Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue February 09, 2021 11:27 pm
Not anymore, I kicked them out of class for being philistines.
It's not a life-changer but I really liked Face the Music. My wife hadn't seen the second one so we watched 1 and 2 before watching 3. We both agreed that 3 was a ton of fun and better than 2.Biff Pocoroba wrote:Watched Bill & Ted Face the Music on the plane. Enjoyable enough for the situation but forgettable. Just like I’m sure I watched the second one but damn if I can remember anything about it.
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.
I don't disagree, I just didn't expect to be thinking things like "I bet he elevates that Scorsese production."tragabigzanda wrote:wtf, he was the best part of that showMickey wrote:Am honestly shocked at how much seeing Jesse Plemons in a trailer has become a good sign for me. Would not have thought that a decade and a half ago, while watching Landry on Friday Night Lights.
its visually groundbreaking, as everything Levison does, and it contains so many themes it falls apart at the end. Its super abrupt and leaves youMickey wrote:Assassination Nation.
Some great work but the ending was a mess
Yeah I agree with that--the long shot where they're in the house as the mob starts to break in was stunning. I thought the speech at the end was really dopey--just trying too hard to make it pOlItIcAl but in a way that didn't really add anything (and the sudden appearance of the all-black drumline at the end was uhh odd).VinylGuy wrote:its visually groundbreaking, as everything Levison does, and it contains so many themes it falls apart at the end. Its super abrupt and leaves youMickey wrote:Assassination Nation.
Some great work but the ending was a mess
dissatisfied. The build up to this big, huge finale is there and then its all resolved offscreen.
Odessa Young is such a talent tough.
yeah loved Shirley. She was great there...she is also great in The Stand.Mickey wrote:Yeah I agree with that--the long shot where they're in the house as the mob starts to break in was stunning. I thought the speech at the end was really dopey--just trying too hard to make it pOlItIcAl but in a way that didn't really add anything (and the sudden appearance of the all-black drumline at the end was uhh odd).VinylGuy wrote:its visually groundbreaking, as everything Levison does, and it contains so many themes it falls apart at the end. Its super abrupt and leaves youMickey wrote:Assassination Nation.
Some great work but the ending was a mess
dissatisfied. The build up to this big, huge finale is there and then its all resolved offscreen.
Odessa Young is such a talent tough.
Have you seen Shirley? Young was stunning in that (opposite Elizabeth Moss!). Sleeper for one of my favorite movies of last year.