MOTN TOP TEN: Romantic Comedies

Love is in the air as Tootie Odin and Mike G remember and breakdown their top ten romantic comedies of all time! Did your favorite rom com make the cut? Let us know!

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Speaker 1 (00:48):
Welcome back, Nerdiverse. It is I the loveful himself, Mike
G returning with a new segment of MLT and Top ten,
where we take ten of our favorite things in the
entire Nerdiverse and slap them into a sandwich with bacon,
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back here once again with the incomparable, the astatic, the
ever irrevescent to the odin what's going on to its?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Hi? Doing good, doing good? Kind of excited for this one.
I know you're quite under the weather right now, so
this is gonna be tough. We're gonna push through it.
We're gonna get through it as quickly as possible, but
as accurately as possible as always. Thank you so much
for being a professional that you are.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Rain sleep or slow slow rain, sleet are slow and
snow Nerd Verse. I'm here and I'm doing it. Thank you, Toots.
Love is in the air in the Nerdi Verse. I'm
here to celebrate one of the most beautiful holidays of
all time. We're doing something a little bit of center.
This is content that we normally don't do on the

(02:04):
Nerdi Verse. But love, even love blooms on the battlefield,
why can't it bloom in the Nerdi Verse? Top ten
romantic comedies who would have dunke it? Here we are.
Let's just start before we jump into the list, Toots,
what is your overall history with romantic comedies?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Okay, this is gonna be a hot take, so get ready.
I am not a fan at all. I watched them
against my own will. Most of the time, and then eventually,
obviously I have a list ready, So eventually it turns
out I do like them a little bit. For the
most part, I find them pretty pretty cringe. I think
my least favorite genre of rom coms are any Jennifer

(02:48):
Lopez rom coms. She did like of them, yeah, in
the late nineties. So yeah, So once we get through
the list, you'll understand a little bit more what I
mean as to why I find them lame. But at
the same time time the extremely endearing.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I think this list is going to tell more about
ourselves than we'd like people to know. Just based on that,
we're gonna be telling on ourselves a little bit with
these lists. Very good, I guess to answer my own question,
our mom coms have always been on the periphery of
the Mike g household. Has never been like, sit down

(03:24):
and watch this romantic comedy. They've just kind of been
on you know, you know what I mean, And as
a kid didn't You didn't know what romance was. So
it's just this funny movie that you were watching that
happened to have romance in it that you just didn't
click until you're an adult and then you watch them
again in different context and it's a completely different experience.
So it's fun kind of walking down memory lane and

(03:45):
like finding those dark shadows of your memory and being like, oh, yeah,
I used to love that movie. Yeah, it's a round
com that's crazy. So I'm really excited to talk about
our lists and just kind of and you guys are
going to get to know us better. So it's going
to be very interesting. Are you ready to go down
Lever's Lane?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Suits, let's go. It's a date.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
It's a date. Let's go. I brought my walking boots
because we're about to start walking. Let's go. Oh man,
oh geez, I forgot the valet, park the car. Now
we'll never make it to the Olive Gotten. I'm sorry.
I hate I hate Olive Garden. Never sponsor us Olive Garden.
Here we go. Top ten, No, please sponsor us Olive Garden.

(04:29):
Please please, please Olive Garden. I want all the bread sticks, please, unlimited,
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his fingers. That's what I need. I'm on DayQuil people.

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Top ten Romantic Comedies. So you just want to go ahead,
jump into our top five. What's this doing?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Sure, let's do it all right, let's do.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
It top five five, take it away too.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Okay, that's me. I'm gonna be the first one. My
my My fifth pick is Serendipity, a film made in
twenty oh one. I was this was like my peak
year seventeen years old. In two thousand and one was
probably the year I peaked in high school. So like
I wasn't I wasn't really cute, but I wasn't ugly,

(05:28):
but I was super popular. So this was one of
my favorites because it kind of brought me back back
down a little bit. I suppose, uh into like, dude,
remember you're a girl, because you know, I was on
I was athletic and uh not very good, but I
was athletic and I hung out with dudes all the time.
And this this movie was one of the ones like

(05:50):
oh shit, like, oh that's that's really cute, Like it
reminded me I was a girl. One of the ones
anyway that made me realize, oh yeah, hello, like you
kind of like this stuff a little bit like relaxed.
Because at seventeen I was into wrestling. I went to
SmackDown for my birthday like I was. I was. I
was a hot mess in that sense, and my dad
was very okay with it. I'm pretty sure my dad

(06:11):
probably thought it was gay back then. And I wondered if, like,
and it's so funny that he was like encouraging, he
was like, yeah, wrestling, let's go. It's like he was
just like, cool it. I always wondered that. I always
wondered if you ever thought, like, you know, maybe I was,
let's be in or something. But but yeah, anyway, back
to Serendipity. So this movie is basically about two people
who meet by happens dance. They really hit it off.

(06:31):
I really like each other. The girl, miss Kate beckensal
shoutout than housing. She is a little, a little superstitious,
a little the universe will bring us together if it's
meant to be type thing. So what she does is
she writes her phone number in a book. And I
can't remember what the book is called, but it was
always it was a book I've always wanted to read.
And I don't even know if it's real or if
it's if it's just fictional for the film. But anyway,

(06:56):
so years later, John Cysack's engaged. He's getting ready to
get his plant, plan his wedding and whatnot. He goes
and he finds the same but he finds the book,
and he finds the book with her with her phone
number in it. So from that point on, him and
oh gosh, I can't remember the actor's name, but he's hilarious.
He's a comedian anyway. So him and his best friend

(07:18):
they go on this huge like search and they look
for her and they find out that, you know, they
finally find her and they find out she's engaged to
somebody else. But then it's not her, it's they mistake
her for somebody else because they only see her from behind.
So he's like, oh, it's all over. At the end
of the movie, they just happen to both be in
the same place. It's the big ice skating rink in

(07:40):
New York. I forgot what it's called, but they end
up there, a big iconic tourist attraction. They just happened
to both be there at the same time, and they
happen to just look at each other's direction. It's like,
oh shit, and it's like from that point on they knew, Wow,
like this has been, this has been, this path is
meant to be. Like everything that they went through, whether

(08:02):
it was pro or con, whether it was towards each
other or away from each other, it was meant to
be in order for them to find each other. So
I thought that was a really smart way to do
a rom com.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
And yeah, that's why, very beautiful message too, you know,
like if it's meant to be, it's meant to be,
you know. And I'm sure all types of wackiness ensues
throughout the movie. And you know, my boy John Cusack,
it's the rom com goat in my opinion for sure.
He's just so dry. It's just so dry, you know

(08:33):
what I mean. And it's just he's so funny without
being funny, you know what I mean. And even though
it's been a while since I've seen this film, and
this is one that's not necessarily on the old Mike
geez radar, but I really do like the idea of
them of to Kate beckon cell character leaving breadcrumbs for
him and if he's meant to find him, he's meant

