Red Mosquito

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.

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Bought tickets for Saturday morning. I wish I didn't have to wait 'til then.

Go this afternoon!

theplatypus wrote:LV you wanted to say "solipsistic" in that post, didn't you.


(but also team LV on this one)

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:A brooding Batman -- which we've just recently seen on-screen -- portrayed by an actor whose own celebrity has eclipsed his ability to sell a role.

Of all the things in this movie worth criticizing, this is one I'll step up and defend. Affleck is the most compelling portrayal of Batman we've seen on screen. Leagues above Bale, whom I really liked.

I don't doubt that he has the chops to pull it off. But I can't ever divorce his characters from his being Ben Affleck in real life. The only recent role I thought he knocked out of the park was in Gone Girl, because that character basically was Ben Affleck.

Once again, trag, this is your personal issue, and has nothing to do with the movie.

Objectively, I'm sure the FX look great and this movie will please a lot of people. Subjectively, I think it looks like shit.

Follow up: I actually think it has a lot to do with the movie. Casting a role doesn't just happen in a vacuum; there are all sorts of considerations, and an actors humongous celebrity should certainly be considered when trying to make a viewer empathize with a character.

You're assuming that because you have trouble empathizing with a celebrity, others must as well. Which is just silly.

Team Trag.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Bought tickets for Saturday morning. I wish I didn't have to wait 'til then.

Go this afternoon!

I wish. I have to wait for my wife. Fucking married life.

Strat wrote:what is married?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I love my wife but I would leave her in a heartbeat for Zack Snyder

Monkey_Driven wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I love my wife but I would leave her in a heartbeat for Zack Snyder

What about if you were married to Zack Snyder and had a chance with Gareth Edwards?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I love my wife but I would leave her in a heartbeat for Zack Snyder

What about if you were married to Zack Snyder and had a chance with Gareth Edwards?

this is the kind of dilemma that keeps me up at night

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.