Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Incredibles 2 was a snoozer.

i really did not enjoy Bao

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.

Spoiler: show

Metaphor. She was a helicopter mom who didn't want to see her son harmed so he became rebellious to get out from under her constant supervision. Then he went and got married and in a last ditch effort to keep him from leaving she 'ate' him, but really just cut him out of her life. Dad does a last-ditch effort to bring the two of them back together and there's your happy ending.

The part that I didn't get until the end was that the bao didn't have a pierced chin, it was supposed to be a goatee. But man, it really looked like piercings for the longest time.

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:Wow, Pacific Rim: Uprising is shockingly bad

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Wow, Pacific Rim: Uprising is shockingly bad

Yeah, they really ruined that shit.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:They turned it into a cheap YA movie for some reason. Also too many foreigners

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I thought it would be obvious that I was not serious

VinylGuy wrote:The first one was garbage.

BurtReynolds wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:The first one was garbage.

you take that back!

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.

bune wrote:Watched Lady Bird. It was OK I guess.