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  • Simone & George are reacting to You've Got Mail for the first time! Canadians React!
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  • @OceanKingNY
    @OceanKingNY 5 месяцев назад +140

    "You've Got Mail" is actually the FIFTH version of this story:
    (1) It originated as the 1937 Hungarian play, "Parfumerie."
    (2) The play was adapted into the 1940 movie, "The Shop Around the Corner," starring Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. [Meg Ryan's bookstore here is named "The Shop Around the Corner" as a nod to the original movie.]
    (3) It was remade as a movie musical, "In the Good Old Summertime," starring Judy Garland and Van Johnson, in 1949.
    (4) It became a Broadway musical, "She Loves Me," in 1963.
    (5) Nora Ephron updated the original movie for the Internet age as "You've Got Mail" in 1998.
    Someday, no doubt, someone will remake it yet again, updated for their decade!

    • @kw7378a1
      @kw7378a1 5 месяцев назад +8

      what do you think of the changes that occurred with each version? Like Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are so charming here, but his big store puts her little family-owned business out of business. It feels like in the modern economic landscape, it's hard to have a happy ending. Like, how does she forgive him? what if the next version is some small business owner falling for Jeff Bezos and then they have a miserable relationship?

    • @OceanKingNY
      @OceanKingNY 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@kw7378a1 How does she forgive him? That's one of the nice subtleties of Nora Ephron's script. It's there, but you have to figure it out yourself. She forgives him because she knows that he is truly sorry for what he did to her, and because she realizes that knowing her has made him want to be a better man (certainly better than his dad and granddad). And why isn't she mad at him for deceiving her for the last half of the movie? Well, she probably is mad, when she first sees him with his dog at the end. But then she remembers how mean she was to him the night he came into the coffee shop, and how she hurt his feelings and scared him away. You see it play across Meg Ryan's face in a matter of seconds. It's done without words, beautifully.
      Anyway, Kathleen will have the last laugh, because in about 10 years, Amazon will put Fox Books out of business! 🙂

    • @kw7378a1
      @kw7378a1 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@OceanKingNY I think you misunderstood me. I do understand that in the script, she forgives him. I was trying to point out that most people in a similar situation would NOT forgive someone who ruins their family business. And this plot point didn't happen in earlier versions of this story, but probably became a necessity to adapt the story to the modern day. I'm arguing that it becomes less and less possible to tell this story without straining credulity once you put the lovers in competing businesses where one business is going to crush the other.

    • @hanng1242
      @hanng1242 5 месяцев назад

      @@kw7378a1
      Maybe she is a better Christian than you.
      Or maybe getting together with him and living off his wealth covers a multitude of sins.
      Or maybe the fact that she is running a boutique children's bookshop in that part of NYC indicates that she is independently wealthy and doesn't need the store for her livelihood. She will probably just move the store to Brooklyn and get in on the ground floor of gentrification.

    • @OceanKingNY
      @OceanKingNY 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@kw7378a1 Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, it does seem difficult to get the lovers together, because society is moving in the direction of people becoming more and more isolated. I think that in this version, both Kathleen and Joe are actually very lonely people. They both find their soulmate online, someone who they can express their inner feelings to, so they are both willing to overlook the bad stuff to try to make it work. And that's kind of a throwback to "The Shop Around the Corner," which explored its characters' aching loneliness and the need for human contact.

  • @MichaelRBlair
    @MichaelRBlair 5 месяцев назад +19

    Seeing how much Simone loves this movie, down to mouthing every memorable line as it happens, is truly adorable.

  • @danielwarrenguitar
    @danielwarrenguitar 5 месяцев назад +11

    Something I enjoy about this movie is how it presents NYC as more of a small neighborhood, which is how it often feels to locals. No Times Square scenes in the movie.

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan 5 месяцев назад +62

    Tom Hanks did start in comedy. He was a main character in the sitcom Bosom Buddies.

    • @briguy399
      @briguy399 5 месяцев назад +3

      Turner and Hooch (1989) is a really fun one - He's a cop and there's a dog in it

    • @Wizross
      @Wizross 5 месяцев назад +6

      Yeah, they need some of his older films, Splash, Money Pit, Big, The Man with One Red Shoe, Bachelor Party, etc.

    • @nancymarcho3381
      @nancymarcho3381 5 месяцев назад +1

      And don’t forget The ‘Burbs @@Wizross

    • @IDiggPattyMayonnaise
      @IDiggPattyMayonnaise 5 месяцев назад

      He was also the super depressing raging alcoholic uncle in an episode of Family Ties in the early 80s. It was a funny sitcom and they put him in the one ridiculously sad episode

  • @sp3ctat0r
    @sp3ctat0r 5 месяцев назад +10

    George always has been, and will continue to be, my manic pixie dream girl.

  • @valetboy21
    @valetboy21 5 месяцев назад +55

    Dave Chapelle was up for the role of Bubba in Forest Gump and passed. He regretted missing an opportunity to act with Tom Hanks and when this came up he jumped at the chance.

