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.

durdencommatyler wrote:All five Disney era Star Wars films are better than this.

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 think all the Hollywood/denouement stuff is right on the money, but there's also an anti-PC sentiment to the ending that I loved just as much. I'm not sure that watching Pitt bash the girl's face in would have been as impactful even five years ago.

VinylGuy wrote:

Anders wrote:I see the movie as a love letter to classic Hollywood, and that would be ruined if it ended with the death of one of its stars. By saving her, and slaughtering the killers, he keeps a red thread throughout the movie.

Thats another different view from what LV said, and its a possible one sure. It gets more in line with the ¨another alternative universe¨stuff he already did.

tragabigzanda wrote:I think all the Hollywood/denouement stuff is right on the money, but there's also an anti-PC sentiment to the ending that I loved just as much. I'm not sure that watching Pitt bash the girl's face in would have been as impactful even five years ago.

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 think all the Hollywood/denouement stuff is right on the money, but there's also an anti-PC sentiment to the ending that I loved just as much. I'm not sure that watching Pitt bash the girl's face in would have been as impactful even five years ago.

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:

theplatypus wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I think all the Hollywood/denouement stuff is right on the money, but there's also an anti-PC sentiment to the ending that I loved just as much. I'm not sure that watching Pitt bash the girl's face in would have been as impactful even five years ago.

Uhhhhh

i think it's weird that no one else got that from this movie; i felt that was so obvious, like with every beatdown delivered by Pitt, QT was flipping the bird to PC police, #MeToo, etc. Felt dangerous in a way that none of his films since Pulp Fiction had felt to me.

tragabigzanda wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I think all the Hollywood/denouement stuff is right on the money, but there's also an anti-PC sentiment to the ending that I loved just as much. I'm not sure that watching Pitt bash the girl's face in would have been as impactful even five years ago.

Uhhhhh

i think it's weird that no one else got that from this movie; i felt that was so obvious, like with every beatdown delivered by Pitt, QT was flipping the bird to PC police, #MeToo, etc. Felt dangerous in a way that none of his films since Pulp Fiction had felt to me.

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.

BurtReynolds wrote:It's a sustained defense of classic depictions of masculinity and femininity throughout. The hippies are made up of bitchy women and their soyboy cuck allies. And yeah it's glorious when they get utterly annihilated.

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.