0:00

Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast.

0:02

I am your host Movie Mike. Today. I want to share with you

0:04

what I think are the top seven saddest

0:07

romantic movies of all time. When I

0:09

look towards love stories, I just

0:11

gravitate towards the sad ones. I want to share

0:13

ones with you that if you also like sad

0:15

movies, or you're just looking for a movie to make you feel

0:18

right now, I got you covered.

0:20

In the movie review, we'll be talking about

0:22

an independent film called Sometimes I

0:24

Think About Dying. You can see there's a theme

0:26

to this episode and in the trailer

0:29

park our first look at the prequel of

0:31

A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place, Day

0:33

one. Thank you for being here, Thank you

0:35

for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning

0:37

Movie crew. He Now, let's

0:40

talk movies.

0:40

In a world where everyone and their mother has

0:43

a podcast, one man stands

0:45

to infiltrate the ears of listeners

0:48

like never before in a movie podcast.

0:51

A man with so much movie knowledge,

0:53

he's basically like a walking

0:56

IMTV with glasses

0:58

from the Nashville Podcast.

0:59

Now Movie

1:02

Mike Movie Podcast. If

1:04

you're listening on release day or release

1:07

week, we are right around Valentine's daytime,

1:09

which I thought was an appropriate time to put out

1:11

an episode about romantic movies. Or

1:14

if you're listening weeks months from now,

1:17

you'll still enjoy this episode because

1:19

I want to share with you movies that

1:21

will make you feel and they just happened

1:23

to be in the theme of romance.

1:26

I had a period in my life where I loved

1:28

romantic movies. This period of

1:30

my life coincided with the time where I was very,

1:33

very lonely. Throughout the twenty tens. I

1:35

had nothing going on for me

1:38

romantically. And when I say nothing,

1:40

I mean absolutely nothing, no

1:42

prospects, no anything. The twenty

1:44

tens. In some or

1:47

at least the early twenty tens, oh

1:49

man, there were some of my dark days. Specifically,

1:51

the early twenty tens from about twenty

1:54

ten to twenty thirteen were tough

1:56

for me on a physical and mental

1:58

health level. I was the worst

2:00

I had ever been in both of those capacities

2:03

because physically my body

2:05

was I wasn't taking care of it. I was overweight,

2:08

I was eating terribly. I was drinking booze.

2:10

I was partying, and when I say partying,

2:12

it doesn't really mean like going out and having fun. I was

2:14

just in my apartment with a few

2:16

select friends, just drinking beer and eating

2:19

bad food, which led to me being

2:22

at the highest weight i'd ever been, and I was just unhealthy.

2:24

It didn't feel comfortable in my skin. But

2:26

also I had no romantic relationships,

2:29

no prospects, because I felt so bad about

2:31

myself, you know, the way that I looked and the

2:33

way that I felt like people perceived

2:36

me, that I didn't even try dating. So

2:38

I would watch movies where the

2:40

main character was also going through

2:42

sadness trying to find love, and I

2:44

would say that romance movies.

2:47

This may surprise you, they were the ones that

2:49

I really seeked out. Now, Marvel DC

2:51

were in its heyday around this time, so those were

2:53

still the movies I loved. But I think the movies I didn't

2:55

tell people that I really enjoyed during this time

2:58

was romance movies, and it was

3:00

because I wanted

3:02

to escape through movies and

3:04

I dreamt about having a relationship

3:07

and seeing other people made

3:09

me feel even though

3:11

they were on screen, gave me hope.

3:14

But I also felt like I lived through them

3:16

a little bit, And that is also what I love

3:18

about movies. They're like dreams that you remember

3:21

and watching a good movie about romance and

3:23

having it give you that feeling of love

3:26

that we all search for in this life. And if

3:28

you found love in this life, kudos

3:31

to you. Hats off all the cliche

3:33

things that people say, because it is

3:35

so hard to find love and stay

3:37

in love. So I think I was

3:39

watching these movies thinking that

3:41

I would find like a blueprint here.

3:44

I literally would watch movies to try

3:46

to learn things of how to approach women,

3:49

how to talk to women, how to be in a relationship.

3:52

I went to movies for

3:54

a lot of this type of advice because

3:57

my parents didn't really give me advice as

3:59

far as my brother

4:02

was there for me, but he was also kind

4:04

of like me, and we didn't really have a whole lot

4:06

of luck, so he gave me what advice

4:08

he could. But whether it

4:10

came down to talking to girls

4:13

or just learning how to navigate life

4:15

and career, I would watch a

4:17

lot of movies and gain what

4:19

I would call experience from that, what I would call

4:22

some kind of just motivational

4:25

advice through movies and through characters.

4:27

So I just wanted to let you know what I was going

4:30

through during this time where

4:32

I was my most influential when it came

4:34

to romance movies, which is going to reflect a

4:36

lot on this list. I think the romance

4:38

movies I lean towards now are a lot different

4:41

because I've been married now for almost

4:43

three years, and I just have this happiness

4:46

and I'm so removed from that sadness

4:49

I had when I was single. And

4:51

the movies that Kelsey has exposed

4:53

me to are rom coms, which coincidentally

4:56

I really didn't enjoy before her,

4:59

because I didn't you have that vision of

5:01

love that they sell in rom coms,

5:04

of the two people meeting, are they gonna

5:06

be together? And then it's all happily ever

5:08

after. In every single rom com it

5:11

ends on a good note, but they never tell you what happens

5:13

happily ever after. But now those

5:15

are growing on me. I can enjoy them.

5:18

The last one we watched in theater is Anyone, But you

5:21

actually really enjoyed that one. So if

5:23

I made an episode like this now with

5:25

current emotions, it'd probably be different. So

5:27

I had to go revisit this list and think about

5:30

these movies and how it was feeling at the time, because

5:32

I still would consider these my

5:34

favorite movies. Even though I don't have

5:36

those same emotions and those same things going on in

5:38

my life, There's just something nostalgic

5:40

about this feeling. And I know

5:43

that people go through hard things when

5:45

trying to find love. So if you're

5:47

single, or maybe separated,

5:50

divorced, or just in

5:52

a rough patch in your relationship, maybe

5:54

you can watch a movie like this and feel a little bit

5:56

of comfort, because a movie that

5:59

hits you in the field can feel so comforting.

