What movies are you watching?

[Ello Sailor]

I finally got around to seeing T2: Trainspotting. It was better than it had any right to be.

[LoathedVermin72]

T2 was great, really great

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Ello Sailor]

T2 was great, really great

I feel like some of the references to the original were shoehorned in a little hard, but otherwise it was great.

[LoathedVermin72]

T2 was great, really great

I feel like some of the references to the original were shoehorned in a little hard, but otherwise it was great.

That’s fair, but I think it works because the movie is all about examining nostalgia, so it doesn’t just feel like “Hey remember TRAINSPOTTING???”

[epilogue]

I just don't enjoy watching stuff like that. Call me old fashioned, but I usually like to root for somebody in film & tv.

So you're not a Sopranos fan?

I loved The Sopranos, but I could route for Tony. I admire his weird ethical code. Patrick Bateman, and the gangsters in early Tarantino fit this mold too.

So, you find it easy to root for Patrick Bateman but not Don Draper?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

I just don't enjoy watching stuff like that. Call me old fashioned, but I usually like to root for somebody in film & tv.

So you're not a Sopranos fan?

I loved The Sopranos, but I could route for Tony. I admire his weird ethical code. Patrick Bateman, and the gangsters in early Tarantino fit this mold too.

Tony was a HORRIBLE person, he was a hypocritical bully who destroyed many lives both literally and figuratively. I don't think he had much of an ethical code beyond loving his family

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

So, "love your family until they're a risk to your goals THEN KILL THEM" is an admirable code?

Tony is a complex and fascinating character, yes, but he is the definition of a horrible monster of a person, way more horrible than just a selfish and dishonest wall street crook (Jordan Belfort). Is the fact that Belfort is a real person what gets you?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Ello Sailor]

Tony was definitely a piece of shit, yeah.

[epilogue]

Trag, did you watch the entire series of Mad Men?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

I don’t want to root for anyone

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i usually root for the main character - vile or not

[doug rr]

i usually root for the main character - vile or not

who is the main character in the rm movie?

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i usually root for the main character - vile or not

who is the main character in the rm movie?

it's a toss-up between madTIGERman and section411

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i usually root for the main character - vile or not

who is the main character in the rm movie?

malice