HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! And Upcoming....
Ok I wrote this yesterday and thought I posted it (insert Daniel Day Lewis "Whoopsadaisy" or Hugh Grants, ya probably that one)
HAPPY NEEEEWWWW YYYEEEAARRRR my beautiful friends, I hope you all Auld Lang Syned your hearts out last night. New Years and a fresh start both overwhelm and excite me. I stopped doing your old checkbox resolutions, but started doing MORES AND LESSES. My biggest hope is to replace my default emotion of guilt (mom guilt, work guilt, housework guilt, DM guilt) with a default emotion of contentment.
MORE
-getting into the things my kids are into
-working out to be healthy
-daily life of PiB stuff
-saving %%
-rolling with the punches
-organization (and ask for help with this)
LESS
-mindless scrolling
-LATE nights
-working out as a punishment
-guilt and worry
That's my basic thoughts on the new year, what about you?
This week we have Spiderman, because I was feeling left out seeing it as a bunch of ppl's fav movie of the year on instagram! Also STIII guys, the title is giving me hope! aaaaaannnndddd the winner of the TOP 50 poll going on right now (ends tomorrow) I like how close it is up in there!
Next week we will do a 51-100 poll, but I think I might open that up to the whole YT community-could be fun? Could be a gongshow? haha **Shout out to PLANNER for all the work he does to keep that site up and running and organized!
SAVE THE DATE BUTTER BABES LIVE will be 1/27-Time TBA (depends on watch-along vs hang out)
and then OMG The THIRD ANNUAL POPPIES are coming up in FEBRUARY! One of my fav things of the YEAR!
Ok well my kids are off for the rest of this whole week, so wish me luck and patience!
CHEERS to 2024
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As I said before, I love many of the classics. I just wish people would be more realistic about them. Classics will never dominate this channel, or at least as long as it's money making concern. Classics do poorly on YT, which why most reactors don't even bother with them. The fact that Cassie watches any of them has to do with two things - the fact that this one the biggest reaction channel's on YT, and that Cassie cares enough about her patrons to that she's willing to lose some money - on occasion. I strongly doubt if she'll let herself be in a position where she owes five classics (or any other type of movie) to any one person. I have been asking for martial arts and classic horror polls for over a year and I feel lucky that the martial arts poll actually happened. Notice I didn't ask her to do half a dozen movies or do the poll on a monthly basis, if she does it again by next year I'll be happy. I'm just saying when you're asking for something that you know isn't very popular don't expect to get a huge gift just be glad when you get a nice little one now and then.
I’ve always wanted to ask Cassie… “Why did you start this Channel?” And if the honest answer was for the Easy Money and Easy Job to Work from Home, then I hope She knows, that it would be OK to admit it.
I feel too old for these posts. All my movie suggestions aren’t necessarily old for me, but it seems that to a lot of people in these posts, anything prior to the 1980s is ancient. lol I think it would be fun if Cassie could do a wild card. Have Patreon members bur a raffle ticket and pick a charity, like St. Jude’s foundation. Say, for a ticket price of $100, you can submit a list of 5 movies. Cassie could do a drawing of 5 different winners/lists, and it would all be for a good cause. I know she’s not familiar with a lot of black and white movies but movies like Life With Father, or I Remember Mama, or You Can’t Take it With You are amazing. And then there are the classic 60s films, fun ones, a Haley Mills era, like Moonspinners and The Trouble With Angels. Gary Cooper movies like Sergeant York and Pride of the Yankees. The screwball comedies like Ball of Fire, or Bringing Up Baby or Philadelphia Story. There’s such a great and rich wealth of good films. And it would serve a beautiful cause.
Five movies is a lot for one person to get to pick, especially classics. While I love many classic films (I'm a older patron myself, and grew up watching the classics) the reality is they tend to do poorly on YT, which is where the main part of the revenue for her channel comes from. And if she did five, she'd have to spread them out over literal years so as to keep up the variety for other viewers, the majority of whom probably wouldn't care about your, or most other peoples, picks. Also, I don't think patreon would allow this (not sure of the rules) so she might have to do it somewhere else. A more likely way to do this would be one movie/ one winner/ $20 (?) ticket. Not as expensive, so more people could afford to enter, and less time consuming for the channel. Cassie could possibly do this twice a year, but more likely once.
People seem to be suggesting basketball movies so I’d like to add High Flying Bird on Netflix into the mix. A great “not sports-sports movie” movie about people not playing basketball for a very tense weekend. Happy to see Across the Spiderverse coming up. Presumably Cassie has been warned about the thing that happens at the end.
Best part of the Poppies imho was all the cameos from their fellow Canadians (and a couple of Yanks) :)
I am absolutely with you on He Got Game, White Men Can't Jump (The original, not whatever the hell that abomination that came out last year was), Above The Rim and Any Given Sunday. I'd also throw in Love and Basketball because I think that Cassie and Carly would love that one the best.
