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We are heading toward 200 movies. I think this is number 192 or 193. We're getting close. The 200th movie will happen before the end of the summer, which raises the question.
Are we going to do the re-reheat, me and Chris Ryan. Heat the movie that started this podcast. We redid it after we did 100 movies. Are we going to redo it again after we do 200?
Should we do another gimmick? We might actually open this up to the audience. Do you want us to hear heat for a third time? Should we bring in a third person?
Should we bring in a third and a fourth person? Should we try to get Michael Mann to join us for the pod? I don't know, but it's it's something lingering. It's getting close to 203 watchables episode.
As always, if you want to hear all the ones we've done, just go to the Spotify archives. They're all on there. We even have an action movie playlist where you can find all the action movies we've done and we're going to have more playlists coming out. But all of the movies that we've done are on the Spotify archives and we've done over four years worth at this point.
I think this podcast started in the summer of 2017. So there you go. At least the four year anniversary of the rewatchables. I don't know what it was, but we're getting close.
200 movies coming up. I'm taking the dog. Legally blind is next. All right, 20th anniversary of Legally blind.
Juliet Lamaniser of Amanda Davins is here. Amanda, this is your wheelhouse. Reese Witherspoon, your icon, your hero, your life career princess. This is where she moved it to movie start of adulthood.
There was young Reese for years and years and years and the question was like, all right, where does this go? And then we know where it goes from here. It goes into a plus list them. What do you think of Legally blind?
What's the first thing that pops the mind? I remember seeing it and I was 17 years old and I saw it with two blonde friends in high school. And since this is a non-visual medium, let everybody know I'm not a blonde. I've never been a blonde.
And so this was really opening up that experience to me. And I think it was also probably when I first felt my connection to the princess of my life, as you said, Reese Witherspoon, which is just 100% true. That's accurate. Bill Simmons understands me and understands Reese Witherspoon.
But I don't know if I had seen election, which would be kind of her most known or respected performance up until now, but obviously like an indie movie. And so this is both when Reese Witherspoon goes mainstream to the world and also mainstream to me. And it's been a beautiful relationship ever since. Is it wrong to say I watched this and was nostalgic for just how freaking adorable and unique Reese was way back when?
I mean, now she's almost my age now, but like there's this whole, there's this whole like, I don't know, position she holds. That I think a lot of other people have tried to claim. Young Reese I'm talking about. Sure.
And I think she did the best really yet. I think she is the best version of whatever this is, the young adult being able to manipulate surroundings, being able to and to basically get guys to do what she wants, whatever it is, like she was the best at this. Yeah. And I think also this is an amazing role.
I mean, it's just a great movie. She's given a lot to work with. But I also think that the way that she's positioned in this movie like physically and also like intellectually makes her incredibly relatable. And it's sort of a miracle how relatable she is as this like privileged, initially ditzy blonde from Southern California who like decides on a whim to go to law school or not on a whim.
But you know, we all know the plot. And I think it's that like it's sort of like it's just shocking how you're like, oh yeah, she seems like she could be your friend and she's really pretty. But like you also feel like you could look like her. I don't know.
It just really works. Who else is in this? Who else is in this conversation? Like who else could have been Elwood's?
Ultimately? Well, this is the thing not to step on recasting couch, but it's really hard. It's a pretty singular performance to balance is really, I'd said that kind of just obviously like very beautiful and bubbly and funny, but and but also needs to be relatable and you need to be believe that she can kind of like pull off these ridiculous, totally unbelievable, like legal flourishes or whatever. But balancing between bubbly and silly and poking a little bit of fun at the character, just a little bit, right?
But like everyone's in on the joke and you feel okay. The closest that I got, which doesn't match generationally anymore or hair color wise is Amazon. Hmm. That's fair.
Yeah, Reese just feels overqualified to be in this movie, right? And I think that's why it's so good because it's a part that goes wrong in the wrong hands. And there was when it came out, there was a little bit of a clueless and vocal cord that you feel that. The first scene with the song playing really felt very, what is this like a maxima-corsional or something?