(08:54):
to find them. And by the end of the movie,
you know, they meet at that classic roller rink that
only existed in the nineties. That giant one. The season
finale of Hawkeye had that roller rink where they fought
on the ice, just me being a nerd and having
something to tie, something to grab on.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
Pretty I'm pretty sure it's still there, right, it's it's
gonna be right.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, yeah, but I don't think.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't remember what it's called. It's not Times Square.
It's the other one with the tree, the big Christmas tree.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, giant Christmas tree. Yeah, yeah, it's still there. It
was a it was a no Way Home Spider Man it.
I love Home Alone too, But yeah, Sarah Deputy, I'm Joan, Joan.
I'm sure John Cusack is in there somewhere, right, She's
in every John Cusack movie. He is.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Actually, I think she plays a I think and I
think she legit plays his sister or sister in law.
I could be wrong, but yeah, she's usually in most
of the film. And it's Jeremy Piven. Jeremy Piven plays
his best friend. Hilarious.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, the incomparable Jeremy Piven. You know what I'm saying.
So it's rhymes comparable, yea incomparable. I am finished, I
am fried Chicken. Speaking of fried chicken, let's go on
to my number five, The Money Pit, starring the incomparable

(10:18):
Tom Hanks and Shelley Long. This is nineteen eighty six.
A young couple struggles to repair hopelessly dilapidated home. This
is one of those films that I grew up with
in my household. This was on all the time. This

(10:39):
is one of those tapes, you know, just the tapes
you have that you will watch as a kid, that
your parents would record. And this will be on with
Rubble cop this would be on with Matches of the Universe.
And I didn't know it was a romantic comedy until
I became older and realizing that they were a young couple.
I believe they're recently married, newlyweds, and bought this giant mansion.

(11:02):
It looks like the Spencer Mansion from Residue. Evil in
this mansion just keeps getting worse and worse and worse,
and their love is tested and the relationship is tested,
and it's so interesting to see just how deep the
rabbit hole goes, with how much they have to endure.
Even in this picture. This is the scene where the

(11:25):
roof is linking so bad that the tub is filled
with water and it just and Tom Haikson just got
shocked because he's trying to fix the electricity in the
house and it literally destroyed his clothes and he's at
his wits end and the sink falls dire fas directly
through the floor and all he could do is laugh.

(11:46):
And they're gonna shell you along with a bucket trying
to catch some of the water because it's storming outside
in the House of Swiss Cheese, you know what I mean.
It's just one of those feel good movies just about
the testament of how strong your love has to be
to it do is something that is almost impossible, and
they never they finally get the house together, but Chilly

(12:06):
Long has been so like broken by the house that
she just leaves them. At the end, the thing comes back,
you know what I mean, like in this grand gesture
where the whole movie cumulates in this moment, and it's
just one of my favorite movies of all time that
rarely comes to mind and I really get to talk about,

(12:27):
you know what I mean, It's.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Just yeah, of course, money Pip is a classic money
Pit was peak Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks was doing back
to back movies around this time. It's funny you mentioned
the movie being on a VHS tape, because this movie
was on a VHS state with the Burbs, and I
remember my sister wanting to watch Money Pit. I wanted
to watch The Burbs, and we would have to fight

(12:49):
and we couldn't watch both because you know, one movie,
because you know, obviously if you watch two, it's like
four or five hours long for both or whatever. So yeah,
like my it was The Burbs first and then Money Pit.
My sister would always want to watch money Pit and
not the Birds, like all right, but now, I mean
they're both classics. But yeah, man, like you got me
with the VHS tape, everything just being recorded on random

(13:10):
on random videos. Nobody really bought one. You just recorded it.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
He's recorded it off HBO, you know what I mean. Yeah,
I just had these mountains of tapes that you were
just calling through on like a day year off school
or after you get home from school, or on the weekends.
You know, So just really good memories. It's just one
of my favorite romantic comedies of all time.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Good one, great pick.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Great speaking of speaking of a good pick, Toots.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Rock Sand nineteen eighty seven as a kid, I remember
not liking this movie because Steve Martin scared the hell
out of me. I did. I think I must have
been three or four years old when this came out,
and yeah, his face and his nose was a bit
much for me as a kid, did not like it.
I watched it a little bit older, It must have
been maybe twelve or thirteen years old. And the movies
actually really funny. And then the fact that it's based

(14:02):
off of the Sarah Nod Begarach play was really is
really cool because we kind of grew up with that
Bugs Bunny did It. I can't remember that. There are
several places in several cartoons that we've seen it as children.
And then you obviously you don't, you don't make the connection.
But what the movie is about is about this man
named Serrano who's who's basically substituting his own words for

(14:24):
a fellow who falls in love with Daryl Hannah. So
he's outside and he's whispering, I Love Lucy did it.
He's whispering to him, and she ends up falling in
love with everything that he's saying. But obviously, at the
end of everybody knows the story she does obviously, just
she doesn't fall in love with the fellow who's saying
these words. He ends up falling in love with Steve
Martin himself, which is which is beautiful. I think that's

(14:47):
the most cutest, most romantic thing, because you know, Steam's
in love with her, but because of his his looks,
he's very self conscious. So he ends up, you know,
basically using or substituting somebody else to say these words
to her. And again she falls in love with the words.
She doesn't fall in love with a man saying them physically.
So it's just pretty interesting how again, almost like serendipity.

(15:09):
If it's meant to be, it's meant to be, you know.
So yeah, this movie ended up being extremely cute once
I got over his ridiculous prosthetic on his face. But yeah,
Roxane nineteen eighty seven is one of my favorites for sure.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
It's funny you mentioned like being afraid of him, because
I was afraid of him as a child. He was
very intimidating. I don't know what. It's something about him.
I didn't like it. It was like Uncanny Valley, you.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Know what it is? Yes, because it was his young
face and his old hair.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I think it had to be it was the nose
and he would he would he did this thing where
he would drink champagne with his nose. He would stick
his nose into champagne and drink it, you know. Said
and that just weird all around.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
In all his other movies, I was, I was always
un settled by him, and I really do think it
had to do with the fact that he had He's
very young looking, he's very youthful.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
But we had to silver hair.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, yeah, that was. He hasn't aged to me, He's
what seventy something right now, he hasn't aged.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
He's living his best life. He's playing like banjo and stuff. He's,
you know, Steve Martin is living his best life. This
is another one that was on This is one of
my mother's favorite movies. So this was on a lot.
This is speaking of tapes, This was on the tape
with You've Ever Seen Witches of east Wick with with
you know Jack Nicholson. This was on that tape. It

(16:34):
was oh, I remember it. It was Witches of Eastwick,
Rock Sand and Witches with Angelica Houston where she turned
little kid into mice. That was a creepy, creepy tape, scarier.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Than raw hair.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Rex.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, okay, here we go.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
That just sings in the wrong head Rex reference where
it doesn't belong. But I love rock Sayer because, like
you said, it's a play on sierhold bergerac right, and
it's the guy who doesn't feel so attractive. But it's
also has you know, trying to make take a shot
at a girl. He feels like he's out, that's out
of his league. And I think a lot of us
can relate to that, you know what I mean, trying

(17:12):
to speak to someone, or speak or help have your
friend help you speak to someone that you don't think
you ever have a chance with. And just I think
one thing we all have to learn is that you know,
if you can make her smile, you can you probably
get a kiss, you know what I mean. And that's
just like none of us that never clicks into our brains,

(17:33):
you know, we're trying to play the dance of romance,
and Roxanne, it's just like the perfect encapsulation of the
words working more than the looks, the words resonating more
than the out the external and I think that gives
a lot of strength to those who feel maybe let's

(17:54):
stand because of the way they look. So this once again,
this is a movie nineteen eighty seven is one that
I grew up with. This is definitely on all the time,
so this is a great pick. And we didn't coordinate
on this. So it's just like how you know, it's
kind of interesting the things that were on in our
house is you know, girls apart but still resonated with us.

