ALL ABOUT LOVE! - Best Romantic Movies + Best Rom-Coms of the 2000s + Movie Review: Malcolm & Marie (Netflix)

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, where today it is all about love. We're talking about romantic movies and also the top rom coms of the two thousands. I'll have a movie you later that's about love because it's almost Valentine's Day, right, So I'm joined here about my co host and fiance Kelsey. All that to say, if you love love and who doesn't love love? Right? Who does? This is the episode for you. So, without any further ado, let's get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking audience TV, which classes from the Nashville Podcast Networks Movie Movie Podcast. Alright, so I put the question out on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook across all platforms at Mike Destro and I just wanted to know what everybody thought the best romantic movie is. And I said romantic movie because I think romantic movies and romcoms are different. One will just make you feel, it'll reignite your kind of passion for love, and the other will kind of make you laugh with also following a love story. But I just want to know what the most romantic movie ever, And I was a little bit surprised by the amount of responses we got, like instantly. I think people love romantic movies because it feels good to watch a movie to inspire you again or make you feel like, oh, there is somebody out there like that, or there's some kind of love story out there that you aspire to do. You think that's kind of why people love romantic movies. Yeah, I think there's just something like hopeful about them, like finding something like that, or just because love isn't always what it's like in the movies, right, It's very rarely when it's like in the movie. And I think even for me watching romantic movies growing up and even as a teenager and adult, you kind of develop a different expectation sometimes for what romance could be, what a perfect love story could be. But I think it's kind of nice just to see something like that and play out perfectly, if you will, because when at the end of a romantic movie, everything's tied up in a nice little bow, they get married, they go away, and you hear nothing after that. But I guess it's just kind of having that slice of like this is just the perfect love story. Right, So I kind of found for me. Even a few of my top favorite movies of all time are romantic movies, so I won't talk too much about those. But last week, if you missed the Burning Movies Questions episode, I talked about Her and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which are romantic movies. But another one of my favorite romantic movies that we watched recently was when you made me watch Serendipity. Yes, I was just about I was thinking in my head, is that one of your favorite ones? Now, I had heard about this movie. I knew what it was about. It's John Qusack and Kate Beckinsale, and I think it's overall just the plot about it is pretty fun and it's borderline. Would you call it cheesy? I don't think it's that cheesy. It's just kind of a fun story, right, I don't think it's cheesy. It's pretty romantic. What makes it one of your favorites? I don't want to spoil it, but it's also like twenty years old, so itsout spoiling it. It came out in two thousand and one that is literally twenty years old at this point. I mean, I think you can give the overall plot of what it's about. It's John Cusack's character and Kate Beckinsale's character essentially meeting. They're both in different relationships and they're trying to find their way back to each other without really giving each other to the information. It's like kind of like a game the whole time, right, Yeah, So it's um it's the idea of like, if they're meant to be together, they'll find a way and like they will end up together. And I just think there's something so romantic about that. I do too. I think it plays out perfectly well in the movie to where it's exciting throughout the movie. And for me, I don't particularly love romantic movies, and this one, I don't know. There was just something different about it and so well done that I really liked it. So I think that's really one of the best ones I've seen in a while. And it came out twenty years ago, all right. And another one of my favorites of all time is a movie called Up in the Air with George Clooney, and it's about George Clooney's character who's playing this guy who his job is to go around to different companies and fire people and he travels all around the country doing this, and in it he kind of becomes like a really kind of reclusive person and also one who does doesn't really have any strong relationships and kind of use marriage is something he would never do and just never want to be in a relationship, never want to be tied down, because this whole thing he's trying to accomplish is have like the most airline miles out of everybody. And there was just a clip in this entire movie that stuck with me the entire time since I've seen this movie. And he came out in two thousand nine, and it's after he finally find somebody who basically has the same kind of lifestyle that he does, and he's able to connect with her and kind of change his mind. And I won't ruin the end of it because I think it's still a movie you can go watch and enjoy even though it came out ten plus years ago now. But there was a line in the movie where he's talking to his soon to be brother in law and he's talking to Hi about the best moments of your life and how it's always more important if you spend those with other