Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue June 05, 2018 7:32 pm
I finally got around to seeing T2: Trainspotting. It was better than it had any right to 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.
I feel like some of the references to the original were shoehorned in a little hard, but otherwise it was great.LoathedVermin72 wrote:T2 was great, really great
That’s fair, but I think it works because the movie is all about examining nostalgia, so it doesn’t just feel like “Hey remember TRAINSPOTTING???”Ello Sailor wrote:I feel like some of the references to the original were shoehorned in a little hard, but otherwise it was great.LoathedVermin72 wrote:T2 was great, really great
So, you find it easy to root for Patrick Bateman but not Don Draper?tragabigzanda wrote:I loved The Sopranos, but I could route for Tony. I admire his weird ethical code. Patrick Bateman, and the gangsters in early Tarantino fit this mold too.BootsToAsses wrote:So you're not a Sopranos fan?tragabigzanda wrote:I just don't enjoy watching stuff like that. Call me old fashioned, but I usually like to root for somebody in film & tv.
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.
Tony was a HORRIBLE person, he was a hypocritical bully who destroyed many lives both literally and figuratively. I don't think he had much of an ethical code beyond loving his familytragabigzanda wrote:I loved The Sopranos, but I could route for Tony. I admire his weird ethical code. Patrick Bateman, and the gangsters in early Tarantino fit this mold too.BootsToAsses wrote:So you're not a Sopranos fan?tragabigzanda wrote:I just don't enjoy watching stuff like that. Call me old fashioned, but I usually like to root for somebody in film & tv.
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.
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.
who is the main character in the rm movie?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i usually root for the main character - vile or not
it's a toss-up between madTIGERman and section411doug rr wrote:who is the main character in the rm movie?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i usually root for the main character - vile or not
malicedoug rr wrote:who is the main character in the rm movie?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i usually root for the main character - vile or not