Red Mosquito

Anders wrote:

Anders wrote:21 Jump Street

Really funny movie.

Jorge wrote:Very moved by The Fabelmans. A beautiful movie. Frustrating but typical that a nuanced film about discovering your calling while getting caught in between your parents failing marriage and dealing with the open antisemitism of the 1960s is flattened out by the marketing department and some reviewers as being solely about "Hollywood magic!" Really lovely stuff though. Michelle Williams sounds just like Judy Garland. Spielberg and Kaminski, probably the best dp/director combo

Malloy wrote:let down by banshees

Jorge wrote:Very moved by The Fabelmans. A beautiful movie. Frustrating but typical that a nuanced film about discovering your calling while getting caught in between your parents failing marriage and dealing with the open antisemitism of the 1960s is flattened out by the marketing department and some reviewers as being solely about "Hollywood magic!" Really lovely stuff though. Michelle Williams sounds just like Judy Garland. Spielberg and Kaminski, probably the best dp/director combo

Malloy wrote:let down by banshees

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:

The Argonaut wrote:

Malloy wrote:let down by banshees

In what way? I think it's a much simpler movie than it appears

It’s elemental. Could’ve been written 100 years ago. I loved it.

Spoiler: show

But it isn't. The metaphors are misdirection, especially the Irish Civil War backdrop. It's a movie about a man who realizes he isn't as genius as he thought he was but can't handle that revelation and becomes self-destructive.

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:I feel like Norris should watch this and weigh in on the civil war stuff

bart wrote:thanks NORRIS