Pretty Woman Review

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relive some of the classics if you want to call

pretty woman a classic, I guess in some ways

it is but uh, oh boy Yeah, i'm guessing you don't

like this film, huh? Uh, no, I wouldn't say that.

I guess it's just Classic is kind of a reserved

word. So it depends but uh, we'll get into it.

But um, yeah Yeah, so not much just really kind

of you know Yeah, same here. We've we've got

huge huge plans for not only my but for the entire

network here in 2013 all will be revealed in

due time, but a lot of stuff going on this year

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say every new year Things don't pick up until

after March Like just for me and in life The

first three months of every year are the slowest,

like, oh my god, isn't this mo - we're only on

the third week out of five, holy crap. You know.

It's one of those things, but we're here and

we're doing 90s flashback, paying tribute to

a lot of cool 90s films, or at least I think

there are a lot of cool 90s films. Let's head

on over to JT from Saskatoon with just the facts

for Pretty Woman. Edward Lewis is a rich and

successful corporate raider from New York City

who's in LA for a week to finalize a takeover

of a local shipyard belonging to James Morris.

After getting lost while driving in LA, Ed asked

for directions from Vivian Ward, a Hollywood

Boulevard prostitute. Vivian agrees to help him,

and the next day Edward hires her to be his companion

for the week as he conducts his business. Vivian

agrees, with the caveat that she has access to

his credit cards. While shopping on Rodeo Drive,

Vivian is treated poorly by saleswomen at some

of the shops due to her own clothes. However,

help comes in the form of Barnard Barney Thompson,

the manager of the hotel where she and Edward

are staying. Barney at first is not all that

fond of Vivian, but he soon relents and helps

her get a proper dress and even schools her in

some basic dinner etiquette. Edward is amazed

by the transformation of Vivian when he returns,

but unfortunately a business dinner that evening

ends badly when Morris angrily storms off after

Edward announces he's going to dismantle the

company and sell the land. Edward later reveals

to Vivian that he is also upset because he hasn't

talked to his own dad for over a decade and he

has recently passed away. That morning, after

Vivian tells Edward about the way she was treated

on Rodeo Drive, he takes her shopping, which

allows Vivian a little bit of payback on the

salespeople that treated her badly. Later in

the week, Edward and Vivian go to a polo match

where Edward networks for his business deal while

Vivian chats up the grandson of Morris. During

the match, Philip Stuckey, Edward's lawyer, suspects

Vivian of being a corporate spy. Edward assures

Philip that this is not the case, revealing what

Vivian does for a living. Philip later tries

to secure Vivian's services, which leads to her

trying to leave leave the hotel. Edward apologizes

and convinces her to stick it out for the rest

of the week. As an apology, he takes Vivian to

San Francisco on his corporate jet to see an

opera called La Traviata, which tells the tale

of a rich man falling in love with a courtesan,

which coincidentally parallels the relationship

between Edward and Vivian. After returning to

LA, Vivian convinces Edward to play hooky the

next day. The experience bonds them a little

more, and they make love that evening. As they

are falling asleep, Vivian tells Edward she's

falling in love with him, and over breakfast

the next day, Edward offers to put Vivian up

in an apartment which greatly angers her, causing

her to say this is not the fairy tale she wants.

Edward angrily leaves for a meeting with Mr.

Morse to close the deal, but changes his mind

at the last minute due to his time with Vivian.

He then proposes that he and Morse partner for

a Navy contract that will breathe new life into

Morris's company. This change of heart pisses

off the weaselly lawyer Philip, who barges into

Edward's hotel room to confront him only finding

Vivian, blaming her for the turn of events. Philip

attempts to rape her, but Edward arrives in time

to rescue her and eject Philip from the hotel.

While attending to her, Edward tries to convince

Vivian to stay with him, but she refuses once

again and returns to her own apartment, making

plans to go to San Francisco and earn a GED in

hopes of getting her life back on track. Edward

follows her, deciding not to go home to New York.

Despite a fear of heights, Edward climbs up a

fire escape, clutching roses in his teeth. The

film ends with Edward and Vivian declaring their

love for each other, kissing on the fire escape.