    • @motorcycleboy9000
      @motorcycleboy9000 5 месяцев назад +9

      Probably for the best. Mykelti Williamson nailed that role.
      I can't picture Chappelle doing a serious death scene.

  • @chappie_nottherobot
    @chappie_nottherobot 5 месяцев назад +209

    I really hope this leads to a Sleepless in Seattle watch soon. If Simone hasn’t seen it I’m sure she’s gonna love it as much as You’ve Got Mail. Nora Ephron’s films were designed to make Simone’s cheeks hurt from smiling.

    • @captainchaos3667
      @captainchaos3667 5 месяцев назад +15

      It seems exceedingly unlikely she hasn't seen that one, if she loves this one this much. But if so then definitely!

    • @lepton4
      @lepton4 5 месяцев назад +21

      Yes Sleepless and then Joe vs the Volcano

    • @shaderax_storm6165
      @shaderax_storm6165 5 месяцев назад +18

      Joe Vs the Volcano is far darker than I remembered, it's easily one of Tom Hanks best early films

    • @dennisbay3035
      @dennisbay3035 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@shaderax_storm6165 I want that luggage

    • @Pandzisko86
      @Pandzisko86 5 месяцев назад +18

      I Hope they will watch "When Harry meet Sally..." with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal. Greatest romcom ever.

  • @quietreason8679
    @quietreason8679 5 месяцев назад +26

    This is to George - the early internet really was a magical place. Creative, lawless, wild, full of curious people who formed communities around every topic you could think of. I remember siting in IRC chat rooms chatting between playing rounds of Quake, discussing RPGs in usenet news groups and instant messaging friends with programs like ICQ. These communities were run by the people who enjoyed them, without commerical interests. There was no "social media", no surveillance ads and data harvesting, no information bubbles, no algorithms controlling your "feed".
    The internet had so much promise, and it didn't have to turn into the sad state of affairs we have today. The cesspool we have now wasn't an unavoidable necessity, it was the culmination of a series of deliberate choices, of raw unregulated greed.

    • @mandlerparr1
      @mandlerparr1 5 месяцев назад +1

      omg, ICQ. The best messenger. I can hear the noise still.

    • @TabaquiJackal906
      @TabaquiJackal906 5 месяцев назад +2

      I still use ICQ with my daughter, my brother, and my bff, among others. :D

    • @TabaquiJackal906
      @TabaquiJackal906 5 месяцев назад

      @@mandlerparr1 It's still around! I use it every day.

    • @LudusAurea
      @LudusAurea 2 месяца назад

      I mean it wasn’t that magical. I remember trying to connect with other Battletech fans over fan fiction and stuff back in the Prodigy days using BBS and eventually ICQ Rooms and people were complete troll dipshits way back in the early 90s too.
      The internet has always been full of assholes and depending on where you look it’s still just as positive too. What ruined the net wasn’t greed so much as normies who bumbled their way into finding a tribe and then feeling comfortable letting everyone see how terrible they were.

  • @brauliob
    @brauliob 5 месяцев назад +11

    This is one of those movies that when you're channel surfing and you find that it is on, no matter what part it's on, you stop and watch the rest. I have it on DVD and still watch it on TV (even though it has commercials).

  • @ArthurSB73
    @ArthurSB73 5 месяцев назад +18

    In my head, the caviar garnish is a nod to the party scene in 'Big', in which Tom Hanks chokes on the beluga caviar before asking for a milkshake. 😊

  • @OldLadyReacts
    @OldLadyReacts 5 месяцев назад +18

    One of the things I love is at @19:00, those scenes outside the cafe and when he goes in and they fight after he sits behind her is an almost word-for-word/shot-for-shot recreation of the same scenes in The Shop Around The Corner. As a movie lover, I find it really fun to see how they updated the story with "modern" technology, but also did a little bit of tribute to the original.

  • @dlweiss
    @dlweiss 5 месяцев назад +17

    I think what allows me to suspend my disbelief for this particular movie is the fact that EVERY character fully lives within its gentle rose-colored world. Even the characters who act as obstacles or antagonists aren't evil or malicious people - just pompous, or tactless, or cynical, or unwise. And so the movie fully exists within a "rom-com" alternate universe, and I can accept that such a universe has slightly different rules than our own (even when it comes to the internet).
    After all, I doubt anyone who's lived in New York has ever seen the whole city look this vibrant, luminous, cozy, and clean. :)

    • @kurtn4819
      @kurtn4819 4 месяца назад

      Yes this exists only in a Hallmark version of reality. I'd like to see them 10-12 years down the road and see how 'rosey' it is then.

  • @melanie62954
    @melanie62954 5 месяцев назад +22

    Only 2 minutes in, and I'm loving Simone's giddiness! I love this movie too. I love The Shop Around the Corner (1940) even more.

  • @brom00
    @brom00 5 месяцев назад +31

    Simone, if you love Parker Posey, the mockumenry 'Best in Show' is a must. It was directed by Christopher Guest, from Spinal Tap/ He is also in the film along with Posey, Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy. The fact that it takes place at a dog show would be a selling point for you.