(18:16):
That's super cool. Yeah, very cool.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
All right, you're number four.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
My number four. Jesus. No one knows what this is.
First of all, this is a big special. No one
knows what this is, and I'm gonna have to explain
myself on this one. This is my Demon Lover nineteen
eighty seven. This is one of my earliest memories, core memory,
Like five four years old. I remember watching this film

(18:48):
and it's about a homeless street musician who's a horn
dog and he's just like picking up girls, riding on
a subway, playing a saxophone, being a complete dick, right,
But he talks to the wrong one and she curses
him with the Kavorka, the curse of the Cavorka, and
it makes him turn into a demon whenever he's aroused

(19:11):
on any level, so anytime he meets a girl, he
just demons out and it's a different transformation every single time.
And the reason I thought this movie was so cool
as a kid because it was funny, but it was
also horror because it was scary. The demon was actually created,
the makeup was really good, so as a kid, it

(19:31):
was mixing like that horror with the comedy. And it
was the one that my mom would let me watch
because even though it was like sexually charged, there was
no sex, There was no nudity, was nothing like that.
It was just the insinuation, you know what I mean.
And it was cool because he had to fight another
dude at the end who also had the Govorka and
there was a Kavorka battle with two demons fighting at

(19:54):
the end. But he found he meets this girl who's
like trying to work with through the cover good Like
she's like she's into him, but she can't handle when
he turns into a demon because he becomes completely unhinged.
He becomes like the mask like almost like his head unleashed,
you know, and it's too much for her to handle.

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But she's also dating another guy who's like a exact
he's like super rich and he's real smooth and suave,
but he's also a demon, just funny enough, and they're
fighting over her, and it's this guy's pure of heart
that cures him of the cure and they live happily
ever after. And this is just one of those early

(20:36):
core memories of a film that I probably should have
not been watching. This is right if there were a
hell Raiser, right, but it's just one of those that
was on at the time. Was just and when meet
this list, this is the first thing that came to
mind other than my number one. I was like, I
have to talk about My Demon Lover. And my dad
would watch this with me as a kid and we

(20:58):
would both crack up and he would alleviate the fear
by making it funny. And that's how I kind of
got in the horror. My dad was really good at
alleviating fear with comedy, which is why I have the
movies I watch I laugh at. I mean, this was
one of those. So My Demon Lover is my number
four to still have anything to say about this terrible

(21:18):
hitting gem that nobody knows about.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
So this is absolutely one thousand percent Mike g Core. No,
you're absolutely right. I've never heard of this film, but
what an interesting concept. It's almost a little bit ahead
of its time. He's cursed with this thing where he
can't have sex either way because of the way he
treats people when he does or whatnot. So I mean
that's pretty cool. That's pretty pretty cool idea. And I mean,

(21:42):
as far as far as it as it being horror,
I can't imagine, like he tries to murder people and no.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
He just looks scary. He just looks scary. Yeah, and
he just turns into the mask. He's a big horn dog.
It does have mask cartoon stuff, Yeah, yeah, cartoon stuff,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
That's that's cool.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah, it's really fun.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
I can check it out.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
But the name alone is just out of control. And
as you can my house wasn't two. What's the word
I'm looking for? What's it? Too? Hotly live and vow
to say, get that demon stuff out of here. But
outside of the name, outside of the overall premise, it's

(22:26):
good old family fun. I love this movie.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
So is is this like a like a B movie?
Because when I was looking it up, I didn't recognize
any actors at all. No, is it like an indie
indie film or it's not an indie film.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
It's like there's a lot of actors who didn't make it.
Like the guy in this movie, the main guy of
his name escapes Me. He was like the boyfriend in
the Facts of Life. He was about he came from
the facts. And all the actors are like eighties actors,
think of like Three Men and a Baby, but directed

(23:00):
by Sam Ramie. It's this film and it's just like
it's everybody in this movie didn't make it, but in
the eighties they fit. They just fit just right. It
was a full production. But yeah, I love this movie.
Highly recommend it to anybody out there looking to have
a laugh and just trying to get to And you
will get to know Mike g a little bit more

(23:22):
by watching this joint. Jeez. Definitely, definitely, definitely, like you said,
Mike Core for.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Sure, Mike G Core like all the way. That's there's
no doubt. In fact, I'm gonna probably look up some
clips and I'm gonna see it's all you like once
I you know what I mean. Like, there's just certain
clips in certain movies it's like, oh my god, Mikey
would love this, you know. So yeah, that's what I
can't imagine. All right, So my number three nineteen ninety
seven's my best friend's wedding. I think me and my

(23:55):
best friend, when we were in high school, we wore
this movie out. She liked it more than I did,
so we kind of watch it because she wanted to
watch it all the time. But but it's not not
that I didn't like it. I actually loved it, and
it's one of my It's one of my favorite memories
in high school. I think we just there was like
one or two summers that we just melted away just
watching this movie on Luke Kradick. Practically, this movie is

(24:19):
about two best friends of female and and mel Julia
Roberts and German mulroney German Molroney mulroney, who have this
pact like they you know, hey, i'm single, you're single.
If we stay single for this this amount of time,
we'll get together. Blah blah halaha ha so funny. So
uh yeah, so they end up, you know, reuniting with

(24:42):
each other. It turns out he's engaged to be married
to Cameron Diaz and it turns you know, what's great
about this movie is Cameron Diaz isn't the bitch, isn't
the villain, isn't the rival. She's actually extremely pleasant in
this movie. You have no choice but to like her.
She did an amazing job in this role, to the
point where like you're like, oh, no, I'm on Julia
Roberts side, but Cameron Diaz is really cool, you know

(25:05):
what I mean. So, like you don't want Julia Roberts
to break up a relationship, but you also know that
they're meant to be together, and and Cameron Diaz and
and and Derman really aren't. They don't. They don't mesh
very well. Not that there's anything wrong with them, but
they just don't mesh completely, Like like these two do.

(25:25):
Excuse me, but but it's it's funny because like they're
building up to to Cameron Diaz's and Dermott's wedding and
and you know, so the the cats out of the bag,
Julia spills his love and I don't remember if Cameron
Diaz hears it or she just hears about it, and
she's devastated because I think Julia Robins is actually supposed

(25:46):
to be a bribes me. Uh, I at the end
of uh the movie. Gosh, Now, it's so funny. It's
it's like I'm drawing a blank as to whether they
get together or not. But I feel like they don't
because I remember, like the end, she's literally her bridesmaid
and they're walking down the aisle and they get married
and like they make their peace and whatnot. But it's

(26:07):
just that was one of those movies that if it
was made today, they would have made it a lot
more toxic and a lot more complicated. So it was
just done wholesomely. It was done like accidentally in a
sense where it's like, well, I didn't mean to stay
in love with you. I didn't mean to, you know,
fall in love you. I don't want this to happen,
but here we are, you know what I mean. It's
not it wasn't driven by this hatred for Kramdiaz or

(26:31):
driven by this malice to destroy other people's lives and whatnot.
One of the classic scenes in this movie is they're
all sitting at a pre wedding brunch and then Julia
Roberts's boyfriend who's there with her, who's actually another good
friend of hers. He's actually he plays a gay fellow