Pretty Woman opened on March 23rd, 1990, and

to date has garnered over $463 million worldwide,

becoming one of the most successful romantic

comedies of all time, and is very often credited

as being a definitive example of the genre. Pretty

Woman was directed by Gary Marshall, who was

the creator of Happy Days. The film starred Julia

Roberts as Vivian, Richard Gere as Edward, Ralph

Bellamy in his final film role as James Morris,

Jason Alexander as Philip Stuckey, and Hector

Elizondo as Barney Thompson. And it's kind of

cool to note that Marshall and Elizondo are such

good friends that Mr. Marshall has Elizondo written

into all his film contracts whether or not he's

a part of the film. And we should note that Marshall,

Roberts, Gere, and Elizondo would later reunite

almost 10 years later to do the movie Runaway

Bride. The film was also supported by a very

successful soundtrack, such as the classic Roy

Orbison song which inspired the film's title.

The soundtrack also included such songs as Show

Me Your Soul by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, It

Must Have Been Loved by a Pop Duo Rock Set, and

The King of Wishful Thinking by Go West. Pretty

Woman generated mixed reviews from critics. Entertainment

Weekly gave the film a D, saying it came off

as a Pygmalion -like princess fantasy, but only

pretends to be about how love transcends money.

Other critics liked the film, saying it had its

heart in the right place. Even Roger Ebert loved

the film. Gave Pretty Woman three and a half

stars, saying it's the sweetest and most open

-hearted love fable since The Princess Bride.

I praise indeed. Pretty Woman's a great movie.

It's not too light, it's not too heavy, it's

just the right mix of romance and comedy. Plus,

it's got Hector Elizondo in it, and I love that

guy. This has been Just the Facts Pretty Woman.

I'm JT from Saskatoon. Back to you guys. Well,

thank you so much, JT, for those Just the Facts

on Pretty Woman, and, uh, yeah, that's, uh, one

of... I don't know... Wouldn't say it's a classic

overall film. I would say it's a classic romantic

comedy. Yes It's definitely a standard romantic

comedy that you see You still see its influence

today positively and negatively. Yeah Yeah, I

honestly did not realize Just how much money

this movie made like over 300 million dollars.

That's crazy. I mean If you count inflation,

I'm not even exactly sure, but that'd be huge.

For romantic comedy, that's pretty impressive.

That's usually blockbuster money. Well, back

in the late 80s, early 90s, when all those romantic

comedies were coming out, like when Harry Met

Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, all that stuff,

I'm not surprised. at the money that they made

because back then romantic comedies were blocked,

they were considered blockbusters whereas nowadays

we consider stuff like The Avengers and The Hobbit

and those are the blockbusters of the modern

age but back then romantic comedies weren't hey

let's just get a bunch of no name people together

put them in a stupid reused plot and put it out

on DVD No, that's Gary Marshall today. This is

Gary Marshall in 1990 This is this is back, I

mean I think stars Back then had bigger draw

like you always talk about, you know who brings

people off in a theater and I don't think really

have that anymore I think people go to see some

franchises. It's more the franchises are bigger

than the actors and this time Late 80s 90s. It

still was the star. I mean Julia Roberts wasn't

a star, but this made her a star. Oh, yeah along

with Richard Gere and Yeah Jason Alexander Yes,

I mean Gary Marshall. I mean, I think that's

really I mean he had successful films before

this but I think this was I still probably still

his His set standard of wouldn't people think

of a Gary Marshall film. It's probably the high

mark for him at least at least popularity wise

Yeah I Mean yeah, I mean just looking at the

at the cast in this you've got a Little like

we said Richard Gere Julia Roberts. You've got

Ralph Bellamy As James Morris, which this was

as JT said this was his last role You got a pre

Seinfeld George and Jason Alexander you got Amy

Yazbek You know, you got Hector Elizondo and

I mean the casting couldn't have been more perfect

for this film It just like I know we've said

before in the podcast that there are times when

we'll have information from Wikipedia that says

oh Well, this person was originally offered the

role or this person wanted to be for the but

it's every time we talk about stuff like that

It's like no who actually got it was the right

person. I'm trying to think of an example. Burt

Reynolds for Indiana Jones. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, I mean, it's sometimes like a par gets