    • @LordVolkov
      @LordVolkov 5 месяцев назад +5

      Parker Posey is so funny and wildly underrated.

    • @normaleehi
      @normaleehi 5 месяцев назад +2

      def check her out in the hal hartley films!

    • @DiogenesLives
      @DiogenesLives 5 месяцев назад +1

      I LOVE Parker Posey.

    • @got2bjosh
      @got2bjosh 5 месяцев назад +2

      House of Yes, Scream 3, Will & Grace.

  • @extaminos
    @extaminos 5 месяцев назад +4

    Simone has the best taste. You've Got Mail is my favorite of the Tom/Meg romcoms and is the epitome of New York in the 90s. When NYC was cleaning up from the crime-ridden 80s and the internet was in it's innocent beginnings.

  • @mojoshivers
    @mojoshivers 5 месяцев назад +89

    The third best Ryan-Hanks pairing, but it’s still a winner. Now all you have to do is watch Joe Versus the Volcano to see them both of them at their best in showcasing their chemistry. They also get to play around the most, with Meg Ryan playing three separate characters.

    • @reverendB
      @reverendB 5 месяцев назад +7

      YES!!!

    • @mojoshivers
      @mojoshivers 5 месяцев назад +14

      @@reverendB I will go to my grave saying Joe is the best Hanks Ryan rom com. It’s so much more than that. It’s one of the most existential/philosophical films that still has popular appeal about it. It’s not preachy about its themes, but they are there. I also really like the dialogue between them because it’s not at all the typical romantic dialogue; there are stretches of real angst, sadness, and just general dissatisfaction with life in them that hits home for a lot of us.

    • @reverendB
      @reverendB 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@mojoshivers Couldn't agree more!!

    • @LordVolkov
      @LordVolkov 5 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@mojoshiversI could go on and on about Joe Vs The Volcano ⚡, but what I love the most is that Meg's characters represent a classic feminine trinity of mother, maiden, crone.

    • @mojoshivers
      @mojoshivers 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@LordVolkov That one I caught onto only recently, like a few years back. But the symbology, especially the crooked road motif, I latched onto almost from the beginning. I’ve never seen a movie revisit visual elements so often to form a connective tissue between points along the journey as much as this one. The colors too-from Joe’s lamp, city at night, &c…-reoccur so brilliantly that I’m amazed at how well they worked it in.
      Such a great film stylistically and intellectually.

  • @user-zx7ju7nh1g
    @user-zx7ju7nh1g 5 месяцев назад +2

    This crazily is my favorite Tom Hanks movie.His quotes and dialog are the best.

  • @MetastaticMaladies
    @MetastaticMaladies 5 месяцев назад +7

    My favorite bookstore is closed most of the winter months, as it’s nestled high in the mountains in a very small town with a population of 43. My grandparents used to live there, so I’m well acquainted with the community and area, and I go every year. In the town center, there’s a post office, a general store, a cafe and a bookshop/coffee shop/bakery and below the bookshop a man makes handmade canoes. It’s such a magical place and the bookshop is wonderful, I’ve found many old books that have really changed me and my outlook. Give me a small business bookshop any day over the franchised corporations.

  • @meganega123
    @meganega123 5 месяцев назад +35

    25:06 George asking if Simone is doing okay 😭

    • @DerekHartley
      @DerekHartley 5 месяцев назад +4

      He knows her very well.

    • @user-blob
      @user-blob 5 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, they’re a good duo 😊

    • @Scottie_S
      @Scottie_S 5 месяцев назад +3

      Yes! I just posted a similar thing to you. You beat me to it. I loved George's concern at that moment.

  • @nicholasbielik7156
    @nicholasbielik7156 5 месяцев назад +74

    The film that this is based on, The Shop Around The Corner, is wonderful. Jimmy Stewart at his best.

  • @blablubs9987
    @blablubs9987 5 месяцев назад +9

    Simones happiness made me smile.

  • @GregInHouston2
    @GregInHouston2 4 месяца назад +1

    This was cute! I love it when someone who has seen something as many times sees something they missed when sharing with someone else. I so loved the scene when the little girl is revealed to be his aunt.

  • @BryanAlaspa
    @BryanAlaspa 5 месяцев назад +21

    The Shop Around the Corner is also very charming. Obviously, it is much older and so it's all about actual letters and mail, but Jimmy Stewart is, well, Jimmy Stewart and great. It is worth watching.

    • @schmetterlingsjaeger
      @schmetterlingsjaeger 5 месяцев назад +9

      "Also very charming" is an understatement. It is by far better.

  • @paramitch
    @paramitch 5 месяцев назад +3

    Finally -- someone who loves this movie as much as I do! Thank you Simone for this wonderful reaction (it was so much fun to see your favorite moments, and how sweet George was about them). Everyone loves "Sleepless" but I think this one is so much better and more magical (not to mention less toxic and creepy). I've loved it ever since I saw it in the theatre. Great reaction!

