Red Mosquito

Rangi Guy wrote:I'm totally in camp Joey on this one - so much so it's made me completely get over the Inglorious Basterds rift that was about to blow up

durdencommatyler wrote:

Rangi Guy wrote:Any movie where Jared Leto gets beat the fuck up is tops in my book

Rangi gets it.

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:Sound like you latched on to some of the more transient or superficial aspects of the story to begin with. Which I totally understand. I've done that many many many times with my art.

Those things were never especially interesting to me from the beginning. So the plot, characters, dialogue (which is just outstanding writing) and themes resonated in a big way. On top of that, it's excellence as an adaptation plays into my love as well. If the thing had been an original idea I might like it a tad less. But what it does as an adaptation, the way to manipulates one medium and expands the ideas/concepts/world of the book in the way only a visual medium like film can... MAN ALIVE! Fucking brilliant.

I wish every film adapted from a book could do what Fight Club does. It's so special.

Yea, I agree it's a fantastic adaptation of the book, which I wasn't super crazy about. I wish they had made that Survivor adaptation with Kevin Spacey that was getting mentioned some years back.

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Sound like you latched on to some of the more transient or superficial aspects of the story to begin with. Which I totally understand. I've done that many many many times with my art.

Those things were never especially interesting to me from the beginning. So the plot, characters, dialogue (which is just outstanding writing) and themes resonated in a big way. On top of that, it's excellence as an adaptation plays into my love as well. If the thing had been an original idea I might like it a tad less. But what it does as an adaptation, the way to manipulates one medium and expands the ideas/concepts/world of the book in the way only a visual medium like film can... MAN ALIVE! Fucking brilliant.

I wish every film adapted from a book could do what Fight Club does. It's so special.

Yea, I agree it's a fantastic adaptation of the book, which I wasn't super crazy about. I wish they had made that Survivor adaptation with Kevin Spacey that was getting mentioned some years back.

Rangi Guy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Sound like you latched on to some of the more transient or superficial aspects of the story to begin with. Which I totally understand. I've done that many many many times with my art.

Those things were never especially interesting to me from the beginning. So the plot, characters, dialogue (which is just outstanding writing) and themes resonated in a big way. On top of that, it's excellence as an adaptation plays into my love as well. If the thing had been an original idea I might like it a tad less. But what it does as an adaptation, the way to manipulates one medium and expands the ideas/concepts/world of the book in the way only a visual medium like film can... MAN ALIVE! Fucking brilliant.

I wish every film adapted from a book could do what Fight Club does. It's so special.

Yea, I agree it's a fantastic adaptation of the book, which I wasn't super crazy about. I wish they had made that Survivor adaptation with Kevin Spacey that was getting mentioned some years back.

It is one of those rare occasions where I thought the film did a better job than the book