6:01

There are some emotions that we can't really

6:04

talk to people about. We could go to therapy,

6:06

we can talk to friends and family, but

6:09

sometimes you just have to be alone in something

6:11

and figure it out for yourself. And

6:13

I feel like watching a movie like this

6:15

that is emotional, that does have

6:17

some romance can really help you work through

6:19

something unlike anything else really

6:22

can. A good movie, maybe

6:24

a good sad song in a movie, all those

6:26

things combined together can help

6:28

you get through things. So I wanted to share this list

6:30

with you. Maybe you're going through

6:33

something like that, or maybe you just haven't heard

6:35

of these movies, or maybe you're just

6:37

like watching an emotional movie around Valentine's

6:40

Day. This is here for you too,

6:42

So let's get right into the list. At number

6:44

seven, I have Up

6:47

in the Air from two thousand and nine.

6:49

Now, this movie is marketed as

6:51

a comedy romance movie, but if

6:54

you look at the themes, what George Clooney's

6:56

character is going through and Up in the Air,

6:59

this is the It's the saddest movie

7:01

ever. And the more I think about why

7:04

this movie hit me so hard is because

7:07

I feel like George Clooney's character would

7:09

have been me if I

7:11

wouldn't have found Kelsey. And

7:14

the reason I found Kelsey was because

7:17

I kind of let go of things and I

7:19

realized that I needed to find somebody

7:21

to share the things in my life that were happening

7:23

that were awesome. Because

7:26

when you're single, laid into your twenties

7:28

almost thirties, and

7:30

you start having any kind

7:32

of success in your career or

7:35

just experiencing life, you

7:37

want to share it with somebody. And I

7:40

had realized that I had lost

7:42

all the weight, I had moved

7:45

to a new city, had my dream job

7:48

was traveling the world. At the time,

7:51

I was on tour with Bobby opening up for

7:53

his shows, and I was doing

7:55

things that I never thought I was going to do. But

7:57

then I would come home and I would feel nothing,

7:59

I would feel emptiness, I would feel lonely.

8:02

So I was having all these things go right

8:05

in my life, but not having anybody to

8:07

share it with almost didn't

8:09

make any of those things feel

8:12

worth it, Like why did I work so hard for this?

8:15

And even now I have to pull

8:17

myself back from working so much and make

8:20

time to spend

8:23

his husband and wifetime and realize that

8:25

this is the most important thing to me. And

8:28

looking at George Clooney's character in this movie,

8:30

who lives out of his suitcase, traveling

8:33

around the country firing people, which is a

8:35

great premise for a movie, and he

8:37

is so obsessed with the travel and

8:39

racking up airline miles and trying

8:42

to reach this milestone

8:44

of being one of the only people to travel as

8:46

much as he has, and

8:48

as he's going around traveling

8:51

the world, realizing that he has nobody

8:53

to go back home to. He lives in a small

8:56

little apartment where he doesn't really

8:58

live there because he's on the road so much.

9:02

And the tagline of this movie says it all that

9:04

it's the story of a man ready to make a connection,

9:07

the play on you know, the connecting playing Ah, that's so

9:09

cheeky. So there are

9:11

elements of this movie that are comedic,

9:14

but at the core of it, it's just so sad

9:17

to see somebody just going through life

9:19

and not having anybody to share it with.

9:22

And there's a moment in this movie where George Clooney

9:24

gives advice to somebody going through

9:27

something, and I feel like it kind

9:29

of hits him of like, oh man, I'm

9:31

kind of realizing that I don't

9:34

really have a whole lot to show for myself. Should I

9:36

really be the one giving this advice. But

9:38

ever since the first time I saw this movie, this

9:41

quote about how

9:43

you spend your life and finding

9:46

people worthy of your time

9:48

to share it with. Ever since I

9:50

heard this quote, it has stayed with me. If you think

9:53

about it, your favorite memories, the most

9:55

important moments in your life, we're

9:57

you alone, No,

10:00

I guess not. Life's better

10:02

with company. Everybody needs a co

10:04

pilot.

10:06

That was a nice touch.

10:07

Thanks, So that is always

10:09

saved with me. Your favorite memories, they're

10:12

not the ones where we are alone. So for me, it would

10:14

have been where my favorite memories is going to

10:16

be. When I was traveling around just working all

10:18

the time, doing things. No, it was the times

10:21

where I actually got to enjoy

10:23

things with other people. So it was

10:25

opening myself up, allowing

10:28

myself to be vulnerable, allowing

10:30

myself to put in the time to find a relationship

10:33

like that and nurture it and do the things

10:35

required, not just like I just want to plug

10:37

and play and there you go. I just get a girlfriend

10:39

and blah blah blah. It's not that easy.

10:42

Got to put in the time. You got to put in the work. But

10:45

it was realizing that it

10:47

wasn't just going to be handed to me as well later

10:49

down the line, it was me realizing

10:51

I did not want to end up like George Clooney's

10:53

character, and I wanted to put in the time

10:56

to find a real relationship. So

10:58

that movie is at number seven. At

11:00

number six is a recent edition a

11:03

movie called Spoiler Alert, which we have

11:05

reviewed here on the podcast. It came out back

11:07

in twenty twenty two, and I feel is

11:09

an understated film. It is based

11:12

on a true story. It is adapted

11:14

from a memoir that came out in twenty seventeen

11:16

from this TV writer and I love

11:18

that title because it

11:21

implies that the love interest

11:23

in this movie is going to die. So

11:25

what this movie is about. Jim Parson's character's

11:27

name is Michael, and he finds

11:30

the guy of his dreams and thinks, this

11:32

is the person I'm gonna grow old with. And

11:34

he eventually loses his partner

11:37

to cancer. And you already know that going into

11:39

this movie. The movie is called spoiler alert.

