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From the Front Porch

Episode 192 || Love It or Loathe It, Vol. 15

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by frequent guest Hunter to chat about listener-favorite Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. What are your thoughts on this suspense classic? It's so funny, but thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

Blake lively and Anna Kendrick.

0:08.0

I have so many thoughts, which I went to go see with my granny, and I did not realize it was a hard, I mean, it's not a hard R, but it's like a medium R.

0:15.2

I'm going to say language is a hard R.

0:19.2

Oh, after the first, like, F-bomb, my granny went, oh.

0:23.1

And it's like coming from Gossip Girl Blake Lively's mouth,

0:26.6

so it took me a minute to adjust to who, to what was happening.

0:33.2

Is Blake Lively a good actress?

0:34.8

Yes or no?

0:54.9

Um, you know, I compare, I said, like, after I saw the movie, I said, I was like, she reminds me of a Himalayan salt lamp. I feel like if I just lick her, I'll be healed. Like, in like a, in like, the way you like a Himalayan Salt Lamp, not a person. Um, okay, weirdly I get that. Yeah. Because she's so beautiful.

0:55.3

Right. But acting wise, I'm not sure. I just can't. I truly can't tell. That was a genuine question. I don't know. Yeah. Is Anna Kendrick a good actress? I think so. But it's only be, like, I, I've watched her in so many things now that I feel like I have like a good idea of,

0:51.8

I don't think she's like a great actress,

0:53.5

but I think she's a good,

0:54.4

solid actress.

0:55.3

Chris, I've watched her in so many things now that I feel like I have a good idea of, I don't think she's like a great actress, but I think she's a good, solid actress. Chris and I were talking about this. I hope we were talking about it off air, or this is going to be redundant for people. But I think he said she's good at what she does. And I think that's accurate. She's good at what she does. But I do feel like this was a different role for her.

1:28.2

Yeah.

1:28.8

Like I think she still played it similarly, but like I felt like... It was hard to believe her as a mom. I'm not going to lie to you. I don't know why. Also, you and I have seen bad moms. We saw it together. I felt like partly this movie wanted to be bad moms. Yeah. And then partly...

1:25.0

Like, gong girls.

1:25.9

Yeah.

1:26.2

It's like a gong girl.

1:26.9

Which like, what's so bad is, is migraine halfway through the movie? this movie wanted to be bad moms yeah and then partly like gong girl yeah had like a gong

1:45.1

girl which like what's so bad is is my granny halfway through the movie she goes oh i didn't

1:49.9

seen this and i said what do you mean she goes um if this is like it's like lifetime there's like

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