A Good Year

I'd wanna look like...

Do you remember, um, A Good Year?

Yeah.

The Russell Crowe film.

All right, got that.

A Good Year.

I forgot about that one.

He's a businessman, and he inherits his uncle's vineyard where he used to spend time as a kid.

Um, and just to put, just to say like I know what I'm talking about, 'cause it's not like I've only seen like five of his movies.

Of his, of his directed films, the ones I have not seen are Black Rain, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, G.I. Jane, A Good Year, and The Counselor.

I've seen everything else.

Okay.

Ooh.

You can tell when you're watching a Zemeckis movie.

If I didn't know the name Ridley Scott and I watched Black Hawk Down, Alien, Napoleon, A Good Year, and American Gangster, there's no fucking way I'd be able to tell they're all by the same guy.

Okay.

Normally, I think I would've enjoyed this movie, but I have a little bit of a...

I, up top, before we get into anything, and maybe even before we introduce you, I have some things to say about this film that is, like, very heavy and, like, kind of triggering.

So I just wanna put that out there, like trigger warning for rape-

Absolutely understand, yeah

However, this movie has a plot in which one of the main characters, Renata, is gang raped at a frat party and then firebombs everyone inside, killing them all.

It's also an incredibly rapey movie on top of that, like a lot of jokes and subplots and insenations, or insinuations about rape and forced impregnation.

And I think because I watched this film at a very specific moment in time, in which we, as a culture, are kind of having yet another national conversation about sexual violence against women and, like, how common it is and how built into the fabric of society it is.

I will say I was, like, extremely triggered by this movie.