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People We Meet On Vacation (Netflix) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark Revi podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Homemark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. On
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  Speaker 1: today's episode, we are taking a detour over to Netflix
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  Speaker 1: to discuss the recent rom com people we meet on Vacation,
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  Speaker 1: which is currently available to stream on Netflix. If you
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  Speaker 1: to check it out. As mentioned today, we are talking
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  Speaker 1: People we Meet on Vacation, and we're gonna start with
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  Speaker 1: a synopsis. Poppy wants to explore the world and Alex
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  Speaker 1: prefers to stay home with a good book. But somehow
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  Speaker 1: they are the very best to friends. They live far apart,
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  Speaker 1: but for a decade they have spent one week of
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  Speaker 1: summer vacation together. Brett Haley directed People We Meet on Vacation.
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  Speaker 1: He has nineteen previous directing credits, including The Hero, Hearts,
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  Speaker 1: Beat Loud, and All the Bright Places, and is known
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  Speaker 1: for warm, character driven storytelling. Have you seen any of
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  Speaker 1: those movies?
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  Speaker 2: It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of think maybe I've seen All the Bright Places.
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  Speaker 1: It was on Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I may have seen it. I definitely have read
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  Speaker 2: the book.
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  Speaker 1: The movie is adapted from the best selling novel by
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  Speaker 1: Emily Henry. The screenplay comes from Eulan Kuang, Amos Vernon
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  Speaker 1: and Nunzio Run Daza Fun Hallmark Crossover. Yulan Quang also
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  Speaker 1: wrote a teleplay for the twenty twenty fan favorite Love
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  Speaker 1: on Iceland. I have no idea why it says fan favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up Love on Iceland. I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know these two actors in this movie, and I've
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  Speaker 1: reviewed a ton of Hallmark movies hundreds and hundreds. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Amos Vernon and Nunzio run Daza previously wrote together on
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  Speaker 1: Hotel Transylvania Transformania. Have you ever seen that movie? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think that might be like a series because we've
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  Speaker 1: seen all the Hotel Transylvania MOVIESW Yeah, they're so cute,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Adam Sandler, Selena Gome maybe seen the first one.
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  Speaker 2: They're adorable. We like them. But I think Transformanium might
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  Speaker 2: be a series. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: WELLOK. A former Homewark hater also current animated series Hater,
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  Speaker 1: Animated Everything Hater, Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hater in general.
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  Speaker 1: Emily Vader stars as Poppy and with seventeen acting credits,
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  Speaker 1: including the lead role in the Amazon Prime series My
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  Speaker 1: Lady Jane. She's already being called by some as the
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  Speaker 1: next big thing. She's so cute in My Lady Jane. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a series I'm not familiar with. No, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you would like it.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely not set in the present day.
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  Speaker 1: Again general hater, but it's cute and based on a book. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Blythe plays Alex. He has sixteen acting credits, most
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  Speaker 1: notably starring as the lead and Billy the Kid and
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  Speaker 1: as Cora Leanna Snow in The Hunger Games The Ballad
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  Speaker 1: of Songbirds and Snakes. He too, was recognized as one
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  Speaker 1: to watch in Hollywood Worth noting My Lady Jane was canceled.
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  Speaker 2: After the first season, so if you're gonna watch, know.
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  Speaker 1: That too bad. Sarah Catherine Hook plays fiance Sarah. Her
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  Speaker 1: previous work includes The White Lotus and the short lived
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  Speaker 1: reboot of Cruel Intentions. Miles Heiser plays David. You likely
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  Speaker 1: recognize Miles for his role as Drew on Parenthood or
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  Speaker 1: his roles as Alex on Thirteen Reasons Why. He recently
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  Speaker 1: starred in the canceled Too Soon series.
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  Speaker 2: Boots, which I really liked.
