Episode 12—Free Reelin’: Matt Damon Is Cheugy

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The sisters reflect on the summer series movies, riff on listeners’ picks for great summer movies—from Dirty Dancing to Dog Day Afternoon—and analyze the Movie of Summer 2021, a.k.a. the one about the beach that makes you old.

Tune in for all this and more as we discuss what else we’ve been watching lately and reveal the theme for our next series!

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Gael Garcia Bernal goes to the beach that makes you old in what may be the Movie of the Summer: M. Night Shyamalan’s Old (2021) (Universal Pictures).

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“I’m totally on this ‘M. Night Shyalaman as a rediscovered auteur’ train. ”

— Frankee

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“Old is for 2021 what Palm Springs was for 2020.”

— Jessee

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Jennifer Gray (left) and Patrick Swayze (right) sweat it out in the summer classic, Dirty Dancing (1987).

John Cazale (left) and Al Pacino (right) sweat it out in the summer classic, Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

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“[Summer movies are about] finding out who you really are . . . and being able to leave your life and explore other aspects of yourself.”

— Jessee

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Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997) may be one of Frankee’s all-time favorites, but sadly some childhood faves don’t age very well.

Rowlf, Annee’s favorite Muppet—a good boy who aged very well!

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Show Notes

References

• Dirty Dancing (1987)

• Mystic Pizza (1988)

• Dazed and Confused (1993)

• Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

• Boyhood (2014)

• The Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013)

• The Parent Trap (1998)

• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

• The Godfather (1972)

• The Godfather: Part II (1974)

• The Conversation (1974)

• The Deer Hunter (1978)

• Call Me By Your Name (2017)

• Swimming in the Dark (2020) novel by Tomasz Jedrowski

• Carol (2015)

• The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)

• Jaws (1975)

• Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

• The Lighthouse (2019)

• Ripley (2021-)

• Good Will Hunting (1997)

• The Bourne Identity (2002)

• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

• Old (2021)

• Mother! (2017)

• The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

• Palm Springs (2020)

• How It Ends (2021)

• Blow Out (1981)

• Blade Runner (1982)

• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

• Metropolis (1927)

• Chinatown (1974)

• Body Heat (1981)

• Starstruck (2021-)

• Notting Hill (1999)

• Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019)

• The White Lotus (2021)

• “The Joke Was Never On Jennifer Coolidge”, Profile in Vulture by E. Alex Jung

• Love Island (2015-)

• The Bachelorette (2003-)

• Love Is Blind: After the Altar (2021)

• Ted Lasso (2020-)

• I Do Not Dream of Labor TikTok trend