Red Mosquito

JuanHamm wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Anders wrote:No, but it’s in the category just below with Scarface and Goodfellas. A top ten gangster movie of all time.

I have no desire to see Scarface. I need to watch Goodfellas and Godfather 2 again

Scarface is awful. I can't believe it's so popular.

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.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Mickey wrote:I think you could make a side/sub category of the "everything is interrelated" movie: Crash, Babel, Amores Perros, Magnolia. I'm sure there are others.

Blood Diamond feels more like Hotel Rwanda to me--singular instance of poverty/human rights abuses that you (American viewer) should feel bad about, and perhaps are somewhat implicated in.

“Everything is interrelated” seems like a list of Altman-descendent films, of which I’d put Magnolia and Amores Perros.

“Everything is interrelated and you the viewer should leave this film feeling guilty about the implications of your choices in the context of the global capitalist complex” is more what I’m thinking of with this list.

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.

tree_ wrote:I think it's pretty great. Not a big fan of Tiffany Hadish's performance though.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:I think it's pretty great. Not a big fan of Tiffany Hadish's performance though.

It loses a lot of points for me due to her. Also I didn’t buy their connection one bit.

I really enjoyed the last 15 minutes though.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Oh and there was one unforgivable poker gaffe.

tree_ wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:I think it's pretty great. Not a big fan of Tiffany Hadish's performance though.

It loses a lot of points for me due to her. Also I didn’t buy their connection one bit.

I really enjoyed the last 15 minutes though.

The dude is very closed off, which is why the connection wasn't all fireworks. That seemed right to me. Just wish they got a different actress for the part.