We Wanna Watch

With nothing but a blueberry Truly and a dream, we hoot and holler over this week's cursed Lane's Frame, Beyond the Sea (2004) directed AND starring [the actor who played Hopper in A Bug's Life]. We get into that actor's career, the terrible decisions made in this movie, and what makes a bad biopic. Plus: can Ricky say "faggot"?

Rick's Pick this week is The Devil Wears Prada (VERY 2006) directed by David Frankel. We get into this movie's incredible performances, early 2000s beauty standards, and nightmare assistant jobs. Digressions include grey hair, dick inches, and face blindness. Also, there is a reveal about Ricky that is SO nonsensical and incongruous with everything we know about him that it will shake you to your core. That's all.

Flop! Lane's regretful Frame this week is Animal House (1978) directed by [this tweet may violate rules against hateful conduct.]. We talk about frat culture, gross-out humor, and hooking up in cars with other people nearby. The gain on Ricky's mic is all fucked up in this episode. Who wants to take bets on how quickly he gets to the Todd episodes of Breaking Bad? I give it 10 days.

Part Lane's Frame, part blatant bait at listener engagement, part thirst watch: it's Civil War (2024) directed by Alex Garland. 🚨 We spoil the movie right away 🚨 in our discussion of its politics, the intensity of the action, and the sometimes-clumsy dialogue. Plus: movie theatre etiquette, eating on mic, and a lotta cat sounds.

After the Memories of Murder episode, we spent some time building out Ricky's Letterboxd, an exercise that led to an hour of Ricky saying, "I liked it!" with more and more of a babytalk voice each time. This is a jank ass episode with mic issues and minimal editing so you've been warned.

This week's Rick Pick, Memories of Murder (2003) directed by Bong Joon-ho, is the best movie we've covered that we never want to watch again. We talk about the movie's ever-changing tone, depiction of violence in movies, and our listeners' personal data >:)

Note: Ricky's mic cuts out a couple times in this episode, which I tried to edit around, but none of y'all read these notes anyway so I put an audio tag in, too.

This week's Rick's Pick takes us back to 2004 for Michael Moore's inflammatory-yet-quaint documentary on the conservative machinations leading to the Iraq War, Fahrenheit 9/11. A movie that is somehow more fun to talk around than to talk about, we digress into Trump-era politics (ew), our opinion on 9/11 jokes (they're corny), and this movie's influence on YouTube documentarians (also ew and corny). This is probably the best sounding episode yet because now that I have Ricky on cam during our calls he is forced to not fidget around and smack the table and shit.

This week's episode is a...Bronco Henry Entry? Is that anything? For Liesl's Reel we watched The Power of the Dog (2021) directed by Jane Thee Campion. We get into the heady topics like being gay at Yale, Lane's throuple with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons <3, and whether we should give a synopsis of the movie in each episode (no). Ricky's cats are WILDING in the episode so beware of the meowing.

This week's Lane's Frame is a doozy: Naked (1992) directed by Mike Leigh. We discuss scumbags, the depiction of violence in movies, and people who can't shut the fuck up. Digressions include an Oscar recap and what makes a good plane movie.

Note: This movie contains a lot of sexual violence and we talk about it in this episode. Listener beware!

This week's Rick's Pick is 1988's The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! directed by David Zucker. What makes a good comedy? Does Ricky know who Priscilla Presley is? Can Liam Neeson fill Leslie Nielsen's (Christmas) shoes?

Note: I tried to edit it out but you can definitely hear me filing my nails in the background at times. Sorry about that! It's no worse than Ricky banging on the table though so who cares, really.