(26:51):
in the movie, and I can't remember who's what his
name is, but he's a prominent actor as well. But
they he breaks the tension of whatever's going on in
that room by by pretending to be in love with
Julia Roberts. And the way he does that is he sings, uh.
I think it's an Aretha Franklin song, say Little Prayer,
one of the its. It's an iconic scene, and it's

(27:14):
an iconic scene and movies in general. But like that,
that scene, that's absolutely unforgettable. Everybody's singing along to it. Again,
like I said, really really wholesome, you know. And and again,
you don't want to watch something, especially if you've been
cheated on, or if you had toxic or complicated relationships,
you wouldn't. You don't want to watch something that's gonna
trigger anything like that. And this movie was ahead of

(27:36):
its time and that it didn't do anything like that.
I don't think it triggered people into the oh, how
dare her? What a bitch? Blah blah blah. Really, everything,
like I said, was built up and structured in a
way where it was gentle and again, like I said, accidental.
So yeah, really, well, done movie, really brilliant and super
super cute.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
A man, Yeah, my best friend's wedding. If I remember correctly,
this was one of those movies that was like a
summer blockbuster. This was huge back when it first came out, right, Yeah,
Julia Roberts. I think coming off Pretty Woman, you know,
just really taking the world by storm. Say a Little
Prayer for You was like one of those songs that

(28:15):
was on the radio all the time after this movie
came out. I remember it very vividly. But to speak
toward the movie, yeah, just that feeling of, you know,
I didn't mean for this to happen, but here we are.
It's something that I think it's extremely relatable. We've all
probably been in one or two relationships where it just

(28:36):
kind of fell haphazardly into a situation and now you
both have to deal with it. Everybody involved has to
deal with it, and a lot of times it doesn't,
you know, it ends up happily ever Africa, but sometimes
it doesn't. And I like movies that, you know, play
with that dance that line, and I like the idea
of Cameron Diaz not being like you said, the anticity,

(28:59):
you know, antagonist, the you know, the snobby you know,
I hate I'm not gonna say the word, but witchy,
you know, wife that's trying to know she's the most
likable person on earth. So you're really torn with like, man,
you know, I want Julie Robison win, but she deserves
it too, so it makes you feel conflicted.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
This is one of those things that it's hot and
she's bubby, and yeah, she's it's so cute.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely sorry, I'm trying to not conf into
the mic.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
You're fine, I get it. I tolowly understand. I'm sure
the nerve of us understand you.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Thank you, guys. Please understand Rich We're just gonna keep
talking about Cabin Diaz because my number four is There's
Something about Mary, which is another one of those movies
that was at the absolute right time of my life

(30:04):
where I was just starting to like girls, you know,
nineteen ninety eight. But it's like, oh, they don't have cooties,
you know what I mean? Was that a mental awakening,
you know what I mean? And this was one of
those movies that was so funny, that was so commanding
of the time, and just the Fairly Brothers first film.
I want to say, I think a man who plays

(30:26):
Ben Steeler, who plays the biggest work on the world,
you know, But it's also I think I believe there
were he knows Mary through like his it's like this,
like like Foster parents or something like that, because his
dad is black. You know, his dad is Keith David.
If I remember correctly, we'll be if I remembering that.

(30:50):
And they're going to go to prom together, but he
he accidentally gets his bass zipped between his his zipper
before prom night and it ruins any chance he had
it Mary. You know Frank's and beans is the joke
that would always you know, his older brother would scream.
And many many, many many years later, the Ben Stiller

(31:15):
character finds his path back against back, meeting almost serenipously
meeting Mary, and she's engaged with the biggest jerk in
the world played by damn it I can't remember his name,
the gentleman from Wild Things, and he's a jerk and
he's conning her, but she can't see it because she's

(31:37):
in love and her ex boyfriend's Brett Farv And it's
just this big fun romp that goes back to that
feeling you have where he's like, I will never this.
This girl is too perfect. What am I supposed to do?
How do I compete with everyone else who's out, who's
after Mary? And Mary is just this perfect like elf

(32:01):
floating through the garden, you know what I mean, and
eventually is trying his damness to impress her to get back,
to get back with her, go on dates with her,
things like that, get to know her better. It's just
one of those rom coms that I just can never
It's one of those that was on all the time
and we would scream franks and beans on the playground,
you know what I mean, all the time, and just

(32:22):
tell all the jokes. Is she really going out with him?
You know, you just felt it right because at that time,
of course the girl you like is with the jerk
and that on the on the bunk in the bungalows,
and you just you just encapsulate that that feeling of crap.
I'm just I'm just not this is not for me,
but yeah, something about Mary nineteen ninety eight, just go

(32:45):
to rom com. I'm surprised outside of the other two movies,
it's it was it was a it was a fight
for number one for me.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
I like, how this movie really plays into the first
date Jitters. Anything that can go wrong went went wrong
for him both times, both fort dates that he was
you know, potentially supposed to impress Mary. Yeah, but you know,
stuff that he went through, it's not out of the
realm of possibility from happening, which probably makes it even

(33:17):
so much more funnier now given the Dane world is
just a little bit more I don't know if the
word is trendy, but there's a lot more single people
now than there were even just in nineteen ninety eight.
You know, everybody was already blewed up, you know nowadays
like in our in our earth, in our thirties, in
our forties, I think there's a vast amount of people
that are that are more single and in the dating
scene than they are you know, in a serious relationship.

(33:40):
So there's anxiety to be you know, to give out.
There's there's we can We have it in droves when
we try to go on these dates, especially today, especially
with technology the way it is and everything and anything
can go viral. You don't know, if you're being recorded,
you don't know. You know, there's so much now that
that's that weighs over us in the world, not me.

(34:00):
I don't date in the data world that that that
this movie can probably like I think it if I
went back here we watched this, it's probably ten times
funnier given given my own personal experiences, you know what
I mean. I haven't watched it since we were kids.
But yeah, great movie, hilarious from beginning to end. Also
side note, nineteen ninety eight is arguably the year when

(34:22):
rap was at his pearis.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
I think I can't do a rat Rex mean, but
you're right, you're right, You're right. Nineteen ninety eight is
when hip hop is at his pears. I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna fight you to be odored.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
You may it be yell shout out girl, No shout
out girl. This is okay, my bad friend.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
This is not Masters of the This is not masters
of the good of verse, not tonight, not not on
this lovely evening, not on this lovely eating Number two.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
My number two, Oh, my goodness, my number two is
it's it was almost my number one. Okay. Ten Things
I Hate about You nineteen ninety nine, Heath Ledger Julius
Stide styles shout out Joker or whatever, Dark Knight. He
Pledger was a brilliant joker, but before that he was
this He was a heart rob, especially in this movie.

(35:22):
Good God, he was insanely gorgeous. This movie has several
iconic scenes, so much so that they are parodied in
other movies, like like the Uh. I guess like scary
movie but not scary movie. I forgot the movie is
called not another teen movie. I think it is what
it's called. But yeah, this movie is about and and

(35:43):
it's a tell us all the time to be honest,
hot high school dude asks bitchy high school broad out.
She never dates. She doesn't like boys in a sense,
like she just has no time for it. She's extremely intelligent.
Kind of reminds me Sodiasago doesn't like like dealing with
people who are just full of bullshit. But that's her.