people. Your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life were alone. M hmm, No, I guess not. And I don't know why. Was that little clip always just kind of it was embedded into my mind because before I met you, I didn't really see myself as being the kind of person who would want to get married and being that kind of relationship. And it was really finding you and I was like, man, like, there is more to life out there. There is actually somebody that's kind of worth doing this life with. And I thought about like all the memories I had because I was single for so long, didn't have anybody, and it was finding you really that I was like, man, I want to do things with somebody else and experience moments because I think a lot of in my life I was trying to accomplish these goals, like it was being in radio, being a part of a show, and I found that as I would achieve things, it sometimes left me feeling a little bit empty because I had those goals, but I had no one to share them with. And it was until I found you that I had somebody to share those with. And I always saw that clip in that movie. So I'm glad I found you. Is the conclusion to this story. Why it's one of my favorites. Well makes me happy, But also save that for your wedding valves. Okay, can I just take that clip and use it in my wedding valves? Yes? How upset would you be if I quoted a movie in our wedding valves, like line for line, like a romantic scene from a movie, Like, that's just your whole wedding vowels was taken from a movie. There's nothing like you put into it, or it's your vowels, and then you just kind of sprinkle a movie clip in there, or like a line from a movie. I would like to incorporate either a line from a movie or a line from song. And we're writing our own wedding valves and I don't know, I just it kind of just hit me just now thinking about that. I don't think i'd be upset now if that was your whole Like if you just like took movie quotes that that was your whole vals, I would probably be a little like, but you can sprinkle that end. So if I just did the whole when Harry met Sally, think you'd be like, uh, I've heard this before. Yeah, we also just recently watched that, so that's true. That was one of um, I think everybody who submitted their most romantic movies. That was kind of up there at the top. And we re watched that pretty recently, and I gotta say, I don't think that movie holds up so much. What did you think? I don't think so either. I was just about to say I would not put that. I felt like that was gonna be a popular answer, but it's not. It's good. I don't think it's one of the most romantic movies. So I think it's been out so long, came out you know, nine. I mean, it's an iconic romantic comedy and it was really early on. I don't think the eighties get enough credit for romantic comedies. I think now we think of more of the nineties, and we'll talk about later to the two thousand's that really just had like the best round coms in my opinion, But the eighties really had some great romantic stories that people have just either they don't talk about as much, and there's only so few of them that are really like the best, but I think it's a little bit underrated in the eighties, but also a lot of these I just feel like they don't hold up. When Harry met Sally, I think it's a good love story, I don't think it's a great love story. And watching watching that movie back, I was like, it's really just two people like, well they won't they throughout the entire movie. I get that part of it, but I didn't feel there was anything super romantic about that aside from the very last romantic scene that we all know. Aside from that, I don't think it's that great of a movie. Like I found Harry was kind of a jerk throughout the entire movie, and I don't know if that's how you're supposed to feel about him, but I was like, man, I don't like this guy. But that was one of the most um voted in Listener romantic movies. I'll kind of just go through those and the moms already, but that came in at number five. At number four was Sweet Home Alabamas. At number three was Love Actually I'm making a face, but I know people can't see overrated. We also watched that one because we watched every single Christmas movie kind of got blurted in there when we watched all the other ones and then number two was Titanic. Yeah, I still feel a little bit overrated, but I think it's just because it was so famous and did just trusted at the box office and was kind of the movie for a very long time that I feel that way about it. I think if I went back and watched it now, I would kind of re remember how romantic and great that movie is. But I feel Titanic and so long I haven't watched it since you had to watch it on t v H the double vhs, we haven't seen that long time. But yeah, I still feel like that's a good love story. And I saw somebody actually on TikTok recently posts that they didn't understand the ending of that movie, which if you haven't seen Titanic by now, you know how it ends, you know the story. But they didn't realize at the very end when roses old Woman that it's her dying at the end of the movie, because she throws the thing back into the ocean and you see her back as young Rose going and meeting Leonardo DiCaprio with the staircase and you see all the people around him and they've just realized for the first time that all the people in that scene are all dead. I was like that, Yeah, that was a whole movie, but it's just funny how old that movie is now when you think about it old. I would also just like let everyone know that most of your stories these days start with I saw something