From Brandy to Barrymore: Our Top Cinderella Movie Picks with Gina

[00:00:00] Ever dreamed of finding your prince charming around the corner or maybe even at a gas station?

[00:00:05] This week on the No More Late Fees podcast we're joined once again by the fabulous Gina for a bonus episode all about meet-cutes and happily ever afters.

[00:00:14] We'll be ranking our favorite movies where the girl meets her prince.

[00:00:30] This week on the No More Late Fees podcast we are joined by our favorite nostalgia witch, Gina.

[00:00:36] Welcome back! It's been so long! I think it was Casper right?

[00:00:40] Yes.

[00:00:41] What season was that?

[00:00:42] I know.

[00:00:43] Season two?

[00:00:44] I'm getting like all my favorite men. I got Devin. Now I'm getting-

[00:00:48] Chad.

[00:00:49] Chad Michael Murray.

[00:00:50] Chad Michael Murray.

[00:00:52] And it's so funny because he had to use the Michael because somebody else had Chad Murray.

[00:00:59] I can't imagine just that's what his regular name is is Chad Murray.

[00:01:04] Chad Murray.

[00:01:04] I'm like do you think he would get to that level of success with just Chad Murray? I'm gonna say no.

[00:01:10] No. Absolutely not.

[00:01:12] It's not-

[00:01:12] It's so generic white boy.

[00:01:15] Yeah.

[00:01:15] Yeah.

[00:01:16] It's either you have two routes with three names.

[00:01:19] Teen idol status or serial killer.

[00:01:22] There's no in between.

[00:01:24] Or maybe both.

[00:01:26] You never know.

[00:01:27] Facts.

[00:01:29] So true.

[00:01:33] Oh man.

[00:01:34] Well we're glad to have you back.

[00:01:36] Anything new that's going on in your life?

[00:01:40] How's everything going?

[00:01:41] Everything's great.

[00:01:43] I started a new job I think from the last time I spoke to you guys so that's been crazy.

[00:01:48] So my TikTok making has been down although the algorithm I feel like is just like never working

[00:01:55] in my favor anymore.

[00:01:56] It's so bad right?

[00:01:57] It's so different.

[00:02:00] Yeah.

[00:02:00] It really is tough.

[00:02:02] It's been really difficult.

[00:02:04] I don't know what's going on with that.

[00:02:06] It depends.

[00:02:07] I keep like making things and I'm like this is gonna be the one.

[00:02:11] I'm like nobody that even follows me is even seeing this anymore.

[00:02:14] It's so crazy.

[00:02:16] Yeah I just I say make make the videos that you're passionate about like yeah as long as

[00:02:23] you're not just trying to make them because you're like oh I haven't made content.

[00:02:27] Yeah.

[00:02:27] I think the ones that always actually end up doing well are the ones that I'm like

[00:02:33] interested in or really passionate about.

[00:02:35] Yeah.

[00:02:36] So it's been quite difficult but hey if you ever make a video it's not going anywhere just

[00:02:40] send it to us and at least you'll get a like from us.

[00:02:44] I think that's the best.

[00:02:46] What can I say?

[00:02:47] But yeah so I've thought about like oh I really want to start posting stuff to Instagram too.

[00:02:53] It's just everybody I know follows me on there so I'd have to like start a new one.

[00:02:58] Yeah.

[00:02:58] Like I'm ready for that yet but I know I need to get back into it because I miss just like

[00:03:03] being creative on there.

[00:03:05] It was like such a fun thing for me and I feel like we talked about this last time but it's like

[00:03:10] you get kind of that like serotonin boost stuff like if you have some videos that do really well

[00:03:16] that then like you get depressed when they don't like it's a lull so I just need to start doing it

[00:03:23] again because I like to do it.

[00:03:26] Yeah I say start that account get it going don't wait.

[00:03:29] Yeah.

[00:03:30] Like just make one.

[00:03:32] Times times a ticking times a wasting.

[00:03:35] Well we definitely change up a lot of stuff since the last time you came but we are still playing games.

[00:03:42] Jackie tell us about what our game is.

[00:03:44] So we have six Cinderella inspired movies and I figured it would be fun if we all put in our input

[00:03:55] and rank them from best to worst.