(36:04):
She's a no bullshit person and she's uh, she just
she sticks to it. But the only reason why there's
motive behind him dating her is because another fell in
high school wants to date her younger sister, younger hotter sister.
So in order for Bianca to date she Julia styles
like I don't remember her name in the movie, but
she has to be able to find somebody, so he

(36:27):
basically gets paid to pretend to be in love with her.
She actually ends up falling in love with him. She
finds out about the plan, and you know, and obviously
they that everything blows up from there. But the way
he loves her is amazing. The iconic scene outside on
the football field where he sings yore just too good

(36:48):
to be true and then he gets chased off by
the security guards and it's hilarious. I think it's that
moment exactly that she's like, all right, I'll fuck with him,
you know what I mean, Like I think it was
there that she made the decision. Yeah, I kind of
want this guy. There's another scene where she goes to
this house party because she gets invited, and everybody's a cat.
Her name's Cat. Everybody's blown away that she's there, you know,

(37:10):
like what is she doing here? You know, because like
I said, she's a hard ass. She ends up getting wasted.
The iconic scene where she white girls works on the
table and it's just great, dude. This movie is filled
with with scene after seeing after scene of of of
of icon the one where what's his name? I know,
I know my friend Alex who cooks this all the time.
But the golf the golf kid, and there they have

(37:32):
this party at the mansion and he just wants cheesing practice,
but then this hot that all everybody ends up showing up.
I can't remember the line. I wish I wrote it down,
but it's there's like like a classic iconic line that
he says right right before he opens the door. Oh oh,
he says, I believe that's I believe that's so and
so with the breed. And I can't remember the guy's name,
but yeah, that that's the line. Yeah, this movie's back

(37:54):
to back icon iconic scenes for sure. Well obviously one
of my favorites in the actually legit made me cry,
believe it or not, and probably and still makes me
croud of this day because when we were researching this
and I was finding reels for for m Otn, the
scene where she reads the poem, what she reads the
ten Things I Hate about You poem. I hate the

(38:15):
way you look at me, I hate the way you talk,
or whatever whatever she says, and then at the end
she says, but most of all, I hate the way
I don't hate you, not even a little bit, not
even close not even at all. And she's saying it
as she's crying, I'm getting chill speaking about it. Oh
my god, and she's broken, she's absolutely broken. As she's
saying this to him, it's like, bro, you fuck up.

(38:35):
And then he realizes it. He really was like, oh shoot,
like like what is my problem? And my god, like,
oh my, why am I getting emotional? But yeah, it's
it's it's beautiful, it's it's it's really weird that it's
high school kids, but at the same time, it kind
of fits, right, your first love, your first love is
the one that hurts the most, you know. So like
the fact that she was, the fact that the relationship

(38:57):
that they had, be it fake, be it real, brought
this confidence about her to actually be bold enough to
go up and express her feelings in front of her classmates,
in front of her teacher, obviously in front of him.
Like that's a confidence booster, Like she she probably wouldn't
have done that if she is she never really experienced
something like that, you know what I mean, Like, that's
a bold ass move for somebody to do, to say,

(39:18):
I freaking love you, dude, and I don't care who
knows it. I don't care how soft it makes me look.
I don't you know, she just she just dow it
all on the table. She became as vulnerable as possible
as somebody who was seen as as stuck up I school,
you know. So yeah, that's that's probably one of for

(39:39):
sure one of my favorites. It was really it was
really neck innect with my number one. So, yeah, I
love this movie.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah. Isn't this film based off of Taming of the Shoe?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Oh yeah, well yeah, yeah it is. Huh yeah, oh.
I you know what's funny is I didn't even realize that.
So that means anytime the story is done, because it's
been done several times, like you said, yeah, yeah, you're right, dude,
I didn't realize. I didn't realize that. No shit.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yeah, this was one of those that was I've never
seen this film to be completely transparent, but it's one
of those that was because Julius Styles was so big
in the nineteen ninety ninety two thousands, it was definitely
one of those where every single girl was was this
was their movie. They love this movie. Man. They loved
Julius Styles, And like you said, everyone loved Hith Fledger

(40:26):
rest in peace. And he was indeed that dream boat,
you know what I mean. And you know, as someone
who's tamed a few shrews in it's in his career,
you know what I'm saying. I definitely uh few shrews. No,
that's just you know, I yeah, but no, just saying

(40:47):
that sometimes you know, the diamond is in the rough
and that's kind of where what my encapsulation of this
idea is is that it's not always the person that
you're gonna love the most with all your heart and soul.
Isn't always the bubbly, cheery you know what I mean,
just positive machines. Sometimes you find someone who's at a

(41:09):
place where they don't want to be bothered, especially with you,
But then you have to turn you know, you have
to turn on the charm and figure it out, you
know what I mean. And coming out the other side
of that, you know, you feel it makes things. It
makes things feel better when you've had to work for
it and you have to build a relation, build trust

(41:31):
and build a relationship and go through something. And I
think that's you know, that's the lesson I take away
from Taming of the Shrew. That's a lesson I take
away from this film is that not all things, things
that come easy to you, aren't necessarily good for you.
It's the things you have to work toward and build

(41:51):
that will sustain your relationship for all time. You know
what I mean. So I'm getting emotional. What the hell
even seen this damn movie? Dang it, stop that? Stop that.
Ten things I hate about you? Good thing of wearing glasses?
Quit it? Oh Man, good stuff, tute quit you Number

(42:14):
two Jesus oh Man two thousand, High Fidelity rob record
store owner compulsive list maker recounts his top five breakups,
including one that's currently in process. This film was therapy

(42:35):
for me, honestly. But when this film hit my radar,
it wasn't. Two thousand was way later in my life,
and honestly, I had just gone through an amazingly tragic
breakup at this time, and I was trying to soul
search and figure out myself and figure out the world,
and this movie just kind of hit my doorstep about

(42:57):
a man who just broke up with his girlfriend over
some boy. It wasn't even like anything completely. He was
like he was a flake. It's the biggest problem. And
he never reflected into himself to find to see that
he was a flake. So he did everything but self reflect.
So he would go to his record store that he
owned with Jack Black, and they were audio files and

(43:18):
it was this great soundtrack that just kind of led
through the film. And he would like boastly talk about
his top five breakups of all time and name these
women that he had relationships with and what happened with him.
One was the earthy forier child, One was his high
school crush. One was his college you know, his college
love and like why they left him, you know what

(43:41):
I mean. And the current relationship that he was with
with I think her name was Beth, and she was
really sweet and just really wanted him to get his
shit together and try to be more ambitious in life.
But he was so tied into what someone else was
doing that he kept deflecting rather than so she left

(44:01):
his ass. She left him right there and she started
dating some other guy that he hated, he absolutely hated,
but the other guy was doing right by her. I
think it was played by Oh who played that character.
It was like a real actor. He got like an
actual actor in this film. And this movie is so
sad but also washed Brian was played by the Jedi

(44:25):
counselor himself, Bastard. I love that guy, but this movie
really walked me through one of the worst times in
my life. Like I watched it over and over and
learned something every single time I watched it and listened
to the soundtrack. And he started dating Lisa Bonet and
never having fun, but she didn't. She had no intention

(44:47):
of taking things seriously, but he wanted to take things seriously,
which made him once again reflect back into it himself
and find out that he was the problem. Throughout the
entire time story he was approaching relationships, he was the problem,
and once he realized that, he finally went to his
bath and just kind of laid it all there, you
know what I mean. It just said, I'm you know,
I know this. You're happy with so and so, and

