I still haven’t seen Blue Valentine yet, because although everyone who’s seen it tells me it’s good, the trailer gave me really bad ukulele flashbacks.  (Seriously, for the next month I’d break out in a cold sweat if I so much as smelled a soy chai).  Anyway, I guess it’s supposed to be good because they filmed it, like, totally method, totally guerilla style, to the point where director Derek Cianfrance wanted Baby Goose to go have sex with his onscreen wife Michelle Williams (they’re rumored to be dating).  Watch people have sex?  Who does he think he is, James Franco?

Cianfrance had Gosling and Michelle live together in their rural Pennsylvania house with their onscreen daughter (Faith Wladyka) and watched as they struggled with the real stresses of having to share a bathroom and do the dishes three times a day. Their grocery budget was based on Dean’s salary as a housepainter and Cindy’s a nurse (she never did become a doctor)– $200 every two weeks.

“Mundane domestic tasks have a way of really stagnating two people and deteriorating something that’s beautiful,” Cianfrance said.

He accelerated the relationship’s corrosion by starting off-screen fights between his actors. One night he told Gosling to go into Williams’ bedroom and try to make love to her. Gosling, soundly rejected, ended up sleeping on the couch. [HuffPo]

“Hey, girl… I was just talking to Derek, and he says he wants us to… no, no, the couch is super duper comfy, don’t even worry about it. In fact, we don’t mind it at all, do we, Patches!  …Haha, whatever you’re comfortable with, girl.”

I imagine making love to Baby Goose would be so gentle and considerate, you’d feel just like that girl sliding down a hill on an inner tube.  Exciting, but above all, safe.

The most laughable part of the documentary Overnight (which you should definitely check out if you haven’t seen) is when they imply that Harvey Weinstein might’ve been trying to have Troy Duffy killed.  But the fact that people would believe that about him shows you what kind of reputation Harvey Weinstein has.  And now he’s pissed at the MPAA, which is good news, because the MPAA are a bunch of corrupt A-holes.

In response to the ratings given to two of its upcoming films, The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has engaged a formidable legal team to challenge the NC-17 rating for BLUE VALENTINE and the R rating for THE KING’S SPEECH.

THE KING’S SPEECH drew an R rating due to its multiple occurrences of strong language, even though it is used in a non-aggressive, non-sexual, therapeutic way.

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Perhaps the most shocking development in modern movie history, FilmDrunk favorite and admitted cuddlebug Ryan Gosling is starring in a NC-17 movie. Blue Valentine, which is set for a limited release on December 31, received the box office cursing rating because of what some analysts have called a seriously intense sex scene between Gosling and his co-star Michelle Williams. And if you need any evidence of that intensity, check out the incredibly passionate and extreme poster that was just released for the film. Hey girl, don’t worry, I’ll cover your eyes at the naughty parts.

Valentine was an instant hit at Sundance and Cannes this year but the aforementioned gritty and intense sex scene has left the film lingering in NC-17 limbo. However, the always over-the-top and spaztastic Ted Casablanca at E! is up in arms over this rating and I’m worried because I don’t want him to spill his Pinkberry in a fit of rage.

Why should we even see the movie if the poster tells us everything we need to know, Ted?

Because, as you’ll remember, it isn’t sex that scored this flick it’s pseudo X-rating. And that’s why the poster perfectly encompasses the dark and gritty sexiness of the flick.

No nudity necessary—’cause there’s practically no nudity in the movie, either. Is this the weirdest ratings dissing ever, or what?

Dude, chill out, it’s a freaking poster. I just walked by the movie theater next to my office like an hour ago and it has a poster for Megamind up and I didn’t sit there and try to break down how the placement of the characters reflects the mesmerizing diabolical nature of the film’s animated antagonist. Actually, I farted and thought about getting ice cream. I didn’t, though. Hey girl, these rippling abs don’t need any fudge ripple.

A trailer for Blue Valentine awaits you after the jump…

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Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine is in the news today after the MPAA slapped it with an NC-17 rating, and no one seems to know why. It played at Sundance, and people who saw it say it has “barely any nudity.” Meanwhile, the trailer just hit Yahoo movies, and it features Ryan Baby Goose Gosling playing the ukulele while Michelle Williams tap dances.  Ahh, now I see why it’s rated NC-17.  I wouldn’t want my kids around these f*cking hipsters either.

Hey, girl.  My fans are called huggalos. You should fan us on Facebook!  Haha, but only if you want to.

Ryan Gosling is at Cannes promoting his movie with Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine.  I missed it at Sundance, but Baby Goose gave an interview to NY Magazine recently, and it sounds like director Derek Cianfrance just sort of stuck the cast in a house, made them improvise a relationship, and filmed it.  It all sounds very hipster.  However, there was this quote:

And your character has a tattoo of Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree on his arm?
That book is so f*cked up; that story’s the worst. I mean, at the end the tree is a stump and the old guy just sitting on him; he’s just used him to death, and you’re supposed to want to be the tree? F*ck you. You be the tree. I don’t want to be the tree. [hat tip: BWE]

WHO TAUGHT BABY GOOSE THOSE AWFUL WORDS!!?!  I’m going to march down to the school right now and get to the bottom of this.

“Hey girl, that book of children’s poetry was pretty depressing. What say we gather up the neighborhood kids and plant some trees?  I don’t want to be too forward, but maybe when it gets bigger, we could stand underneath it and hold hands. Haha, I love you, community service.”