Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:Maybe it's just my mood, but John Wick isn't as fun as I hoped it'd be.

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:I mean, I'm not about to go watch the Harry Potter series...But I'm interested to see him in anything from here on out.

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:Imperium (or as I’ve been calling it, Harry Potter and the White Supremacists).

so I liked this well enough. Was really surprised by Radcliffe -- outside of one Harry Potter movie, and a few minutes of The Woman In Black that I saw one day, I’d never seen him in anything. Thought he was excellent (and now I want to watch Swiss Army Man)...

Had sort of a “movie of the week” vibe at times -- some arcs and plot points were a little tidy; could have benefitted from another 20 mins to flesh out some of the ideas he was being exposed to. And the ending was a little underwhelming.

But Radcliffe was excellent, and I give the movie bonus points for drawing a distinction between the neo-Nazis (who believed in Jesus), and the skinheads who rejected the Bible. Have been reading a lot about those ideological differences, and most of the other movies I’ve consumed down this wormhole have failed to illustrate this.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I mean, I'm not about to go watch the Harry Potter series...But I'm interested to see him in anything from here on out.

Well, that's dumb because the Harry Potter series is outstanding. But if you don't want to watch those, then you should still see everything else he's done.

The one I saw was one of the worst looking movies I've ever seen. It was an affront to my eyeballs.

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

are you a fan of the books?

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

are you a fan of the books?

I read the first one recently. I think it's well written, but the books were a little after my time.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

are you a fan of the books?

I read the first one recently. I think it's well written, but the books were a little after my time.

yeah, you're too mature for them

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

Radcliffe is probably the worst part of the series though, besides Ralph Fiennes missing nose.

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

are you a fan of the books?

I read the first one recently. I think it's well written, but the books were a little after my time.

yeah, you're too mature for them

Sarcasm doesn't become you.

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

Radcliffe is probably the worst part of the series though, besides Ralph Fiennes missing nose.

durdencommatyler wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

Radcliffe is probably the worst part of the series though, besides Ralph Fiennes missing nose.

I'm so sorry, trag. I take it back. THIS is the stupidest thing I've ever read on the internet.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

Radcliffe is probably the worst part of the series though, besides Ralph Fiennes missing nose.

I'm so sorry, trag. I take it back. THIS is the stupidest thing I've ever read on the internet.

you're stupid

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Harry potter movies feel like most book adaptations: Bloated and sterile. I liked one of them, but couldn't tell you the name.

Radcliffe is probably the worst part of the series though, besides Ralph Fiennes missing nose.

I'm so sorry, trag. I take it back. THIS is the stupidest thing I've ever read on the internet.

you're stupid

Well, duh