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I've got about 45 mins left on The Last Five Years, but I'm predicting an extremely happy ending. I'm not wrong, right?

ok, I'm watching the movie this very moment and planning to listen to the show on my way to work but I hope to GOD someone mentions Emma Roberts dipping her finger in the sauce, LICKING that finger and then doing it again. I screamed at the tv "DONT DO THAT!" She's a trained chef and has no problem with CONTAMINATION?!?!!?! That is the only thing to wake me up from this bland ass movie.

Depends on whether you're pulling for Jamie or Cathy. Also, 45 minutes left is halfway through. It's a short movie.

After last week's emotion-fest I bet he'll pick something upbeat like Sweeney Todd to lighten the mood.

Thanks so much to the hosts for emphasizing that McMurphy is his own villain. I got through an AP English course in which we also watched Cool Hand Luke and I don’t recall anyone noticing that these anti-heroes are just jerks. As a female (specifically in education) who is responsible for normal people, including young and male people, I can no longer enjoy the many, many works of art centered on demonizing women in authority without recognizing that I’m about to spend another work shift caring for people who think I’m EXACTLY that evil woman every time I tell them not to talk while I’m talking, draw on their desks or pull their dicks out. There was something in the discussion about the movie being much more sympathetic to the Nurse’s POV than the book. Now I when I see any antihero taking down a mean lady baddy, I can’t help imagining this director/writer/producer getting caught doodling or something he felt was a sign of unrecognised genius and then vowing revenge. I also can’t help thinking about (mostly) males in film abusing others, but neither can anyone else. Still love movies and some men, in spite of the poisoning of the memories. ***Glass.(using the mean lady abusing sick antiheroes connection) If you watch Glass as a nod to OFOtCN or an adaptation of “The Three Christs of Ypsilanti,” does that make it more fun? *can you gauge misogyny by opinions on the woman being killed in Jurassic World? It ranges from “B had it coming for not doing her job” to “That wasn’t her job, she didn’t deserve to die and we definitely didn’t need to see down her shirt as she was slowly tortured on two levels of the almost-dinosaur food-chain."

Huh. Little Italy. Momma Mia! You know you're in trouble when the Christmas Prince is a better movie. Yes, there are SOME shots in this movie of the actual Little Italy here in Toronto like when Hayden and Emma are biking around Clinton street. And the Monarch Tavern is prominently featured, which is weird because that's not Italian, yet they didn't use Bitondos or The Diplimatico which are the most well known Italian restaurants in the area. Cakebud Tranch got it right... Some of the establishing shots at the beginning, again, where Leo is riding his bike around, and where the BEST PIZZA CONTEST is held, are from the Distillery District here in Toronto, which is literally on the other side of city. Like SO FAR from Little Italy itself. Toronto's Little Italy is frankly unremarkable -- and I can say that because I lived in that neighbourhood for 6 years. I WISH the Little Italy here was as good as in the movie. It's like shooting a scene in the Upper East Side of New York and calling it Little Italy. For people that live here that's annoying. And the whole airport security line stopped and watched the entire proclamation of love scene. Annoying. Side story: my sister-in-law and 3 year old niece were wandering around Little Italy (where they now live in my old apartment) and came across the set for Vince's pizza shop. They got super excited about there being a new pizza shop in the area. They even sat down at one of the outdoor tables waiting to get served, until they realized after a few minutes that the "staff" was just hanging out looking a little despondent and bored. That's when it dawned on her that it was a movie set. And no one told them to move! She happened to be at my house when I was watching the movie for this podcast and she lost her mind when she saw the external shot of the restaurant. She made me pause the movie to tell me the story! Also that pizza they eat straight out of the pizza oven on their date would be too hot to casually hold and eat right away. But they just manga right into it! Thanks for a fun listen P,J and J!

I’m no immigration lawyer, but after visiting https://visas-immigration.service.gov.uk I am shockingly finding some problems with the setup to this movie. Jane Seymour tells Emma Roberts that she has to go back to Canada to get her visa changed from a student visa to a work visa. From what I could tell, it seems like this is a process that can actually be done online. But even if she did need to go back to get some personal documents, the one thing that I did see as a requirement to get a work visa is that you have to have a clear job offer. But Emma doesn’t have that yet. All she’s been told is that is in the running with the other guy and Jane Seymour will decide based on the menus they create. And given the WordPerfect menu that we see Emma creating, I’m guessing she wouldn’t have been chosen, which means this whole effort would be for nothing.

