310: School Ties
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Brenessance continues with Brendan Fraser's first foray into a dramatic lead role, SCHOOL TIES! We talk about a stacked cast, an imperfect but well intentioned plot, and how Ben Affleck plays a character named Chesty. (Really.)
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:25.7 | I high-bye lie, everybody. |
| 0:27.1 | I high-bye lie, one, and I'll walk until I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:29.5 | I'm Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Cattingus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture. |
| 0:33.2 | You love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:35.2 | We are continuing the Brennaissance this week, a whole month of Brendan Fraser movies. |
| 0:40.7 | This week, we are talking about school ties. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, interestingly to me, Brendan Fraser had a very similar year to Daniel Day Lewis when |
| 0:48.9 | he did my beautiful Laundrette and a room with a view, and they both came out at the same |
| 0:53.4 | time. |
| 0:54.4 | And they're diametrically opposed performances. |
| 0:57.0 | Brenna Fraser's version of that is school ties, which is a very serious performance in |
| 1:00.6 | Encino Man. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes. |
| 1:02.6 | The same year. |
| 1:03.6 | Not quite as rarefied as those other two. |
| 1:06.3 | What are your thoughts on school ties? |
| 1:08.6 | It's okay. |
| 1:09.6 | It feels kind of like it wants to be the dead poet society, but for anti-semitism. |
| 1:17.1 | And doesn't quite succeed. |
| 1:19.8 | I think it's pretty like, this is the early 90s, so it's not surprising, but there's maybe |
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