August 4, 2025 • 34 mins
The focal point of our discourse in this episode revolves around the film "Enchanted," a cinematic endeavor that intricately weaves elements of fairy tale and modernity. We delve into the juxtaposition of humor and narrative structure, examining how certain scenes, particularly the restaurant scene, provide comic relief despite their apparent detachment from the overarching story. Both Alec and I reflect on our personal experiences and reactions to the film, with Alec expressing his disdain for the movie, while I maintain a more neutral stance, acknowledging its potential appeal to younger audiences. Our conversation also touches upon the performances of the cast, notably Amy Adams and James Marsden, as we contemplate the film's merits and shortcomings. Ultimately, we arrive at a consensus regarding the film's lack of impact, finding ourselves unlikely to revisit this particular viewing experience.
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The restaurant scene.
Yeah, like you could dowithout it from a story perspective.
But it's the funniest part ofthe movie.
Like when he hurls the pizzalike a frisbee.
It's like eight feet wide,like into the.
And it just blows up.
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Welcome to the what's Everypodcast we fashion ourselves cinematic
judge and Jerry.
My name is J.J. crowder.
I'm here with my co host Matson.
Wait a minute.
I that up.
See what happens when you're sick.
Wow.
Running.
Unbelievable.
You confused me with that.
I know.
It's not.
It's just.
It's in my head as one thingand I got used to it the other way
and then that came back.
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Yeah.
Anyway, so my co host, AlecBurgess, the important one.
Let's get it.
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Voting on these movies thatwe're doing today and for the next
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In the month of August, whichwe'll talk about here in a second.
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scenes.
That like Alex gonna give mehell for almost calling him Matson
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earlier.
That I'm sure will happenafter this episode.
It's fine.
It's fine.
So with that, yeah, August,we're new month.
Ironically enough.
This is.
We did actors and actressesand this is Matson's actress and
he's not going to hear be herefor any of these recordings because
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he's currently moving.
So.
Yes.
Son of a. I know, right?
Like saddles us with Amy Adams.
Actually, I shouldn't say thatI like A.B.
adams, but.
Great.
But he's missing all the greatpicks that we picked for him.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just gonna be somethinganyway, so yeah, the month of August
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is Amy Adams month.
And to kick us off, we'rejumping right in with some hot with
Enchanted.
It was released November 21, 2007.
It was written by Bill Kellyand it was directed by Kevin Lima
Stars Amy Adams, SusanSarandon, James Marsden, Patrick
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Dempsey, Timothy Spall, AdinaMenzel, Rachel Covey and Julie Andrews
as the narrator.
Of course, there's some othernames in there that are pretty big,
but as we know, we'll jumpinto this movie which is About a
young maiden in a land calledAndalasia who's prepared to be wed,
is sent away to New York Cityby an evil queen, where she falls
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in love with the lawyer.
I started off as a really goodsynopsis, and then it went like,
we're in a hurry, let's go.
We gotta.
We got a character count.
We gotta fit.
That was wild.
Yeah.
Enchanted.
I. Alec, I know why you pickedthis, but why don't you tell our
lovely listeners and watcherswhy you picked this?
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I hate this movie.
I. I picked it for one reason only.
To make Matson fucking watch it.
And that motherfucker isn'teven here.
So this is a waste of afucking pick.
I'm so mad.
The worst part is so I. I hatethis movie.
I don't.
I don't really have a goodreason for hating it necessarily.
Yeah.
But when I.
When I was working at theDisney store, like 10 years ago,
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this soundtrack made up like80% of the CD that we listened to
when the store was open.
So I.
Before I'd even seen thismovie, I knew the songs and, oh,
she loves this movie.
So she was all excited when wegot to watch it, but she was also
like, I thought you hated this movie.
And I had to tell her there'sa bit of podcast politics going on
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and maneuvering here and justhad to go and move in the first week,
I guess.
Yeah.
This movie.
And I picked it for Matson andhe's not even here.
I know.
What a dick.
What about you, jj?
How do you feel about this movie?
You know, listen, I'd neverseen this movie.
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I had intention of seeing thismovie, so thanks for that.
I do appreciate the effort toget Matson.
It's always a pleasure.
And I.
You know, we were talkingabout recording in bulk, you and
me, but maybe we'll hold offbecause my picks were meant to with
Matson too.
But I also had contingencythat if he.
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Because I knew he was moving.
So if he wasn't able to recordfor some reason, you and I would
probably like the two moviesthat I picked.
Therefore, have a good timerecording regardless.
But maybe I'll see.
What.
I don't remember what he said.
He's gonna be back.
But wow, we're getting to seesome of the behind the scenes podcast
movie movie, podcast politics here.
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But yeah, maybe we can dragthe recordings out a little bit so
that he has to watch the twomovies that I picked, just because
I know he'll.
Absolutely.
He'll probably hate them worsethan he would have hated this because
deep down, Matson has the soulof a little girl sometimes.
So for him, this movie mayhave resonated and he may have enjoyed
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it.
And that's makes sense, really.
I feel bad.
I'm sorry for little girlseverywhere by that comparison.
But, I mean, there is a littlebit of that in Matson.
So this is what happens whenyou don't show up, dude.
Lamb based it on the podcast.
So with that, listen, I'm notgonna lie.
Look, did I hate this movie?
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No, the.
That I love this movie.
Absolutely not.
Like, I felt nothing aboutthis movie.
I will say it's not good.
Like, but I also see from acertain point of view and, like,
from a kid's perspective oreven from like a musical enthusiast
perspective or a Patrick Denyperspective, like lover perspective
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or a, you know, Marsden perspective.
Lover perspective or an AmyAdams lover perspective.
Like, I could see where youwould find some enjoyment in this
movie.
I'm none of those three things.
At least Amy Adams in thisparticular can't, like, want to rip
her vocal cords out whileshe's talking throughout this whole
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movie perspective.
Like, I. Yeah, so, I mean, I.I'm kind of indifferent about this
movie, but I. I wouldn't watchit again.
You know what I mean?
I would never have watched itin the first place if it weren't
for the podcast.
So chalk another win up to the.
What's our verdict?
Found a movie.
Jj.
Yeah.
I mean, for a good reason.
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Yeah.
I mean, it's not even like Iwas like, I'll never watch.
Enchant.
It was just like, I. Nah.
Interest.
Yeah.
Like, why I don't have kids.
I don't.
I don't even.
My nieces are, like, in 2007,they were too little and now they
just don't care.
So it's like.
Yeah.
Anyway, I would.
The best part about it wasforcing Casey would watch it and
having her at least a dozentimes look at me and go, alec.
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Oh, that makes me so happy.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So I, like, I don't know whatit is because there's parts that
I do laugh at.
Timothy, sure.
Oh, yeah, he's funny.
Pip the chipmunk.
Oh, yeah.
Great.
But it's.