(45:08):
there's nothing I can do about that. But just this
is epiphany. I just want to let you know. I
found with it myself. And because he was finally honest
with her, she actually give him a second shot and
they actually rekindled their relationship. So out of all the
movies on this list, this is the most personal to me.
This is the most like closest to my heart because

(45:28):
I could relate to him so much more than any
comic book character, more than any superhero. I related to
this guy because it's like, yeah, what you know, what
are you doing? What can you do to better yourself?
And that's better those around you? High Fidelity Man is
such a sucker punch. I was not expecting it to

(45:49):
hit me the way it did at the time it did.
But you know, God doesn't make mistakes, and he put
this in my life just to balance me out when
I needed it. So not too seriousness out, but high
Fidelity really just sole food for me.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I believe they call that serendipity. Nice call back. Can
I tell you something I've never fully from beginning to
end seeing this movie ever. I've seen it in clips,
I've seen it in you know, snippets and whatnot. I
did not know that this movie was that deep. To

(46:23):
be honest, I remember the iconic I have a radio
over my head. I remember plenty of Cartoon Network cartoons
with the same same exact things. So that's the only
reason why I really know that scene. This is the
first time I'm hearing this part of it. I don't
think we've ever spoken about how personal anything like this
would be to you. So this is the first I'm

(46:43):
hearing of that. It sounds really really deep and honestly
like I couldn't imagine. I couldn't. I can't imagine being
in a position where it's like, well, like your automatic
thought isn't, well, what's wrong with me? Maybe maybe that's
the whole point of the movie. When you have a breakup,
you think, well, what a big how dare you? Blah
blah blah, You never go you never go here? For me,

(47:04):
I should say, we never go here? What did I do?
And what can I do next time to fix it?
You know what I mean? So, dang, that's a tough one.
That's a tough one. I'm I'm not perfect. I for
sure probably have have pointed the finger and said f you,
like many many times, this is you, not me, you
know what I mean? Instead of like reflecting as to

(47:25):
what could I have done differently to maybe change things
even if it didn't work out? What could I have
done differently to change things? You know what I mean?
That's a heavy, heavy, heavy question to ask yourself, or
you know, for us to ask ask ourselves. So dang, dude,
I got it. I guess like this is gonna be
on the list too, you know what I mean, because
I've never I never consider Hapadella to be a rom

(47:47):
calm movie, to be honest, because I didn't know exactly
what like. I don't consider Punch Drunk Love to be
a rom com either, but it kind of is right,
So yeah, I don't know. I guess I'll put this
on the list. I guess I gotta watch it. Also,
I didn't know it came out in the year two thousand.
That's late. I movie.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
No this, Please understand, this movie is hilarious. Jack Black's
in it. He's yucking it up, you know, John Keysack's
the goat. It's tons of funny shit. But it's just
so it hit me right right when my you know,
lifebar was blinking red and was blinking red and I
was just about to be taken out. This movie came

(48:31):
in and took me all the way to one percent
and then held me all the way back to one
hundred percent. It really was that what I needed at
a very dark time, and it just made me realize
who I was, what I was doing, and what I
can do better. I love this movie. It's up there
with Revolver as one of the movies that really changed
the way I think about life. You're just the way

(48:51):
I approach life. Is this movie? Shoutouts shoutouts Revolver. Yeah,
recommend it, highly recommend it. Jes this movie something else.
We're at number ones.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Shoot, we're at our number ones. Let's go my number one.
Of course, why would it not be The Wedding Singer. Baby,
this movie, this movie. Everybody knows this movie. Like, I
don't really have to explain the plot of this film.
All I really want to say is they were cones,
because I have been saying it since almost every day

(49:28):
since this movie came out. Yeah, Wedding Singer is amazing. Uh,
it's just it's a it's a quotable, quotable movie, and
it still has an amazing story. Adam Sandler does such
an amazing job at being charming. He does such an
amazing job at like being the funny man that you
fall in love with, you know what I mean. He's
he's very attractive at the same time, but is he

(49:49):
attractive because he's funny, you know what I mean. So
it's like it's like one of those like one of
those thinkers like, wait, do I just like funny guys?
Or is he cute? You know? But yeah, this this
movie supers for charming, super endearing. Drew Barrymore is absolutely
adorable in this film. Billy Idol cameos in it. Oh
I got Billy Iile's in it. Like it's it's so great,

(50:10):
especially who yeah on the airplane. Yeah, so everybody knows
the movie. Everybody knows the plot. He's a wedding seeker.
He's kind of jaded by love after his fiancee Jilton
at the altar, Drew Barrymore set to get married, uh
to what's his name? Glenn Gulia and her name will
which if they get married, her name will be Julia Gulia.

(50:32):
And it's it's so funny because it's like a warning
joke in the movie. Uh so, yeah, so they they
know they like each other, but they know they can't.
So throughout the whole movie, like from the moment they meet,
it's like, oh shit, like he's cool. I like him,
you know what I mean? Kind of like how the
way you kind of just accidentally meet somebody you vibe,
you meet somebody at work, they're kind of cool, you
know what I mean and then and then the only

(50:52):
thing that complicates it is like they're both in really
gross relationships. Like I said, she's with a douche and
he's with us. I don't know what her is just
she's just afraid that she doesn't want to commit, you
know what I mean? What was her name? Linda? At Linda? Yeah,
at Linda yo a bitch? Yeah. Yes, this movie is amazing.

(51:15):
At the end when he sings up I even let
you love the control. I actually play that song on
my guitar, by the way, I love that song so much,
very very very fun, very endearing. And again like it's
not for me, these rom coms. I can't say that
I can relate to them as like, oh I wish
that was me or I want that to be me
or whatever. But at the same time, it's it's like

(51:39):
you feel you feel exactly what she feels. You feel
the special and you feel the warmth in your cockles.
How he's walking towards her slowly as he's playing the guitar,
and she's deep in his eyes as she sits in
her airplane seat, and he's looking right back at her.
He's smiling, this gorgeous, cute little tiniest smile as he's
singing to her, and it's like, yeah, like they sealed

(52:00):
the deal right there, and they're like they know, and
it took so much. It's one of those classic I
need to get to the airport right away scenes, you know,
they had one of those, you know. So he does
get to the airport, he gets on the plane, catches her,
and you know, and then they finally fall in love.
Shout out to his brother George in this film, who
was played by what was his name? What is his name?