But yeah, I felt like that. And then her house when we're with her parents and it's like, oh, they're kind of not ripping it off, but they're basically they're swimming in the same pool. But then it doesn't really feel like clueless at all. And I think so I went through Reese's IMDB because I would, what was that movie?
Man in the Moon when she was like, well, she's like 12, 13 and she's great in that movie. And that was one of those. Wow, who's this? She might be something.
And what's the roller coaster one? Fear. Fear. Fear.
Thank you. Amanda. I remember the important part. Sorry.
The part of the wildber parts. Well, she in 96, she makes freeway and fear. There we go. And freeway is this really crazy movie that is kind of like weirdly ahead of its time.
It's kind of it's a movie that is more likely to be made now. But Keith for Southern is basically a homicidal maniac. I forget the plot. She's like a street, some sort of street person.
She might be a young prostitute or a budding prize. I'd forget what it was, but they end up in this face off and she's just really good in it. And then fear was her first mainstream one. She was in Twilight.
She was in overnight delivery, which is age kind of nicely. It's got Paul Rudd and a very strange plot. Then Pheasaville was supposed to be her big break. That was her and Toby McGuire.
And it's like, these are big stars. It was year after Titanic. But it wasn't until the crew election, crew intentions election combo in 99. That it's like, oh, this is this is this is a real career now.
These are two really different parts. The first crew intention is a borderline iconic late 90s pop culture movie we did it on the rewatchables 99 feet. But then it kind of dies after that a little bit. She ended up, she was Rachel's friend, sister on Friends.
Very good. And she was in little Nicky. She had a cameo and there's just like a two year where it kind of cools off, which happens sometimes when somebody's making that transition to now we have to consider them as like, you know, somebody in their mid 20s playing adult parts. And then this sets it off.
And after this, we're off and four years later, she was the Oscar. But this also in the right, we've seen this go in the wrong way too with some of this stuff. And somebody kind of graduates out of the younger roles and they got nowhere to go. I think I'm a stone is navigating that really well.
I think that's another good example. But yeah, I can't think of a lot of examples. Like for every one of those two, you have like 10 Jennifer Lefewitz, right? Yeah, I assume we'll talk about this a little bit later.
The Times had a big piece on legally blonde dimension that Christine Applegate said that she turned down the role of Elle. And I feel like she was a good one. Yeah, she would have been really good. But I think that like what really makes Christine Applegate different from Reese Lefrede is Christine Applegate just like never got that level of fame and celebrity.
Like she's an awesome actress. I love that to me and she's really fun and I think she would be good in this role. But what so impressive about Reese's run and someone like, I was stoned is just how famous they are. Like it's really hard to manage that when you're also like, you know, Mary Jo Ryan, Billipy and like a teen star and also like a tabloid star and also an amazing actress.
The Christine Applegate is a good one. If I was going to come up later, we might as well talk it now. But you're right. That was, and then she kind of anchor man gets her going again and then she has the second career.
But it took what four years, five years more than she did. And she married the guy from Nothing You Do. Maybe that was the problem. Who knows Jonathan Schake.
This movie, The History of It, it was a 2001 novel written by Amanda Brown who wrote about her experiences as a blonde attending Stanford Law School, being obsessed with fashion and beauty, clashing with her peers. And somebody's like, Hey, that's a movie. And this happened fast, like within a year, Reese's in it to have some Australian director who had never made a real movie. And they're off.
But I think what's struggling watching it all these years, like I watched with my daughter on Friday night, who loves this movie, who's seen it a million times. It's just really satisfying. It moves fast. There's only like one or two bad scenes.
You're kind of sad when it's over. I'd like spending time with all these people, even the loser boyfriend who's terrible, who will get to later. But it's just a satisfying, what is it? Like an hour 40?