so ingrained, like you can't really imagine anyone

in this movie besides Julia Roberts and Richard

Gere kind of. Right. And I think they're both

fantastic. Not even just for a minute comedy,

I think like Julia Roberts in this kind of Really

can you can show shows she can be elegant but

also it can be that kind of girl next door? Type

of you know, we can kind of believe her as much

as possible that she could be possibly a street

hooker Obviously, she's probably a lot more cleaned

up than your normal, you know, Hollywood Hollywood

Boulevard, you know hooker, but she's not she's

not so like unbelievably You know attractive

that you don't see her as that role I think she

kind of she can walk that line and I think that

transformation is actually Legitimate unfortunately,

I don't think she's ever kind of I don't think

she's actually had a better role maybe Aaron

Brockovich But like this really defined her until

Aaron Brockovich and seeing her now you kind

of like you forgot that Oh, wow. She used to

have some life. She used to be a fresh face but

like yeah and let's face it last year's uh snow

white debacle didn't help her any no it's she's

definitely you know kind of falling fast it's

it's unfortunate for one i mean there aren't

many great roles for actresses her age at this

point um so she's Trying to she's struggling

in that end But even though like the choices

she's making the movies that she's making it's

just I don't know She's kind of walking through

roles. She's kind of I don't know. She's kind

of just trying to do the same thing She hasn't

really done anything different in a long time.

So yeah, I usually don't I usually don't speculate

about stuff like this because for what I'm about

to say here in a second because the way I look

at at actors, actresses, musicians, voice actors,

anything that I like, whether it's geeky or not,

I look at it as, oh, that person, very cool,

played this role, and I like that role. I never

care, like, even though I do watch, like, stuff

like VH1 Behind the Music and E .T .R .E. Hollywood

Story, like, in general, when viewing the work

that they've done, like, pretty woman I don't

care what they do in their personal life that's

not that's not my business I'm here to see them

portray a role and that's that now having said

that lately I don't know maybe I don't know she

didn't invest her money properly or whatever

else but apparently she's just going out for

movies just maybe she needs a paycheck I don't

know because it just I don't know. She has a

lot of really good films in her repertoire already.

This, I liked The Pelican Brief, I thought that

was pretty good. Stepmom, she's done a lot of

good stuff, she has. But I don't know, maybe

it's time to retire, go to directing or producing

or whatever. Yeah, I think that would, I mean

she has produced a little bit, but I think...

I mean she has had some stuff. I mean, uh, she

was in duplicity. That was that was decent She

was in I think her probably her last the best

role she's had was maybe in charlie wilson's

war She was quite good in that which is actually

a movie. I really really enjoy But I I think

I would like to see her kind of do some maybe

behind this camera stuff maybe even writing or

try to Figure out you know her place because

I think she's struggling at this point to find,

you know where she can go Like I mentioned is

just there aren't Many roles for like unfortunately,

you know, there aren't many great actresses roles,

you know most films are male -driven if you it's

it's a sad fact and and she's kind of people

have kind of come in and taken the place that

she used to hold like, you know people are there

people like Jennifer Lawrence and you know Michelle

Williams and They're kind of taking what she

used to do and she hasn't found a place to kind

of call her own yet. Maybe she will. Maybe she

will. I will say that she did really well, at

least I thought she did, in the Ocean's movies.

I did like her in those. What was the other one?

It's up here. Forgot that she was well, I didn't

forget that she was in this but she's pretty

good as tink and hook Yeah So, all right, so

we got her out of the way Richard Gere oh man

he was good in this he he played that character

to a tee but Wow, I don't remember the last really

good Richard Gere film that I said that I've

seen He's actually finding he was in a pretty

The movie wasn't that great, but he had a really

good performance and I keep perhaps this wrong.

