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.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 1:42 am
by VinylGuy
tragabigzanda wrote:I started The Wolf Of Wall Street again. Second viewing, about halfway through. Liking it way more this time. Pretty amazing actually.
one of my favorite movies from all times.
I think i saw it 5 times
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 1:48 am
by Malloy
Jorge wrote:Because
Jorge wrote:many people whose taste I respect seemed to enjoy it
i don’t know your mates, and so this doesn’t necessarily apply to them, but i am weary of the rehabilitation by hip young contrarians of directors like baz.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 1:57 am
by Rangi Guy
Jorge wrote:I can't believe how bad Elvis was, and how many people whose taste I respect seemed to enjoy it
I watched this over the weekend, and despite it being really generic I quite enjoyed it
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 2:00 am
by Jorge
Generic is not a word I would use to describe it
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 2:11 am
by Rangi Guy
The scene at the end with Fat Elvis made me sad
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 2:12 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Jorge wrote:Generic is not a word I would use to describe it
Geriatric
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 2:28 pm
by Mickey
Jorge wrote:Generic is not a word I would use to describe it
Elvis was unspeakably bad (and this is where Trag is once again wrong, spouting off about something he knows nothing about). It is not just generic Baz Luhrmann fare. It is a uniquely terrible movie.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 2:31 pm
by The Argonaut
I watched one heck of a movie last night. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. Japan, 1987. pre-sages Joshua Oppenheimer, but somehow goes to another level. It takes place in the eighties and follows a Japanese veteran of WWII who saw atrocities during his service in New Guinea. He has since served time for murder, for firing a slingshot at the Emperor, and for distributing pornographic images of the Emperor. He is now going around, interviewing and physically attacking witnesses and suspected perpetrators of murder and cannibalism among Japanese officers and soldier in New Guinea near the end of the war, trying to discover the truth. The man is less the subject of the film than another of the filmmakers. It's fascinating and troubling.
I think Burt would like it.
It's streaming on the Criterion Channel right now
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon September 05, 2022 2:31 pm
by Ello Sailor
VinylGuy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:I started The Wolf Of Wall Street again. Second viewing, about halfway through. Liking it way more this time. Pretty amazing actually.
one of my favorite movies from all times.
I think i saw it 5 times
It also gave us the glorious Meshuggah Face of Wall Street:
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue September 06, 2022 6:59 pm
by BurtReynolds
Watched The Homesman (terrible movie name) 2014.
Wow, this was bleak. Didn't know what to expect, but this one was dark. Kinda ok. 6.5/10
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue September 06, 2022 7:29 pm
by Anders
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
First time, just starting.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue September 06, 2022 8:22 pm
by Mickey
Southland Tales
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 07, 2022 5:08 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Anders wrote:Forgetting Sarah Marshall
First time, just starting.
I really enjoyed it.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 07, 2022 8:03 am
by Anders
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Anders wrote:Forgetting Sarah Marshall
First time, just starting.
I really enjoyed it.
Look forward to finishing it, I only saw about half, before going to bed. My wife finished it, and she also seemed to really enjoy it.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 07, 2022 1:19 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Last Night in Soho. Started out interestingly enough, but the last 30 minutes or so were pretty bad. Not funny at all also.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed September 07, 2022 11:17 pm
by Farmer John
Elvis was bad, but I found it very watchable. "Annoyingly Watchable"
Tom Hanks is ridiculous in this.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu September 08, 2022 12:04 am
by Ms Harmless
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Last Night in Soho. Started out interestingly enough, but the last 30 minutes or so were pretty bad. Not funny at all also.
was it supposed to be funny? but yeah I found it overrated; started off great but I got bored
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu September 08, 2022 12:29 am
by 96583UP
pornography
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu September 08, 2022 1:49 am
by Mickey
Farmer John wrote:Elvis was bad, but I found it very watchable. "Annoyingly Watchable"
Tom Hanks is ridiculous in this.
Tom Hanks is fundamentally incapable of playing a role that even borders on character actor territory.