  • @spencerarnold669
    @spencerarnold669 5 месяцев назад +6

    I just went to watch your Harry Met Sally reaction only to realise you haven't done it yet...... which is odd because I have just a vivid memory of you guys watching and loving it haha

  • @briguy399
    @briguy399 5 месяцев назад +2

    You guys need to see Tom Hanks in Big (1988) and Turner and Hooch (1989). Too earlier ones very fun. Also Splash (1983) Splash is Awesome - Loaded with stars - young Tom Hanks, John Candy, Darryl Hannah, and Eugene Levy. I typed that from memory. I was an 80's teenager - great memories. Plus the 80's had So many great movies too.

  • @HuntingViolets
    @HuntingViolets 5 месяцев назад +2

    The part where Parker Posey read Greg Kinnear's book reminds me of the matchmaking dinner in _When Harry Met Sally._

  • @sacredsiren
    @sacredsiren 3 месяца назад

    OMG I am Simone hahaha. I absolutely love this movie and I will watch it over and over. I think it just hit me on many levels. This movie came out the winter before I graduated HS and that fall I had just started dating someone I had met on AOL ironically, and my mother managed an independent children's bookstore most of my life, where I helped out frequently and absolutely loved. Where she talks about the reading you do as a child informing who you will become and reaching you in a way no other reading does in your life is so true. I also grew up in NYC and love my city, so this really checked all the boxes for me. There is something so charming about this movie, and ironic since it was partially a commentary on big chain stores putting independent stores out of business (which is what happened to the bookstore my mother managed), but it is now internet shopping that put a lot of the large chain stores out of business.

  • @JustinRm6820
    @JustinRm6820 5 месяцев назад +1

    We love it when you sing all the songs and say all the lines to the movies
    If I could go back in time and start an Internet cafe that would be awesome

  • @russellh.3150
    @russellh.3150 5 месяцев назад +1

    What's funny is that George mentions that he's used to seeing Hanks as serious. Growing up in the 80's, Hanks was ALWAYS the fun loving goofy guy from comedies like Big and such. He did like one serious movie that idk if it did well but nobody mentions or saw b/c it was so depressing from what i understand. Then, one day from out of nowhere, the clumsy skinny guy is giving an unbelievable performance in Saving Private Ryan. And our generation was stunned. We're STILL stunned. Actors sometimes do that tho, i've noticed. They do certain kinds of movies, then disappear, and then suddenly they show up in some movie w/ incredible acting chops and in great roles you can't believe. Like when Travolta showed up in Pulp Fiction.

  • @fallenhero3130
    @fallenhero3130 5 месяцев назад +4

    You guys should definitely watch the original THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940).

  • @geririvera9279
    @geririvera9279 5 месяцев назад +6

    Have you guys seen Big? It shows peak Tom Hanks silliness! Definitely need to do Sleepless in Seattle too

  • @LadyIarConnacht
    @LadyIarConnacht 5 месяцев назад +3

    This movie really makes me miss the original internet. It was a magical place - almost an alternate universe.

  • @IvanStikic
    @IvanStikic 5 месяцев назад +2

    "French Kiss" is a good RomCom with Meg Ryan. I mean, she is the same character in most of movies like this, but is a good fit in every one of them.

  • @stevenhernandeznon-profitf968
    @stevenhernandeznon-profitf968 5 месяцев назад +3

    Simone exposing her deepest hopes and dreams and George just constantly calling it out

  • @Micah_4D
    @Micah_4D 5 месяцев назад +7

    "That caviar is a garnish!"

  • @nataliedepriest9113
    @nataliedepriest9113 5 месяцев назад +1

    It was the 90s. A time of major optimism. A wonderful time to be a young adult, and I miss it so much. I’m so sorry the world is so crappy now that the optimism is gone for young people.

  • @SeanHendy
    @SeanHendy 5 месяцев назад +1

    Fun fact, I first went online in 2000, with AOL, which back then they sent you a cd rom with the software, and it actually had a browser within it, as well as a chat function, to chat to other AOL members. AOL was my first ISP.
    Twenty four years later, and I still have the same email address.

  • @redensign24
    @redensign24 5 месяцев назад +3

    'joe versus the volcano' is a great movie with these two.

  • @brentanderson5021
    @brentanderson5021 5 месяцев назад +36

    This is a delightful little romp until you realize that the Meg Ryan character is in fact the aunt of the Tom Hanks character. All the clues are there.

    • @CineBingeReact
      @CineBingeReact  5 месяцев назад +14

      hahahah oh my god!

    • @la_beatrice
      @la_beatrice 5 месяцев назад +11

      OMG, they are Targaryens!

    • @STOCKHOLM07
      @STOCKHOLM07 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@CineBingeReact Another oh my god.

    • @livinginvancouverbc2247
      @livinginvancouverbc2247 5 месяцев назад

      I've watched this movie a dozen times and missed that! They had to re-write Kate and Leopold when it was realized that... let's leave it there.

