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.

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.

durdencommatyler wrote:I knew Verm was going to be interested. I could tell right away. As soon as I finished watching it I thought, "man those visuals are so... off and obvious; it looks like a Transformers movie -- LV's gonna love this!"

tragabigzanda wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I knew Verm was going to be interested. I could tell right away. As soon as I finished watching it I thought, "man those visuals are so... off and obvious; it looks like a Transformers movie -- LV's gonna love this!"

You think? Man, when I read that book, everything seemed so vibrant in my mind's eye; and then the Tim Curry version just looked so flat and lifeless. Really happy they're taking a big swing for the visuals on this.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I knew Verm was going to be interested. I could tell right away. As soon as I finished watching it I thought, "man those visuals are so... off and obvious; it looks like a Transformers movie -- LV's gonna love this!"

I don't think the visuals look like anything special. But I am glad it has a "look," at least.

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:I knew Verm was going to be interested. I could tell right away. As soon as I finished watching it I thought, "man those visuals are so... off and obvious; it looks like a Transformers movie -- LV's gonna love this!"

You think? Man, when I read that book, everything seemed so vibrant in my mind's eye; and then the Tim Curry version just looked so flat and lifeless. Really happy they're taking a big swing for the visuals on this.

I'm not really talking about how vibrant the colors are.

What then? Set design/blocking stuff? Character design?
I liked the look of the kids. Some of the other stuff, like the creepy looking house, was definitely "obvious" and "off," in the sense that a house like that wouldn't really exist in that sort of neighborhood. But again, I'm mostly turned off by horror films because they're either A) too grotesque (Eli Roth, etc), B) too reliant on jump scares and NIN video effects (The Ring, for instance). So I'm excited for a horror film that looks creepy and colorful and make-believe.

Spoiler: show

Looks like Joss Whedon is in talks to direct a Batgirl stand alone film for DC.

http://collider.com/batgirl-movie-joss-whedon-new-52/

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.

theplatypus wrote:Affleck isn't directing anything!

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.

theplatypus wrote:And James Wan and David Ayer are still on board! What are you talking about?