Stay ConnectedHere on the Large Marge Sent Us podcast, Sweety and Sweetie are our names and nostalgia is our game! Once a week (or more if you’re lucky!) we watch movies from the 80s and 90s that shaped our childhoods and then have a sisterly chat about them. We usually sing songs and there’s about a 100% chance we’ll crack up with bouts of laughter. We hope you will too! So come join us and step back into a time when life was good and the movies were even better
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Happy Tuesday! We thought it was about time to tackle a 90's teenage rom com because let's be honest, they have made us ALL who we are today and started with one of our favorites, 10 Things I Hate About You! From 1999 and starring Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger, this movie is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, a comedy that has clear problems in a world where we're starting to celebrate the "nasty" woman, but 10 Things does some good work in making it less about clipping an independent woman's wings and more about finding love for a woman character who didn't think love was out there for her! This movie is 90s through and through, with the baby doll style, high school cliques, and Sheik condoms! We'll talk about our love for Julia and Heath and their really unique looks, our favorite memories from high school dances, and why the somebody paid me to go out with you, but oops I fell in love with you story line is a tale as old as time, but hopefully one that is slowly fading into the sexist ether. BONUS, Sweetie rolls out another Sweetie Business plan aka The 10 Things I Hate About You Dating Service!
Continuing on with our trend of covering movies that scare the bleep out of Sweety, tonight we watched Arachnophobia and realized that animals run amok movies may be our favorite genre. Starring Jeff Daniels, some other people plus John Goodman, Arachnophobia tells the story of a spider from Venezuela who needs to spread his wings and hops aboard a corpse bound for a small town in Northern California. There, he meets Doctor Jeff Daniels (also new to the area) and decides he wants to take over his house and also the town. Join us as we talk about BUGS. This film is ageless and Jeff Daniels and John Goodman are gems and a half. We'll talk about our immense crush on PhD research assistant Chris Collins (with cute glasses and great hair, call us) whether Dr. Adderton looks like Legolas or Lucius Malfoy, and our true life gross out bug stories.
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Theme song performed by Deidre Cullen. Logo designed by Frankie Donlon.
Bonus ep time! Who can forget the classic Nickelodeon game show (and it's longest running) Double Dare or it's other iteration Family Double Dare? Part trivia, part whacky physical challenges, Double Dare was like crack to kids because it involved literal hot messes in the forms of pies, slime, and all this other crud PLUS an obstacle course where you picked noses or rifled through oversized pancakes or ran around a giant hamster wheel! We watched a couple episodes, and it did not disappoint! We'll talk about how impressed we were with the level of trivia and how, let's face it, the girls dominated EVERY TIME, how we fondly remember Harvey the announcer and Robin the assistant, and how awesome the prizes were compared to cough cough Legends of the Hidden Temple where you got lollipops and shoes!
Happy summer guys! Since it's summer, we thought it would be apropos to do the first summer blockbuster of all time----1975's JAWS! Directed by our pal (and yours!) Stevie Spiels, Jaws tells the story of a killer fish run amok in the small seaside community of Amity Island. Chief Brody, city-slicker/land lubber threatens to close the beaches after a horrendous shark attack, but mayor Larry Vaughn wants to keep them open to reap all that tourist money. Unfortunately a lot of people die and Brody, sweet little Matt Hooper plus psychopath amateur shark hunter and drunk Quint, must find the shark and kill it. This movie made us shit our pants and Sweety still can't watch it all the way through without a pillow or other strategic means of eye covers. Join us as we talk about the scariest scenes, the best monologue of all time plus bonus we call Carol and she tells us what it was like seeing this in the theater in 1975....basically alone.
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Theme song performed by Deidre Cullen. Logo designed by Frankie Donlon.
Happy Fourth of July from The Sweeties! With the holiday upon us, we decided it was the exact right time to trot out Independence Day, the pinnacle 90s film about aliens (in our not so humble opinion) AND the coolness that was Will Smith before he started doing "real" movies. So there are parts of this movie that are very cheesy and bad buttttt our general consensus was it's still pretty cool and stokes our patriotism fire even if our country is a hell of a hot mess right now. Though it still causes Sweety massive anxiety! We'll talk about our own theories about the age old question of are there aliens, chat about the coolness factor of Sweety's first boyfriend aka Will Smith, as well as how we feel about Jeff Goldblum these days, and how Sweety thoughts Simon Rex was in this movie but it's actually Harry Connick Jr. Welcome to Earth!
