Red Mosquito

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 9:46 am**

The Argonaut wrote:Yeah, that's really what separates great television from schlock. Arms stay folded

Of course a show can be great even with those kinds of mistakes. Character development is much more important. No one will watch a show if they don’t care about the characters. Storyline and plot probably come next.

From a production stand point, avoiding jump cuts is media aesthetics 101. Prior to Breaking Bad, humans seemed incapable of making a television show unless they settled for bad edits.

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 11:42 am**

What a bizarre take. I've never seen anyone so preoccupied with jump cuts.

Avoiding jump cuts is not "media aesthetics 101." Jump cuts can be (and often are) an aesthetic choice as much as anything (see: Godard and the Nouvelle Vague)

Breaking Bad is full of inconsistent / haphazard composition and wonky handheld shots which to my eye are much worse problems than the occasional jump cut. Just one aspect in which Better Call Saul, which is full of gorgeous and precise compositions, is superior.

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 11:57 am**

Simple Torture wrote:So years ago I started watching Breaking Bad, but I never got past season 3. Recently started rewatching and just finished season 2.

As a surprise to no one, I never got further than the end of Season 2.

Posted: **Wed January 03, 2024 1:21 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri January 05, 2024 1:01 am**

I apologize for creating confusion. It was not my intention to suggest that artistic, preplanned, intentional jump cuts should be considered bad edits.

Posted: **Sat January 06, 2024 3:26 pm**

Apology accepted.

Posted: **Fri April 04, 2025 3:38 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri April 04, 2025 5:46 pm**

What’s this now? A Kim Wexler spinoff?

Posted: **Fri April 04, 2025 6:11 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri April 04, 2025 8:55 pm**

Well that’s a missed opportunity

Posted: **Fri April 04, 2025 9:41 pm**

Hamlindigo Blues is sure to be greenlit soon.

Posted: **Fri April 04, 2025 9:42 pm**

im actually glad he is moving on and very interested on this new series, even if i dont really now what it is it about.

Posted: **Thu April 10, 2025 7:54 pm**

Tempting fate again is dicey but I think a prequel focused on Gus's rise from Argentina (Chile?) could work.

Either that or a comedy set at Madrigal Electromotive.

Posted: **Thu April 10, 2025 9:47 pm**

Supposed to be Chile

And if they ever do that, they better hire an actual Hispanic cast. I don't want more of Giancarlo Esposito's mangled Spanish

Posted: **Thu April 10, 2025 10:02 pm**

Jorge wrote:Supposed to be Chile

And if they ever do that, they better hire an actual Hispanic cast. I don't want more of Giancarlo Esposito's mangled Spanish

Mangled? I thought you said he was Hispanic.

Posted: **Thu April 10, 2025 10:05 pm**

We've been over this

Jorge wrote:Giancarlo Esposito is not Hispanic lol

Jorge wrote:Giancarlo Esposito is not of Latin descent

Jorge wrote:Esposito's Spanish is atrocious

Posted: **Thu April 10, 2025 10:11 pm**

Are you sure?

Posted: **Thu April 10, 2025 10:11 pm**

*Gus Fring accent* Aystoy saygoorow

Posted: **Fri April 11, 2025 12:28 am**

Jorge wrote:We've been over this

Jorge wrote:Giancarlo Esposito is not Hispanic lol

Jorge wrote:Giancarlo Esposito is not of Latin descent

Jorge wrote:Esposito's Spanish is atrocious

He’s Italian

Posted: **Fri April 11, 2025 12:54 am**

So he is of Latin descent then?

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