on TikTok. That's where I watched everything. That's my go to. I mean, there's a lot of just the thing I love about TikTok is that you get a different viewing experience for anybody who's on it if you're not on it. However, many videos you watch about a certain thing, they just start to feed you that videos. And I watched a lot of things about movies, so a lot of my stuff gets pulled from there. Now it's like, after twenty minutes of TikTok before bed, I'm like, Okay, TikTok and at number one, the most romantic movie sent in by the listeners, what do you think it is? The notebook? It is the Notebook. You're also making a visual gag face overrated at this point, It's like the book was better than the movie. I didn't read the book, I saw the movie, and I don't want to hate on the notebook, but I also don't think that's the best love story. I get the overall why it's so beloved and you have Ryan Gosling Rachel McAdams, but I just don't see the overall appeal of why that movie has held up so well over time. Nicholas Parks writes a way better love story than it gets made into films. I feel like like he can write a great love story, like reading those great screenplay adaptation. A better love movie that I like from Rachel McAdams is the movie called About Time. It's a great one. It's about The overall message of that movie is you have to experience life and not manipulate it, because he's trying to travel through time and pick apart all the best parts and make your life perfect. But then you realize it's living those moments that really make you who you are, make you care about the people in your life and about love. So I think, in my opinion, that's a better romantic movie with Rachel McAdams, and I think one of the first real romantic movies that kind of made me emotional. It took a lot for me to kind of break down that wall. But that's one of mine. Another one on here I would put in was Garden State, which also had a really great soundtrack. If you don't remember that, it was kind of the launching of kind of a Zach Braff into film because he was doing Scrubs at the time and he put together this movie with the soundtrack and won the Oscar for it. And probably the biggest song to come from it was this song by the Shins, what are you listening to? Good? It's good? I like it. So that is from the movie Garden State. Um a very indie movie, and I remember at the time when it came out in two thousand four, it was very big, unlike people putting that on their MySpace page like a little graphic on it. So that's kind of that time period of that movie, you know. Another one I saw surprisedly a lot of people post about was another one we just recently watched called While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock from n and it's basically Sandra Bullock before she was Sandra Bullock. I think you remember watching this movie as a kid. No, I got it confused. I thought of the moment my mom loved, but it's apparently Sleeping with the Enemy that my mom really liked. So we watched this one on accidents, but it had Christmas in it, so it kind of fit into the theme, but we didn't watch it on purpose. I thought it was something else. This was another one I was has a lot of people thought it was a very romantic movie, because when you think and watch this movie, it's a little bit creepy because it's about Sandra Bullock who's infatuated with this guy who comes and takes the with like a train every day, and she's working at the train and she like fantasizes falling in love and marrying this guy. He gets hurt and falls on the track, and she saves his life, goes to the hospital, and then in order to see him, poses ss fiance her. His family is there, and then this whole thing kind of goes back and forth while he's in a coma. Everybody thinks that he actually got engaged to her. So it's a little bit weird, but I think an overall fun romantic movie. Yeah, I don't think I would name it one of my top romantic movies. I don't think it even scratches the list, but it was a fun watch. It's all very nineties. Another one that you introduced me to was Crazy Stupid Love. Yeah. I like that. It told like several stories and one and like as the movie goes on, they kind of start to leave together. So it was that just one like a linear plot. I just kind of had some twist to it. Another one that made the list was for me the Wedding Singer Classic, and you would know this song from it, Thank you Smile whenever you said carry you a out when you're thried itsuspend. All I wanted to is gold with you. I'll get your medicine when you had some me egches. Still you fire if the furnace breaks, so it could be so nice growing old with you. Another classic. I think My overall favorite romantic movie that I just rewatched and I talked about last week was Her. I still stand by that movie. And rewatching it, I kind of found a scene that really made me kind of solidified. I thought was when he does fall in love with his operating system. They sing a song together and there's just this different kind of layer of personifying a piece of technology and really believing that somebody can find love in the most non traditional way, and you're looking at me with this really puzzled face. Why do you think that's not puzzled? I'm just judging you. Why you don't think that's romantic. I think that's the most romantic thing that somebody could fall in love operating Yes, but in the movie you find out more about her, and she becomes so advanced to the point where she can almost physically feel things, and she has like a mind of her own that it doesn't become so weird. And when he takes her around to