Red Mosquito

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.

durdencommatyler wrote:Now, comedy is something I'd love to see Nolan explore. I wonder if he'd be able to pull that off.

tragabigzanda wrote:I'll never understand the love for The Prestige. That movie is obtuse and ridiculous, and the "twist" at the end was such a silly deus ex machina.

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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Now, comedy is something I'd love to see Nolan explore. I wonder if he'd be able to pull that off.

Nolanbot is incapable of the human phenomenon you call humor

tragabigzanda wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:The twist at the end of The Prestige is not a deus ex machina at all. It's the point the entire movie.

But there's no rational explanation to be had. Unless I'm forgetting something important, it's basically "Oh by the way this one magician learned to clone himself and has been doing it for the last 90 minutes."

durdencommatyler wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Now, comedy is something I'd love to see Nolan explore. I wonder if he'd be able to pull that off.

Nolanbot is incapable of the human phenomenon you call humor

It's becoming more and more clear to me that you either really hate subtlety or you are actually incapable of noticing it. Which is not to say that I disagree with you on this point. Like I said, I'm not sure if Nolan could pull of a full blown comedy. But the rest of this conversation and your observations of Nolan in the context of the things you seem to like and react positively to, has me thinking that you have no time and find now real value in subtle nuance.