(52:23):
And may he rest in peace Arquette. No disrespect to
not remembering his first name, but dude rocked it as George.
He's probably one of the best parts of the movie.
There's probably a lot of iconic characters in the movie,
but yeah, I loved it. I love Wedding Singer. I
don't think there's anything that's gonna top this, only because
this movie, this movie lives with me every day. The

(52:44):
Wedding Singer literally lives with me every day because I'm
quoting it for whatever reason, sometimes for no reason. So yeah,
this is my number one and it'll stay that way
until I fall in love with another one.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Damn loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty. Jesus, the Onest Singer
is the perfect rom com, isn't it. It's just the
perfect rom com, right. It's like the sweetest, most simple
story of all time. And this is where you start

(53:19):
to get hints that man, this Adam Sandler kid can
really act. Like you start seeing the acting poking through
the comedy. And I always say, like, comedians have a
really good through record of being great actors, you know,
Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey, these comedians always find

(53:41):
a good way to be very good dramatic actors. And
him working against just I've always loved you, Barrymore. She's
just been so sweet forever, you know what I mean.
And her being his you know, his object of affection
and desire in this film. It's just remarkable. This is

(54:01):
another one that wasn't really on my radar. I've only
seen it like once or twice, you know what I mean.
That's just one of those that just you know, just
one of those that wasn't on you know what I'm saying,
That just wasn't on in the house, you know what
I mean. And by nineteen ninety eight. I was already
kind of like in my own brain somewhere, but this
is when you know you're probably.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Making really really good hip hop at the time.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Yeah, because you know, as you as we all know,
nineteen ninety eight is you know, when hip hop was
at his pearist. You know, this is this facts, you know,
And while hip hop was being at his pearist, the
wedding singer was being at his purest being the quintessential
rom com of all time. Even I know, to see

(54:43):
where Billy Idol punches out the guy on the airplane,
you know what I mean. And it's just it's so
classics and he's such a badass. It is like what
Billy Odo rules, dude, you know what I mean. Just
this was when Adam Sandler could do no wrong.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Nobody talks to Billy Idol that way, right that way.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Sorry, This is like it's like Billy Madison Happy Gilmore,
the wedding singer. This is like that little trifecta of
just Adam Sandler domination where he just don't he couldn't
do no wrong, you know what I mean. Then I
think this was like this was him, like I said,
dipping its toe into that real actor, not comedy like

(55:23):
actor direction. And you can see a clearest stay in
this film. Absolutely well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
This, comedians they every single time they go they go
on stage, they're acting. You're not. You'll you'll very rarely
find a comedian off stage who's just naturally funny. A
lot of them practice and they have to work for it,
so they are essentially acting every single time to go
on stage. The second you see a comedian off stage,
they're really sad and depressed their R mode, like almost immediately, Ah,

(55:54):
that set sucked. I could have done better. Like they
they turn it off so fast you don't even you're
not even talking to the same person. It's like, come on,
be funny, say something funny says it's over. Yeah, it's
it's really weird. So I think I agree with you.
I think you're right that for some reason, comedians have
a natural ability to have range when it comes to acting.

(56:16):
They don't have to be the funny guy all the time.
And you're right that Adam Sandler proved that super super
heavily in this film. He got serious, he got his feelings,
got hurt. You know, his his classic Adam Sandler shouting
when he's upset. Was prominent in the film for sure,
And that's Adam Sandler to a tee. But like, yeah,
but like you said, there's the other side, the softer side,

(56:38):
the side of you know what, I gotta take this serious,
you know what. Like the scene where he's sitting on
the porch and he's talking to his brother in law
and and his his nephew comes in and he brings
him a picture of Freddy Krueger, but it's his it's
Linda because she, like I said, she she jilted him
at the altar. So he goes it's not very nice,

(57:01):
very creative though, and he gives it back to one
of my favorite scenes because it's so casual, the way
he says, excuse me, the way he says it. Yeah,
it's just adorable. It's just very adorable because that's Adam Salad.
I don't even know if it's him acting or if
it's just him being himself. And I think that's what
makes a great actor is a great actor can make
it look natural for sure, like hands down, And that's

(57:23):
I say it all the time. Actually it's not very nice,
but very creative though I say it all the time.
Because it's a good line. It's a good line. You're you're,
you're rebuking the child but also encouraging the Yeah, yeah,
I love this movie no regards. Definitely my number one,

(57:44):
let's do your number one.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
I'm ready number one, Mike's geez. Number one rom colum
of all time is none other than The Princess Bride. Oh,
the perfect movie, if I could say so about hyperbally,
the perfect love story, the perfect fairy tale. It's just

(58:11):
this is this movie is a warm blanket. It is,
once again a movie that was on in my house
all the time. You know, you're, Mike, You're I'm literally
the sick kid under the covers wishing his grandfather would
read him a story right now, you know what I mean?

(58:31):
And this movie is such a revelation to me just
because it's everything. It's everything. This movie is so perfect,
and I will give it to a wedding singer. Wedding
Thing is a better romantic comedy because the focus on
the romantic comedy. But this is also a very romantic
movie that has a ton of comedy in it. It's

(58:52):
how I quote this movie all the time, whenever it's
just going somewhere I was like to have fun stubbing
the castle. I say you, I mean all all o
us is rolls in hugel size. I don't think they exist.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I'm sorry. I don't know how many times when we
were younger, you would you would exile me to the
bog of eternal stanch.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
Yes, I have to go to the stench.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
And also remember this movie.

Speaker 1 (59:31):
How can I put it? This movie is a love story.
It's about It's about young Paul Wesley being a stable
made for Princess butcher Cup, and he's broke and he's
he's just living in crap and he absolutely loves the
princess but can never have her. So anytime she would

(59:51):
ask him to do something, he would say, as you wish,
and that's all he would say to her, as you wish.
And he realized he can't stay here forever, so he
ended up leaving being a stable boy, went out into
the world and became the dread pirate Roberts, which was
the best legendary pirate of all time. And he finds

(01:00:12):
himself in the middle of a situation where fast forward
into the future, Princess spider Cup is going to marry
Princess Humperdink, you just remember the names. And she gets kidnapped.
The Princess Humpy kidnaps her because she wants to take
over her land and he was going to kill her.

(01:00:32):
Prince Princess Humperdink, Prince humpherdnk, I'm so sick. Wow, stop it,
but Jesus. But Wesley finds out that this is all
going on, and he hijacks the kidnapping, you know, inconceivable,

(01:00:54):
you know, And that's one of the best sword fights
of all time. And it's just a story about a
man whose love transcended everything, you know. He came back
to life for her, you know what I mean. And
he died because he went into the machine not to fifty.
He teld the death machine of fifty and killed him
and he had to be brought back with the chocolate

(01:01:15):
that I wanted as a kid. This movie is just
they devote their chocolate, the little Chocolate medicine.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
Yeah, hell yeah, true chocolate. Billy Crystal amazing in this movie. Crystal,
by the way, unrecognizably amazing. Thank you. Also, you know
what I love about this movie. The love story is solid,
but then there's two side stories, one with Fred Savage

(01:01:43):
and his grandpa reading The Princess Bride, the other with
Enigo Montoya wanting his revenge. Yes, this movie has everything.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
My name is Nigo Montoya. You've killed my father. You
prepare to die Compared to die six fingered man Doug
when I was a kid, I'm an around looking six
figured man.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
Bro That creep out I didn't I hate. I hated it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
I David Giant as the Tender. You know what I'm saying.
This movie is perfect. This is a perfect movie. This
is honestly top three movies of all time. Like I love,
I unceremoniously love this movie. This was my when we
thought of doing morom coms. Outside of My Demon Lover,

(01:02:29):
this was the second thing that came to mind because
it was like Princess Pride. I get a reason to
talk about the Princess Bride, you know, because when am
I gonna be able to talk about it? You know?

Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
So it's just like amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
This is one of my favorite I'm gonna watch it
tonight as I sit in bed with my Robertuessen and
my giant bottle of water. I'm gonna watch The Princess
Bride and think about a love that lasts all for
all time. You know what I mean? Grandfa. Can you
read it to me again tomorrow night?

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
You know, Oh, I love that very much. That was fun.
That was fun. That was a lot of fun. Your
your picks were solid. They were very Mike g which
I love. You're right. Princess Bride's probably number one rom
com of all time. I can't be honest, I.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Honestly I would choose, like I said, for rom calm.
I think the wedding singer takes it for being a
pure romantic comedy. You know what I'm saying, Because it's
just the perfect I want to grow old with you,
you know what I mean. It just gets you right,
like you said in the Cockles, right in the Juno Rights.

