Steel Magnolias (1989) We Thought We Remembered... We Forgot the Pain

Did you watch 1989's Steel Magnolias?

I did indeed.

Yeah, me too.

And I own it.

Of course you do.

And I'm mad that I own it.

Why don't you get a number speed?

Down production.

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Take two.

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Now, here's your hosts, Anna Santos and Jimmy Coats.

We spills steel Magnolias.

Is it one word?

Two words.

And oh yeah, I've spelt it ST-E-A-L.

Like they're stealing Magnolias.

Welcome to the I remember liking that movie podcast.

This is an Easter pick and Anna pick, obviously.

And Anna's picking Steel Magnolias.

I am.

I do not, I don't think I've seen this movie.

I know of this movie.

I'm aware of the movie.

Yes.

But I don't think I watched it.

This is a, I would say cultural checkpoint.

Like the majority of women in this world have watched this movie.

And there's a good chunk of men who have to either

because they were watching it with their girlfriends,

with like romantic ones or just platonic ones.

But this is a tear jerker.

This is one of those movies that pulls

that everybody's heartstrings.

And it's such a like Southern movie.

With just a little lunch.

The fry green tomatoes.

No, fried green tomatoes had a lot of revenge in it.

This is, oh my god, it's so good.

Don't.

So good.

It has a little bit of cannibalism in it.

Don't you like cannibalism?

I could just say fried green tomatoes.

Yeah, no, that's a trick.

I'm going to go in looking for cannibalism.

There is a little bit of cannibalism.

Anyways, no, but this is one of those movies

about female relationships, interactions, and life,

dealing with life and the choices that you make

and how you move through these things

with your relationships and how they affect

like your family, your friends.

And it also keeps touching base in a salon.

And that's where the movie opens.

Ish, where the movie really opens.

I think it starts actually out.

Doesn't it?

Anyways, I don't remember exactly where it starts,

but one of the first like main scenes in the movie

where you're really introduced to who the people are

and what they're doing is in a hair salon,

which is really where a lot of women tend to congregate

and especially in smaller towns and smaller communities,

where you're going to find your peoples.

Well, everybody's getting their hair done.

And then when Sally is underneath the hairdryer,

you talk about Sally.

What's going on in her house.

And then when Marge goes under the hairdryer,

you do the same thing to her.

And then when you go into the hairdryer,

everybody talks about you.

That was great.

It was direct.

No, it is.

Here's, it's so good though.

I'm going to find out.

It's directed by Herbert Ross, who you might not know the name,

but he's started directing in the 50s,

but he did Max Duke in Returns,

would actually remember liking.

He did Footloose, protocol with Goldie Hahn.

He did a movie that I remember loving the secret

of my success with Michael J. Fox, My Blue Heaven,

which I remember really liking.

True colors, undercover blues, boys on the side,

and then he died in 2001.

But he was born in 1927.

So it still seems kind of early.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wasn't he OK?

Well, if he would have been in his late 70s, late 70s, yeah.

Now, I mean, for star power, especially in the 80s,

oh, my God.

I'm going to be caucus, Shirley McClain, Sally Field,

Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts, Darryl Hannah, Tom Scarrett,

Sam Shepard, Dylan McDermott, Kevin J. O'Connor,

you'll know his face.

Yeah.

So it's pretty stacked acting wise.

Super duper stacked, which I think is

so amazing.

This is an ensemble such incredible incredible.

Oh, OK.

This is sorry.

I got really distracted there for a second,

because this is actually based on a play.

Yes, and you can kind of when you watch it,

you see how it was written by a guy who wrote nothing,

but I think girly movies, like women said their projects.

Yes, soap dish.

I can relate like in soap dish.

So it just was amazing.

Yeah, laws of attraction.

I remember loving it.

I haven't watched it in forever.

Is it streaming anywhere?

Probably not.

Any movie I seem to want to watch, never streaming.

I have to buy.

I don't know how that fucking works.

Like, oh, my God, we can rent it.

No, it's.

Oh, yeah.

Of course, you can find it.

And Amazon Prime has it for rental.

Google Play has it.

Oh, yeah.

So I can always find that I can pay money and see

whatever, almost whatever.

I know, but it's not.

It's nice to have services.

Yeah, I got services.

It's not God damn one.

I don't know why, but this month, Amazon was like,

we're going to send you individual invoices

for every subscription that you have through us.

And I was like, why are you smacking me every day, sir?

Why are you telling me all of my subscriptions?

Just charge my credit card quietly and keep it moving.

Yeah, I get that.

It's like, why are we have this many streaming services?

I'm like, thanks a lot streaming services way to go.

Now I got a cancel seven of you.

At least for a couple of months and then sneak them back in.

It's funny though, because there's one streaming service

that I do mostly for, I signed up for it

for law and order Toronto, Toronto, law and order criminal

detention Toronto, Disney or Pluto?

No, it's not on Pluto.

Toronto?

It airs on, I think it might, no, it's not in Paramount.

City TV hasn't, it airs on City TV.

It can't be a Canadian production.

It is a Canadian production.

I mean, I'm sure it's shot in Canada, but it can't.

No, no, it's a Canadian production.

Canada actually pays money.

We pay money to make it.

I'm sure it's wonderful.

No, actually, it's really, really good.

I actually really like it.

It's not like super law, then order.

It's more, la, la, la, la, la, yeah,

then a little bit of order, someone stole my canoe.

Takes place in Toronto.

We don't have that many Francophones here.

Calm down.

You stole my canoe.

Anyways, that's not the point.

Fuck streaming services.

Steel Magnolias is a gem.

Incredible performances.

Absolutely stunning performances.

And it's a bit of a tear jerker and it takes you

through the process of everything.

And God bless, Julia Roberts.

God bless her.

This was, I don't know if this was in the height

or just the beginning of the height of her, like,

I don't know if it was like made height of her career

in the 80s or just at the beginning of it,

because I know this was around the time

that a lot of her like biggest movies came out.

Pretty much 1990.

Just after this.

But she was still mixed up.

I know she was in, she was in Mystic Pizza, right?

She was in a couple of who was like that.

And she was already becoming, she wasn't at the time

as big as Meg Ryan and a couple of other ones at the time,

but she was starting to become that actor.

Yeah, I think this was on the upward climb

where people are like, oh, they started clocking,

Julia Roberts.

And then she played a whore and she exploded.

Much like her.

You're also forgetting flatliners.

I remember like flatliners, but I'm dying young.

Yeah.

That was also incredible.

And that came out in 1991.

Like, that was 1988.

No, that's forever young.

I'm sorry.

No, yeah.

That's a different one.

But yeah, sleeping with the enemy came out in 1991.

Yeah, I remember that.

Which was also like huge.

And there was like, she had a bunch of 1990, 1990, 91

that kind of like,

Oh, the money she must have made.

Oh my God.

Oh yeah.

And so it was great.

And then after that, God bless.

She just kept rolling through it.

And I think she was the first woman to get paid $20,000.

Yeah.

Well, when you're bringing that much money, like, fuck you.

She should have been making that money much earlier.

Let me tell you, because having Julia Roberts in your movie

was enough to get into you over $100,200,000,000.

Yeah, you want me?

Yeah, you're going to pay for it.

Well, what do you think the budget for this movie was?

I don't think it was that big.

I'd probably give it like a $5 million.

15.

15?

Yeah.

Wow.

Which is considering the amount of fucking actors

in this movie like the amount of actors

is probably where the majority of that money went.

It probably went to it because once you watch it,

yeah, it just takes place in a hair salon.

