The Top 10 Julia Roberts Films

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But who else I guess. Also, we're just you know, houling. What's going through something right now? Let's just say it.

I mean, listen, Hollywood's going through it. And all we can do is wait. All we can do is wait. We're talking about miss Julia Robert from Alpharetta Georgia. Oh, this woman really did dominate and we were so grateful, weren't we.

I mean, for me she still dominates to this day. Well, I mean, I was just going to bring up something that, like, isn't it. I am a little bit bummed out that like take it to paradise.

You know.

You look at the post, you go, well, it's Clooney and Julia, and you go, there's no way this doesn't open. And you go, well, if even they can't like get a rom com to like do big numbers at the box office, then who can? But I don't want to write them off. Is like they don't have that same poll anymore at the box office. I don't even think it.

Did that badly. I think internationally it's a big numbers. I think it's considered a success. Damn.

I guess I'm just so you don't think about international enough. I don't think about international enough. Very national list here, Well you be a yellow nationalist? You actually not white? Well that's actually controversial. Bowen Yang is white.

I'm a white And that's actually something I would like to start bringing back into the public consciousness, is that Bowen Yang is white and he's been lying. I know you're wearing head to toe American paraphernalia.

It's true. And then if you if you really lick your thumb and smudge my face. The concealer comes right off. He's actually wearing a joy Luck club. It's a Joyluck clerb joy Luck Vintage bubble tea merch.

There you go. So you're actually very international right now. But I do ignore international, but I never ignore Julia. No. Julia is an American treasurer who has international powers, and she's been in thousands of film thousands, but we narrowed it down to the top ten. Julia Roberts Films, Lost Culch Lost Coach number ten. Ben is back. I haven't seen that.

I haven't either, but that doesn't mean it's.

Not number ten. It has a number ten quality to it. Yes, you know, it's like, don't be don't forget about this one. Don't forget about when Julia played a concerned mother of a drug addict played by Lucas Hedges.

And we have forgotten, and we're saying with this list, don't forget.

You know what we're saying with this list, See it? Yeah, support it. Julia Momulia, Julia Mom, Julia Roberts, Julia Mom especially were a coach. Number eight Julia Mom.

Julia Roberts playing a mother like a mother who is upset. You dress stress. You love to see that. This is something we love watching this woman do, and yet neither of us have. But we liked it enough on paper, a sort of on premise alone, on poster alone, to put it on the list on premise and poster alone. Oscar Oscar, I don't.

Know who else was in this film, Julia Lucas could be anyone from Adam. I think it was like Peter O'Toole played the grandpa. You think he came back from the dead to play the grandpa. I think at the time he might have still been alive. This is all why benis Back is number ten on top ten. Julia Roberts Films.

Lost Coult number nine.

August County A film we did see and.

Fell asleep to.

No way. I love this film.

I think this film is a little too much. Meryll's doing too much. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Merrill is really going for it.

You think Merrell's doing too much? In Augusta, Stage County, do.

You think she wasn't?

I think she was doing exactly what Violet Weston would be doing when she has her a little overdose moment and she's like remember I love it. She literally gave you like on luxibro and and then Julia Roberts said, eat the fish, bitch, this movie is cuckoo bananas. You know who I think could have been better as the daughter than Yeah, it's one of those roles I see and I'm like, that should have been me. I should

Oh my god.

But in like a fun playway, what's a movie? Well, it's a movie. Do you think it suffered that classic thing? I mean, I I choose to view this as an unsuccessful adaptation. I don't choose to view it that way because I've got Oscar nominations up the wazoo. This is one of Julia's Oscar noms.

I know it is, I'm aware, but I feel like it's one of those things where it's like you needed, like Mike Nichols, may he rest to like adapt it just right in a way to make it film mt You know, for someone who stands Mike Nichols, you certainly have a lot of notes, and so did he. No, don't don't ever put me and him in the same sense. I revere him. I revere that man.

Well, why do you talk so much shit about him now that he's dead. I don't know if there's another Mike Nichols film. Is this Mike Nichols?

The next one is Mike Nichols. August Osh County is not mc nichols. It's not, it's not, it's not. Oh, I forget who, Well, this.

Is August Wilson. No, it's not August Wilson at all.

It's August August Osage County, which is Tracy Latt. Yeah, okay, but who directed it? Okay, let's see. Let's say, let's see who John Wells, John Wells, John Wells, who is of course known for the company Men Well and it probably could.

Have gotten a better director for this. I guess That's what I'm saying. Like I literally was just like I'm watching a play.

Even as a fucking twenty three year old who didn't know anything about anything, I said, I feel like.