11:41

It's telling you you're gonna be sad

11:43

by watching this movie, but it never

11:46

really forces you to be sad. And

11:48

I think that is the struggle I have with

11:51

sad films going into them, because

11:53

when somebody tells me this movie is going to make

11:55

you cry, this movie is going to make you

11:57

emotional, I'm kind of guarded going into it,

12:00

and I'm like, I'm gonna fight it. I'm not gonna cry, I'm

12:02

not gonna get emotional. And this one kind

12:04

of disarms you by telling you on the front

12:06

end that there's a spoiler alert. He's

12:09

gonna die in the movie. But even though

12:11

you know that, it doesn't make it any less

12:13

sad because through their relationship,

12:16

through all the things you go through and

12:18

seeing the ups and downs of

12:21

being with somebody and seeing

12:23

the person you love battle

12:25

cancer, there are just so many emotions

12:27

that you go through, and

12:30

the fact that it is based on a true story.

12:33

There's just so many more levels

12:35

than just knowing that the person is going to

12:38

die. Doesn't take away at

12:40

all from this movie. There's

12:42

also a film that came out at the end of

12:44

twenty twenty two. I felt like it didn't

12:46

really get the attention it deserved

12:49

because Jim Parsons is phenomenal

12:51

in this movie, and he is an actor that

12:53

you look at and for the most part, you

12:56

just associate him with Sheldon

12:58

from The Big Bang Theory. But

13:00

I feel like he's been very selective of

13:02

the movies he has taken on, and

13:04

at no point in this movie that I expect him

13:06

to say Bozinga. He was so good

13:08

in it. So at number six, I have

13:11

spoiler alert. At number five on my

13:13

list, I'm going to put another recent addition,

13:16

a movie that is nominated right now for Best Picture.

13:18

I don't think it's going to win because of the caliber

13:21

of the movies I think are above it,

13:24

with Barbie and Oppenheimer both being in this

13:26

category. I would love for it to win, but the

13:28

movie is called Past Lives, and

13:30

this isn't really your traditional

13:32

romance movie, and what I

13:35

like about this movie and why I chose

13:37

to include it is because I

13:39

feel like romantic movies don't always

13:42

have to be a sexual

13:44

thing. Like it doesn't have to be two people

13:46

hooking up, and that is romance. I

13:48

feel like you can also romanticize

13:50

the idea of friendship. And

13:52

what this movie is about is two deeply

13:55

connected childhood friends who

13:57

they meet growing up in South Korea.

14:00

The female character ends up moving

14:02

out to the United States, and the entire

14:04

movie has to deal with destiny, love

14:08

and how all the little

14:10

choices you make end up determining

14:12

what your life is going to be like. So it's

14:15

not your traditional love story,

14:17

and that is why I love it. That's why I chose

14:19

to include it. Because in life,

14:22

things don't really how

14:25

they do in a movie. Love

14:27

is not linear. It goes in all different

14:29

types of ways. Think about

14:32

your relationships and maybe people

14:34

that came into your life early on and

14:36

then later came back into your life down the line, like

14:38

oh yeah, you reconnect. That wouldn't

14:41

really work in a movie in a traditional

14:43

sense of you normally watch a movie, it's

14:45

some people meeting, they go on a date, another

14:47

thing happens, another thing happens, you find out, do

14:49

they end up together or not. That's usually how

14:52

a romance movie breaks down. But

14:54

in this movie, I feel like it really

14:56

shows what just people

14:58

are like in real life. Of not

15:01

everything happens A to B, B

15:03

two C. Your life goes in all

15:05

different directions based on all the choices

15:07

you make, in this case, somebody moving to an entirely

15:09

different country, And it's kind of the

15:11

invisible string theory of where you

15:13

always meant to end up with a person? Does

15:16

everything happen for a reason, is their

15:18

destiny, is their love and first sight? So it kind

15:20

of tackles all of those things inside

15:23

of one movie. But again, I don't believe

15:25

that a romantic movie always just has

15:27

to be sexual. You can

15:29

love a friend, you can love a neighbor

15:32

and still have what would be described

15:34

as a romantic type relationship

15:37

because I just view romance as passion,

15:39

and this movie has passion. So don't

15:42

go into this movie thinking that it's going to feel

15:45

like La La Land. But it's a very

15:47

just realistic approach to a love

15:49

story. So at number five, I have

15:51

past lives. At number four

15:54

is a movie I brought up in last week's episode.

15:56

And for the longest time was the movie I just identified

15:59

with. And I think it's because

16:02

I had a strong connection to Jim Carrey's

16:04

character in this film, who is

16:06

a guy just going through this really

16:08

weird time, And

16:11

I can explain the entire sentiment

16:13

of my existence in this one line

16:15

that he says at the beginning of the movie,

16:18

why do I fall in love with every

16:20

woman I see who shows me the least bit

16:22

of attention. So in that scene,

16:24

he is sitting writing in his journal

16:27

and he sees Kate Winslet's character across

16:29

from him, and she really just gives him a

16:31

look, and from that look,

16:34

like you said, he immediately falls in love with her.

16:37

That was me all in my

16:39

teenage years, all in my twenties,

16:42

any girl that talked to me,

16:45

I was immediately in love with if

16:47

they were single, Like that is how I was,

16:50

because I was so lonely and

16:52

because well, I was desperate,

16:55

and I had never heard anybody else talk

16:57

about that of falling in love that quickly

17:00

and immediately upon meeting somebody

17:02

that you think, hey, there

17:04

could be something here. I think she likes me. We're

17:06

gonna end up dating, We're gonna

17:09

get married. We're gonna move here out

17:11

into the country. And you go through all these things

17:13

in your head and all this person

17:15

has said was hello. Maybe

17:18

you held the door open for him and

17:20

they were just being courteous saying

17:22

thank you, and you think this woman is

17:24

about to be my wife. I found her

17:27

walking into the Piggy Wiggly. That

17:29

is how I was not above shopping

17:32

at Pickly Wiggly. I loved it, have great

17:34

honey buns. But anyway, that is

17:36

how I felt, And that was

17:38

the tone that this movie started out with. And

17:41

the entire movie is about

17:43

their relationship and

17:45

how they both decided

17:48

to erase each

17:50

other from their memories. So the

17:52

idea is, if you had such

17:54

a bad relationship and had

17:56

the ability to erase somebody from you from

17:59

your mind, would you do it? That

18:01

is what they did. But yet in this scene

18:03

you find that they still end

18:06

up encountering. So are you doomed

18:08

to repeat that entire relationship all

18:10

over again? Then how do you feel

18:13

about it? The movie feels so intimate

18:15

and like it's an indie movie, but then you

18:18

have Jim Carrey, who is one of the biggest movie stars

18:20

of all time. Kate Winslett who

18:22

is also one of the biggest movie stars of all

18:24

time, and they are perfect together.