They literally are like filming on location

in people's houses.

There aren't really sets.

I think there might be one set,

but even that I don't think

like a hospital set, but for the most part,

I think it's just like,

it feels like they rented a town and just filmed.

Yeah, because Sally Field was quite big at this time.

Yeah, so I feel like it's been way before this.

Shirley McLean.

Shirley McLean.

Dolly Parton was huge.

I think he was a artist.

Her acting was just kind of,

Dolly Parton was one of the actors.

But then she did Ryan.

95.

So that's the salon.

So there was good end bet.

Don't forget the best little whorehouse in Texas.

Yeah, best little whorehouse with a burrow.

Yeah, so like she did a few movies,

but she wasn't an actor actor,

but she was a star star.

People would show up for her to watch her.

Oh, they'd be like.

Well, caucus, a fuck man, that really is.

Steel Magnolia's was released on November 17th, 1989.

$15 million budget.

And it had actually for 1989.

Okay, so it made 84.6 million.

Oh, wow.

And then, but it made 12.1 million internationally.

That's kind of huge for 1980s.

That's huge.

So it made 96.7 million.

That's impressive.

November 17th, it came out

and it opened that number four.

Wow, with $5.4 million, which isn't bad, really.

Yeah.

Harlem Knights with Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor

and Red Fox opened up the same weekend with $16 million.

Look who's talking was number two in its sixth week.

I remember.

Oh, yeah, but that was a giant year.

Yeah, that movie was so huge.

Bruce Willis as the baby, John Travolta, career tank,

but I don't know.

I wouldn't call this his comeback.

Yeah, no.

I'm sure he made some, at least made some money.

The little mermaid was also opened up the Disney Cartoon.

Oh, wow.

And then steel magnolias and then all dogs go to heaven,

also opened up.

That was a good movie, too.

That was a sad movie.

Don't all the dogs die in that movie

with Bert Reynolds and Dom DeLouis.

Yeah, there's like one dog that kind of makes it to the end

and then dies.

Yeah, dad was number six.

I don't remember that movie.

Oh, Ethan Hawking, Sam Malone.

I don't think I've seen that.

Yeah, I'm alone.

I just watched another TV show his, who played, who cheers.

Did you dance in?

Yeah, there we go.

But I don't think I've seen that movie.

And Prancer just got released.

So all these Christmas movies, all these kids movies

and the bear.

Oh, is that Danny DeVito?

No, this is an orphan bear hooks up with an owl,

don't mail and try to dodge a human hunter's.

Oh, yeah, okay, I remember that movie.

I do not remember that movie.

And Crimes and Mr. Meeners was in its sixth week.

That's a non-sumble comedy.

And staying together was in its second week

and I don't know that movie.

A complacent life of three small town brothers

is shattered when their father sells the family business

from under them.

Sounds like an uplift in Christmas movie.

I haven't ever seen that movie.

But Harlem Nights, Look Who's Talking, Little Mermaid,

all dogs go to heaven, Prancer,

so it didn't do bad considering.

No, it didn't.

And then it dropped down to 5,

back up to 4, down to 5, 777,

6 place, 778, and then 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10.

And then it was out of the top 10.

But it stayed there for a good chunk.

Oh, yeah, no, it was working it.

Yeah.

Still mag, no lias, taglines.

Oh, movie to bring your wife to.

I mean, 100%.

That's not the tagline, that was me.

The funniest movie ever to make you cry.

Actually, yeah, accurate.

This movie makes me cry.

So help you God, Anna.

I want to say it well, but.

Sometimes laughter is a matter of life and death.

Oh, I like that one.

So someone's obviously dying.

Don't ruin it for me.

I want to be emotionally crippled or anything for you.

Yep, you got it.

No problem.

I'm looking at the poster.

And if you know this movie,

I'm sure you're seeing the poster.

I don't know if it's the same as the,

it's just all the actresses together.

Two are hugging the not so famous ones.

But no, yeah, it's just steel magnolias.

That's it.

And it has all the women up front.

It would not hang this.

Even if I like the movie, I'm not hanging this fucking.

I 100% would.

I 100% would.

If you go to a man's house and he has this poster hanging,

that is a.

I'm going to think he's gay.

Yes, I'm going to think he's gay.

Yeah, he needs a visa card to live in.

No, no, no.

Jesus.

Hey, look at me.

I like steel magnolias.

Let's get married.

All right.

I'm going to say probably the critics did like this movie.

I'm going to say they loved it.

Because they're all girls.

Mag.

Because they're all girls.

Yeah.

You're all really girls.

Yeah, 82 reviews comes in at 73%.

Over 100,000 popcorn meter audience reviews comes in at 89%.

This is definitely, well, the critics liked it.

The people liked it more.

This is obviously a crowd favorite.

So you can look for a good one here.

I'm going to try to find a fucking bad one here.

Go ahead.

We're going to start with Bob Ross from the Tampa Tribune Tribune.

Herbert Ross is such a pro that his works is an unattrusive as it is effective.

Three out of four.

Well, Jeff Simon from Buffalo News has the result of this movie is something

Grotesque and misschapen.

That's kind of harsh.

This was a play, right?

Is that what you said?

It was a player or something?

Okay.

Oh, Joe Joe Pollack from St. Louis Post Dispatch says, McLean is wonderful and she ought

to be.

She has all the best lines.

And is the freest spirit in the Louisiana community.

I will say the Shirley McLean is fantastic.

love her so much. It's a fantastic actress. Yeah. And she usually plays either a nut bar or a

usually a nut bar. And she plays it great. And she plays. Yeah. No, I do like Show

McLean. She is a great actress. Actually, they're all good actresses. All the whole cast

like Sally failed their and Julia Roberts. They they're all capable. And there's something even

watching this. You're going to be like Dolly Parton. Where have you been hiding all this time? Dolly

Parton had big boobs. Who knew? Those are massive jugs. I'm going to listen to music if I can

look at it. The problem here is that taking the play off the stage, director Ross and company dropped

Magnolia's heart and soul, badly damaging them in the process. Rick Shat never Santa Cruz sent

to know. No, they just didn't joke. Yeah, I just don't like it. Joe ball take from Sacramento B says

the film strength comes from the great Sally field who has a dramatic scene here to end

all dramatic scenes and makes it seem not the least bit contrived or manipulative or theatrical

but real three out of five. Gary Thompson from the Philadelphia Daily News gives it 2.5 out of four

says there are however too many characters and consequently some of the main characters take too

long to develop. But that's not a horrible review. No point by now. Noel Taylor from the Ottawa

Citizen. Steel Magnolia's is more a picture about women more than it is a picture a women's picture.

Great. Philip French says from the observer UK. It's kind of an oxymoram but a great deal of

self-conscious acting goes on and effect accentuated by Ross's overuse of reaction shots,

smiles, smirks, scowls and misty eyes. Mike McGrady, I'm going to let this be my last one. Mike

McGrady from News Day says while the script tends to guarantee the tears, the cast ensures that

some of the laughter will show through. Gene Siskel from the Chicago's Reborn sells the moments

that don't work and there are many. Are precisely those scenes that are the most theatrical and

probably will win awards? You just didn't like it. Well, I just sounds very pessimistic.

Yeah. All right. Well, IMDB has 68,000 plus user ratings coming in at 7.3.

That's not bad either. Not bad. Pretty high.

I'm looking at the chart here and there's not a lot of really well obviously if the average is 7.3.

It really drops off. All right. You can start with 10. That was so great. I love it.

