The line "Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere" is the line that stuck with me. I haven't seen Ratatouille in years, but that quote occasionally pops into my head.

I wonder if any film critic made/wrote a movie that was generally well-loved.

Roger Ebert wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which wasn't super well received, but does have something of a cult following.

A lot of the big directors of the French New Wave were former critics, including Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

It becomes easier over time, as the critic dwells more and more on the negative and allow themselves to become jaded or numb to it. I see it all the time in internet critics who earn notoriety for being bombastic or hyperbolic in their negative criticism, only to steadily lose credibility as they either burnout on their own bile-spewing or their capacity to appreciate or even notice positive aspects of content diminishes.

Birdman did this wonderfully :) art for the sake of art- or art for the sake of others people's admiration? You can never please everybody, but as long as you stay true to yourself, you're on the right path!

IDK, I feel like too many people ignore the fact that criticism is its own sort of pursuit that combines different skills, namely writing and analytical ones. There's all sorts of different types of criticism. You've got generic populist reviews, really lengthy and in-depth scholarly and academic criticism, short, punchy reviews from critics like Pauline Kael, Ebert style reviews that straddle a middle ground, etc, etc. Some people even consider it its own art form.

The whole "critics don't make anything they just hate" is just an empty platitude meant to make the GP feel better about themselves IMO. And in the film, Anton spells out his epiphany in the form of a review. It's actually kind of interesting. He sort of discredits his own position in a way that validates its worth at the same time.

Gary Whitta was a PC Gamer writer. Wrote Book of Eli and Rouge One. Many, many Videogame writers and creators came from the critic circles. It make sense that rarely the 1% critics cross over as they have firmly established careers but being a critic as a stepping stone to art and using that time to really learn the intricacies of the craft and learn how to separate opinion from quality-among other skills- isn’t that unusual. Source: was my career path, watched my colleagues spread all over entertainment.

The dropping of the pen is to me one of thw best pixar movie scenes

It's echoing a cheap sentiment that doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. Art is criticism and criticism is art. You're creating something either way, and it's virtually unheard-of for a piece of art to not be commenting, however obliquely, on something (or many things) the artist has absorbed up to that point - which includes both "art" and "criticism," if you still insist on dividing the two.

Generally speaking, a broadside assault on criticism is a convenient out for both overly-sensitive artists and crass commercialists who don't want any shred of shame (or taste) to stop people from buying more shit. In fields where form and function overlap, it's also become a dangerously powerful dodge for liability when the mechanical aspects don't work properly. Video games, I'm looking at you - but it's been true ever since somebody got the idea to make a designer car or even a designer piece of furniture. There's no law that says you can't make and sell something that looks like a couch, but can't be used as a couch. But if you sell it as a couch and it collapses into a heap of sharp wood and nails when somebody sits on it... well, the first thing to do is, delegitimize the critics!

I wonder if any film critic made/wrote a movie that was generally well-loved.

Truffaut made some amazing movies.

Probably quite a few, but their great work usually eclipses their critiques. Edgar Allen Poe was a well-known literary critic before being published. A lesser known one is David Thomas from cult band Pere Ubu - he was a local music critic before getting his band started. Sometimes it helps to be analytical about other’s art so you can find what you want to do with your own art.

I think its less about the critic being able to write a film and more about the value of a critics opinion. Critics have tremendous power but will spend most of their time saying something is average. Its only in those special moments, where they can play off something unique and special, that will give them genuine meaning. The life of a critic is a strange one.

Speaking recently, I believe C. Robert Cargill was a critic at Ain’t it cool news before writing Sinister and Doctor Strange.

Rotten tomatoes rankings:

Sinister - 63% Doctor Strange - 90%

Many French filmmakers from the 1960s such as Jean-Luc Godard and André Bazin started out as film critics that were fed up with cookie cutter filmmaking and decided to get real weird with it. Without them, films like Pulp Fiction and Memento wouldn't exist.

I wonder if any film critic made/wrote a movie that was generally well-loved.

Much of the French New Wave was made up of critics turned filmmakers, and a bunch of those films are regarded as among the greatest of all time. The 400 Blows and Breathless are among the most recognizable of the bunch. There was even a documentary made about Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock's relationship.

I can't throw a football to save my life but I know a bad play when I see one.

I wonder if any film critic made/wrote a movie that was generally well-loved.

James Agee wrote the screenplays for The African Queen (1951) and The Night of the Hunter (1955).

