What movies are you watching?

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Mickey wrote:All the best PTA movies are about the inexorable movement of history, the real unseen motor of the world.
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Get mad and go to Hawaii about it.
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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I'll never be mad at you!

I would like to go to Hawaii though.
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Okay settler colonialist.
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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I don't want to settle Hawaii, Mickey.
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Oh my g-d
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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I'm not saying it's his best, but PDL is probably my favorite.
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don’t just settle it, colonize it
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Is PDL the one with Jack Nicholson in it?
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spike wrote:Is PDL the one with Jack Nicholson in it?
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PDL suffers from not having nearly enough PSH
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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epilogue wrote:
spike wrote:Is PDL the one with Jack Nicholson in it?
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Flase.
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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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Do you have a quick temper, trag?
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tragabigzanda wrote:The Master works on an impressionistic level in a way that none of his other films quite touch (though TWBB comes close at times). It's enjoyment comes less from story or plot and more from the evocation of past experiences and half-remembered dreams that somehow get dredged up while watching scenes unfold...

Like when Joaquin is photographing people in the department store? He's obviously a loser and he's being paid to take these photographs of all these nice, normal, happy couples...Until he starts a fight with one of them, and loses his job. That whole sequence just obliterates me every time. It somehow captures the feeling of 100 different experiences I've had without directly reflecting any one of them.

There's like 20 scenes in the film like that.
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I like the motorcycle scene. Not Joaquin's part necessarily, but before thaat, when Hoffman is riding. He's just a dude loving life, making up shit as he goes along. A true Master.
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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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Insightful. I guess I don’t relate to these characters in that way. They often just feel silly and confused to me.
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No wonder you don't relate to them
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Imagine that PSH is Chris Rock
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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