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We relive it again on the latest in the

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podcast. As you wish. I've

1:35

been doing a lot of singing. The thing

1:37

is, I love you. Looks like love at

1:39

first sight to me. Oh,

1:41

God. Okay. I will-

1:44

We're keeping it. We are keeping it. I love

1:47

that. Do you

1:49

bite your thumb at us, sir? I'm Paige

1:51

Wesley. I'm Mikey Randolph. I'm

1:53

Todd Schlosser. And this week I

1:55

made you guys watch the masterpiece

1:58

that is Bad- Lerman's

2:00

Romeo Plus! Julian

2:03

LePage! I love

2:05

that you said that because we did not plan

2:07

that. That's just so funny to me. Because that's

2:09

how it's written. I feel like I am going

2:11

to be the minority opinion on this film throughout

2:13

this podcast. No, no, this is not a

2:15

perfect film. I will fully admit that and

2:17

also if you're not into Shakespeare, there's not

2:19

much in this for you. Holy shit!

2:21

I can't believe you just had the

2:24

audacity to say that this is not

2:26

a perfect film. Jamie Kennedy

2:28

has pink hair and it's his best

2:30

movie ever. It is Jamie Kennedy's best

2:33

movie by far. Not a tall bar

2:35

maybe, but still the fact remains.

2:37

I mean, this versus Malibu is most wanted.

2:39

I feel like a low bar

2:41

of entry. It's definitely this. It

2:44

made me want pink hair because I have

2:46

had pink hair in the past and

2:48

I'm full of chaos and rage and so

2:50

like it's not the best time to make

2:52

hair decisions. I'd go pink. I feel

2:55

like I could pull it off. I

2:57

have real probably is too skinny to

2:59

be able to lick his own nipple but

3:01

can energy like Jamie Kennedy

3:03

has in this movie. I can fully lick

3:05

my own nipple but then again, I mean I got a

3:07

lot of hesk on my side. And

3:11

genetics on me for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

3:13

yeah. You can cut it off Todd, you

3:16

can lick it. Anyone can lick

3:18

a nipple if they try hard enough. Somebody bring me a

3:20

knife! I'm not going to cut off

3:22

my nipple. Not tonight. My

3:24

pretty piece of flesh.

3:28

Nice soundtrack inclusion by Paige

3:30

Wesley. I own this soundtrack.

3:32

I am that asshole. Oh God.

3:35

Todd, why did you pick this film?

3:37

Because it's a perfect movie. What are

3:39

you talking about? I honestly,

3:41

okay. Can I tell you my experience

3:43

of watching this movie? Today or

3:46

just ever? Today. I do not remember the

3:48

first time I saw it because I was pretty young when

3:50

it came out. So like, of course. I'm

3:52

sure I saw it in someone's basement or their

3:54

house or whatever. What monster would lock you in

3:56

a basement and make you watch this film? I

4:00

don't know but there was like a phone involved.

4:02

Oh gee, that's the other podcast. Oh yeah, sorry,

4:04

sorry, sorry. What was the name of that movie?

4:06

Sorry, now it's like. A Black Phone with

4:08

Charlotte Ethan Hawke. You think I'd forget that? That's

4:11

right, you mean Daddy Ethan Hawke, as

4:13

you kept calling him? He's doing his

4:16

screening here in Nashville, but it's sold out. He's hosting

4:18

his new film and he wrote, directed it, and he's

4:20

doing two screenings and they sold out. I couldn't get

4:22

to it. I'd go to that.

4:24

Anyway, back to this movie. I fully

4:27

understand that this movie is

4:29

off the charts, just super

4:31

campy, ridiculous from nuts, Bill.

4:33

It bonkers 100%. It's

4:36

like exactly my personality

4:38

in movie form, overlaid

4:40

with like, I don't know, what seems like

4:42

a rip off of West Side Story, so

4:44

whatever, I love it, it's great. Oh God.

4:46

Romeo and Juliet. No, Paige, I know, I

4:49

know West Side Story is a rip off

4:51

of this. It's a joke because Shapey wrote

4:53

this in like four AD. Four

4:55

AD or whatever. I realize it's been

4:57

around forever. I'm joking. I liked

4:59

West Side Story 100 times better than

5:01

this. Shocking because you hated

5:03

West Side Story. That should

5:06

tell you where I'm at tonight, friend. Oh

5:08

no. Hold on a

5:10

second, I got a call. Okay, well,

5:12

Mikey can't yell at me. I'll go next. Mikey

5:16

had to take a work call. So I don't

5:18

remember the first time I saw this. Years

5:21

ago, my mother, who was an English teacher, this

5:23

is not her favorite adaptation.

5:25

Oh really? She is not a

5:27

fan. Tell me why. Tell me

5:30

why. Ain't nothing but a

5:32

hot. But the reason I like this

5:34

one, I love it when people put

5:37

Shakespeare in other places, times, situations, et

5:39

cetera. Same. Like my mom's favorite,

5:41

Macbeth's adaptation is one that's done in World War

5:43

II. Like people do

5:45

wild stuff. I've seen Macbeth with

5:47

Latin street gangs. Like there are

5:50

so many different ways to kind

5:52

of like use Shakespeare

5:54

as like a base to then

5:56

paint something really interesting on top

5:58

of it. And I feel

6:00

like this movie does that.

6:02

I mean, obviously if you're

6:04

not into Shakespeare, it's gonna

6:07

be a tough slog. However,

6:09

if you are into Shakespeare

6:11

and neon light museums, as

6:13

I am, this kind of

6:15

fucking slaps. Now, again, could

6:17

you cut 20 minutes

6:19

out of it? Of course you

6:21

could! How dare you!

6:24

So easily! There's no fat on

6:26

this movie at all! Wrong! It's

6:28

just a mean and mean and

6:30

ready to point, a ostentatious gut

6:32

in your face page. There are

6:34

so many long shots

6:36

of Leonardo DiCaprio just

6:38

walking on the beach being sad,

6:40

just like doo doo doo doo. That

6:44

song is so good though. I know. I

6:46

own the soundtrack! It's perfect for

6:49

that moment. I know! It's perfect. I

6:51

also love the visuals of this

6:54

movie are so fucking cool! Like

6:57

the stage on the beach. I

6:59

love the neon in the church.

7:01

I'm here for it. This is

7:03

a gorgeous movie. Is

7:05

it weird? It's fucking

7:08

bonkers. Oh, it's so good. It

7:10

is like, if you

7:12

were a fan of

7:14

Romeo and Juliet when you had to read it in high

7:16

school, and you were the kind of

7:19

baby that like, if you were crying, someone like jingled

7:21

their keys in your face and you like laughed and

7:23

loved it. And you're like, shiny stuff? Yes!

7:26

Exactly. You're like, this

7:28

movie is perfect for me. And

7:31

this is a real weird thing that

7:33

I just love. Fluorescent lights in places

7:35

where they should not be. I

7:37

fucking love it. I loved it when

7:39

it was in that fucking weekend video.

7:41

I love it in this movie. I

7:43

love it in Madonna's like a prayer

7:45

video. I love all of it. I

7:48

love it. It's got such a cool look

7:50

to me and I've always liked it. So

7:52

I love it in this movie. That

7:55

said, the acting in this, choices were

7:57

made. I fully admit that.

8:00

Hey, I believe they were directed to be that way.

8:02

Oh sure because the director exactly

8:04

knew what he was doing because

8:06

he was creating the world's most

8:08

perfect film. He was going for a

8:10

very specific vibe. 110%. Sometimes it works, sometimes

8:16

it doesn't. I do

8:18

think you could trim, you could

8:20

absolutely trim, but I feel like

8:22

the cinematography is great, the vibe

8:24

is amazing, and for a Shakespeare

8:27

adaptation you could do way worse.

8:29

Plus this gave us the most

8:31

hilarious visual gag in hot fuzz.

8:34

One of my favorite visual gags

8:36

in hot fuzz where they do

8:38

the community theater version of

8:41

this split. I do

8:43

love it. So yeah, that's where

8:45

I'm at. I understand if this is

8:47

not for people. I get that this

8:49

is a very specific flavor. Yeah, it's

8:51

a vibe. And some people dig it,

8:53

some people don't. I'm in the camp

8:55

that digs it. It's also like a

8:57

slice of 90s nostalgia

9:00

in a way that is chef's kiss.

9:02

Fully agree, this feels aggressively

9:04

90s. You know how in Seven it was

9:07

almost like a fairy tale version of New

9:09

York and by fairy tale I mean dark

9:11

and gloomy and it's Gotham. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

9:13

I feel like this is that. Yeah. Like

9:15

it's a fairy tale version of Bleak Miami

9:17

and I kind of love it. Yeah. Yeah.

9:19

Okay, Mikey, you're back. Let me give you

9:21

a Cliff Notes version. I understand there are

9:24

problems. I understand you could definitely trim it

9:26

if you're not into Shakespeare, it's not for

9:28

you. But I am into Shakespeare and I

9:30

like the visuals. So I enjoy it even

9:32

though it could definitely be trimmed and I

9:34

think the cinematography is very cool. But I

9:36

respect that you do not like it because

9:38

this film is definitely not for everybody and

9:40

that's okay. Bro, I mean I'm not mad at

9:43

y'all. I knew that you theater nerds would be all over

9:45

this piece of shit. I

9:49

knew that when your English lit teacher showed

9:51

you this film in eighth grade that you

9:53

like ughh, orgasmed all up

9:55

in your seat back then. On eighth graders

9:57

who you're talking about Mikey? Eighth grader? First

10:00

of all Romeo and Juliet as ninth

10:03

grade. Go fuck yourself Sanjay I'm on

10:05

us users to show this hurt system.

10:07

It's soo only shows portions of the

10:09

Zeffirelli version and then I'll thinks even

10:11

shows that anymore because of the like

10:13

weirdness. Also my mom has a top

10:16

Romeo and Juliet julian a long time.

10:18

She teaches mostly make Bath or Hamlet

10:20

or and she goes with the Patrick

10:22

Stewart Macbeth. But. Most of the

10:24

time they go and like see a stage performance of

10:26

this. I never. Had a watches and go.

10:29

Here's my actual criticism of this film

10:31

in particular, and maybe Romeo and Juliet.

10:33

This film I feel like glorifies the

10:35

suicide aspect more than the play does

10:38

and more than any other versions of

10:40

this does it. Definitely makes it

10:42

look cool and that is a

10:44

problem and reload and like I

10:46

think your concerns are valid. I

10:48

was on my mind of his leg.

10:50

I mean that's a great place to

10:52

lay some of them locally and the

10:54

wrong what I see. This is all

10:56

very bad as I thought that. You're

11:00

not wrong, Mikey! I was that I'm

11:03

Jill good. Blame hold space for

11:05

yeah I do things being an

11:07

old man. This time watching this

11:09

film since the last time I

11:11

saw was ninth grade threat. Ah.

11:14

I did see a more of the tragedy

11:16

this to. I'm right, there are a lot

11:19

more the bit of the doubt and not

11:21

just about Romeo Juliet, just about all these

11:23

fucking idiot kids in general are like markers

11:25

yo within the other one and than the

11:27

other was yeah mergers years amazing. They all

11:29

just kill each other over nothing for. This.

11:32

Movie: They're technically like rival mafia members

11:34

like the other rival gang other like

11:36

rival gangs yeah but I mean like

11:38

the of the flights that turn into

11:40

this are very small. yes I was

11:42

shot, causes bread buddhism like that dumb

11:44

shit and like I see a lot

11:46

of work you know gang violence and

11:48

things like that is so that kind

11:50

of resonates of how the tragedy of

11:52

wasted you that these things there's some

11:54

things that are so important and suicide

11:56

plays into this. Things. Are so imported teenagers

11:58

because they don't have the life sucks. or

12:00

the insight or like the bird's eye view of

12:02

it all where this is so important I would

12:04

kill over it or this is so Important I

12:06

would I would dive suicide for this person and

12:08

like that is it that mindset is a tragedy

12:10

and I saw that more today Now

12:12

I hated the direction. I love the aesthetic.

12:15

Okay, we can agree on that Uh-huh I

12:17

hate old English in a way that cannot

12:19

be described you in an annoying normal word

12:21

and I'm over here Like I wish the

12:23

whole thing had been an iambic pentameter Of

12:26

course it kind of is but

12:28

they they perform it out of the

12:30

pentameter, which is probably one of my

12:32

mother's complaints Yeah I

12:35

feel like all the scenes with the

12:37

priest are in iambic pentameter though It's

12:39

those ones sound like it should the

12:41

rest of the movie it it doesn't

12:43

it doesn't have like the rhythm Yes

12:45

that the stage play normally does I

12:48

feel like Claire Danes's scenes also Tend

12:50

to be in more of the rhythm But yeah a

12:52

lot of the fights and a lot of Romeo not

12:54

so much. Anyway, Mikey were saying how much you love

12:57

the Ascetic. Yeah, but you hate old English. Yes.

12:59

I mean, you know bad There's a little hit

13:01

or miss guy for me, you know, sure I

13:03

mean I am in the vocal minority

13:05

that doesn't like Moulin Rouge. So like

13:07

I get it. I get it Okay,

13:10

hot take I liked Australia. I love Australia

13:12

Mikey. I really do love that movie I

13:14

referenced it all the time. I sing you

13:16

to me Mikey. I think that's okay. Hi.

13:18

Welcome to Australia That's the song from Austria.

13:20

I don't remember the fucking song I just

13:22

remember it didn't get on my nerves at

13:24

the rest of his films do Definitely

13:28

toned down. Oh, but I

13:30

like that heightened weird fluorescent

13:32

aesthetic. It's like the saturation turned up

13:34

to 11 I'm here. Yes.

13:36

It's Gotham City's Romeo and Juliet.

