Red Mosquito

Strat wrote:This was great. A nice hidden gem

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:Well, it LOOKS awesome. I'll give it that. And it has one GREAT set piece.

By "great set piece," am I to infer there is basically one action scene in the 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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Continuing LOTR with the 6-year-old. Two Towers is very easily the weakest of these movies. So much downtime. It also seems like they started rushing post-production a bit; the CGI is much clunkier here than it was in Fellowship.

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:

dimejinky99 wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Continuing LOTR with the 6-year-old. Two Towers is very easily the weakest of these movies. So much downtime. It also seems like they started rushing post-production a bit; the CGI is much clunkier here than it was in Fellowship.

The middle act is always set up and stakes though. But I agree. Two towers is the one I least enjoy of the three.

Pretty sure I've watched all those movies (the director's cut) exactly once. They all blend together in my mind.

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Well, it LOOKS awesome. I'll give it that. And it has one GREAT set piece.

By "great set piece," am I to infer there is basically one action scene in the movie?

I wouldn't call it an action scene. It's just an obscenely suspenseful and incredibly well-crafted sequence.

It's a well-made, well-acted, and well-shot movie with a naive, terrible script. Kind of par for the course for Villeneuve, basically.

Hmm. I think I should watch it, but sounds like Mrs. Trag might be bored. The scene I watched was the motorcade through some city in Mexico. It felt tense and dangerous without my having any idea what was going on, and it did look great. But there was virtually no dialogue, so I had no insight into the script.

The only other Villeneuve film I've seen is Arrival. Prisoners didn't look interesting to me, but I thought Enemy looked promising.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Continuing LOTR with the 6-year-old. Two Towers is very easily the weakest of these movies. So much downtime. It also seems like they started rushing post-production a bit; the CGI is much clunkier here than it was in Fellowship.

The middle act is always set up and stakes though. But I agree. Two towers is the one I least enjoy of the three.

Pretty sure I've watched all those movies (the director's cut) exactly once. They all blend together in my mind.

I'm on ROTK now. I think it's head and shoulders above the other two. But, again, I love them all.

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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:One of my favorite moments in the whole trilogy is when Wormtongue sheds a tear when he sees Saruman's army.