Space cop is a masterpiece

I think it gets lost on the idea people always state, "then you do it better".

We dont need to create something ourselves, or do it better to be able to judge something of value. We can still comprehended, understand and discern things with having the ability to actually create it. If that was the case, art wouldn't even be something we celebrate.

“[I]t's an amazing triumph even to make a bad movie. Even a crap film is really an extraordinary achievement. You're taking a two-dimensional object and making it three-dimensional. The number of people. The number of days. The number of cuts.” -Bill Murray

Always loved that quote from him. And still makes me reconsider how sometimes I like a movie even though the critical or popular opinion doesn't agree with me. And Waterworld.

People who have hobbies in which they make things are generally much more satisfied with life. Making music, making art, making food. If you push yourself to create something, and you love it, you'll be happy.

Charlie Brooke's springs to mind - longtime video game/TV/Film critic and culture writer with the Guardian, now best known as the creator of Black Mirror

I’m glad you asked. Luca Guadagnino was a film critic and he just made one of the finest films ever made — Call Me By Your Name.

It speaks to me as well. When you've practiced drawing for many years you tend to be more negative to your own work since you see so many flaws and ways you could have done better. But then I began to see more clearly the flaws in other great artist's works be it slight asymmetry in a cartoon character or odd angles; that's when I realized that there will always be flaws in your work and there will always be ways to improve them, and what matters most is how much you have improved over time.

this is one of the themes of this speech by teddy roosevelt that led to its most central, lasting quote, the man in the arena. http://mentalfloss.com/article/63389/roosevelts-man-arena

To me, the point is really that the critic exists purely because of the art. The critic is very much secondary to it, a by-product. And you have to remember that critics do what they do out of passion for that art form. I don't think the line is supposed to "deconstruct" or "refute" criticism in general, because it's still an important part of art...I mean any time you have a reaction to or enjoy a work of art you are yourself engaging in criticism. It's supposed to illustrate the fact that criticism is beholden to the art, because that's what comes first and foremost.

Francois Truffaut was a prominent critic who was frequently challenged to put his money where his mouth was and make a film. His debut, The 400 Blows, is a seminal work in the French New Wave.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_400_Blows

This is exactly why I stopped watching CinemaSins. They don’t seem to add anything of value (and half the time they’re completely wrong anyway).

i once saw a t-shirt that said:

SMART
CRITIQUES
STUPID
CREATES

sorry about the formatting, it doesn't make much sense as a 4 word phrase with no punctuation

Obligatory: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

Charlie Brooker was vilified for a short while, for his criticism of TV, and people said he had no right to be so harsh when he'd never made anything. In response he wrote and made Black Mirror.

I wrote an article by using his quote to "help the new" a little unnoticed yet innovative movie was made and I had to tell people about it. Only a couple hundred ever read that post in the end. But I like to believe if even a couple of them watched the movie because of it. My task was successful.

Roger Ebert wrote “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens,” so that’s a big yes!

I quite liked Space Cop by Red Letter Media.

Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith cross my mind

I think that line speaks volumes about the internet and the multitude of forums (and subreddits) filled with people picking apart and criticising TV shows, movies, games, and all other forms of culture. The very thing that's being criticised, be it a AAA game or some amateur musician's youtube channel, is worth more than the sum of criticism levelled at it. Those contributions to culture have meaning, depth and value. The criticisms contribute very little actual worth.

I'm guilty of it too. We're so quick to criticise (or just be critical) but we make nothing new and original of our own. The line you referenced is absurdly humbling when you think about it.

Francois Truffaut was a film critic before he began making movies

Kickassia is the greatest movie of all time dude.

Well Francois Truffaut was generally adored by the general public and critics alike, and he started out as a prolific film critic

This comment sucks.

After all this time?
Alwa-
Woops wrong movie

I don't know if anyone will be able to answer this but... That's an amazing scene and years later I read about proust and his story of the madaleine. I'm absolutely convinced that the scene from Ratatouille is an homage to proust.

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. ... Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize and apprehend it? ... And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom, my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it. And all from my cup of tea. — Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

26 days old comment but important enough for me to write. That scenes is my favorite moment from the movie, when I eat really good food, I call it my Ratatouille moment.

When placing the order, he demands to be served some perspective by the chef.

