RM Movie Club #3: American Movie

[Simple Torture]

Would it be weird to pause the next movie club pick and give this another week? Or should we just move ahead

I'd be cool with just moving on, but I promise to come back here and respond to anybody who posts here.

[Jorge]

The next movie club person is Joey, it's his call

I want to give it another week because it really does feel like there's a lot to discuss here and the election kind of sucked the air out of everything. Even one of my work projects was delayed for a whole month in light of it.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Would it be weird to pause the next movie club pick and give this another week? Or should we just move ahead

I'd be cool with just moving on, but I promise to come back here and respond to anybody who posts here.

durdz is up next and i remember him indicating he might be on vacation when his selection comes up...delaying his a week might remedy both situations

[Simple Torture]

Ah, ok. Paging Joey...paging Joey...

[epilogue]

Yeah, guys I'm gonna out of the country for two weeks. I won't really have much wifi or access to the internet. So please extend this. I'm honestly fine extending it two weeks or extending one week and then swapping places with the person after me on the list.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i'd say extend it two weeks...others may not have even watched the first two selections so this could give everybody a chance to catch up

[lennytheweedwhacker]

like dev...has dev watched any of these?

[Jorge]

I've got... people walking around, I wish I could give them destinies

[Jorge]

like dev...has dev watched any of these?

I feel like this movie would hit a little too close to him for him

[Jorge]

The sloppy guitar rendition of Bach is such a beautiful way to open this

[Jorge]

Mike reminds me so much of my cousin Felipe. He lives in China now.

[Jorge]

"But what he actually can do, I think he's best suited to working at a factory maybe."

Jesus

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i'll be honest, i found mark borderline insufferable...i still admire his passion though

[Jorge]

I can't help but admire him.

[Jorge]

One of the filmmaker's greatest strengths on display in this movie is knowing exactly when to cut away after a line, and when to linger on small moments to heighten their absurdity.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I can't help but admire him.

do you see a lot of yourself in him?

[Jorge]

You know... a little bit.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

You know... a little bit.

it's the three kids with an ex-gf thing, right?

jk

[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.

[Simple Torture]

I'm going to start watching this in a few minutes. Have and will continue to avoid other reactions until I compose my own.

Kick-fucking-ass!