It's gotta be somethingbetween the fact that you have Amy
Adams Marston Spall, who areall, like, way over in Fairy tale
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view with their acting.
Yeah.
And everybody else, including,like, in my opinion, Patrick Dempsey,
is just bland.
Yeah.
There's nothing going on there.
And so it's.
It's just weird.
And I I paused this at like 35minutes in thinking I had 35 minutes
left.
Son of a Bitch is an almost atwo hour movie.
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What the fuck?
You, sir, were wrong.
I was so fucking wrong.
I was just like, oh, damn.
Yeah.
Because is not a long movie,but it feels like it is.
Yeah.
And there's.
And I was trying to see like,hey, where would I cut it down?
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And there's not a very.
Like, I would cut that specifically.
Yeah.
Like, I couldn't find anythingthat I was like, oh, yeah, no, you
didn't need that.
It just.
Everything was just too long.
With where you're.
Where you're commuting oryou're walking or you're going through
stuff.
It is.
The scenes are too long.
Yeah.
So like it's.
It's almost like every scenewas essential to tell the story,
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but they were just too long.
Of scenes, like cut a littlebit more, but I don't know where
to cut it.
And I usually try and pick ina movie where I'm dragging, like,
hey, I could have done withoutthat scene.
But even like the ones I wouldhave cut is probably the restaurant
scene.
Yeah.
But that's my favorite scenein the movie.
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So it's like anything thatcould have been cut was the best
part of the movie because itdidn't pertain to the story necessarily.
Yeah.
And I was, I was just going.
I was like, this is stupid.
Why did I pick this movie?
Matt is not even gonna be here.
I was, I was more mad aboutthat than anything else.
But of course, I mean, yeah,it's not a.
It's not a good movie.
But it's also not anythingthat I could say is, hey, this is
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absolute horseshit.
Because it's just very bland.
Yeah.
I mean, I would agree.
It's not.
Yeah.
I don't even know.
It's such a weird thing tolike trying to think of, how do I
explain this?
Like, to your credit, like, toyour point, you're not wrong.
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Like, there.
We do this a lot.
Right.
What would we cut?
What would we edit?
I do think the thing thatstands out is there's a 10 minute
musical break in the middle ofthis movie that I'm like, could have
been five and that.
But that's.
Again, I'm in the same boat.
Like, that's the only thingI'm like, okay, that could have been
five minutes less.
But I understand the necessityof it too, because it's where Patrick
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Dempsey gets to see that she'snot around.
Like, this girl has some weirdgoing on that.
It.
You can't just attribute toher being cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Like, there's something.
The animals and the people arejust like attracted to her and like
her.
Know what I mean?
So it's.
You need it, but it doesn'tneed to be 10 minutes long.
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Like, it doesn't need to bethe full musical gamut.
Like, we could have gotten avery abridged version of that and
it would have worked.
But I.
In the restaurant scene.
Yeah, like you could dowithout it from a story perspective.
But it's the funniest part ofthe movie.
Like when he hurls the pizzalike a Frisbee, it's like eight feet
wide, like into the.
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It just blows up.
It's like, that's not how thatwould work.
But sure.
So it just like.
And then the other piece, I'mlike, well, you probably could have
cut out.
I. I guess.
And again, I was thinking youcould cut out some of the entry scenes,
like, of them coming throughthe manhole, but at the same time,
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again, some of the funniestthat happened in the movie, like
when he comes out ass first,it's just like, I can't even.
And he's like, no, I'm lookingfor a prince.
And these constructionworkers, like, yeah, tracks.
But then the fact that they'relike, oh, again, like it's.
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You just said three peoplecrawl out of this.
Like, it's just great anyway, like.
But again, yeah, the partsthat work, you could cut out, but
then you're left with this nonfunctional movie versus.
There were some funny parts.
Yeah.
And like even the.
Because there's, there's that subtle.
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The subtle jokes.
Right.
Like right at the beginningwhere she's cleaning the house and
she calls all the city animals.
Yeah.
And so you get the pigeons andthe rats and the cockroaches and
the flies and it's just.
Yeah, that.
I like that because that's aplayful spin on the whole fairy tale
thing.
Right.
Woodland.
There's come and shove.
And there are no woodlandcreatures in New York City.
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So instead you get the city vermin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so that.
That like makes me chuckle.
Right.
Those little moments.
But what sandwiches that is.
I, I like Patrick Dempsey.
Not a huge fan of his, but he's.
He's solid.
Yeah, he's just like plainwhite bread.
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Yeah.
Just no substance to hischaracter as his acting.
And he's just kind of like,like, who's gonna pick that over
freaking Marsden with all ofhis, you know, flamboyant, just awesomeness
like.
Right.
And so it's.
It's gone to more time whereI'm like, the person I want to see
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more of is actually Marston.
Yeah.
In this and completely hisscreen time that he gets.
Like, he's great every singletime he's on the screen.
He's just not on it enough.
Yeah.
And instead we get, you know,lawyer Patrick Dempsey, which I think
he could play that a lot better.
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I mean, I feel like it was.
It was trying to be thisboring lawyer.
Yeah.
But lawyer itself just implies boring.
You don't have to double it upwith more boring.
Now you.
You can have, you know, yourRobin Williams from Hook type lawyer
or Lincoln lawyer kind ofmixing there.
So you have a personality ontop of being a lawyer, because lawyer
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by itself is, you know, you'rejust kind of, like, being redundantly
boring for the.
Sake of being boring.
Yeah.
And so that.
That was rough because the.
It felt like most of the greatmoments were sandwiched by just Patrick
Dempsey existing.
Yeah.
Like, he showed up to workthat day for 35 minutes and go, yeah.
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I blame that on Grey's Anatomy.
This is at the height of Grey's.
It was like the first twoyears of Grey's Anatomy, which is
like, if you want to call it peak.
I don't know enough about theshow, but, like, I remember that's
when, like, Casey was watchingit a ton.
And so it was like, I.
For him, I think it was just,like an additional paycheck that
he cashed in on because of hisresurgence because of Grey's Anatomy.
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And so, yeah, it's just likeStar wars or not Star Wars.
It was like Transformers that.
He was in that.
The second Transformers movie,I think, where it was like, you can
tell he got this offer becausehe's super on top of the world again
because of Grey's Anatomy.
So he's like, well, I'm gonnacash in on this movie paycheck at
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the same time as this TVpaycheck, because why the not right.
I don't think I've seen a good.
I can't think of a goodPatrick Dempsey performance since,
like, the 90s, dude.
So it's like, I. I think aboutthat too, and I'm like, when has
he been good since Grey's Anatomy?
Like, not really as a leading character.
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For me, it's more like in the background.
What has he even done?
Like, that's the other thing Iwas trying to think of while I was
watching this.
I had this internal dialoguegoing on.
Like, has he even done Any.
I guess he was in.
No, I guess it's more of the,like, screams.
He was.