    • @kurtn4819
      @kurtn4819 4 месяца назад

      Meg Ryan was Tom Hanks's father's sister? Are you all on drugs? -
      Annabelle Fox (young girl with Tom Hanks): Oh, that's not my Dad. That's my *nephew*.
      Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan): You know, I don't really think that HE could be your nephew.
      Joe Fox (Tom Hanks): No, no, no, it's true. Annabelle is my - *aunt*. Isn't that right, Aunt Annabelle?
      Annabelle Fox : Uh-huh, and Matt is his...
      Kathleen Kelly : Oh wait, wait, wait, let me guess. Are you his uncle?
      Matthew Fox (young boy with Tom Hanks) : No.
      Kathleen Kelly : His grandfather?
      [Matt giggles, as he shakes his head]
      Kathleen Kelly : His great-grandfather?
      Matthew Fox : [laughing] I'm his brother!
      Joe Fox : [answering Kathleen's very confused look] Matthew is my father's son, Annabelle is my *grandfather's* daughter. We are... an American family.

  • @crimsonknight83
    @crimsonknight83 5 месяцев назад +1

    This movie is so ridiculous in the most wonderful way. It's one of my favorite comfort movies 😁. It's also such a time capsule of late 90s technology. This script only works during that era

  • @Gavrev
    @Gavrev 5 месяцев назад +5

    Movies like these can be a reminder that there's always choice. I do hope you get to do "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Joe Vs the Volcano" sometime down the line, for that Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan working relationship they had for a while. "The Burbs" is also marvellous. He's been in some blindingly good comedies over the years.

    • @user-blob
      @user-blob 5 месяцев назад +2

      Second The Burbs.
      Great film and I think both Simone and George would enjoy it.

    • @nicks.5552
      @nicks.5552 5 месяцев назад

      Yes! I vote for “The ‘Burbs” also!

  • @LibertarianJRT
    @LibertarianJRT 5 месяцев назад +1

    My wife of 20 years and I met online when we were 15, 27 years ago. I love this move. I always have to watch it if it is on.

  • @celescole9918
    @celescole9918 5 месяцев назад +1

    This movie was my favorite growing up. I'm like Simone, it was made for me or maybe it shaped what I like. Looking at it now though, however innocent the movie's intentions were, I can't help but realize how creepy the situation is. He has all the power in the relationship when he is both messaging her and then talking about her "penpal" in real life, using the knowledge he has as her penpal. It would be super creepy in real life. He also runs her out of her business too... So, it really doesn't translate well to real life. That said, I still adore it to bits and I love that the intention was pure and earnest, and I appreciate the movie for what it is.

  • @LordVolkov
    @LordVolkov 5 месяцев назад +8

    I would highly recommend the first Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan pairing - Joe Vs The Volcano

  • @zatornagirroc7175
    @zatornagirroc7175 5 месяцев назад +9

    I tried looking for your reaction to Joe vs. The Volcano, but couldn't find it. You haven't done that one yet? You absolutely should. As much as I like Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail, the first pairing of these two brilliant performers leaves them both in the dust, and you two would love it. Please, I beg you, do Joe vs. The Volcano.

    • @mojoshivers
      @mojoshivers 5 месяцев назад +2

      I’ve been advocating a Joe watch for awhile, sadly, to no avail. Lol

    • @vernonrabbetts
      @vernonrabbetts 5 месяцев назад

      You are both geniuses with impeccable taste!

  • @mj_SR22
    @mj_SR22 5 месяцев назад +7

    "And it was a goooood move." Hahahahahhaha

  • @rdyer8764
    @rdyer8764 5 месяцев назад +1

    George: To paraphrase Ghandi, Be the non-disappointed person you want to see in the world.
    Simone: You were really in your element watching this - absolutely glowing! So cool to see. :))

  • @jrobwoo688
    @jrobwoo688 5 месяцев назад +8

    Joe Versus the Volcano is still my favorite Hanks and Ryan movie.

  • @tarzapopohead
    @tarzapopohead 5 месяцев назад +2

    JOE VS THE VOLCANO is also a great movie with both of them that came out a little earlier.

  • @jamezmcc
    @jamezmcc 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love Simone's face every time George opens his mouth because she's thinking "don't you dare ruin this movie for me George" 😅😂

  • @bmw128racer
    @bmw128racer 5 месяцев назад +41

    Of the three Hanks-Ryan pairings, "Sleepless in Seattle" is the best of the bunch and absolutely a must-see.

    • @jhornacek
      @jhornacek 5 месяцев назад +7

      If you want scenes of Hanks and Ryan interacting with each other than Sleepless in Seattle is the worst of the bunch.
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      They literally don't appear together until the final scene of the movie. That film feels more like someone made Nora Ephron a bet: "I bet you can't make a romantic comedy where the two main characters don't actually interact until the end of the film." and she said "I'll take that bet."