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  Speaker 1: You have thoughts about it being canceled after one season? Yeah, rude, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jamila Jamil plays Boss Swampna. She's widely recognized for her
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  Speaker 1: as to Haney on The Good Place, Lucy and Laviscount
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  Speaker 1: plays Trey and needs no introduction for Emily in Paris Fans,
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  Speaker 1: where he's best known as Alfie Lucas Gage plays Buck
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  Speaker 1: and is best known for his appearances in Euphoria and
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  Speaker 1: The White Lotus. Alan Ruck, Molly Shannon, and Ian Porter
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  Speaker 1: also appear. Let's take a quick break before we come
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  Speaker 1: back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what is your
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  Speaker 1: first impression of people we meet on vacation. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a hot take, but I did think this would be
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  Speaker 1: better suited as a limited series.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, My first impression is, as ever, the book
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  Speaker 2: is better than the movie.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I've read on read it. But that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean I didn't like it. Well, okay, so you read
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  Speaker 1: the book just recently.
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  Speaker 2: I read the book years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I have started rereading it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like halfway through.
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  Speaker 1: But but in rereading it, many memories have been triggered.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to talk about one very specific memory.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, now, I went into it completely blind. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know anything about the book. I have no expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Like I was like, Okay, this is a cute rom com. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so I am curious about like the things I liked
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  Speaker 1: and the things I wished for. If they're similar to
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  Speaker 1: yours as some PEO has read the book, Yes, and
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  Speaker 1: I think those are two very separate experiences because I
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  Speaker 1: think overall I did like this.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just get that out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think it's two very different experiences, watching
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  Speaker 1: this on its own and watching it comparing it to
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  Speaker 1: the book, because I think I might have liked it
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  Speaker 1: more if I hadn't known that there was more to
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  Speaker 1: be had.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: We did like Okay, we talked about it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit in our news and notes. But Emily Bader is
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  Speaker 1: an absolutely delight. I've seen so much chatter about her
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  Speaker 1: since this came out.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Someone asked us she was tired from carrying this entire
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  Speaker 1: movie on her back. She's fun and funny and quirky,
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  Speaker 1: super watchable. I love when she gets vulnerable, talking about
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  Speaker 1: how she keeps constantly moving on and she feels the
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  Speaker 1: need to be doing something new all the time as
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  Speaker 1: a defense mechanism from people finding her to be too much.
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  Speaker 2: I really loved her.
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  Speaker 1: I have loved her too. She's totally new to me.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed what she brought. I liked her energy, that
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  Speaker 1: she brings to Poppy. Yeah, I like the character of
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  Speaker 1: Poppy little frenetic, but like, I didn't find her irritating
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  Speaker 1: at all. No, I thought she was like endearing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and as someone who is hashtag no fun yeah, super.
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  Speaker 1: I liked her because she's someone I could never be exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of wish I was that kind of free
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  Speaker 1: spirit actly exactly, never going to be me, but thest
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  Speaker 1: one to watch. Maybe that's the appeal. I think that's yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because as much as we know the well, we know
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  Speaker 1: some of the backstory about why she is the way
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  Speaker 1: she is. But you know, she didn't have the greatest childhood.
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  Speaker 1: She was teased and she was bullied, and she has
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  Speaker 1: all these other things going on, and she has some insecurities,
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  Speaker 1: but she is so much herself.
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  Speaker 2: Which I love.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like tom Blythe You know, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: really interesting because I saw someone say he's so boring. Ook.
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  Speaker 1: I think tom Blythe was I think he was boring.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, Okay, it is your thoughts. Alex is a
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  Speaker 1: little uptight, Alex is very structured. Yeah, I'm Alex me too.
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  Speaker 1: When she when she's like you hate everything, I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I don't hate everything, but I do have some strong
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  Speaker 1: opinions about they.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Blythe's portrayal of Alilex was well done. He is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be the foil to Poppy. Yeah, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, we see him loosen up, we see him
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  Speaker 1: be his most true self with her.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, he is a little stiff, I think intentionally, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think so too. I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because like, is tom blythemooring or is
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  Speaker 1: the character of Alex Bourn. Yeah, tom Blythe again also.
