Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Marriage Story.

It was merely ok. I expected so much more. And it was...bland at best.

I have no interest in this one. I swear I can tell just from the trailers whether it's going to be a good or bad Baumbach movie. He's so hit or miss.

Anders wrote:Watched Knives Out. Very mediocre. No mystery. More a quirky comedy than anything. Some people were laughing loudly. But not really my kind of humour, even if I did have a minor laughs. Nicely shot, and very famous cast. Jamie Lee Curtis was awful, but Ana De Armas was a true standout.

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:

Anders wrote:I grew up on Poirot, and do love a good mystery. This was more of a spoof of that. I was almost falling asleep the last hour.

I would rather a director made a really good genre movie, than go for subversion.

I've not seen this movie yet, but based on my reaction to the trailers I'm betting I'll agree with Anders. I found both Looper and TLJ to be wildly uneven, and it was the attempts at silliness or overly touching moments that always took me out of those movies.

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:

Anders wrote:I grew up on Poirot, and do love a good mystery. This was more of a spoof of that. I was almost falling asleep the last hour.

I would rather a director made a really good genre movie, than go for subversion.

I've not seen this movie yet, but based on my reaction to the trailers I'm betting I'll agree with Anders. I found both Looper and TLJ to be wildly uneven, and it was the attempts at silliness or overly touching moments that always took me out of those movies.

Anders wrote:I grew up on Poirot, and do love a good mystery. This was more of a spoof of that. I was almost falling asleep the last hour.

I would rather a director made a really good genre movie, than go for subversion.

Anders wrote:Are you guys fans of Wes Anderson? It gave me a bit of that feeling, although not as creative.

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:

Anders wrote:I grew up on Poirot, and do love a good mystery. This was more of a spoof of that. I was almost falling asleep the last hour.

I would rather a director made a really good genre movie, than go for subversion.

And that's valid. Just my obligatory caution to judge a piece of art by what it is rather than what it isn't.

Anders wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Anders wrote:I grew up on Poirot, and do love a good mystery. This was more of a spoof of that. I was almost falling asleep the last hour.

I would rather a director made a really good genre movie, than go for subversion.

And that's valid. Just my obligatory caution to judge a piece of art by what it is rather than what it isn't.

That’s a valid point, but I think if I didn’t have the love of mystery dramas to pull on, I would like the movie a lot less.

tragabigzanda wrote:I adore *some* Wes Anderson. There are a couple that I really didn't like.

Anders wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I adore *some* Wes Anderson. There are a couple that I really didn't like.

I’m not a big fan, The Grand Budapest Hotel especially was awful. But I do respect his creativity. The Royal Tenenbaums was interesting.

I haven’t seen Moonrise Kingdom, Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore or Fantastic Mr. Fox.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Anders wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Anders wrote:I grew up on Poirot, and do love a good mystery. This was more of a spoof of that. I was almost falling asleep the last hour.

I would rather a director made a really good genre movie, than go for subversion.

And that's valid. Just my obligatory caution to judge a piece of art by what it is rather than what it isn't.

That’s a valid point, but I think if I didn’t have the love of mystery dramas to pull on, I would like the movie a lot less.

Oh, that's interesting. I wonder if you found the movie a lot funnier/sillier than I did. Perhaps that's the big difference? It's certainly a funny movie but I thought the humor really worked.