Actually, I think this one all suits us for right now. A chick flick men can enjoy too.

Carrie Arts, 10 out of 10.

Be prepared to laugh till you cry with this one. My movie TV romance, 9 out of 10.

I can't wait.

Oh, this is a quote from the movie. I would rather have 30 minutes of

wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special classics on call 8 out of 10.

Well, last time's law, 7 out of 10 says this female skewing small town melodrama hits the

right spot as a life-affirming motion picture, which appeals to a much more overlooked demographic.

We're going to do this one. Sappy and predictable story, but some good actresses,

Trixi 36 out of 10.

Classy cast in a preconceived weeper, 5 out of 10, Moon Spinner 55.

I'm going to listen to my story about a gal named Shelby,

Zimedeck or Zimsy, I don't know, 4 out of 10.

I only have one for 3 out of 10 says I'm a bit too cynical granted this movie from the 80s

is from the 80s, but it's rather overly silly and annoying 3 out of 10 from Copper Cheerio.

Feels insincere, latently sexist and actively annoying. LRC said I don't know how to say I

end SK we're going to go with that 2 out of 10.

Wow, these people did not like this. Overly Sappy predictable, one of the worst movies of all time,

relentless unnerving and harrowing the worst most predictable piece of garbage ever from

Obliv 1 out of 10. Now there's a bunch of other ones I still like it.

Oh right. Wow. Well, sometimes in movies for everybody, some people that don't like it.

Is true. It's a matter with you people. It's funny though because it's hard to find at least women.

I mean, you can always find men because they're like, oh, so sad. Oh, I don't know.

But mostly this is a loved movie.

Yeah, it's got the reviews for it and I know I know of the movie.

So it's not like, so let's watch this trailer and then we'll make a prediction.

Here we go.

I don't want to have to kill you. Don't you threaten me, Dron. Dron would never,

ever point a gun at a lady. Your husband is a boy out on the butt of humanity.

Try star pictures presents a race star production. Well, this is it. You're finally ready.

Sally Field. I think you'd be back every now and the end.

Dolly Parton.

How's your family?

Louis brought his girlfriend home and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos.

Your spale correctly. I'm just weird.

Oh, leave me alone.

Shirley McLean.

I'm not crazy, Malin. I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.

Darryl Hannah.

Mystery, I swear to you that my personal tragedy would not interfere with my ability to do good hair.

Olympia Ducakis.

Looks like two pigs fighting on the blanket.

Julia Roberts.

I want to make you very happy.

I want a child on my own.

Your poor body has been through so much.

Why would you deliberately do this to yourself?

Don't make such healthy babies all the time.

You are special, Shelby.

Time has made them close.

Life.

She's going to have a baby. Go get a doctor.

Has made them friends.

Steel magnolias.

I want 100% I'm a good cry like a bitch.

God damn it.

I'm sure it'll be all right.

Oh my god.

You're making me watch a lot of chick flex this year.

We have.

Okay.

I might give you a bit of a break.

And people are fucking dying and losing their fathers.

I'm like, Jesus.

It's crazy.

Fucking girls.

Yeah.

What's the one?

Yeah.

She had cancer.

No.

Yeah.

Was it cancer?

leukemia.

Yeah, it was cancer.

Yeah, leukemia.

That's a cancer.

That is cancer.

Yeah.

She fucking dies.

Obviously someone's going to fucking die in this movie.

All right.

No, I mean, it looks okay.

My wife will be delighted.

She's going to be thrilled.

You should be a little day night with her.

I'm not going to tell you just go.

You're just going to let her walk by the room

and however be like, still magnolias?

Just come running down the hall and slap my head on the waiter or chair.

Now tell me you want to steal magnolias?

All right.

Well, we are going to go watch still magnolias from 1989.

And when we get back, we are going to review it.

You heard them.

Movie time.

Let's all go to the lobby and get ourselves a treat

and then watch a classic kick ass movie

from whenever the one we're about to watch was made.

And welcome back.

Did you watch 1989's steel magnolias?

I did indeed.

Yeah, me too.

And I own it.

Of course you do.

And I'm mad that I own it.

I knew it.

Great.

I own it.

Awesome.

I actually should be behind me here.

But I forgot it and I'm not going up to get it.

It's fine.

It's fine.

I'm sure your wife will see it in the living room

and she'll be like, oh, I'll touch it again.

Yeah, good call.

I better go get it.

What's your initial thoughts?

I mean, it's funny because watching it this time,

maybe it's because I was watching it with a slightly more critical eye

than I have in the past.

A one I didn't cry.

But I think that's because I'm partially dead inside

because I watched our other easter movie before this.

We'll talk about that.

Anyways, but the I was like, wow,

this really is very like

in the, oh, my God, why can't I think of the word?

I keep wanting to say formatting, but it's not it.

The stage blocking.

No, but that's the stage theater term.

But in the blocking and in the movements

and in the way the kind of dialogue is delivered,

it felt very stage theater.

It did feel like you were watching kind of like a stage

being shot on.

I don't know if they did that on purpose.

I don't know if they did it on purpose

or if it was a lucky happenstance,

but it was really interesting to pick up on it this time

because I don't think I've ever picked up on it before.

And I was like, oh, okay.

And I mean, the performances were obviously always amazing.

Really great.

It's, I still really, really like this movie.

I really, really like this movie.

I didn't cry this time, which I was very impressed with.

I consider that personal growth

because this is usually one of those movies

that makes me die.

But also, I want Olympia Ducakis

to read everything to me,

even though I think she's dead.

In that accent that she has in this movie,

because it is the most like luxurious voice ever.

And I'm like, God, it's so smooth.

So much.

She is dead.

She is dead, yeah.

May 1st, 2021.

Ah, she made it to me.

That makes me sad.

She had lived a good life.

She did a lot of things, made a lot of movies.

I appreciate her.

She was an all three Likus talking.

Surely McLean's alive.

That does not surprise me.

I think that woman's going to live forever

to be perfectly honest.

I think she's 90 something.

She's born in 1934.

She is 91 right now.

She will be 92 in April.

Yeah.

That's impressive.

God bless.

She's amazing and so weird.

And I love her for that.

Darryl Hannah's in it.

You see a young Darryl Hannah.

Yeah, her character was annoying.

And not because she became a Christian

and all that and Jesus stuff like that.

But it was such a jarring

180 of her character.

Or not maybe not a 180.

It wasn't quite.

She wasn't like a

a total opposite of a Christian or anything like that.

But yeah.

And it's but it was so hardcore.

Yeah, she was intense.

I felt like the hunter of the boyfriends

like fucking Jesus settled down.

Like I'm a be real.

Even Jesus drank some wine.

Come on.

Jesus turned water into wine.

And hung out with whores.

Jesus was down for the party.

Yeah, hung out with whores.

Turned water into wine.

He's a good time.

I say this all the time.

I'm like, I think Jesus would have been

a good time to hang out with.

And I think all the years

that are missing because there's a big

like gap of years in the gospel

of Jesus's life.

Yeah, they're like,

we can't put that in there.

Yeah, I literally think

that was like the PG edit.

They were like,

nah man, Jesus was too ruckus during those years.

Yeah, we got to rub out this teenage years

in early 20s.

Yeah, yeah.

It's just, it's so much.

Too much.

She was banging everybody.

I mean, I also think he was married

and had a family party.

And it's really funny to like argue

with Baptists about this kind of stuff.

I'm not that invested.

Like I have my own personal belief system,

but I'm like, it is my own personal belief system.

And I got nothing to do with nobody else.

