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.

Jorge wrote:

epilogue wrote:Wonka was fun. Charming if uneven. There aren't a ton of stakes but it's a kind and funny film. Good cast. One or two really great moments that expand the mythology in a rewarding way. Also some unnecessary callbacks. Overall, I enjoyed it

Poor Things. Overlong in the middle act. Great performances by everyone not named Ruffalo (dude is unreal bad and so far out of his depth I can't believe it). Stone and Dafoe deliver two of the best performances I've seen this year. It's a complicated movie with a lot to say. Fully understand why some hate it.

Do you normally like Mark Ruffalo or no?

dad wrote:starting Killers of the Flower Moon.

let’s see how this goes.

spike wrote:

dad wrote:starting Killers of the Flower Moon.

let’s see how this goes.

This should’ve wrapped right around now. How was it?

VinylGuy wrote:Saltburn.

What a very very minor movie. Looks great, but the director is trying so hard. Its just so full of herself. And the worst part of it, the story is not even near a compelling one. Its so obvious it gets boring. You can see how the director was only thinking of cool scenes instead of making an actual great narration.

The Argonaut wrote:This is not the main reason I disliked this movie, but it is one problem I had with it. There is no big reveal, but there is a montage that is played back to us like it's a big reveal. It's an odd moment in the movie, to me

Jorge wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:This is not the main reason I disliked this movie, but it is one problem I had with it. There is no big reveal, but there is a montage that is played back to us like it's a big reveal. It's an odd moment in the movie, to me

This really was embarrassing. It reminded me of the "actually he never dated the woman next door" montage from Joker. Just that sequence alone knocked my score of the movie down a couple whole points.

Jorge wrote:Saltburn leans into millennial nostalgia much harder than I expected. I wonder if that's part of why it's being so divisive.

I enjoyed it much more as an aesthetic experience -- a collection or memorable, visually striking moments with some emotional heft -- than a narrative one, as it does get rather dumb, boring and obvious often.

There are scenes that are so opulent in their composition and lighting -- Ollie, hurting and alone, running spurned down the street away from his supposed friends while bright city lights shine over his face, tracking his emotional state from blue to incandescent red, "This Modern Love" blaring in the background; Ollie and Felix sitting together in Felix's darkened dorm, sunbeams slipping in gently through the curtains; Felix's family disassociating at lunchtime while they sit shrouded in red light the day after a devastating tragedy -- that you kind of wish the story stayed closer to those well-conveyed moments of emotion rather than the tedious class farce it goes for afterwards. Some real weird editing too.

Great soundtrack though. Sophie Ellis Bextor, hell yeah.