13:38

I get it It's the opposite

13:40

of Gotham City's like it's so

13:42

bright and colorful. It's Batman and

13:44

Robin's Gotham City friends. There you

13:46

go Yeah, like I was thinking it was

13:48

cocaine King Romeo and Juliet and

13:51

you know what you're right here for it. Hell.

13:53

Yeah here for it I mean, they're supposed to be

13:55

like mafia bosses to like cocaine is probably part of

13:57

their business. Yeah So can I tell you how I

13:59

watch? this movie today finally? Sure. I watched

14:02

this movie on the plane back from Miami,

14:04

sitting next to two adult women who I

14:06

was, I didn't talk to, I was in

14:08

the window seat, and they just sat down

14:10

and you know, we're doing the thing of

14:13

like not paying attention to anybody. And I

14:15

pull out my phone and start watching this,

14:18

and then as we get further into

14:20

the movie, I start to like cry,

14:22

like while I'm watching this on

14:25

a plane, and I saw more than one

14:27

time, they both like looked over at me

14:29

like, oh my god, is she

14:31

gonna be okay? Watching this

14:33

movie that I've never heard of in

14:36

my life? No, they've definitely.

14:38

I mean probably, but they were

14:40

probably also like, he realizes this is just

14:42

Baz, Lerman's Romeo and Julia, right? Right? Were

14:46

they our age? No, they were

14:48

probably about ten years younger than us, Paige.

14:50

Oh, okay. If they were

14:53

ten years younger than us, they might not

14:55

have seen this version. Informative, like formative years

14:57

when we saw it. And

14:59

maybe, listen, maybe it's just because we did

15:01

After last week that this feels

15:03

like the best movie ever made.

15:06

So like maybe it's part of,

15:08

it's partly that, but I really

15:10

liked watching it this time. I

15:13

feel the opposite. I feel like

15:15

this movie makes After look like

15:17

Shakespeare's. No, After is terrible. This

15:19

movie's first billed screenwriter is Shakespeare.

15:21

Yes. They gave him a screenwriting

15:23

credit. Classy. They have to,

15:25

it's all his dialogue. I know,

15:27

but he's not getting paid for

15:29

it, Paige. He's dead. They actually

15:31

probably have to pay whoever's managing

15:33

the, no, maybe not. I don't

15:36

know. It's got to be a public domain, right? I

15:38

think it's, I think it's in, I think

15:40

it's a public domain. Yes, but I know

15:42

there is an estate that manages publications

15:44

of all of his stuff.

15:47

So I think most of it goes

15:49

into like theater programs and stuff. I

15:51

don't honor the Queen's laws. Yeah, we

15:53

fought a war so we could do

15:56

whatever we wanted with Shakespeare. She's dead.

15:59

Yeah, King's law. Whatever. I don't when

16:01

are we gonna talk about how the Royals are

16:03

missing and they're trying to like soft launch Williams

16:05

mistress Can we I hate it a bonus episode

16:07

we so we can talk about it later This movie

16:10

felt like the pest but they just read poems Mikey

16:15

you even have like a favorite gun.

16:17

I think John like was almost gun is the coolest.

16:19

I hated the gun stuff Guns

16:23

are awesome. They are awesome. I'm a

16:25

huge fan of Mercutio in this movie.

16:27

He is so good also apologies

16:30

The last time Harold Perino was

16:32

in a movie. I was pronouncing

16:34

his last name wrong. I went

16:36

and looked up pronunciation I apologize

16:38

Perino, I'm gonna call him Mercutio in

16:40

this movie So I fall into the

16:42

trap of sounding like I'm smart like

16:44

pages and y'all just know I'm dumb

16:47

But like Mercutio in this movie is

16:49

fucking amazing. He's so good He I

16:51

feel like he knew exactly what Baz

16:53

Luhrmann like was going for even more

16:55

so than like a few of the

16:57

other Characters I feel like he was

16:59

locked into the vibe from like jump

17:01

Street and also like Mercutio was one

17:03

of those characters that like You have

17:05

to kill off because they're gonna take

17:07

over the movie the entire state Yeah,

17:10

I think this is probably one of my

17:12

favorite versions of the Queen Mab speech Yeah,

17:14

cuz like it's the drugs and but

17:16

they yeah While

17:20

he's doing that and he's in full

17:22

drag like mother ship was so great

17:24

And that's something you like you're not

17:26

gonna get that kind of like camp

17:28

if you want to call it that

17:30

in any other Adaptation of this I mean

17:32

not a film one for sure you might get it

17:34

on stage I do also think that it's and maybe

17:37

we can wait until we get to that scene to

17:39

talk about it Yeah, Shakespeare

17:41

has such a deep history of

17:43

drag Oh, yeah that I felt

17:45

like in a way that kind

17:47

of honors the actual theater history

17:50

Yeah, cuz they would make men play women correct

17:53

that makes that makes sense what it yeah, they

17:55

did that that makes I like Shakespeare in love

17:57

that was good. Oh, yeah, Shakespeare in love is a

17:59

lot like this movie except not

18:01

as good what I actually

18:03

really like Shakespeare love my

18:05

mom I love Shakespeare

18:07

in love and I like Shakespeare love

18:09

yeah it's just not as good as

18:11

I like Shakespeare in love and I

18:14

like that they speak regular English a

18:16

little bit they go back and forth they

18:18

don't speak it like this yeah you're gonna

18:20

be easily tweak the dialogue for 400 years

18:22

in the future thank you yeah I don't

18:25

know I like Romeo and Juliet as is

18:27

but I find some of the the sections

18:29

very very poetic and very

18:31

beautiful yeah I love the stories

18:33

of Shakespeare like their story structure

18:36

the plot the dialogue I can't

18:38

like the dialogue I like

18:41

the meaning is great you know all of

18:44

that is good it's actually really enjoy that's

18:46

probably least favorite Shakespeare kind of property oh

18:48

a hundred percent but I just the dialogue

18:50

I like like West Side Story are things

18:52

that update yeah the updated versions of Othello

18:54

and stuff like you know I love all

18:56

that stuff you know I just don't like

18:58

the original stuff because I just don't

19:00

like to read like that I love the cadence

19:02

of it all I do man I don't know

19:05

if I'd get in trouble saying something like this

19:07

so maybe we'll cut it but like to me

19:09

it feels like when I'm listening to rap on

19:11

some level and they get to like

19:14

a really cool rhyme because they're following that

19:16

I am big pentameter like meter sure yeah

19:18

yeah like you're how are they gonna get

19:20

to that beat sure within the

19:23

point they're trying to make I love that shit

19:25

so like I also like it Paige cuz I'm

19:27

a nerd I guess

19:30

I like it for that reason I also like

19:32

it because I feel like there

19:34

are times where the way they

19:37

choose to express an emotion that

19:39

seems very basic in a very

19:41

beautiful way I really appreciate

19:43

sometimes the way that they describe something

19:45

you're like I would have never thought

19:48

to describe it that way yeah however

19:50

that does make sense to the human

19:52

experience when you really think about it

19:54

I fully understand that it is difficult

19:56

to read if you don't read

19:59

it regularly and if you are not used

20:02

to reading in that way. Yeah, I don't

20:04

like reading it. I like seeing it performed

20:06

because I don't read it in the right cadence.

20:08

Yeah, it is meant to be

20:10

performed. You should see them live if

20:12

you can because that also helps with

20:14

context too. So like I

20:16

don't begrudge anybody for not loving it, but

20:19

I'm the kind of nerd that had to

20:21

go learn Middle English to read Chaucer in

20:23

its original language. So like it don't bother

20:25

me. I find it very beautiful, but I

20:28

get why people might be frustrated. However, I

20:30

feel like this movie does a great job

20:32

of building in the context so that even

20:34

if you're not exactly following, you're kind of

20:36

understanding what's going on. Oh yeah. I think a

20:39

lot of it and Mikey, correct me if I'm

20:41

wrong, I bet you heard 30% of

20:44

this movie, but you understood a hundred percent of

20:46

it. You know, like a lot of it is

20:48

just like kids are dumb. They die. The

20:51

really dumb ones die. Yeah. Bro, the first

20:53

woman you put it into, you don't want

20:55

to kill yourself on her body. That's all

20:57

I'm saying. Well, I would say that she

20:59

killed herself on his body. Also, I don't think

21:01

he was a virgin. Yeah, I don't believe he

21:03

was. It kicks off with him like being

21:05

sad that Rosalind won't put out on the

21:08

play. They're like 13 or whatever in

21:10

the place. She is basically 13. He

21:13

is a year or two older,

21:15

but it does talk about Rosalind

21:17

who was his previous crush,

21:19

if you want to call it that. And we

21:21

don't know what was consummated or not. In this

21:23

movie, he is not 15 or

21:26

whatever. Motherfucker 21, at least. Right.

21:28

They age her up a little bit too. Yeah,

21:30

they don't say anything about it. They

21:32

don't say it. They do use the

21:34

original text, which would call her almost

21:36

13, but she definitely looks older than

21:38

that. And he is also described as

21:40

being the younger of the Montague family.

21:43

So, you know, it didn't seem off

21:45

to me. Let's put it that way.

21:47

I mean, there are way more off

21:49

things in this story. I'm

21:51

not going to quibble about the

21:53

ages when we've got the

21:55

whole glorifying suicide thing. Fair.

22:00

I kind of prefer about West

22:02

Side Story as well. Because

22:04

Maria lives and Tony is technically shot

22:06

by Bernardo, not Bernardo, but Bernardo's friend,

22:08

Chino. Chino, yes. Yeah, it's Chino. I

22:10

agree with that. That's why I like

22:12

West Side a little bit. I think

22:15

this film goes over the top with

22:17

the glorification. Oh, yeah. I mean, I

22:19

think I like Baz Luhrmann because he's

22:21

like, how can I heighten everything in

22:23

this scene visually and all of that?

22:26

And I just love that kind of

22:28

camp. Sure. Shakespeare was trying

22:30

to tell a tragedy, so I feel like

22:32

it really undermines the point of what he's

22:34

trying to say here. I disagree. Yes, Shakespeare

22:37

was all camp. All camp all the

22:39

time as much as possible. I think

22:41

what he did and why it's so important is

22:44

that he sort of found this way to

22:46

meld comedy and tragedy. A lot of our

22:48

sad movies have funny beats in them. I

22:50

think that that was maybe not the first,

22:53

but it was one of the first that

22:55

did that. I don't know. I

22:57

sort of love this movie way more

22:59

than I should, I think, because I

23:02

think the vibe is exactly

23:04

me. The vibes are on point.

23:06

Yes. It's so great. And

23:08

I also love the kind of

23:10

energy that when Mercutio's going down,

23:12

when he knows he's dying, he's

23:15

like, fuck all of you. Why

23:17

have you done this to me? All

23:19

of you are responsible, and you're all

23:21

going to die. I just fucking love

23:23

the commitment to that shit. Yep. That

23:26

guy goes through it in that scene. It's so good.

23:28

It's just so good, guys. I'm so sorry. I'm

23:31

so sorry. I'm such a nerd for this. This is

23:33

going to be like three hour recording.

23:35

No, let's just get into the episode. Just

23:37

because Todd is going to be so into it.

23:39

I'm going to be crying. Let's just move through

23:41

it. OK. Crying? Why are

23:43

you crying for these dumb teenagers? I'm

23:46

not crying. I was joking. Because

23:48

the movie makes the fetal things really.

23:51

It makes me feel things too. Bad,

23:54

dark things. Honestly,

23:56

Mikey, I think you're in the right here.

23:58

I don't think I'm a good. guy in

24:00

all this I just like a weird

24:02

movie. I'm getting concerned that every week you're like

24:04

I cried four times during this film and

24:06

it's like after and I'm like I just

24:08

don't understand your mental state at this point

24:10

in your life but you shouldn't be crying

24:12

to every single one of these films. I think

24:15

we need to talk about it I think the

24:17

listeners are wondering about it if you're

24:19

exaggerating that's fine I just need to

24:21

know that if not I'm gonna welfare

24:24

check your house next week. I didn't

24:26

cry during after for the record you

24:28

can check the tape on that. I

24:31

do cry a lot though like I'm not saying

24:34

you're not wrong and I don't want

24:36

to come off wrong because I think

24:38

males should be able to express feelings

24:40

and cry and all that things but

24:42

like right because it sounds like you're

24:44

like low-key bullying me for having access

24:46

to my emotions. I think you are

24:48

across the line and maybe are on

24:50

the other side of healthy expression of

24:52

feelings. Publicly on a plane weirding out

24:54

two perfectly normal ladies who just like

24:57

had to also fly from Miami

24:59

to Nashville today on many films that

25:01

do not resonate such as leap year

25:03

they do not have the emotional

25:05

resonation to deserve this kind of

25:07

response I'm worried about you. I

25:09

did cry watching leap year I

25:11

will own that. That's exactly the

25:14

movie I'm thinking about that is

25:16

embarrassing I guess if you've seen

25:18

leap year you know why but

25:20

like I did and I own it.

25:22

Okay maybe we should just

25:24

go through this movie scene by scene though.

25:27

Yes. Maybe we should do a lot of

25:29

things to help you. Okay we open

25:31

on a news report basically depicting and

25:34

it's the opening chorus scene from the

25:36

play. Yeah. Depicting both houses as essentially

25:38

gangs involving gang violence. Now we are

25:41

gonna get a whole bunch of information

25:43

in this news report as the TV's

25:45

like far away and then gets close

25:47

to the screen and then

25:50

we're gonna cut and then we're

25:52

gonna immediately get all the same

25:54

fucking information in a weird montage.

