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.

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.

Mickey wrote:Tony Manero (2008). Really good, but of Larraín's movies I still like Neruda best.

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:Late Night. I really enjoyed it. Good story, solid writing, and Emma Thompson raises the whole thing to a higher level.

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:

Mickey wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Late Night. I really enjoyed it. Good story, solid writing, and Emma Thompson raises the whole thing to a higher level.

Been thinking about watching this, glad to hear it's pretty good.

I'm gonna pump the brakes here...

It's good. I have a love of writers' rooms, have romanticized that environment in my head for years, so I am a very niche audience who probably regarded this as something better than it really was.

It wasn't totally milquetoast and light; it did have some edge to it, in how Emma Thompson is forced to reconcile her private life with her public persona, and in how Mindy Kaling's SJW tendencies are challenged by "the real world." But it wasn't exactly hard-hitting drama nor high art.

Just wanted to offer that in case you were thinking it might be, like, Network or something.

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.

Mickey wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mickey wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Late Night. I really enjoyed it. Good story, solid writing, and Emma Thompson raises the whole thing to a higher level.

Been thinking about watching this, glad to hear it's pretty good.

I'm gonna pump the brakes here...

It's good. I have a love of writers' rooms, have romanticized that environment in my head for years, so I am a very niche audience who probably regarded this as something better than it really was.

It wasn't totally milquetoast and light; it did have some edge to it, in how Emma Thompson is forced to reconcile her private life with her public persona, and in how Mindy Kaling's SJW tendencies are challenged by "the real world." But it wasn't exactly hard-hitting drama nor high art.

Just wanted to offer that in case you were thinking it might be, like, Network or something.

I could have contextualized here--been thinking about watching a relatively mindless movie and this has been on my radar for that category.

VinylGuy wrote:

Mickey wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mickey wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Late Night. I really enjoyed it. Good story, solid writing, and Emma Thompson raises the whole thing to a higher level.

Been thinking about watching this, glad to hear it's pretty good.

I'm gonna pump the brakes here...

It's good. I have a love of writers' rooms, have romanticized that environment in my head for years, so I am a very niche audience who probably regarded this as something better than it really was.

It wasn't totally milquetoast and light; it did have some edge to it, in how Emma Thompson is forced to reconcile her private life with her public persona, and in how Mindy Kaling's SJW tendencies are challenged by "the real world." But it wasn't exactly hard-hitting drama nor high art.

Just wanted to offer that in case you were thinking it might be, like, Network or something.

I could have contextualized here--been thinking about watching a relatively mindless movie and this has been on my radar for that category.

Mindless movie.