Episode #723: Notting Hill
Added 2024-02-13 05:00:04 +0000 UTC“This [movie] is as important to the Special Relationship as anything that ever happened in the 90s” - Chris
On this week’s episode, we’re chatting about one of the most financially successful but also grating rom-coms of all time, Notting Hill! How is Hugh Grant keeping this travel bookstore in business? Was anyone gonna buy that cool Beavis and Butt-head stained glass window? Why is Jules acting so tired and bored in this one? And how did they let the final edit come out this shoddy? PLUS: Steve gives a British door update!
Notting Hill stars Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, James Dreyfus, Gina McKee, Tim McInnerny, Emma Chambers, Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Clarke Peters, Mischa Barton, and Rhys Ifans as Spike; directed by Roger Michell.
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Comments
It’s annoying that you can’t post images here because I live in London and my front door has a peep hole! We exist!
Alex Fry
2024-02-19 19:18:15 +0000 UTCI cannot wait to hear next week's episode, I loved Safehouse. Such a fun bad movie. Can't wait to hear all the Pat Stew impressions to go flying. Also he's D.I.A., Defense Intelligence Agency and he will emphatically point it out every damn time. Lol
Dr. Poole
2024-02-16 01:45:38 +0000 UTCI remember my mom dragging me kicking and screaming to see this movie in the theater (I was 12). I then proceeded to have one of the best theater experiences of my life, I’ve rarely enjoyed a movie so much. It just completely worked on me, I was charmed by the romance, and on the floor laughing at the jokes.
Toronto Will
2024-02-15 10:13:54 +0000 UTCGoing after Richard Curtis twice in three months makes me wonder if you'd ever do an episode on About Time. The time travel romance in that might be creepier than anything going on in Love Actually.
profondo robbo
2024-02-15 02:58:51 +0000 UTCI don't think Chris's heart could take it. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-02-14 13:57:17 +0000 UTCI hate to point it out but the English guys in the restaurant would not have been “jerking off” to Sissy Spacek, they’d be “havin’ a wank”!
Craig
2024-02-14 09:40:11 +0000 UTCI have to give him a pass despite hating most of his movies because of Blackadder.
Craig
2024-02-14 09:37:52 +0000 UTCWe gotta talk about Richard Curtis. He started out ok with Four Weddings and a Funeral (perhaps tempered by Mick Newell? [Forthcoming director of --the actual best--Harry Potter movie #4]). Then did this flick 💀, then caused a whole generation of women body issues by screenwriting Bridget Jone's Diary, then rammed it home with Love Actually. Maybe he's the true villain of the late 90s/early 2000s for cinema?
I'd Rather Have No Name
2024-02-14 03:13:20 +0000 UTCBlack Books? Classic British comedy starting Dylan Moran an Irish comic who owns a bookstore and hates people. Very funny
Catboyslim
2024-02-13 23:49:49 +0000 UTCYep, this is why I could actually watch My Best Friend’s Wedding more than once.
HockeenightsCT
2024-02-13 23:18:24 +0000 UTCJuli-ly themed month 😉
Chris Tobias
2024-02-13 23:02:57 +0000 UTCNotes on a Scandal is not the "horny on main" I was expecting today.
Infinite Terror
2024-02-13 22:46:28 +0000 UTCI think the announcement of not working is based on when Princess Diana did that, and someone in the press had the exact response Stephen did, why are you announcing you're leaving the public life?
I.C. Weiner
2024-02-13 19:47:04 +0000 UTCI didn't upgrade to ad free and the longest ad break I've gotten is 1 minute and no ads once the program starts. They're fleecing you for that $3
I.C. Weiner
2024-02-13 19:45:55 +0000 UTCLooking forward to your Texas tour dates. Still debating on going to the Austin one or having time to do both dates as I love both movies. There is a Muldoons in Houston, actually sorta/not really close to the Houston Improv!
Daniel Garcia
2024-02-13 18:31:13 +0000 UTCAwww I liked Danny Deckchair. Then again I caught in randomly late night on cable and may or may not have been several tall glasses of water deep.
Les Whinen
2024-02-13 17:22:28 +0000 UTCTravels with Charley by Dickens? Lol Chris love ya
Aidan
2024-02-13 16:15:37 +0000 UTCI only enjoy Julia Roberts when she plays acidic and unlikable characters. When she's trying to be charming, I find her acidic and unlikable.
MarkNM
2024-02-13 14:44:18 +0000 UTCi succumbed to sleazy Amazon's $2.99 upcharge too. Fuck'em. They should've positioned the 2.99 for the non-prime members...like how they have 3 tiers for their music service...Free w/ Ads, Prime ad free, then unlimited, a separate charge from Prime, but wholly unnecessary.
Frank Grimes
2024-02-13 14:21:07 +0000 UTCFun fact about this film which got it banned in my house is that in real life Notting Hill is pretty diverse (see: Notting Hill carnival) and Richard Curtis cleared out all the non-white people from the background to keep it a white film. So I was very pleased with the summary of the opening - happy people notice!
Kathryn Finch
2024-02-13 13:13:40 +0000 UTCOoooo - as a Brit, I had no clue what they were talking about 😂 I hate door knobs!
Kathryn Finch
2024-02-13 13:11:54 +0000 UTC“standing in front of a boy”
We Hate Movies
2024-02-13 12:26:40 +0000 UTCYup, made a scheduling flub in the system. Thanks for pointing it out! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-02-13 12:22:44 +0000 UTCAnybody else get an early notification about this posting yesterday? The Gang needs to lay off the tall glasses of water a little bit :P
Dominic Kovell
2024-02-13 11:55:10 +0000 UTCI will gladly co-sign this petition. Notting Hill would mostly work if anyone but Jules starred in it.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-02-13 11:20:25 +0000 UTCI have never found Julia Robert’s endearing. Someone had to say it!
RJ Cunningham
2024-02-13 10:52:05 +0000 UTCGenuinely this is one of my favorite comfort movies, excited to hear them riff on it! Theres lots of material here
Joel Myers
2024-02-13 08:07:25 +0000 UTCSimply delighted to hear the doorknob rant because I went into a confused rage every time I saw someone use that weird latch thing in this movie!
Busiris
2024-02-13 07:50:25 +0000 UTCI love that Steve also watched Shut Up and Sing! There are dozens of us!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2024-02-13 07:10:59 +0000 UTCI’m surprised no VHS Trailer Game in this episode.
Paul
2024-02-13 06:07:33 +0000 UTC“I’m just girl, looking at a boy, asking for him to love her.” -I swear I typed that from memory alone.
Paul
2024-02-13 05:44:33 +0000 UTC