25:56

It's literally the same dialogue like

25:58

it's the same words again. It's

26:00

the chorus. It's the like two households both

26:02

alike in dignity and fair Verona where we've

26:05

already seen and it's the whole thing but

26:07

it's Verona Beach but it's Verona Beach. Yeah

26:09

still love it. Anyway and we get the

26:11

Montague boys and the Capulet boys but

26:14

this is where the Montague boys pull up

26:16

to a gas station and who should also

26:18

pull up but the Capulets and

26:20

they're like oh shit. It's the Capulets. What

26:23

are we gonna do about that? How about

26:25

we bite my thumb at you sir and

26:28

they draw guns over it. I think you

26:30

mean swords page No

26:32

one has anything called a gun in

26:34

this movie. They do call them all swords,

26:36

but they are very cool-looking guns. They are

26:38

They're awesome. I love John Leguizamo in

26:41

this scene. He's over the top. Love

26:43

it It's super over the top, but

26:45

I also love that like every three

26:47

to four seconds There's like a really

26:49

weird speed ramp and people are moving

26:51

faster than they should be and like

26:53

do you guys Yes, I

26:55

hate that I'm so

26:57

sorry Mikey. I love that shit. It was so fun.

26:59

That's one of the things that I don't love

27:02

Stylistically in this movie. That's a 90s

27:04

style early 2000s choice.

27:07

It is a vibe It is

27:09

I feel like it does not add Much

27:12

and it still doesn't speed up the scenes

27:14

that are taking too long So it's like

27:17

an extra layer of weird, but it is

27:19

done for the vibe. I get why it's

27:21

being done Just don't love it. It's clearly

27:23

like intentional. They're not trying to like

27:25

speed up bad performances or whatever, right? Right,

27:28

right? Yeah, it's a vibe Yeah But this

27:30

is also where we meet Benvolio on the

27:32

Montague side who is trying to keep the

27:34

peace and then Tibbalt on the Capulet side

27:37

who was not interested in keeping the peace

27:39

Yeah, no, Tibbalt suffers no fools

27:41

and has the coolest vest. He's

27:44

dying to show you. Oh, it's like

27:46

a gun vest It's dope. It's awesome,

27:48

but it's got like the Virgin Mary on

27:50

it, right? Yes But he's also

27:52

got the like like Corazon like

27:55

on flames tattoo over like on

27:57

his chest. Yeah. Yeah He's basically dressed

27:59

and kind of all the

28:01

Capulets are almost like flamenco dancers? A

28:03

little bit, yeah. Shit, I didn't think about that. Their

28:05

movements are very fluid and dancey and

28:08

I do love it. I love when

28:10

they start the gun battle, because Tybalt shoots

28:12

first. Yes. Because Benvolio is like trying to

28:14

keep the piece. His gun is still up.

28:16

Yeah. But he's like, listen, I will, I

28:19

don't want to fight. I'm literally trying to

28:21

stop them. And Tybalt pulls his guns and

28:23

like does this, like he's always like flipping

28:25

them around. But anyway, he shoots two guns.

28:28

Yeah. And I guess both bullets hit

28:30

Benvolio's gun, because you see like sparks come off

28:32

of it and he drops it. I don't know.

28:34

I thought it was hilarious. I loved it. I

28:36

mean, it's damn near impossible. And then

28:38

they do get into this like almost

28:40

like a drive-by fight, because the Montagues

28:43

drive away, the Capulets drive after, but

28:45

we then cut to the news from

28:47

like police helicopters that are just like,

28:49

put the guns down! And we get

28:51

what I think might be the coolest

28:53

shot in this entire movie, which is

28:55

Benvolio with two guns out as the

28:57

wind is blowing his Hawaiian shirt. Yeah.

28:59

Like the wind from the copter. He's

29:01

just like, yeah! Like it looks

29:03

dope. I hope that guy has like a framed picture of

29:05

that on his wall. This scene reminds me of Zoolander.

29:07

Yes. And then I always wondered why the

29:10

cops didn't just like, because there's

29:12

a lot of civilians around there in these

29:14

gunfights. Like. Yes. The cops are in the

29:16

pocket of both the families. Yes. That's why

29:18

it's like a, it's like a mafia town.

29:21

But Captain, the Captain of like the guy

29:23

who like exiles Romeo isn't, and he's very

29:25

frustrated by like what's going on in the

29:27

police force and Loki hates them, but realizes

29:30

he can't necessarily go after them directly. So

29:32

in the play that context is not there.

29:34

In the play that police captain is the

29:36

prince. Yes. Of this nation state. So whatever

29:39

he says goes. So they have a vested

29:41

interest in keeping the beast. Yeah. But yes,

29:43

in this movie, the cops. Anyway,

29:45

it's basically shown on the, this

29:47

like little news footage montage, like

29:50

riots. Yeah. But this one, this

29:52

made me want like a grand theft

29:54

auto Romeo plus Juliet game, because I

29:57

would definitely be a Montague, all seven

29:59

people. country who would love that

30:01

are really cheering out there. Oof, somebody

30:03

call Rockstar, I got a hit! Oh

30:06

man. Anyway, they end up going before

30:09

the police chief, and the police chief

30:11

is talking to both families and is

30:13

like, Yo, if either of you start

30:15

shit again, I'll fucking kill you. Literally.

30:20

Heads up. Which makes a lot more sense in the play

30:22

when it's the prince, and it's like, I will fucking behead

30:24

either of you, I don't give a fuck, I'm the prince.

30:27

Anyway, they're driving away the

30:29

Montagues, Mr. and Mrs. Montagues,

30:31

and they're like, Oh, thank goodness Romeo wasn't

30:33

there, where is Romeo? And Benvolio's like, he's

30:36

sad because of a girl, and they're like, Can you

30:38

go find him and knock off this sad

30:40

boy shit? So they send Benvolio over, and

30:42

Benvolio's just like, Why you be a sad

30:45

boy? And he's just like, Ugh,

30:47

Rosaline! She was, that's what

30:50

made it sucks! Like, he

30:52

is very much like fuckboy energy. Yes. I

30:54

mean, the whole movie, really, like he sort

30:56

of always is that sort of guy, but

30:59

like he just falls in love immediately, and

31:01

like just jumps from one to the next,

31:03

and you know, And love is a strong

31:05

word there. I think if you asked him,

31:08

he would say he wasn't loved, that is

31:10

what I mean. I don't think it actually,

31:12

I don't think anyone experiences anything closely resembling

31:14

love at all in this movie. No. The

31:17

whole movie takes place over like four days.

31:19

Yeah, yeah. Like Rosaline is like, Oh, my

31:21

boyfriend Romeo's mad at me because I won't have

31:23

sex with him until we're married, but he'll calm down

31:25

after a week. I'm sorry, who's dead? Like, who

31:28

was Mary Taha? He

31:30

cheated on me with Asshole the Pirate's

31:32

daughter. Yeah. But

31:35

like it happened so fast. Like,

31:37

it's insane. It's crazy. As

31:39

we're kind of cutting back

31:41

and forth between Benvolio and

31:43

Romeo having a sad boy

31:45

shit to Juliet and her

31:47

nurse. Her nurse played brilliantly

31:49

by Miriam Margolis. Miriam

31:51

Margolis. I'm pronouncing that right. Margolis. The

31:54

mother? No, the nurse. Oh, yeah,

31:56

the nurse. Sorry. Yeah, she's awesome.

31:58

A Brilliant Australian. In Actress who

32:00

I Love in everything she is It. Says

32:03

So Good Or a season Harry Potter legs

32:05

I would. She's Britain. My favorite is

32:07

a black adder. All flock Yeah.

32:10

Like early days Black Adder yes she

32:12

is great See as of are also Little

32:14

Shop of Horrors any number of thing. She

32:16

also see the Who's on the Graham

32:18

Norton show all the time for she doesn't

32:21

know who any young actors are and so

32:23

they book her on the show with people

32:25

as you like. Oh Henry Cavil I've

32:27

never heard of people to a male in

32:30

Israel. Fun! I love that Love and love

32:32

it for her. Ah, But so

32:34

she plays a nurse and see and Juliet

32:36

and Julie it's mom are kind of like

32:39

you're young since you think about getting married

32:41

because it's old times. That also it's New

32:43

Times and that's confusing in this movie. And.

32:46

She's like, well, i feel kind a young

32:48

and her mom like a hot were. I

32:50

definitely I had a baby by the time

32:52

I was your age and then Julius is

32:55

kind of like Ottawa. So last but not

32:57

enough many words know it's. Not as

32:59

a lot Varsity Blues reserves Baz

33:01

Luhrmann Romeo was Juliet Love it.

33:03

Or we got to do Varsity

33:05

Blues. We do just that. We

33:08

can hear that song slowly again.

33:10

But part of the reason that

33:12

they're having this conversation is because

33:14

in this movie Daves Paris in

33:16

the play Paris which this is

33:18

one of the only adaptations that

33:20

includes the character of Paris Most

33:22

movie adaptations and some stage adaptation

33:24

to leave him out completely we're

33:27

always Wilds had been one he.

33:29

Originally dies in the to

33:31

because Romeo seal them. Like

33:33

does allow him to die next to

33:35

Juliet. It's like one final mercy. any

33:38

way. Of finals The Rubble. Move

33:40

but played by young Paul Rudd who

33:42

if you're wondering without looks like and

33:44

looks exactly the same as Paul read

33:47

today because he is a sorcerer who

33:49

drinks the blood of infants allegedly. We've

33:51

hurt. We've heard things. When. people are

33:53

saying people are talking about who were sakuma

33:56

link he has to show that clip of

33:58

mack and me once a year or else

34:00

he withers into the version of an old

34:02

painting in his house. Hell yeah. Yes. He

34:05

looks exactly the same. But he wants to marry Claire Danes. And

34:07

so they're just like, what say you? Think

34:09

of this, happy nights for happy days. And she's like,

34:11

all right, I'll go to the party and see if

34:14

he's cool. I'll see what's poppin'. Cut

34:16

back to Romeo and

34:18

Benvolio. And Romeo's like, so what's

34:20

happening? And he's like, Rosaline! And

34:22

then Mercutio shows up and is

34:24

like, can you stop screaming about

34:26

Rosaline? Here's some fucking ecstasy.

34:29

Stop being a fucking pussy. And

34:31

then he does the Queen Mab speech,

34:33

which is phenomenal. This is my favorite

34:35

version of it. It is incredibly well

34:37

done. And I think pairs very well

34:40

with ecstasy. I feel like that's a natural

34:43

drug and poetry pairing.

34:45

I don't think Mercutio's a true bro. That's all I'm

34:48

saying. I don't know what you mean by that statement.

34:50

How do you mean this? I'm so confused. Yeah, let's

34:52

please dig into this some more. He's not a good

34:54

friend, man. I don't understand how or

34:56

why you think that. Are you saying that

34:58

someone who brings you drugs isn't a

35:00

true friend? Because disagree. I think

35:03

he causes a lot of conflict

35:05

that directly leads to the death

35:07

of Romeo and like... I

35:09

don't think you can blame it

35:12

on Mercutio. I think Tybalt and

35:14

Romeo make choices. All of these

35:16

kids are not actually giving a damn about

35:19

each other and it's just fake. Oh no,

35:21

you're right about that. All Mercutio does

35:23

invite people to parties and be sassy.

35:25

I don't put blame on him for

35:27

pretty much any of it. I don't

35:29

think so either. I think

35:31

he sees his friend getting beat up

35:34

and doesn't handle that well. And

35:36

it cost him his life, unfortunately. But

35:38

yeah, love Mercutio. He's great. But especially

35:40

in this scene where he's just like, I have

35:43

an invitation to the party, let's go to the

35:45

party. I don't... I

35:47

mean, that's all he's really doing. He's like,

35:49

let's get fucking lit and go to this

35:51

party. And it'll be great. We

35:54

have to wear masks anyway. We have to be undercover.

35:56

So like, it'll be great. Yeah, and they're

35:58

not trying to be mean or... Whereas

36:00

the part they're just there to enjoy the party

36:02

and then they leave once they get found out.

36:04

a. Legit are just like, how about a

36:06

good sign? Yeah, Yeah yeah yeah so

36:08

we get Romeo with his fame

36:10

is like oh this seems like

36:13

a bad idea but. Ecstasy

36:16

let though And cut

36:18

to the party, which

36:20

is like a five

36:23

to ten minute long

36:25

montage of just access,

36:27

party access, wildness. But. It's

36:30

done through Mercutio in full as

36:32

rug and a white palmed a

36:34

wig. Love their heads dancing and

36:36

singing. Emily Good so for itself

36:39

once he is out there. Lived.

36:41

A sinking for his lives on.

36:44

he has therefore it It was

36:46

amazed to. Young hearts run free

36:48

and and a lady who sings

36:50

after hit. Because like he's like

36:52

lips thinking that song and under Villeneuve takes

36:55

over and things are other floors on kissing

36:57

his he crosses the to it's so good.

36:59

Yes. It is amazing. I do also like.

37:02

That. So I believe him. Result

37:04

of the artists that does young hearts

37:06

run free. Yeah they have like a

37:08

disco max but then they have the

37:10

slowed max that they basically play. Almost

37:12

like the warping of your brain on

37:15

drugs. just. Like. Oh

37:17

No. No Like oh

37:19

cool. But. Party Party Party Party

37:21

Party. Everywhere The party, but pretty much the.

37:23

Next day we get is there meet you. Through.

37:26

What is a mistake that

37:28

separates the men and women's

37:31

bathrooms? So. Like think you

37:33

can just see into the other

37:35

bathroom Food assistance kinky I say

37:37

and under the say this like

37:39

things look bigger through double pane

37:41

glass filled with water so don't

37:43

expect as much. We have a

37:45

six three bars here that have

37:47

just like one bathroom for men

37:49

and women to go into. It's

37:51

them. While super normal here. Big

37:53

Apple the all the stalls of doors so

37:55

like. Yes, patrol, Wash your hands

37:57

together. No fish tanks even block.