[00:03:59] This is a hard list.

[00:04:01] It really is.

[00:04:02] There are a lot of good like girl meets prince stories.

[00:04:07] Yes.

[00:04:08] In our time frame.

[00:04:10] Yeah.

[00:04:11] So the movies that we have are Ever After a Cinderella Story, A Walk to Remember, She's All That,

[00:04:18] Ella Enchanted, The Prince of Meat, and A Cinderella Story.

[00:04:22] Okay.

[00:04:25] I really out of all the Cinderella.

[00:04:29] Oh well Jackie we have to have the Brandy Cinderella as well.

[00:04:32] Oh.

[00:04:33] Oh.

[00:04:35] That is very true.

[00:04:39] Personally I love Ella Enchanted so much.

[00:04:42] I don't think it gets enough love out of the like Cinderella movies that came out during this time.

[00:04:48] Yeah.

[00:04:48] And I think it's just because they cover a Queen song in there so that's one.

[00:04:54] Two.

[00:04:55] Anne Hathaway's in it.

[00:04:56] I love her.

[00:04:58] I love her.

[00:04:58] I love that Vivica Fox is the most chaotic, insane, fairy godmother we've ever seen.

[00:05:04] I would say like the least memorable one to me is The Prince in Me.

[00:05:09] I might be off on that completely but like out of that whole list I would say The Prince in Me is the least memorable.

[00:05:17] I agree with that.

[00:05:18] It's so hard.

[00:05:19] I love all these movies even The Prince in Me.

[00:05:22] Jackie does not like Julia Stiles correct?

[00:05:25] You have beef with Julia?

[00:05:26] She's not my favorite.

[00:05:29] Like she's fine in 10 Things I Hate About You and I like her as Lumen and Dexter and that's pretty much it for me.

[00:05:39] I know that she was in so many 90s things but like she just doesn't ever stand out to me I feel like.

[00:05:48] What do you mean you didn't dig her moves in Save the Last Dance?

[00:05:53] Oh my god.

[00:05:54] But like people thought she killed that back then.

[00:05:57] Like when you're a kid you're like she's killing it.

[00:06:00] You know what?

[00:06:01] That is a really good video that I'm gonna make now with the trend of I remember when.

[00:06:09] I remember you know like.

[00:06:10] That's mine.

[00:06:11] You should do that immediately.

[00:06:13] When I sat there and thought that bitch was doing something.

[00:06:15] Yeah.

[00:06:17] It's amazing the way you could just like make teenagers and kids believe anything.

[00:06:23] I really care about.

[00:06:25] You tell us we believe it.

[00:06:27] Right.

[00:06:29] Okay.

[00:06:30] I think Ever After would probably be number one.

[00:06:36] I do love Ever After.

[00:06:39] I also feel like some of them are so different.

[00:06:42] Like Ever After is so dramatic compared to like how do you even compare that to She's All That?

[00:06:48] Yeah.

[00:06:48] I feel like they're on two different wavelengths.

[00:06:51] Like Ever After and A Walk to Remember are the two depressos but.

[00:06:57] Oh man.

[00:06:58] A Walk to Remember even at the time I just thought this is hilarious because it's so overdramatic.

[00:07:04] But I ate it up still.

[00:07:06] That's Nicholas Sparks right?

[00:07:08] Yeah.

[00:07:08] Yes.

[00:07:09] We know how to feel about it.

[00:07:10] That one was just like a lot.

[00:07:12] And that movie came out the same time.

[00:07:15] The one with Josh Harnett.

[00:07:16] And Lily Sobieski.

[00:07:18] Yeah.

[00:07:19] What's that one called?

[00:07:20] Here on Earth.

[00:07:21] Here on Earth.

[00:07:21] Yes.

[00:07:22] Yes.

[00:07:22] I felt like they were very similar.

[00:07:26] So Danielle, your vote is for Ella Enchanted as number one.

[00:07:31] Oh, well now that we've.

[00:07:32] Okay.

[00:07:33] Yes.

[00:07:35] How do we feel about that?

[00:07:37] How do you feel about that, Gina?

[00:07:39] My number one could go to number two if we needed to.

[00:07:43] But my number one is the Brandy Cinderella.

