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The answer is woody allen
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Good dude
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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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The Argonaut wrote:
Farmer John wrote:
The Argonaut wrote: How did she catch on as a movie star?
It was probably due to her being super hot and delightful and not at all annoying.
I'm going to read this as sarcasm, I refuse to believe anything else
I gotta be honest, I was mixing her up a bit with Annette Bening, but I still stand by this.
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I watched half of Reds last night, and i'm probably team Argo on Diane Keaton. Granted it's been a long time since i've seen her works with Woody Allen, but having watched the first two Godfathers recently I definitely get where he's coming from.
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It's also such an oddly written part!

She's at dinner and someone asks her what she writes about and she says "Everything." "Everything?" "Yeah, everything. Nothing." And then is embarrassed when no one engages with her.

Even worse, when the publisher asks her to describe her work she says "I couldn't possible describe it." Like, what the hell? So Warren Beatty jumps in and describes something she recently wrote. The publisher offers to take a meeting with her based on that, she accepts, and then when the guy leaves she yells at Warren Beatty that she's perfectly capable of talking about her own work. But she just said that she couldn't describe it. She does not make sense to me.
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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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She's just not a good actor, and it's a silly movie. It's two romantic comedy characters in an epic setting. So the movie indulges itself in a 3.5 hour running time that it does not deserve or really make use of. The characters are as obnoxious and annoying as they were at the beginning of the movie
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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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I am not in a movie. I am a real person. It's ok for me to be obnoxious and annoying. It's not so easy to fix as just a little clickety clackety on a typewriter. There's no excuse for terrible writing. There are a lot of excuses for my terrible personality
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The Argonaut wrote:It's also such an oddly written part!

She's at dinner and someone asks her what she writes about and she says "Everything." "Everything?" "Yeah, everything. Nothing." And then is embarrassed when no one engages with her.

Even worse, when the publisher asks her to describe her work she says "I couldn't possible describe it." Like, what the hell? So Warren Beatty jumps in and describes something she recently wrote. The publisher offers to take a meeting with her based on that, she accepts, and then when the guy leaves she yells at Warren Beatty that she's perfectly capable of talking about her own work. But she just said that she couldn't describe it. She does not make sense to me.
Yeah I found those scenes bizarre also. I’m not disliking the film though. Did you finish it?
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:It's also such an oddly written part!

She's at dinner and someone asks her what she writes about and she says "Everything." "Everything?" "Yeah, everything. Nothing." And then is embarrassed when no one engages with her.

Even worse, when the publisher asks her to describe her work she says "I couldn't possible describe it." Like, what the hell? So Warren Beatty jumps in and describes something she recently wrote. The publisher offers to take a meeting with her based on that, she accepts, and then when the guy leaves she yells at Warren Beatty that she's perfectly capable of talking about her own work. But she just said that she couldn't describe it. She does not make sense to me.
Yeah I found those scenes bizarre also. I’m not disliking the film though. Did you finish it?
I finished it. I liked it for a while, too. It does have a fair bit going for it at points. There's an enjoyable and insightful and worthwhile ninety minute movie in there. But it loses a lot of goodwill and honestly (obviously) kind of pisses me off by being 3.5 hours
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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:
The Argonaut wrote:I am not in a movie. I am a real person. It's ok for me to be obnoxious and annoying. It's not so easy to fix as just a little clickety clackety on a typewriter.
But this is a message board
That occurred to me, but what you're getting here is pure, unedited argo. This is my true soul. I'm not taking time to make sure my posts make logical sense or convey the idea I want them to convey, I'm certainly not making edits to try to....you get it
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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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I got bored of my own post halfway through and just stopped writing it but I still posted it. this is the real me, these are my real random movie-related thoughts.

diane keaton is kind of annoying
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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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She isnt attractive that’s for sure
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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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