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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durdencommatyler wrote:I watched Horrible Bosses 2 last night. I laughed a couple of times.
Yikes, that's a couple more than I did.
The part where they're hiding in the closet Kirk's maid keeps moving the shirts to reveal Charlie Day... jesus, I couldn't stop laughing. And the whole time I was laughing I was also yelling "IT ISN'T EVEN THAT FUNNY!"
My wife thought it was cute.
But, yeah, the movie's just terrible. The first one isn't great but it's way better than the second. Still, I laughed a lot. I pretty much find anything those guys do somewhat enjoyable though. It's hard to not laugh when the commit, even to a bad bit.
durdencommatyler wrote:I watched Horrible Bosses 2 last night. I laughed a couple of times.
Yikes, that's a couple more than I did.
The part where they're hiding in the closet Kirk's maid keeps moving the shirts to reveal Charlie Day... jesus, I couldn't stop laughing. And the whole time I was laughing I was also yelling "IT ISN'T EVEN THAT FUNNY!"
My wife thought it was cute.
But, yeah, the movie's just terrible. The first one isn't great but it's way better than the second. Still, I laughed a lot. I pretty much find anything those guys do somewhat enjoyable though. It's hard to not laugh when the commit, even to a bad bit.
Yeah, that's how I viewed Horrible Bosses 2. It was not a good movie, but because I like Bateman, Sudekis and Day, i was still able to enjoy watching it. Did you see Bad Words yet?
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:We watched Bad Words a couple weeks ago. It was good -- much better than HB2 -- but nothing incredible. Bateman strikes up a relationship with one kid that is really fun to watch.
No, not incredible by any stretch. But probably his best Non-AD role.