So, I tried to count and there’s conservatively 20 lamps on the rooftop. There’s a Walmart near there, so I’m assuming that’s his lamp dealer. They have a bunch of bundled lamp sets (3 lamps in a set) for $50. That would put his lamp budget at around $350. I’m going to assume it’s a monthly cost as rain exists and it’s a safe bet that he doesn’t move them inside (they would be tripping over lamps all the time). That doesn’t include his extension cord, light bulb, or decorative ladder budget or any fees for filling the dumpster with lamps.

So not being Italian, nor Indian, I didn't have a great barometer for what was really just beyond the line of stereotype (obviously I can still see the stink of problematic characterizations from a mile away lol), but as a queer girl I was heavily bothered by the fact that once Luigi meets the one other gay man in this whole movie, who's also just flamboyant af, they immediately fall in love. Because apparently no other gay, bi, or pan men exist in this entire area so Luigi just hears his voice and is like OMG A GAY DUDE and that's it they're both kissing at that wedding in the final scene. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool no doubt no doubt.

Great stuff Cinco! Sounds like it was a great addition to the process, and so happy that you got a different perspective on this show. The film really doesn't do it much justice. I really like the dramaturgical choices for the lobby and the continuity of the dress from Schmuel to the audition. That's nice.

The thing that bugged me most about this film was its lack of trust in its source material. I feel as though it started out as a love letter to Toronto's Little Italy, with a feud between families over duelling pizza restaurants and love between their kids. Somewhere in development it seems to have become something else: the bloated mess that we wound up with, mostly messed up with the heavy emphasis on Italian culture to bash us over the head with the fact that there is an Italian theme here. Egregious references: - The many Rocky references, which for some weird reason associates Lei-O and Nikki with Rocky and Adrian, who had almost no impediment to their relationship aside from Paulie, and sets up Lei-O as some kind of underdog fighting for his honor. But it's doesn't take into account that Rocky was a two-bit thug working for a moneylender who lost his locker at Mickey's gym and then lucked into being a punching bag for Apollo Creed, only to show his guts and fight by going the distance. What does this have to do with Lei-O and Nikki aside from the fact that Lei-O wears that terrible 'Save a Stallion, Ride an Italian' t-shirt? There is no scene in Rocky where Rocky has to run to make a declaration of love to Adrian at the end of the movie, yet that's the reference that Luigi makes when Lei-O runs to the airport. - The Godfather references are also incredibly on the nose: as another poster has noted, having "Mr Puzo" appear in several scenes as a close friend of one of the duelling fathers, but also wearing a nametag that says he's called 'Mario' seems like a particularly groanworthy addition. Worse, however, comes later when Alyssa Milano brings a plate of cannoli in to her husband during the backyard barbecue scene. She enters, saying "I almost forgot the nice cannolis" and kisses him. He grimaces at her terrible breath and hands her a pack of gum, saying "here! Take the gum. Leave the cannoli." Of course, this is another Godfather reference: What makes this so lame is that the original line in The Godfather was improvised, while in this one it's so heavily telegraphed that you can see it coming from a mile away. Worse still, she doesn't respond to his line with a reaction that he's made a joke, it flies right over her head, meaning that this touchstone Italian-American movie is somehow not familiar to them? He's not making a pun intentionally, it's designed to be a funny easter egg for the audience. That, accompanied with the not-commented-on presence of Mario Puzo: does this suggest that in this universe, The Godfather doesn't exist? Why would they do that? And if they're really going for it, why not use lines like "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" or "just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in"? That would have been great for Nikki to toss off at the airport... But no. It's so haphazard. It's very clear that the producers of this film saw the success of another Toronto-based ethnic comedy, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and sold it to investors saying that Little Italy would be Greek Wedding but for Little Italy. That means ramping up the puns, ethnic gags, leaning on the accents, making sure that everything is as Italian as it's possible to be. My Big Fat Greek Wedding leaned on all the same ethnic puns (a thousand uses of Opa! and lines like "It's all Greek to me!"), which at the time were kind of charming, but only because they were based around a major event (a Greek wedding). In this movie, they have two major events they head towards: the wedding of the grandparents (which seems almost completely devoid of cultural Italian elements) and the Taste of Little Italy event where the pizza contest happens. This film's lack of identity lies in its inability to anchor us in cultural things that we are unfamiliar with or are interested in, and trades of tired stereotypes and old-timey Italian tropes. I will say, however, that the house that the old man lives at, where the kids blow up vegetables that he's grown on his front lawn? That's about as authentic as this movie gets, because there are houses like that all over Little Italy, featuring ancient first-generation immigrants and their vegetable garden front lawns. As maybe the only piece of the movie ACTUALLY filmed in Little Italy, aside from Luigi's bar. In fact, the location set up is as head-spinning to any Torontonian as Cellular is to Angelenos - as you can see on the map below, the only thing that occurs inside Little Italy (which is the square) is Luigi's bar. Everything else is well outside, including an EIGHTEEN MINUTE WALK from Luigi's bar to the park where the soccer game happens. Good luck moving the entire bar that far in that rain! Finally, Pearson Toronto International Airport is at least an hour's drive from the Distillery District, where the final cookoff happened. Why couldn't Lei-O just phone Nikki's cell to tell her that he loves her? Why chase her an hour in hellish traffic?