But Baptists and other like Protestants,

they really enjoy kind of trying to talk

about Jesus with people and convince people

that they're the right kind of Christianity

and you should join them.

They do this all the time.

And it is so much fun to talk to them about the Bible.

And it makes me gale every time.

And some of them get a little angry,

but that just makes me even more giddy.

It's so much fun.

But anyways, yeah,

a nail got on my nerves

because I felt bad

for her little boyfriends.

But then all of a sudden, I was like, did she get married?

Because she's very pregnant.

Yeah, jumps all over the place.

Yeah, well, they give you good time jumps

and they usually pick a holiday

in order to tell you that time has passed.

So they never actually say or place the words,

which I appreciate one year later,

six months later, they're just like,

and now we're at Halloween.

Yeah, because at first I'm like,

wow, because I'm like,

her character, Daryl Hannah's character,

and now they were, I'm like,

woolly fuck, between Easter and Christmas,

she really took a fucking turn.

But then you realize that might not have been the following Easter.

That could have been a couple years after the fact

because they've been married

and people have been like, oh,

when did you come into town?

Like, it's a normal thing.

Yeah, but no, her character was annoying.

Julia Roberts should have listened to her mom.

It's like fucking idiot.

She wanted to have a bit,

but you know, it's hilarious to think about

and how far the medical field has come.

Her literal only condition was that she was a type one diabetic.

She got the diabetes.

She had the diabetes, but that was it.

And now you see people who are type one diabetics

having kids all the time.

And it's not as dire as it used to be.

Well, I had major surgery in my 30s

and it was and it was where I had to have

an air thing shoved down my throne into my lungs.

And while they were doing the operation,

I had major surgery just a few months ago.

And I'm like, the one thing I'm not looking forward to is the

and they're like, oh, no, we don't do that now.

Like we don't not, yeah, it's just a thing that goes in the back

and holds your tongue.

And it's a complete and I'm like, oh, yeah.

Medicine advances.

Aggress, there's progress in the health care system.

Yeah, but it's crazy to think at one point,

like the doctor.

The diabetes, yeah, you have diabetes.

You shouldn't have children.

Well, I remember Wilford Brimley being on the TV

warning everybody about the diabetes.

Look, diabetes is very serious.

Yeah.

And you can lose limbs for it.

You, it can kill you.

It can kill you.

But there was a point where it was just

before banting and best, you were going to die as a child if you had type one.

Like it was just, it was going to happen.

And then insulin came around and it got better.

Yeah, not super fantastic, but I got better.

But it's crazy to think that like in the 1980s, like late 1980s,

it was not nobody ever questioned.

Like the first time I watched it, it was like, oh, yeah.

Mind you, I had a friend who was a type one diabetic.

Never even clued in.

That I was like, oh, should she not have children?

She had a child, by the way, she's still alive.

Yeah.

As far as I know.

Yeah, it's so much, there's, it's come so far.

Well, so far.

And it is still very date.

I was a doctor's office.

I'm like, are we afraid of cancer coming back?

And he's like, no, I'm afraid if you get in diabetes, you fat bastard.

That will really fuck you up.

I'm like, oh, diabetes is that bad?

Yes, diabetes is that bad.

No, diabetes is very dangerous.

I have a, I have another friend who's a type one diabetic.

And he's having, he's like, eventually, I'll go blind.

Because that's one of the conditions that diabetes kind of triggers.

And it's, it'll fluck with your eyesight.

And I'm like, that's fucked up.

Yeah.

Do a number on your kidneys.

It does a number on your kidneys.

It does a number on your circulation.

Like you have to be on top of it.

But from today to, from 1989 to today,

a lot has changed.

Now there are insulin pumps.

Like you don't even have to like inject yourself anymore.

No, or stab yourself with a little razor.

My grandpa, I remember as a kid,

my grandpa had to cut his finger and put it on a little tab thing every day.

Well, no, they still have to check their blood.

But now they can have those sensors.

Yeah, they just kind of, it still pricks you.

But you stick a sensor on your arm and then it sends a message to your phone.

Like your blood sugar is low.

Your blood sugar is too high.

And then you can, your insulin pump to like,

increase the amount of insulin that you put if your blood sugar is too high.

And I'm like, this is fucking amazing.

Usually you had to wait until you were like two minutes away from a coma

before you figured this out.

On the floor of someone trying to shove a cookie down your...

Actually, it's funny because when I would sleep over at my friend's house,

she had type one.

She would wake me up in the middle of the night,

be like, let's go have cereal.

And I'd be like, okay, I didn't even clue in.

And then she would grab like the most sugary cereal.

And we'd sit there eating a bowl of cereal at three o'clock in the morning.

And it took me years to figure out, oh,

her blood sugar was low and she recognized that.

So she needed to up it, you know, so she wouldn't die.

That's good.

Anyways.

Yeah, so Julia Roberts character.

Yeah, she listened to her mom.

Can I say this?

Oh my god.

Was Dolly Parton fucking hot?

She has.

Oh, it's just her.

She's so hot.

I forgot because when you think of Dolly Parton,

you think the country of music and jumping boobies.

And but I'm like looking at Dolly Parton going, she was like,

perfect.

She has one of the greatest smiles.

Oh, there you go.

Say it in the entitent.

She's a teeny tiny woman.

Like teeny tiny.

Yeah, she's very teeny tiny.

I'm like, it's super tiny up.

And it's hard because her hair is so big and her boobs are so big.

You don't recognize that too.

So much big hair.

So much bigger.

A lot of hairspray in this movie.

Fucking amazing.

It was partially so Southern and so 90s.

So 80s.

Like it was making my life.

But Dolly Parton is so tiny.

And you get lost in the big hair and the big boobs and the flashy outfits

because that woman loves a sequin.

And I am not mad about that.

I appreciate her and I respect her for that.

Because my god, her performing outfits are amazing.

But like in this movie, she just kind of looks like a regular person.

Yeah.

Still absolutely stunning.

Yeah, hot regular person.

Yeah, and you're just like and but you actually get to really see her face

and you see her like talking because even when she's in interviews,

she wears more makeup than she's wearing in this movie.

She is wearing a full face makeup still.

But it looks a little more natural than her

performing makeup and stuff like that.

But I was like, my god, Dolly.

She has one of the most like just friendly and warming and engaging smiles.

And I'm like, why?

Why am I so slow to notice that?

Mind you, I also loved her in 9 to 5, which I haven't seen in forever.

And I was like, Oh, Dolly, you're fantastic.

She also had a rhinestone with the vestus alone.

I don't think I've ever seen that one.

I don't think I've ever seen it either.

Probably for good reason.

I mean, if we find it on a streaming service, we should watch it.

But anyways, this cast is incredible.

Yeah, Sally Field plays the most Sally Field.

I've ever seen.

She's so good.

Yeah, Charlie McLean, Olympia do caucus.

Tom Scarrett.

Sam Shepherd, he plays.

He has the biggest arc in this whole fucking movie.

For reals.

Because he starts as a bomb.

And then by the end, he like owns a company and he's doing where.

By the end, he's making her own franchise.

He's making her a franchise.

Oh, my God.

Dylan McDermott's still hot.

Oh, McDermott, yeah.

Very young.

I that caught me off.

Yeah.

And this, he was in his...

No, actually, he was probably in his late 20s in this movie.

He's aged so beautifully.

And it took me a while and Wedgeworth who plays Ant Fern.

I wanted to hear from a bunch of stuff.

But Kevin J. O'Connor who plays Sammy, Darryl Hannah's boyfriend.