    • @TheLouisvilleJedi
      @TheLouisvilleJedi 5 месяцев назад +4

      Both "You've Got Mail" AND "Joe vs. the Volcano" are better than Sleepless in Seattle, IMO. But they're all quite good!

    • @jhornacek
      @jhornacek 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@TheLouisvilleJedi Personally, I prefer my romantic comedies where the couple have actual scenes together.

    • @paramitch
      @paramitch 5 месяцев назад

      @@jhornacek I agree. I love "Joe vs. the Volcano" and "You've Got Mail," but was never a big fan of 'Sleepless." It's just too weird and creepy for me and I hate the lack of actual interaction.

    • @jhornacek
      @jhornacek 5 месяцев назад

      @@paramitch Yeah, I am thinking of people that went to see it in the theater when it was released who were big Hanks/Ryan fans and spent the entire movie waiting for them to have *any* scenes together, and would have been so annoyed when they finally meet and the film ends.

  • @christopherlundgren1700
    @christopherlundgren1700 5 месяцев назад +2

    The premium Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan vehicle is Sleepless in Seattle. Or Joe Versus the Volcano if you’re weird.

  • @richardsteiner8992
    @richardsteiner8992 5 месяцев назад +1

    Big box stores are like discount airlines. People complain that there is less service at a discount airline, but they choose to fly them anyway because it saves them money.

  • @mattyhOVashton
    @mattyhOVashton 5 месяцев назад +1

    Childhood favourite. George needs to watch more of the early Tom Hanks movies to see just how good he was at comedy. The Money Pit is a great pick, however The Burbs is my all time favourite Tom Hanks movie.

  • @graybabyoracle
    @graybabyoracle 5 месяцев назад +1

    I love that Seth Rogen's characters in both Undeclared and The Mindy Project loved this movie.

  • @mysweetrhodora
    @mysweetrhodora 5 месяцев назад +20

    What a classic. I hope this leads to a When Harry Met Sally watch, such a foundational movie for what modern romcoms are, but still so many fail to capture the magic in WHMS.

    • @SarahManley
      @SarahManley 5 месяцев назад

      It is the best rom com of the last 40 years.

  • @michelle6337
    @michelle6337 5 месяцев назад +8

    Remember those old Chicken Soup for the Soul books that were huge in the 90s? Nora Ephron romcoms are a lot like that for me. They're just so lovely and comforting and never fail to pick me up if I'm in a funk. Would love to see you guys react to When Harry Met Sally as well!

  • @markus1701
    @markus1701 5 месяцев назад +1

    In that time i worked in an AOL callcenter. They reserved the whole cinema for us all to watch ;-)

  • @zbennalley
    @zbennalley 5 месяцев назад +3

    This film was a huge inspiration for my own original Rom-Com series. As much as it's a love story, it's a romance towards brick and mortar stores and advancements in technology. I've seen this film too many times.

  • @Edds_Trips
    @Edds_Trips 5 месяцев назад +1

    I remember the dial up days. I could only use the internet when my parents weren't home because we only had one phone line 😂

  • @la_beatrice
    @la_beatrice 5 месяцев назад +3

    15:05 - My experience with big cities is that they are actually very small - because you build your life around your neighborhood. When I lived in São Paulo, I kept bumping into former university colleagues, my former roommate and her husband, a cousin... because we all lived within the same 8 block radius. Saturday in the arts and crafts market - impossible not to bump into someone. Famous pizza place, éclair store, all these places were sure bets to run into the same people - in a city of 12 million.

    • @normaleehi
      @normaleehi 5 месяцев назад

      its true. nyc is the same. and density-wise it really is a small village like george said

  • @aandscene
    @aandscene Месяц назад

    This is how much I love this movie, I had a friend and we bonded over this movie... and she gave me a boquet of sharpened pencils, too! Best gift. ❤

    • @aandscene
      @aandscene Месяц назад

      I also was in Vancouver when I watched this movie for the first time in the theatre... and the crowd laughed so much when he said "I'm in Vancouver" Lol

  • @chard2534
    @chard2534 5 месяцев назад +2

    You need to check out Joe Vs the Volcano with Tom and Meg. It’s a very underrated gem.

  • @robertwareham8466
    @robertwareham8466 5 месяцев назад +1

    Younger Tom Hanks movies worth watching: Big, Splash, Dragnet, The 'Burbs, The Money Pit.
    I would have included Sleepless in Seattle, but that came out the same year as Philadelphia, which I think marked his shift from young Tom to mature Tom.

  • @mcrain88
    @mcrain88 5 месяцев назад

    I love this movie so much. My mom is a huge Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks fan so this and Sleepless in Seattle were staple watches in our house. This is my comfort movie, whenever I'm having a bad day I can throw this on and it never fails to put me in a better mood.

  • @Im_The_Dude
    @Im_The_Dude 5 месяцев назад

    Simone I have this movie on VHS and I watch it at least 5 times a year, and always at least once every Christmas time. Such a classic!

  • @endarasman
    @endarasman 5 месяцев назад +1

    When Harry Met Sally is a must!