18:26

Their chemistry is beautiful

18:29

in a way that you don't really realize

18:31

how great their chemistry is because

18:34

you just view these two characters

18:37

as an iconic couple, and

18:39

I don't really have to question any emotions

18:42

or any action between an iconic couple

18:44

because this movie is set in history. That is

18:46

how it is. I would change nothing

18:49

about it. And then you have kind

18:51

of a b story with the other characters

18:54

involved in this movie in another

18:56

weird love thing. So the movie explores

18:59

a lot of different types of romance,

19:02

but they are all sad because this movie will

19:04

make you feel all the things, but you never really

19:06

watch any scene in particular feel

19:09

happy. That is why I included it on

19:11

this list at number four.

19:14

At number three was another

19:16

movie in the

19:18

Prime of Me being Lonely in twenty thirteen.

19:21

The movie is called About Time. You

19:23

have Rachel McAdams, who has

19:25

been in so many great romance movies.

19:28

I mean the Notebook. I don't really

19:30

feel like that enters this list, but

19:33

arguably one of the greatest

19:35

romance movies of all time. She has had

19:38

a great run in this type of movie,

19:40

but hands down this one is

19:42

my favorite because not only is it sad, but

19:44

it also has a little bit of fantasy. Because

19:47

this movie is about a guy who learns

19:49

that all the men in his family have the

19:52

ability to travel through time.

19:54

So what does he use it for? He uses

19:57

it to fall in love with Rachel

19:59

McAdam, and any little thing

20:01

that goes wrong, well doesn't

20:03

really matter because I can travel through time and I can

20:05

fix it all. It's kind of like Click

20:08

with Adam Sandler, but not

20:10

as gaggy, not as comedic,

20:14

a lot more of the consequences

20:17

that you feel later in Click. But what would actually

20:19

happen if you had

20:21

this ability to travel through time? And

20:24

realizing that it's not going to

20:26

fix everything. Just because

20:28

you can go back and redo things doesn't

20:30

mean that some things aren't

20:33

meant to happen, and coming

20:35

to grips with some things you really just

20:37

can't change. But I really love

20:39

the chemistry between Rachel McAdams and

20:41

Donald Gleason in this film, and you

20:43

feel that chemistry from the very first time

20:45

they meet on screen. Would it be very

20:48

wrong if I asked you for your number? No, just

20:50

in case I ever, you know, had to cool

20:52

you about stuff.

20:55

Okay, I thought this phone

20:58

was older, but suddenly it's my most valuable possession.

21:01

Do you really like me? What a line

21:04

You put a girl's phone number in

21:06

and you're like, Ah, suddenly this phone is the

21:09

most important thing in the world. I

21:11

should have stolen that line, but I don't

21:13

want to reveal all the sad things that happen

21:15

in this movie. I will say

21:18

this was the movie I would recommend for

21:20

the longest time to anybody

21:22

wanting to watch a movie to make you cry.

21:24

I think also in the early twenty tens,

21:26

even though I wasn't in the best mental state, I

21:29

had a real hard time crying, and this was

21:31

the movie that cracked me. So

21:34

aside from it being a romantic movie,

21:37

take Valentine's Day completely out of

21:39

this episode. If you just want a movie to make you

21:41

cry, I think about Time could

21:43

be that one for you. So that is why I

21:45

put this one at number three. We

21:47

made it now to number two, and I wanted

21:49

to include a classic on here.

21:52

And when I think about classic romantic sad

21:54

movies, my mind immediately

21:57

goes to the og from James

21:59

Cameron Titanic. Kate

22:01

Winslett again making an appearance

22:03

on this list with a young, handsome

22:06

Leonardo DiCaprio. And this movie

22:09

always makes me feel sad because,

22:12

much like spoiler alert, going

22:14

into this movie, you knew ultimately

22:17

what was going to happen, because

22:20

it's one of the most talked about

22:22

things in history, the Titanic sinking.

22:25

We all knew that going into this movie,

22:27

but it did not make it any less sad

22:29

knowing what happens and the fate of

22:31

our characters and the fate of a lot of people

22:34

on this boat. Every time I watch this movie,

22:36

I think it gets sadder and sadder. Maybe it's because

22:39

as I grow older, learn more about

22:41

love, I just feel these

22:43

things a lot more. I'm also

22:45

a lot more aware of the

22:48

impact of scores in movies,

22:50

and I think Titanic does

22:52

not get enough credit for how

22:54

perfect the score in this movie. Is

22:57

not only the Celine Dion song,

22:59

but just every other part in this movie

23:02

where something emotional is happening

23:04

and you just have all these sad strings

23:08

being plucked. That elevates

23:10

every single emotion in this film.

23:13

Not only that, but the scale of this

23:16

movie, how big

23:18

it looks, and you think of how much they went

23:20

through and how much money they spent to make

23:22

it look as good as it does, and

23:25

also the fact that it holds up so well

23:27

because a lot of these were practical effects.

23:31

So I always feel like and tell you

23:33

that those aged the best. I

23:35

feel like Titanic will continue to be a

23:38

classic because there's not a whole

23:40

lot of cgi and

23:43

James Cameron was so specific

23:45

on the details of what to include in this film.

23:47

He didn't cast actors that were

23:50

I think above five foot eight maybe

23:52

five ' nine, because he wanted all

23:54

the other elements to look bigger. And

23:57

then you have Kate Winslet and Leonardo

23:59

DiCaprio at the core of it, and

24:03

it's just so sad that they

24:05

don't end up together. And

24:07

again, this movie is over twenty years old,

24:09

so not a spoiler and

24:11

one of the most talked about endings of all time.

24:14

But one survives,

24:16

one does not, and I don't even think

24:19

of that moment being the sadus in this film.

24:22

The moment that actually gets me more is

24:24

whenever Rose chooses to

24:27

leave the lifeboat to go back

24:29

with Jack, knowing that she may

24:31

not survive, but she doesn't care because

24:33

she wants to be with the person that she

24:35

loves. So stupid

24:38

want you to do that?

24:40

You're so stupid?

24:41

Rose, Why

24:44

did you do that? Why?

