything you can billy crystals in it. What more
do you want?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I need to watch it again.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Walla Sean's in it, his greatest role ever. Like, it's
just the cast is incredible, and I think as a
reason it's held up as one of the most iconic
movies of all time for over thirty years. It's just
that nothing will make you feel good faster than The
Princess Bride. WHOA put that on a one hundred percent.
So you know, if you haven't seen it, go and
watch you just watch it with open eyes, knowing it's
(19:28):
like an older movie. It's you know, that's part of
cinema history. And if you watch it as a kid,
go back and watch it again, because god, you watch
it with new eyes as an adult. Really, this is
so much more romantic that I thought it was.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Oh okay, now I got to watch it again.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, I I honestly want you to watch it again
now as an adult. Okay, okay, you got one more
to sneak in.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So Harry Potter is my is my last.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
For people who don't like fantasies, hang around till the end, guys.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Hang around to the end, because Harry Potter is the movie.
The whole series is what I watch every single Christmas.
It is like my magical Christmas.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Movie, just the first one.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I go in just wanting to watch the first one,
and then I have to watch them all because then
you're like kind of all of them. Yeah, every Christmas,
me and my sister, it's like our tradition.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Oh that's really cute.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
It's always during Like so we watched the first one
like on Christmas Eve or the twenty third. Oh, and
then those days between Christmas and New Year's we just
watched the whole All the other movies, it's not something
we plan, it's just something that happens. But Harry Potter
the like watching a little kid and being a little kid.
Because I watched it for the first time when I
was quite young, walk into like just the most magical
(20:37):
castle and like seeing like the long tables and like
all these other kids, like cheering for them coming in
and buying the rope. Like I've watched that scene on
repeat of him and Hagrid shopping for like his school list.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
That is a great scene, So great because you're experiencing
those things.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
With Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
You're like, this is crazy, Harry, You're right, this is insane.
You need an owl. That's crazy. You needed wand and
it's like quite a scary one.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
And the one guy's not telling you why it's w
that's crazy. Like so much has happened, just twelve year
old boy and now I have.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
To save the word. And it doesn't even know it's
getting stressed.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He just wants to escape his shitty family. He doesn't
even know it. Imagine having a family so bad.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And you're like, I'm just gonna go with you, strange
man size.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, yeah, Look, the first movie is very magical. I'll
give you that. I don't want you to hate me
if what I'm about to say, But I love the
Harry Potter books. I think they're exceptionally well written. Obviously JK.
Rowling not a fan of her anymore. Me and the
rest of the world. I don't love the Harry Potter movies. Okay,
they feel like pale but the first one is the
(21:50):
first is the escapism because also with the first one,
the way it ends, you could pretend that to standalone movie.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I think where it becomes more plot line over like
Magical is like second movie going forward. So you have
to be really into the Harry Potter universe to want
to know what happens.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I mean, we all know what happens, but I think
the first one is the one that can actually stand
alone as a movie, and you can pretend the others
aren't there if you want to.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I don't do that because I'm a diehard fan. Yeah, okay,
that's my true love.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
That little under the radar, little indie recommendation, Harry Potter franchise.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I don't know if you guys heard of it, but okay.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I've swung in a wildly different way of my last
one here, so we're a non fantasy. So the way
I found this, I was getting very overwhelmed picking because
movies in my whole life. I was getting very overwhelmed
as we came into the studio trying to pick one,
and so in my stress induced state, I just went
through like all the different streamers I have, you know, Binge, Stand, Netflix, Prime,
all of those, looking through my recently watched list and
(22:46):
my save list to see which movies. I'm like, God,
what have I watched recently? And what do I watch
over and over again? And I think I came up
with a real banger, the movie that defined my teenage
years and just made me feel like every single thing
could be fixed with a song. And that movie is
Cody Ugly.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Isn't that a great movie? It has recently come to
my attention when Lee and Rimes was in Australia because
she sung the theme song play Cody Ugly, Don't Fight
the Moonlight, one of the greatest songs of all time
and the backing track to my teenage years. And when
she was in Australia, people like, oh what has she
ever done? I'm like, only sing the best song in
the whole world, like put some respect on her name.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's also one of the movies that I watched when
I was a young kid. You should watch because there
were scenes where my mum made micholos my eyes.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah. It's the ultimate ultimate escapism. So it came out
in the year two thousand, if you want to cast
your mind back that long. Weirdly based on an article
that Elizabeth Gilbert wrote, No, yes, what yeah about a bar.
She wrote a story like she wrote like a yeah right.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
So this is all like an article.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
So like this and Pray Love in the same cinematic universe,
That's what I'm saying. Funny, it's such a great car.
So Piper Prebo is the lead actress. Oh I'm such
a Piper a Prebo fan just from this. Plays Violet
in this tiny little town. She wants to be a songwriter,
not a singer, because she's got terrible stage fright. Shows.
She goes to New York try and make it, and
she ends up getting a job in a bar called
(24:09):
Coyote Ugly where she has to be a coyote and
which means and as a teen, I thought this was
the coolest job you could ever have. They're bartenders, but
they also get up and do these incredible choreograph dances
on the bar and they spray them in with soda, yeah,
and water and stuff, and so she's trying to like
get her songs heard. She also meets and falls in
love with Adam Garcia. It's just such an incredible cast. Sorry,
(24:30):
it's such a fun movie. And you know what, it
got absolutely panned by critics when it came out. They
were like, this is the worst movie ever. Don't see it.
It's ridiculous. And then the people said, we won't stand
for that, and it ended up making quite a lot
of money and it went on to be an absolute
cult favorite. And I once pitched an article at Mamma
that every good life lesson I learned came from Cody
Ugly and it didn't get picked up. But there's a
(24:52):
great scene when maybe now's your redemption Now. I write
it this week because I was just kind of entertainment now,
you know what, I have been promoted many times since
I so now I'm the boss. Maybe maybe I'll pitch
it now because I think there's a great scene where
they're sort of talking about their dreams, and everyone's dream
is to like hers is like to be a singer
or interde this and that, and Adam Garcia is like
it was just to be living in New York and
having my on my own two feet and like supporting myself,
(25:14):
and like that's my dream and I'm living it and
sorry that you think is not good enough. And sometimes
I think, yeah, like sometimes your dream is just living
in the place you want and supporting yourself and just
enjoying your life every day. Adam Garcia, he was one
of the girls.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
He was one of the girls.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He was years too early for instagram ware. That quote
would have just gone off. So anyway, Cody Ugly, It's
just a rollicking good time. It's such a fun movie,
and all the when she actually does get up to sing,
all of the problems go away. Everything is fixed in
that moment. It's kind of like Center Stage, which was
my other movie obsession around that time, where everything is
fixed when she does the dance then or Save the
(25:52):
Last Dance, where everything is that's a good raise your voice,
where everything is six where she sings the end, or
when she sings the classroom, yeah, bring or on stage
to the end, Bring back movies where everything is fixed
with the song and a dance. That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
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Speaker 3 (26:12):
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Speaker 2 (26:32):
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Speaker 1 (26:36):
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