Did you mean Matt Carle?
I went with some highbrow options in the Directors Draft, so let’s continue that theme with our Movie II.
Dirty Work
Jack Warden and Don Rickles in the same movie. We’re truly blessed.
@Beef Invictus You baby gorilla. Why don’t you work in a zoo and stop bothering people?
I want you to beat up his fever. He's back to normal now but he was at 103 for a bit there the other day.What am I beating up
Poor little dude. Hope he gets better soon!I want you to beat up his fever. He's back to normal now but he was at 103 for a bit there the other day.
Pick will be coming after I eat dinner.
This was hard. There are simply too many great films out there.
I already have the Coen brothers or otherwise I would have taken Miller's Crossing or Fargo. I absolutely adore The Ranch of the Liverwursts, but that feels like it would be stealing from the Ghibli in some way. Unliverwurst is also an all-time fave. Then I thought about memorable movie-going experiences I've had, like Pararanch or Ranching the Wursts. Both of those films left me sitting slack-jawed in amazement but they're both pretty harrowing, and I don't know that I want harrowing right now. But then it hit me, the latter film was carried by an incredible performance by Emily Ranchson in her debut film role, and oddly enough her performance inspired a very different movie, though a sequel of sorts. One that was named and written specifically for her, in French, a language she doesn't speak proficiently, which is why she had to drop out of the film. That worked out just fine in the end, because it made Audrey Ranchou a star.
(Non)Franchise Film II: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
In the mja household, this is a very important film. I think we went to see it 3 or 4 times when it was released and it remains to this day a family favorite--despite its R rating for prudish American audiences, it's French rating is the equivalent of PG. Though it's essentially a romantic comedy, a genre I don't much enjoy, it's also so much more than that. It may be the most purely pleasurable movie ever made. It's incredibly shot: all sepia-toned skies, rich reds, deep greens and golds. Every still is a painting but the camera is constantly moving. It's collection of oddball characters are charming and perfectly cast. The score was instantly iconic. Some find it slight if stylish, but I don't know that there's really another film quite like it. It shares with its inspiration film a naive and possibly autistic and delusional heroine who is deeply in love and goes to great and questionable lengths to make others happy.
That's it though, and tonally the two films couldn't be more different. It also led to it's own sequel of sort, creating a type of franchise I suppose, when pretty much the same gang got back together to make A Very Ranch Liverwurst a few years later.
Cap, I have a special request and I'm not making it to be difficult, but could you please use the original French title here? I have always been greatly annoyed that it was changed to the boring "Amélie" when it arrived stateside. Like, why? The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulin is such a better title.
I mean, there's a scene with 15 couples having simultaneous orgasms, so yes.Wait, that was Rated R?!
I mean, there's a scene with 15 couples having simultaneous orgasms, so yes.
Mostly tits and stuff. Because America.I thought of 3 movies that were worse and discovered they were all R. It turns out I have no idea what the difference between PG-13 and R is.
YupMostly tits and stuff. Because America.
The 80’s skewed that line so hardI thought of 3 movies that were worse and discovered they were all R. It turns out I have no idea what the difference between PG-13 and R is.
The 80’s skewed that line so hard
Neither does my wife. My daughter first saw Amélie with her mother when she was 5 years old. She didn't understand the multiple humorous orgasm scenes or the porn shop, and the nudity was no big deal--she's seen plenty of topless and occasionally bottomless beachgoers since before she could crawl, to say nothing of the average shampoo commercial on French TV. It's been her favorite film ever since.I thought of 3 movies that were worse and discovered they were all R. It turns out I have no idea what the difference between PG-13 and R is.
Neither does my wife. My daughter first saw Amélie with her mother when she was 5 years old. She didn't understand the multiple humorous orgasm scenes or the porn shop, and the nudity was no big deal--she's seen plenty of topless and occasionally bottomless beachgoers since before she could crawl, to say nothing of the average shampoo commercial on French TV. It's been her favorite film ever since.
When my daughter was 13, my wife wanted the three of us to sit down and watch an Almodovar film together, and she was completely perplexed why I refused to do that because I did not in any way feel comfortable watching an Almodovar film with my 13 year old daughter. She also routinely suggests we watch heavy R-rated adult-themed fare with our 2 middle school-aged sons.
I thought of 3 movies that were worse and discovered they were all R. It turns out I have no idea what the difference between PG-13 and R is.
Female nipples though. Male is fineYup
“Our movie features gratuitous, savage violence and gore, what’s our rating?”
“That’s it? Ok, PG-13”
“Oh wait, I almost forgot, there is a brief scene where a girl goes topless and you can clearly see her nipples. But it’s only for a few seconds”
“NIPPLES!?!? R dammit, it’s getting rated R!”