  • @iluvausten40517
    @iluvausten40517 5 месяцев назад +1

    I am sure others have said this before . . . but if you really want great rom-coms . . . you need movies from the 30's and 40's . . . It Happened One Night, His Girl Friday, The Lady Eve, The Philadelphia Story, Adam's Rib, Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey, The Awful Truth etc. etc.

  • @freelancewerewolf
    @freelancewerewolf 5 месяцев назад +1

    I'm as thrilled as Simone to see this. In a related vein, I suggest the movie IQ.

  • @TS-pl4tf
    @TS-pl4tf 5 месяцев назад +9

    People were really that nice in the beginning of the internet. I played the Island of Kesmai that started as an ascii d&d game. I used to get together with my island friends that I met online and we would have parties in their cities (which I would never do now). They were all smart and kind. I met the love of my life over the internet and moved cross country to live with them. I also spent over $3000 in one month because it cost $9.95/mo and $.08/minute. I did all of this over a Commodore 64 attached to a TV with the kind of modem that you hear in the movie. I also have no number on any of the handles. I was there when it started.

    • @themoviedealers
      @themoviedealers 5 месяцев назад

      It still happened recently on Threads when very few people were using it. But the trolls did appear.

    • @jaredragland4707
      @jaredragland4707 5 месяцев назад +1

      I don't get to claim that my AOL handle didn't have numbers (it did) but I had that handle on the pre-Web internet, and I wanted my friends both off and online to be able to find me.
      I wonder how many junk emails are piled up in that ancient account?

    • @JayM409
      @JayM409 5 месяцев назад +1

      My first computer was Commodore 64. I was underwhelmed, having grown up with Star Trek. I used to play Sargon chess on it, and it would cheat.

  • @cmrobbins88
    @cmrobbins88 5 месяцев назад

    My mom had this on VHS. I remember seeing bits and pieces of it when I was very little.

  • @Xonslaught1
    @Xonslaught1 5 месяцев назад

    Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but Tom Hanks actually collects old typewriters. It reminds me of the scene when Greg Kinnear gives Meg Ryan a typewriter. You all should check out Mystery Men for another version of Kinnear. I love that the movie effects Simone so.much to this day. I really enjoy the movie, and it's ups and downs

  • @kblixt
    @kblixt 5 месяцев назад +3

    They need to be recommended more Tom Hanks comedies!

    • @DiogenesLives
      @DiogenesLives 5 месяцев назад

      I just checked to see if they reacted to A League of Their Own, they have not. 🤔

  • @CanadaDan
    @CanadaDan 2 месяца назад

    "This movie explains so much about you" George, then her reaction, the paniclo on her eyes at first 😂
    I'm def starting to pay attention to George's witty remarks more and they def make the reactions a lot better.
    This is a classic rom-com but just a level down from Sleepless in Seattle or When Harry met Sally

  • @bgelback69
    @bgelback69 5 месяцев назад +2

    If you wanna see young Tom Hanks acting like you haven’t seen him before….you need to react to Bachelor Party! I believe it came out in 1984.

  • @nikolatesla5553
    @nikolatesla5553 5 месяцев назад +1

    You've Got Mail is the second remake of 1940 Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullivan movie The Shop Around the Corner. It was also remade as a musical in 1946 with Judy Garland and Van Johnson. That was called The Good Old Summertime. Nora Ephron wrote You've Got Mail, When Harry met Sally, and a few other rom-coms.

  • @danielcody7568
    @danielcody7568 5 месяцев назад

    4:23 RE: the newly sharpened bouquet of pencils.
    I’m reminded of the excellent Will Ferrell and Maggie Gyllenhaal led romantic black comedy “Stranger Than Fiction” where Ferrell’s IRS agent character gives Gyllenhaal’s hippy bakery owner character a very creative and poignant bouquet (think of what a bouquet is typically comprised of, and then any homonyms for that word).

  • @mariaghiglieri78
    @mariaghiglieri78 Месяц назад

    Not sure of you noticed the Young Chris Messina as the Fox Bookstore Worker that Kathleen helps with the “Shoe Books”.

  • @robertlombardo8437
    @robertlombardo8437 3 месяца назад

    I love the optimistic late-90s New York City of this movie. I'm just barely old enough to remember the AOL era of the internet and it really was different, because the people using it were still different. The anonymity and greed and Pandora's Box of every sin you can imagine hadn't been cracked open with a hammer yet. And of course the city was making concerted efforts to control crime (which actually seemed to be working!), clean up the streets and 9/11 hadn't happened yet.
    And I don't care what people say. I received Barnes and Noble (which is absolutely what Fox Books represents) very well. My mom would take me all the time and I loved that you could find anything there and relax in the cafe area.
    You have incredible taste Simone. Stay classy.

  • @MrQuinn-tc3uo
    @MrQuinn-tc3uo 5 месяцев назад +1

    I live just blocks from that garden at the end. Beautiful in the spring.