Flash by. Totally. Nothing wasted. I could see why they made the sequel, which wasn't nearly as good, but they must have thought, Wow, this is Rupple.
We could do this 10 times. Yeah, get Regina, Kagan. You're like, sure, we're good to go. Well, who was in legally?
Was it recently gone to? I've only seen that one once. Yeah, she goes to DC. Yeah, she's like a person.
You guys have really disowned legally. I had no idea. I saw it once, but it doesn't have the same power that the first one. No, because it's just Zippy.
This one, it just plays a great one line. And then you're out. And it's just really surprising. It catches you off guard and all that it's able to accomplish.
And it's just really good. And it's like a great, you know, it's been positioned in the 20 years since I was a feminist movie. And definitely is, but I think it's like one of the most successful things about it is it's just really fun. Like you said, like you said, when it's over and it just it does a lot.
It's very impressive. I was actually like, wow, I didn't appreciate this movie enough when I first saw it 20 years ago. And now like, this has been phenomenal. But it's like as good as Clueless, I think.
Is this a rom-com? No, no. I don't think it is. No, because ultimately it's about Elle figuring out who she is.
And then as a bonus, she gets the guy. And I think in some of the pieces that were done for the 20th anniversary, they talk about how this was not the original ending for that reason. I think the original ending involved her like kissing Luke Wilson on the steps or something. Is that right?
Yeah, it's bad. And then, and then they said that audiences were like, no, no, no, this is not what the story is about. The story is about her figuring out, you know, how to be the world's greatest lawyer and also be respected or, you know, be a blonde or whatever. So I think by the definition of rom-com, I'm Julianne and I are strict rom-coms.
It must start with two people who hate each other at the beginning and then at the end they're together. And that's what a thing is about. Or somebody who's a complete mess who gets their shit together because they found the person that they didn't realize in the first hour of the movie was the person they should have ended up with. That's the other lane for this.
Yeah, but it's got to be about the couple. This is more a coming-of-age story than anything else. It's like a really funny coming-of-age story, which I think is cool. You don't get a lot of those these days.
Yeah, I haven't seen it in a while and I was expecting much more rom-com stuff. And it's just like Luke Wilson is kind of there. I'm not positive why he's there. It's a typical Luke Wilson performance where it's like, wow, why was he in this many movies?
I can't really identify much here. I would take a bullet for Luke Wilson and I wasn't, but I'm not really sure why. I love them, but I'm just like, why? I don't know because you're right.
Like, Luke Wilson is just sort of like there in so many movies. We have no idea why he likes her. There's not one scene that explains any sort of attraction or like they have no moment. There's no connection, nothing.
We have no idea why he's there except for like the two-sentence introduction that Victor Garver gives. Like as he walks into that one room and it's so obviously like exposition dialogue of like he is on campus researching for me that they make a joke about it in the moment. He's like not a character. But I kind of like that.
I really like it when Barry Handsome, like pretty famous male movie stars show up in like mostly female films in order to just be the romantic interest and like not do much. And they're just kind of like, I'm here. My job is for handsome. Like it's cool.
I'll do that and then we'll get on with our lives. So I respectfully call since performance in this. There's no scene where they go to like get ice cream. And he's just like, you know, when my dad died, that was when I realized I had to carry his name on.
And she's like kind of, you know, kind of connecting with it. They just, they're no connected at all. I have no idea whether they're together. Yeah.
There's no explanation. But hey, it's great to have him. I feel like in one of Manage is described as now like to me, the Chris Hemsworth, it's just like you to show up because you're hot and available. Yeah.
That'd be great. Well, one thing there was this was a weird rom-com era, which we discussed in this pod previously of it's about, I don't know, 12 to 14 years of the career professional who's a disaster in their own personal life. And they just keep making the same movie over and over and over again with different gimmicks. And it kind of starts dying out around the mid 2000s.
