Episode #744: The Holiday
Added 2024-12-17 05:00:03 +0000 UTC“This is gooning for people who like nice stuff.” - Chris
On this week’s holiday episode, we’re chatting about the Christmas snooze, The Holiday! Is this considered a Christmas classic? Why couldn’t we just have one of these storylines instead of both of them vying for movie supremacy? How little romantic chemistry do Kate Winslet and Jack Black have with one another? Besides The Talented Mr. Ripley, has Jude Law been any more handsome than this movie? Why did Nancy Meyers put so little detail and conflict in this screenplay? How humiliating is it when they make Kate Winslet do all that Jack Black-style scatting? PLUS: The guys wish to party with the great Hans Zimmer after one of his big-ass rock concerts!
The Holiday stars Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Edward Burns, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon, Bill Macy, Shelley Berman, Kathryn Hahn, John Krasinski, and Eli Wallach as Arthur; directed by Nancy Meyers.
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Comments
Literally the only movie ive found Jack Black hot in. I wouldve chosen his character over Jude Law's any day. Its all in how he presents himself. Hes not running around unkempt like an overgrown child.
MavenCree
2025-06-06 00:46:36 +0000 UTCI’m going to disagree I like the chemistry between Jack Black and Kate Winslet. I would rather watch their movie. The Cameron Diaz and Jude Law part bores me so I tune out.
Dawn Elicia Billings
2024-12-22 12:53:08 +0000 UTCWe saw Hans Zimmer in Oakland, CA this year. ROCKED the roof off the stadium. We didn’t get to do coke with him, though.
Amanda P
2024-12-21 01:34:51 +0000 UTCMy wife watches this movie once a year. It’s one of her very few comfort films!
Drew Stewart
2024-12-19 22:25:45 +0000 UTCThis and Love Actually are both awful awful movies that I watch at least once every single December.
Matt
2024-12-19 14:10:33 +0000 UTCThe Jack and Kate stuff in this movie is cute, it's just unfortunately not the focus of the movie
Smaug
2024-12-19 13:08:48 +0000 UTCI know it’s terrible but I love this stupid movie. I do indeed watch it almost every Christmas. I love Cameron Diaz’s sweaters, and I cry when she cries.
April
2024-12-19 12:32:11 +0000 UTCSteve relating the 1st ed of The Iliad is one of the funniest things I've ever heard on WHM. I was making a salad and was guffawing in the kitchen
Smaug
2024-12-19 00:30:26 +0000 UTC"Cartman, I'm pretty sure no one else has blood in their underwear after they eat Chipotle."
Tim O'Connor
2024-12-19 00:00:22 +0000 UTCAnswer the question
AlsoNamedB0rt
2024-12-18 20:05:38 +0000 UTCBoy Next Door is a definite stay tuned.
AlsoNamedB0rt
2024-12-18 20:04:38 +0000 UTCYes. It’s part wish fulfillment, part architecture porn, and part nobody wants to watch a movie where the characters worry about money. I get it. People enjoy things for different reasons. Not everyone should end up a ranting lunatic like Chris Cabin.
AlsoNamedB0rt
2024-12-18 20:03:58 +0000 UTCIt’s a way for New Yorkers to show they are cooler than everyone else. I mean, they pay $4K a month to live in a walk in closet above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley. They need these little badges.
AlsoNamedB0rt
2024-12-18 19:56:54 +0000 UTCMr. Napkin Head is a clutch last minute Halloween costume. True Jude Dudes know.
AlsoNamedB0rt
2024-12-18 19:52:50 +0000 UTCMaybe it’s just because I recently went through a breakup eerily similar to Jack Black’s, but despite the interminable length I found myself charmed by the Winslet stuff at least. And I went in fully expecting to hate it
Ethan Sturgill
2024-12-18 19:51:11 +0000 UTCI proudly watched this at 2x speed
Hard To Gwil
2024-12-18 19:22:04 +0000 UTCI like to think at that Hanukkah party the old guys all sit around bragging about who they got blacklisted.
Matthew Lloyd
2024-12-18 19:21:29 +0000 UTCAs a London resident, Steve is dead on. Ain’t no way that commute is under 80mins.
Charlie
2024-12-18 17:22:43 +0000 UTCMario Batali was the master of Fartfredo. You could tell just by looking at him.
Jason
2024-12-18 15:05:13 +0000 UTCAs soon as Steve said "my favorite one of those is..." I knew what he was gonna say. I love that detail so much. This is also the movie that brought us a bad guy saying "I will never...ever...gonna let you go." Stay tuned, maybe????
Rose Esposito
2024-12-18 15:05:04 +0000 UTCI feel like this is a common thing among American people, where they describe getting explosive diarrhea after going to chain restaurant X, Y, or Z. What's up with these places, or maybe with these people? Now granted, I've never experienced gastrointestinal mishaps even when long-term traveling on the cheap in quote unquote "developing countries", so it could be that it's more common to get the shits after going to Chili's or Taco Bell in the population at large than my iron gut lets me realise.
Emil Svensson
2024-12-18 14:20:48 +0000 UTCI appreciated your erectory joke, Eric!
Emil Svensson
2024-12-18 14:17:23 +0000 UTCSaw Hans Zimmer in concert in the Bay Area. You need to see his concert. It’s all over YouTube.
Paul
2024-12-18 08:17:53 +0000 UTCSince Hans Zimmer did the music for this movie, I wonder if he ever performs the score for this movie during his live concerts.
