Steve Albini wrote: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.
What movies are you watching?
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me too!Jorge wrote:Absolutely loved Swallow
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Raw is a great feminine/ist body horror, too
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Geezes guys. So are you two the perfect romantic partners than who communicate everything perfectly at all times GEEE IM SORRY YOU CAN'T RELATE TO AMOVIE LIKE THIS THENtragabigzanda wrote:They had a lot of awkward flirting throughout the movie, interrupted by repeated moments of misunderstanding based on his OCD. Stupid!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i haven't seen on the rocks, and it's been a years since i've seen as good as it gets...but they weren't really partners or even that close until the end, no? plus he was the type who would never just volunteer that about himselftragabigzanda wrote:As Good As It Gets has the same problem. If Jack just told Helen “I have ocd,” no movie.The Argonaut wrote:I watched the Sofia Coppola/Bill Murray/Rashida Jones movie, On the Rocks. It's OK enough, but all the drama is based around an adult who is incapable of having an honest conversation with their partner, which always bugs me. This really shouldn't be a whole movie. Just use your words. Express your needs and fears and desires to your partner and we wouldn't have to go through all this whackadoodlery
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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You're lying.tragabigzanda wrote:basically yesStrat wrote:Geezes guys. So are you two the perfect romantic partners than who communicate everything perfectly at all times GEEE IM SORRY YOU CAN'T RELATE TO AMOVIE LIKE THIS THENtragabigzanda wrote:They had a lot of awkward flirting throughout the movie, interrupted by repeated moments of misunderstanding based on his OCD. Stupid!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i haven't seen on the rocks, and it's been a years since i've seen as good as it gets...but they weren't really partners or even that close until the end, no? plus he was the type who would never just volunteer that about himselftragabigzanda wrote:As Good As It Gets has the same problem. If Jack just told Helen “I have ocd,” no movie.The Argonaut wrote:I watched the Sofia Coppola/Bill Murray/Rashida Jones movie, On the Rocks. It's OK enough, but all the drama is based around an adult who is incapable of having an honest conversation with their partner, which always bugs me. This really shouldn't be a whole movie. Just use your words. Express your needs and fears and desires to your partner and we wouldn't have to go through all this whackadoodlery
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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ILL REMEMBER this next time you come to us with a problem.tragabigzanda wrote:True story: When I first met my wife, she had a boyfriend; she and I were just friends for a while.Strat wrote:You're lying.tragabigzanda wrote:basically yesStrat wrote:Geezes guys. So are you two the perfect romantic partners than who communicate everything perfectly at all times GEEE IM SORRY YOU CAN'T RELATE TO AMOVIE LIKE THIS THENtragabigzanda wrote:They had a lot of awkward flirting throughout the movie, interrupted by repeated moments of misunderstanding based on his OCD. Stupid!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i haven't seen on the rocks, and it's been a years since i've seen as good as it gets...but they weren't really partners or even that close until the end, no? plus he was the type who would never just volunteer that about himselftragabigzanda wrote:As Good As It Gets has the same problem. If Jack just told Helen “I have ocd,” no movie.The Argonaut wrote:I watched the Sofia Coppola/Bill Murray/Rashida Jones movie, On the Rocks. It's OK enough, but all the drama is based around an adult who is incapable of having an honest conversation with their partner, which always bugs me. This really shouldn't be a whole movie. Just use your words. Express your needs and fears and desires to your partner and we wouldn't have to go through all this whackadoodlery
She and her boyfriend were having difficulties, and she asked for my advice. "I'm not sure I should offer any advice because I'm really attracted to you."
She dumped his emotionally ambiguous ass and got with Mr. Clearcut.
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team strat...especially on as good as it gets...the last thing that character would have done is make himself vulnerable in that way
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Yeah he was a mentally ill misanthrope. It's true that there wouldn't be a movie if he had been open and honest about it, but it also wouldn't be in character for him to be.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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that's a much better critique than not telling her he had ocd
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Yes!tragabigzanda wrote:Does OCD count as a mental illness?
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is autism?Jorge wrote:Yes!tragabigzanda wrote:Does OCD count as a mental illness?
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I don't know!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:is autism?Jorge wrote:Yes!tragabigzanda wrote:Does OCD count as a mental illness?
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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rain man?tragabigzanda wrote:I really hate that movie
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So dont pin your hopes or pin your dreams on misanthropes and guys like me, and the truth is overrated - i suppose
Its a wonderful lie, i still get by on those.
Its a wonderful lie, i still get by on those.
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is that 311?
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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