I'm watching a play. But Julia was amazing. Julia was amazing, and that's why it's number nine on top ten. Julia Roberts films Last Coach and speaking of plays, speaking of magnificel like place well, let's we can discuss this. Oh my god, you of course stand this. It's number eight closer.

I don't stand this. You stand this movie. I don't stand this movie.

I know why you do well. Hit at the right time.

It was Damien Rice Culture the Bluers, and so it is.

I love this song. I played it out.

I mean, I'm not familiar with the play version.

I read the play.

Look, the writing is rough, and that's not my Nickels's fault.

I don't even know if the writing is rough. The writing is just such a play.

It's such a play. It's very melodramatic, in the same vein as august Osage County. I'm sure.

I just love the end scene with Natalie and Dune, when she goes hit mean fuck her. That is then in slow motion he winds up and does hit her, and it's such like a stage slap. He does not make contact, and she goes a and her hair goes to the side and then she looks back like wind swept. And then my other favorite scene, obviously we like Natalie. No, that is iconic that I'm saying, that's Bill Jane. That makes it like I see it on stage. But I'm like,

Really, I think it's where the revisit it's. Look, it's not the best, but it was for these huge A lists and as a teen you eat that.

Shut up one hundred percent, I said, without having seen it as a teen, and I don't think I saw it for years after it came out. I said, this is the greatest film of the year. There you go. I was like, my little Oscar bait ass like on the sites was like closer as the film of the years,

Make no mistake. I don't think it's a good movie that is.

In the eye of the beholder.

But it is fascinating to read about the way Mike Nichols worked with these four and he was very like, you know, he like took them out to dinners, like they hung out, the five of them.

Well, that's amazing that the director would take factors. I'm not just saying he would get maybe they would talk about the script. I'm not getting detailed enough, but like they interviewed Juliet and Natalie in the biography, they did shut up and they and they like and they both were like they were like, Mike really got to know us. He took us out to dinner, We talked about the characters, and before we got to set, we even rehearsed, like showed them all these movies.

You be so blessed to your movie, so blessed to have a director like that.

Did he show them like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Not his own movies like other movies? Maybe Closer is amazing. I also love the scene when Clive I went was like what just come tastes like goes it's like yours but sweeter, that's camping. And then he goes now fuck off and die. Yeah, I said, get me on stage doing this. Oh so you want to be Abigail and Clive? That is range mother. I want to do all the roles. I think I would be good to share with that story.

Or how about it's closer but it's just you and I and we each get the turn as each of them.

Oh my god, that's really good. We're like Cynthia Nixon and Christine Vransky. No, I forget who else someone in the play where they switched. I think that's a switch that could be fun.

But I would I would be uncomfortable playing Natalie in front of you. Why because I get like you're so Natalie.

Well, I guess we would have to fucking you'd have to take your panties down and bend over and show hold to the whole audience.

I can I call DIBs on Naantalie in that scene though, of still Jane, you can play that role because and I'll be Clive. I'll sit there with my f such a good Clive in that scene. Okay, but I get to be Julia.

Yeah, of course. So here's the way that we're gonna do Closer. You are Jude, and that's gonna be hard because you have a lot of scenes together.

No, no, no, But I'm saying we get to first it's Jude Natalie, right, like jud and Natalie meeting. I'm one, I'm Judior Natalie. Then it's like Clive and Julia, right, and then like you're Julia, I'm Clive.

Well, we'll figure it out. We'll figure out with our director. He'll take us out to dinner and we'll figure it all out. Readers on BMP Diamond cast it, cast it, Okay, okay, and that's the Closer is number seven on top ten. Jeleia Rapperts Films Last Coult number seven, Smurfs The Lost Village.

That's said, moving on, that is why.

Smurf's The Lost Village is number seven on top ten. Julia Roberts Films Lost Coach, number six, Nodding Hill.

This really is one of the iconic movies.

I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her. That is movie star dot com. Is ironic that she's playing a movie star in that. Yeah, it would not be the last time she did.

American Sweethearts, which did not make the list, did not make the list. Yeah, I mean notting Hill. It's an okay rom com. If you watch it back, you.

Know it's actually only okay, but like sort of the public consciousness would make you think it was one of the great classics. There's some people that are like, my favorite Julia is nodding Hill, and I have to look at them cock eyed.

You're like, there's better Julia, as is evidenced by this list. Look, it made the top ten.

I mean I haven't even clearly haven't seen the top six. If they think of this one as number one, because it's number six.

It's number six, so not even in the fiftieth percentile, No of top ten. I should say.

Do we love Hugh Grant? I think so.