It's like our Arbor Arbitrage It's just a smart

small film, but he was really good in it and

a few years like 2009 I believe he was in Brooklyn's

finest, which was a decent cop movie He'd played

like the you know cop near the end of his Be

like the one that's about to retire. He was pretty

decent in that I think he's kind of finding I

think he is starting to find himself because

I think he kind of went through a similar period

where he couldn't really find any good roles

But I think he's kind of kind of settling into

his later career with some movies like, you know

Brooklyn's finest being kind of like the the

guy who was like in between you know going through

that midlife type of you crisis is and trying

to Go into his silver age as you would say but

uh Yeah, I would I would say that this is the

first film that I really like paid any it like

I really knew Okay, that's that's Richard gear

and then after that I had seen I've seen so many

of his films since then Stuff like first night

in 95 primal fear the jackal Runaway bride, which

is JT said reunited Robert's gear Elizondo and

Marshall I would say for me the last really good

film he starred in, well was a star in, was 2002's

Unfaithful, I really like that. Looking at the

rest of his stuff now, not so much. And please,

and I will do another rant on this, I might do

this in the Oscars show at some point, please

somebody tell me what the hell is the big deal

with Movie 43, oh my god. I just don't get it.

Anyway, um Any other thoughts on gear? Uh, I

think like he played I think that my first introduction

to him was probably an officer and a gentleman

I think that's really kind of a where he kind

of became a rather big star I think in this though

like him and julie robbins really had the perfect

chemistry like that's like the key to any good

romantic comedy is do the roles have chemistry

do they or do they kind of um Seemed believable

and they did because you know, he's that very

stoic a cold Person and you see her as the opposite

end and how they slowly kind of shift and become

more, you know alike And I think it was believable

and I think they really had something going And

I think that's really the key to the pretty woman

success. It really if it wasn't for Julie Roberts

or Richard Gere I don't think this movie would

be nearly as you know, memorable or as successful

as it was Yeah um... so we've also got as far

as like a big name star here we've got um...

as i made the joke earlier um... george castanza

before he was george castanza and and jason alexander

this dude this character that he's playing is

well okay well because he nearly almost rapes

uh... vivian I would say that he the the Phil

character and and George aren't anything alike

but as far as the mannerisms and As far as the

some of some of the attitude in Philip I'm noticing

a lot of George in him But Alexander Wow, that

was interesting interesting role for him to play

Yeah, he's definitely playing that the slimy

kind of you know bumbling lawyer type of character

the the guy who's really behind you know the

really evil guy uh... that's one who's kind of

you know the richard here can kind of blame he's

kind of a character that's they're pushing her

to get into the wrong direction you truly roberts

trying to bring him into the right direction

and but yeah i like your he's fun in this role

it is very much like his role in seinfeld but

but less larry david more rapey i guess you'd

say You know, he's good at playing a dick and

sometimes he can be funny with it unless he kind

of is just really mean But uh, yeah, I like Jason

Alexander. It's funny. Like he has he's like

had the same amount of hair for so many years

He's like it's like his baldness has not changed.

It's odd Usually, you know, you have Bruce Willis

and it'll kind of dissipate but his baldness

has kind of been steady It's kind of kind of

odd. Yes And I can't believe I don't I don't

know who the original voice actor was but I can't

believe he is the voice of Abbas mall in Return

of Jafar in the Aladdin TV series of a small

I think was the Little Antique dealer the little

peddler at the beginning of the first Aladdin

movie Very beginning little guy says, oh take

this laugh. Okay. Yeah The little shopkeeper

dude, yeah But I mean Alexander has had a store.

I mean storied career You know between film and

television It's also the voice of Duckman can't

forget that yeah, it's also the voice of Duckman

As much as we try to forget it But yeah, I mean

he's kind of he's the same boat I mean he Obviously

had successfully had Seinfeld and that kind of

It's peaked. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to when

you're a character like that on the TV show It's

notoriously hard to kind of be successful afterwards.