38:00

Honestly, like yeah, that's not weird. I don't like that's

38:02

cool as long as like yeah, I'm fine They have

38:04

doors that close, you know, I don't care Yeah That

38:06

was I so that was the case when I went to

38:08

Europe the first time as a teenager That was the first

38:10

time I had ever seen that and then

38:13

I came back here It was like honestly was

38:15

not that like it seemed pretty normal and then

38:17

it took like another 10 years For

38:19

it to happen here and now it's pretty

38:22

normal here Yeah, anyway

38:24

the bathroom with the fish tank with

38:26

the deserate song, which is beautiful It's

38:29

really sweet man. They do have chemistry

38:31

through that glass man They do

38:33

but I would trim the fuck out of this scene.

38:35

It goes on Even

38:40

though I love the song they do have chemistry

38:42

it's shot really cool. I understand disagree loved

38:44

it Don't cut a frame three times

38:46

longer than it needs to be I

38:48

yeah, probably but do I love it?

38:50

Yeah I love everything about

38:53

it. Sure. Yeah, they come out

38:55

and Tybalt is like,

38:57

um, I'm pretty sure that's fucking Romeo

38:59

and I'm a fuck his shit up

39:02

But head Montague no head

39:04

Capulet, right? Sorry is

39:06

like don't we're having a party

39:09

Quit being a fucking asshole Romeo wasn't

39:11

even there today and everyone says he's

39:13

pretty cool So as long as they're

39:15

just gonna be here and party and

39:17

not be dicks just let it go

39:19

and have a party Yeah, I mean

39:22

he's freshly off being scolded by the chief

39:24

of police for lack of a better term Who

39:27

would like pretty much told him anything

39:29

that your family's cause I'm gonna hold

39:31

you personally responsible, right? Yeah, so like

39:33

if anything breaks out, especially at his

39:35

own house He's gonna be like going

39:37

to jail or like right getting killed

39:39

or exiled or whatever So like he

39:41

is also like pretty stern with Tybalt

39:43

here like he smacks him. He's like,

39:45

don't you fucking dare do shit? Yeah,

39:47

I'll kick your ass. Yes, but Tybalt

39:49

doesn't handle this. Well, I guess is

39:51

my point. No But

39:54

and Tybalt's mad about it. So he goes and sulks

39:56

away cuz he is the pest I mean, he's

39:58

also the pest in this movie, too Mikey,

40:00

you were right about that. He is also

40:02

Juliet's mother's cousin, if I

40:05

remember my charts

40:07

correctly. Anyway, we cut

40:09

to, in the party, after

40:12

the bathroom, Claire Danes goes and dances with Paul

40:14

Rudd, but as she kind of

40:16

gets like separated from him at the party,

40:19

Leonardo DiCaprio kept stealing her away to the

40:21

like, love's holy kiss, that whole scene from

40:23

the play. They're just like making out in

40:25

hallways and good for them. They're actually

40:27

in an elevator, yeah. And they're like going

40:29

from floor to floor, because when

40:31

the doors close, it's like the only time people

40:34

aren't around them, because the party's like fucking packed.

40:36

So yeah, they're like stealing kisses in these like

40:38

little moments in between them going between the floors.

40:41

Yep, it's like Gatsby. It's

40:43

funny you should say that, because he did a

40:45

version of Gatsby too. I know. I

40:47

was gonna say, I was like, yeah. Anyway, they are

40:50

found out, they all leave the party, or at least

40:52

the Montagues all leave the party. With Leonardo

40:54

DiCaprio. Yeah, I in truth

40:56

don't like Gatsby that much,

40:59

one of my least favorite books that I've

41:01

read. Really? I like Gatsby. Yeah, I just

41:03

don't care for the story. But I realize

41:05

a lot of people do, I'm not, whatever,

41:08

it's not my fave. But I

41:10

like that version of the movie, because it's

41:12

like campy and silly. Anyway. I

41:14

think I only saw that movie once. I

41:16

like barely remember it. I liked the book

41:18

though. I like the book, I like the

41:20

Robert Redford one, I like that one too. I

41:22

like Gatsby. I like it. I think my boy

41:25

What's His Face can tell a mean guy who

41:27

can't get over one girl kind of story. I

41:29

mean that is for Scott Fitzgerald. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,

41:31

yeah. F Scott. I know it's

41:33

F Scott, I just like saying for Scott.

41:35

For Scott. For Scott Fitzgerald. I do, and

41:37

hey, come at me, don't, I don't have

41:40

time to answer comments about this, but I'm

41:42

gonna say it anyway. I feel like Saltburn

41:44

is horror Gatsby. Okay. Right?

41:47

I can see that. I felt a lot of

41:49

Gatsby vibes on that. Yeah. His one we got

41:51

away was a conscious or soul or emotion. Yeah,

41:53

well he is definitely a serial

41:55

killer. I don't remember Nick Carriaway

41:58

drinking a bathtub. I

42:01

mean, that's they don't include Nick

42:03

Nick would never do that Gatsby would do anything

42:05

to get back with what's her face the green

42:07

light. That's fucking right Also,

42:11

it's not bathtub full of cum It's

42:13

just there was some cum in the

42:15

water and then the bathtub drain and

42:17

he licked the drain and honestly don't

42:19

lick drains In general come or otherwise

42:21

drains are gross No one has

42:24

ever said anything about salt burn that

42:26

made me think I'd like to watch

42:28

it. You'd hate it I don't think

42:30

you'll like it. You'd hate it. I Vibes

42:32

I vibe with it like Jake

42:35

and I both watch it. We were like I caught

42:37

this kind of slaps I kind of

42:39

liked it, but I understand other people not

42:42

feeling the same way and that's okay

42:44

He also eats a girl out on her period spoilers

42:47

Which Gatsby would do any of those

42:49

things to get with I forgot her

42:51

name. That's me is single. What's her

42:53

name? Gatsby got around

42:55

a little bit, but he had one goal

42:58

He did everything in his life with that

43:00

woman he like he can't have money

43:02

Christos himself basically But not that

43:04

ends well for him, right doesn't it? Oh god.

43:06

No revenge is bad for everybody, but so

43:08

are you Batman? What are we doing? Yeah, I

43:10

don't know. We got off a tent Anyway, will

43:13

you guys start talking about Gatsby and we spiraled

43:15

that's where back to this movie? They're stealing kisses,

43:17

but then the Montagues decide to leave because they're

43:19

like this party's getting hot I am trying to

43:21

get into no shit tonight. Let's go But

43:24

Romeo's like no I am in love with

43:26

someone. I just met which no But

43:29

that's what he thinks and so he goes to

43:31

the balcony Exactly, but his version of

43:33

like I'm in love with this girl is like she

43:36

hot Yeah, like she was hot and she seemed into

43:38

me like that's his version of in love Yeah,

43:41

and they never really get past that stage

43:44

No, because they are young in this only lasts a

43:46

couple days But so they go to the back he

43:48

goes to the balcony and is the butts off with

43:50

light three under window breaks Yes, the

43:52

one we all know unless except it's at the

43:55

pool not the balcony Well, she comes down

43:57

and then into the pool the elevator. Yeah,

43:59

which is Very hot no

44:01

complaints. Yeah, I like it. I think it's

44:03

great I think these two kids are gonna be pretty

44:05

and famous when they grow up Hey,

44:08

all I'm saying is like this era

44:10

Leonardo DiCaprio I think all of us

44:12

would have enjoyed being wet and pressed

44:14

up against him I'm a hardcore disagree with

44:17

you on that. Would you say that to

44:19

Gilbert Gray? I mean way to wreck it

44:23

That's this error that's this That's

44:26

before this is Titanic era Leo,

44:28

which again I still not have

44:31

not seen page We're gonna have

44:33

to do a two-parter on that bitch There's

44:35

a lot going on in that movie And

44:38

Mikey's gonna have a lot to say

44:40

about the specific town that built the

44:42

boat the Titanic. Oh god, we can't

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44:46

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44:49

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47:11

they are like okay. Well, I'll see you. I'll send a message to

47:13

you tomorrow. Don't worry about it I'm gonna talk to a priest we're

47:15

gonna figure it out the next day

47:18

Leonardo DiCaprio goes to the apothecary Slash

47:20

priest yeah in this film who is

47:22

the only one speaking in I am

47:24

big pentameter. It is very nice I

47:26

don't let a little boys around him. Yeah, he's a

47:29

priest. You're right. He's a priest. He

47:31

has singing sensation Quinden Tarver

47:34

Singing the cover of when doves

47:36

cry, but then also singing everybody's

47:38

free at the end gorgeous Gorgeous

47:41

voice that is the whole reason I

47:43

bought the soundtrack is that cover of

47:45

when doves cry? Yeah, I mean it's

47:47

really good Fucking slaps. Yeah,

47:49

this is where he's like hey Will

47:51

you marry us and he's like two

47:53

teenagers that want to enter into legal

47:55

binding documents? Sure. Let's go And

47:58

he's like perfect. We'll get get

48:00

the message to Juliet and then we

48:02

will get hitched. So he

48:04

goes to the beach where he runs

48:06

into Mercutio and Benvolio and he's like,

48:09

I'm happy. Who's Rosaline? I don't

48:11

care anymore. I am still coming

48:14

down from my Molly high. I

48:18

mean, he hasn't been to bed. Like he

48:20

like, yeah, stayed up all night, fallen in

48:22

love with Juliet when he said maybe literally

48:24

80 words to her. Sure.

48:27

Not even, not even. It's not love.

48:29

It's just like, Hey, there's a girl

48:31

who's hot who's into me energy. I

48:34

fell in love with the hottest girl my age

48:36

at the party. That's that old story. How

48:39

many times have you done that while 15?

48:41

I don't trust a hot person. I

48:45

don't trust hot people. They want my kidney.

48:47

That's true. Or my emotional validation.

48:49

Mostly kidney. If

48:51

you're, if you're out there and

48:53

have done Molly for a night, thought you fell in

48:55

love with someone and then got up the next day

48:58

to try and do errands, you might

49:00

emphasize with Romeo in this film, because

49:03

that's not the best time to be making life

49:05

decisions. No. Cause you might realize who

49:07

you fell in love with was just a really

49:09

furry wall you were rubbed up against. It's

49:11

happened to the best of us. Look, I had that

49:13

great first date. And then I remember that she

49:15

told me she read my comp in 100 reasons

49:18

again. And then like, I was, you know, I

49:20

was like, wait a minute, that's a huge red

49:22

flag. The thing that's funny about that is that is

49:24

a, the actual story. Like

49:26

that happened to you. Yeah. Yes.

49:28

And I think it got cut out of the episode we

49:30

talked about it in. I don't remember if it did or

49:33

not. Don't know if it did or not, but

49:35

it's okay. That's recent though. Like that's what in

49:37

the past two months, right? Sadly, best date I've

49:39

been on in like eight weeks. Maybe

49:43

it was flirty fishing page. Oh God.

49:45

They do flirty fish. Yeah, they do. The white

49:48

supremacists, but only for other whites.

49:50

So they're just like, we want to

49:52

perpetuate the peanut allergies. Are

49:54

we going to do our strength? It's

49:57

bad. Don't do that. Diversity helps everyone. Anyway,

50:00

so the nurse shows up at the

50:02

beach and is just like Juliette says

50:04

that she'll marry you if you guys

50:07

want to get married and he's like

50:09

well that's perfect because I just scheduled

50:11

our wedding. What up? At this point I

50:13

would have been out at that trailer out of town

50:15

because I was like whoa! We made

50:18

it out in a pool! And

50:21

she sent her nurse to say I will

50:23

marry you. I'd be like I'm

50:26

already rich. No! Anywho.

50:29

And she's like of course I will meet her there and the

50:31

nurse is like okay fine I will go tell her. So

50:34

the nurse goes back and this is where we get the cardigan song

50:36

that like love me love me

50:38

and she's like getting dressed like I'm gonna

50:40

get married with the cast. Which

50:42

is the funniest part of Hot Fuzz

50:45

where they just do the last scene

50:47

with all the like fluorescent lights and he's like

50:49

and with this god I die. Love

50:52

me love me save me. And the

50:54

whole cast is dancing. It is the

50:56

best. It's such a great cutaway.

51:00

So she's gonna get married. They get married.

51:03

In the church she's wearing a

51:05

wild 90s

51:08

like shirt dress vest

51:10

sort of situation. And

51:12

also how does she get, well I guess her

51:14

nurse must have taken her. But I was like

51:17

this seems oddly convenient and like they didn't have

51:19

to hide from anyone at all but fine. Well

51:21

she was already, she already had leave

51:23

to go to confession or whatever so like.

51:25

Oh that's right. No you're right. Her

51:27

parents thought she was going to confession and

51:30

she probably pulled off one of those like

51:32

changing in the car type situations because she

51:34

does like show up in a full ass

51:36

like wedding ass dress kind of thing you

51:38

know. Well it's just a white dress. Well yeah yeah

51:40

yeah but like what is she

51:42

a ghost in South Korea page?