24:51

That gets me every

24:54

time? Man? And

24:56

this was also at a time where we

24:58

weren't complaining about long run time

25:01

because Titanic is three hours and fifteen

25:03

minutes. And maybe it's because you know, there

25:06

was no Twitter or message boards

25:08

back then, that no one had an avenue

25:10

to complain to about long run time.

25:12

But what a movie is great? You don't think about the

25:14

runtime. You think about the emotion it

25:17

makes you feel. So at number

25:19

two saddest romance movies.

25:21

I have Titanic at number one

25:24

is a movie from twenty thirteen directed

25:27

by Spike Jones. The movie

25:29

is her. It is set in a not so distant

25:32

future, has one of my favorite actors, Joaquin

25:34

Phoenix. He plays a character named Theodore

25:37

who was a lonely writer. He is

25:39

navigating the sadness after going through

25:41

a divorce where he had met his soulmate,

25:43

thought he was going to spend forever with this person

25:46

and now it goes back to his life of writing

25:49

greeting cards and romance cards

25:51

for other people, where he is forced

25:53

to write about love when

25:55

he is feeling just this eternal sadness.

25:58

So he's living in this apartment himself.

26:01

Again, we're in the not so distant future, so he has

26:03

all these cool gadgets to play with. There's this

26:05

really fun video game that I wish they would make

26:07

now, and maybe with the new Apple Vision

26:09

Pro, I don't think we're too far

26:11

away from having a video game like this. And

26:15

also the fact that this movie really predicted

26:17

a lot of what the world is now.

26:20

Back then seems so crazy

26:23

at the idea of somebody falling in love

26:25

with their operating system. But now with the prevalence

26:27

of AI, and you

26:30

have people falling in love now with AI.

26:32

There's like a supermodel AI figure

26:35

racking in money on dudes like

26:37

Theodore now in twenty twenty four

26:40

and they aren't even real. So now this

26:42

could actually happen. You could just make a documentary

26:45

on this. Get the cameras out, now, let's go

26:47

over to talk to some of these guys. But that is what

26:49

happens. He falls in love with this operating

26:51

system. He has a really

26:54

cool looking phone. It's like this red phone

26:56

that essentially has Siri on it, and

26:59

at first it just has

27:01

suggestions for his calendar, it helps him

27:03

navigate his email, and then they just start

27:05

talking. Gets a little more intimate at

27:08

times, gets a little weird and uncomfortable

27:10

for the viewer, but then you

27:12

kind of forget about that because of the

27:14

relationship that develops, and you have Scarlet

27:17

Johansson voicing this character Samantha,

27:21

who does an incredible job for

27:24

somebody who was just in a recording booth,

27:26

and I think she also did her lines in a record

27:28

amount of time. But just shows you how great of an

27:30

actor Scarlet Johansson is that

27:33

I found it so believable. I

27:36

was never taken out of this movie thinking, oh,

27:38

it's just Joaquin Phoenix looking up

27:40

at nothing and reacting to absolutely

27:43

emptiness. But at the core of this movie,

27:45

it is just so sad because you were realizing

27:48

how much grief that Theodore

27:50

is going through this scene in particular.

27:53

Sometimes I

27:55

think I felt everything

27:58

I'm ever gonna feel from

28:00

here on. I'm not gonna feel anything

28:02

new. I know for a fact that

28:04

is not true. At

28:08

least your feelings are

28:11

real, because you have Theodore

28:13

feeling the sadness, but also

28:15

Samantha knowing that

28:17

she is not a real thing, that

28:20

even though she knows what emotions

28:23

are. She can't feel them. She can't feel anything.

28:25

So how this plays out with both of

28:28

them and all the emotions that come in

28:30

the third act of this movie. Ugh,

28:32

I rewatch it at least one time a

28:34

year and it still gets me. It's

28:36

also just an incredibly good

28:39

looking film. It has that right

28:41

blend of sci fi and romance, much

28:43

like About Time did. But I

28:45

love that this movie just feels red

28:47

to me, and everything

28:50

from the costume design

28:53

to the backgrounds through

28:55

the way the cinematography just plays

28:58

off it. It just feels so warm, it

29:00

feels so comforting, and feel

29:02

so sad at the same time. Another

29:04

movie that has remained on my top

29:07

ten favorite movies of

29:09

all time lists for now over

29:12

a decade since it came out in twenty thirteen.

29:14

And I will say the movie is not for everybody

29:17

because I feel like some have

29:19

a hard time getting over that

29:21

weirdness of him being in

29:23

love with this operating system, and

29:26

you don't really want to watch something that

29:28

makes you feel uncomfortable, and I get that,

29:30

But I think if there were any time to

29:32

revisit this movie, it would be now,

29:35

because I think the idea of it, like I mentioned,

29:38

isn't that absurd? Isn't

29:40

that bizarre now that we

29:43

are living in a more futuristic

29:45

world where

29:47

people are using chat gbt to

29:49

find their soulmates? And

29:52

I think we are scared of AI because

29:54

we really don't know how much it's

29:57

actually a part of our lives. We just think of

29:59

it as being this robotic force that

30:01

could take over when really a

30:03

lot of the things we do in life have been

30:05

quote unquote AI for a very long time.

30:08

Now that it just has a name and that people

30:11

can have an opinion on it one way or another,

30:13

it kind of freaks us out a little bit.

30:16

So if you thought about watching this

30:18

movie in the past, or maybe you have seen it started

30:20

it. I think this is also a movie that some would start

30:22

and think, Ah, this isn't for me and not watch

30:24

it. If you do have a little bit of an

30:26

open mind now when it comes to AI,

30:29

highly encourage you to revisit this movie.

30:32

That is the list we'll come back

30:34

and talk about. Sometimes I think

30:36

about dying the movie not me. And then

30:38

we'll take a look at the new Quiet Place movie.

30:43

Let's get into it now a spoiler free movie

30:46

review. Today we're talking about sometimes I

30:48

think about dying. I

30:50

love that title. I like looking at a poster

30:52

and immediately getting an emotion, and

30:55

that title really says it all about what this

30:57

movie is about. You have Daisy Ridley

30:59

I love. You probably know her as Ray from

31:01

the Star Wars movies, and despite what you

31:04

read online from nerds who look like me but

31:06

have a much different opinion on those movies, because

31:08

I love Daisy Ridley in those movies.