Just saw Coco a few days ago. I was blown away by multiple parts of the movie. Pixar has always been amazing, and I hope they continue to consistently make good movies

I don't think kids understood that speech. I know I didn't when I watched it as a kid. It took me rewatches as an adult to understand what that essay was about.

Right? Sitting in the dentist waiting room with the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. His voice sells it so well.

You are me, except I alone share my love for cooking, and have no one to share it with. But the movie inspires me so much, I am thinking about it when I try to save a dish, or trying a new adventure in cooking. In those cooking moments that I love, I am thinking about a rat.

I'd argue that a far more important lesson for 99.9% of people is "don't be afraid of passion despite lack of raw talent". A genius cook is a very rare thing, but everyone can benefit from a slight boost of confidence, even if they'll never be a Gordon Ramsay or Raymond Blanc.

I think it's generally a good point for a lot of things in real life as well (as other comments have pointed out).

Same here, I thought i was random european dude.

In The Incredibles, when Helen tells the kids it's not like a Saturday morning cartoon, it really set a mood

And most of them have that moment at least once, but some really shine in this regard. Some of their movies made really brave decisions when it came to the depth and execution of the characters and plot development - Ratatouille for taking such a ridiculous concept and making it work, Up for tackling a heavy subjects like death and aging, Wall-E for having a main character who barely talks, and Inside Out for well... the whole film.

Seriously, who goes to make a film, sits down and says "let's make a children's film set from the perspective of the inside of a kid's head, and make it about how growing up is both hard but ultimately good, with the moral of the film being that it's ok to be sad." ...and then freaking makes that film, and it's awesome. I've never seen another filmmaker try to do anything nearly that challenging, much less do it so well. They take concepts that adults have a hard time explaining and break it down so kids can understand it and relate to it.

Ironically, one of the least brave stories they've done IMO is Brave.

Just watched Coco where Hector sings a booby song and shares a shot of tequila with the old dying guy. Spot on.

I know technically not just Pixar, but Meet the Robinsons probably hit me the hardest. "Keep moving forward" and all that. It actually helped me out in college while I dealt with anxiety and some personal problems. Dwelling on things helps no one.

I wouldn't really say that they "turn adult." I'd say that most of their great movies can be seen almost entirely from an adult perspective. All of Toy Story 2 is about Woody struggling with mortality and whether or not it is better to live a long life without happiness or to life a short and happy life. All of Finding Nemo is about the fear of losing your child. Ratatouille is about accepting and encouraging new artists. WALL-E is about environmentalism. Inside Out is about learning that sadness is important to our lives and that we can't always be happy. Coco is about how one balances their cultural traditions with their individual dreams. Even Cars has the relatively deep theme of people not being able to appreciate the world until the slow down and take a look at it. Pixar movies don't just turn adult for a moment. They just can be seen as both kids movies and adult movies.

cars 3 bro

When Bob thinks the missiles got his family :(

I didn't see them, what were they?

Or the Brave Little Toaster, when all those cars are singing about being destroyed as they die.

Yes absolutely, it was more artsy and a lot less playful. Definitely a standout by comparison

Check my post histiry, I'm allowed to show some of them

May I introduce you to our Lord and Savior Bing Bong, who died for our sins?

I remeber really disliking Jessie from Toy Story 2 as a kid, and didn't exactly "get" her flashback story/song. Man, did I have a huge change of heart when I rewatched that part as an adult. Especially with how she gets anxiety/claustrophobia when it comes to be put inside a box or closed container.

lmao you like dicks

I don't know much about him but he always came off friendly to me, how is he a dick?

He is a dick in the same way every asshole who worked in a kitchen his/her whole life is a dick. It’s a very specific kind of dickishness that is combined with a dash of wit and charm.

I’ve worked in a ton of restaurants and the head cook (or chef depending on the place) is always a dick. But they’re good dicks.

I imagine it’s the same kind of attitude that arises in the military, although I’ve never been in the service. It’s the hard edged guy with a sharp tongue and attitude who has your fucking back and you don’t really know it until you need to know.

It’s also a very no nonsense attitude.

His whole style is just so interesting.

His take on the MeToo movement has been inspiring.

That’s a perfectly succinct description of the genius that is AB.

I think I’m out of the loop. Why is Anthony Bourdain a dick?

I think he has the clout to be. He can be a dick but he seems super genuine.

