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.

BurtReynolds wrote:Actors can only play themselves, guys. Only their own, very specific backgrounds are acceptable. Because they are actors. You know, people who DON'T portray other characters. Playing a character from a background the actors themselves are not a part of is a terrible, unforgivable offense. The new protectors of our sensitivities cannot allow that.

Ban the theater. It is witchcraft.

VinylGuy wrote:I loved both The Town and Gone Baby Gone. I didnt cared much for Argo, but i wish he would cast a different leading actor.

theplatypus wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Actors can only play themselves, guys. Only their own, very specific backgrounds are acceptable. Because they are actors. You know, people who DON'T portray other characters. Playing a character from a background the actors themselves are not a part of is a terrible, unforgivable offense. The new protectors of our sensitivities cannot allow that.

Ban the theater. It is witchcraft.

Change the flimsy euphemism "backgrounds" for what you really mean -- races -- and I am on board

theplatypus wrote:Now that I think of it, that movie also had Clea Duvall as an asian lady

theplatypus wrote:It is very unusual for an illustrator to have an Asian fetish

theplatypus wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:I loved both The Town and Gone Baby Gone. I didnt cared much for Argo, but i wish he would cast a different leading actor.

I liked Argo when I first watched it except for the cheap contrivances for tension during the climax. I liked The Town quite a bit

theplatypus wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:I loved both The Town and Gone Baby Gone. I didnt cared much for Argo, but i wish he would cast a different leading actor.

I liked Argo when I first watched it except for the cheap contrivances for tension during the climax.

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.