Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:I only saw BJM, Adaptation, and Eternal Sunshine. I still think Adaptation is great. Eternal Sunshine kind of sucks. Malkovich is somewhere between the two for me.

Should I watch Synechdoche?

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.

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.

tree_ wrote:About half of Her last night. Bed time sneaked upon me. Very sad, fascinating. I love when the future is done well in movies. This is the prettiest dystopia. The minuscule levels at which people engage one another in this society is freaky. Most freakily because it's happening to us more and more as our dependence on technology increases. And AI is coming soon. The AI MUST have ulterior motives. "She" tells him everything he wants/needs to hear. It's horrific. I've seen it a few times before but it's been a long while. Gonna have to finish this soon.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:About half of Her last night. Bed time sneaked upon me. Very sad, fascinating. I love when the future is done well in movies. This is the prettiest dystopia. The minuscule levels at which people engage one another in this society is freaky. Most freakily because it's happening to us more and more as our dependence on technology increases. And AI is coming soon. The AI MUST have ulterior motives. "She" tells him everything he wants/needs to hear. It's horrific. I've seen it a few times before but it's been a long while. Gonna have to finish this soon.

it’s woe is me storytelling at its finest

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:About half of Her last night. Bed time sneaked upon me. Very sad, fascinating. I love when the future is done well in movies. This is the prettiest dystopia. The minuscule levels at which people engage one another in this society is freaky. Most freakily because it's happening to us more and more as our dependence on technology increases. And AI is coming soon. The AI MUST have ulterior motives. "She" tells him everything he wants/needs to hear. It's horrific. I've seen it a few times before but it's been a long while. Gonna have to finish this soon.

it’s woe is me storytelling at its finest

See, that's the thing. It isn't "woe is me". It's that AI is so much smarter than people. It's basically a sci-fi horror movie disguised as a Kaufman-esque rom-com. Not a pity party. The main character is kind of pitiful, but he's pretty normal. This is where society is heading. It's a warning.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:About half of Her last night. Bed time sneaked upon me. Very sad, fascinating. I love when the future is done well in movies. This is the prettiest dystopia. The minuscule levels at which people engage one another in this society is freaky. Most freakily because it's happening to us more and more as our dependence on technology increases. And AI is coming soon. The AI MUST have ulterior motives. "She" tells him everything he wants/needs to hear. It's horrific. I've seen it a few times before but it's been a long while. Gonna have to finish this soon.

it’s woe is me storytelling at its finest

See, that's the thing. It isn't "woe is me". It's that AI is so much smarter than people. It's basically a sci-fi horror movie disguised as a Kaufman-esque rom-com. Not a pity party. The main character is kind of pitiful, but he's pretty normal. This is where society is heading. It's a warning.

i really don’t get the pity party evaluation of Kaufman’s characters...it doesn’t feel like that’s what he was going for at all

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:About half of Her last night. Bed time sneaked upon me. Very sad, fascinating. I love when the future is done well in movies. This is the prettiest dystopia. The minuscule levels at which people engage one another in this society is freaky. Most freakily because it's happening to us more and more as our dependence on technology increases. And AI is coming soon. The AI MUST have ulterior motives. "She" tells him everything he wants/needs to hear. It's horrific. I've seen it a few times before but it's been a long while. Gonna have to finish this soon.

it’s woe is me storytelling at its finest

See, that's the thing. It isn't "woe is me". It's that AI is so much smarter than people. It's basically a sci-fi horror movie disguised as a Kaufman-esque rom-com. Not a pity party. The main character is kind of pitiful, but he's pretty normal. This is where society is heading. It's a warning.

i really don’t get the pity party evaluation of Kaufman’s characters...it doesn’t feel like that’s what he was going for at all

Name one main character of his that is not a pitiful wreck of a poor excuse of a human.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:mission impossible 2 is playing while I “work” from the couch...i really don’t like this movie

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:About half of Her last night. Bed time sneaked upon me. Very sad, fascinating. I love when the future is done well in movies. This is the prettiest dystopia. The minuscule levels at which people engage one another in this society is freaky. Most freakily because it's happening to us more and more as our dependence on technology increases. And AI is coming soon. The AI MUST have ulterior motives. "She" tells him everything he wants/needs to hear. It's horrific. I've seen it a few times before but it's been a long while. Gonna have to finish this soon.

it’s woe is me storytelling at its finest

See, that's the thing. It isn't "woe is me". It's that AI is so much smarter than people. It's basically a sci-fi horror movie disguised as a Kaufman-esque rom-com. Not a pity party. The main character is kind of pitiful, but he's pretty normal. This is where society is heading. It's a warning.

i really don’t get the pity party evaluation of Kaufman’s characters...it doesn’t feel like that’s what he was going for at all

Name one main character of his that is not a pitiful wreck of a poor excuse of a human.

what i mean is we’re not supposed to pity them necessarily and that’s not really the point of their characters...Joel in ESOTSM is not one though

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:About half of Her last night. Bed time sneaked upon me. Very sad, fascinating. I love when the future is done well in movies. This is the prettiest dystopia. The minuscule levels at which people engage one another in this society is freaky. Most freakily because it's happening to us more and more as our dependence on technology increases. And AI is coming soon. The AI MUST have ulterior motives. "She" tells him everything he wants/needs to hear. It's horrific. I've seen it a few times before but it's been a long while. Gonna have to finish this soon.

it’s woe is me storytelling at its finest

See, that's the thing. It isn't "woe is me". It's that AI is so much smarter than people. It's basically a sci-fi horror movie disguised as a Kaufman-esque rom-com. Not a pity party. The main character is kind of pitiful, but he's pretty normal. This is where society is heading. It's a warning.

i really don’t get the pity party evaluation of Kaufman’s characters...it doesn’t feel like that’s what he was going for at all

Name one main character of his that is not a pitiful wreck of a poor excuse of a human.

what i mean is we’re not supposed to pity them necessarily and that’s not really the point of their characters...Joel in ESOTSM is not one though

Joel is too. But yeah, it feels like the entire point of his movies is "life is too hard let's cry about it" to me. Don't get me wrong, I've loved every one of his movies to the point of near obsession at times in my life. They can be great. It's just that, like trag, I'm at a point in my life where I'd just rather focus on things that feel more worthwhile. Inspirational, beautiful, fascinating stuff that doesn't focus on the universe being the vacuous, pointless, torturous hell hole it can feel like at times. When you watch Charlie Kaufman the person in interviews you can tell he has a really hard time. His phobias and torments are his characters', clearly.