(01:03:41):
But like The Princess Bride is just childhood. Like you
understand the love as a kid, you understand the love
as a teenager, you understand the love as an adult.
It transcends time and space. This movie, and if you've
never seen The Princess Bride, I beg you to watch it.
You will have a good time, you know what I mean.
It's my one of my one of my favorite movies
of all time.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Did you want to jump into honorable mentions at all.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Yes, I have a couple, so you go first.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Cool, Okay, I'll go first. One of mine was Princess Bright,
so that's beautiful, beautiful segue. I would have made the list.
I don't really have a real reason for us to
why it didn't, except for the fact that I watched
these other movies more. Uh, like like viewed it more.
I should say She's all that another one of my favorites. Uh,

(01:04:29):
didn't make the list just because just because the soundtrack
to that movie is amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Though.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
That's where sixpence and on the richer became the one
that wondered that they did with kiss Me So yeah,
that that movie brought that song to life. Shallow Hell
is another one. I hate and love Shallow Hell both.
I think. I think it's you could not make a
movie like that today, but it was. It's so cool,

(01:04:55):
but at the same time, like it does send a
beautiful message at the end. And Moulin, this movie would
have made my list, but I don't consider it a
rom colm though.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
It's a musical.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
It's a musical, yeah right, so it's not It doesn't
necessarily qualify as rom com but one of my favorite
love stories of all time is Mulage and there's.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Nothing in life but to be loved, to be loved
in return, exactly right in the heart with Mulan Bruge.
I used to listen to that soundtrack every single.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
Me too, Yeah, me too. I still I still view
every once in a while, put a poot on the soundtrack. Yeah,
the greatest, the your liver loarn is just to love
and be loved in And that's how it ends. That's
how it ends. Oh my god. If you guys don't

(01:05:49):
know Rouge, it's with Nicole Kidman, it's with Ean McGregor.
Shout out a k A, what's its wan? He's obi
wan't get right?

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
They'll be bad, bro.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Yeah, so so good. Such a good movie. I highly
recommend Mulin Rouge. It'll change your life because it's such
a weird ass movie. Weird and good ahead of its time.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
I had of its time. Com Y one honor mentions.
This one is like my number six only because my
family would watch it all the time, and it just
it didn't make the list, just barely. Clueless. Clueless is
one of my favorite movies of all time. Clueless is hilarious.
Another one that was on a lot when I was

(01:06:35):
a kid boomerang with Eddie Murphy. You know that was
on Black when we used to get Jet magazine and
stuff like that. You guys don't know anything about Jet
and Ebony of the Month and stupid stuff like that.
Another rom com that comes to mind was dang It,
it's on the tip of my tongue. I might just

(01:06:57):
keep it off the list because it's just not right there.
But it's not there. But yeah, just a couple of
honorable mentions of some of the best rom coms of
all time. Who's That Girl was one of my favorite
rom coms with Madonna, where she was trying to she
was she was like a jewel, a jewel thief, and

(01:07:18):
she fell in love with this nerdy dude. She was
a hustler and she had a cougar an actual like
mountain lyon in her back seat of her car and
always thought that was super cool. So, yeah, Toots, any updates,
anything you want to shout out to the Nerdi first
before we call it a romantic evening, Well, I just want.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
To wish everybody in the universe a very happy Valentine's Date.
No matter what you do. If you're booed up, if
you're single, have a wonderful time. If you're single, treat yourself. Son,
Let's go, because that's certainly what I'm going to do.
Just everybody in the universe, love each other, be very kind.
You know, Valentine's Day is a little bit jaded. It's
not something that I personally said, celebrate like on you know,

(01:08:02):
as as I don't make it a spectacle. But you know,
my daughter gets something. My dad has always gifted us
something for Valentine's Day because it is it's one of
those holidays where you can actually say, hey, I love you,
you know what I mean. So if you have somebody
for that. If it's your mom, if it's your grandma,
if it's your girlfriend, if it's your wife, it's if
your husband, if it's your significant other, if it's your partner,

(01:08:23):
go for it, go all out. Just say I love you.
That That that changes everything. I love you, I appreciate you.
It is a beautiful message no matter who you are.
So I encourage our neuriverse to find one person to
say that too. On Friday. Also, speaking of Friday, MLT
and Live every Friday night at six pm. We are there,

(01:08:44):
so join us on YouTube. You can find us on
Instagram at Matters of the Notiverse cast. That way you
can just keep up with our updates and what's coming
up on the show. I'm sorry, are you good? Am?
I am? I talking too much? Okay, okay, okay, I
thought you were putting your finger up like hold on, Yeah,

(01:09:04):
you're good. Okay, you're pointing at me.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Yeah, you're good. You all right, you're good. Point back yay,
Mexic good stand off there. I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
It right, yeah, yeah, just we're also on the Road
to One Cave for subs on YouTube. We're hit. We
hit seventy, so we only need nine hundred and thirty more.
Let's get tell you guys the Road to One Cave
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thirty friends, share mot in with them because I promise

(01:09:36):
you they're going to appreciate it. I think that's all
I have. I don't have anything personal to plug or mention.
I do case so Ralph sometimes on Seventh Street for
the open mics. I do three minutes to seven minute sets.
All right, all right, I'm not gonna lie, I need
some work, but they're all right. I don't bomb, Okay,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
It's not it's not the gods that strip over there.
I'm just saying, but I do, I do all right.
I can do a little bit better. But yeah, the
next time I'm there, oh for sure, plug it. I'm
not going to be there for the next three or
four weeks. So that's it. That's all I gotta say.
I'm sorry I talk so much.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
No, man, you covered all the good bases. The only
thing I have to add to that is that we
don't we don't hear I love you enough. In just
day and age. We don't hear those words. We don't
have And sometimes all you need is a little word
of affirmation to turn someone's day around. You don't know
what kind of day your mother's having, your father's having,

(01:10:31):
your friend's having, so just you don't just give them
a word of affirmation. If you don't feel comfortable saying
I love you, let them know I care about you. Man,
you're my friend, You're doing a good job. Nice shoes,
you look, you look nice today. These little things that
wasted two airs of breath can lift someone's entire mood.

(01:10:51):
Use Valentine's Day to make a day to give someone
words of affirmation. Tell your parents you love them, because
we don't. Tomorrow is not promised to anybody. Just you know,
use that opportunity to open to be open to accept
love as well. I think it's important that if someone
tells you you love them, let them love you. You know,
less they're weird, then punch them right in the throat.

(01:11:14):
But if they're not weird, accept the accept the compliment.
A lot of us have a hard time accepting compliments,
So just do that, please. And and because love reciprocated
is just important. It's love giving, do you know what
I mean? So everybody take care of everybody, take care
of themselves out there. Don't spend too much money. It's

(01:11:35):
every day, you know, every day is Valentine's Day. That's
that's That's what the cheap guy says. Maybe he doesn't
want to take his girl off for dinner, but don't
spend too much money out there, have a good time.
Thank you so much for being on this episode. As
you could see, my voice is just about God.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
This is.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Rain, sleeder, snow, and we always have such sights to
show you here at MLT. I gotta start working that
back into the lexicon. She's been Toots, I've been Mike
g m L t n out Heart's heart eyes