Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Finished Squid Game. The ending is kind of mediocre, especially with the detective storyline

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the part with the detective and his brother on the cliff, what the hell was, "you know why" supposed to mean? i kept wondering if i missed some important dialogue prior to that scene. that was weird.

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Thoroughly enjoyed it. Hunger Games meets Saw meets Hostel.

I read where it was written like 10 years ago but nobody would green light it (see what I did there) until recently.

Loved the reveal where it had been going on for 20+ years and the player archives. That also explained the tunnels and whatnot they were using to extract and sell body organs.

I didn’t like how some games guaranteed half the players would die. All this talk about “equal opportunity” … I mean every player could have technically survived RLGL and Honeycomb. Even the glass steps. But damn Tug Of War and Marbles were so fucked up. So fucked up. Damn.

I don’t think the detective is dead.

Curly-haired chick’s annoying AF voice over was clearly intentional to make you hate her more.

I know they have to make money on this but I really wish it would have ended. Like, the old guy dies on Christmas Eve and they shut it down. All they did with the ending was find a way to set up season 2. Kinda lame.

That said I want to see in season 2 the background on where these red-clad soldiers come from and how they’re recruited into it. They gotta be in their own desperate situations.

And then in the inevitable season 3 we learn more about the host, VIP’s, Front Man etc.

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I'm pissed that the old man wanted to play the game, but didn't want the full stakes. He could have died in the tug of war, and there's no way to fake that. He should have been killed just like anyone else.

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:dear doug rr,

it's GBBS Day.

it's bread week.

our friend is in town as of now and we have dinner plans at 630...there might be pig cheeks and meatballs involved..anyway, after that we will sit down to ted lasso and british bread..enjoy fellas

doug rr wrote:

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:dear doug rr,

it's GBBS Day.

it's bread week.

our friend is in town as of now and we have dinner plans at 630...there might be pig cheeks and meatballs involved..anyway, after that we will sit down to ted lasso and british bread..enjoy fellas

we watched this last night..who doesn't love giuseppe?

dad wrote:

doug rr wrote:

doug rr wrote:

dad wrote:dear doug rr,

it's GBBS Day.

it's bread week.

our friend is in town as of now and we have dinner plans at 630...there might be pig cheeks and meatballs involved..anyway, after that we will sit down to ted lasso and british bread..enjoy fellas

we watched this last night..who doesn't love giuseppe?

he's great. i'm rooting for him to win it all.

Strat wrote:The guilty


Fucking awesome. Gyllenhall rules.

tree_ wrote:

Strat wrote:The guilty


Fucking awesome. Gyllenhall rules.

gonna try this now

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:I thought he was terrific but the movie was terrible

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.