51:45

Like everybody knows that that means

51:47

she's getting married today. Miss

51:49

Lemon why are you wearing white? Did a Korean

51:51

person die? She is

51:53

literally going to meet the

51:56

most badass priest I've ever seen

51:58

and get married to. a guy

52:00

she just met. Yeah. She's like,

52:02

forgive me father for I'm about

52:04

to SIN A BUNCH all

52:07

night long. I guess you're married. It would

52:09

be a sin. It would be a marriage. Yeah. It

52:11

would be married. It would be very good. Yeah. Thanks

52:13

for everyone. I mean. That's why they had to get

52:15

married, man. They're still teenagers. I mean, this is

52:17

why a lot of people get married and I'm here

52:19

to tell you don't get married if that's the only

52:21

reason. Um, yeah. Don't do that,

52:23

guys. I almost got married to steal

52:25

an alliance between a rival gang and

52:28

my family's gang. Uh... But unfortunately,

52:30

it didn't work out. I'm so sorry. Pizzarina

52:33

Sbarro is still single if

52:35

you're still interested. Of the Vermont

52:37

Pizzarina Sbarros. Oh my God. Am

52:39

I the next pick? Am I the

52:41

next pick? No, I'm the next pick. I don't know

52:43

what I'm going to do though. Okay, good. Because

52:45

I have picked my pick. You're not

52:48

going to do after two electric afterlou?

52:50

I might do my favorite version of

52:52

Romeo and Juliet where it's about two

52:54

rival pizza places. Oh, Mikey.

52:56

I know exactly what you're talking

52:58

about. With Hayden Christensen? Yes, it's

53:00

fucking terrible! Oh! The

53:02

one they shot entirely in Toronto and like

53:05

dyed his hair poorly black? Mikey, do you

53:07

want me to pick it instead so you can pick

53:09

after? I will do that for you. Uh-huh. I'll

53:11

pick after my next six picks if we do it.

53:14

The movie is called Little Italy, right? Little Italy. Let

53:16

me make sure it's three. It

53:18

is called Little Italy. I... Oh,

53:21

it's everywhere for free. Ha ha

53:23

ha ha ha! Um,

53:26

I had a huge crush on Hayden Christensen back

53:28

in the day. I will willingly pick that. I'm

53:30

a big fan of his. He did this one

53:32

indie movie that I was weirdly obsessed with

53:34

that I think is actually really, really good

53:36

about... Star Wars? Yeah. No, no.

53:39

It's called Shattered Glass, but it's about... Journalists.

53:42

Yeah. Journalists who lied about every story

53:44

he ever wrote. It's a really good movie. It's

53:46

a really good film, but he got Star

53:49

Wars cursed for like 10 years. Yeah, he

53:51

did. Yeah, he did. Anyway,

53:53

so they get married.

53:55

Meanwhile, on the beach, the Capulets

53:58

and the Montagues are out. and

54:00

they are trading insults and who

54:02

should run up but Romeo. And

54:04

then Tybalt says one of my

54:06

favorite lines, and I feel like

54:09

in the play it doesn't carry as much

54:11

weight as this movie

54:13

because John Leguizamo delivers it fucking

54:17

wild. And like it's the one thing I

54:19

remember about his character in this movie every

54:21

time where he just says, Romeo, thou art

54:23

a villain! And you're like, oh my god.

54:25

Oh, crazy. He says it

54:27

like it's an actual fucking insult. Like

54:30

by saying that, he is like gonna

54:32

scandalize the people around that hear him

54:34

say that. That is how he delivers

54:36

that line page. And I agree. He

54:38

crushes it. Well, that, I mean, let's

54:40

say hypothetically someone you made angry on

54:42

a date posts and says you're a

54:44

villain on a Facebook group full of

54:46

single women in your city. Oh my

54:48

god, Mikey. I completely forgot about that.

54:51

It can't work pretty effectively as a

54:53

cyberbullying slash insult kind of technique. Thou

54:55

art a villain! That was just

54:57

not a hero. I can't believe she

54:59

got she attacked you on that. Are

55:01

we dating the same guy in Nashville

55:03

Facebook forum? In iambic pentameter. It happens.

55:06

Mikey, thou art a villain. One man's a hero

55:08

is another man's villain. I don't know. Great

55:11

men never have no enemies is what the...

55:13

Chaos is a ladder as we

55:15

learned. Chaos is a ladder. As Littlefinger

55:17

once said, yeah. That's our phrase

55:19

of the day. Anyway, Mercutio

55:22

goes to draw and Tybalt also draws

55:24

and Romeo gets in the middle and

55:26

is like, hey, no, hey, we're not

55:28

gonna fight. Yeah, because he like pulls

55:30

up right there and he sees them and

55:32

he's like, he runs up and tries to

55:34

like separate them and stop them. And Tybalt

55:36

is like not having it. Yeah, because he's

55:38

not a good dude. No, Tybalt

55:41

is what we would call reactionary.

55:44

And he they get into like an all out

55:46

fight. He falls through a pane of broken glass

55:49

and he reaches up with that pane of glass

55:51

like a shard of it and stabs Mercutio. Yeah,

55:54

like slices his stomach. Which like if

55:56

that happened today, he'd probably be fine

55:58

if he got medical treatment immediately. Sure.

56:00

Oh, it's also on the left side and

56:03

there's really nothing over there except like a

56:05

appendix So you're saying he was doing him

56:07

a favor page. Come on. Yeah, exactly You

56:10

want to get stabbed on the left the right side's

56:12

liver livers back. Don't get stabbed in the liver. Oh

56:15

Okay, so cheat left if somebody's ever trying

56:17

to stab at you and leave the knife

56:20

in yeah, I have heard Yeah, and

56:22

take a selfie cuz like what

56:24

a cool pick that was Like

56:31

and subscribe every a standard shot. I'm

56:33

like totally story ended up on my

56:35

like, oh I've been shot Anonymous

56:41

AMA is what it would be though

56:43

page which I will not be leaving

56:45

the hospital under Nailed

56:48

it Mikey. That was great. I made jokes. Yeah.

56:50

Yeah People have

56:52

left all the nurses you've dated have

56:55

just laughed for the first time while he ain't

56:57

listening to this podcast Alright

56:59

one guy who laughed at my Ninja Turtle joke last

57:01

week is laughing right now It actually was more than

57:03

one guy there were a bunch of people that said

57:05

on Facebook They loved that joke because they all

57:08

know that Donatello is a fucking nerd and Raphael is

57:10

the best And Leo is

57:12

what Chad's love There's a version of Ninja

57:14

Turtles where they all get murdered except Michelangelo

57:16

and it becomes like an ultimate John Wick

57:19

badass Yeah, it's called the last Ronin. They're

57:21

making a thing about it. Yeah, most of

57:23

big good The actual like comic books are

57:26

great. The movies are lovely shit after the

57:28

first three. Yeah, it's like Walking Dead The

57:30

books were good. Yeah comic was good Anyway,

57:33

so Mercutio is dead and

57:35

now Romeo loses his shit and now he

57:37

kills Tybalt or he's got to kill Tybalt

57:40

But Tybalt runs away so he gets in

57:42

his car crashes his car into him This

57:44

is like straight-up grand theft auto Verona Beach.

57:46

Yeah, like it's crazy They get out

57:49

of the cars because they do crash the

57:51

car playing chicken. Yes, and then like there's

57:53

this like really emotionally

57:55

crazy exchange where

57:58

like yeah people pulls gone

58:00

on Romeo who's like walking towards him after

58:02

the car crash and he's like Timbal it's

58:04

more or less like stop coming

58:06

at me I'm gonna shoot you I'm gonna

58:09

shoot you. And then Romeo's like either

58:12

me or you or both of

58:14

us have to go with Mercutio.

58:16

Yeah it's a very famous line

58:18

of like Mercutio's soul hangs in

58:21

the heavens above us either

58:23

thou or I or both

58:25

must go with him yeah.

58:28

It is such an insane like that's

58:30

an insane line to say to anybody.

58:32

It's great hardcore it goes hard. It's

58:34

so well delivered it's so well acted

58:36

but like it visibly

58:38

freaks Tim Holt out.

58:41

Oh my god this dude must

58:43

have been fucking Mercutio right? Am

58:45

I right? I just don't like

58:47

this glorification of gang

58:49

violence from 1624 I

58:52

don't love it. I

58:55

also I'm gonna say when you're coming down

58:58

from psychedelics hallucinogens there can

59:00

be an emotional adjustment period and

59:02

you should not operate

59:04

firearms during that time. Or get

59:06

married to someone you met the night

59:09

before. What is this

59:12

Brittany in Vegas in

59:14

2004? Hey hey she was acting out she

59:16

had never been allowed freedom before. George Costanza.

59:18

Yeah no no no Jason Alexander. I love

59:21

that you think she married fucking

59:23

George Costanza from Seinfeld when

59:32

the dude's name just happened to be

59:34

Jason Alexander which is the same name

59:36

as the guy who played George Costanza

59:39

on Seinfeld. That

59:41

is how I remember though. That right

59:44

there is exactly the way Mikey's brain

59:46

works. Yeah. Adiation. I love that. And

59:48

I appreciate it. Yeah same it's so

59:51

great. I like picturing Brittany with George

59:53

Costanza every time. Me too. I feel

59:55

like he would have treated her better. Maybe.

59:57

Than JT at least. Oh villain.

1:00:00

Justin Timberlake, that warden villain! I

1:00:02

have tickets to see him here. You

1:00:05

need to make a poster

1:00:07

board that says that and bring it.

1:00:09

That warden villain! I

1:00:12

would be, I mean I'm sure a bunch of people are

1:00:14

gonna go, but I also feel like only his first two

1:00:16

albums are good. Yeah, that's why I go to see

1:00:18

all the bands I go to see. They

1:00:21

got two good albums and they're like, that's fun.

1:00:23

Name a band that has like seven good

1:00:25

albums. Lady Gaga, Beyonce, I

1:00:27

guess those are people not bands. I don't know if

1:00:29

he met all musicians, but...

1:00:31

Elton John. None of those were bands.

1:00:34

Again, these are single people. None of them are bands.

1:00:37

Single band, well single people too. I

1:00:39

mean like, oh okay, okay, okay, then all those would count.

1:00:41

Yeah. Yeah, because Justin Timberlake's a single person,

1:00:44

so is Pitbull. Yeah, I like singles. I

1:00:46

don't like albums. I'm like, just release the two songs

1:00:48

that are good. I don't need the ten others. I

1:00:50

mean sometimes there are some gems in those

1:00:52

tens. Sometimes not. Sometimes not, but I would

1:00:55

say a lot of times there are. J.Lo

1:00:57

just canceled her Nashville tour spot. She canceled

1:00:59

a bunch of stuff due to no interest.

1:01:02

Little really, she's just not selling tickets. Yeah.

1:01:05

Well yeah, because we could just go listen

1:01:07

to Christine Emiliaon instead. You

1:01:10

know who did sell out? Juvenile. That's

1:01:12

a sprechen at all. Me either. I

1:01:14

get it. Man, I couldn't go. You

1:01:16

know who's selling tickets like crazy? Fucking Ludacris.

1:01:18

And I am so happy for him. My

1:01:20

buddy Chris Bridges is doing well. Chris. Ludacris

1:01:22

Bridges. I wish he'd act more. I

1:01:25

saw him at concert last summer. I know. I'm

1:01:27

still jealous. Oh,

1:01:31

that's right. You want with your brother. I remember. Yeah. Anyway,

1:01:34

back to this movie. So. So

1:01:36

anyway, we also cut from like

1:01:38

Tybale and Romeo like fighting literally

1:01:40

to the death. To like

1:01:43

Claire Danes as Juliet. Like I just

1:01:45

got married and I haven't been fucked

1:01:47

yet. Like she's like having that conversation

1:01:50

with herself while we're watching Romeo kill

1:01:52

her cousin. It's like

1:01:54

right. It's same. Well, and we cut

1:01:56

back back to like she's having that conversation

1:01:58

that we cut to her. mom being

1:02:00

mad because like Tybalt is dead, it's

1:02:03

her cousin and the police are mad

1:02:05

they're hunting Romeo in copters and he

1:02:07

runs to the priest. He's

1:02:09

got five stars on Grand Theft Auto right now.

1:02:11

100% yes. I'm not super

1:02:13

close with my cousin so like this isn't

1:02:16

a deal breaker for me. It depends on

1:02:18

the cousin. It sounds like he might be

1:02:20

doing some of y'all a favor. I

1:02:22

mean yeah depending on the cousin. Anyway

1:02:24

he goes to the priest and the

1:02:26

priest is like go get that puss

1:02:28

and then we'll figure it out. Yeah

1:02:31

he is sort of like that vibe.

1:02:33

This is where he gives him the that

1:02:35

Hawaiian shirt he's wearing pretty much the rest

1:02:38

of the movie too. Yes. Originally his shirt.

1:02:40

Right. But yeah like he very much is

1:02:42

like hey man the prince is gonna like

1:02:44

banish you or whatever. He's actually like oh

1:02:46

wait do we say the prince banished him?

1:02:50

So that happened literally in the scene before

1:02:52

and the prince from the helicopter is like

1:02:54

all I punished Romeo will be banished

1:02:56

and you're like alright. Yeah yeah yeah. So

1:02:58

like Romeo gets there to the priest's place

1:03:01

and Romeo's like oh I fucked up my life

1:03:03

by killing Quibble like it's over they

1:03:05

should kill me I'd rather be dead

1:03:07

than banished and the priest is like

1:03:10

bro your life's on fucking easy

1:03:12

street. You got to kill your

1:03:15

enemy and you're not. Yes you

1:03:17

killed your main enemy. And you're not

1:03:19

in trouble for it you're just banished. Be

1:03:21

happy about that. You married a beautiful woman.

1:03:24

Be happy about that. Like he's like I

1:03:26

don't know I see a lot of positives and he's the

1:03:28

one that sets up like go to what

1:03:31

is it? Mantua. Go to Mantua. I'll set

1:03:33

it all up. We'll figure it out

1:03:36

and in his mind the priest is like

1:03:38

them getting married is going to solve all

1:03:40

the violence in the city right? Right right

1:03:42

right. They're going to like join the families

1:03:44

together. I think that that is his

1:03:47

motivation. He's like I'm going to sort this out because

1:03:49

he wants to do something good. Like I really do

1:03:51

think the priest is a good guy. Sure sure

1:03:53

sure sure. And like it just

1:03:55

fucking backfires because he can't give

1:03:57

FedEx to deliver a package and

1:03:59

that. to me is so funny. Yeah.