SWEETIE'S BACK FROM VACATION!! And we're kicking off the true start of summer with the best animal movie there is---Homeward Bound! Released in 1993, Homeward Bound tells the story of Shadow, Chance and Sassy and let's face it, massive family miscommunication! Their family moves to San Francisco temporarily and they get left on a farm, yet mistake it for abandonment. But they say fuck it, you ain't getting rid of us and decide to make an arduous journey across Northern California to find their way home. Even though this movie gets sad AF, we watched it all the time and now that we're cat ladies--- the movie is double sad AF and also traumatic (see cat in white water river scene!) no matter what age you are! The animals face all kinds of obstacles in the wild, but they persevere because of their amazing friendship and fidelity to each other! We'll talk about how amazing all the animals stunts are in this film, some horrible pet sitting/missing pet situations of our own, and induct the sweet birder man who rescues Sassy from the river into the Sweetie Club. You earned it you sweet cat samaritan!
In honor of Sweetie's real life European vacation, we watched National Lampoon's European Vacation, which is actually our first Chevy Chase film of the bunch! From 1985 and directed by one of our favs Amy Heckerling, European Vacation takes the notorious Griswold's on a Euro adventure after they accidentally win the grand prize on The Pig and the Poke game show! That grand prize turns out to be an all expenses paid trip to London, Paris, Germany and Rome! This movie is whacky with a capital W and a fantastic screwball comedy with some hilarious only in the 80s moments. We'll talk about our first memory of the film (boobs, boobs, and more boobs), how much Rusty and Audrey creep us out, how this film is just really a bunch of stereotypes strung together into one hot but hilarious mess, and talk about some of our favorite family vacations in the good ole Dumas minivan.
Welp Sweetie is officially on vacation but we're still bringing you alllll the hits including 1994's bomb on the bus masterpiece, Speed! Starring a hotter than average Keanu Reeves and the always spit fire Sandra Bullock, Speed scared the bleep out of us as little kids and made us terrified of elevators for the rest of our lives! Now that we're adults and slaves to the public transportation of Boston, we relate even more to this movie! I mean if I have to go on one more MBTA bus that has a bomb on it, I'll just die! But seriously folks, this movie is such a good time and we had A LOT to talk about including our love for Sandy Bullock, why Jack is such a heartthrob, who was the MVP on the bus, and of course some wild public transit stories of our own!
Time for another Jim Carrey masterpiece! The Mask, from 1994, was one of Sweety's favorite movie as a wee lass! After Jim Carrey's successful turn in Ace Ventura, they guy was in demand, and let's be real, The Mask is a movie that was written basically for him with a plot that can basically be summed up as nice guy loser turns into cartoon faced zany man! The Mask was a great movie to watch on a lazy Sunday afternoon and honestly was a lot more funnier than both of us remembered! Sure, there are the cheesy tag lines, but there's also an adorable dog sidekick and Cameron Diaz as a sultry lounge singer. How can you not love? We'll chat about how much we love Jimmy Carrey and how much we miss him (Where'd ya go, Jimmy Carrey-o), how Sweetie might need to revise her list of dogs she most wants once her cat eats it, anddddd we'll chat about how annoying it is when someone starts a conga line but no one knows when the madness will stop!!
With Memorial Day Weekend now behind us, it's the unofficial start of summer and what better way to cap it off than with a watch of Now and Then! It took us forever to get to this one, because it's not streaming or available to rent anywhere! What gives? Sweety very sweetly bought a DVD copy so we can finally bring this favorite to you all, and it did not disappoint! For the "then", it's 1970 and four close friends have a magical summer riding bikes, drinking Black Cows, and conducting seances in a spooky cemetery! During a seance, they think they've released the spirit of a dead boy and they spend the summer learning about his mysterious death but also a lot about themselves and their friendships. And the we have the "now", which involves getting the girls all back together in their small Indiana town when one of them is about to pop out a baby! We watched this movie at many sleepovers over the years and consider it pretty much timeless. We'll talk about everyone's favorite scene where you may or may not see Devon Sawa's peen, if the older/younger actress pairing really works out, how fun it was to ride our bicycles all day every day in the summer, and how we've really underestimated Brendan Frasier's acting chops and looks all these years.
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