31:11

They really made me love Star Wars, which

31:13

if you see what anybody says about those movies, they

31:15

ruined them. I think those movies

31:17

are great, and a lot of that is

31:20

due to her performance in those films. So

31:22

I was excited to see her outside

31:25

of a Star Wars movie because she has done

31:27

other movies since then, but she's kind

31:29

of been in this sci fi action genre

31:32

that obviously, after being in Star

31:34

Wars she naturally be cast in,

31:36

but I wanted to see the more dramatic

31:38

side of her. And in this movie, she plays a character

31:41

named Fran She's this very socially

31:44

awkward, depressed woman working

31:46

at this small office in Oregon,

31:48

and even though she's been working at this place for so long,

31:51

she has a hard time bonding with

31:53

her coworkers. But then comes the

31:55

day where somebody who has been working in the office

31:57

for a long time retires and a

31:59

new guy comes in and they start

32:01

to form a relationship. They go out on

32:03

a date, and the entire movie

32:06

is her trying to pursue

32:08

a friendship, maybe a little bit of a romance,

32:11

but really having a hard time and doing

32:13

so because throughout the entire film she is

32:15

well doing what the title says, thinking

32:17

about dying now. I found

32:20

this movie to be very, very

32:22

personal because I saw a

32:24

lot of myself in Fran's character.

32:27

The socially awkward part of it,

32:29

I thought was illustrated so beautifully.

32:31

And how the movie does it is it

32:33

has a very slow pace to it, but it's slow

32:36

paced on purpose. When you're socially

32:38

awkward, it is hard for you

32:40

to have conversations with people. I can sit

32:43

here right now in this studio and have a

32:45

conversation with you, looking into this camera,

32:47

talking into this microphone. But if

32:49

you took me out of this situation and put me in

32:51

a room with five people, maybe five

32:53

coworkers, I would have a hard

32:56

time at work. I am known as the quiet

32:58

person. I've had that title ever

33:00

since I was in school, and it's not something

33:02

I take pride in. I would

33:04

love to walk into a room and immediately

33:06

own it and be the center of attention, but

33:09

that has just never been me. And that is

33:11

exactly what I saw in france character,

33:14

because throughout this film, she

33:16

is longing for that. She is trying

33:18

to connect with people

33:21

and wants to, like goes out of her way

33:23

to do so, but she just doesn't

33:25

have the tools to communicate

33:28

and sometimes the thing she says don't come across

33:30

the way that she intended them to. So

33:32

even though she's not a bad person whatsoever,

33:35

she just lacks those skills. And I found

33:37

that completely like, oh, that is me. That

33:40

is me to a t. And then you have

33:43

the eternal sadness that she is facing

33:45

and hiding from other people, which

33:48

is something that I mean, I've talked about in this

33:50

episode of how much

33:52

depression and anxiety has been

33:54

a part of my life and going to therapy has really

33:56

helped me with that. But I really felt like the film

33:59

did a great job of showing what that

34:01

feels like without it feeling

34:03

inherently sad. Because I won't

34:05

say that this is a depressing movie, even though

34:07

it has a super depressing title

34:10

and our character is obviously going

34:12

through something here, but there are moments

34:14

of levity that bring life to the situation.

34:17

And it's not trying to present it of here's just this

34:19

sad girl doing all these sad things.

34:22

It is showing it in such a realistic

34:25

way that found it very enjoyable

34:27

to me. But again, it has

34:29

that slow pace that really puts you

34:31

in the perspective and in the shoes

34:33

of fran While watching

34:35

this, you may think, Okay, move it on a little

34:38

bit, but if you let yourself

34:40

live in that, you realize, this is how this person

34:42

is feeling. Those big, long awkward

34:45

pauses are the things

34:47

that I have built my entire life on. I am

34:49

just trying to fill those big, long awkward

34:51

pauses when talking to people, and

34:53

that is what this movie shows. It also

34:56

just looks fantastic. The movie was shot in

34:58

a small town in Oregon called The Story where

35:00

other movies like The Goonies, Kindergarten

35:03

cop or Film just to name a couple. But

35:05

it also just gives it this feeling of it being

35:08

small, isolated, and

35:10

I just love how the imagery really played

35:12

a part into the look and feel of this movie,

35:15

and then you have the score underneath it all,

35:17

which is a lot more cheerful, and that

35:19

combined with the office life situations

35:21

that I feel like a lot of people will

35:24

relate to. I've never had

35:26

a traditional office life scenario.

35:28

My workplace is very chaotic

35:31

and there are a lot of different personalities

35:33

there that we've never had a traditional relationship

35:35

of, like communicating over email

35:37

and slack. But those scenes got

35:39

a lot of laughs in our theaters, which we did watch

35:41

this in a sold out theater with the

35:44

director and editor there. So we'll

35:46

get into an interesting part that almost got me into some

35:48

trouble during the Q and A. But before

35:50

I get to that part, I just want to say

35:52

that that this is a movie that it might not have

35:55

all the bells and whistles. There's not this

35:57

big elaborate thing you learn by watching

35:59

this movie. It is kind of

36:01

just a slice of life movie and a

36:04

peek into somebody's world that

36:06

lives like this, and you will

36:08

watch it and either think, oh, I know somebody

36:10

in my life who is kind of

36:13

like fran Maybe I should talk to

36:15

them and approach them a little bit differently. Now that

36:17

I know what it's like to be someone

36:19

like that, or you'll be like

36:21

me and think that is me. I'm glad

36:23

somebody made a movie that shows what it's

36:25

like to be socially awkward, a

36:28

quiet person, and also have some mental health

36:30

issues. But now we'll get into the controversy

36:32

that happened. So the director and

36:34

the editor were present at this

36:36

screening. We watched it at our favorite

36:38

local movie theater called the Bell Court here

36:40

in Nashville. Again, we bring it up all the time. If you

36:42

ever visit Nashville, you have to go see a movie

36:44

at the Bell Court because they do events like this

36:46

where the director who made the movie is there

36:49

and you can ask them questions after the

36:51

screening. And me, naturally I had

36:53

to get into question. What usually happens

36:55

is there'll be somebody hosting the Q and A, the

36:58

last the big questions, and then they'll go around

37:00

theater, which this was sold out. There was three hundred

37:02

people there, a lot of people trying to get in questions.

