NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – DDU-DU DDU-DU PHASE TWENTY-TWO!

[BigToe]

Team Autor II - Eric Carle

@DancingPanther

 

[DancingPanther]

Team movie: Evil Alien Conquerors

@JojoTheWhale your abode is an abomination

 

[Lord Defect]

Team Autor II - Eric Carle

@DancingPanther

Did you mean Matt Carle?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

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?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Jordan Rodgers' brother is holding two teams hostage lol. Family of c***s.

We start the day with @Beef Invictus on the clock, @Chuck Downie on deck, @mja on the lido deck, and ajgoal on the lido afterdeck. My brother has to make up his pick also. Hopefully my nephew is feeling better - my sister's family has some kind of flu going through it too, including my other nephew.

On "Love Me Actually," there are two or three weeks in between each trip the club takes, and during the latest break the hottest one watched the latest episode where that phony prick put on the full-court press. I guess there were a bunch of negative comments about him online, because they mentioned that, and when they asked the rocket how she felt after watching it, she said "I wondered if I had been trapped by a monster." I don't think it has really set in her mind unfortunately, because it seems like she is still giving him a chance, and that nerdy guy who was also after her dropped out for now due to other obligations, but at least the germ of the idea is out there that he totally sucks.

We are fifth from bottom now. Hold on to your butts.

 

[Beef Invictus]

How could this be

 

[Beef Invictus]

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?

Bashful Jojo! Earthy Jojo! Unadvised Jojo! Are you telling me you bet on the fight in Rocky 3, and you bet against Rocky!?

That is one of my favorite comedies. Elite film. Deeply underrated.

For my pick now, I do COLLEGE.

HISTORY OF MUSIC

Taught by John Howell at Virginia Tech, this 2 part course covered the history of Western music from the Greeks up until about 1990. This class was fantastic. It remains one of the most memorable I've ever had, and I wish I could take it again to refresh. History is filled with Lit Bangers, I tell you what.

@Chuck Downie! Abortive Chuck! Womanly Chuck! Suspicious Chuck!

 

[Chuck Downie]

Team Book II

The Satanic Verses

@mja

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

What am I beating up

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.

 

[mja]

@ajgoal - go ahead. I'll pick later tonight or tomorrow.

 

[Lord Defect]

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.

Poor little dude. Hope he gets better soon!

 

[mja]

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.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

My brother has now spent almost 12 hours eating dinner.

We start the day with @ajgoal on the clock, @GKJ on deck, @Young Sandwich on the lido deck, and Bigglesworth on the lido afterdeck.

The Tournament starts today. I'm pretty excited, except for a few reasons. One reason is that I haven't paid much attention all season long. Another reason is that f***ing Kansas is good again. Somehow that scum program led by that scumbag Bill Self got charged with violations - I mean, duh - and skated right through them. Supreme greaseball John f***ing Calipari is still operating somehow in that pisshole despite a trail of f***ing grease that infinite monkeys with infinite sponges saturated with infinite amounts of Ajax could never wipe clean. Pack of c***s. But the real reason I'm not very excited is that Louisville is lost in the darkness almost as badly as the Flyers. Still, it will be nice to have something to watch all weekend.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

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.

Wait, that was Rated R?!

 

[mja]

Wait, that was Rated R?!

I mean, there's a scene with 15 couples having simultaneous orgasms, so yes.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I mean, there's a scene with 15 couples having simultaneous orgasms, so yes.

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.

 

[Young Sandwich]

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.

Mostly tits and stuff. Because America.

 

[BiggE]

Mostly tits and stuff. Because America.

Yup
“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!”

 

[Lord Defect]

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.

The 80’s skewed that line so hard

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

The 80’s skewed that line so hard

The 80s did so much on behalf of nudity.

 

[mja]

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.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

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.

Never tell me which Almodovar picture this was. I'm enjoying guessing far too much.

 

[ajgoal]

I'll try to get my pick in after lunch, before I get on the road.

@GKJ

 

[Beef Invictus]

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.

I showed The Child "The Mummy" because my impression of it is that it is a fun action film, not a horror flick with action elements and effects that are extremely convincing to a six year old. This was an error.

 

[DancingPanther]

Yup
“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!”

Female nipples though. Male is fine