Re: HBO Television Show: True Detective
Posted: Tue January 16, 2024 1:46 am
Holy shit, what a start. This is going to rule so hard.
OuchVinylGuy wrote:Only five left
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.
It would be annoying if it turned out to be "Earth spirit, frozen in ice by the brave indigenous folx centuries ago but awakened by environmental destruction, takes revenge on capitalist settlers".tragabigzanda wrote:Love the two leads; Foster in particular is awesome. Not sold on the story yet, feels a bit like it’s trying too hard to be mystical and creepy.
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.
She’s said in interviews that it was.tragabigzanda wrote: I also felt like the final shot of
was taken straight out of the Dyatlov Pass mystery
- Spoiler: show
It's in that Time article I postedSimple Torture wrote:She’s said in interviews that it was.tragabigzanda wrote: I also felt like the final shot of
was taken straight out of the Dyatlov Pass mystery
- Spoiler: show
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 thought about it yeah, but not right now.Simple Torture wrote:Any other True Detective heads going to try out Monsieur Spade? I watched The Maltese Falcon to prep and just watched the premiere.
I liked it; 1960s France is a great time for a period piece because I’ve only got like a basic knowledge of what was going on at the time, so there’s some nice color that I think will lead me to reading and researching other things.VinylGuy wrote:i thought about it yeah, but not right now.Simple Torture wrote:Any other True Detective heads going to try out Monsieur Spade? I watched The Maltese Falcon to prep and just watched the premiere.
was it good?
still no real explanation about this caseEllo Sailor wrote:I had only heard bits and pieces about the Daltov Pass mystery before looking it up just now. Some of those photos are fucked up.