Yeah, well.. there’s a reason I didn’t mention Love & Basketball. It will win in a landslide because people will vote for what they think she’ll like the most, and not because it’s the best film on the list. I do think it’s a very good film, though.
Well, another week with nothing to look forward to for me. It happens, hopefully it’s the last time. I might as well pitch an idea instead. We got some pretty big sporting events coming up next month. One is of course the Super Bowl. I’m not a fan of American Football but I always watch the SB. So, leading up to it, I’d love to see a reaction to Any Given Sunday! It’s not really a great film, but it features a stacked cast and an Al Pacino carry job where he delivers one of the greatest movie speeches of all time. I think you’ve seen all the other big ones, so that’s the one that’s missing. The other big event is the NBA All-Star weekend. I think it’s about time that we get a Basketball poll going. I mean, we’ve seen pretty much every sport on the channel other than the two biggest ones (Fútbol & Hoops) for crying out loud. Some of my favorites: White Men Can’t Jump, Blue Chips, Above The Rim, He Got Game, The Way Back (2020), & Hustle (2022). All very different films, with different environments/levels, themes, genres. You could also throw in some films like Uncut Gems and Air, which aren’t Basketball films per se, but where the sport plays a big role. Hoping we can get it this time 🤞🏻 Happy new year!
HOOP DREAMS and HOOSIERS would both be amazing for basketball films. For Soccer/Futbol, I could see VICTORY or BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM being worthy. NEXT GOAL WINS should be hitting streaming soon and that would qualify as well. For football (American football), I'd suggest THE LONGEST YARD (original), M.A.S.H., SEMI-TOUGH, and maybe NORTH DALLAS FORTY. For other, maybe ROLLERBALL. If nothing else, ROLLERBALL was about 80% correct in terms of predicting the future...
Happy new year!
Hey Cassie, I sentcha a copy of The Princess Bride. Please react to it for you Valentine's Day release. It's an action, comedy, romance movie that everyone would recommend.
She's already seen it.
Years ago I stopped with the traditional NY resolutions and just told myself... Don't sweat the small stuff, and it's all small stuff. I've been so much happier ever since. :D Wishing all of you a 2024 free from worries.
Dearest Cassie, did you receive a Xmas gift?
Happy New Year! Gonna ask for A Classic Horror poll again. You knew it was coming!
To avoid confusion, on ST3, the female Vulcan from the previous movie Lt. Saavik, was played by a different actress here on this one. Kirstie Alley was good, but I think Robin Curtis was better suited for the part.
I have heard that Kirstie Alley priced herself out of the franchise. Who knows how her career may have turned out if she had gone with the flow & stayed away from the coke?
I suggest watching Star Trek (2009) (w/Chris Pine).
I think she should watch the three Chris Pine Trek movies right after she finishes UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.
Working out as punishment, oooofff! I feel that.
Kind of. But I've been going to gym for the last 10 years, I don't really want to go most of times. I never regret going afterwards though Truth is, people who rely on motivation never become consistent with their workouts. You have to rely on discipline. Actually true for all hard goals in life, not just fitness
Please hold the Trek movies when you reach Generations and until after you have watched the Next Generation series (and not just key episodes). You won't regret it.
I am certainly willing to second that! :-P
Yay! So excited to watch ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE with you! It was my favorite film of last year (strangely, it and 2 other animated movies were my top 3 films of 2023 [the other 2 were SUZUME and HOW DO YOU LIVE? {THE BOY AND THE HERON}]).
Those are some good goals. I definitely plan to roll with the punches or at least try to do MORE of that. While I wouldn't lose any sleep over this I'm always of the opinion that youtube should have no voting power- as thats one of the perks of being here. And 3rd Annual POPPIES already? Dang last year flew by.
"-getting into the things my kids are into" As a parent myself this hits hard. SO important! "-mindless scrolling" This too. Ugh lol "-saving %%" ...Saving percentages?? 🤣
New Year's resolutions? Me? How about I resolve to make it to 2025 unscathed?
I, and my like minded Patreons called it! Cassie fell in love with the TOS characters and she's now a Trekie! I knew she'd just naturally want to watch the rest of the films to see what happens. But Cass!!! Remember to stop BEFORE watching the Star Trek movie "Generations". That's the film that crosses over to the next TV series so you'll need to watch those key episodes before continuing. P.S.: Since TOS is 3 seasons and you watched 4 episodes, The Next Generation is 7 seasons so you need to watch a minimum of 8 episodes!
Wait, did Cassie watch Into the Spider-verse on the channel already? You know Across the Spider-verse is a sequel, right?
i saw that one in theatres off the channel (the first one)
For the PIB request page maybe we could do the number 1 movie every month. So right now it's Beverly Hills Cop. You could add that to the rotation for the month. Then the next month whatever's in first place(probably First Blood, currently in second place). Just an idea. I do still like doing polls for each page of the PIB request too (like 1-50 or 51-100)
For what it’s worth, I think that’s an excellent idea.
