In this episode, we contemplate why movies like 2011's New Year's Eve exist. Get ready for a very corny speech about movies! Have a happy new year!
This is our Christmas gift to you. We're sorry.
We... love this Lifetime Christmas movie? Give us a break, it's been a long year.
We have some questions:
1) Why are men so bad at making romcoms?!
2) Why is TJ Miller terrible in everything?!
3) Why does blonde = flawless in these movies?!
4) Have men ever chilled out?!
The film is 2004's New York Minute and the mood is tired. This is a very... New Yorker episode. Listen. Hang out with your family and friends this week and don't watch this.
This week it's a real hatefest. 1994's Threesome is one of the worst things we've had to watch for this show. Avoid at all costs. Listen to this episode, and then erase all knowledge of this film from your brain. You don't deserve to remember this.
This week both Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman return to the pod for 1995's While You Were Sleeping, a romcom about falling in love with a guy's family. It's basically the opposite of The Family Stone, which comes out 10 years later. And we've done it on the pod! Anyway, this movie is harmless and bad in all the obvious ways. At least Bill Pullman is very, very sexy.
We close out our 2018 Month of Halloween Romance with 1988's High Spirits, a wacky ghost romcom from the director of The Crying Game. Steve Guttenberg and Daryl Hannah are romantically mismatched in this "comedy" that makes light of death, depression, misogyny spousal abuse, and sexual harassment! And it underuses Jennifer Tilly! A cardinal sin!
This week Bronwyn and I uncovered a truly delightful 80s gem: 1985's Once Bitten, starring a fabulous Lauren Hutton and baby Jim Carrey. Hutton is an older vampire who needs virgin blood to maintain her youthful appearance and Carrey is a teen who can't seem to "score" with his very sweet girlfriend. Think of it as a much more sex-oriented spiritual cousin to Teen Witch and Teen Wolf, but with more unfortunately dated humor (including one scene that should probably be cut out entirely). Honestly, this is one we had fun talking about.