Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked The Gingerbread Man. I fucking hate Gosford Park. Have not seen APHC or Short Cuts, though. Heard good things about both.

do you hate gosford park for the same reason you hate arrested development?

How could anyone hate Arrested Development?

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked The Gingerbread Man. I fucking hate Gosford Park. Have not seen APHC or Short Cuts, though. Heard good things about both.

do you hate gosford park for the same reason you hate arrested development?

How could anyone hate Arrested Development?

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I liked The Gingerbread Man. I fucking hate Gosford Park. Have not seen APHC or Short Cuts, though. Heard good things about both.

do you hate gosford park for the same reason you hate arrested development?

How could anyone hate Arrested Development?

It gets all the way under my skin and skips rope with my every nerve. Just fucking terrible people being terribly unfunny while shoving their self-entitled narcissistic asshole affluence and pretentiousness down my fucking throat. And I get that that's the joke. I do. But....

I just have better things to do with my time. There are too many shows that are just so much better. There are a handful of decent laughs and more than a few good ideas strung across the four seasons. But overall, it just isn't my thing. I can't get past rich people being assholes.

I never considered this until now, but the Pfeffermans from Transparent are sort of like the other side of the Bluthe family coin -- same snotty kids with the same sense of entitlement, but obviously the circumstances and tone are totally different.

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:I do really identify with Buster, though. I'd probably watch a spinoff show about him. Or one about Tobias.

I can't remember if you watch Veep? Tony Hale steals the show, and it's definitely an extension of the Buster character.

I heard an interview with JLD in which she described her character's relationship with Hale's as "He's like a vine that has been growing around her for years." It was just. so. perfect.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Die Hard
Predator
Last Action Hero
Die Hard with a Vengeance
The Hunt for Red October
Medicine Man
The Thomas Crown Affair
The 13th Warrior
Nomads

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:You mixed up Apocalypse Now and The Outsiders.

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.