Red Mosquito

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I went ahead and watched Children of Men again last night. I really enjoy that movie.

i'm surprised clive owen didn't really take off

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.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturges is wildly overrated.

Who's he and what is that movie?

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturges is wildly overrated.

Who's he and what is that movie?

Acclaimed screwball comedy director. Socially-minded screwball comedy starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. I tend to find a lot of beloved comedies from the '30s and '40s to be painfully dull. This one seems downright hypocritical; begins as a messy satire before becoming exactly what it was satirizing. Ugh.

Do you think it's because the comedy is dated? What do you think of Shakespearean comedy? Or the Three Stooges?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Soooo pumped for Kickboxer Vengeance

Strat wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Soooo pumped for Kickboxer Vengeance

why

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.