You kind of get you know put into certain roles

and People kind of pigeonhole you into what they

see and saw you do before so you see he's struggled

I mean he's had some things here and there nothing

nearly as popular Seinfeld, but it's kind of

hard to become that popular Yeah And then you

got Hector Elizondo who I believe the well he

I think this was I'm looking at his Biography

now. I think this was the first thing again.

Like I really noticed him in Yeah, cuz none of

the other stuff that is listed room I haven't

seen before pretty woman and then he had to go

and do Beverly Hills cop 3 really Come on, dude.

You're better than that But he has also had a

really storied career between both movies and

television. He was in the, well, I don't know

if you can say this is a good thing, but he was

in the Princess Diaries movies. He was in Tortilla

Soup in 2001. I think he's had way more of a

TV career. He's currently on Last Man Standing

as Ed Alzate. So that's good for him. What did

you think of him in this one? I liked him. I

liked the relationship he had with Julia Roberts

and how that kind of sets it up like he's going

to be really snooty to her and then they kind

of... have this joint respect for one another,

probably because he's in a role where he's probably

looked down upon by everyone in that hotel, so

he kind of understands where she's coming from.

At least that was my understanding. They didn't

really do a perfect job of explaining why exactly

he was so helpful to her. But I think that's

kind of what you can read into it, but I liked

him I thought he was kind of he was very good

with this limited time he does what a good character

actor should do and every moment he's on screen

he's making the most of it and I think he probably

provides some of the best laughs and some of

them more the kinder moments and I really liked

his how They kind of turned his character on

ahead and he presented him a certain way and

then what he ended up being was completely different

Yeah Since we're still talking about casting,

and as I mentioned earlier, there's always notes

about the casting of films. Apparently the casting

for Pretty Woman was a fairly lengthy process.

Gary Marshall had initially considered Christopher

Reeve for the role of Louis. No. No, no, no,

no, no. You don't go to Superman for this kind

of role, damn it. And I can't see Al Pacino as

this character either. Oh my god Al Pacino No,

no like that character requires kind of a softness

to it and Al Pacino and softness does not have

that It would be a completely different movie.

I could yes. Yes, it would say hello to my little

friend Yeah, he would be screaming. Yeah that

that's definitely a good idea. I couldn't imagine

this. Yeah, that would There'd be a lot more

yelling, that's for sure, and I could not see

Julia Roberts and Al Pacino having great chemistry.

I just think it would be awkward for everyone.

Yes, it would be. What did you think of the overall

plot? I mean, it's taking your common Cinderella

story, your common... This is a common story

that's been done a lot. With romantic comedies,

that's typically the case. But it doesn't well

I would say it It's kind of you know, it's familiar,

but it's not In its cliche. It's taking this

character. It's you know this off the street,

you know Poor character and the wiser richer

character and they're trying to teach each other

and they're you know You teach her the the right

ways, but she ends up teaching the rich guy just

as much, you know It's a type of story that's

been done forever and they even pointed out as

you see her watching things like Aubrey Hepburn

on television and I think they're very self -aware

and This is the time before that was really popular.

So I think they kind of knew that the story wasn't

you know, they're not shedding, you know breaking

you ground with this plot, but I thought it was

handled well. It wasn't overblown. It had the

perfect amount of mixture of comedy and being

straight. I was actually kind of surprised how

little comedy there was. Not that it wasn't funny,

it just didn't really try to be overtly funny.

There weren't any kind of random gags or just

poor jokes just thrown in there just because

they thought they needed to make you laugh. Like

all the comedy was rather natural, which I was

really surprised by because something you don't

see very much even in in most romantic comedies

and It was I was kind of blown away by that.

I'm like boy. Where's all the forced laughter?