[00:07:45] That's the one I think I've like watched over.

[00:07:48] And over again.

[00:07:49] Like throughout the years, like I will go back to that and watch it more often.

[00:07:54] Yeah, that's true.

[00:07:56] Oh, okay.

[00:07:59] I will vote as well.

[00:08:01] First, the Brandy Cinderella for number one.

[00:08:04] Because also it's just so iconic.

[00:08:06] It was so different.

[00:08:08] And this is the first time we saw like real blind casting happen.

[00:08:12] And from my mom and I, we used to watch.

[00:08:15] So there is a guy on General Hospital.

[00:08:18] The character's name was Alan Quartermain.

[00:08:20] And so he was in the other Cinderella musical that they had with.

[00:08:25] Leslie Ann Warren.

[00:08:26] Yes.

[00:08:27] So I knew all the songs when this one came out pretty much.

[00:08:31] But then of course there was Whitney.

[00:08:34] So.

[00:08:34] I mean, how are we going to put anybody above her?

[00:08:37] I don't know.

[00:08:38] I think Ever After could be number two, Jackie.

[00:08:42] I don't.

[00:08:42] Number two.

[00:08:43] Yeah.

[00:08:43] It was like, I think Ever After was the best acting I've ever seen Drew Barrymore do.

[00:08:48] Yes.

[00:08:49] Where she's not just playing herself.

[00:08:51] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:52] Or like a caricature.

[00:08:54] Yeah.

[00:08:55] And then do we feel good with Ellen Enchanted as three?

[00:08:58] Yeah.

[00:08:59] I mean, I would just say no.

[00:09:00] I just feel bad that Danielle's favorite keeps getting it.

[00:09:05] It's all right.

[00:09:06] That's why I said it.

[00:09:07] Because I just feel like it's underrated.

[00:09:09] And I was just showing it love.

[00:09:10] Like.

[00:09:11] And it's continuing.

[00:09:14] And then.

[00:09:15] We won't move her again.

[00:09:16] She's All That.

[00:09:18] To me.

[00:09:19] Yes.

[00:09:20] Now.

[00:09:20] The test of time.

[00:09:21] Has it held up?

[00:09:22] Probably not.

[00:09:23] But it was iconic at the time.

[00:09:24] You got Freddie Prinze Jr.

[00:09:26] You got the.

[00:09:27] Yeah.

[00:09:28] Kiss Me song.

[00:09:29] Jackie.

[00:09:30] I know that you don't love it.

[00:09:32] But.

[00:09:33] I would put a Cinderella story above She's All That.

[00:09:37] But.

[00:09:38] Really?

[00:09:38] That's just my personal opinion.

[00:09:40] I would as well.

[00:09:41] Okay.

[00:09:41] All right.

[00:09:43] A Cinderella story at four.

[00:09:44] She's All That at five.

[00:09:47] And then A Walk to Remember at six.

[00:09:49] I feel confident.

[00:09:50] I feel comfortable with that.

[00:09:52] And then The Prince of Me.

[00:09:54] Yeah.

[00:09:54] Sad.

[00:09:55] I just knew that one was at the bottom.

[00:09:57] Yeah.

[00:09:58] Yeah.

[00:09:59] Okay.

[00:10:00] We did it though.

[00:10:01] Excellent.

[00:10:02] So we have number one.

[00:10:04] 1997 Cinderella with Brandy.

[00:10:07] Number two.

[00:10:08] Ever After A Cinderella Story.

[00:10:10] Number three.

[00:10:11] Ella Enchanted.

[00:10:12] Number four.

[00:10:13] A Cinderella Story.

[00:10:15] Number five.

[00:10:16] She's All That.

[00:10:18] Number six.

[00:10:18] A Walk to Remember.

[00:10:19] And number seven.

[00:10:20] The Prince of Me.

[00:10:21] Look at us.

[00:10:22] It's a strong list.

[00:10:25] And look how we all agreed on that.

[00:10:27] Right?

[00:10:28] There was no fighting.

[00:10:29] We work.

[00:10:31] We conceded where we needed to.

[00:10:33] No me calling out that somebody was dead.

[00:10:36] So they should be number one.

[00:10:39] I have used that.