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He's in a couple of those, right?
Yeah.
At all.
Some voice work.
Transformers, like you said,Bridget Jones, Baby.
But he's.
He's much better as a TV actorthan he is as a actor.
And maybe that's because intv, Right.
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You get more chances.
Yeah.
Or you.
You can play this, like,boring character than the scenes
around you maneuver enoughthat you can.
You know, you'll.
You'll have your greatmoments, and it just kind of.
I guess the flow of the showwill help you out, but in a movie,
you don't get that.
Yeah.
(16:37):
Yeah.
No, a movie.
You got to be honest.
He's also pretty to look at.
There's.
There's that.
Fair.
That is fair.
He is a very attractive man.
Yeah.
I think the last thing I sawhim in that I actually appreciated
him was in Freedom Writers.
I. I think that was the last time.
And even.
That wasn't even, like, he wasin, you know, a massive amount.
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It just.
Anyway.
Yeah.
Disappointing as far as that goes.
But again, I think.
I don't know.
I think there's a lot ofactors that had, like, a, you know,
can't buy me love kind of thing.
And then.
Oh, Patrick Dempsey's the.
And then they fall off.
Because he didn't do muchlater, you know, as he grew up.
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And then he got crazy, Adam,and he's like, oh, yeah.
And I don't blame him.
Dude, take those paychecks.
You know what I mean?
Get that.
I don't care.
But I. I think that's.
Yeah.
I mean, Patrick Dempsey isPatrick Dempsey.
He was just a pretty face forthis, and that's about it.
I think the part that I wantedmore of that made sense to me from
this movie's perspective.
And what it was trying to dowas the.
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The Her, Amy Adams and thedaughter moments, like their little
shopping trip.
I was like, can I see more of that?
Because that, I bet's funny asthe two of them having the interaction,
spending dad's money.
Like, that shit's funny as hell.
And I.
You know, and that's.
But you only get that onescene, and we.
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There's so much focus ontheir, like, falling in love.
Like, I'd have much moreappreciated it if you come at it
from the aspect of.
He felt he learned toappreciate her because of the interaction
she had with his daughterversus that being implied.
Right.
Like, so obviously, the daughter.
They had that moment whereshe's like, I'm Gonna miss her.
And.
And so there's.
You can tell that they'vebonded, but like, show me more of
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that versus like this wholelove story angle that, you know,
he's all.
And I'm like, he's known herfor two days and yeah, she's running
through the park singing, comeon, man, like, give me something.
Have some funny scenes withAmy Adams and that little actress
because she was pretty funny.
So I think they missed theboat there pretty big.
And I think that could haveadded some value to the film.
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No, I like that because let's.
Let's change two scenes in themovie, right?
Let's get rid of the showerscene and have it.
Amy Adams is making thedaughter breakfast scene.
And let's switch the.
She made a dress from thecurtains to.
They made a dress out of thecurtains or they made dresses out
of the curtains.
See, like, you switch thosetwo and like you said, it becomes
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now a daughter's interactionwith Amy Adams, which he's going
to appreciate because that'sthe whole reason why Nancy is there
to begin with.
And so now you have that.
It's a little bit more naturaland understanding.
And like you were saying, itjust fits a little bit better than
trying to force this lovestory and bringing the daughter afterwards.
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Yeah, I like that those twogood scene changes there.
I will say it did tickle meevery time you see the curtains with
like the cutout.
Yeah.
That was subtly funny as likeespecially the second time anyway.
But yeah, like, I just think,I think this could have been an interesting.
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I mean, look, it's never gonnabe a Oscar winner movie, but it also
could have been much moreentertaining and I think could have
really tugged at yourheartstrings a little bit better.
I also think the ending ofthis movie is Jesus.
Is it bloated?
Like the whole Susan Sarandondragon chase.
I'm like, jesus, can we justget this over with?
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Like we know how it's gonna end.
Yeah, like this is taking forever.
You know what I mean?
Like, so anyway, but I willsay that the little henchman dude
running around trying to gether to eat, drink, sl.
Like all his different accents.
And I laughed a lot at him,but I.
That's sad.
Would.
That's the funniest.
And I love that he looked themost like his animated version.
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Yeah, well, they've done himdirty because he did voice work for
the Princess and the Frog.
Okay.
As like the fat sidekickagain, little henchmen.
And they did it.
It's exact.
It's almost exact same Bodymodel they use for the animated character
here.
They're just with him at thispoint, which is a bummer because,
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like, you said, like, he's thebest part of this movie.
Yeah, he's great.
He's great.
It's just.
Yeah.
He made, like, in hisinteractions with the freaking chipmunk
dude, like with Pip.
Oh, my God.
Hilarious.
And even to the point the onewas disturbing, when he hangs him
up by the hangar, I was like,that's like, that's up.
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That's way.
It's, like, torturous.
It was like, there are littlekids that are scarred because of
that right there.
Like.
Or some little.
Like, you actually went outand did it, like.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
100% little chipmunk sociopath.
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Insane.
The other piece that makes melaugh and I understand why they did
it, but, man, what a waste ofIdina Menzel.
Yeah, that.
That woman, I love her.
Like, she can sing.
She can act, but she couldsing, man.
And the fact that we don't getto hear her sing.
And I know why.
Because, look, Amy Adams has avery beautiful voice.
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But if.
Yeah, that's why nobody elsesings in this movie except in the
background.
Because any of theseprofessional singers, like Idina
Menzel starts singing, and allof a sudden you're like, oh, she
probably should have been the lead.
Yeah, it's just like.
But that's the other funnypart about that, is I love how Marsden
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and her end up together at theend, like, because he's so stupid
and.
But he's so blunt.
Because he's so dumb.
And she loves that.
Like, it makes sense.
Yeah.
It just made me laugh.
Like.
And it's weird because youstart to go, how did those other
two end up together to begin with?
Like, because he's so seriousand drab.
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And then, like, she obviouslywants some, like, spontaneity and
weird.
Yeah.
Interesting.
It's just an interesting.
But I was like, that's another one.
They should make a side movieof those two.
Made a sequel.
I know.
Isn't it called Disenchantedor Some Focus is On.
But sounds to me like, withthe name that I'm sure it has something
to do with, they're not Happyand Happy Land anymore.
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Yeah.
Which.
Who could have seen coming?
Marrying a boring lawyer.
Yeah.
No.
Makes me nervous, though,because it was Adam Shankman that
directed that one, so itprobably has some of the dumbest
humor ever, because that'stypical Adam Shankman.
I could get behind that.
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Yeah, that's fair.
You do.
Like, that dumbass.
I do like dumb humor.
Yeah, well, it does have MayaRudolph in it, so it could be.
I don't know.
I just get salty because,like, I. I hear Adam Shankman and
I'm like, all I think about isthe new version of Hairspray.
I'm like, I can't.
I can't.
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You probably.