And they're like, we've got to kind of come up with some new wrinkles. And then Amanda's other hero Nancy Meyer comes in. Right. Then she'll later in life get to have love and they start innovating it a little bit more.
But there's just 12 years here of like picture perfect and my best friends weathering. And there's a bunch of those. By the way, we like while you were sleeping. It just goes on and on 27 dresses.
Whoops. Well, you were sleeping out of this mix. That's a great movie from the 90s. Sandra Bullet crushes it.
I don't want him to line that movie. It's a really good one. It's so strange. It's the strangest rom-com that we've ever had.
Yeah. I've done that one on the rewatch. Yeah. That's right.
Yeah. We did that one pretty early, right? Oh, quarantine. Yeah.
It was an early quarantine. And we had a great time because it's a great movie. So what are the OGs that we haven't done? Because I feel like we've hit most of them from that era.
We did my best friends wedding early. We haven't had sleep with since. Yeah, we haven't had sleep less. Did we do you get mail yet?
We sure did. I'd love to do it again. I think we're available anytime. By the way, for people wondering, people listening going, how does something not remember they did this for eight?
We've done 200 movies. I routinely call my son Ben Zoe and vice versa. Like my brain is going. So don't hold on to this against me.
You weren't on you've got mail with us. So if you'd like to redo it, we're ready to go. I have been looking at the list of the two of the almost 200 down thinking like we could redo a couple of days. I, Van and I have been talking about Titanic.
Yeah. I have a lot of thoughts on Rose like a lot. I have some strong rose takes. Okay.
I really feel like maybe not the heroine of that movie, but we can cover that one. Speaking of undeveloped characters. Yeah. This movie, this movie, Lately Bon had an 18 million dollar budget, made $140, $1,000,000.
Which is amazing. It was a top 20 movie of 2002 or 2001. It was nominated for two golden globes. Okay.
Deserve it. Great. Should have gotten more. It started the massive career of Robert Lucatec.
Are you in the Lucatec hive? Amanda? No, am I? I forgot to Google this.
That's one of those. There's some movies from this era where like who directed this Robert Lucatec? Who the fuck is that? And then you go and they usually do like four more after this, but this was really successful.
Another piece and this came out in the 20th anniversary stories about. And who knows? This is Reese Witherspoon. She's known to say some strange things from time to time.
So I 98% believe this. But she says people at least once a week come up to her and say this movie inspired me to go to law school. Amanda, do you believe that or no? I got upset when I read that.
I want more for everyone in their lives than to watch this movie and have the takeaway be like, now I need to be a lawyer. That's not the point of the movie, but also it's a strange world. So maybe if people are getting that empowerment, sure, I guess. Yeah, you believe once a week?
No. So 52 times a year, somebody comes up to Reese Witherspoon and says, I'm now a high-powered attorney here in Kansas City, Missouri, and it's because of Lately Bon. That's what did it. I don't believe that Reese Witherspoon talks to strangers enough for that.
So there's that, first of all. Second of all, she's kind of like in the inspiration business now. She's trying to sort of be like with her book club and her Instagram. She's still acting, but she's also really focused on her lifestyle business.
And so it's good for her brand to position herself as someone inspirational. And so I feel like it's not true. But it's just part of the Hello Sunshine phase of Reese Witherspoon. I have a Reese Witherspoon story that I've never told Amanda and I've specifically been saving it for a podcast.
Okay. This is my lucky day. You know what? It's so good.
We're going to take a break and I'm going to come back. How about that, Tis? All right. Here's my Reese Witherspoon story.
I don't know if I've even told Juliet the story. So I went to a party with my wife once in LA. That a person should be named Nameless Hads that had a bunch of stars in it. And this person was known for giving these crazy parties.
And this particular party, he decided was going to have a safari theme. Have I told you this story? No. So he has like the big thing is he had a tiger there and he had a couple other animals.
He had like a couple monkeys and he had this tiger. In a cage. In a cage. That was like outside the party and people could go and like pet the tiger.
