Red Mosquito

about speed racer, david denby wrote:Though the film is not as criminally poor as "V for Vendetta," which the Wachowskis wrote in 2005, it struck me as more insidious. There's something about the ululating crowds who line the action in color-coordinated rows; the desperate skirting of ordinary feelings in favor of the trumped-up variety; the confidence in technology as a spectacle in itself; and, above all, the sense of master manipulators posing as champions of the little people. What does that remind you of? You could call it entertainment, and use it to wow your children for a couple hours. To me, it felt like Pop fascism, and I would keep them well away.

dimejinky99 wrote:V for vendetta is Fucking awesome and anyone saying otherwise is a clown.

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.

Ensign9 wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:V for vendetta is Fucking awesome and anyone saying otherwise is a clown.

I adore it. I wish it were twice as long.