I'm like, what an ugly man.

And I'm like, but I know him from somewhere.

And then I'm like, oh, fuck, right, Van Helsing.

He plays those quirky weird, he plays the douchebag from the mummy,

who's like the funny character in that series.

It takes you a hot second to recognize him.

Yeah.

Because you're like, I know your face, where do I know your face?

But he, because he's done so much where he, yes, he usually plays

someone weird or, you know.

Oh, yeah.

Without Scruples, whatever.

But it's just, it's fun to watch.

And it's weird seeing him in this character.

Yeah, where he's just a regular guy who's like,

and now, why can't I just drink a beer?

And did you notice who Nancy's son?

Or are you being Truby's son?

Dolly Parton Joe?

Yes, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

I recognize him too.

Yeah, because he's in our other movie.

And I did not play that.

Yes, he is.

Yeah, I didn't put that together.

I'm like, wait a second.

That's critters too, as a douchebag.

And you're a douchebag here.

Good so many douchebags.

Yeah, no, this, yeah, this is not, this was not made for me.

This was not made for men.

This was made for women and the men who were made to go watch it.

I think it can be made for men.

Oh, I sure Gays loved it.

Gayman, I love this movie.

No, anybody who's emotionally

comfortable and intelligent.

Oh, we don't call them gay.

What's the point?

No, they're also gay.

Gayman do love this movie.

How I know, Dolly Parton.

I'm watching that.

Dolly Fields.

Yeah, the Gays lovers.

I know they do not all surely McLean.

I don't want stereotype every gay guy out there, but that's good.

Look at you.

Look at you being so progressive.

So progressive.

Stop it.

Men who are gay, but married, pretending to be straight.

They love this movie.

Yeah, anybody who likes theater because that's what it was.

It was a stage production in a movie.

Again, I said gay men love it.

Can we, can we stop?

There are straight men who love this movie too.

Shut it.

Hmm.

You need to work on your toxic masculinity.

Yeah.

I think I made toxic, I made toxic.

My daughters are toxic masculinity.

My God, why?

Because they're very like me.

Oh, Jesus.

All three of them are very like me.

And my wife is getting pissier and pissier about it.

You're like it's not my fault.

I'm the one who stayed home from raised children.

What do you want?

Of course they're going to be like me.

What do you think I was going to be?

I was going to change my entire dynamic,

my entire structure mindset.

No.

But I work from home.

She doesn't.

Now we got three manly daughters.

Or I have a whole decision.

Lesbians?

Get right on this.

No, not lesbians.

Stop it.

Or you just have, you just have daughters

who don't conform to traditional feminine values.

No, they've got traditional man values.

Yeah.

And I'm saying because they are girls

who have those values, those values are feminine.

So you've passed on feminine values to your daughters.

Say what you want.

They say slurs.

They talk down to people.

They don't like current political climates.

I'm sitting there smiling.

My wife, Stephen.

No, just give it a few minutes

until the current political climate

is actually negatively affecting them.

And they realize that they're not just a random mediocre white man

who's going to get things handed to them

just because

it's going to change real quick, buddy.

Yeah, again, this movie's not for me.

But yeah, I kind of figured it wouldn't be,

but I got you to watch it.

It's like the third time you're giving me something

where death and

fucking manipulation.

Yeah, fuck me.

It is what it is.

You, dude, critters.

Shut up.

Yeah, that's another episode.

Anyways, let's go through this movie.

Yeah, let's go through it.

All right.

See how big the plot is here.

It's not very big.

And it's not a huge plot.

It's not.

It's very.

It's not an intricate plot.

I can see how this was a stage play.

This played out like a stage play.

I this would be very easy to do in it.

I mean, not easy, but very.

Very broadway, very play centric.

But yeah, not a whole big plot here.

But and now do play a shy beauty school graduate.

Move to.

Chinaco pin.

Er.

In northwestern Louisiana, where Truby Jones

hires her to work.

Hot Truby Jones to work in her home-based beauty salon.

Yes, my wife watched this fucking with me.

Does she wanted to after she said when she watched this

as a kid or whatever that she wanted to be a hairstylest?

She wanted to have her own.

Oh, yeah.

So I'm guessing that's I think that lots of people thought it

happens a lot with movies where like

women see like after a pretty woman.

How many people wanted to be a prostitute?

Let me tell you, there were a lot of little girls

who were dressing as prostitutes for Halloween.

Yeah, so wrong.

So I wanted to meet some prostitutes after pretty woman.

Till I saw from like new segments and documentaries.

Yeah, they don't look like Julia Roberts.

There are.

There are ones.

I have that type of money.

My neighborhood prostitutes never look like Julia Roberts.

Fucking down.

No offense to the ladies.

They were working hard.

They were working hard.

But time was working harder.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, they look like they had a rough life.

Poor things.

Meanwhile, yeah, and a lot of people like Mystic Pizza.

How many of you's have wanted to go out and get a job at a pizza joint?

I did.

Actually, I've watched Clarex.

I wanted to go work at a convenience store.

Let's see.

We're easily influenced.

Yeah.

So dumb.

Meanwhile,

Millen,

Etiton,

and her Jesus Christ Southern people.

And her daughter, Shelby,

busily prepared for Shelby's wedding.

That is being held later that day.

This is where we get Tom Scarris character

trying to get all the birds out of the tree

by shooting guns.

Finally does it with a crossbow

with a bunch of fireworks and crackers.

Tighted the arrow.

Which actually works.

Yeah, no, it does actually work.

Which is just, he's a menace.

Yeah, this man is a menace.

Yeah, his character was kind of funny.

Millen's high-spirited husband, Drum,

fires a gun loaded with blanks to drive birds out of the trees.

So they do not interfere with Shelby's reception.

Along with Claree Belcher,

the former mayor's cheerful widow,

they arrive at trees to have their hair done.

While there, Shelby, who has type one diabetes,

suffers a hypochlemic, I know that word, attack,

but recovers quickly with the woman's help.

Yeah, that was because she was getting mean and angry.

I'm like, let her go for a minute.

Let's see what else she says.

When a diabetic sugar gets too low,

or even I think it's also, I think too high,

they start getting really, really lethargic.

But they basically, they start kind of losing their minds,

which is, I've heard, can be hilarious

until it gets really serious and they're about to die.

But they're like, they're saying all the things.

And then I'm like, maybe I do have diabetes.

Because I say shit, that's mean all the time.

Or no reason.

Maybe you're just mean.

People will be out in my living room and I'll come running out

and just say something mean just to do it.

And then retreat back to my room.

Yeah, due to Shelby's medical condition,

her doctor advises against her having children.

Shelby considered ending her engagement

to her fiance, Jackson.

So he would not be deprived of children.

But he's like, will adopt you.

You always say stuff you don't mean.

Because you're stupid.

He really meant it.

He might have.

Yeah.

He might have.

You might say things you don't mean.

Yeah.

But I think he really meant it's fine.

Well, adopt.

Mind you.

We got to remember.

Jackson has money.

He comes from money.

Yeah.

And he's a lawyer.

And he's a lawyer going to be a lawyer.

And he makes, he makes money.

Yeah.

So for him, he's like, it's fine.

We'll just, we'll throw some money at the problem.

It'll be fine.

People in my family have been adopting babies

from the times of your.

We're good.

Yeah, I don't care, honey.

I love you.

Why?

I love you.

Rochi and sarcastic.

Luizy.

I was, what is it?

Mauser.

I was her.

Weezer.

Weezer.

Bordeaux.