Okay. I show up at the party with my wife. So I have a witness for this. And as we showed up, it's dead quiet in the party.
And Reese Witherspoon is basically berating everyone at the party that there's this animal here and how terrible it is. And blah, blah, blah. And this whole lecture about these animals, they aren't meant to be, does this whole thing. Then the music goes back on and people are like, all right, Arnold Schwarzenegger is at this party.
So after this calms down and it's just records. That's a good thing. Record screech moment. And like 10 minutes later, Arnold goes, I want to go see the tag.
And goes after see the tiger. But it made me think like, first of all, I mean, we know this is right. Hollywood people are fucking lunatics. And you think like Reese, John actor, right?
And we've been on some twists and turns with her. We had the Ryan Felipe relationship. We had what was the D.U. I stop when she did.
You don't know who I am routine. Yeah, I was in Georgia. Great. Good Atlanta.
Yeah. Five years ago. We had the divorce, but then she's happily remaried now. Then we've had this crazy career turn where she's one of like the best production companies in Hollywood.
And now she's one of the most, I think powerful females probably in Hollywood, right? I think that she also completely drives the book industry. Like when Reese picks your book as like a Reese W That is who Reese is. And I love her for it.
So what part do you think in any movie that she's played is the most like Reese? Tracy Flick. Well, so that would be the man. I hope she's not the girlfriend election.
I think it's me, no, I would. I like to think it's Elle Woods because I do think that there are moments in this where you can see the Tracy Flick jumping out just a little bit. There's even like when she finally gets the internship, you know, and looks at the list and then marches back out and she's like me. And that is like a straight up Tracy Flick face.
But then it's like softened and slightly more palatable and slightly more mainstream and a little more fun. I still think Reese is a little fun despite the tiger anecdote, which is incredible. You know, she can be bubbly. So I'm going Elle.
I want to go see the tiger. Well, then she became big little eyes Reese. And there's a lot of standing on the deck holding a glass of Pinot Grigio looking sadly out wondering what happened to her marriage. That was but then Audible and in the morning show, the most polarizing thing in being Amanda's relationship.
You and I love it. Everyone else is like, what's going on? I kind of hate watch love it though. I really felt like there was one good episode out of the 11.
But the one good episode was really good. Listen, I mean, we don't think that it's mad men, but it was like incredible. It was all you and I could talk about for the entire time that it was on. Julie, where'd you stand on the morning, Chef?
I kept falling asleep. I was like, I really want to get into this, but every episode put me to sleep too long. But you know, crewed up. You looked great.
Always. I was a softball for us. Well, for us, well, for us, well, Hammond, obviously. I liked it.
It's one of the legendary miscastings where you have Reese as this up and calmer, but she's in her mid 40s of real life. But suppose somebody who's like looking for her first break in television. It's illogical. And having a viral video meltdown.
Yeah, it's illogical. I loved it. It's bizarre. And the reason we really love this show is Billy Crudup.
Yeah. He's wonderful. He's the best. And it looks in the trailer.
They've leaned into Crudup in season two. They were like, we have a real asset here. I think he won an Emmy for that. What?
I think so. He definitely won a second word, but I think he also literally won an Emmy for that performance. So you got to lean into it. Can't wait for season two.
Legally blonde, Roger Ebert, three stars. He said, quote, the film is a possible dislike to dislike. True. With her spoon effortlessly animated this material with sunshine and quick wit.
Wow. I agree. I feel. Yeah.
Totally agree. Sunshine and quick wit. Maybe that's Reese. That's Reese in a nutshell, right there.
She's great. She's also married to Ryan Felipe at this time. Ryan Felipe. How do you say?
Felipe? It's kind of like Los Felés. It's Felipe. Yeah, I'm always going to screw it up.
And I think this is the movie where they're basically dead even. Career wise heading into this movie. And then this is when the ascent starts. And this is when I started predicting.
