So, I hate it but I love it.

High Bylai everybody. I hide Bylai one and all welcome to I hate it but I love it. I am Jocelyn Getty.

I am Kat Angus and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate

simultaneously is the word that I almost forgot. Wow!

Maybe it's because you did not love and hate this simultaneously and you favored one emotion more than the other.

We are talking about 1998's The Man in the Iron Mask.

A movie that as a teen I was like yes yes put it in my eyeballs and then watching it as an adult I was like

Interesting interesting to revisit this experience well and like some listeners may not remember or have been alive for that, like, this was Leonardo, Leo, because we're friends, Leonardo DiCaprio's first big movie after, like, Titanic came out, or one of of them because I know the beach also came out in a similar time.

No you are right that it was the first big movie after Titanic came out and I think I mean gosh it's so interesting to think that this is how you know if not movie releases used to work at least

Titanic worked Titanic was in theaters for a full year yeah so and it was like at the top like there were times when it like lost money and then made more money the week after which never happens.

Never happens. And so this, I think it was in theaters for a full like 54 weeks or something and then Man in the Iron Mask

debuted in the number two spot behind it and even though it is not a very good movie

at all in the immortal spirit of a rising tide lifts all ships. I think

Titanic's proximity to it meant everyone was like, yeah, I'll see that too. Why not?

It's got Leonardo DiCaprio in it.

It can't be. I would love to know. What are your mackerel feeling?

So I didn't see this till a few years after it came out.

I was like a few years ago.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Until a couple years after it came out, because I had talked myself out of having a crush on

Leonardo DiCaprio.

Because this was our thing of just like,

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