293: Molly's Game
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Sorkin Month blazes on with Molly's Game, a movie that uses all the words and then some more words and even more words and WORDS. We talk about Jessica Chastain doing her damndest to make this person feel like a person, how Player X (whose real name rhymes with Schmobey Schmaguire) SUUUCKS, and what this movie has in common with the trash compactor from Star Wars.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.6 | I high-bye, everybody. |
| 0:26.9 | I high-bye, and I want to know, welcome to I Hate It, but I love it. |
| 0:29.4 | I am Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:30.4 | I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:35.0 | Reminder that you can still vote on what we talk about for listener request month if you |
| 0:39.1 | go to patreon.com slash I high-bye lie and give at least a dollar that you can vote voting |
| 0:44.4 | closes at the end of September, so go now. |
| 0:46.8 | We are continuing Sorkin month this week with Molly's game, which Sorkin wrote and directed. |
| 0:52.8 | Correct. |
| 0:53.8 | What do you think of Molly's game? |
| 0:55.6 | It is about half of a movie I enjoy watching. |
| 0:58.9 | Half and like enjoy in the way that Sorkin stuff is enjoyable to watch even as it is frustrating. |
| 1:05.2 | And then half of a movie where I am like, oh, consequence is boo. |
| 1:10.5 | I was texting Jocelyn this earlier, but if any of you have seen Clone High, there is the |
| 1:16.0 | Gandhi's line of like, I have seen the first two thirds of the MC Hammer behind the music. |
| 1:20.5 | And if there is one thing I have learned, it is that the money never runs out. |
| 1:23.6 | And that is what I want to see. |
| 1:24.6 | I want to see the part where the money never runs out. |
| 1:27.6 | And then the moment she is like, oh, no, how am I going to pay for my lawyer? |
| 1:31.0 | And I am like, ugh. |
| 1:32.0 | And then they are like, and now, a quote, a scare quotes metaphor about ice skating. |
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