There's no way I can last. We're going to see this with Krasinski and Emily Blunt. They've managed to stay pretty even. But at some point there's going to be a reckoning.
Somebody's going to pass somebody. And then we'll see if my theory continues to come true. But you have these A-list actor actors combos. They have to stay in the same level or else troubles it.
It's my theory. Krasinski is pivoting to directing, right? So I feel like he's trying to take himself out of the competition. He can't keep up as an actor.
It's like a forfeit. Yeah. He's going artistic and he'll make movies for her. And she can be Mary Poppins and Sicario.
But he's like, it's cool. I'm like former actor, turn director, brown guy. It's probably good. Well, he's got the Jack Ryan stuff too.
All right. Jack Ryan. Yeah. It's just about that mint and money on that one.
But yeah, I think his passion is like his quiet place stuff. So Ryan Felipe is going to come up in this podcast a little bit later in a way you're not going to expect. Most rewatchable scene. The breakup scene is great.
I love a good breakup scene in a rom-com or a rom-com adjacent movie. But I got to marry Jackie down to Maryland. She's great stuff all the way around. Blindsided.
They set it up beautifully with the sorority sisters. I thought you were proposing. I'm proposing. Oh, if I'm going to be a senator, I need to marry Jackie.
Not to Maryland. So you're breaking up with me because I'm too blonde? No, that's not entirely true. No way.
Like those are too big. Oh, no, no. You're fine. So when you said that you would always love me, you were just digging around?
I do love you. Is that Juliet? That scene has everything. Oh, it's fantastic.
It also really like sets the great tone for the movie of defying your expectations. It's great. I mean, also, you know, you really get to see Warner in a nutshell. They really present that character very tidally up top.
It's great. I mean, who doesn't like that scene? But definitely not my most re-watchable scene. But yes, it is very re-watchable scene.
That's our first candidate. Second one. I love the Harvard Admissions Month. Absolutely.
Hi. My name is Elle Woods. And from my admissions essay, I'm going to tell all of you at Harvard what I'm going to make an amazing lawyer. As president of my sorority, I'm skilled at commanding the attention of a room and discussing very important issues.
It has come to my attention that the maintenance staff is switching our toilet paper from Sharman to generic. All those opposed to chafing, please say aye. Aye. So good.
I could have watched two or three more minutes of it. I like the video. I liked the lead up to her finding out her. I like the one-seventy guy.
It's carried around the sorority. It's a really great seven minutes. The one-woman costume party. I really enjoy.
That's where it's like, all right, that was 179 on the LSAT smart. But she seems to be missing a people smart piece of... Why would you trust Vivian on this one? Right.
But people have different types of intelligence, different strengths. And also, she's supposed to be the open-hearted, positive one. So open-hearted, she believes the shrew. Exactly.
Amanda, a question for you. Who did the bunny costume first? Was it this movie or was it Bridget Jones? I think this movie probably, right?
Although I suppose the bunny costume is in the book of Bridget Jones. Right. Because I was wondering if that was a nod to that. Because there's a lot of like sly references in this movie.
So I was just curious. Yeah, I guess you're right. The book came first. But I think the movies were like...
I think Bridget Jones is just a two, right? So the movies were real. No, it's 2001 as well. So it's like the same year.
Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, it's going back to the 80s, you had the Halloween costumes where there was like the bunny, the sexy devil, catwoman. There was like the four ones that you knew somebody in your class.
They were just like, oh, I guarantee she's gonna wear one of those four and it would happen. So the sexy bunny was floating out there for a while. Sure. But Bridget Jones shows up to a party where she's the only one in that dress up.
And she's dressed up as a bunny. Yeah. Craig, can you figure out which one of those movies came out first? Because we got to solve this one so far off who gets the bunny title.
Also, great line here. Whenever I try to dress up like a fridget bitch, I try not to look so constipated. Really good. Nice outfit.