like his family and friends, they're like, all right, it's cool, you're dating your operating system. What else you got would you bring for dinner? Okay? This reminds me of those stories of like people marrying like spirits and goats. That's what I feel like. This is equivalent to, Well, still think it's romantic. Other ones on my list that we've seen together our love simon what I love about that movie. And I think any quintessential romantic movie needs that one scene that you're just like, all right, that it finally happened, like this scene of Triumph, that I think any really good movie has, whether it be a romantic movie or even like an action movie, that scene that really makes you get up ont of your seat and kind of be excited for the character in the movie. And I think this movie really had that moment, and I think that's why I liked it so much. Another one I would add would probably be Silver Linings Playbook. I kind of like the I like the more. It's not really a sad, dramatic love store. It is in a way. You have two people that are very unlikely love interest in a movie, and you have mental illness played into this movie, and it just tells it in a different way. And also you have Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, which are amazing together. I really enjoyed that one. And the final Roman anting movie I would like to talk about actually is in the movie, but I thought we would share our quick little love story of how we got together. So if you're new to this podcast, Kelsey is my fiance. We've been together now for almost three years, and our quintessential love story is we met online on and app on Bumble You. I've been away from it so long. How does bumble work again? I sliped on you and then you had also sliped on me, so then we matched, and then I had the message you first. And at the time I was traveling a lot for work. I was currently like, I am living in Nashville and going a lot to Austin, Texas, where I used to live and where you live, and I was there so much. I was like, all right, let's get on bumble and see what happens. And I matched with you, and I was like, Hey, I'm coming back to town. Let's go around for dinner for our first date. And we went to Matt's l Rancho, our little spot in Austin. And we were long distance for two and a half years, almost two years, and now we've been together going on three are engaged and going to get married this summer. So that we are to anybody who thinks that one you can't find love online, I think that whole kind of thing has been a race. Now. I think we're so far into dating apps and that old kind of I guess we didn't really have a stigma with like meeting on a dating app. I feel like when we told our families, it was like, Okay, that's how you meant, that's how people meet. Now I think maybe if we did it five years before, it would be like, oh, like a little weird. But also, I mean long distance, we're kind of proof that you can do it. Like there was a lot of FaceTime communication with us, a lot of phone calls, um, a lot of planning out weekends to take flights. So it is a hard thing to do. But if you had to give one piece of advice to somebody in a long distance relationship, what do you think that would be. Our goal was always to never leave one weekend without having plans of when the next time we were going to see each other. And I will say it was hard because you pre pandemic traveled a lot for work. I'm finishing grad school working full time, so we both had busy schedules. But I think if you if you know early on that it's something that you think could go somewhere, just invest in it. And it's not always going to be easy, but I think just communicate, make sure you know when you're gonna see each other next. I mean, in the very beginning, we would go like six weeks without seeing each other, which was awful. I don't recommend that one, But then I got it down to like every like three weeks, sometimes even two weeks, so I think just as much as your schedule allows. Yes, that wasn't one tip, but it's good overall what what we went through. I think also adding onto that is at some point you have to come up with a plan of how things you how you want things to end up, and where you think you want to go, because if you're in a long distance relationship, I think at some point you have to decide when you're not going to be long distance anymore. And it's different amounts of time for different people, depending on what situation you're in. But for us it was kind of finding that like when we were like serious about the relationship and when we were like, Okay, this is how we're going to make it happen in the steps we have to do to get there. I think you have to have that end goal in sight at some point, otherwise it just kind of feels like you're just going along in the distance is always going to be there and always kind of way down the relationship. So setting those parameters, that's what you gotta do too. Well, there you go. Those are the most romantic movies. Will come back and talk about the best rom coms of the two thousand's get some movie reviews in later after this. Alright, So I actually got this question last weekend burning movie Questions, and I wanted to save it for this week. It comes from Emily on Instagram. She said, what happened to rom coms? There were some good ones in the nineties and two thousand's, but not now. And I kind of feel the same way about rom coms the way I do just about comedies overall. In general. It's harder to get somebody's attention into a romantic comedy and something that's supposed to be funny, because you can go online and