1:04:02

Well, the plan is a little convoluted

1:04:04

here. Yeah, it's insane, but like. This

1:04:06

is not a good

1:04:08

plan in any measure of plans.

1:04:11

No, because Juliet, after this next

1:04:13

scene, should leave with Romeo. Yes.

1:04:16

And they should just go to Mantua and

1:04:18

be like. Yeah, happy. Any plan,

1:04:21

listeners listen to me, any plan that

1:04:23

involves faking a death is not

1:04:25

a good plan. Don't do that plan.

1:04:27

It's always bad. Yeah. If

1:04:30

you're snapping, all of that's bad. Very

1:04:32

hard to pull off. Don't do

1:04:34

it. Hey, I plan on doing it some days. So

1:04:37

just like, I know what you're saying, but like, I'm

1:04:39

gonna do me. One

1:04:41

day you're gonna get a notification that I

1:04:43

died, but really, I'm living up my days

1:04:45

as a pirate in a Patagonia. Like that's,

1:04:47

it's just gonna be me. I get the vibe

1:04:50

that you'd want to like Tom Sawyer hucks in

1:04:52

your wedding. You'd be like in the rafters. You

1:04:54

mean my funeral? That's 100%. Oh,

1:04:56

that's what I meant. Yeah, not wedding funeral. Sorry. I

1:04:59

went from my Facebook to Memorial mode and just

1:05:02

walk off and let people think I died

1:05:04

and then I didn't. That's like the walking

1:05:06

off into the sunset of our generation. Yeah.

1:05:09

Like legally still alive, legally having

1:05:11

the job, but everybody's like, have

1:05:13

you checked his Instagram? Like he

1:05:15

died. Anyway, don't fake your death. I don't

1:05:17

have a lot to talk about this episode, so I'm trying. Or do,

1:05:19

or do fake your death and

1:05:21

tell everyone that you're baked into the lasagna

1:05:23

at your funeral and then watch them like

1:05:26

not enjoy eating it. Now that, you

1:05:28

know, I'm, I've come back around. Yeah, come

1:05:30

back around. Or just kill her whole family.

1:05:33

Oh God. There are easier solutions

1:05:35

is what we're saying, Paige. She

1:05:38

could go with them. He could just kill all of

1:05:40

them, which they probably tried to have been doing that

1:05:42

for years. Well, they're terrible at it.

1:05:44

They live next door to each other. According to this

1:05:46

film, they, they live in the same city. They're not

1:05:48

next door to each other. No, the towers are next

1:05:50

to each other. Yeah, they're next to each other. I

1:05:53

mean, okay. So like guilty is charged.

1:05:55

I suppose like their corporate offices. They're

1:05:57

across the street. Yes. Yeah.

1:06:00

like one sniper. Maybe

1:06:02

instead of using a rapier brand gun they

1:06:04

should use a fucking Glock. How dare you

1:06:07

the guns in this movie are perfect. They're

1:06:09

labeled for children. It's like this is a

1:06:11

9mm on the side of the gun. The

1:06:13

guns have jewelry on them Mikey and then

1:06:16

they spin them around and it's beautiful. It's

1:06:18

crazy. Todd I'm gonna tell you something. You

1:06:20

would love the cartels. What do you mean?

1:06:23

Or gun kata. What do you mean what I mean?

1:06:26

The cartels have guns like this. They use guns

1:06:28

like this. This is a real thing.

1:06:30

These guns exist. Oh awesome. I

1:06:32

want one. Hahaha. They're like

1:06:34

I reverse all my stances on gun control

1:06:36

as long as I have one of these

1:06:38

pretty cool guns. I would never buy bullets

1:06:41

for it. Are you kidding me? I want you

1:06:43

to join a cartel. They

1:06:45

would never let him in but they could.

1:06:47

They're like how many kilos could we fit

1:06:49

in those layers? Ooh. Todd be

1:06:51

like I don't know how to measure a kilo.

1:06:53

I'm from America. I also do

1:06:55

want to point out that I literally got

1:06:57

back from Miami this morning and I'm going

1:07:00

again in two days for

1:07:02

like almost a week. So like you

1:07:04

need to google cartel guns. They're

1:07:06

like even more gaudy than these

1:07:08

guns. Oh yeah they're wild. Oh

1:07:10

I have some googling to do.

1:07:12

They're call of duty level skins

1:07:14

of guns. I'm pulling some up right

1:07:16

now. Will you let me share my screen? Fuck

1:07:19

yes I will. Are you kidding me? You're

1:07:21

about to have your mind fucking blown. Oh my god this one

1:07:23

looks like R2-D2. What? Does

1:07:26

it make the sound when it shoots? No I

1:07:28

think it does. I think it does. Those

1:07:30

people. Yeah you pointed at

1:07:32

things you want to die. Share

1:07:35

screens. Oh and like there's a lot

1:07:37

of casual like gunplay where like

1:07:39

you're pointing guns at your friend

1:07:41

in this movie. Like the

1:07:44

gun safety in this movie is off the

1:07:46

charts bad. I'm not saying it's as bad

1:07:48

as the production of Rust but like it's

1:07:50

bad. Here's the R2-D2 one. I don't like

1:07:53

the R2-D2 one. I

1:07:55

like the golden one. Look at that steampunk looking

1:07:57

one. That looks awesome.

1:08:00

Guys! I know, look at that AK. Look

1:08:02

at this big shotgun one, this is

1:08:04

Diamond AKs. I have a question

1:08:07

right now. Oh that looks fucking dope. I

1:08:09

know, these look awesome. Guys, I think we

1:08:11

need to get exhibit and call MTZ. To

1:08:13

pimp up guns? Yes. So you want

1:08:15

to be a player, but your gun

1:08:17

ain't fly, you need to pimp my

1:08:19

gun. Hell yeah, cause I want to see exhibit turn

1:08:22

someone's gun into the one thing

1:08:24

we learn about that person every

1:08:26

episode. You need to hit us up

1:08:28

to get a pimped out gap. Anyway,

1:08:30

POD. Yeah. I

1:08:32

bet it's possible to buy a gun like that

1:08:34

at a gun show. I ain't gonna go to

1:08:37

a gun show. I bet they're very expensive. They

1:08:39

are probably expensive. I'm never gonna buy one either,

1:08:41

and I don't really want one. I just think

1:08:43

they look cool as shit. I also like ornate

1:08:45

swords and stuff, like it's just cool. You

1:08:47

just a foosy ass bee. Mikey,

1:08:51

I don't ever want to own one. They're just cool looking.

1:08:54

I can't, I can't, anytime someone says

1:08:56

I like ornate swords, I just like

1:08:58

ugh. But I would never

1:09:00

own one. How many of you heard someone

1:09:02

say the phrase, I like ornate swords? This

1:09:05

has to be the only time. No, I

1:09:08

mean like the swords. Guys, hey, you

1:09:10

don't think, guys by themselves are terrible.

1:09:12

The swords from the Princess Bride are

1:09:14

awesome. You cannot say they're not. I

1:09:17

have exclusively had sex with men

1:09:20

who own swords, so I know

1:09:22

about your sword obsession as a

1:09:24

gender. I understand.

1:09:27

I've never owned a sword, but

1:09:29

I understand the appeal is all

1:09:31

I'm saying. There are swords in

1:09:33

my home because of this. For basic

1:09:35

protection. Yeah, I mean obviously Paige.

1:09:38

Melee weapons, of course. Isn't

1:09:40

it pronounced melee, Mikey? Isn't that what you said?

1:09:43

Melee? I know, it

1:09:45

was like, that's an old, old joke, but

1:09:47

Mikey once said melee instead of melee. I

1:09:49

don't remember that. Anyway, so

1:09:51

meanwhile, back at Julia's house, Paul Rudd is

1:09:54

there like, hey, can I like marry your

1:09:56

daughter? And they're like, yeah, how about Thursday?

1:09:58

He's like, Thursday sounds great. Meanwhile. Leonardo

1:10:00

DiCaprio is balls fucking deep.

1:10:03

Yeah. Meanwhile that conversation

1:10:05

about can I marry your daughter

1:10:07

was between Paul Rudd and Juliet's

1:10:09

dad like it was like a

1:10:11

business negotiation. Yes. Yeah, this is

1:10:13

from old times. Yeah, but yeah, meanwhile Romeo

1:10:17

getting in yeah. Yeah, I mean I

1:10:19

do think they have chemistry. I'll just say

1:10:21

it that way like sure Are

1:10:24

into it? Yeah, but so was I

1:10:26

my first time or whatever I

1:10:28

would hope everyone has a first time where they are

1:10:30

into it. That would be my hope for

1:10:32

people I mean I was into it literally.

1:10:34

Yeah What I

1:10:36

thought was really messed up is like when

1:10:38

like right before he comes back He

1:10:41

like reveals to Juliet that it was all

1:10:43

a dare That

1:10:46

real dare makes way more sense on the plot

1:10:49

that they said in the Facebook I know

1:10:51

I told Todd about it while you were on the phone,

1:10:53

but you read it in the Facebook. Yeah I saw a

1:10:55

post about it too. Yeah, cuz it doesn't make way more sense

1:10:58

But it makes it the movie even funnier for

1:11:00

you guys to understand what we're talking about

1:11:02

if you did not follow this wild conversation

1:11:04

leap in the Facebook group people

1:11:06

informed us that in after the movie we watched

1:11:09

last week in the the

1:11:11

fanfiction version of it the

1:11:13

dare is for him to take her

1:11:15

virginity and he uses her sheets to

1:11:17

prove that Which is way more fucked

1:11:20

up than as it is depicted in

1:11:22

the film And I would understand her

1:11:24

being angry. I still don't even understand

1:11:26

how that works sex Mikey You know, I

1:11:28

said no like most guys his age

1:11:31

probably have dirty sheets at 18 You know saying

1:11:33

my Michael do I have to explain this to you?

1:11:35

I think you might have to Paige. Okay,

1:11:38

Michael We bleed the

1:11:40

first time a lot of the time

1:11:42

not every Yeah,

1:11:44

I didn't like I did

1:11:47

not but many do but it's one of

1:11:49

those things It's held up as like proof

1:11:51

of virginity even though not everyone does and

1:11:53

if you I would say

1:11:55

if you have had a successful Pleasurable encounter

1:11:57

sometimes that can mitigate it not always sometimes

1:12:01

but yeah that it's

1:12:04

I wouldn't take it as evidence because you just throw blood on a

1:12:06

sheet be like look I did it and I'd be like I don't

1:12:08

buy that bro I ain't paying your $500 I see it yeah I

1:12:10

need to watch it going in is that what

1:12:16

you're saying I'm just saying if you're

1:12:18

gonna be getting all the long journey is a construct

1:12:20

we can't get into it is the long we yeah we

1:12:23

will be here all day because that that

1:12:25

tears when you like exercise something like

1:12:27

it's like such a the guy tampons

1:12:29

as a teenager so like I mean like

1:12:31

it can you fucking hussy some

1:12:34

people just don't even fucking

1:12:36

have them and it's like nothing it's fine

1:12:38

it's it shouldn't be measured a measure of

1:12:40

anything everyone's body is a little bit different

1:12:42

okay I bled from my nose the first time

1:12:44

I smelled her pretty girl's hair Mikey you got

1:12:46

too close too quick I don't

1:12:49

know if that joke that is

1:12:51

funny to prove that I got

1:12:53

close I have her

1:12:55

hair tie stay with my blood anyway

1:12:57

so he leaves in the morning

1:13:00

and as soon as he leaves the nurse and

1:13:02

her mom come in her like you get to

1:13:04

marry Paul Rudd and she's just like no never

1:13:06

and it's like it's Paul Rudd girl like

1:13:08

you could do worse and the nurse sort

1:13:10

of says that she's like you'll

1:13:13

be happy in your second marriage like

1:13:15

he's a prince or whatever and it's

1:13:17

funny Paul Rudd and I have it

1:13:19

on good authority that he's gonna look

1:13:22

exactly like this in like 30 years

1:13:24

or something yeah except when he cheats

1:13:26

on you with his step-sister but about

1:13:28

that Juliet will remain clueless Mikey isn't

1:13:34

his dad in that film her dad

1:13:36

in that film one of these dudes

1:13:38

no but he looks like one of those dudes so

1:13:40

I understand why you would think that okay but

1:13:43

also they just should have told her

1:13:45

that Paul Rudd found the cup of

1:13:47

the carpenter in the temple of the

1:13:49

crescent moon and that's why he doesn't

1:13:51

age that's gonna have that hairline forever

1:13:53

anyway they go to church to like

1:13:55

figure out shit for their wedding and

1:13:57

she pulls the priest aside and it's

1:13:59

like I will fucking shoot myself unless

1:14:01

you come up with a plan. And

1:14:03

he's like, well since you're willing to

1:14:05

die, are you willing to pretend to

1:14:07

die? It's more or less the

1:14:10

vibe of that conversation, but it's poetry? Yes,

1:14:12

exactly. And she's like, fine. Okay,

1:14:15

so they come up with a plan. She's going to pretend to die.

1:14:17

They're going to let Romeo know. He's going to come back, break her

1:14:19

out of the grave. They're going to go back to Mantua and live

1:14:21

off the rest of their life in peace. And

1:14:24

then maybe go for a drink at the pub. But

1:14:27

it doesn't get to Romeo in time. So she

1:14:29

drinks the poison. Everyone thinks she's dead. They have

1:14:31

a funeral. It's so sad. Paul Rudd

1:14:33

cries, even though that might give him fine lines and wrinkles. Meanwhile,

1:14:36

at Romeo's trailer, he misses the

1:14:38

messenger because Swin Fan comes and

1:14:40

tells him and fucks everything up.

