What movies are you watching?

[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.

[tree_]

yeah babe

oh, whoops.. it doesn't say babe anymore

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Then have an ape throw shit at you

[epilogue]

AL

[Anders]

Closing out the day with The Zookeeper's Wife. Can always count on Jessica Chastain.

Do a double feature with We Bought a Zoo!

Or a triple witb Life Of Pi.

[tommy]

I want to watch The Sting tonight, but I don't want to pay for it.

Assault on Precinct 13 is free on YouTube, so maybe I'll watch that instead.

[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.

[tommy]

I want to watch The Sting tonight, but I don't want to pay for it.

Assault on Precinct 13 is free on YouTube, so maybe I'll watch that instead.

Was the Precinct 13 remake any good?

I always assumed it was bad, but it got decent reviews and has a pretty good cast. I haven't seen either of them and will start with the original

[Anders]

Martin McDonagh

"I could see where that debate could come from, but I thought it was not seeing what I see in the film. The bait in the whole idea was: what's a villain and what's a hero? But I don't know. Basically, if someone's calling your film racist, and you wrote and directed it, that means they're calling you a racist. And I've always been so anti that, that, yes, it's hurtful. No one wants to be called that. ... Put a warning in the programme notes, sure, but let the character be who they are. Trust your audience to have the intelligence to know I'm not using these words. Characters need to be whatever they need to be. If they're nice, fine. If they're homophobic, you've got to know it's the character. If there are racist words, then that's to show an audience that this part of Ireland is racist. Or we're going in a direction of a bland, inoffensive nothingness."

[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.

[Anders]

I think Sam Rockwell did a great job as a mean spirited crooked alcoholic cop, that lives at home with his tough mother. Interesting that after getting fired, even he could work on solving a murder. Redeemed? I don’t think so, it is heavily suggested that they will take the law into their own hands, and kill the man they suspected, even if he was cleared of the murder of Frances daughter. Much more interesting than if he was only mean, and there was another kind and sensible cop that helped work on the murder.

[tommy]

Everybody be quiet, I just started Assault on Precinct 13 and I need to focus

[Anders]

The original is pretty good.

[tree_]

I think Sam Rockwell did a great job as a mean spirited crooked alcoholic cop, that lives at home with his tough mother. Interesting that after getting fired, even he could work on solving a murder. Redeemed? I don’t think so, it is heavily suggested that they will take the law into their own hands, and kill the man they suspected, even if he was cleared of the murder of Frances daughter. Much more interesting than if he was only mean, and there was another kind and sensible cop that helped work on the murder.

Yeah a lot of it was intriguing enough, including Woody Harrelson's character/performance

[Jorge]

I think Parasite is super ambiguous at its core. Is the family the antagonist or the protagonist? Is their scheme warranted?

The protagonists. Which is not the same as calling them "the good guys" or whether they're justified, as you know. But more importantly it's a systemic critique, and a very clear-headed one IMO

You may be right about PYW, I don't really remember it that well

[epilogue]

I think Parasite is super ambiguous at its core. Is the family the antagonist or the protagonist? Is their scheme warranted?

The protagonists. Which is not the same as calling them "the good guys" or whether they're justified, as you know. But more importantly it's a systemic critique, and a very clear-headed one IMO

You may be right about PYW, I don't really remember it that well

Have to disagree with trag on all of this (3 Billboards, Parasite, etc) but especially PYM. The ending makes it far more a "liberal fantasy" than anything. But, again, I disagree with that label for all of these in general.

[Anders]

I think Sam Rockwell did a great job as a mean spirited crooked alcoholic cop, that lives at home with his tough mother. Interesting that after getting fired, even he could work on solving a murder. Redeemed? I don’t think so, it is heavily suggested that they will take the law into their own hands, and kill the man they suspected, even if he was cleared of the murder of Frances daughter. Much more interesting than if he was only mean, and there was another kind and sensible cop that helped work on the murder.

Yeah a lot of it was intriguing enough, including Woody Harrelson's character/performance

Woody smashed it out of the park as a dying cop.

[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.

[tree_]

My stock is plummeting. Quick somebody ask a question about microphones.

Have you given Sufjan Stevens catalog a good listen yet?