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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Uncut Gems. Like having a two hour heart attack.

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:

VinylGuy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Uncut Gems. Like having a two hour heart attack.

i loved it so much, i need to see it again.

I loved it, but I don't know that it has much replay value. I'll watch it again 1-2 times down the road to savor Sandler's performance, which is pretty amazing. But man was it a stressful experience.

I'm also not entirely sold on the Safdie bros. This is the first film of theirs I've seen, and I'm all for shaky hand-held digital camera work to impart a certain realism, but the complete lack of lighting design made many of the nighttime scenes really tough to appreciate...They captured a certain manic energy and did a great job of it, but I also feel like it can be done in such a way that your eye can pick out some more detail.

It worked to some degree; I thought the assault in the car was better because you couldn't see things clearly. But other stuff, like anything with Sandler's family, really could have used some lighting.

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:

VinylGuy wrote:The Cobbler.

I had fun...the premise is great, it gets weird when it turns into this thriller thing, but it was fuuuun.

Sandler? Yeah I really liked that

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:Haywire

We watched this a few months ago. Love Soderbergh and wanted to love this but I didn’t.