37:05

Luckily I got in the last

37:07

question. She told me, is your question

37:09

quick? Because they were running out of time they had to close the

37:11

theater. I was like, yes, I will make it quick

37:14

because I really wanted to know

37:17

a component about the ending of this movie.

37:19

And I can't even share you the full clip because

37:22

this was really the only situation where I could

37:24

ask this question because everybody in the room

37:26

had already watched the movie. The director was there,

37:29

so it was free game to talk about

37:31

endings because I wasn't spoiling anything. We

37:33

all just experienced together, and

37:36

out of everybody who asked the question, no

37:38

one really brought up the ending. So I have a clip

37:41

of it because I hit record on my phone wanted to share

37:43

it with you. Here is me just asking

37:45

the question, but I won't give away any spoilers.

37:47

I think what I love about movies is that people

37:50

can interpret them in different ways. And

37:52

the thing I got from the ending was I'll

37:54

cut it off right there, but immediately,

37:57

here is the reaction in the room,

38:00

the reaction from the director. And

38:03

I had to trim down her answer a little

38:05

bit because I didn't want to give away the details. But here

38:07

is the reaction to my question. This

38:16

is how do we feel? I will not say

38:18

that, and

38:25

then it ends a little bit awkwardly.

38:27

I thought the question was fair game. I

38:29

wasn't poking criticism at the movie. I

38:31

just really wanted to know one stylistic

38:34

approach to how this movie ended and

38:36

what it means to the story. And the thing

38:38

was, I almost felt like I got in trouble

38:41

in that clip. If you listen to it back again, she

38:44

says that no one's asked this question before. And

38:46

then I had to bleep the expletive that she said

38:49

in responding to my question, which wasn't even a full

38:51

answer that I was looking for, but gave

38:54

me at least closure on the subject,

38:59

just that immediately, like ooh, everybody

39:01

in the room just reacting

39:03

to that. I was not expecting for

39:06

it to be such a maybe controversial

39:08

question. And

39:10

then just listen to her tone. If this

39:12

is how do you feel, I will not say

39:14

that. I

39:17

will not say another blinking word. I felt

39:19

like when you ask a question in class

39:21

and the teacher gets upset with you. That

39:24

is exactly how I felt in that situation.

39:26

But I had to know. But I found

39:28

that Q and A was very insightful

39:30

to the filmmaking process. On an independent

39:33

level. I think Rachel Lambert has a

39:35

great vision as a director. She

39:37

got her start here making movies in Nashville,

39:39

and after watching this film, I'm curious

39:41

to dive into the other movie she has done and to

39:43

see what she has coming out next. I also

39:46

love that they got to talk about her relationship

39:48

with the editor and what an editor actually does

39:50

in a movie, which I've talked about before. How

39:53

I feel like that's an understated position as

39:55

well, and they described a relationship

39:57

of her essentially having this big

40:00

vision going through the entire movie,

40:02

and him, as an editor, will tell

40:04

her the points that they are missing, so say, if they

40:06

have a transition from the workplace to a

40:08

bar, he has to look in

40:10

his mind like this is what we need to film to get

40:12

there, so it's like filling in all the gaps. I

40:14

thought that was a fascinating process.

40:17

They described it as essentially the

40:19

editor is the therapist and the director

40:21

is the patient in the chair. So I don't think this movie

40:23

is for everybody, but if you like darker

40:26

comedies with a heavy hand on the drama,

40:28

I think you will enjoy it. And also if like

40:30

me, you're a big fan of Daisy Ridley and

40:32

want to see her outside of playing the character

40:35

Ray, she is fantastic in this

40:37

I give this movie four out of five.

40:40

Slices a pie,

40:44

It's time to head down to movie.

40:46

Mike Treylor Paug. The

40:49

first A Quiet Place movie was a breath

40:51

of fresh hair in the horror suspense

40:53

genre. After that, followed

40:56

it up with The Quiet Place Part two. Both

40:58

of those movies were directed John Kazinski.

41:01

But now we are getting a look at

41:04

the prequel coming out on June twenty

41:06

eighth. It's called A Quiet Place Day one.

41:09

So when all those other movies, if you haven't seen

41:11

them, I will not ruin them for you. But

41:15

there are these big, mysterious

41:17

monsters that you really don't know a

41:20

whole lot about why they are

41:22

here killing people. All you really

41:24

know is that they react to sound. So

41:26

in order for all the humans to remain undetected,

41:29

they have to be as quiet as possible.

41:31

They learn sign language, they find

41:33

ways to get around without making a whole lot of

41:35

noise. And what that creates is a

41:37

movie that is so quiet. I remember

41:40

the experience I had going to watch the first one in theaters.

41:42

It got so quiet. You could hear people oh

41:45

crunching on their popcorn, sloshing

41:48

around their drinks. You'd hear the rumble

41:50

from down the hall because your theater is

41:52

so quiet, but it added to the enjoyment

41:55

of this movie and it made it feel

41:57

like an experience. And the second one

41:59

was it's really much of the same. You

42:02

got the same kind of story, just the continuation

42:04

of what is happening with the family, but nothing

42:07

really stood out and made that movie different.

42:10

So I think a prequel is where you needed

42:13

to go to continue to have

42:15

life in this franchise. But I do think

42:17

some issues pop up with it. But before

42:19

I get into more what I think about A Quiet

42:22

Place Day one, here's a little bit

42:24

of the trailer which just dropped. And

42:26

of course, since it is a quiet place, there's

42:28

not a whole lot if any dialogue

42:31

in the entire trailer. So really

42:33

what I wanted to showcase here was the fantastic

42:35

sound design that they decided to feature

42:37

here,

43:06

So even more so than the visual

43:08

appeal of this trailer, it's all

43:10

in the sound. That's why I wanted to share that clip

43:12

with you. But what you see in the trailer, it

43:14

starts off on day four hundred and seventy

43:17

one, which is where the first movie takes place.