Oh, I like your outfit too. Except when I dress up as a fridget bitch, my trainer looks so constipated. Really proud of Elle, how she handed herself. I like that she stayed in costume for the rest of the day.
Totally. To go to the computer store. Yeah. Vivian and Elle finally bonded.
I like when the villain... The person I think is gonna be the villain, the whole movie, might actually have a good side to them. They navigate and then she turns back the other way. I have the representation when Elle comes in the courtroom.
And then she's now our lawyer. And the actual murder profession is pretty funny. What else do you have for most rewatchable? There's some fashion stuff that my daughter loves that is not as rewatchable for me.
I love when she nails the evidentiary hearing stuff. I love when she finally puts it together and she has that moment where she's like, yes, I'm learning stuff. I found that really gratifying and exciting. I mean, do we talk about Bend and Snap now?
Do we talk about that later? The Bend and Snap scene feels so important, but also from a different movie. So I'm like, is this really rewatchable or not? You get to bet.
I would put it in what's aged both the best and the worst. But I agree that it's not my favorite rewatchable scene. Even though it's probably been rewatch the most. Yeah.
My daughter, my favorite person, Zoe Simmons, who loves everything, who loves all movies, who sees the good in all movies, movie scenes, movie plots, who never has a bad thing to say during a movie. During the Bend and Snap scene was like, what is happening there? Why did they do this? Why does this in the movie?
And I'm like, I just don't know. I have a theory. I feel like the Bend and Snap scene is the fulcrum on which the idea to make a musical of this began. Like, I feel like that was the musical.
I believe your daughter and wife saw Bill. I recall when they went to see it in New York. Oh, they 100% saw the musical. Yeah, I remember.
I feel like that was the most sort of campy scene. And sort of like for the musical life of this franchise is directly tied to Bend and Snap. So it's kind of interesting. And I had not seen that musical.
I listened to the music. It's pretty good. But it's just like, it's just a different vibe. It's funny.
It's not a campy movie at all. I agree. And I do also think that it's serving the role of like the dance scene that is in all of the 80s and 90s movies geared toward women. You know, like at some point, everyone's got to learn some choreography and all like break down together.
I actually do like a lot of those scenes. So it's kind of serving the bridge that way as well. But it definitely sticks out. All rom-com movies and rom-com movie adjacent movies have to have the one scene for 20 years.
You know what movies started? I think it was Footloose. Because Footloose has a scene where Kevin Bacon teaches Chris Penn to dance. And it's got, I forget what song, but that song became a top five song.
And it's like he's teaching rhythm and it's clumsy and it kind of broke up the movie. And then after that, it seems like every movie shoehorned one of those in. The weirdest one was the MyBress Friends wedding one. Oh, it's so good.
The Diorwe song. Yeah. It's like the lobster bits? Like that?
It's like this amazing musical performance involving 25 people who had no idea they were going to sing the song. And it's just perfectly orchestrated. But it made sense in the context of what happened in all of those movies. There's like a piano and a seafood restaurant for some reason.
It's like, right, it's like Rupert Everett's here for one week. What can we do with them? What's the problem? What do they do when they're standing on the bar when they get drunk?
They sing that song. I've never seen that movie. Really? What?
Too close to home guys. 27 dresses? Oh, come on. No.
That's something Zoe Simmons pantheon. I don't know. I just never saw it. High goal doesn't do it for me.
As someone who's been to so many fucking weddings. I just, I don't know. I've only seen it a couple of times. It's like slightly after Maya and Julia.
It's generation of these. Or like, I think we were old enough to maybe relate to it a little bit too much. But it's pretty charming. Okay.
Maybe I'll watch it. It's a Zoe favorite. I gotta say, High goal was thrown 98 miles an hour for like three years there. And then it just went sideways.
I've never been to Hygal fan. She's been telling me to have a giant surgery. Well, because you're not rational about Grace Anatomy. And, you know, she had an ugly demise in Grace Anatomy.
