Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked Yesterday WAY more than I thought I would. That was a pleasant surprise.

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:

doug rr wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked Yesterday WAY more than I thought I would. That was a pleasant surprise.

yeah, me too

Even when he's treading lightly, Boyle's movies have some weight to them. Love what they did with Lennon in this.

wease wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

doug rr wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked Yesterday WAY more than I thought I would. That was a pleasant surprise.

yeah, me too

Even when he's treading lightly, Boyle's movies have some weight to them. Love what they did with Lennon in this.

Yeah, we liked it, too.

oasisfan35 wrote:

wease wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

doug rr wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked Yesterday WAY more than I thought I would. That was a pleasant surprise.

yeah, me too

Even when he's treading lightly, Boyle's movies have some weight to them. Love what they did with Lennon in this.

Yeah, we liked it, too.

Hmm... I don't believe I ever replaced my Shallow Grave VHS.
I need to revisit the Trainspotting sequel, I was in the wrong company and the entirely wrong mindset to watch it initially.

tragabigzanda wrote:

doug rr wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked Yesterday WAY more than I thought I would. That was a pleasant surprise.

yeah, me too

Even when he's treading lightly, Boyle's movies have some weight to them. Love what they did with Lennon in this.

Spoiler: show

it did kind of create a weird kind of paradox that fucked with me just a bit. Still, loved it.

The Lennon Paradox and the Wonderwall Paradox were the only two things I got hung up on and had to fight to willfully suspend disbelief on. Very minor issues, overall.

Two things that I fucking LOVED about the movie though were how the blackout is never explained and how nothing "goes back to normal" or returns to the way it was in the end. This is just the world now, no excuses, no "waking up from a dream," no clicking your heels. Just fucking great.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Anders wrote:I thought the Lennon part was fairly weak. Would have been better if they got Paul to do a few minutes acting instead.

Oh I loved it. Lennon was such an angry fellow. It felt good to imagine a world in which he'd found some peace with age, and enjoyed creating art absent of fame. Seemed like the perfect way to honor the best of who he could have been rather than the worst.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Anders wrote:I thought the Lennon part was fairly weak. Would have been better if they got Paul to do a few minutes acting instead.

Oh I loved it. Lennon was such an angry fellow. It felt good to imagine a world in which he'd found some peace with age, and enjoyed creating art absent of fame. Seemed like the perfect way to honor the best of who he could have been rather than the worst.

Strat wrote:I absolutely loved yesterday and Blinded by the Light as well.

Both just hit my sweet spot in the feel good category. Such fun films