He's at his most hu Grant in this and it is most like charming, harmless Hugrant and that it's when Hugh Grant is in the fucking what's that movie? It's such show with Nicole.

Oh the I'm doing I'm doing that, I'm doing where you're like, you.

Can't be Hu Grant in this because you're the character has done something awful.

And weirdly enough. That was my favorite Hugh Grant. But I also haven't seen Paddington Too, which I heard it should have been Hugh Grant's Oscars. A lot of the craziest people in the world say that.

Same people who say America Ferrera deserves an Oscar for Barbie.

I saw Barbarie again, and you know what I say, America for Oscar. Wow?

What I will say the monologue she delivers should have been like the last monologue.

Mmmm.

That is the whole thesis of the movie.

I did think that America was a very winning in the film. Winning does not mean nominate for Oscar. But also it might be a weird year, a weird year. All these reasons are why notting Hill is number six on the top ten Lea Roberts Films.

Last Culture number five not a movie, but the dream Girl music video for Dave Matthews band. She is famously in White Girl. Dreads in this and guess what you don't care?

Well, we didn't care until now you brought it up. Oh I didn't bring it up to get us to care.

I'm saying, well, now I can't say, you know it works because it's Dave Matthews watching her. He's sitting alone in a theater, in a movie theater, watching this projection on screen of Julia Roberts.

For some reason.

She's in White Girl Dreads and she is going through different dream states. She's at the laundromat, she's at a party. She's very like where am I? But it's the thing where you go. This is why people get movie stars for music videos, because it is, like, I mean, it's undeniable, the star quality on this woman.

You're just with it.

I was like, this video whatever, and Dave Matthews, I feel ambivalent to fond of Yea and the song is pretty average Dave Matthews band, I would say sorry to anyone who might disagree, but the video really makes it pop and she's amazing.

Sorry, I'm just distracted because you said she did White Girl Dreads and now I'm not saw her. I'm not. I can't about it. I can't stop thinking about it. I have a response why people don't like the cancel culture. Okay, people would be loving the cancel culture if it wasn't for people like me. It's true. Oh, this is why not a movie. But the Dreamgirl music video for Dave Matthews Band is number five on top ten. Julia Roberts films Lost Culture, number four, Magnolias her first Oscar nomination.

Fish and start out with mystic pizzat of lots of fun, Julia, Julia, what is that about?

Have you seen steel Magnolia's recently in like a fiveish years. It's a fun one.

It is so so sad, it's so sad. It's not like this fun, steal good movie.

No, it is not at all. It ends with sort of anguish but sisterhood. Julia Roberts is again in playing movie star charm though, because you really have to fall in love with the character, and you do, and it's a little bit of a tough character too. Yeah, but you fall in love, You fall in love and then Sally just Sally knocks it out at the damp part. God damn, it's really Sally's performance.

It is Sally's performance.

And Dolly Dolly too, and Olympia Daryl Hannah, darryl Oh my god, Daryl, Hannah, Shirley McLain rely, hmmm, I just.

Want to hit somebody, hit her, hit ha hit hit weeza, hit weeza.

And I forget what Olympia says, but it's some like Southern.

Now, go ahead, go ahead. She gives a lot of Olympia, a lot of Olympia. But we love it, we love it, and all these reasons are why number four on top ten Julia Roberts Films Lost Coult Number three, pretty woman.

This one holds up. I haven't seen it in a long time.

She plays. Uh, you know, there's the only one way to say it.

A sex worker.

Okay, anyways, hooker hooker, I say, bring back hooker, hooker. I don't think hooker has a Well that's not for me to say. I guess it's not for you to say it all, certainly not for me to say it. And yet here bring back hooker. Like, look at that hooker. You look like a hooker. So what do you do. I'm a hooker. I'm a hooker. Oh no, me coming home after a long time home. No, my daughter is

Yeah, pretty woman was the moment.

And she was so good with Richard Gear, who was so hot in this movie. You know.

Random thought that I meant to tell you was we were watching Oppenheimer famously and we walked out. But Josh Hartnett aging like Richard Gear. He looked unbelievable, But he and Richard Gear are on the same track. Yeah, they both looked and obviously, you know, very attractive men throughout their whole lives.

Yeah, Josh Hartnet being an openheimer was one of the jump scares of the movie for me, where I was just like, oh my god, I can't believe this cast thing. But I was happy the whole time because he looked amazing.

It's amazing. He seemed he did okay with that role. I guess.

I mean, there wasn't much to it. And it's a Christopher Nolan movie. Oh god, it's not about the acting. It's about the damn score. Trust your actors for ones in your life, Christopher Nolan. I'd love to see a scene.