1:14:43

And so he's like, oh no, she's

1:14:45

dead. So he goes back and is

1:14:47

like, she's dead. Poison it is. And

1:14:50

as he's drinking the poison, she wakes

1:14:52

up and he's like, no. And so

1:14:54

then she shoots herself in

1:14:57

a very cool neon church and

1:15:00

that's awful. Well, no,

1:15:02

I mean, they do have the like,

1:15:04

everyone has lost both like and dignity.

1:15:08

And that's the movie. You just like

1:15:11

summarize the last 20 minutes

1:15:13

of the movie and like probably 30 seconds

1:15:15

right there. I loved it. You

1:15:18

could trim it. You could heavily trim

1:15:20

the last 20 minutes of this film.

1:15:22

I agree. Every frame is

1:15:24

perfect. You hear that Shakespeare? I

1:15:26

know it's literal Shakespeare and Paige

1:15:28

is like, I got notes. No,

1:15:30

okay. Okay. There's very

1:15:32

few lines in that 20 minutes.

1:15:34

It's a lot of like, I

1:15:36

know shots of her coffin. It's

1:15:39

so great. And also in the play, if this is

1:15:41

accurate to the play, Paul Rudd

1:15:43

would have confronted Romeo at the grave and

1:15:45

and Leonard and Capri would have killed him.

1:15:47

He would have died next to Juliet and

1:15:50

then Romeo would have died. And it's the

1:15:52

whole thing anyway. And that's the movie. It

1:15:55

is. Yeah. So having seen

1:15:57

the movie and we talked about the movie, what'd you guys think about

1:15:59

Romeo plus Juliet? Still love it. Eh,

1:16:01

not for me. That's fine. Also, don't think

1:16:03

about ending your life because you met a

1:16:05

girl at a party. Hey, no

1:16:07

other person is worth ending your life

1:16:09

over, period. You have no idea

1:16:11

what your life could be. It could get so

1:16:14

much better. It could change. You could find new

1:16:16

people that you love. There are

1:16:18

endless possibilities because you aren't psychic and you

1:16:20

don't know the future. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

1:16:23

Also, like, the Shakespeare guy. Overrated, I think? Boo. You're

1:16:26

more of a kid by the way. This sounds like more of a Christopher Marlowe. I get it.

1:16:30

I do. No, I mean,

1:16:32

I love this movie. I don't think you

1:16:34

should change a frame of it. I probably

1:16:36

hadn't seen it in about 15 years and

1:16:38

upon revisiting it on a plane next to

1:16:40

two strangers, I realized I

1:16:42

should be watching this like, yearly. This like, really

1:16:45

put me in touch with like, who I want

1:16:47

to be as a person. What the fuck are

1:16:49

you talking about? I

1:16:52

knew you were going to say that when I said that. It's

1:16:55

just like, it's very much me as

1:16:57

a vibe. If you want to know

1:16:59

like, how my brain sees the world,

1:17:01

it's this way. Okay. So,

1:17:04

Paige, do you have any fun facts for us?

1:17:06

Yes. Well, here it is with your

1:17:08

fun facts. Juliette fun facts.

1:17:11

So, key hairstylist on the film,

1:17:13

Aldo Signoretti, was actually kidnapped by

1:17:15

gang members and held for a

1:17:18

$300 ransom, which Baz Luhrmann paid.

1:17:20

Hell yeah, Baz. Now,

1:17:24

Leonardo DiCaprio's performance of

1:17:26

Romeo's speech at Juliette's

1:17:28

grave was so good

1:17:30

that Claire Danes kept crying, so they had to

1:17:33

keep cutting because she's supposed to be in a

1:17:35

coma. Oh my God, that's

1:17:37

so great. And you

1:17:39

know what, Claire Danes, same. He

1:17:42

does a beautiful job. And I do think

1:17:44

that's why the camera's on him most of

1:17:46

the time and she is out of frame,

1:17:48

because they could not get enough takes with

1:17:50

her not crying. I mean, I would buy that.

1:17:53

Everyone does a great job acting in this

1:17:55

movie. It's nailed. Yes. Now,

1:17:57

when they went to go shoot the fish tank, there was a...

1:18:00

problem the room was too dark and they

1:18:02

kept getting people's reflections because the light sources

1:18:04

were outside the fish tank instead of inside

1:18:06

the fish tank. So they had to insert

1:18:08

lights into the fish tank and darken the

1:18:10

rest of the room so that they didn't

1:18:12

have reflections and they could actually shoot between

1:18:15

the fish tanks. But it was like a

1:18:17

huge problem on set. I'm sure because they

1:18:19

they actually need those reflections that that

1:18:21

you're talking about though because that's how

1:18:23

you're seeing Juliet when you're seeing like

1:18:25

right when your principal is Leonardo DiCaprio

1:18:28

and vice versa right? Right. So yeah

1:18:30

like that's a good way to solve

1:18:32

for it though that's great. Yeah. And

1:18:34

there's a lot of like really awesome

1:18:36

obviously in the lens like yes not

1:18:38

special effects but just like very cool

1:18:41

like settings and like color palette tones

1:18:43

and stuff like it's all really well

1:18:45

like thought out which I like. The

1:18:47

cinematographer's name is Donald McAlpine.

1:18:50

He fucking crushed it. I yeah an

1:18:52

amazing job especially working with I

1:18:54

would say your gaffing team probably deserves a huge

1:18:56

shout out to you because there's a

1:18:59

ton of different types of light sources in

1:19:01

this movie. Yeah. And they make all of

1:19:03

them look good at the same time which

1:19:06

is very difficult to do. Yeah. The

1:19:08

gas station scene in the beginning

1:19:10

took seven days to film with

1:19:12

two days of pickups and reshoots.

1:19:14

Oh my god. Yeah. I mean but

1:19:16

that that gas station scene is iconic

1:19:19

though man like I remembered almost every

1:19:21

bit of that not having seen it

1:19:23

in 15 years. Sure. All the way

1:19:25

down to like John Lee was almost

1:19:27

crushing that match with his heel of

1:19:29

his boot. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Such a good

1:19:31

shot. Now Paul Rudd and

1:19:33

Leonardo DiCaprio were on set

1:19:36

at the same time but only for a couple

1:19:38

days and so on the last day that Paul

1:19:40

Rudd was there he and Leonardo DiCaprio finally got

1:19:42

a chance to talk. They were on their way

1:19:44

to a bar to celebrate his last day and

1:19:46

Leo mentioned that he'd been reading this script but

1:19:48

he wasn't sure if he was gonna take it

1:19:51

because it was about some old boat and

1:19:53

Paul Rudd was like I am a huge

1:19:55

Titanic nerd you should definitely take that role

1:19:58

and Leo did and thus... We

1:20:00

got Titanic. That's awesome. Leonardo DiCaprio

1:20:02

also fought for Claire Danes to

1:20:04

win the role of Juliet Because

1:20:07

she was the only actress to look him straight in

1:20:09

the eye during the audition. I like that. No

1:20:11

shit Okay, I mean Claire Danes is amazing

1:20:13

like she's great in this. Yeah, this

1:20:16

movie runs for exactly two hours Which

1:20:19

is in line with the prologue that says

1:20:21

this is now the two hours traffic of

1:20:23

our stage That is a change from

1:20:25

the play But it does reflect

1:20:27

the exact length of the film. That's

1:20:30

awesome in Australia Baz

1:20:32

Luhrmann's native country this this soundtrack

1:20:34

was the second highest selling album

1:20:36

of the year going platinum five

1:20:38

times It also did extremely well

1:20:40

in America. Yeah, as mentioned Todd

1:20:42

and I both own it. Yeah

1:20:44

Well owned it I got rid of all my physical media, but

1:20:46

yeah, I now I just listen to it all the time I

1:20:49

spot if I have this I was gonna say I

1:20:51

had this In person

1:20:53

and then I own it digitally now

1:20:55

nice now Radiohead Baz

1:20:57

Luhrmann wanted Radiohead to do a

1:21:00

song for the end credits So

1:21:03

they composed the song exit music for a

1:21:05

film which does appear on their 1997 album,

1:21:07

okay computer But the way that they wrote

1:21:09

the song is Baz Luhrmann sent

1:21:11

them the last 20 minutes of the

1:21:13

film No shit as like a rough cut

1:21:16

and asked them to write a song about

1:21:18

it. Awesome Yep. Now

1:21:20

the reason John Leguizamo has all the

1:21:22

gunplay in this movie is because Shakespeare

1:21:25

describes Tybalt swordmanship as showy So

1:21:28

to transform this they have him

1:21:30

do flamboyant gunplay He worked with

1:21:32

a choreographer named John O'Connell to

1:21:35

create a flamenco inspired gun style

1:21:37

Awesome, Benvolio and Mercutio both do some

1:21:40

gunplay stuff too. That's look really well

1:21:42

done Like they must have rehearsed a

1:21:44

lot for that. Yeah, it's great Claire

1:21:46

Danes wears a wig throughout this movie

1:21:48

And also had a specific wig for

1:21:51

the pool so that it would stay

1:21:53

on her head There you go. I'd

1:21:55

imagine why that would be difficult because it weighs your hair down, you

1:21:57

know. Yeah. Yeah, they had trouble

1:22:00

funding this movie initially and so

1:22:02

Leonardo DiCaprio was already attached and

1:22:04

in order to get the requisite

1:22:06

funding to complete the film, he

1:22:08

flew to Australia on his own

1:22:10

dime and performed a live audition

1:22:12

video with Baz Luhrmann that then

1:22:14

was sent to backers for the

1:22:16

film. Awesome. Because

1:22:18

at this point people don't realize this is

1:22:20

pre-Titanic but Leonardo DiCaprio had already done Gilbert

1:22:22

Grape, he had been on Growing Pains, he

1:22:24

was already famous by this time. He

1:22:26

was not nearly as famous as he

1:22:28

would eventually become obviously but he was

1:22:31

a known figure. No, he won an

1:22:33

Oscar for Gilbert Grape. I know, he's

1:22:35

super famous now. Oh yeah, of

1:22:37

course. But he's also been alive a lot longer

1:22:39

but at the time, so the

1:22:41

Jesus statue that dominates Verona much like the

1:22:44

statue in Rio is kind of what it

1:22:46

looks like. It does look like sort of

1:22:48

a nod to that one. It's not. Yes,

1:22:50

it's not. It's a visual

1:22:52

effect. That statue was actually

1:22:54

only two feet high and they would shoot

1:22:56

it from different vantage points or shoot it

1:22:59

on its own and insert it into the

1:23:01

city. Awesome. So, yeah. Claire

1:23:03

Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio, even though he fought

1:23:05

for her to get the role, they initially

1:23:07

did not get along well on set. Really?

1:23:10

Yeah, she felt like he was immature and

1:23:12

he said she was uptight. Eventually

1:23:14

they get along but initially not so much. When

1:23:17

Tybalt's car rolls over, the roll

1:23:19

cage inside the car collapsed almost

1:23:22

killing the stunt driver. What?

1:23:24

So that was a very dangerous set, a very dangerous

1:23:27

stunt that they do use that take, the one

1:23:29

that it like crushed it. You do see it

1:23:31

like it does crush but like I thought it

1:23:33

was planned, you know? Yeah, no, the

1:23:35

roll cage caved in and that was

1:23:37

not supposed to happen. As

1:23:39

we mentioned, Pete Postleweight,

1:23:42

I'm probably not saying that last name

1:23:44

correctly, but the actor who plays Father

1:23:46

Lawrence, he is the only actor speaking

1:23:48

in iambic pentameter. Oh, so he is

1:23:50

then? Yes. Now,

1:23:53

at the ball, all the major characters wear

1:23:55

costumes that reflect their personalities. Romeo is a

1:23:57

knight, Juliet is an angel, Tybalt is a

1:23:59

devil. Capulet's an emperor,

1:24:01

of course his wife is

1:24:03

Cleopatra, like an empress. Yeah. And

1:24:05

then you have Paris who is

1:24:07

an astronaut. But I

1:24:10

think part of that's because he's supposed to be like

1:24:12

a tech mogul in this version. I also thought it

1:24:14

was because he was like spacey and aloof

1:24:16

and sort of duke- Yeah, or he's like

1:24:19

out of the world of the

1:24:21

movie. Like he's not really connected

1:24:23

to what's going on maybe. Yeah.

1:24:25

This is the highest-grossing live-action William

1:24:27

Shakespeare adaptation to date. Because it's

1:24:30

the best, clearly. I don't know that

1:24:32

it's the best. I think there have been some really

1:24:34

good ones, but this is the highest-grossing one for sure.

1:24:36

Yeah. Mercutio did

1:24:38

not originally go to Harold Perino.

1:24:42

They also considered Ewan McGregor,

1:24:44

Christian Bale, John Leguizamo even

1:24:46

for Mercutio. But also

1:24:48

Benicio del Toro was considered for

1:24:50

Tybalt. So there was a potential

1:24:52

version of this with Leguizamo as

1:24:54

Mercutio and Benicio del Toro as

1:24:56

Tybalt. I think that would have worked real

1:24:58

well. I think it would have worked too, man. They're both

1:25:00

great. I do too, but I do

1:25:03

love Mercutio in this movie.

1:25:05

He's so good. Yeah, he's amazing.