And you hold it against her. That's why you're not a high goal fan. Yeah, her character sucks. And then she left in a weird way.
I don't know. I'm just not an high goal. Also knocked up. Don't like her in that.
Who wants to spend time with Catherine Hygal? No. That's another reason why this movie is great. You're like, I'd love to spend time with Elle Woods.
Like, Elle wants to have a podcast. You know, she seems like a great hang. Any other most rewatchable for you. My favorite scene is the, I really like the Harvard admissions montage.
And I really like when she becomes the lawyer because I love when movies take ridiculous weeks like that. Here's this first year lawsuit. Who's not going to be handling a bird of child. It's great.
They make it seem like it's totally reasonable. What do you have, Amanda? I'm going with the Harvard video. I say, I mean, the ending when she finally figures out, like, the rules of the firm is obviously iconic.
And I feel like comedy is like this often to land the endings of the movie in the way that that courtroom scene does. So I want to give it credit. But like, the Harvard video montage has everything. It's really funny.
Great one-liners kind of summarizes the movie in three minutes. And also, you know, we don't give enough credit to montages. I think the three of us give like plenty of credit to montages. Always the best part of romantic comedy.
But you know, like the films do not give enough credit to montages. So I'm going Harvard video essay. I am a, as big of a montage guy. I'm fine.
I'm right there with you. So useful. So great. My favorite movie in the last 25 years, other than maybe almost famous was Boogie Nights.
Boogie Nights has like three unbelievable montage scenes that are just like, some people just get me. What do you have for most rewatchable Juliet? I think you guys are right. But I just really, I like the sort of almost montage where she's like learning to become a serious person.
And I feel like it really takes off when she nails the evidentiary hearing piece. And so I like that scene the most. Juliet, what was your montage for when you finally became a serious person? Was that like, Grantlyn Corley, number nine?
Like, what was it? What was it? I was going to say, no, this is our 10 year anniversary this month. So perhaps you should tell me when it becomes a serious person.
I think it's like, when we read to the Tatch House at the beginning of the ringer. Oh, that's a good one. Thanks. Yeah.
The first three months of the ringer was my montage of growing up. And so it's like, were there rats in the trees back there? Like, there was a feral cat in the back. There was like that internet.
There was like, you know, getting like our Google accounts set up. With all of the names for the ringer. That's a good montage. Getting a part TV that we could like cast to.
You do a lot of chrome casts. That's true. I'm getting the whiteboard to brainstorm names. For me, my coming of age was in the Tatch House.
That's a great one. Get suits from Whole Foods. Really beautiful. What saves the best?
Great title. Great title. Yeah. Love a good title here in the rewatchables.
Legally Bond, just great. Really explains the movie. The perfect day, the song, the intro. Zoe called that actually when we were watching.
She said, just a great, I just love when there's a great song to start the movie that the Devil Wears Prada has that too. What's that song? Suddenly I see. Yeah.
Can you cancel? Where would it be? Like just like that happy, just kind of puts you in the mood. They're both songs also that I don't think I've ever heard outside of the context of these movies.
You would never put it on your on your Spotify playlist or instantly. I'm like, Oh, beginning of Legally Bond. Yes. Suddenly I say it was in Grey's Anatomy.
No big deal. Sorry. The Hills theme song. The Tatch Benny field on the right.
Still the rate of your skin. Yeah. Yeah. It's just great theme songs in the 2000s.
They did a really nice job. They really stepped up their game. I want to throw out these sparkly bikinis that she wears that are clearly not waterproof that she wears all the time. You're like, those are really back.
I feel like that's like real festival wear. Like, you know, when people go back to Coachella, they'll be wearing that. I was just like, that was a good call and really worked. It was like a signature piece for her.
I want to expand it to all of the extremely garish early 2000s fashion that is captured in this film. It really was that bad. Like it actually was 2000, 2001. You go to the mall.