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:For some reason I watched Minority Report, which I hadn't seen since it was in the theater.
What an awful mess.
I love Minority Report. Spielberg at his finest, working in digital for the first time, Cruise doing another scarred character and i saw there for the first time someone touching the screen to move things.
And fuckin Samantha Morton! Colin Farrel! Max Von Sydow!!
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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Pretty much exactly what I was expecting. Beautiful scenery, cinemotography, and good acting in an interesting setting. Nothing spectacular beyond that.
Pretty much exactly what I was expecting. Beautiful scenery, cinemotography, and good acting in an interesting setting. Nothing spectacular beyond that.
This lady at work keeps calling it "The Remnant" and it's pissing me off.
Pretty much exactly what I was expecting. Beautiful scenery, cinemotography, and good acting in an interesting setting. Nothing spectacular beyond that.
This lady at work keeps calling it "The Remnant" and it's pissing me off.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:The other night I watched a Canadian survival thriller/horror movie called Backcountry. Rough around the edges, but intense as fuck at times. Interesting movie. I wonder if Dev's seen it.
I'm gonna to try and make a point of not watching it, because the backcountry already wears on my mind, sometimes.