Can it be?

Rose.

So that they fucking tried.

And Louisiana.

Yeah.

And yeah, yeah.

There's got to be some fresh.

Arise at the salon and immediately begins

interrogating and now about her background.

And now, tearfully reveals that her husband

who is evading the police has disappeared

after sealing her money.

This was when it really hit me

because we talked about it being a play

at that it was a play.

The way that it was, like you said,

blocked stage and shot

and the way the dialogue

and it went back and forth.

Yeah.

Yes, that is, it's a play.

See, and I first clocked it in the salon

after Shelby gets her hair done.

The back and forth with her mother

about blush and bashful.

Yeah, yeah.

Like that felt very stage.

And I was like, oh,

and then that's seen by the car

with the back and forth between Weezer and Annelle.

It's again very, like I could picture it

on the stage like stage right.

I was like 100% that's where they're standing.

Yeah, stage right.

And he has disappeared

after stealing her money

and all the belongings in the car.

And now further amidst she is unsure

her marriage is legal.

Shelby sympathetic invites a now

to the wedding reception

where she meets bartender,

Sammy DeSoda.

And then, yes, and then we have the wedding

and then we have the reception

and everything.

I like her brothers,

Julia Roberts brothers,

put all the condoms on the on the car.

God bless.

She finds that box of rubbers.

Yeah.

And then poor Malin is just like

the boys run out.

She's like, don't take her right

your sister's car with condoms.

I did like the scene where the

Tom scared the dad.

But he's walking through and he's

looking at the two boys.

And he's like,

where the hell did I put my gun?

Jesus Christ.

That's me.

God damn it.

I put my gun around here

fucking somewhere.

I hope one of the neighborhood kids

didn't get.

I should have probably locked the doors

instead of leaving them all unlocked

and open.

Yeah, because they're like,

well, where did you leave it?

And he's like, I don't know.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's coffee kicked in.

So he just put it in there and ran.

Oh, God, that's amazing.

Uh, the 80s.

Had the Christmas festival later that

I was as later that year.

And now following that.

But I don't know if it is.

And now following a short lived

wild streak.

Yeah, because she be go she just

turns to drinking and

whoring and once her

divorcing is through.

Yeah, she turns to Jesus.

Because she is.

I don't know what the

whoring is.

I don't know how to whoring.

Like she wasn't whoring.

She might have been hoeing a little bit

but she wasn't whoring.

Like it wasn't everybody.

Mind you now, she's wearing contacts.

Yeah.

And remember that was when

contacts were so expensive

that if one fell out of your eye,

you stopped.

You.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,

because they were like, stop.

Everyone don't move.

My contact.

Much to say.

And he's a noise while Claire

Clarie has bought the local radio

station KPPD and there.

Yeah, because they talked about that

at Easter.

You should buy the radio station.

She's like, what the fuck am I going to do

with the radio station?

Now she bought the radio station.

She's in the locker room.

I like sharing the claim.

Weasers.

Character looking at the naked football

players.

Then she gets her mirror.

Yeah, she's like just the look.

She's just checking it out.

And then it's so funny because I love,

I love the friendship.

And also they, they're the true

enemies.

Weasers and Clarie, because as they're

in the locker room,

Clarie is talking about the color

of the jerseys and the pants and

everything shows up on why it should be a dark color.

And weasers just like, you sound stupid.

Stop it.

Yeah, no one wants to hear that.

They want to hear about the football.

And I'm like, that's a friend.

Maybe don't do it live on the radio.

But that's a friend.

Tell your friend.

She sounds ridiculous.

Although I'd listen to that reporting

on football because I actually care about that.

I don't really care about the football itself.

Shelby attempts to set Weaser up with Owen Jenkins,

an old flame.

Then at a holiday party announces she is pregnant.

Everyone is thrilled except Malin,

who knows the risk.

Truby encourages Malin to instead focus on the joy

of a new baby brings.

Shelby has a baby boy named some Jackson.

And it does hit every, it hits every

holiday, major holiday.

It hits Christmas, Easter,

Fourth of July, Halloween, Halloween.

Does it hit St. Paddy's Day?

No, no, it doesn't hit so bad thing.

And I don't say that's a major holiday.

But it's a good holiday.

It's also just asked.

So it's on our minds.

Oh, maybe that's why I'm thinking of it.

That's all a lot of St. Paddy's Day stuff.

Shelby has a baby boy named some Jackson.

Fuck off.

Let's share a junior.

Let's share a dream.

Let's share a dream.

Let's share a dream.

Clarie relates how her brother has become a strange

from her nephew after he comes out as gay.

Oh yeah, because this

nephew or whatever is through the whole movie.

Good looking tall, blonde hair.

Gorgeous.

Gorgeous.

Dasha, great man.

All the women are looking.

And he's dating like the

Hagen Queen.

Yeah.

And then he comes out as gay.

And Weezer is the Hagen Queen who loses her crown

for doing unmentionable things

with a city council official.

And Weezer is now seeing Owen by this point.

Yes.

And Owen is sister only friends.

So adorable.

Oh, that little bit.

Yeah, so cute.

And I just want to like Hagen and protect him from the world.

And she kind of says that he's like the only half decent man

that she ever met before she met her.

Yeah.

Bastards of ex-husband's order.

I can't remember how she put it, but yeah.

Who obviously had money because she has their

their, oh yeah, I will say that.

And maybe it's because I'm getting older.

This was a beautiful town.

My god.

The houses.

Fuck me.

I wish I with the big wrap around porches

and the pillars.

And I'm like,

fuck, I wonder how much they would be today.

Oh, today?

Well, depending on where the town is in the upper way.

So yeah, if it's a small enough town far enough away from a city.

Yeah, it would be too bad.

Yeah, then it wouldn't be too bad.

Also, this is Louisiana.

So you got to remember that.

Now, if it's like a suburb of New Orleans,

it's a different story.

That house is probably going to go

now for about 450, 500 because the houses in these movies were,

because of course, I had to watch some of the

fucking special features on the DVD because my wife.

She's like, well, what are the special features?

Because I'm about to turn it off.

Yeah.

And she's one of the special features.

I'm like, are you fucking kidding me?

But they shot me actually in the homes in this town.

Oh, perfect.

The houses were great.

They were beautiful.

I mean, holy shit.

Malin's kitchen.

Yeah.

I was like, that feels so warm and cozy.

I'm like, is that a fire place?

It's spacious.

Yeah, the fireplace.

Yeah.

And the house was a piece of shit, but.

But it was cute.

What it was.

I've always wanted to live in a Victorian house

where the only thing really updated was maybe a few appliances in the kitchen.

And bathrooms being put in.

But other than that, I'm like, I want everything else.

Like old school Victorian.

I want all the wood trim.

I want the glass.

The oh my god.

Where did the word go?

Stained glass.

There we go.

Yeah.

And like the porch.

I'm like, I want all of that.

Do you know how fucking hard it is to find now?

Because everybody buys these incredible Victorians.

And then we do them.

They take out all the walls.

All the doors.

I'm like, goodbye pocket doors.

Goodbye, wood trim.

And then it becomes all white.

And then that beautiful Victorian like fireplace that they had and mantle.

No, they take all of that out and they put up a slab of marble

and some like gas fireplace like with the blue flames.

I'm like, the fuck.

If you wanted to live in a modern box, go build one.

Stop fucking with houses that have been here for a hundred years.

Shall I live in a Victorian home?

And we had like where you walked in and had the big oak staircase.

And it had that fireplace you were talking about.