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  Speaker 2: New to me.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of an interesting choice. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Oh, he's fine until he takes a shirt off.
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  Speaker 1: That until the dance scene in New Orleans, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I get the appeal.
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh. Yes, the shirt off too works as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know the shirt off scene is.
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  Speaker 1: I sound like a horny old woman. The only reason
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  Speaker 1: I say the shirt off scene is it's unexpected. You
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  Speaker 1: don't expect him to look like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And then the dance scene really is the solidifying moment
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  Speaker 1: for me too, because he's got the moves, he's got
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  Speaker 1: the moves. He leans into it. Huh sexy. Yeah, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun You want to scream at the screen for
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  Speaker 1: them to just kiss already. Yeah, uh huh. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a fun callback to the Alexander Saxophone. Forever your girl
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  Speaker 1: as a Paula Abdul fan myself. Although although don't go
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  Speaker 1: see her in concert now because she just you know,
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  Speaker 1: lip syncs and dances.
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  Speaker 2: Term looks good.
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  Speaker 1: Though.
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  Speaker 2: Girl can move, still can move.
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  Speaker 1: She's a lot older than I am.
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  Speaker 2: Still can move.
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  Speaker 1: She looks fan frea fantastic But just listen to the
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  Speaker 1: CD at home. That dance scene was an absolute highlight
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  Speaker 1: of this movie. I agree, I absolutely agree, and was unexpected.
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  Speaker 1: It plays out in the book like that as well.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember, I don't remember You're not there yet,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't remember that specific scene. I like the
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  Speaker 1: structure of this movie, the present day, back in time format,
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  Speaker 1: moving through the different summers. I thought it kept the
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  Speaker 1: story moving and it gives context to like their relationship
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  Speaker 1: over time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have wishes about it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I also liked we have like a.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty stacked cast. Oh literally have the exact same adjectives
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  Speaker 1: stacked in my notes. We have some like veterans supporting players,
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  Speaker 1: but then we get like Lucas Gage, the Alfie guy
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  Speaker 1: from Emily in Paris, Miles Heiser, a lot of recognizable talent.
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  Speaker 1: I have some wishes about.
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  Speaker 2: The cast as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say here. I just they weren't like totally built
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  Speaker 1: out like these are to me, like big name actors
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  Speaker 1: that they could have used more substance. Yeah, Miles really
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  Speaker 1: is the only one who gets his due I think
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  Speaker 1: in this although I think they do enough with Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: l Jamil's character, but it is the parents of it.
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  Speaker 2: All is in my wishes.
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  Speaker 1: But it was just so fun to see them on screen.
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  Speaker 1: And Miles Heiser I did just watch and love Boots
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  Speaker 1: and so I hadn't seen him in anything since Parenthood,
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  Speaker 1: and so to see him back on my screen as
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  Speaker 1: a very different character has been very enjoyable. I do
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  Speaker 1: have to say I will get into my wishes, but
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  Speaker 1: I did enjoy seeing this book come to life. And
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  Speaker 1: I do think the book had more depth and detail,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the difference between books and movies. You can
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  Speaker 1: do that, there's time for it. I did still think
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  Speaker 1: this was a really fun and escapist way to spend
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  Speaker 1: two hours. It hits those rom coom notes for me,
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  Speaker 1: it's real splashy and fun to look at. The characters
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  Speaker 1: of Poppy and Alice are kind of swoony at times,
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  Speaker 1: and you're rooting for them, and I think the two
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  Speaker 1: actors have a ton of on screen chemistry. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm in favor of all of that. We are a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark podcast typically, and this movie does lean into a
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  Speaker 1: classic trope. Hmmm, she's annoying, he's boring. Opposites attract sort
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  Speaker 1: of a grumpy sunshine situation. Yeah. I mean once they
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  Speaker 1: like stop fighting like that dynamic to me, then that's
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  Speaker 1: when we really like start to take off. I don't
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  Speaker 1: enjoy like when two people don't get along. I'd rather
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  Speaker 1: be like rooting for them, like let's get to it
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  Speaker 1: all right. I enjoy the process of I want to
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  Speaker 1: watch them take it to the next step. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: will they or won't yay of it all? Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch not she bugs him and he bugs her? Great, agree,
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  Speaker 1: They do move past that quickly quickly in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready to talk wishes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you touched on it in your first impression, and
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  Speaker 1: I think all of my wishes will lean into this.
