Red Mosquito

The Argonaut wrote:I'm going to see the Holdovers this week. Anatomy of a Fall and The Marvels, too

Ello Sailor wrote:Is Primal Fear worth watching? I don't really like Richard Gere (does anyone?) but I'm willing to set that aside if it's the goods.

BurtReynolds wrote:The Covenant is good, further reinforcing my Guy Ritchie fandom.

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:Edit: redundant

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.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Jake G bad doesn't sound real

I started to watch this the other day.

spike wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:The Covenant is good, further reinforcing my Guy Ritchie fandom.

I'm actually struggling to get through it. Jake G is really bad in this.

Spoiler: show

I really liked Jake G in it as well. I liked the change from resigned and distant, to really pissed off.

BurtReynolds wrote:I liked the dialogue and felt like some of it was a little clunky on purpose. Kind of a regular soldier guy grasping at something eloquent without being able to.

Ello Sailor wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I liked the dialogue and felt like some of it was a little clunky on purpose. Kind of a regular soldier guy grasping at something eloquent without being able to.

I thought the same.

Also, none of you fart sniffers have so much as mentioned Dar Salim's performance as Ahmed. Guy nails it, bigly.