Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Fri January 21, 2022 3:20 am
The Tragedy of Macbeth is very good, but I'll tell you what: It ain't gonna be winning any awards for Best Original Screenplay!
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.
Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.tragabigzanda wrote:Mickey wrote:Rear Window
shockingMickey wrote:Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.tragabigzanda wrote:Mickey wrote:Rear Window
What's shocking?epilogue wrote:shockingMickey wrote:Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.tragabigzanda wrote:Mickey wrote:Rear Window
"so good"Mickey wrote:What's shocking?epilogue wrote:shockingMickey wrote:Wanted to catch it before it leaves Criterion at the end of the month. So good.tragabigzanda wrote:Mickey wrote:Rear Window
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.
yeah, close enoughMickey wrote:Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.
Top 3 for suretragabigzanda wrote:Oh that should be fun. Read Window is maybe my favorite though.
What am I missing??epilogue wrote:yeah, close enoughMickey wrote:Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.
I don't imagine our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past. You just seem to like old movies and cut them a lot of slack.Mickey wrote:What am I missing??epilogue wrote:yeah, close enoughMickey wrote:Nevermind I just figured it out--Joe has recently convinced himself that we have diametrically opposed tastes, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary. He loves Rear Window, so he thinks I should hate it, but with the caveat that our tastes are more aligned the further you recede into the past.