PREVIEW - #707 - The Chinese Restaurant
Michael and Us
Luke Savage and Will Sloan
4.5 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What were we just saying about, like, ratings and stuff? |
| 0:10.3 | What was the catalyst for that? |
| 0:11.9 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 0:12.6 | Like sometimes, sometimes I get frustrated because I think, like, the seventh or eighth pick |
| 0:18.4 | in the superdelegate poll, or or like the second place pick is often the one |
| 0:23.0 | that I really wanted to do in the first place pick is you know the most popular one right which doesn't |
| 0:27.4 | which doesn't make me like you know eager to actually do it because also the seventh place pick is |
| 0:32.7 | usually going to require some work uh-huh which we don't want. Yeah. |
| 0:57.1 | You know, it's like, oh, fuck, do I have to research this? I hear you, I hear you, man. But so is this, the latest superdelegate poll, right, was like, was it escaped from New York? And then something called this film is not yet rated. Well, okay, this film is not yet rated. I actually, what is that? I really want to do this because, first of all, it's been nominated a few times. |
| 0:54.7 | So there is like a low key audience for it, but, but I, |
| 1:02.3 | I actually saw this film is not yet rated when I was 17. I was excited for it even. It's a |
| 1:08.4 | Michael Moore style documentary about the Motion Picture Association of |
| 1:12.9 | America, which is the body that rates movies. It's like the, what, like the filmmaker is |
| 1:18.7 | constantly trying to meet like the CEO of that organization and be like, uh, why aren't you |
| 1:23.2 | speaking about the job losses in Flint? I mean, you're not too far off. It's like, you know, PG-13, R, NC17, those ratings. |
| 1:33.3 | It's like, those ratings are determined by a shadowy body of conservatives who watch movies all day and have very rigorous guidelines, but also rigorous guidelines that are very easily corruptible. |
| 1:44.5 | So it's like, so it's like obviously, you know, a big studio movie. |
| 1:47.8 | It's more lenient than an independent film or that sort of thing. |
| 1:50.3 | Anyway, the climax of it, the novelty of it is that he and, you know, Kirby Dick, who made |
| 1:56.5 | Allen versus Pharaoh, by the way, does like a Michael Moore style pursuit of these, these raiders. Right. He finds out who they are and all that. But I don't know. I think it's just funny. It's like, you know, it's a time capsule of Gen X, anti-censorship culture. It's like, man, if a movie has nudity and sex, it's R, but if it has violence, it's PG-13, man. |
| 2:20.4 | Right. |
| 2:20.7 | It's that very Gen X thing of thinking, like, yeah, the most radical, you know, position you |
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