Not that you could ruin thismovie, but, like, you certainly couldn't
improve upon it with that guy.
And I'm pretty sure it got wayworse, like, ratings and reviews,
so let's not add that to our list.
I.
Here's the thing about this movie.
Yeah.
It is popular.
(24:20):
Oh, I know.
With certain people.
Yeah.
One of them is my wife.
I don't know why, but it's.
It's so weird.
Like, the people.
It's.
It's a very polarizing movie.
Right?
Yeah.
You either love it.
Like, she.
She's like, this is top.
One of my top favorite movies.
Like, she loves it that much.
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Or you're in the same boat we are.
Which is like, why the was this.
And there is a no in between.
Yeah.
Because it's.
And it's one of those thingswhere like.
Like you've never seen this?
No.
Right.
So it's.
It's a weird one where a lotof people I don't think have seen
it, but if you have seen it,you usually seen it once or you're
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watching it every weekend.
Like, that's the.
It's crazy.
It's a weird one.
I would want to put ice picksin my ears if I had to listen.
Just because Amy Adams'svoice, when she talks, like, the
whole.
And I know what she was doingit, but like, God, that high pitched.
Because that's not her voice.
Like, when you watch her innormal shit, like, she actually has
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a little more baritone to her voice.
Like, versus that high pitched.
I was like, shut up.
Like, it was.
And I love Amy Adams.
She's a phenomenal actress.
And I think part.
Like, one of the things youcan say is that this kind of shows
that too, because this is.
It couldn't have been easy todo that ridiculousness for however
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long, you know, months at a time.
Like, yeah, Jesus.
But yeah, like, I. I just think.
I don't know.
Yeah, I'm with you.
Like, I. I won't watch thisagain if I can avoid it at all possible.
And I can for the most part.
So I don't.
It's just.
And it's.
I really like Amy Adams, so.
Which we'll talk about a lotduring this month.
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Like, I think there's not anyother movies that we're doing this
month that I don't have.
Just like massive amounts topraise to heap on her.
There's.
There's at least one that Idon't love the movie in general,
but I love her.
So it's like this is such anoutlier for me when it comes to her.
And like the movies that she's in.
Though I will say Matson's TwoPigs didn't make it.
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And I promise, I guaranteesome of that votes.
And people were looking at itgoing, but those aren't Amy Adams
movies.
She's just in them.
And barely at that, I waslike, yeah.
When he sent me to put themin, I was like, dude, those aren't.
Wait, that's not Amy Adamsmovies, dude.
Like, anyway.
Yeah, yeah.
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Weird choice.
Weird movie.
Should we rate it?
Let's do it.
Kick it off, buddy.
This is your show.
Oh, this is my show.
One and a half.
And that's an easy one and a half.
It's.
It's not that good of a movie.
It's not that bad of a movie,but it is, it's far more bad than
it is good.
And at a.
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It's at like less than twohour runtime, I believe, like, of
actual movie time.
And it feels like six.
I will sit down.
I. I will sit down and watchsix hour movie.
I've done it before, multiple times.
I was so ready for this to be over.
And I'd seen it before.
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I knew what to expect.
I knew what I was getting intoand I still just cannot.
I was getting up, kind ofwalking around, moving, fidgeting.
ADHD was kicking in hardbecause I couldn't, I can't sit through
it.
Yeah, it's not compelling.
It has its moments, but thosemammoth moments are really, you know,
sandwiched in by just.
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So it's like one and a half.
Not gonna be watching it again.
If it's something that youhave avoided for the past, what is
it now?
18 years.
News for you.
You're not missing out.
So keep avoiding it.
There's no reason to go watchthis unless you are a huge Timothy
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Spall fan.
That's.
That's the only reason why youshould watch it.
Because he does a good job.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I'm gonna give it a two.
I think my.
I, I think I'm.
I always have to try to.
On movies like this.
I try to keep in mind that itis a kid's movie at the End of the
day, and from a kid'sperspective, especially, probably.
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I don't even want to say thatjust from a kid's perspective, I
could see where there's someentertainment value here.
I think there's a lot of jokesand little goofiness that land.
I think it's ironic becausethe things that they tried to do
for the adults in this movie are.
Didn't work to your point.
Like the shower scene.
Like, there was no need forthat shower scene.
It was just to becontroversial, if you will, a little
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risque, if you will, and havethe little funny birds holding the
towel for whatnot.
But, like, what worked is thekid stuff, like I said, the interaction
between her and her.
The kid.
And then like this, eventhough I.
It's too long.
The singing scene's pretty funny.
Like that she gets everybodyin Central park to dance with her
and sing with her.
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And so, I mean, there's.
There's parts to it that areredeeming, but not even remotely
enough of them to actuallyredeem the movie.
Yeah, there's obviously phonedin performances.
This was a paycheck for a lotof people.
And I'm still blown away atthe names that are in this movie.
Like, even if you take PatrickDempsey out of it, like, Susan Sarandon,
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Amy Adams, James Marsden,Athena Menzel, and I understand Adina
Menzel because she's kind of aDisney staple.
But like some of these actors,like, there's a.
There's three.
Multiple Oscar nomination.
I think a couple of wins amongthe two of them, because I think
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I know Susan Strandon's wonone, and I'm pretty sure Amy Adams
has won one, and I know JamesMarsden was nominated for at least
one.
So you've got at least threenominations in there, bare minimum,
and I'm pretty sure a coupleof wins.
And here we are, and they'rein Enchanted.
So it's.
It's just wild.
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But again, it could have beenway worse.
Like, we've watched way worseon this podcast, so that is fair.
I. I don't want to, like, sayit's a raging dumpster fire, but
I want to say it's.
It's adjacent.
Close enough.
And I. I'm glad that I hadavoided it for the entirety of its.
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Of its existence up until yesterday.
So you're welcome.
Thanks for that.
But, yeah, so I'll give it a two.
And I will not watch this again.
And, yeah, there it is.
Man, August is off to a greatstart, but it should be interesting
for the rest of the Monthbecause the rest of the month there's
some, some heavy hitters I think.
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But yeah, with that.
Alec, tell everybody wherethey can find us.
Happy to.
Like JJ said, this is week oneof AAA month.
Amy Adams, August.
Gonna put that on a T shirt.
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the Colossus of Clout.
A jj.
Yes sir.
Titan of Terror works becausewe're getting closer and closer to
March or October, my friend.
Dude, I have seen weaponstrailer like every other goddamn
ad because you made me watch it.
You're welcome.
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I.
It's everywhere, dude made mewatch it.
Yeah, it is now.
Everywhere.
It is everywhere.
There's the.
I laugh every time it pops upon my feeds too because I'm like,
oh, that's funny.
Especially like the.
There's like the.
The here's Johnny type lookingscene where the head like, oh God.
The one that I was getting fora while is the one with the kids
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like running across the streetlike a butterfly.
Creepy ass.
