Red Mosquito

run2death wrote:Loving all the bizarre reviews/reactions to Mother!

I didn't like the trailer, but people seem to be leaving the theater genuinely perplexed.

I'm gonna have to watch it.

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:Thanks LV! How's everybody doing? Any major life news amongst the RMers?

tragabigzanda wrote:Movies I watched since I was last on RM:

It This was AWESOME. Incredibly faithful to the book, and the kids bring the same level of chemistry and acting as is found in The Goonies and Stand By Me; it's precisely what makes the scary parts of the movie work so well. I haven't had this much fun at a movie since Mad Max Fury Road. That said, I actually wish they just abandoned the plans for a sequel. If they stay as faithful to the source material as they did for the first one, that second movie is going to be awfully dark. This one worked because the kids were fun, and they brought a real sense of playfulness and levity to balance out the horror. But without any real levity to be found in the later adult story (spoiler alert: they're all pretty fucked up as adults), I think the sequel will probably suck.

American Honey Terrific piece of filmmaking that runs about 30 minutes too long. Shia Labeouf is at the top of his game. The film has an extremely visceral quality, and all the characters elicit real emotion from me. It was like Gummo with heart.

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny If you're a Linklater fan, you'll love this.

Videos For Cats: Birds and Squirrels Wally and I both enjoyed this well enough.

American Ultra This was awful.