Red Mosquito

Anders wrote:

Anders wrote:The Spectacular Now

Think Miles Teller was really good in this. Fairly straightforward story, but it went a bit different than I had imagined anyway.

BurtReynolds wrote:

tree_ wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The communist cell of writers was the only thing I really liked about it, but they aren't in the movie much. The only time I laughed was when the cowboy guy says "so it's communists."

Outside of that, everyone else is hamming it up in the worst ways. Clooney is awful. Everything looks cheap and ugly (which I assume was on purpose, but showing Hollywood as fake and gaudy isn't very interesting these days).

Maybe if they would have concentrated on making the movie about the hero movie exec vs evil commie writers, that might have been funny, but it's too unfocused. I don't know why Channing Tatum is in this movie at all.

Part of the humor of it all is the weird choices, left turns it makes throughout. Think Big Lebowski. It's quirky. Channing Tatum's arc is quite hilarious, if you think about it. They can make a Fargo when they feel like it. But this isn't that.

Don't ever compare this movie to Big Lebowski again.

tragabigzanda wrote:I can settle on bottom four pretty easily

A Serious Man
Inside Llewyn Davis
Hail Caesar!
The Man Who Wasn’t There

BurtReynolds wrote:

tree_ wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The communist cell of writers was the only thing I really liked about it, but they aren't in the movie much. The only time I laughed was when the cowboy guy says "so it's communists."

Outside of that, everyone else is hamming it up in the worst ways. Clooney is awful. Everything looks cheap and ugly (which I assume was on purpose, but showing Hollywood as fake and gaudy isn't very interesting these days).

Maybe if they would have concentrated on making the movie about the hero movie exec vs evil commie writers, that might have been funny, but it's too unfocused. I don't know why Channing Tatum is in this movie at all.

Part of the humor of it all is the weird choices, left turns it makes throughout. Think Big Lebowski. It's quirky. Channing Tatum's arc is quite hilarious, if you think about it. They can make a Fargo when they feel like it. But this isn't that.

Don't ever compare this movie to Big Lebowski again.

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:

VinylGuy wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I can settle on bottom four pretty easily

A Serious Man
Inside Llewyn Davis
Hail Caesar!
The Man Who Wasn’t There

please the real tragedy is this responde...the man who wasnt there bottom four?

That one was pretty boring. There are certainly aspects I like, but on the whole I find it pretty forgettable

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:

VinylGuy wrote:i havent seen Inside Llewyn Davis nor Hail Caesar! and the netflix one. I felt a little tired with them after True Grit.

Omg

Farmer John wrote:"the netflix one" is one of their best

VinylGuy wrote:

Farmer John wrote:"the netflix one" is one of their best

i saw the first two stories. not my thang.

Farmer John wrote:It is a grower.