So, yeah, this is some fun topossibly look forward to.
But, yeah.
Look, we love it when you join us.
We appreciate it.
And as always, we'll catch youon the next one.
Hasta la vista, baby.
Cinematic.
The restaurant scene.
Yeah, like you could dowithout it from a story perspective.
But it's the funniest part ofthe movie.
Like when he hurls the pizzalike a frisbee.
It's like eight feet wide,like into the.
And it just blows up.
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Welcome to the what's Everypodcast we fashion ourselves cinematic
judge and Jerry.
My name is J.J. crowder.
I'm here with my co host Matson.
Wait a minute.
I that up.
See what happens when you're sick.
Wow.
Running.
Unbelievable.
You confused me with that.
I know.
It's not.
It's just.
It's in my head as one thingand I got used to it the other way
and then that came back.
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Yeah.
Anyway, so my co host, AlecBurgess, the important one.
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That like Alex gonna give mehell for almost calling him Matson
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earlier.
That I'm sure will happenafter this episode.
It's fine.
It's fine.
So with that, yeah, August,we're new month.
Ironically enough.
This is.
We did actors and actressesand this is Matson's actress and
he's not going to hear be herefor any of these recordings because
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he's currently moving.
So.
Yes.
Son of a. I know, right?
Like saddles us with Amy Adams.
Actually, I shouldn't say thatI like A.B.
adams, but.
Great.
But he's missing all the greatpicks that we picked for him.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just gonna be somethinganyway, so yeah, the month of August
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is Amy Adams month.
And to kick us off, we'rejumping right in with some hot with
Enchanted.
It was released November 21, 2007.
It was written by Bill Kellyand it was directed by Kevin Lima
Stars Amy Adams, SusanSarandon, James Marsden, Patrick
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Dempsey, Timothy Spall, AdinaMenzel, Rachel Covey and Julie Andrews
as the narrator.
Of course, there's some othernames in there that are pretty big,
but as we know, we'll jumpinto this movie which is About a
young maiden in a land calledAndalasia who's prepared to be wed,
is sent away to New York Cityby an evil queen, where she falls
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in love with the lawyer.
I started off as a really goodsynopsis, and then it went like,
we're in a hurry, let's go.
We gotta.
We got a character count.
We gotta fit.
That was wild.
Yeah.
Enchanted.
I. Alec, I know why you pickedthis, but why don't you tell our
lovely listeners and watcherswhy you picked this?
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I hate this movie.
I. I picked it for one reason only.
To make Matson fucking watch it.
And that motherfucker isn'teven here.
So this is a waste of afucking pick.
I'm so mad.
The worst part is so I. I hatethis movie.
I don't.
I don't really have a goodreason for hating it necessarily.
Yeah.
But when I.
When I was working at theDisney store, like 10 years ago,
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this soundtrack made up like80% of the CD that we listened to
when the store was open.
So I.
Before I'd even seen thismovie, I knew the songs and, oh,
she loves this movie.
So she was all excited when wegot to watch it, but she was also
like, I thought you hated this movie.
And I had to tell her there'sa bit of podcast politics going on
(03:56):
and maneuvering here and justhad to go and move in the first week,
I guess.
Yeah.
This movie.
And I picked it for Matson andhe's not even here.
I know.
What a dick.
What about you, jj?
How do you feel about this movie?
You know, listen, I'd neverseen this movie.
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I had intention of seeing thismovie, so thanks for that.
I do appreciate the effort toget Matson.
It's always a pleasure.
And I.
You know, we were talkingabout recording in bulk, you and
me, but maybe we'll hold offbecause my picks were meant to with
Matson too.
But I also had contingencythat if he.
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Because I knew he was moving.
So if he wasn't able to recordfor some reason, you and I would
probably like the two moviesthat I picked.
Therefore, have a good timerecording regardless.
But maybe I'll see.
What.
I don't remember what he said.
He's gonna be back.
But wow, we're getting to seesome of the behind the scenes podcast
movie movie, podcast politics here.
(05:01):
But yeah, maybe we can dragthe recordings out a little bit so
that he has to watch the twomovies that I picked, just because
I know he'll.
Absolutely.
He'll probably hate them worsethan he would have hated this because
deep down, Matson has the soulof a little girl sometimes.
So for him, this movie mayhave resonated and he may have enjoyed
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it.
And that's makes sense, really.
I feel bad.
I'm sorry for little girlseverywhere by that comparison.
But, I mean, there is a littlebit of that in Matson.
So this is what happens whenyou don't show up, dude.
Lamb based it on the podcast.
So with that, listen, I'm notgonna lie.
Look, did I hate this movie?
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No, the.
That I love this movie.
Absolutely not.
Like, I felt nothing aboutthis movie.
I will say it's not good.
Like, but I also see from acertain point of view and, like,
from a kid's perspective oreven from like a musical enthusiast
perspective or a Patrick Denyperspective, like lover perspective
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or a, you know, Marsden perspective.
Lover perspective or an AmyAdams lover perspective.
Like, I could see where youwould find some enjoyment in this
movie.
I'm none of those three things.
At least Amy Adams in thisparticular can't, like, want to rip
her vocal cords out whileshe's talking throughout this whole
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movie perspective.
Like, I. Yeah, so, I mean, I.I'm kind of indifferent about this
movie, but I. I wouldn't watchit again.
You know what I mean?
I would never have watched itin the first place if it weren't
for the podcast.
So chalk another win up to the.
What's our verdict?
Found a movie.
Jj.
Yeah.
I mean, for a good reason.
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Yeah.
I mean, it's not even like Iwas like, I'll never watch.
Enchant.
It was just like, I. Nah.
Interest.
Yeah.
Like, why I don't have kids.
I don't.
I don't even.
My nieces are, like, in 2007,they were too little and now they
just don't care.
So it's like.
Yeah.
Anyway, I would.
The best part about it wasforcing Casey would watch it and
having her at least a dozentimes look at me and go, alec.
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Oh, that makes me so happy.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So I, like, I don't know whatit is because there's parts that
I do laugh at.
Timothy, sure.
Oh, yeah, he's funny.
Pip the chipmunk.
Oh, yeah.
Great.
But it's.
It's gotta be somethingbetween the fact that you have Amy
Adams Marston Spall, who areall, like, way over in Fairy tale
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view with their acting.
Yeah.
And everybody else, including,like, in my opinion, Patrick Dempsey,
is just bland.
Yeah.
There's nothing going on there.
And so it's.
It's just weird.
And I I paused this at like 35minutes in thinking I had 35 minutes
left.
Son of a Bitch is an almost atwo hour movie.
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What the fuck?
You, sir, were wrong.
I was so fucking wrong.
I was just like, oh, damn.
Yeah.
Because is not a long movie,but it feels like it is.
Yeah.
And there's.
And I was trying to see like,hey, where would I cut it down?
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And there's not a very.
Like, I would cut that specifically.