Let Harry styles like do something more than like sweat and scream and Dunkirk Dunkirk done nothing done. Oh and all those reasons are White Woman is number three on top ten.

Julia Roberts Films Lost Culture, number two My best friend's wedding. I actually so get this, like peek behind the curtain. We're doing this a sort of for fun. But these are my top two. Oh, like the top two is my top two.

First agree Oh that's why I put them there, And I knew you would agree with me.

You put it right where it needed to go. Yeah. Period.

Tops and bottoms can say that or verse or side this.

Well, my Best Friend's Wedding is a movie for tops bottoms. You put it where it needed to go one hundred percent. And then I heard that and moved on to the film since that's really what we came here to discuss. But I think this is a movie for tops bottoms versus sides and the like. I think anyone would love My best Friend's Wedding. They can see themselves in so many characters. This was, of course the I mean, not

She went, I'm gonna go all in because this woman's name is basically mine.

Yeah, it really really really does do something. I think it's actually and this is gonna be controversial. I think at the time she was playing close to her. I think she was always getting what she wanted. I think she was really toying here with the idea of like the thing that you think is gonna happen in your

It taught a lesson, A taught a lesson. The gazebo scene walked so pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me, and Gray's Anatomy could run the final image of that being her and Rupert Everett Dan saying, I go, this is what it was about.

The moment I wake up, that great scene. Yeah, it's so good kissing and when we should do that like that that cold open being like so just like a video. I love I love it. I also love fucking Rachel Griffiths and Carrie Preston as the two sisters. They went on to big careers, big career. My favorite scene in this movie is when they're on the ferry and they

That movie is Chicago.

It's more than Home Alone could ever And for these reasons and all the other ones, that's why My best Friend's Wedding is number two on top ten. Julia Roberts films, Lost Colt and now for number one, number one that I'm disputed, Aaron Brockovich. The Oscar Win, the perfect embodiment of why Julia Roberts is a movie star, the perfect.

Embodiment of why Steven Soderberg is like who he is.

Certainly the best film she's ever been in, Holds Up.

Holds Up has always held Up. I've watched it once every two years since it came out since two thousand, and I'm like, this is a great fucking movie.

It also says real things about like really pression topics, like throughout time since and this was made in like two thousands. It's like old but feels like it could be made now. It's sort of timeless. She's so good inness, she's so funny, and it codable lines, real dialogue, real scenes, real character work, real dynamics, and incredible supporting cast.

Just her on the phone in the car crying m at the baby's first word, Oh yeah, yeah yeah, just like, oh my god, what's his face.

Aaron would go on to a big career in that movie Hattie. In that movie, I didn't sort of like him because of all the hair and the mustache. Years later, I would see another Aaron Acart movie and I'd be like, oh my god, that's that's the guy from Aaron Brockovich, and it shook me to my core. I believe the expression is uh huh, never forget Contrata Farrell, excuse me, yea, I'm not talking to you, bitch. Oh wait, how does get into that? Did you move my fucking files or something like that?

Where are my files?

Where my files. The fuck it's so good this movie really just like it rock seeps into my brain at regular intervals, like that's all you got, lady, two rung feet and fucking ugly shoes.

She's had to lunch with the girls.

You're a girl. I'm sorry, you're a girl. Why aren't you at lunch? I guess I'm not the right kind? So good.

Don't make me bag, don't make me ba it doesn't work out, fire me, don't.

Make me bag. And then also gonna say who lives like this? And then the iconic monolog which I was taught later in college. I remember I was in screen running one O one and my teacher brought in a scene and it was the miss Wichita monologue. Oh my god, this is how you explore a character at this certain part of the movie. And then I remember like someone would bring in their work and she'd say, like, this is your miss Wichita, like this is where you need miss Witches.

That is they should put that in everything Wichita.

And I thought that meant that I was gonna be somebody.

It's amazing, and that's right like that, like right when she like fox Aaron for the first it's like the love story, you know when like aptbreak or whatever.

And before that, she has another one of the best lines in the movie, which is when he gets on the floor and he says to her like like, I'm somebody I care about you, and she goes to him, are you gonna be something else that I have to survive? Oh, because I'll tell you what, I'm not up to it. And then they kiss and she gives in, and then later on didn't work out, and I remember he goes to her, what about me? And she goes, what about you?

Right?

This is my work, my time away from my kids. If that's not personal, I don't know. You gotta watch the movie, guys, it's made of it. This is zinam and that. All those reasons and more are why Aaron Brockovich is number one on the top ten. Julia robertson Movies Lost Cult as well as we in every episode with the song every day it is a Winding. If you want to see hear this song, watch Aaron Rokovich plays at the end.

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