43:19

It clicks up to four seventy two, then

43:21

goes to Day four seventy six, and

43:24

then it goes all the way back to day

43:26

one, whenever the monsters first

43:28

appeared on Earth. What you see

43:31

throughout the trailer is people

43:33

in a city running around from these

43:35

monsters. They are jumping on buildings, people

43:38

are flooding the streets, and you

43:40

see our main character played by Lupita

43:42

Neangro kind of get knocked down by

43:44

one of these monsters and then wakes up wants

43:46

to scream, but then somebody grabs her mouth,

43:49

making sure that she is quiet so they can remain

43:51

undetected from the monsters. And it

43:53

doesn't feel entirely different

43:56

from Part one or Part two. If anything,

43:58

it kind of feels a little bit less. And

44:00

here's my issue with the prequel to this movie.

44:03

I think it's almost better not knowing

44:05

how these monsters got here, not having

44:08

all the questions answered, because that's

44:10

what adds to the mystery of this story.

44:13

Just knowing it from flashbacks gives

44:15

it way more mystery and way

44:17

more appeal to me than telling me here's

44:20

the definite origin story of how these monsters

44:22

got here, and really taking out any

44:24

kind of curiosity you had going into

44:26

these films. Now you know the story,

44:29

and by releasing this movie, it's establishing

44:32

their definite origin story. The

44:34

problem I think that that creates if we end

44:36

up not enjoying this origin story,

44:39

it loses all of the magic.

44:41

And I know they have plans to make A Quiet

44:43

Place three, possibly coming out next year

44:45

or the following year. If this origin

44:48

story is lame, it's gonna make

44:50

all the sequential stories that they could

44:53

build on here feel unworthy

44:55

of our attention and more importantly,

44:57

unworthy of our money. The trailer

45:00

here also reminds me of clover Field,

45:02

which was a fun movie back when it came

45:04

out, and if maybe the

45:06

lost footage type movie was still

45:08

trendy right now, I almost think a treatment

45:11

like this would have a much more of an impact on

45:13

A Quiet Place. This movie has a

45:15

little bit of a different stylistic feel because

45:18

John Krasinski, who has directed one and

45:20

two and written them, is not directing

45:22

this movie. He is a writer on the film. But we

45:24

have director Michael Sernowski,

45:27

who also did a movie I really liked with Nick Cage

45:29

called Pig, So we're gonna have an

45:31

entirely different look at these characters.

45:34

The problem I had after watching this trailer

45:36

It reminded me of a movie that came out last

45:38

year called bird Box Barcelona, which

45:41

was inside of the bird Box franchise

45:43

in that same world, but instead of taking place in the

45:45

United States, it was the same

45:47

situation happening over in Barcelona,

45:50

and that movie just did not hit with me. It

45:53

was so boring. I didn't finish it, therefore

45:55

did not review it on the podcast, and

45:58

I worry that this movie is gonna feel a

46:00

lot like that of still being in that

46:02

a quiet play scorld with the same monsters,

46:05

but introducing these new characters and having

46:07

a hard time getting off the ground. Even

46:09

though I really liked Lapeta Niagro who

46:11

was in Black Panther, she was also fantastic

46:14

in US. She is really great in horror

46:16

movies, and I think it's fantastic that she gets

46:18

to lead this movie. It also has Joseph

46:20

Quinn, who played Eddie Munson on

46:22

the fourth season The Stranger Things. I

46:24

love the fourth season of Stranger Things. I feel

46:27

like a lot of people checked out of that show, but man,

46:29

the fourth season was one of the best seasons

46:31

of any show I've seen in the last

46:33

five years. Hopefully we do get that

46:35

soon, But he was great. I feel like the breakout

46:38

star as Eddie Munson, so curious to

46:40

see how big of a role he actually plays

46:42

in this movie. So this is one I'm not

46:44

completely writing off yet, but

46:46

I have a little bit of hesitation going into

46:48

this one given my history with prequels,

46:51

especially in the horror genre, where

46:53

I feel like just keep making the next installment

46:56

of the story rather than going back and

46:58

trying to flesh out all these details to be

47:00

like, ah, this is why things are the

47:02

way they are in the world now, because once you

47:04

reveal the monster's origin story,

47:07

I feel like it loses that appeal. Going

47:09

back to what I was saying about Cloverfield, the

47:12

great thing about that movie is not

47:14

only did you not know why the monster was

47:16

there, you hardly even got

47:18

a glimpse at the monster. The less you show

47:20

of it, the more scary it seems. But

47:22

it seems like this one is just gonna give you a

47:24

lot of monster action. So the challenge

47:27

will be can they create that same tension

47:29

that the first movie had being so

47:31

quiet of you anticipating the monster

47:34

coming out, or is it gonna feel

47:36

more like a post apocalyptic total

47:38

end of world type movie, which to

47:40

me doesn't feel like in a Quiet Place

47:42

movie. But nonetheless, this movie is coming out

47:45

this summer on June twenty eighth.

47:47

And that was this week's edition of

47:49

Movie by framor.

47:51

Par and that is gonna do it for another episode

47:53

here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta

47:56

give my listeners shout out of the week. You

47:58

know how to get one of these, end me

48:00

a DM on Instagram, you comment on my

48:02

Facebook page, or comment on

48:04

TikTok at Mike Distro over there. If

48:06

you forget any of that, it is always

48:08

in the episode notes. But this week, one

48:11

of my favorite things to do is to see people who

48:13

tag me in their Instagram story. So this week's

48:15

listener shout out of the week is scrap

48:18

a Holic, who tagged me in her Instagram

48:20

story and posted my review of

48:22

Argyle and said Mike Distro

48:24

doesn't usually go this hard in his movie

48:26

reviews, but this review is hilarious.

48:29

So thank you scrap a Holic for that comment

48:32

and for sharing my reel in your story. That

48:34

helps your friends see it helps get

48:36

more people into the podcast, so I do

48:38

post the reel once a week, so to anyone else

48:40

of the movie crew, that is an easy way to get a listener

48:43

shout out of the week. I stand by the

48:45

fact that I did not enjoy our guyle whatsoever,

48:48

and when I sat down to record that review,

48:50

I wanted to give my honest thoughts and just

48:52

let it flow out of me. And that clip

48:55

is a perfect example of how I felt about

48:57

that entire movie. So if you missed that episode,

48:59

go back one in the feed, or you can always check

49:01

out clips on my socials. And until

49:03

next time, go out and watch good

49:06

movies and I will talk to you later.