  • @willcool713
    @willcool713 5 месяцев назад +1

    I feel like Simone really opened up and maybe over shared -- it's like you just came out to the world. You're very sweet. I want to give you a hug or something. I feel like I need to take care of your feelings somehow or protect you. I could really feel you while watching and it felt a little embarrassing to connect. I hope you're well.

  • @suepall5425
    @suepall5425 5 месяцев назад

    This is absolutely my favorite movie as well. It is my go to film when I need to be cheered up. I've watched it dozens of times.

  • @fishblades
    @fishblades 5 месяцев назад

    I'm a 43 yo dude and I've always liked this movie. I wouldn't call it a typical romcom. Big fan of Tom hanks and when I was a young lad Meg Ryan was one of my favorites and an early celeb crush. She always played endearing cute characters. The doors and innerspace are probably my favorites of hers.

  • @Scottie_S
    @Scottie_S 5 месяцев назад

    25:04 George's concern for Simone at this moment because he knew that she'd find this moment emotional.
    "Are you doin' OK?"
    "Yeah"...a little too quickly...

  • @KaterChris
    @KaterChris 5 месяцев назад

    This movie brings back so many memories from my first ventures into the online world, when chatting with total strangers all over the world was still slightly innocent fun, simply because you didn't really know in the beginning who the other person actually was, and had to use your imagination...no Whatsapp, no social media, most people didn't have a digital camera or a photo scanner back then, so getting a picture of your online crush was really difficult (and often involved sending ACTUAL letters!)...I was on AOL at the time and they did so much promotion for the movie...and I actually went to see this movie with a blind date I met on AOL. Like the movie, the date was slightly underwhelming! 🤣

  • @robertpearson8798
    @robertpearson8798 5 месяцев назад +3

    Before we get too far past Valentine’s Day you need to watch a film called Harold and Maude, one of the best cult classic films from the 1970’s and one of my all time favourites.

  • @got2bjosh
    @got2bjosh 5 месяцев назад +1

    One Fine Day (1996) is an underrated 90s rom-com now that was a hit upon initial release. Set in NYC and featuring a great cast led by Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney. Also starring Mae Witman (Parenthood), Alex Linz (Liar Liar), Anna Maria Horsford (Friday), Ellen Greene (Pushing Daisies), Holland Taylor (Legally Blonde), and Amanda Peet (The Chair).

  • @fakereality96
    @fakereality96 5 месяцев назад

    1) Curious how no phone wires were connected to their computers.
    2) It's was called "The Information Superhighway", George!!!

  • @s1mplex1ty
    @s1mplex1ty 5 месяцев назад +10

    Serendipity is still my favorite all time, but, Must Love Dogs, Under the Tuscan Sun, As Good As it Gets, Crazy Stupid Love, Sleepless in Seattle, Moonstruck would be great for the channel imo, and of course, Pretty Woman

  • @_Tim115
    @_Tim115 5 месяцев назад +6

    interesting George mentions Tom Hanks as a solder, He made this movie and Private Ryan in the same year. You could not get two move that where at polar opposites if you tried.

  • @SeanBlader
    @SeanBlader 5 месяцев назад

    My mom and I often quote "That caviar is a garnish!"

  • @-R.Gray-
    @-R.Gray- 5 месяцев назад

    I was startled when I realized you didn't recognize Jean Stapleton (Birdie), who starred as TV's Edith Bunker on All in the Family. Her son in law was played by future director Rob Reiner.

  • @sarahormerod6261
    @sarahormerod6261 2 месяца назад

    thank you for reacting to this, one of my all time favorites

  • @sanbilge
    @sanbilge 5 месяцев назад +1

    I know this comment might disappear into oblivion but for a similar vibe you should watch Barbra Streisand and Jeff Bridges' "The Mirror Has Two Faces". Also directed by Streisand! Through the whole movie I found myself to smile or wail, nothing in between 😅 I doubt that it'd get as many views as this but it's definitely worth it.

  • @normaleehi
    @normaleehi 5 месяцев назад +1

    nora ephron is the DAWG. u gotta do all her films! its rare for sappy to be so smart

  • @ynz3713
    @ynz3713 5 месяцев назад

    This movie is the epitome of charming and I conquer with watching sleepless in Seattle and any 80’s Tom hanks comedy such as the money pit, turner and hootch, splash, the burbs.

  • @jonathanedison
    @jonathanedison 5 месяцев назад

    I loved this movie when it came out when I was in High School. Still do. I have spent so many hours in book stores with hot tea or coffee reading. I always wanted to work in one growing up.

  • @Bunke09
    @Bunke09 5 месяцев назад +4

    Y'all need to watch Bachelor Party and Bosom Buddies if this is the first time you've witnessed the origins of Tom Hanks aka seriously goofy character!

    • @LordVolkov
      @LordVolkov 5 месяцев назад

      I adore how goofy Tom is in Bachelor Party.

  • @utcnc7mm
    @utcnc7mm 5 месяцев назад +1

    I wonder how they would react to Tom Hanks in one of his early comedy roles from 1984 "Bachelor Party"