Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu June 22, 2023 10:07 am
The Five Devils. Goddamn, what a movie. Really stunning
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.
Agreed.bart wrote:Rewatched The World’s End for the first time since seeing it in the theater - good but definitely not the equal of Shaun and Hot Fuzz. Wish they had spent more time just bullshitting amongst the five leads, that was the best aspect of the movie.
Ridley Scott is generally not a good Director of actorstragabigzanda wrote:Movies on airplanes:
We’re the Millers — fun enough for an airplane
The Martian — Still fun, but Wiig and Glover are both atrocious in 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.
Also, Matt Damon plays an astronaut.tragabigzanda wrote:Glover is written to be comic relief, so I at least appreciate the attempt. Wiig as the head of PR for goddamn NASA is like a bad SNL skit
He can do anythingFarmer John wrote:Also, Matt Damon plays an astronaut.tragabigzanda wrote:Glover is written to be comic relief, so I at least appreciate the attempt. Wiig as the head of PR for goddamn NASA is like a bad SNL skit
He's a very serviceable actor.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:He can do anythingFarmer John wrote:Also, Matt Damon plays an astronaut.tragabigzanda wrote:Glover is written to be comic relief, so I at least appreciate the attempt. Wiig as the head of PR for goddamn NASA is like a bad SNL skit
twice.Farmer John wrote:Also, Matt Damon plays an astronaut.tragabigzanda wrote:Glover is written to be comic relief, so I at least appreciate the attempt. Wiig as the head of PR for goddamn NASA is like a bad SNL skit
tree_ wrote:Giving Dunkirk (now on netflix) another rewatch. This one really does get better with each viewing. Wasn't a huge fan of it first time I saw it.
ridiculous, because everything about it is very goodJorge wrote:The thing about Dunkirk is there are zero things about it that are good
You both make compelling arguments.tree_ wrote:ridiculous, because everything about it is very goodJorge wrote:The thing about Dunkirk is there are zero things about it that are good
I don’t remember Sandra Bullock doing any of these thingsAnders wrote:The Net
«A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.»
Should be interesting.
bart wrote:I don’t remember Sandra Bullock doing any of these thingsAnders wrote:The Net
«A North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.»
Should be interesting.