Music. Hello, welcome to the extra
credits of my favorite Steven Soderbergh and Julia Roberts
movie and also one of the great actor director collaborations of
all time, Erin Brockovich. I'm Trey and I'm Kelsey.
So with Soderbergh's family supernatural drama Presence now
in theaters and his upcoming crime thriller Black Bag
starring Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett set to drop in
March, this time at the end of January, early February felt
like the perfect time to celebrate SOD.
I'm so excited for today. We're going to have Brockovich
first, and then we have Oceans. Even right after It's me a long
afternoon, but it'll be a really fun group of episodes.
Yeah, I mean, these are two really fun movies to talk about
because of Julia and because of obviously the ensemble with
Ocean's 11. Oh my God.
But I'm really excited to talk about Julia Roberts filmography
today. I know where we fall on it for
like ranking her performances. We definitely have to.
Very different movies in our rewatch of her filmography.
Preparing for this episode, but also like Soderbergh's episode,
you know, films, I think we'll definitely agree on like a a few
key ones, but he has a lot of like variety and fun movies.
Yeah, which is exciting to see that she's, you know, back in
the, you know, limelight with Luca Guadagnino, you know, who
is who also really knows how to treat celebrities as tools to,
you know, for cinema, for the art of cinema, but also to get
people in theaters, right, which is really important.
And so yes, today we'll be discussing the iconic Julia
Roberts, the iconic Steven Soderbergh.
I'm really stoked. These movies RIP.
They're so fun, They're so cool. Soderbergh is some of the most
like stylistic and I think exciting film making choices
across genres. He knows how to compel an
audience across different eras. Ocean's 11 in particular is
going to be a really interesting conversation about like just how
to make movies cool, you know, and how to make them charming
and also both be an indictment on the very thing you're
watching, like an indictment on Hollywood or class, yet also
this ode to itself. And it's maybe one of the
greatest movies ever made about the power of Hollywood as a
destructive force, but also as a powerful 1.
And so that's going to be a really cool conversation.
But also Brockovich today, this is one of my most, this is one
of my favorite movies of all time.
I mean, this is a more intimate Steven Soderbergh film.
It is heartfelt. Some might say it's a little bit
cheesy, but I would say it, I like the cheese.
I like. I like watching this woman kind
of journey through this disgusting PG&E exploitation
case and come out as this like massive triumph about the human
spirit over capitalism. I would say Brockovich and
Ocean's 11 are still cynical movies, but they have somewhat
optimistic endings. So sometimes Brockovich can be
like misinterpreted as something that could be a little bit like
toxic positivity, like pursuit of happiness or something like
that. But I do think it's it's
different. So I'm excited.
To talk, yeah. And I think that it's like the,
well, this makes it sound like I'm insulting it, but I'm not.
It's like the best case of the TNT kind of rewatch. 100.
Percent. And also, I mean, that's how I
watched it growing up, right? Like Erin Brockovich was always
on on cable. I think my mom showed it to me.
Like it was a very special movie to me growing up.
I think my mom may have as well. I definitely watched it on TNT,
so it's funny you said that. It is one of the most
rewatchable movies of all time. It's really easy.
Somehow even the corny things in the film really work.
Like Julia Roberts love interest in this film we're definitely
gonna have to spend a minute on played by Aaron Eckhart.
Harvey Dent, yes. Harvey Dent himself, the white
knight. So yeah, I'm, I'm stoked to talk
about Siddeburg's filmography in today's episode.
I'm stoked to talk about Roberts filmography as well.
We'll have some fun ranking conversations and we'll get into
at Brockovich. So for anyone who wants to
listen and watch Erin Brockovich with us, you can stream it on
Netflix or you can buy it on Blu-ray.
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