Yeah.
Like, I couldn't find anythingthat I was like, oh, yeah, no, you
didn't need that.
It just.
Everything was just too long.
With where you're.
Where you're commuting oryou're walking or you're going through
stuff.
It is.
The scenes are too long.
Yeah.
So like it's.
It's almost like every scenewas essential to tell the story,
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but they were just too long.
Of scenes, like cut a littlebit more, but I don't know where
to cut it.
And I usually try and pick ina movie where I'm dragging, like,
hey, I could have done withoutthat scene.
But even like the ones I wouldhave cut is probably the restaurant
scene.
Yeah.
But that's my favorite scenein the movie.
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So it's like anything thatcould have been cut was the best
part of the movie because itdidn't pertain to the story necessarily.
Yeah.
And I was, I was just going.
I was like, this is stupid.
Why did I pick this movie?
Matt is not even gonna be here.
I was, I was more mad aboutthat than anything else.
But of course, I mean, yeah,it's not a.
It's not a good movie.
But it's also not anythingthat I could say is, hey, this is
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absolute horseshit.
Because it's just very bland.
Yeah.
I mean, I would agree.
It's not.
Yeah.
I don't even know.
It's such a weird thing tolike trying to think of, how do I
explain this?
Like, to your credit, like, toyour point, you're not wrong.
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Like, there.
We do this a lot.
Right.
What would we cut?
What would we edit?
I do think the thing thatstands out is there's a 10 minute
musical break in the middle ofthis movie that I'm like, could have
been five and that.
But that's.
Again, I'm in the same boat.
Like, that's the only thingI'm like, okay, that could have been
five minutes less.
But I understand the necessityof it too, because it's where Patrick
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Dempsey gets to see that she'snot around.
Like, this girl has some weirdgoing on that.
It.
You can't just attribute toher being cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Like, there's something.
The animals and the people arejust like attracted to her and like
her.
Know what I mean?
So it's.
You need it, but it doesn'tneed to be 10 minutes long.
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Like, it doesn't need to bethe full musical gamut.
Like, we could have gotten avery abridged version of that and
it would have worked.
But I.
In the restaurant scene.
Yeah, like you could dowithout it from a story perspective.
But it's the funniest part ofthe movie.
Like when he hurls the pizzalike a Frisbee, it's like eight feet
wide, like into the.
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It just blows up.
It's like, that's not how thatwould work.
But sure.
So it just like.
And then the other piece, I'mlike, well, you probably could have
cut out.
I. I guess.
And again, I was thinking youcould cut out some of the entry scenes,
like, of them coming throughthe manhole, but at the same time,
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again, some of the funniestthat happened in the movie, like
when he comes out ass first,it's just like, I can't even.
And he's like, no, I'm lookingfor a prince.
And these constructionworkers, like, yeah, tracks.
But then the fact that they'relike, oh, again, like it's.
(11:48):
You just said three peoplecrawl out of this.
Like, it's just great anyway, like.
But again, yeah, the partsthat work, you could cut out, but
then you're left with this nonfunctional movie versus.
There were some funny parts.
Yeah.
And like even the.
Because there's, there's that subtle.
(12:10):
The subtle jokes.
Right.
Like right at the beginningwhere she's cleaning the house and
she calls all the city animals.
Yeah.
And so you get the pigeons andthe rats and the cockroaches and
the flies and it's just.
Yeah, that.
I like that because that's aplayful spin on the whole fairy tale
thing.
Right.
Woodland.
There's come and shove.
And there are no woodlandcreatures in New York City.
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So instead you get the city vermin.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so that.
That like makes me chuckle.
Right.
Those little moments.
But what sandwiches that is.
I, I like Patrick Dempsey.
Not a huge fan of his, but he's.
He's solid.
Yeah, he's just like plainwhite bread.
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Yeah.
Just no substance to hischaracter as his acting.
And he's just kind of like,like, who's gonna pick that over
freaking Marsden with all ofhis, you know, flamboyant, just awesomeness
like.
Right.
And so it's.
It's gone to more time whereI'm like, the person I want to see
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more of is actually Marston.
Yeah.
In this and completely hisscreen time that he gets.
Like, he's great every singletime he's on the screen.
He's just not on it enough.
Yeah.
And instead we get, you know,lawyer Patrick Dempsey, which I think
he could play that a lot better.
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I mean, I feel like it was.
It was trying to be thisboring lawyer.
Yeah.
But lawyer itself just implies boring.
You don't have to double it upwith more boring.
Now you.
You can have, you know, yourRobin Williams from Hook type lawyer
or Lincoln lawyer kind ofmixing there.
So you have a personality ontop of being a lawyer, because lawyer
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by itself is, you know, you'rejust kind of, like, being redundantly
boring for the.
Sake of being boring.
Yeah.
And so that.
That was rough because the.
It felt like most of the greatmoments were sandwiched by just Patrick
Dempsey existing.
Yeah.
Like, he showed up to workthat day for 35 minutes and go, yeah.
(14:27):
I blame that on Grey's Anatomy.
This is at the height of Grey's.
It was like the first twoyears of Grey's Anatomy, which is
like, if you want to call it peak.
I don't know enough about theshow, but, like, I remember that's
when, like, Casey was watchingit a ton.
And so it was like, I.
For him, I think it was just,like an additional paycheck that
he cashed in on because of hisresurgence because of Grey's Anatomy.
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And so, yeah, it's just likeStar wars or not Star Wars.
It was like Transformers that.
He was in that.
The second Transformers movie,I think, where it was like, you can
tell he got this offer becausehe's super on top of the world again
because of Grey's Anatomy.
So he's like, well, I'm gonnacash in on this movie paycheck at
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the same time as this TVpaycheck, because why the not right.
I don't think I've seen a good.
I can't think of a goodPatrick Dempsey performance since,
like, the 90s, dude.
So it's like, I. I think aboutthat too, and I'm like, when has
he been good since Grey's Anatomy?
Like, not really as a leading character.
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For me, it's more like in the background.
What has he even done?
Like, that's the other thing Iwas trying to think of while I was
watching this.
I had this internal dialoguegoing on.
Like, has he even done Any.
I guess he was in.
No, I guess it's more of the,like, screams.
He was.
(15:57):
He's in a couple of those, right?
Yeah.
At all.
Some voice work.
Transformers, like you said,Bridget Jones, Baby.
But he's.
He's much better as a TV actorthan he is as a actor.
And maybe that's because intv, Right.
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You get more chances.
Yeah.
Or you.
You can play this, like,boring character than the scenes
around you maneuver enoughthat you can.
You know, you'll.
You'll have your greatmoments, and it just kind of.
I guess the flow of the showwill help you out, but in a movie,
you don't get that.
Yeah.
(16:37):
Yeah.
No, a movie.
You got to be honest.
He's also pretty to look at.
There's.
There's that.
Fair.
That is fair.