1:25:07

Yes. Leonardo DiCaprio was Baz Luhrmann's

1:25:09

first choice to play Romeo. He's the first

1:25:11

person attached. So he was actually attached to

1:25:14

this from pre-production all the way

1:25:16

through. But Claire

1:25:18

Danes was not the only one

1:25:20

considered for Julia. They also considered

1:25:22

Sarah Michelle Geller, Jennifer Love Hewitt,

1:25:24

Aaliyah Kate Winslet, because

1:25:27

this is pre-Titanic, Christina

1:25:29

Ricci, all of them

1:25:32

were potentially considered for Juliet. However,

1:25:34

Sarah Michelle Geller was still on All My Children,

1:25:36

so she wasn't able to film it. Aaliyah felt

1:25:38

like she didn't feel like she was ready to

1:25:41

step into acting at this level yet, because

1:25:43

Shakespeare is a bit of a jump.

1:25:45

Yeah. And so she chose to pull

1:25:47

out. Jennifer Love Hewitt

1:25:49

was considered too youthful looking. Natalie

1:25:51

Portman was also considered to be

1:25:54

a little too young. But

1:25:56

she did go and film chemistry

1:25:58

tests with Leonardo DiCaprio. And

1:26:01

so Lerman really fought

1:26:04

for Claire Danes as soon as Leonardo

1:26:06

DiCaprio felt like she had the best

1:26:08

chemistry. And everyone was kind of

1:26:10

weirded out by the casting of Paul Rudd because

1:26:12

he was 26 and everyone else is like 19.

1:26:15

But it's also Paul Rudd. He's ageless. He

1:26:18

does seem a little bit more adult than like

1:26:20

Romeo and like Juliet, but he seems like he

1:26:22

might be, you know, 23 and they're 20, you

1:26:24

know? Like it doesn't

1:26:26

seem like that crazy of an age jump.

1:26:28

Sure. So Jamie Kennedy's

1:26:30

bruised black eye is real.

1:26:33

Jamie Kennedy allegedly got in a fight in a

1:26:35

bar in Mexico City right as they started filming

1:26:37

and they were going to cover it up. But

1:26:40

Baz Luhrmann liked the look and left

1:26:42

it. I mean, it does like he is supposed

1:26:44

to be in a gang, you know, like it does

1:26:47

sort of make sense if they're quarreling with these Capulids,

1:26:49

he'd have a black eye occasionally. Yeah.

1:26:51

Every billboard and advertisement throughout the

1:26:53

movie contains quotes from other Shakespeare

1:26:55

plays. Nice. If you're interested,

1:26:57

I'm not going to read through all of them because

1:26:59

there are so many of them. But

1:27:02

IMDB in their trivia section has a

1:27:05

list. Highly recommend

1:27:08

looking that up. And that's literally every

1:27:10

business too is a reference to some

1:27:12

other. Yeah, like Phoenix Gasoline.

1:27:15

Phoenix Gasoline, Frozen Cransees,

1:27:17

Jack Cades, Lemonade, etc.

1:27:20

Father Lawrence was originally potentially going

1:27:22

to be played by Marlon Brando.

1:27:25

But personal family problems took him out of the

1:27:27

running. But honestly, I feel like that would have

1:27:29

been wild too. I

1:27:31

think Brando at this time, it would not have been good.

1:27:34

Oh, no, but wild. Yeah, it

1:27:36

would have been wild. This is Island of Dr. Monroe,

1:27:38

Brando. I know. This is like

1:27:40

the score, like his last movie when they

1:27:43

like had to like poorly CGI a smile

1:27:45

at the end because he just refused to

1:27:47

do it. Yes. Additionally,

1:27:49

and this is I'll leave you on this one. There

1:27:52

was a version of this based on

1:27:54

certain auditions that would have had Neil

1:27:56

Patrick Harris playing Romeo, although that was

1:27:58

quickly kind of once. Leonardo agreed they

1:28:00

were like no it's Leonardo but

1:28:03

Sam Rockwell at one point auditioned for

1:28:05

Mercutio I think that would have also

1:28:07

been amazing. I mean Sam Rockwell's

1:28:09

really good yeah. Yeah but

1:28:12

those are your fun facts. Well think of those fun

1:28:14

facts Paige let's talk a little bit about

1:28:16

box office so what do you think the

1:28:18

production budget was for Romeo plus Juliet in

1:28:20

1996? I feel like this

1:28:23

is expensive. Okay I'm gonna say

1:28:25

20. Alright. I'm gonna say 30.

1:28:28

Okay guys it was 14.5 million

1:28:30

dollars. This looks great for 14 million.

1:28:32

It does. That was also in 96

1:28:35

that's like almost 30 years ago so

1:28:38

like that would be like it's like 28.6

1:28:40

million dollars today so it's not quite double but

1:28:43

it's like getting up there but this

1:28:45

movie came out on November 1st 1996 it was

1:28:47

number one the weekend

1:28:50

it came out it beat the number

1:28:52

two movie Sleepers the number three movie

1:28:54

was high school high number four was larger

1:28:56

than life and number five was the

1:28:58

Ghost in the Darkness. What do you

1:29:00

think Romeo plus Juliet made in its

1:29:03

opening weekend the weekend of November 1st

1:29:05

96? I mean this

1:29:07

was huge so I'm gonna

1:29:09

say first week it probably made easily

1:29:11

its budget back so I'm gonna say

1:29:13

30. Okay I'm gonna

1:29:16

say 22. It actually brought in

1:29:19

11.1 million dollars. What? Let me

1:29:21

because I don't think even for

1:29:23

the 90s your guys are

1:29:25

pretty far off like yeah but

1:29:28

this only got a release in

1:29:30

1200 theaters and it's like for

1:29:32

instance larger than life had a

1:29:34

yeah cuz it's for DORS. I

1:29:36

got it. Larger than life that

1:29:38

was fourth this week was in

1:29:40

2400 theaters. Yeah. They were only

1:29:42

in like about half the theaters

1:29:44

in the US and we're still number one but

1:29:46

like if you double the theater count you probably

1:29:48

get close to like what you guys were saying

1:29:50

you know. Yeah. Anyway so in its second week

1:29:53

it was number two in the theaters being

1:29:55

beat by a new movie called Ransom that came out.

1:29:57

I think that that was a Mel Gibson movie I

1:29:59

think. think yeah I think so where's

1:30:01

my son yeah that's the one that's the

1:30:04

one and it's

1:30:06

third week it was fifth and it's

1:30:08

fourth week it was seventh and then

1:30:10

ninth and then tenth but it was the

1:30:12

top ten for six weeks and it remained

1:30:15

in the theaters for ten more weeks so

1:30:17

it had a 16-week run but

1:30:19

what do you think it made domestically in those 16

1:30:22

weeks domestically in 16 weeks

1:30:24

and it made forty four

1:30:26

okay Mikey 44 I'm gonna say 38 okay it brought in

1:30:28

44 okay three million

1:30:32

dollars now it made a shitload

1:30:35

overseas I'm sure it made a

1:30:37

hundred and one point

1:30:39

two million dollars which takes the total

1:30:42

box office up to one hundred and

1:30:44

forty seven point five million dollars let's

1:30:46

not forget that every girl I ever

1:30:48

knew in high school and college had

1:30:50

the DVD oh yeah or yeah absolutely

1:30:52

I don't even have that figure but

1:30:55

in the box office alone if you

1:30:57

would just for inflation that 147.5 becomes

1:30:59

291.8 million dollars like this movie

1:31:05

made a ton of money but yeah

1:31:07

that's your box office so Mikey do

1:31:09

you want to hit us with that

1:31:11

romance scale yeah our only scales go

1:31:13

one to four of how romantic we

1:31:15

found the film today page it's

1:31:18

teenagers that don't actually know each other I'm

1:31:20

gonna give it a one

1:31:23

yeah so page I'm gonna give

1:31:25

it the same but I honestly do

1:31:27

think they have chemistry it's just like

1:31:29

they never get to like a lovey

1:31:31

chemistry you know we're just

1:31:33

like I would love to sleep with that

1:31:35

person type chemistry and then they like take

1:31:37

their own life so like it's not romantic

1:31:39

it's a tragedy yeah yeah I'm gonna give

1:31:42

it a one yeah but again

1:31:47

this is not a quality scale it's just

1:31:49

the romance you know yeah yeah yeah because

1:31:51

it's a 10 on this one through four

1:31:53

quality scale if we were you know calling

1:31:56

it that I loved this movie so this

1:31:58

week I made you guys Romeo

1:32:00

plus Juliet and you're welcome. Paige, what are

1:32:02

you making us watch next week? Two

1:32:05

families, both alike in

1:32:07

dignity, in fair,

1:32:09

little Italy where we lay our scene.

1:32:11

Finally, I get to have fun again.

1:32:13

I'm excited. I know this movie is

1:32:15

terrible. I'll talk about how much of

1:32:17

a crush I had on Hayden Christensen

1:32:20

back in the day. And we'll get

1:32:22

into it. It is little Italy and

1:32:24

if you're wondering where it's streaming, it's

1:32:26

free everywhere because it's bad. I don't

1:32:28

think I hated it as much as other

1:32:30

things I've hated. That's fair.

1:32:33

I honestly feel like they should put that

1:32:35

on their poster. Okay. I

1:32:37

feel like I don't hate it as much as

1:32:39

other things I've hated. You can quote me on

1:32:42

my DVD-rebelies. Yeah. I

1:32:44

feel like you should put on this cover.

1:32:46

It should be like this movie is like

1:32:48

pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pizza.

1:32:50

I believe the stakes are so low that I loved

1:32:53

it. Just like the after

1:32:55

series. Well, your homework for next

1:32:57

week is to watch the pizzeria

1:32:59

version of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo

1:33:02

and Juliet, which is little Italy.

1:33:04

Little Italy. Probably available for free

1:33:06

on YouTube because nobody cares. Permanently

1:33:08

fix your hands in the

1:33:10

Italian emoji hand motion and

1:33:13

watch little Italy. Hell yeah. So, Mikey, do

1:33:15

you have a review for us to read? Oh,

1:33:18

no. I forgot about that. I was thinking about

1:33:20

ordering pizza and watching that movie next week. That

1:33:22

sounds amazing. I know. I think I do have to order pizza

1:33:24

when I watch it. I'll do it too. It'll

1:33:27

be a thing. We'll post about it on social

1:33:29

media. But while

1:33:31

you're looking up that review, let me

1:33:33

read one of our Spotify comments that

1:33:35

came out literally today because we're recording

1:33:38

this today. We dropped the after episode.

1:33:41

And this comment is from Kim.

1:33:43

And Kim said, the Romantanapod trash

1:33:46

raccoon shirt with a possum on

1:33:48

it. Now I buy that. And

1:33:50

Kim, if someone wants to create that. I

1:33:54

guess the text would say, this movie's trash

1:33:56

and I'm a raccoon. But it's just a

1:33:58

possum and not a... Raccoon?

1:34:00

Yes. What if it was a possum with

1:34:02

like, you know like the burglar mask

1:34:04

that looks sort of raccoon-ish? I

1:34:06

don't want to confuse people. I want people to know it's

1:34:08

a possum. I want a literal raccoon

1:34:11

eating garbage on the shirt. Well, artists

1:34:13

out there, mock it up

1:34:15

and send it to us. We'll decide who wins,

1:34:17

I guess. But Mikey, do you have a review

1:34:20

for us to read? Yeah, I do have

1:34:22

a review for you today. Heck yeah, who's

1:34:24

review you gonna read this week? A. Jaclyn.

1:34:26

Well, what does A. Jaclyn have to say?

1:34:29

Pod for all occasions. Heck yeah. I

1:34:31

don't know what's a Jaclyn with you. I

1:34:35

hope she's never late. A. Jaclyn late.

1:34:37

I still don't get it. It sounds

1:34:39

like a Jaclyn. Fine.

1:34:42

I operate, I play 40 chess with

1:34:45

puns. It's fine. You definitely do. He

1:34:47

means 40 as in he's like

1:34:49

telling just the only 40 and up

1:34:51

laugh at. That's what it is. Yeah, you

1:34:53

mean people who make money? That's exactly the audience

1:34:55

I want to have. Okay,

1:34:58

if you're too tired to absorb a movie

1:35:00

or TV show listen to this show even

1:35:02

though we don't do TV shows. Well, that's

1:35:04

fine. If you need direct distraction from charity

1:35:07

work associates listen to this show. Oh, chatty

1:35:09

work. That makes more sense. If

1:35:11

you're anxious about doing errands alone,

1:35:13

download and listen to this show

1:35:16

while going to Target. The companionship

1:35:18

and absorption into their conversation is

1:35:20

just right for all situations.

1:35:23

Three Purple Heart emojis for

1:35:26

our wartime injuries. Naturally, yes.

1:35:29

And she signs it off and A. J.

1:35:31

Five star. Aww, thank you. Well A.J. thank you

1:35:33

so much for that awesome five-star review. And if

1:35:36

you want to have Mike here read your five-star

1:35:38

review or me read your Spotify comment, leave us

1:35:40

a five-star review or Spotify comment and we will

1:35:42

do that. So yeah guys, if you like this

1:35:45

power shuffle that we have here on this podcast,

1:35:47

make sure to check out our other podcast, The

1:35:49

Horror Virgin. And that is the only other podcast

1:35:51

that Mikey and I are on. But Paige gets

1:35:54

around and she has on two other podcasts, Black

1:35:57

Card Rehab and Cult Podcast. So

1:35:59

guys, Definitely check out those because

1:36:01

they're amazing. If you want to follow

1:36:03

us on social, we are at Romancing

1:36:05

the Pod Show. Yes. On

1:36:08

Instagram. And we are at something

1:36:10

else on Twitter who I just have never taken the

1:36:12

time to learn it. It's

1:36:14

just Romancing Pod Show because they have a character

1:36:16

limit and it's show SHO like

1:36:19

Showtime. So guys, check that out as

1:36:21

well. And if you want to follow

1:36:23

us all individually, Paige is at Rampage

1:36:25

Wesley everywhere, including TikTok, except for Twitter