Listening to Paul and Jason speculate about how weed would affect you was an unexpected bonus. As a Canadian with access to legal weed that I sometimes cook with, I can say that grinding up weed and then putting it on a pizza is very unlikely to get you high. The THC that makes you feel high has to be activated with long low heat. It would have been much more believable to have a pizza sauce made with cannabis-infused oil. Just eating raw cannabis or cannabis that was under high heat for a short period is unlikely to turn out well.

Another thing I forgot. The Starbucks. Did we all just accidentally give Howard Schultz money by renting this?

Hi guys! I actually got my act together this week to see this horrible movie and listen to the episode in time to get in to the C+Os! Excited to bring all sorts of sanctimonious Toronto-based perspectives soon. Miss you all!

Oh we feud VERY well. My grandma used to complain sometimes that she somehow raised 6 only children . To me the most offense part was really ... Just the whole movie? LOL. Mostly the accents and the general we're ITALIAN!!!!! and of COURSE that hair dye. That was just... Unforgivable.The fields of Canada will run red with that hair and make-up teams blood. #stew pee do for life

Okay I just want to point out something that I could not let go of throughout my entire viewing of this movie. Hayden is ten years older than Emma Roberts. A fully blown decade and they wanted us all to believe that they grew up together. Now that's not where this post ends because I looked up someone else - Miss Perfection Alyssa Milano, and she is 9 years older than Hayden. This leading man is literally closer in age to the woman playing his love interest's mother.

Congrats to your cousin! On the topic of the whole Throw Your Life And Career Away bit why couldn't fucking Dye Job go to London with her??!?! They could BOTH become successful restaurateurs and we could have a cut back to them visiting for the wedding. If one of the main complaints Nicki had was nothing changes here no one leaves, have them go off and start a new adventure and come home to the newly reopened Pizza Napoli. Fuck having her give everything up for a sallow faced pizza delivery boy !

Hayden has a history of being in movies where the younger version of his character has way more chemistry with the younger version of the female lead than his version of the character does with the adult version of the female lead.

When Nikki and Lay-O were kids they appeared to be roughly the same age. But as grownups there is an obvious age gap between the two. And in fact Emma Roberts is 10 years younger than Hayden Christensen.

How many outfits did Emma Roberts pack for what was supposed to be a week long trip? I know Jason brought up her changing clothes from the pizza challenge to the airport but I think she changed clothes every single scene. Especially since gett only suitcase she puts in the taxi was carry on size.

Let alone it's a direct rip off of this famous clip of Ramsay!

Can we talk about how the only decent joke in the movie was almost a direct quote from Gordon Ramsey? They just changed it from idiot sandwich to moron sandwich (unless that’s what they call it in Canada like subs and hoagies).

I think I'm a bit immune to the patronizing because I grew up with family members that succeeded in everything the first time they did it while I didn't get whatever gene that was. A lot of conversations were just "did you try it this way?" as if I have never thought of the basic way to accomplish any task. I related to Anna in that way, and was frustrated for her and could understand her resentment towards his ego tripping parties. But also didn't really hold it against Jeremy because I know it comes from love and a desire to be helpful when there's no possible way to help. I have had many a fight end in tears that way with my mother and brothers.

The cast on your leg is the best of the two casts you posted in this post! Heyo!