really see something funny a lot quicker, and it takes a lot longer for a comedic story to take place over an entire movie. Now. I just feel like our attentions man's have gotten shorter that that's a very hard genre to keep doing. And I know there's a bunch of great ones in the eighties and nineties, but I wanted to focus on the two thousands because I feel like that was just such a golden age of rom coms. And I have a list here that I put together what I think are essentially the best ones. We'll start first with two thousand and five Hitch. I've seen Hitch many times. I feel like it's always on TV. I also remember watching it in my speech class ones in high school. Don't really know how that fit in, but I remember watching it there. But it's great. I also put on the list Sex in the City from two thousand and eight, which fun fact about me. I've seen every single episode of Sex in the City, and I've also seen both move be. The first one is great, the second one is a bomb in my opinion, but I am curious. It's pretty bad. But I thought this one was good, like it's it kind of. It was a great cap on the entire series, and it's funny. Also, I think would fall in line in the romantic comedies. And I'm kind of interested to see the reboot series. Are you all into that? Oh, we will be watching the reboot series, all right, We're in for it. I think one of your favorites I put on the list from two thousand and nine, The Proposal, Yeah, so good. Why do you love that one? We have Sandra Bullock and Betty White together, which is iconic. It's a great scene in the woods where they're singing. It's just funny. Like I love Sandra Bullocks. She is one of my favorite actress. Cost of Betty White and Ryan Reynolds is great, and Mary Steen Virgin and the s a really good cast from two thousand and to Another one of your favorites, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which I will admit we started and I couldn't finish, which I'm giving you a look right now because it's great, So we're going to funish up soon. Another one of your favorites from two thousand and six, She's the Man. Would you think qualify this is a wrong com Oh yeah, the movie you probably couldn't make today, but it's still it doesn't we watched you couldn't You couldn't make that? Yeah, no, but not overwhelm. Also put on the list Wedding Crashers from two thousand and five thirteen Going on thirty from two thousand and four, which was one of my favorite movies, like for a really long time, because I think it was one of the few that we had on DVD's excellent. We've watched that one together, I think, yeah, we did. And speaking of from TikTok earlier, I did see the girl from that movie as an adult now kind of re enacting one of the scenes. I thought that was funny. Oh yeah, she's said it a lot of stuff. And then I also put on the list knocked Up from two thousand seven, the forty year old virgin Um Bridget Jones Bridget Jones Diary. Okay, I feel like that was a little overrated, honestly. What about twenty seven Dresses? Amazing iconic? You love that one? Really? Oh, I love twenty seven Dresses. I think I feel like girls relate to that one more because we've all been a bridesmaid a million times and you can get it more. Yeah, I don't think maybe guys that doesn't have the same effect. That one really didn't have that effect on me. And then I think the last one here, um would be fifty First Days from two thousand and four, one of your favorites. So good. I love that movie. It's so sweet one a way. That's the list. You have rom com recommendations. You have just romantic recommendations, so you have a bunch of things you can watch this Valentine's Day. If we had to pick one movie that we should watch on Valentine's Day, what do you think it should be first. I mean I kind of think you should rewatch her for Valentine's Day. Really, Yes, it's a great romantic movie. It overall has a red theme to it. I think it would be great, I mean, crazy stupid love because you can't go wrong. Spoiler or we won't be watching her on Valentine's Day. I think we will. I think we'll have a coin flip. Can we settle it that way? Okay? Gets on Amazon Funds too. Hen Alright, let's get into a movie review now, talking about the brand new Netflix movie called Malcolm and Marie, which is just in time for Valentine's Day. It starts in DAYA and John David Washington, who is actually Denzil Washington's son if you don't know about that. But before we get into the spoiler free movie review, here's just a little bit of Malcolm and Marie. No, I'm Malcolm. I feel like, once you know someone is there for you and once you know they love you, you you never actually think of them again. So until you're about to lose someone that you finally pay attention. Well, what is it, Marie? What do you want? Really? Do you want to go there? All? Right? So this is actually a movie I wasn't expecting from Netflix. I knew it was gonna be a love story, and they always kind of put out these romantic movies right before Valentine's Day, and I kind of wanted a little bit something different. And I knew because it was in black and white that it was kind of going to have an artsy field to it. So it was going into it with that state of mind, and it was gonna be dramatic. I knew it was gonna be romantic, and I really enjoyed maybe about half of this movie, and I'll explain why. But the overall story is about John David Washington's character in the movie. He is a filmmaker and his girlfriend is Thenda in the movie, and they just actually got back from his premiere. He's like a new director who has never really gotten a great review on his movies. So