I can’t get the popcorn requests site to work. The one that @planner made. Anyone else having trouble with that site?
Same
"Whoopsadaisy" You've got beautiful blonde ringlets, little girl. :-) Still working on reducing guilt? It's been almost a year since you were provided with foolproof advice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWIutvcQAIE&t=49s "not ok." :-( but really and deplorably :-) Home Free's rendition of Auld Lang Syne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcSfqYqHs4
Happy New Year Cassie! Here in the UK, a lot of us ring in the new year by watching Jools Holland's Hootenanny music show on BBC2. And at midnight every new years day, they bring out a wonderful rendition of Auld Lang Syne. This is a clip from their 2022 show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X67yP6zckEo
Across the Spider-Verse is probably my favorite movie of the year … but did you see Into the Spider-Verse? I don’t remember it being on the channel.
It's on her letterboxd. Must have watched it before the channel
In case it had not been brought up, Michelle Yeoh is in the last The Mummy movie. Rachel Weiz I'd not unfortunately, and it does tend to suffer because of it still it is a decent end to the franchise. Not the greatest though.
Maria Bello is a fox but she's no Evelyn.
Hope for Trek 3? That would be telling and we won’t tell!
I vote for two different polls one, a short list of Gene Kelly movies and short list of Fred Astaire movies. Three from each please. Well, I am not greedy, one at a time would be good. You've seen how it feels watching one Star Trek, and here you are with a number of TV and films under your belt. Musicals are the only genre you haven't yet tried, but I know it will leave you with a warm, smiling, family entertainment feeling. Guaranteed to wash away any guilty feeling. Cassie continues to respect great talent, and Fred and Gene are exceptional dancers.
I wish you luck and patience, Cassie. Question for you.....Since "Ransom", "Star Trek II" & "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" were released on Patreon and not yet on YouTube, do they qualify for the upcoming Poppies, or are they considered to be 2024 releases? I only ask because I'm going to make my Poppies Wish List, and want to be sure that I have every qualifying reaction to be accurate. :)
Love your videos!
A couple things- 1-Any chance for, oh I don't know, just pulling random numbers out of my head... an 1868-1875 poll? 2-Has your bestie Tom committed to a presenter spot for the Poppies? I had a third, but what it was, who knows. Oh! Organization- Marie Kondo! I love her book and both her shows. She was a bit extreme, but there are some good ideas there.
1868-1875? Don't be daft, man! There were no films at the time. Even if we're overly generous and include chronophotography, that wasn't before 1878. Yes, :-P (I also wish to let y'all know that I have amazing psychic powers. I was somehow able to divine what movie I might find there without even looking! I amaze even myself. :-) )
Happy New Year. The answer is probably no, but is there any chance we can start polling movies outside of the top 100? The polls only feature around 8-10 movies at a time (with one or two maybe getting a reaction) which barely seem to be chipping away at the list. As it stands now, it could be literal years before a serious dent can be made on that list and we start seeing the line move. And with movies so far down the totem poll, it almost feels pointless to try to suggest any film (and if you do, hope it's already in the top 100).
Happy New Year to you Cassie, your family and fellow patrons.
DM guilt should definitely not be a thing. That's an impossible task.
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well this is gonna be a banner week. Oh, and Cassie? Remember how you loved the score for ST2? You're really gonna love the score in ST3.
Thanks for this, Cassie! God bless! And, oh yes most gracious requests for: TIN CUP (Kevin Costner and Rene Russo) TO CATCH A THIEF (Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and directed by Alfred Hitchcock) GET SHORTY (John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito) BABY DRIVER (Lily James, Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx and John Hamm) RED (Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Miren, Mary-Louise Parker) SILVERADO (Kevin Costner, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover) KISS KISS, BANG BANG (Robert Downey Jr, Michelle Monaghan, Val Kilmer) THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson)
I still it would be fun watching Cassie and Carly react to 1980s Bruce Willis Moonlighting adventures with Cybil Shepard. The witty banter is great.
OMG, Star Trek and Contact in one week. This year is truly off to a great start!
She's boldly going where no Cassie has gone before.
Happy New Year Cassie, love and support, God bless you Carly and your family 🥰😁😉😇🙏👍🌹
Anxiously waiting for Shop Around the Corner. When’s that coming? Also, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is far more than just a martial arts film. It’s a romance film, a deep look at Chinese culture and philosophy, relationshipmoral traditions and ethics, etiquette. History. Also of self identity. One of my all time favorite films. Zhang ziyi gets a lot of love and she’s great but I always connected more with the delicate relationship between Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun Fat’s characters. I also share the same birthday as Chow Yun Fat, and Michelle Yeoh is brilliant.
it’s up on Patreon! do you mean a YT edit?
You excited to search for your homie Mister Spock?
Surely Shatner is her homie...