I've rolled with him in BJJ before. Tough guy. Really, really nice and humble though. Introduced himself as Tony. Didn't turn down any rolls or put any conditions on rolling with him (which a lot of celebrities do). Took time after training to take pictures with whoever wanted them. I've met celebrities of a way lesser degree that were 1000x a dick as him.

You get to see a more real Tony when he is with Eric Ripert. His Sichuan episode is a good one. He seems to act himself more and not such a pretentious douch. I Ike Tony, he's a great narrator and author.

/r/suddenlygay

Bumper!

plus, no one is really ever 100% a dick

You’ve just been banned from /r/Russia

Initially misread that as lickable dick.

Why is he a dick? Don't tell me he sexually assaulted someone too?

My bro once said to me, "You remind me of that travel food guy: Anthony Bourdain." I still can't decide whether he meant it in a good or bad way.

Sometimes you just need a good dick.

He's from Jersey. That describes the majority of us.

Never really thought of him as a dick and I've read many of his books/seen a lot of his shows. What would make you think he's a dick? Genuinely curious about this.

Are you confusing Bourdain with Ramsay? Bourdain has never been anything but chill from what I've seen.

He's a fucking egotist whose opinion in his shows is dictated entirely by whether his host or guide is an attractive woman

Ya’ll

It’s best if you try to remember that Reddit consists of millions of people.

Also...it’s spelled y’all.

<godwin's law>

Hitler followed his dreams, too.

</godwin's law>

Get 'em, if Anthony Bourdain was some no name on public access they would think he sucks.

"I get to eat cubanos, hang out with Robert Downey Jr. and kiss Sofia Vergara and Scar Jo and there's no one that can tell me I can't!"

To be fair, he already worked with RDJ and Scarjo in Iron Man..

That ending scene of Big Night is so disarming. Even without the context of the rest of the movie it does such an amazing job of expressing the characters' feelings, and without dialogue. It moves some part of me in the way that I imagine people who subscribe to /r/ASMR must feel moved.

Big Night is the only movie I have downloaded to my phone.

That breakfast scene truly is one of the most memorable scenes in all of cinema.

And I thought it was super cool of them to do an episode with Andrew on binging with babish today

Nothing happens in Chef, there's no conflict whatsoever, there's no character development, it was like the elevator music of movies.

Yeah, read that joke earlier on reddit.

That's the part of the industry some of us started in and have no desire to return to.

Who is Guy.... Meatdrapes? What kind of name is that?

I'm actually ashamed to say ive never seen that industry movie. I liked super troopers and beer fest but HATED Club Dread. Should I give Slammn Salmon a try?

And the companion piece, Waiting?

"excuses are like assholes. Everyone's got one but don't nobody wanna admit it!"

Waiting is better.

The movie was just so happy and easygoing I kept expecting the bottom to fall out. Nope. Just a nice, fun, thoroughly enjoyable movie.

Binging with Babish, on YouTube, just did an ode to this movie's chocolate lava cake scene.

My name chef

Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossolini and Mark Anthony as the quite dishy/prep also!

Stanley Tucci's terrible Italian accent mixed with broken English is so bad though lol. Good movie anyway.

Thanks, watching this next.

I enjoyed exactly because it was so light. There was no villain, no particularly major conflicts, no attempt to shoe horn in heady drama. It was just a fun, easy going, food loving road trip film that you don't have to think too much about and I absolutely appreciated it for that. Also the sound track was boss.

The happy ending didn't feel terribly unrealistic to me. Which part did you not buy? The journey to get there (mainly the kid / social media bit which you covered) was obviously BS, but the idea that a world class chef could get beaten down by a boss who basically wants his restaurant to be a corporate gig going back to his roots and gaining success again doesn't seem too far fetched to me.

Plenty of great chefs have had some huge whiffs on their road to success.

Looks to me like it's technically more about directing (Jon Favreau, the main character and the director) than it is about actually being a chef. It draws parallels without being a direct allegory and is more about the creative process and industries than it is about 'chef life'. It does make the setting feel as nice as possible, and one of the major points was the importance of balancing life-work and how good content doesn't mean good reception since, like you said, the kid's marketing made all the difference.

Really not a bad film, but a bad film if you want a 'restaurant life' film. Ratatouille is better for that.

Absolutely with you on this, dude. In my opinion, Ratatouille is proper top-50-movies-ever material, and Chef is just so lazy, cheesy, and cynical. It's paint-by-numbers film-making. John Leguizamo struggles bravely but even he can't save this burnt sandwich of a movie.