James
2024-12-18 04:32:36 +0000 UTCJust got to say what bad Alfredo are you eating to fart so much? That never happens to me.
Mark D Myers
2024-12-18 01:17:28 +0000 UTCEven in the movie Contagion, when Kate Winslet dies of Mega-Covid and gets thrown in a mass grave, they canNOT make her look frumpy or unattractive.
Tim O'Connor
2024-12-17 23:42:28 +0000 UTCWell played 👏
David
2024-12-17 21:18:36 +0000 UTCThis movie is no Love Actually, I'll give it that.
DMAC
2024-12-17 20:02:08 +0000 UTCSteve going all British with the accent and specific verbiage is probably one of my favorite things about this show. Him saying, "we're being cheeky on telly!" from the Love Actually episode lives rent free in my head and I think "circumcised tallywacker" is its new roommate
Dennis Stack
2024-12-17 19:57:19 +0000 UTCSaw this for the first time this holiday, my GF finds Jack Black "charming" in this: you short, annoying podcasters stay away from her!
Chris Dobson
2024-12-17 17:38:07 +0000 UTCHell yeah. We’re gonna need a glossary soon! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-12-17 17:16:35 +0000 UTCI wish Eddy Burns character hooked up with Jack Black's girlfriend and later showed up in the video store and sack tapped Dustin Hoffman while Jack Black just took it all in.
Daryl Williams
2024-12-17 15:54:42 +0000 UTCIs that the only thing that sucked sweaty balls that night?
Joey T
2024-12-17 15:12:39 +0000 UTCMy favorite scene is when Eli Wallach makes a bad joke at his awards ceremony and Jack Black disowns him instantly. Really awkward third act twist.
Matt
2024-12-17 15:09:30 +0000 UTCI think Nancy Meyers posted a video this week of herself with Jude Law doing Mr. Napkin Head, hinting at a possible the Holiday 2. Stay Tuned.
Clever Gurrrl
2024-12-17 14:58:18 +0000 UTCEverything about this commentary is reminding me how hot Jude Law is, and now I gotta watch The Holiday. Wait. Did those of us who actually enjoy this movie just wanna watch Jude Law be handsome and charming? Did we EVER care about the story or the other charicatures? 😦
Clever Gurrrl
2024-12-17 14:38:05 +0000 UTCIs there a "RomComs for Hacks" writing course that specifically instructs aspiring scribes to make their characters ambiguously rich, to eliminate the need to realistically portray day to day life, and enabling characters to make insanely expensive last minute decisions?
Mark Ibarra
2024-12-17 14:04:30 +0000 UTCFIRST EDITION OF THE ILIAD!!!!!!!!! i thought i was alone, i think about that SO OFTEN.
MV
2024-12-17 13:57:44 +0000 UTCMy company is responsible for Miller's by Marriage and soon to be released, Finnegan's Foursome. Poor man's Woody Allen is putting it lightly. Finnegan's is a golf "dramedy" in Ireland. Stay tuned folks.
Gino Volpe
2024-12-17 12:32:42 +0000 UTCWas just coming to comment this 😂
Tony King
2024-12-17 11:46:36 +0000 UTCThis was such a slog to get through...you cannot have a movie like this be such low stakes at 135 minutes long, you just can't.
Z
2024-12-17 11:00:42 +0000 UTCWhile this movie was way too long and sappy (it is Nancy Meyers after all) I still found it charming. Jude Law with glasses omg😍 could you BE more handsome?!
Bolo Santosi
2024-12-17 09:57:23 +0000 UTCWHM foreign correspondent- UK edition over here - “Knackered” means tired, “buggered” means fucked but more specifically involving the butt.
Dean
2024-12-17 08:33:03 +0000 UTCDefinitely one of the worst rom-coms (if you could even call it that) done for the show. It might've looked good but I wouldn't know it, thanks to Amazon. Not sure if anyone else had this issue but their copy is the lowest resolution I've ever seen from their service. I loved hearing the tidbit on the episode about Eric Roberts in the Mr. Brightside video. He also appears in the music video for Mariah Carey's song, We Belong Together. Someone tweeted the video a year or so ago and I saw it. She leaves Eric Roberts at the alter to be with... Wentworth Miller. Fascinating stuff.
Busiris
2024-12-17 08:03:05 +0000 UTCI have been to Hans Zimmer Live, it's awesome! Back in 2017, he did a medley of the Man of Steel theme which lead into the Wonder Woman theme.....and this was the Summer of Wonder Woman, the crowd went nuts no joke. :)
Geoff Gershon
2024-12-17 07:44:19 +0000 UTCI just had the classic WHM "the movie's gotta be almost over...oh wait there's still 50 minutes to go???"
JK
2024-12-17 06:22:00 +0000 UTCSaw this movie with my wife on our very first date. And even with that personal connection - this movie sucks sweaty balls
David
2024-12-17 05:45:04 +0000 UTCThis is perfect movie to goon to if you love the baller houses and apartments your average Nancy Myers character lives in, shot to perfection by *checks notes* Dean Cundey!
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-12-17 05:25:04 +0000 UTCThe holiday is the Die Hard of xmas and i will never see it
Jan
2024-12-17 05:17:31 +0000 UTCChristmas gooning? I'm up for anything once.
Joey T
2024-12-17 05:04:28 +0000 UTC