[00:10:40] Although it still happened that way.

[00:10:46] Tragic.

[00:10:49] Oh man.

[00:10:50] Oh, so we have a question for all of us.

[00:10:52] What 90s or 2000s leading man would you have liked to show up as your secret digital pen pal?

[00:10:59] Oh man.

[00:11:01] I mean.

[00:11:02] I know mine.

[00:11:04] I don't know if he qualifies as a leading man though, but mine would be Jesse McCartney.

[00:11:08] He did do acting.

[00:11:10] So I feel like it counts, right?

[00:11:13] Yeah.

[00:11:14] Hell yeah.

[00:11:14] 100%.

[00:11:15] That's my man.

[00:11:16] That would.

[00:11:17] I had dreams about that.

[00:11:20] Oh man.

[00:11:22] You know, Harrison Ford.

[00:11:24] Of course you're going to be sophisticated when I just gave Jesse McCartney.

[00:11:29] Yes.

[00:11:29] It's so sophisticated.

[00:11:31] I have an 80 year old man always constantly on my list.

[00:11:35] Every answer to this is any iteration of what leading man.

[00:11:41] It's always Harrison Ford.

[00:11:44] I mean, he is a handsome man.

[00:11:45] Did you see what I posted on Instagram stories for Father's Day?

[00:11:49] No.

[00:11:49] Oh my God, no.

[00:11:50] I posted a picture of Harrison Ford at Air Force One and said to the man, I'm always going

[00:11:56] to call daddy.

[00:11:57] And then I put the song from Usher Daddy's Home as a song.

[00:12:03] You should have made that a TikTok.

[00:12:07] That's incredible.

[00:12:09] I'm trying to think.

[00:12:12] It's not JTT?

[00:12:14] Or Lance?

[00:12:15] JTT was when I was younger.

[00:12:17] Okay.

[00:12:17] And Lance, like I always like people, but I never was like, oh, they left me away.

[00:12:24] I'm going to go Ryan Reynolds.

[00:12:26] That's a good one.

[00:12:28] That's a safe one.

[00:12:29] You've been pretty solid with him for a long time.

[00:12:32] Yeah.

[00:12:33] I feel good about that.

[00:12:36] Love it.

[00:12:38] So Gina, since you've been away, we have added our employee picks.

[00:12:44] So we were Blockbuster employees and we got to do recommendations for customers.

[00:12:50] And so you are an honorary Blockbuster employee and you can recommend three movies from 95 to

[00:12:59] 2005 to recommend to our listeners.

[00:13:02] Almost Famous.

[00:13:03] I think Now and Then was after 1995, right?

[00:13:07] So I can do that.

[00:13:08] Ooh.

[00:13:10] Those are like always my top two.

[00:13:12] What should be my third?

[00:13:15] Another Devin Tawa movie.

[00:13:17] To Wong Fu.

[00:13:18] Literally, these were the three movies I had on repeat.

[00:13:21] So those would be my pick.

[00:13:23] It's a very solid list.

[00:13:26] A lot of range.

[00:13:29] Something to suit everyone's needs.

[00:13:31] I just love that you asked your grandma to watch the drag queen movie.

[00:13:35] Yeah.

[00:13:36] Every time I would go over there after school, I would be like, I want to watch To Wong Fu again.

[00:13:39] She was like, the drag queens again?

[00:13:41] Like anything else?

[00:13:42] I was like, no.

[00:13:43] Pop it on granny.

[00:13:44] Let's go.

[00:13:45] Don't act brand new.

[00:13:46] You know where we are.

[00:13:48] You know the deal.

[00:13:51] So before we go, why don't you tell everybody where they can find you on TikTok?

[00:13:56] Okay.

[00:13:56] You can find me on TikTok at thereggoes.

[00:14:00] Like there she goes, but G for me.

[00:14:04] And if you're already on TikTok, then check us out at NoMoreLateFees or on Instagram, Twitter,

[00:14:10] Facebook, YouTube, or Thread.

[00:14:11] And stay tuned for a Catwoman episode next week.

[00:14:14] And if you missed out on our Cinderella story episode with Gina, please go back and take a

[00:14:20] listen.

[00:14:21] And as always, be kind and relive.