He is a very attractive man.
Yeah.
I think the last thing I sawhim in that I actually appreciated
him was in Freedom Writers.
I. I think that was the last time.
And even.
That wasn't even, like, he wasin, you know, a massive amount.
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It just.
Anyway.
Yeah.
Disappointing as far as that goes.
But again, I think.
I don't know.
I think there's a lot ofactors that had, like, a, you know,
can't buy me love kind of thing.
And then.
Oh, Patrick Dempsey's the.
And then they fall off.
Because he didn't do muchlater, you know, as he grew up.
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And then he got crazy, Adam,and he's like, oh, yeah.
And I don't blame him.
Dude, take those paychecks.
You know what I mean?
Get that.
I don't care.
But I. I think that's.
Yeah.
I mean, Patrick Dempsey isPatrick Dempsey.
He was just a pretty face forthis, and that's about it.
I think the part that I wantedmore of that made sense to me from
this movie's perspective.
And what it was trying to dowas the.
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The Her, Amy Adams and thedaughter moments, like their little
shopping trip.
I was like, can I see more of that?
Because that, I bet's funny asthe two of them having the interaction,
spending dad's money.
Like, that shit's funny as hell.
And I.
You know, and that's.
But you only get that onescene, and we.
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There's so much focus ontheir, like, falling in love.
Like, I'd have much moreappreciated it if you come at it
from the aspect of.
He felt he learned toappreciate her because of the interaction
she had with his daughterversus that being implied.
Right.
Like, so obviously, the daughter.
They had that moment whereshe's like, I'm Gonna miss her.
And.
And so there's.
You can tell that they'vebonded, but like, show me more of
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that versus like this wholelove story angle that, you know,
he's all.
And I'm like, he's known herfor two days and yeah, she's running
through the park singing, comeon, man, like, give me something.
Have some funny scenes withAmy Adams and that little actress
because she was pretty funny.
So I think they missed theboat there pretty big.
And I think that could haveadded some value to the film.
(18:47):
No, I like that because let's.
Let's change two scenes in themovie, right?
Let's get rid of the showerscene and have it.
Amy Adams is making thedaughter breakfast scene.
And let's switch the.
She made a dress from thecurtains to.
They made a dress out of thecurtains or they made dresses out
of the curtains.
See, like, you switch thosetwo and like you said, it becomes
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now a daughter's interactionwith Amy Adams, which he's going
to appreciate because that'sthe whole reason why Nancy is there
to begin with.
And so now you have that.
It's a little bit more naturaland understanding.
And like you were saying, itjust fits a little bit better than
trying to force this lovestory and bringing the daughter afterwards.
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Yeah, I like that those twogood scene changes there.
I will say it did tickle meevery time you see the curtains with
like the cutout.
Yeah.
That was subtly funny as likeespecially the second time anyway.
But yeah, like, I just think,I think this could have been an interesting.
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I mean, look, it's never gonnabe a Oscar winner movie, but it also
could have been much moreentertaining and I think could have
really tugged at yourheartstrings a little bit better.
I also think the ending ofthis movie is Jesus.
Is it bloated?
Like the whole Susan Sarandondragon chase.
I'm like, jesus, can we justget this over with?
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Like we know how it's gonna end.
Yeah, like this is taking forever.
You know what I mean?
Like, so anyway, but I willsay that the little henchman dude
running around trying to gether to eat, drink, sl.
Like all his different accents.
And I laughed a lot at him,but I.
That's sad.
Would.
That's the funniest.
And I love that he looked themost like his animated version.
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Yeah, well, they've done himdirty because he did voice work for
the Princess and the Frog.
Okay.
As like the fat sidekickagain, little henchmen.
And they did it.
It's exact.
It's almost exact same Bodymodel they use for the animated character
here.
They're just with him at thispoint, which is a bummer because,
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like, you said, like, he's thebest part of this movie.
Yeah, he's great.
He's great.
It's just.
Yeah.
He made, like, in hisinteractions with the freaking chipmunk
dude, like with Pip.
Oh, my God.
Hilarious.
And even to the point the onewas disturbing, when he hangs him
up by the hangar, I was like,that's like, that's up.
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That's way.
It's, like, torturous.
It was like, there are littlekids that are scarred because of
that right there.
Like.
Or some little.
Like, you actually went outand did it, like.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
100% little chipmunk sociopath.
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Insane.
The other piece that makes melaugh and I understand why they did
it, but, man, what a waste ofIdina Menzel.
Yeah, that.
That woman, I love her.
Like, she can sing.
She can act, but she couldsing, man.
And the fact that we don't getto hear her sing.
And I know why.
Because, look, Amy Adams has avery beautiful voice.
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But if.
Yeah, that's why nobody elsesings in this movie except in the
background.
Because any of theseprofessional singers, like Idina
Menzel starts singing, and allof a sudden you're like, oh, she
probably should have been the lead.
Yeah, it's just like.
But that's the other funnypart about that, is I love how Marsden
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and her end up together at theend, like, because he's so stupid
and.
But he's so blunt.
Because he's so dumb.
And she loves that.
Like, it makes sense.
Yeah.
It just made me laugh.
Like.
And it's weird because youstart to go, how did those other
two end up together to begin with?
Like, because he's so seriousand drab.
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And then, like, she obviouslywants some, like, spontaneity and
weird.
Yeah.
Interesting.
It's just an interesting.
But I was like, that's another one.
They should make a side movieof those two.
Made a sequel.
I know.
Isn't it called Disenchantedor Some Focus is On.
But sounds to me like, withthe name that I'm sure it has something
to do with, they're not Happyand Happy Land anymore.
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Yeah.
Which.
Who could have seen coming?
Marrying a boring lawyer.
Yeah.
No.
Makes me nervous, though,because it was Adam Shankman that
directed that one, so itprobably has some of the dumbest
humor ever, because that'stypical Adam Shankman.
I could get behind that.
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Yeah, that's fair.
You do.
Like, that dumbass.
I do like dumb humor.
Yeah, well, it does have MayaRudolph in it, so it could be.
I don't know.
I just get salty because,like, I. I hear Adam Shankman and
I'm like, all I think about isthe new version of Hairspray.
I'm like, I can't.
I can't.
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You probably.
Not that you could ruin thismovie, but, like, you certainly couldn't
improve upon it with that guy.
And I'm pretty sure it got wayworse, like, ratings and reviews,
so let's not add that to our list.
I.
Here's the thing about this movie.
Yeah.
It is popular.
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Oh, I know.
With certain people.
Yeah.
One of them is my wife.
I don't know why, but it's.
It's so weird.
Like, the people.
It's.
It's a very polarizing movie.
Right?
Yeah.
You either love it.
Like, she.
She's like, this is top.
One of my top favorite movies.
Like, she loves it that much.
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Or you're in the same boat we are.
Which is like, why the was this.
And there is a no in between.
Yeah.