they come back from his premiere and they're just overall kind of getting into it as a couple arguing, and you find out a lot about them and about the movie he made, and how a lot of it was kind of based on her story as being a drug addict who kind of got her life back together, and the tension comes from the fact that he didn't thank her while speaking at the movie premiere. He think all of his casts and crew, all the actors and actresses in the movie, but he fails to thank her even though he used, maybe unintentionally, a lot of her likeness to make this story great. And it kind of presents this question of if you're so influenced by somebody without knowing it, like they kind of got you to that point to be able to make that art. And I think we see this a lot in new stories now, when maybe sometimes celebrities get divorced and they're splitting their assets and you think of, like, why did they have to give them half of their things? You know, But it kind of explains how important somebody is in your relationship and how they can contribute to their art, and how without that person you really couldn't have made that happen. So I thought that was kind of a cool point that they made. The other thing I liked about this movie is how stripped down it felt. It almost plays out like a like a play would, because it's essentially two characters throughout the entire movie and them kind of going back and forth. One location takes place in one night, and it's a very stripped down just pretty much just getting raw acting out of these two characters. And I think if you didn't have such great actors doing this movie, it would have had no chance of even being a glimmer of a good movie. Now, where this movie kind of lost me was in that same kind of thing that I liked about it, that it was just two characters. It's a little drawn out. At an hour and forty seven minutes, it's hard to make something so kind of captivating with such a minimal cast, with such a minimal plot. You kind of feel towards the end of it that you're just watching people arguing. And it does get to some pretty intense moments and it gets to like these different kind of ups and downs throughout the movie, but I just don't feel like it was enough there. I would have liked a little bit something more as compelling as it was. But then the other thing you have to consider is this thing was made during the pandemic, so so it kind of shows that shift how you can make a different movie and adapt your storytelling. Because just having two actors in the room, you have a minimal cast, you have a minimal crew that you're overall working with to make this movie, and when things are just so restricted right now, especially in Los Angeles where they make a bunch of these movies, is that they don't have a lot of crew to work with and they're having to make movies now in a whole different world. So I think that So I think it is saying a lot here that it's really the first Hollywood feature to be entirely written, financed, and produced during the pandemic, and the filming took place back in June and July last year, So I think that's actually pretty cool, and kind of that stylistic approach to making it black and white, I think all of that plays into it. But at the end of the day, I think it's still has to be a good movie regardless of when it's made. I don't think you really get bonus points for kind of doing it during under those restrictions. So overall, I would give this story and this movie two point five out of five bowls of macaroni. There was some really kind of that is what I think about Malcolm and Marie. It is on Netflix if you want to go watch it. I don't think it's the most romantic movie. But if you're looking for something a little bit different in that kind of genre, maybe you'll enjoy this one. And if you're just the stickler for black and white for some reason, you'll like that too. All right, let's get into some movie news now. Now. Last week all the Golden Globe nominees were announced, and I don't really get that excited for the Golden Globes. I know a lot of will say that, oh, the Golden Globes a kind of the predecessor, and they predict who will be nominated for Oscars, But I just never really got interested in the Golden Globes because I feel like as insider as the Oscars are and how nitpicky they are, I feel like the Golden Globes are even more so on that. So they really dial into movies that are like, all right, that's gonna get nominated, Like really that movie over in this movie? So I get a little bit annoyed with the Golden Globes. They're also not really great TV to watch. It's the one where they're all sitting down in tables and eating, you know, dinner. You get some funny gifts after the award show but I think they're just not even great to watch, so I don't really get excited when the Golden Globe now and He's come out. So I'll just kind of talk about the ones that was most surprised by, and then I'm excited for that they're actually getting some kind of award show recognition. Up first, I'll talk about the Best Motion Picture category for Musical or a Comedy. Hamilton's got nominated, which I debated whether or not that was qualified as a movie. It shows now that it is has that Golden Globe nomination. Along with that in a comedy is Borat, Like, I thought that was amazing that bora At, a movie I really enjoyed last year, is actually getting recognition and being considered award worthy, so I really love to see that. Also, one of my favorite movies, Palm Springs of last year, is also nominated in that category, so that really kind of gave me hope that it could beat some