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  Speaker 1: This would have been best served as a limited series. Agree,
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  Speaker 1: there's just and I think there are certain elements of
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  Speaker 1: this specifically this book. Specifically, the book is called People
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  Speaker 1: We Meet on Vacation. The vacation element is a big
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  Speaker 1: piece of it. We get so many more of their vacations,
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  Speaker 1: we get so much more of everything really in the book.
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  Speaker 1: But there's not enough vacation for me, There's not enough.
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  Speaker 1: You're building this backstory, I agree, seeing all of the
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  Speaker 1: time they had to build this friendship, but it all
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  Speaker 1: fell apart over the course of one trip, and some
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  Speaker 1: of the storylines that they touch on are so much
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  Speaker 1: deeper in the book. When I got to the scene
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  Speaker 1: in the movie where Poppy is sick and she has
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  Speaker 1: to miss her trip, that triggered a deep held memory
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  Speaker 1: for me of a book scene that I could not
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  Speaker 1: have placed until watching this. In the book, that scene
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  Speaker 1: is so much richer, She's so much sicker. He's there
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  Speaker 1: for a full week taking care of her. It's just
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  Speaker 1: this real lovely caretaking. It is stuck with me for years. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't hand the book that it was in until now.
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  Speaker 1: But there are things like that, we meet Poppy's parents
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  Speaker 1: played by Molly Shannon and Alan Rock and they do
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  Speaker 1: a nice job that moment of kind of letting us
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  Speaker 1: know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: But there's more to.
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  Speaker 1: It because Poppy in the book was bullied because her parents,
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  Speaker 1: like for a number of reasons, but part of it
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  Speaker 1: her parents were weird, and her friends thought her parents
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  Speaker 1: were weird, and she couldn't have people over because her
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  Speaker 1: parents were weird. There's just there's just so much more.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't they didn't strike me as weird, just like, well,
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  Speaker 1: the mom comes in and she's like, here's this giant
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  Speaker 1: Costco size box, look at it. But that's like funny too.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, they're a lot like Poppy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, some context would definitely add to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I think they do a good job of telling
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  Speaker 1: that story with the casting of these characters. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: casting Molly Shannon in that role, with that before she
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  Speaker 1: even opened her mouths says a lot totally. And Alan Ruck,
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  Speaker 1: I mean people of a certain age can't look at him,
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  Speaker 1: and Nazee Cameron totally. So I think that the casting
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  Speaker 1: does a lot of the work for them.
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  Speaker 2: What wishes do you have.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, my biggest one is I wish I
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  Speaker 1: had actually seen all the summers, even a montage, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: even a montage. I just like, we have like all
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  Speaker 1: this big story crammed into this, you know, hour and
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  Speaker 1: forty five minute movie. Just give it a little room
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  Speaker 1: to breathe. I just think it would have worked so
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  Speaker 1: much better as a limited series, where we could have
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  Speaker 1: really looked closer at like the vacations. We just got
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  Speaker 1: like whiff of vacations, like and honestly, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: did I miss something? Like did they go on a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of vacations or did they not? Like well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And that's the hard thing because this book takes place
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  Speaker 1: over so many years, and it's hard to communicate that
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  Speaker 1: in the movie, the adaptation series, not the movie. The
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  Speaker 1: series One Day is so good because that's the same
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  Speaker 1: situation these friends they meet up on the same day
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  Speaker 1: every year, and that they take the time to tell
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  Speaker 1: that story over a number of episodes because you need
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  Speaker 1: that backstory, yeah, to root for them. Agree. Agree. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that I thought the oh maybe we already talked
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  Speaker 1: about it, but the supporting cast, to me, they needed
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  Speaker 1: more depth honestly across the board in this like we're
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  Speaker 1: told things about Poppy, we're told things about Alex, but
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  Speaker 1: like they don't show them u hu. That's like one
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  Speaker 1: of my biggest pet peeves with movies of this type.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally the beach ending at the end did
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  Speaker 1: not land for me. I can't even remember how it ends.