Where's all the generic jokes and it didn't really

happen Yeah, this isn't 2007. Yes, you know and

and that's what I meant earlier when I said that

this is When romantic comedies told that they

had comedy, but they told an actual story you

know you know stuff like Shallow Hal and the

sweetest thing and all those Romantic comedies

over the last ten years they don't First of all,

I don't have heart second of all they play to

the comedy side and more than the romantic side

You know and that's just the way it is I think

If I had to say Oh God was it stupid movie It's

with the Titanic chick and Jack Black Oh God

was it the switch I forget I'll have to look

it up. I'm not sure Yeah, I think only only comedy

could think of romantic comedy can think of with

Jack Black and shallow how but that's not with

No, it's not that. It's something else. Let me

look it up really quickly. Just recently, the

only thing that I... I don't know, just romantic

comedies nowadays, like I said, they focus more

on the comedy and not the romance part of the

story. I kind of don't like that. That's why

I just prefer comic movies now. Yeah. There are

a few good romantic comedies, but there are so

many of them that are so bad. The last really

good one I can remember is 500 Days of Summer,

if you even want to call that a romantic comedy.

But I think that was really good. This year,

there's Silver Linings Playbook, which I think

is a movie I liked. I didn't love it as much

as a lot of people. But that was a Probably one

of the better attempts at a romantic comedy But

yeah, they like there hasn't really been a pretty

woman a sleepless in Seattle and quite a long

time. It's yeah I would say that the closest

it comes to was back in 2006 with The Holiday

which starred Cameron Diaz Kate Winslet Jude

Law and Jack Black That's the closest like as

far as like a true romantic comedy that I've

seen Since Pretty Woman or since the era of Pretty

Woman because I know there are other good romantic

comedies in that era Yeah, for me the plot was

good the story was good You can kind of see the

story shaping and seeing that as you said whereas

George is trying to lead him over to the dark

side whereas Vivian's trying to you know test

his midichlorins Um, you know all that good stuff

and you can kind of see what the story's going

but at the same time I remember when I first

watched this I didn't know which way it was going

to go. Um, but I'm glad it it played out the

way it did and it's just amazing storytelling.

I think what it does really well um is it like

you mentioned it does it defines its characters

and it um for the and most of them pretty well

for the pretty quickly. I mean you kind of just

You can tell a lot about Julia Roberts character

simply from her the opening shot of when she

wakes up and like just her bed being dished You

know, it's a complete mess. She's just her room

and how she's in that dingy hotel And you kind

of get just an understanding of where she's at

in her life and life. She's living Very quickly

and it's not obvious. It's not overtly obvious

and it's And I think it kind of it does enough

without telling you exactly, you know, she's

not giving this huge monologue about who she

is and how it's just kind of allowing you to

figure it out for the most part, which is helpful.

And I think Richard Gere, too, it kind of when

you kind of hear him in the beginning on the

phone with his girlfriend or you really don't

know who she is, you kind of she can be his girlfriend,

her wife, not really sure. And it kind of it

shows you just like where he is in his life.

And but it doesn't. Tell you you kind of just

figure it out and when they meet you kind of

have an understanding of who these two people

are Before they meet so it makes it make more

sense because you need to understand like why

would this? Successful probably millionaire maybe

even billionaire pick up a street hooker And

I think it does enough to kind of allow you to

realize why he would make that choice Well, it's

what? You gotta remember in part of the story,

and I know you know this because you just watched

the movie, but in part of the story in the beginning

where he takes out that lotus and doesn't know

how to drive it for crap because he's, he is

a million, billion, whatever air, and he's used

to being driven around all the time. Yeah. And

you know, so, and that's, that's part of the

story where they have to set the two of them

up somehow. Yeah. But like he has to make that

decision to also, not just, I'm not even talking

to me in just... Picking her in the car, but

bring her up to the hotel and look kind of like

that That's true like why he would Why would

he fall for her because you can kind of tell

that he falls for relatively quickly I think

it and I think it lets you know because this

guy is kind of lost in his life There's all this

he has everything around him. He has all these

great cars He has a driver, but he just seems

completely lost and I think you she's he sees

something in her like she's probably like one

of the You know something different from him.