Because it's.
And it's one of those thingswhere like.
Like you've never seen this?
No.
Right.
So it's.
It's a weird one where a lotof people I don't think have seen
it, but if you have seen it,you usually seen it once or you're
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watching it every weekend.
Like, that's the.
It's crazy.
It's a weird one.
I would want to put ice picksin my ears if I had to listen.
Just because Amy Adams'svoice, when she talks, like, the
whole.
And I know what she was doingit, but like, God, that high pitched.
Because that's not her voice.
Like, when you watch her innormal shit, like, she actually has
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a little more baritone to her voice.
Like, versus that high pitched.
I was like, shut up.
Like, it was.
And I love Amy Adams.
She's a phenomenal actress.
And I think part.
Like, one of the things youcan say is that this kind of shows
that too, because this is.
It couldn't have been easy todo that ridiculousness for however
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long, you know, months at a time.
Like, yeah, Jesus.
But yeah, like, I. I just think.
I don't know.
Yeah, I'm with you.
Like, I. I won't watch thisagain if I can avoid it at all possible.
And I can for the most part.
So I don't.
It's just.
And it's.
I really like Amy Adams, so.
Which we'll talk about a lotduring this month.
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Like, I think there's not anyother movies that we're doing this
month that I don't have.
Just like massive amounts topraise to heap on her.
There's.
There's at least one that Idon't love the movie in general,
but I love her.
So it's like this is such anoutlier for me when it comes to her.
And like the movies that she's in.
Though I will say Matson's TwoPigs didn't make it.
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And I promise, I guaranteesome of that votes.
And people were looking at itgoing, but those aren't Amy Adams
movies.
She's just in them.
And barely at that, I waslike, yeah.
When he sent me to put themin, I was like, dude, those aren't.
Wait, that's not Amy Adamsmovies, dude.
Like, anyway.
Yeah, yeah.
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Weird choice.
Weird movie.
Should we rate it?
Let's do it.
Kick it off, buddy.
This is your show.
Oh, this is my show.
One and a half.
And that's an easy one and a half.
It's.
It's not that good of a movie.
It's not that bad of a movie,but it is, it's far more bad than
it is good.
And at a.
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It's at like less than twohour runtime, I believe, like, of
actual movie time.
And it feels like six.
I will sit down.
I. I will sit down and watchsix hour movie.
I've done it before, multiple times.
I was so ready for this to be over.
And I'd seen it before.
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I knew what to expect.
I knew what I was getting intoand I still just cannot.
I was getting up, kind ofwalking around, moving, fidgeting.
ADHD was kicking in hardbecause I couldn't, I can't sit through
it.
Yeah, it's not compelling.
It has its moments, but thosemammoth moments are really, you know,
sandwiched in by just.
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So it's like one and a half.
Not gonna be watching it again.
If it's something that youhave avoided for the past, what is
it now?
18 years.
News for you.
You're not missing out.
So keep avoiding it.
There's no reason to go watchthis unless you are a huge Timothy
(28:21):
Spall fan.
That's.
That's the only reason why youshould watch it.
Because he does a good job.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I'm gonna give it a two.
I think my.
I, I think I'm.
I always have to try to.
On movies like this.
I try to keep in mind that itis a kid's movie at the End of the
day, and from a kid'sperspective, especially, probably.
(28:43):
I don't even want to say thatjust from a kid's perspective, I
could see where there's someentertainment value here.
I think there's a lot of jokesand little goofiness that land.
I think it's ironic becausethe things that they tried to do
for the adults in this movie are.
Didn't work to your point.
Like the shower scene.
Like, there was no need forthat shower scene.
It was just to becontroversial, if you will, a little
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risque, if you will, and havethe little funny birds holding the
towel for whatnot.
But, like, what worked is thekid stuff, like I said, the interaction
between her and her.
The kid.
And then like this, eventhough I.
It's too long.
The singing scene's pretty funny.
Like that she gets everybodyin Central park to dance with her
and sing with her.
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And so, I mean, there's.
There's parts to it that areredeeming, but not even remotely
enough of them to actuallyredeem the movie.
Yeah, there's obviously phonedin performances.
This was a paycheck for a lotof people.
And I'm still blown away atthe names that are in this movie.
Like, even if you take PatrickDempsey out of it, like, Susan Sarandon,
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Amy Adams, James Marsden,Athena Menzel, and I understand Adina
Menzel because she's kind of aDisney staple.
But like some of these actors,like, there's a.
There's three.
Multiple Oscar nomination.
I think a couple of wins amongthe two of them, because I think
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I know Susan Strandon's wonone, and I'm pretty sure Amy Adams
has won one, and I know JamesMarsden was nominated for at least
one.
So you've got at least threenominations in there, bare minimum,
and I'm pretty sure a coupleof wins.
And here we are, and they'rein Enchanted.
So it's.
It's just wild.
(30:30):
But again, it could have beenway worse.
Like, we've watched way worseon this podcast, so that is fair.
I. I don't want to, like, sayit's a raging dumpster fire, but
I want to say it's.
It's adjacent.
Close enough.
And I. I'm glad that I hadavoided it for the entirety of its.
(30:53):
Of its existence up until yesterday.
So you're welcome.
Thanks for that.
But, yeah, so I'll give it a two.
And I will not watch this again.
And, yeah, there it is.
Man, August is off to a greatstart, but it should be interesting
for the rest of the Monthbecause the rest of the month there's
some, some heavy hitters I think.
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But yeah, with that.
Alec, tell everybody wherethey can find us.
Happy to.
Like JJ said, this is week oneof AAA month.
Amy Adams, August.
Gonna put that on a T shirt.
So like JJ's plug before thePatreon is a place to get involved.
Votes are free.
We spent the first fiveminutes of this podcast making fun
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There's no kind of votingbragging rights.
More so than, you know,beating out JJ and Matson or beating
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That's the entire, not theentire reason.
That's a very big reason whywe do the podcast is to make each
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That's as easy as it is.
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Have some fun.
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And with that I'll kick itback to see the Titan of Terror,
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the Colossus of Clout.
A jj.
Yes sir.
Titan of Terror works becausewe're getting closer and closer to
March or October, my friend.
Dude, I have seen weaponstrailer like every other goddamn
ad because you made me watch it.
You're welcome.
(33:27):
I.
It's everywhere, dude made mewatch it.
Yeah, it is now.
Everywhere.
It is everywhere.
There's the.
I laugh every time it pops upon my feeds too because I'm like,
oh, that's funny.
Especially like the.
There's like the.
The here's Johnny type lookingscene where the head like, oh God.
The one that I was getting fora while is the one with the kids
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like running across the streetlike a butterfly.
Creepy ass.
So, yeah, this is some fun topossibly look forward to.
But, yeah.
Look, we love it when you join us.
We appreciate it.
And as always, we'll catch youon the next one.
Hasta la vista, baby.
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