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  Speaker 1: They're just on those two loungers like at the ocean,
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  Speaker 1: and like it ties back to like the opening scene,
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  Speaker 1: but like it's it's not very swoony, it's not very romantic.
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  Speaker 1: I expected like this big. They're just like now we're
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  Speaker 1: just like two people. Like it just felt very It
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  Speaker 1: felt way more Alex than it did Poppy in that scene.
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  Speaker 1: It just kind of a little muted, especially after what
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  Speaker 1: we're supposed to believe like this big historical romance between them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's luck. Did you see that?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing jumped out at me in particular. I do have one,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we review a lot of Hallmark movies
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  Speaker 1: and there's always like continuity issues or like random things
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  Speaker 1: we see. I think that comes from like the speed
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: of those movies are filmed and mistakes are made. In
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: a movie like this, I think you have more time
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and bigger budget and people on set to track this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't see any.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Like digit see that true?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Did you see that The only one I have is
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: when there were New Orleans and this is the world
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: does whole dance scene takes place, It feels very light
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: on extras, Like to me, I feel like a bar
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: like that would would be.
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  Speaker 2: Packed with people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all. Like you said, my digity thats are
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: not of the error variety. But the end credits had
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the same look and branding as the original.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Book cover, which I appreciated.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: It's a nice nod to the people who read the book.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Mollie Shannon, who plays Poppy's mom, she makes a banana
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: condom joke and I'm shocked that you didn't make the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: connection to her. Care ever been kiss? Yeah, I got
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it when I watched it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, I did. One of my favorite movies.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And they make some nominal changes in the book.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: It's very interesting, like the Poppy Alex reunification is in
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Palm Springs in the book, but they still have the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: same like it's way too hot in here and the sheeting.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: There's several situations where they make changes but they still
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: work and I appreciated that, and I think ultimately it
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: was a faithful adaptation given the constraints of making a movie.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I did see a interview with the author who said
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: that a pretty steamy like sex scene was filmed and cut.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because it didn't land with audiences.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, did you read that too?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I saw maybe I just saw like a thread about it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Wonder why it didn't land with audiences.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Would that have changed anything for you? It would not
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: have changed anything for me in terms of like, I
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: would have liked to see more vacations to be honest.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: But no. What's interesting, though, is I did hear so
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: One of the things that's cut from the book is
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: in the book, Poppy has a pregnancy scare and after that,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Alex gets a festectomy because Alex's mom, God what dies
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: during childbirth and he's so afraid of anybody as Poppy
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: or anybody in this life having to go throughout. That's
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a real deep storyline that's cut. Well, here's an interesting
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: thing that's not in the UK version of the book
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: because I don't remember, but it had something. I heard
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: some book talker talking about it about how it didn't
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: resonate as well with other audiences, and so they pulled
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: it from the UK. Additionally interesting, so interesting how these
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: things come to be. Yeah, Okay, now we can talk
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: about reading.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I gave it four and a half stars.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I gave it three stars. Woah wow, let me talk
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: about that. Actually, here's where this is hard for me.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: When we're rating non Hallmark movies. Okay, we rate the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Hallmark movies on a five star scale, right, and I'm
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: rating them as a Hallmark movie. Yeah, okay, I'm rating
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: them within the Hallmark genre. Yes. If I'm rating this
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: as within the Hallmark genre, I'm going to give this
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: four and a half stars. If I'm reading this as
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a theatrical rom com, I'm going to give it three point.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Twenty five stars.
• 21:26
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye bye.
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