Red Mosquito

Rangi Guy wrote:Completely agree with Trag with regards to Spencer

Over the weekend watched
The Outfit - this was pretty good, and I really love Mark Rylance
The Greatest Showman - I enjoyed this a shit-ton more than I had expected to
All The Old Knives - this was pretty 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.

JuanHamm wrote:How is inherent vice?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:How is inherent vice?

A mess, but kinda fun.

JuanHamm wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:How is inherent vice?

A mess, but kinda fun.

I'm drawn to the cast and the setting

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:

Mickey wrote:

Malloy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:It’s a bold film and I fully appreciate why some people may have gotten a lot out of it. I hold the lowest regard for all things royal family, and the only emotion I felt towards anyone in the film was when I felt joy for the kids who got to eat KFC like normal children.

the film holds the royal family in equally low regard. everyone is a miserable cunt and monarchy as an institution is utterly inhumane and everything is hopeless (the lead is a brat, but she at least seems to be human —but guess what? she dies, so what’s all the pageantry for anyway). luckily spencer isn’t ’t even interested in fidelity to biopic tropes, to representing a particularly familiar kind of tragedy, and it has no use for good taste. trash is a constitutive part of the film’s success.


my only complaint is this wasn’t about the musks

I didn't have the fortitude to dig in to this moronic take, but Malloy is 100% right. The idea that Spencer is "melodramatic" is a misreading of the highest order.

wouldn't this reading strengthen my Lynch comparison?

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:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mickey wrote:

Malloy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:It’s a bold film and I fully appreciate why some people may have gotten a lot out of it. I hold the lowest regard for all things royal family, and the only emotion I felt towards anyone in the film was when I felt joy for the kids who got to eat KFC like normal children.

the film holds the royal family in equally low regard. everyone is a miserable cunt and monarchy as an institution is utterly inhumane and everything is hopeless (the lead is a brat, but she at least seems to be human —but guess what? she dies, so what’s all the pageantry for anyway). luckily spencer isn’t ’t even interested in fidelity to biopic tropes, to representing a particularly familiar kind of tragedy, and it has no use for good taste. trash is a constitutive part of the film’s success.


my only complaint is this wasn’t about the musks

I didn't have the fortitude to dig in to this moronic take, but Malloy is 100% right. The idea that Spencer is "melodramatic" is a misreading of the highest order.

wouldn't this reading strengthen my Lynch comparison?

I can't even.

do you also lack the fortitude