What movies are you watching?

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The Tragedy of Macbeth is very good, but I'll tell you what: It ain't gonna be winning any awards for Best Original Screenplay!
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Rear Window
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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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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tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:Rear Window
:luv:
Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Mickey wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:Rear Window
:luv:
Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.
shocking
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though not really because it's old
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epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:Rear Window
:luv:
Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.
shocking
What's shocking?
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:Rear Window
:luv:
Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.
shocking
What's shocking?
"so good"
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though not really because it's old
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I'm really not following here: you're surprised I think Rear Window, a near-universally acclaimed movie, is "so good," but then you're less surprised because it's an older movie?
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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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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Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Anyway it looks like a ton of Hitchcocks are leaving Criterion next Monday. I've shamefully never spent any serious time with him so I'm going to try to blow through the hits in the next week.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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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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Mickey wrote:Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.
yeah, close enough
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tragabigzanda wrote:Oh that should be fun. Read Window is maybe my favorite though.
Top 3 for sure

Though, there are plenty I haven't seen so that's a hollow claim.
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epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.
yeah, close enough
What am I missing??
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.
yeah, close enough
What am I missing??
I don't imagine our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past. You just seem to like old movies and cut them a lot of slack.
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