Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I loved Hail Caesar(!).

It's a charming film. Very funny. A wonderful little tribute to old Hollywood. There's a lot to like about it, for sure.

Mickey wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I loved Hail Caesar(!).

It's a charming film. Very funny. A wonderful little tribute to old Hollywood. There's a lot to like about it, for sure.

This is a phrase that gets thrown around all the time by critics as if it's supposed to be interesting to the average viewer, and I've never found it not-strange. Thinking here of Once Upon a Time... as well. Nothing wrong with old Hollywood as subject matter, but the critical presumption that we all have warm nostalgia for a city/industry we were never a part of seems, well, presumptuous.

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:I would add that’s exactly my problem with A Serious Man.

Mickey wrote:By the way, both of you have Burn After Reading, the most prescient political film of our moment, way too low on your list.

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I would add that’s exactly my problem with A Serious Man.

That it's presumptuous? Or...

Not that it’s presumptuous, just that it is geared towards a very specific viewer

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I would add that’s exactly my problem with A Serious Man.

That it's presumptuous? Or...

Not that it’s presumptuous, just that it is geared towards a very specific viewer

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I would add that’s exactly my problem with A Serious Man.

That it's presumptuous? Or...

Not that it’s presumptuous, just that it is geared towards a very specific viewer

i think it's one of those that the specific viewer will get the MOST out of it, but everybody else can still enjoy it on their level...it also worked much better for me on subsequent viewings

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I would add that’s exactly my problem with A Serious Man.

That it's presumptuous? Or...

Not that it’s presumptuous, just that it is geared towards a very specific viewer

i think it's one of those that the specific viewer will get the MOST out of it, but everybody else can still enjoy it on their level...it also worked much better for me on subsequent viewings

yeah, what "lenny" said.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I would add that’s exactly my problem with A Serious Man.

That it's presumptuous? Or...

Not that it’s presumptuous, just that it is geared towards a very specific viewer

i think it's one of those that the specific viewer will get the MOST out of it, but everybody else can still enjoy it on their level...it also worked much better for me on subsequent viewings

yeah, what "lenny" said.

have you seen the death of stalin?

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:spoiler alert Stalin dies

But seriously, I love Veep and would like to watch that