I liked it. It isn't Citizen Kane, but it is a nice, feel-good movie.

technically - twitter paid for that movie and netflix picked it up.

It's funny, I think Ratatouille is a masterpiece, and while it's definitely not as good a film, I'd consider Chef's complete lack of conflict to be a strange strength for it.

I truly have a hard time thinking of a film that has less conflict than Chef. After the first 15 minutes, it's just a celebration of food and family, and after awhile it just kinda says "I'm done, that was nice" and ends. It's wild.

My fiancee is a professional chef, and it's amazing how out of touch with tech and social media most exec chefs, KMs, and other senior staff can be. She's defaulted to social media manager and general tech support at several of the places she's worked.

Also my favorite part

Scrolled down way too far to see this

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Thanks man. It’s not a glamorous life, but it makes me happy :)

Thank you :)

Yes. Yes I do.

I’m 22. I would consider twelve to be “little”.

Fuck yeah man! I’ve done plenty of dish shifts in my day, and I’m sure I have more coming my way. You’re never really done with it, there’s always going to be that day your guy calls in sick, or has to take their SO to the hospital, or just decides he’s too good to do an honest day’s work. Dishies kick ass! They’re one of the most valuable parts of a kitchen, and they make the best cooks too :) If this sounds like a path you want to explore, ask if there’s some extra prep your chef or kitchen manager needs a hand with. Are the utensils disorganized? Does it take your cooks five minutes shuffling through a pile of measuring cups, ladels, and tongs to find the fucking Y-Peeler? Fix it; whenever possible offer solutions, not more problems for your chef to be worried about. Even if they don’t care (and those hateful, asinine idiots do exist unfortunately) you at least know that you did it. And, through doing it, you learned some valuable organizational skills and got some genuine kitchen experience. I live for the moments I’m cooking, but that’s just one aspect of the job. It’s a dirty gig, and in my experience the guy willing to do the dirty work is always treated better than the guy who went to school for it. The nice thing about the industry, at least as far as I’ve seen, is that if you’re willing to learn and to work there’s nowhere you can’t go with it. I don’t have any Michelin stars on my sleeve. Yet. But I know that if I’m willing to make the sacrifices necessary (and there will be A LOT of them) I can get there. I hope this doesn’t come off conceited. In the big picture I’m still just a minnow that found itself out in the ocean. But I’ve been just a dishwasher before, and I remember how that feels. I know how rarely you’re given the appreciation you deserve. So be proud man, you’re still further along than everyone else who thought cooking was a cute job. You’re putting in the effort; and if you decide this is really what you want you’ll be better off for having done it. Heard?

Literally tells you that himself in the first sentence you asshat.

I see, that is a pretty nice detail that I'd never even consider.

I have SO many scars. A stranger once asked me (gently) if I tried to commit suicide about a particularly nasty burn across the inside of my wrist.

:Hauling stuff out of the oven at high speeds leaves nasty line burns across the top of hands and wrists.

I don't cook professionally but I cook my own meals most of the time and even I have a few burns here and there. I'd imagine working professionally in the kitchen would really rack the burns up

Like an old man's thumb and forefinger when they roll their own cigarettes

Or short enough, currently working in a kitchen and you learn QUICK how to avoid it as much as you can.

You know what they say, if you play with fire you're gonna get cut.

Totally. I just noticed my iPhone can’t read my thumbprints anymore from burning them so many times

Ah yea, was cool I guess..

Don’t you dare talk shit about my boy Mike Wazowski. He got the looks and all the hoes

Same thing for the Nightmare Before Christmas here. I always found it just way too creepy, and the way the characters moved was unsettling for me. I ended up watching it on tv about 2 years ago or something and it's now one of my favorite movies.

It's actually a genius script when you think about it, You fully accept a WILD premise 2 and a half minuets into a film that there is another dimension full of monsters that power their own society through children's screams in a high risk facility. you get all that information very clearly and accept it. That is freegin difficult, i don't think i could explain peter freegin pan in under 2 minutes. this was brought to my attention by a podcast... We'll See you in Hell or Harmontown, i don't remember which but it really stuck in my head

because of those ugly looking characters

I witnessed some kids being frightened by the movie live as well, so that's a reasonable reaction.

Personally really enjoy that movie.

I feel like University deserves more credit. It tackled a subject that people don't just actively ignore, but detest. The idea that not anyone can be anything they want even with an insane amount of dedication and hardwork. But that they can still achieve greatness if only it means adjusting to the cards they've been dealt.