It also had like the in the kitchen.

It had the old, I don't know what the old fashioned stove

that you could put logs of fires and shit in with it.

It had a back a back serving stair case like in the back.

Oh my god.

Yes.

You had servant stairs.

Servant stairs going up the to go.

The two stairs going up to the same fucking place.

But there were servant stairs that were much smaller narrower.

Act.

Yeah, I was the servants.

Servants didn't get fat because they were running up and down the stairs all the time.

Because the fat overs were sitting there going,

get me a cup of tea.

There's your sugar wrap around the fucking porch,

gives you go off to the side and stuff.

That's the kind of house I want.

Now I know I gotta, if I want to find it,

I have to go move out yonder to get it.

Yeah, yeah.

If you go out into rural wherever you can find these type of nice homes.

Yeah.

That are left.

But then I'm gonna, I'm gonna cause a ruckus if I live in a small town.

Yeah, you'll be weezer.

They'll be weezer, 100%.

Oh fuck, here comes Santos.

Jesus Christ, I had the children.

Looks good on you guys.

Yeah, get the dogs off the street before she kicks them.

Hey, I would never kick a dog.

I might kick the owner, but not the dog.

I like that.

Get the dogs inside so they don't have to see her kick me.

Yeah.

That's what it would be.

Where are we here?

Kind of got off on the fucking house.

Oh, and now has become a fundamentalist Christian.

Much to the const,

constimation of her new boyfriend.

Yeah, Shelby and Melin,

to the horror of the other ladies relate how the stress of the pregnancy

has caused Shelby's kidneys to shut down

and she is now on dialysis.

Melin will be donating a kidney to her daughter the next day.

Yeah.

Okay, so it works.

Yeah, now we're around July 4th.

Yeah.

And it's Jack Jr.'s first birthday.

So she has been pregnant.

She gave birth.

Kids been alive for a year.

And that's when they find out she's been on dialysis.

And Melin is given one of her kidneys.

And that's when they cut

Julia Roberts or Shelby's hair and they put that terrible wig on her.

Yeah, it's incredible.

She looked like what's Tinkerbell from Huck when she did that movie.

Okay, but Tinkerbell from Huck,

she looks so cute.

Yeah, this looked off.

This looked terrible.

I was like, whoever picked that wig and whoever put it on

should be fired.

Even 20 odd years after the fact.

Anyways, but yeah, no, it's that entire like back and forth is really great

because you see like how much everyone cares.

And now praying for everything.

And Truvee has some really great lines about like,

oh, this one.

Man, they gave Dolly Parton some really great lines in this.

She was really good comic relief.

Yeah.

Shelby recovers from the transplant.

But four months later, Jackson arrives home to find her unconscious.

Shelby, well, she noticed because she's at work and she noticed something.

She got a little woozy, I think.

And then she had her her coworker bring over the costume that she bought for Jackson.

Yeah, the kids one and a half too.

Yeah, it's something like that.

Because it went from July 4th to Halloween.

So then she tries to pick him up.

There's pain.

She goes to call

the Jackson and she collapses.

Yeah.

And this was actually why this baby.

Oh, this let me probably pinch the baby made a cry and then started filming.

No, no, no, because during during the crying fit,

when Jackson comes home and picks like the baby's pointing to the back.

That's probably the real mother back there after they pinched it.

It's like, hi, I want to go to my mom.

She's over there.

But he keeps pointing and then it's like, where's your mom?

Any points again?

And I was like, my god, this kid is really good.

Whoever trained him, it's fantastic.

I don't know if they call it training.

I think it's raising.

No, it's not a monkey.

No, no, this is training.

It's like, okay.

And then if I need you to point, this is what you're going to do.

And like, you train them to do it.

Or they just had the mother standing off camera.

Yeah, but you can't always guarantee that the kid's going to do what you want them to do.

We're a bit better if say, where's your mom?

The kid just slaps them in the face.

Well, there's a slap later on where I'm like, fuck yeah.

I was like, that hurts.

But this was also the reason that she wasn't allowed to adopt.

They couldn't adopt because they don't change.

She would not get because of her diabetes.

Because of her health, yeah.

But they did look into buying one.

A Shelby is comatose.

Having contracted an infection in her central nervous system due to the suppressor therapy

that keeps her body from rejecting the kidney.

After doctors to turn, okay, so now the highlight of the movie, we get to see 20 minutes of

Julia Roberts hooked up to machines in a coma while her mother

has a emotional breakdown.

Emotional breakdown just shuns everybody and gets angry at everybody.

Well, she was right.

She did tell everyone.

No, this is not anger at people not listening to her.

This is anger that her child is about to die.

And it's a very unnatural thing.

Yes, I will say that I would never want to go through.

Well, I'm not, no, I'm pretty sure everyone feels the same way.

If not, maybe it should be apparent for reals.

I hope I have lived my children.

I hope you do too.

I hope you stay alive long.

Because, buddy, sometimes I worry about your health.

Every time we turn around, so I'm having another major surgery.

So this is another problem I have.

I was not built very well.

No, I'm concerned.

I'm concerned.

Meanwhile, I'm concerned.

I'm going to live to be 105.

This is my concern.

Like, I'm doing everything I can to shorten my lifespan.

But no, I'm perfectly healthy, stupid.

Anyways, that's not the point.

The point is.

No, Sally Field and she's doing the exercise with her.

She's doing a lot.

Sometimes she's yelling at her to wake up because her son needs her and stuff like this.

Here I am like a moron think she's going to open up her eyes and we're going to have a happy

fucking ending.

No, not a fucking finger twitch.

Nothing.

Correct.

Absolutely nothing.

Because Shelby's condition is irreversible.

The family jointly decides to remove her from life support with Jackson

signing the papers to consent.

Shortly after Shelby's death, oh, shortly after Shelby's death,

Malin leaves the hospital and goes to Jackson's Aunt Furnshouse to pick up her grandson.

Yeah, not a very happy ending here.

Fuck it.

No, no, it is, it is not joyful.

It is not happy.

It is not a feel good moment.

I did tear up, but I did not cry.

Usually I saw it at this point, but I did not.

Usually there's a little sob and then during Sally Field's monologue, I really saw.

But I didn't this time.

Look for some growth.

After the funeral, Malin breaks down in tears and the other women comfort her and each other.

Malin is a great monologue.

Yeah, definitely you can see it as a play.

Malin gradually accepts her daughter's decision to have risked her life and return for

a few special years of motherhood and decades to focus her energy on helping Jackson's

with raising her grandson.

I now who married Sammy, there you go and is now pregnant, tells Malin she wants to name

her baby after Shelby, even if the baby turns out to be a boy, as she was the reason and now

and Sammy met Malin approved stating life goes on.

At the town's Easter egg hunt, Annabel, so we full circle, we're back to Easter and now

goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital by Truby and her husband, Spud in their truck,

followed by Sammy in an Easter bunny costume and Truby and Spud's son, Louis on Louis motorcycle.

And that's how it ends.

I hated how I loved how it shot back, the camera shot back and saw the bigger town and whatnot.

But then it stopped on a freeze frame of the town and it looked so shitty because just let it play.

But it awkward to let it play say to black finish the credits.

And that's not really a huge complaint of the movie.

There's far much more to complain about this movie.

And that is our movie.

What is your score for this uplifting joyful Easter?

Pick me up, feel good of a movie.

First of all, take a breath, Mr. let's watch the gray.

Okay.

Take a breath.

This is right up there with it.

It is not.

No, there's everybody.

This had, it's not a Saturday.