It's something he's probably never seen before

and I think you get a lot of that simply based

upon The that the party that he's in the way

he's dressed the way the people that are around

him You can kind of put everything together to

figure out the type of person he is So I think

that allows you to better understand where he's

coming from. Oh Yeah When did you think of a

soundtrack? I would say that I think of the probably

In 1990, it was great, but going back to it now,

it was rather distracting. I guess I'm not a

fan of a lot of the music they chose. I thought

it was pretty bad. I shouldn't say bad, I should

say distracting. Because they're just songs that

I personally don't enjoy. And they just felt

very forced in there, for the most part, and

just unnecessary. It's almost like you can still

feel the influence of mtv where they had to like

input as much like pop music of the time as much

as possible to try to Yeah, so it it yeah It

definitely dates the movie if you were to take

that soundtrack out. I think it would It wouldn't

feel so 90s. But with that soundtrack, it's just

it's it's so early 90s late 80s What did you

think? Yeah, I like it. I don't like the soundtrack

as a whole. I like certain songs off of it. What

I find absolutely hilarious is the soundtrack

was released on Valentine's Day 1990 and the

movie came out a month later on March 23rd, 1990.

But I like King of Wishful Thinking. I have that

in my iTunes performed by Go West. I like the

rock set song. It must have been Love. Everyone

at some point in their life, I don't care who

you are, has had Oh Pretty Woman stuck in your

head at some point. It's just a really catchy

song. I do agree with you. It does, like most

things in the 90s, it does date the movie, you

know. But, you know, so does, you know, things

that are in other romantic comedies that are,

you know, of now or 10 years ago, 10 years from

now, they'll be dated, you know. So but I like

certain songs off of this. It's pretty cool.

Yeah, I do like how it uses the pretty woman

song and How it has like like it starts it off

a little bit and then it cuts it out and and

when she's kind of getting like Getting dolled

up for the first time and then it kicks it in

the high gear Kind of kind of it builds upon

it. I thought that was was done pretty well I

was kind of surprised how quick that scene was

that's such an iconic scene that pretty woman,

you know moment where she walks down the street

and I thought it was longer as I was rewatching

it I'm like wow that went by really quickly but

uh it was still great I just had for some reason

I had it stuck in my head that that was a longer

sequence but it's relatively quick I don't know

and I know this is a mark of the times but I

seriously hope not that I would ever be in a

you know A woman's clothing store on Rodeo Drive,

but I seriously hope shop owners in Beverly Hills

are not like that. I Wouldn't doubt that they

are just looking looking at the people that probably

shop there Yeah, if I and just thinking of like

thinking of something as Abercrombie and Fitch

and how horrible those people typically are and

they're and that's like American Eagle. Yeah,

and I could only imagine what people in the rodeo

driver like yeah, I Think it's to the point now.

I don't I've never chopped there, but yeah it

might I'm assuming you know if you're not of

a certain ilk They aren't going to pay you any

attention. They're probably just gonna be like

you know whatever Yeah, pretty much All right,

let's you got any other thing you want to bring

up about the movie No, I like it. It's it's your

solid romantic comedy. It's it's not it's more

than solid It's one of your better romantic comedies

And even for someone who's like I'm a cynic towards

that genre typically, but I can still appreciate

appreciate this film all right we're gonna head

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comedies, it's very much probably Gary Marshall's

best film one it's Kind of shows you how to do

a romantic comedy and how to do it right and

it's kind of makes me kind of Miss that type

of movie because we don't get it very often anymore

It's kind of I think it's an easy movie to make

fun of because it wears its heart on its sleeve

It's not afraid of what it is. But I think if

you appreciate what it's attempting and what

it's successful at. I think even those who kind

of look down upon this genre can appreciate that

this is legitimately a really good movie even

though there's that connotation of what it is

and how it's kind of become bigger than a movie.

But yeah, it's a great movie that it's fun to

go back to and re -watch. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah,

I agree. It is, you know fun every now and then

you know, I saw it I think I think I I know I

watched it about a week or so ago from a record

and I Saw it and I I saw it like two or three

times I don't know it was one of those weird

weekends one of those weird after -holiday weekends

were USA or TNT or TBS or one of them channels

was was running multiple showings of all different

kinds of movies. And I wouldn't be surprised

if they did it again, coming up later next month

with Valentine's Day coming up. So we hope you

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flashback with Robin Hood Men in... Oh wait,

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