I LOVE monsters Inc. I was surprised how well the sequel was. I typically hate prequels.

2319! WE GOT A 2319!

Oh my god, no one expected it to start like that.

The Adventure Book scene towards the end always gets me to this day. The music, the expression on Carl's face, all of it is just magical and beautiful and tragic at the same time. I've seen that scene many times and it's still one that leaves me congested and dehydrated when it's done.

If you didn't at least tear up you're either a middle schooler or a psychopath. No exceptions.

I first watched it with my daughter, who was the spitting image of Boo, with the pigtails and all. Him losing her door had already softened me up pretty good. Then getting that last piece - man.

MU is nice, but there's little emotional resonance.

I literally went to university the year three came out.

I was a fucking mess at the end.

Phrasing! Are we still doing phrasing?

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Brazzers

You ruined my childhood already ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Likewise. The scene of him explaining all the toys as he passed them on made me cry so goddamn hard. As a kid I had a Woody and Buzz and some others from the film, so it really cut deep.

Same, midnight showing and everyone in the theater was my age. We bawled together and it was beautiful.

Ratatouille is one of the most common "comfort food" dishes in French cuisine. It's highly likely that Remy, as someone who mostly self-taught, would fall back on a dish he was probably very used to making/seeing. He chose a dish that, intentionally or as simply the first thing that came to his head, reflected his humble origins and minimal formal education. It wasn't a successful dish because Anton loved it as a child; it was successful because Remy represented himself in that dish and pierced through the pretense of "craft" to truly connect through food. If it were a movie about an American chef, the equivalent would be like if he made Mac and Cheese. It's not a fancy or intricate dish, but a dish so common that even this mighty critic was forced to recall happier times when he truly enjoyed food without caring what it meant (which can be seen in how quickly he digs into the ratatouille in his flashback). It's not that he loved the dish because it was ratatouille. He loved the dish because it represented everything he lost and everything Remy is.

There’s a theory that the little old lady whose house Remy learns to cook in is the critic’s mother. Many details inside the house match up.

That’s a good question. I didn’t read too much into it myself, so I’m just taking a stab at it. The dish is considered rural (aka a pheasant’s dish). Whether or not the rat knew the critic’s background or not isn’t mentioned. But it’s safe to assume he did since he’s so famous. In that case, the critic would definitely have eaten it a few times at the least. My guess is it’s a dish he hasn’t eaten in a long time since it’s not fancy enough (everybody was shocked the rat did it). So even if it wasn’t his favorite it’s something he misses.

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/cZ9jY

It's not so much about food, but many many things, one such as the remembrance of things you've lost from youth.

I dare you to eat leather steak and catsup (ketchup?) without some tearing up.

This is why Reddit is so fun

Mind if I steal your guys idea. I’ve watched ratatouille a million times and never thought the soundtrack was on Apple Music. Le Festine is amazing

Une vie à me cacher et puis libre enfin Le festin est sur mon chemin

As a male, it's one of the few aspects of my wedding I've got pre planned. Girlfriend of 3 years is also a check.

Will do. Paris is such a dreamy place.

I second this! It was an outstanding movie!

Great movie, even better music.

And he's doing Incredibles 2.

Michael Giacchino also did Lost :)

Michael Giacchino right? He also did an amazing job with the 3 new Star Trek movies! And Spider-Man!

Don't forget Inside Out. Giachino's score to that is brilliant!

And coco too

You don't like Ratatouille?

Sure, that’s fair. I didn’t like the talking dogs or evil aviator stuff from up. I think Wall-E in the first half was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever seen, and then the rest of the movie dragged out what was already implicit in the premise. I think that’s it: the premise is better than the plot. Not to say they’re bad movies, just that they’re never as good as the beginning.

I think that was mostly script issues though. Plus it was a little weird with the George clone robot romance thing.

I thoroughly enjoyed Tomorrowland, there are far too few original movies being made these days.

Dang I thought I was the only person to ever remember Batteries Not Included. I loved it as a kid.

Haven't seen it since it came out. All I can remember was something like

Mixing Tomorrowland and Meet the Robinsons would make the perfect idealistic future movie.

Aw I thought Tomorrowland was fantastic :(

Yeah, it was a bad film. But every great director has bad films. I think we should first look to their best rather than their failures.

If u luv him so much why dont you marry him