This has one day, one day.

And not by rabid like, like wolves in the wilderness after the calm down.

Um, diabetes.

I'm going to say that this is a solid buy it.

It's not everybody's cup of tea.

Although I do think if you are a heterosexual man and you have a girlfriend

who really enjoys this movie, you should at least pretend to like it a little bit.

Like I'm just saying, it's going to get you points.

If you're not married, if you're married, you already married, don't worry.

No, at that point, you should really care because then she will fuck up your life slowly,

but surely in an undetectable ways and you won't even know it until like 15 years later.

And if you already married, she's already doing it.

So it doesn't matter, you can be honest.

Anywho, this is a buy it.

The performances are really solid and yes, it does very much have a stage feel to it.

But I think that kind of adds to its charm.

It's funny at times, it is sad at times.

It is a great exploration of relationships, especially between women.

And it's a very female centered movie, which doesn't happen very often.

Because in this movie, through the entire thing,

the men really are, they're not even like, they're like cameos.

Yeah, even the love interests are.

The love interests, the husbands, like it doesn't, they're cameos.

And it really is an exploration of female relationships and all of the

complexities of that and what life is like.

And also, it's really great that they actually point out like, hey,

getting pregnant can kill you.

Maybe let's remember that.

So I think it's a buy it.

Incredible performances.

Very authentic, like little town feel, which you feel like you're in a small town.

As you're watching this entire movie.

And you also, by the end of it, feel like you know everybody in that town.

And you're in the gossip with everybody.

So yeah, I think, yeah, buy it.

But I probably give it a 7.5.

It's, it is very rewatchable.

But you've got to be ready for the emotional feels.

Because it is very sad.

Because you basically go from like, shall be getting married.

To shall be dying as a young mother.

And it, it's sad, it is sad.

But it's also just really done very, very well.

Okay, that's me.

What do you think?

Give us a review.

Even from the cover of the DVD, you don't, it doesn't say this movie's sad.

It looks like an upbeat movie.

And it's not.

It looks so happy.

If you remember liking steel magnolias from 1989, congratulations.

You are a girl, whether you are male or female,

you're a girl.

Some guys will like it.

That's based on a play.

And really well done.

Girl, the acting girl, being my wife, you are in a lesbian relationship.

Because sir, you are a girl.

Dolly Parton, really hot.

That is the only acceptable answer to liking this movie.

Once again, I'm watching a movie where the main character dies slowly on screen.

To maximize and take advantage of all my girly emotions,

my wife sobbing beside me, made me realize how we can vulnerable

the female species really is.

The pacing is off.

I thought the pacing was off slightly.

But I think it was just because it was that play, that play format.

Because when I, afterwards, when I was trying to think about it

and not being mad that I watched it,

it actually has paced quite well.

And it goes through the different time periods quite well.

It takes you a minute to go, wait a minute, where are we?

Oh, okay, so some time has passed.

Because this person is pregnant.

This person now is, things have changed.

But it's not to the point where I'm confused.

If you're confused, you have bigger problems than...

Okay, so Sally Field plays the most Sally Field role of her life.

Dolly Parton is a southern bell.

She's always played while looking fantastic.

Julia Roberts plays the dumbest character

who really should have listened to her mother.

And I know there are people listening,

but then you wouldn't have gotten this beautiful child.

How do you know this kid doesn't grow up to be a meth head

who only has sex with prostitutes, which he murders

and buries out under the fucking willow trio back?

You don't know.

Darryl Hanna could get real annoying real quick in this movie.

Because she became someone you just didn't see

the others wanting to hang around.

Until the end where it does and that friendship thing, whatever.

The standout characters were Weezer and Claree,

Shirley MacLean, Olympia de Caucus.

They had the best dialogue,

the best character development,

mostly because their characters didn't have any arc or development.

Slight changes and it seemed to fit their characters.

But at the end of the day, this movie wasn't made for me.

It was made for girls and men who are married

or dating or wanting to have relations with girls.

Will I watch this movie again?

Yeah, I'm probably going to watch this movie again.

Not of my own volition.

Which brings me to my score.

I would say, me, I would say skip it.

Because it's not in my wheelhouse of thought

when it comes to picking out movies.

Of the thousands of movies I could watch on a movie night,

steel magnolias is never going to enter the stratosphere

of movie ideas going through my head.

But it's not a terrible movie if you're being forced to watch it,

whether it be by a girly podcast host,

wife, girlfriend, gay life partner.

And I say gay because lesbians are not watching this movie.

They're watching John Wick and Die Hard

and Lesbian porn like I am.

It's not the worst movie out there.

It's bearable.

It's well acted.

It's well done.

I just, it's not my movie.

So I do say skip it.

What? As a movie I would probably get a 6.5.

A 6.5.

It's not a bad movie.

It's just not my movie.

But if you're being forced to watch it or it's bearable,

that's the best thing I can say about this movie.

Honestly, that's better praise than I was expecting.

So I mean progress, progress.

Just stop watching me where the main character

is fucking dying all the time.

Like what?

It was a fucking next terms of endermen?

No.

My girl?

You know, I thought about doing that,

but I was like, I don't think I can handle it to be perfectly honest.

No, I watched one where this black guy is reviewing the movie of My Girl.

And it's the part where she's crying saying that he needs his glasses.

He can't do those glasses.

And he says, get my hard N word.

The fucking guy.

But he's like, it's a comedy bit, but it was fucking funny.

No, but it's true because a lot of people don't,

like they don't really like clock, just how,

and it's funny because a lot of people have posed the theory that

millennials and like Gen X,

we don't have the same emotional responses to trauma

because we grew up watching My Girl.

And it was just entertainment.

Like even our fantasy movies, like the never ending story,

when that horse dies, like what the fuck?

But that's just it.

Like we watch all this stuff that would literally traumatize children today.

Oh, yeah.

If they ever got the chance to watch it.

But we were just watching it like unaccompanied,

like unsupervised.

They were like, here, let me put on this movie where,

shit, I was in the school library the first time I saw a bambi.

They aired it for us in a clack.

Yeah, I'm watching and I see the mother die.

And like I kind of start crying.

And that was my first, oh, wait, nobody else is crying.

Okay, don't have feelings, like,

which by the way, it's one of the same damage on that one.

But anyways, yeah, we're fucked up.

This movie is intense.

The land before time, where he lives, his, it's like,

even our kid movies like Labyrinth,

or creepy, dark crystal, fucking, damn, shit.

We're fucked up.

We're just straight fucked up.

Someone had to die and toughen this up though.

I mean, 100%.

Like you look around at some of these people crying like,

Jesus Christ, man up.

I do better, guys.

Do better.

Life gets a lot tougher than fucking this.

Jesus.

It's gonna get terrible.

Get ready.

All right.

Anything you want to add to steel magnolios?

No, I think I'm good.

I think I'm good.

All right.

So we have a buy it, a skip it,

a 7.5 and a 6.5.

Oh, the polar opposites of it.

Yeah.

All right.

Thanks for coming back to 1989 and going over.

I will have to say the amount of fucking hair in this movie.

If you have not seen this movie in a while and you want some,

remember some hair and hairspray?

Yeah.

This movie's got that in space.

There's a lot.

A lot of hairspray.

Yeah.

I think it damaged this movie itself.

Damaged the ozone layer.

All right.

Thanks for coming back to 1989 and going over steel magnolios with this.

And until the next movie, we remember LAKING.

Congratulations.

You just had one of your childhood movie memories vindicated.

Or they just eviscerated it.

I don't know.

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