great Oscar movies that get nominated this year. Especially in such a weird year from movies where everything was kind of delayed and postponed, you have fewer great movies to pick from, so I think this award season is going to be very interesting. Along those same lines, you have Best Performance by an Actor in a Musical or Comedy also Sasha Barry Cohen for Borat Lynn, Manuel, Miranda and Hamilton's and Andy Sandberg for Palm Springs. So I think that's a great category right there. Out of all the nominees so far for the Golden Globe, I'm really interested in the Musical or Comedy genre because I just really like a lot of these people performances in this category, and I think out of anybody who deserves to win, it's these people. And then you also have the Best Drama category. The nominees are The Father mank no man Land, Promising Young Woman, and The Trial of the Chicago Seven, which was a fantastic movie for Netflix. What I kind of take away from this is that we've come so far and Netflix just kind of being an authority now and filmmaking. I remember when it was a novel thing for a Netflix movie to be nominated for anything, and now just like yeah, of course in Netflix movies dominated. You see all these streaming services, how their movies nominated now even from Palm Spring that the Hulu movie so also cool to see, and especially in a year where movie theaters just didn't happen. Also in movie news, Oscar winning actor Christopher Plumber passed away at the age of ninety one. He was best known for his role in the Sound of Music and also in twelve, at the age of eighty two, he became the oldest winner ever in the Academy Awards, taking home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Guinners. He was also in Knives Out. Last year was fantastic at It was sad when I saw that headline come across a bit of movie drama coming out with Olivia Wilde, who is directing her second major motion picture called Don't Worry Darling has a really great cast and a member of that cast who is no longer a part of the movie, the shy La Buff who had an abrupt exit from that movie. And I think it has a lot to do with what he's going through with personally now. He may have seen some new stories about him and some allegations about him, and he just overall themes like he has a lot of trouble in his life and really over his whole entire career that he kind of is up and he's very famous for a while doing really successful things, and then he's kind of backed down. He just has this kind of track record of not being such a great guy, and she kind of called him out for it. Which I like his movies a lot. I don't know him personally, like he's one of those actors that I'm compelled by watching him on the screen and all, and I pretty much watched him and anything now. But she basically put out a statement saying that there are no a holes a loud when she's making a movie. So that's why he is out, all right, And that's gonna do it for movie news for this week. I want to thank all you guys for listening, and I've been getting a lot of really just nice messages of how this podcast has become your Monday routine, and I love seeing those messages. It really means a lot to me that you stick around and listen to the new episode every single week, And if you're not subscribed to this point, that would mean a lot to me just to make sure you get those brand new episodes every single week. And also, if you don't mind leaving a five star rating and review, if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, because that really helps me a lot with getting discovered and bringing new people to listen to this podcast. And if you don't mind, tell a friend getting into now my shoutout of the week to do every single week just to one of you guys listening who tweets me, sends me a d M on Instagram or emails me at movie Mike d at gmail dot com. And this one is actually over on Twitter and it comes to us from Jeremy Banta. I think I'm pronouncing that correctly, and he said, I've never considered myself a movie lover, but I really enjoy your podcast and find myself watching a movie or two based off something you recommend this week. Keep up the good work, and I just want to say thanks, Jeremy. And this means a lot to me because I think I do this podcast because I love movies. I love talking about movies, and I try to do it in a way too. Even if you don't love movies, you've either learn a little bit of something or you're inspired to go watch something I talk about. And you don't always have to agree with my movie reviews, but I'm just giving you my opinion on things. So I really appreciate it when I get messages like this, So just thanks to everybody for listening. And I also wanted to give another shout out to Zach Coon, who I was recently on his podcast. He does a podcast here in Nashville, talk to a lot of people in the industry here, and I kind of talked more about what I do for my main job, which I work on the Bobby Bones Show where I'm a head writer and producer there. So if you wanted to get my story more of what I do for that side of my life, we kind of dug into it a lot more, and he's a really great guy. We also talked about movies and that, so if you want to go listen to that, you can search his show. It's the Zach Coon Show and that's spelled c A K k U H and just searched that on Apple podcast or where ever you listen to podcasts and listen to that episode. I actually told a story on there that I've never told anywhere before, So if you want to go listen to that, you'll hear it. I hope you guys have a great week, have a great Valentine's Day, and until next Monday. Later