Red Mosquito

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:About halfway through Popstar. The only funny parts are the TMZ spoofs with Eric Andre and Will Arnett.

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.

96583UP wrote:Eric Andre and Will Arnett make me want to shout with joy

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:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

96583UP wrote:Eric Andre and Will Arnett make me want to shout with joy

oh goodness yes

Yea, I'd watch a whole movie with those two characters.

The Argonaut wrote:be honest, lenny. you meant "especially if", not "even if".

The Argonaut wrote:haha, this is a great page, though
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... start=5220

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:just curious, what exactly did you guys find visually stimulating? it was fine, just little jumped out at me

For me, I think the first thing is how spirals are used. There's a great coiled snake visual metaphor throughout. It's first seen in the very beginning of the film, in the way the car moves through the scene and the mounting sense of danger that winds with it. And then throughout the movie there are constant references to rattle snakes. Of course there's significant payoff for this at the climax of the film.

Beyond that I think the color palette is fantastic. There's a great sense of dust and heat in every image which ads so much to the tone and the overall atmosphere. The use of light is lovely. Good use of thirds. Yeah, I think it's excellent.

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.