Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed June 02, 2021 4:08 pm
agreedAnders wrote:The Apartment
Really good movie.
agreedAnders wrote:The Apartment
Really good movie.
its always a once a year watch in our houseMalloy wrote:agreedAnders wrote:The Apartment
Really good movie.
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 find that time has been kind to this flicktragabigzanda wrote:Robocop (original). Completely different movie from the last time I watched it in 1990.
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.
Ended up getting drunk and eating oysters instead. Oh well.Malloy wrote:The Palm Beach Story !Mickey wrote:Okay I watched them both and still have 48 hours left for Sturges--any others? I thought Sullivan was better than TLE, by the way.Malloy wrote:The Lady Eve and Sullivan's TravelsMickey wrote:Let's say I'm not planning to burn through that collection in the next 12 days, but I'd like a taste--which ones would be high-priority?Malloy wrote:definitely. planning to watch McGinty tonight. cant' believe i waited so long to watch all of these.Mickey wrote:Malloy, you going to finish the Preston Sturges collection on Criterion before it disappears?
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.
watch the 1962 versiontree_ wrote:The Manchurian Candidate. Chilling. Could've had better lead performances though. Denzel is overrated... and Liev Shreiber shouldn't have a major part in anything. It works because Demme is really good.
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.
its 100x better then the one you watchedtree_ wrote:What's good about it?