Red Mosquito

Posted: **Tue January 09, 2024 7:52 pm**

Finally got around to watching No One Will Save You. I really enjoyed it, wish we got more of this kind of well-made 90 minute potboilers.

Posted: **Tue January 09, 2024 8:04 pm**

Has anyone seen this one? Thoughts?
I know it's not super expensive, but I'm torn between renting or buying.

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 2:19 pm**

LA Confidential last night. One of those movies on my list of things that I should really get around to seeing one day.

I loved everything about this movie. A slow starter, but once the thread started getting pulled on each of the main characters, it paid off in dividends. And who doesn't love that '50s Hollywood hard boiled aesthetic?

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 2:23 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 2:31 pm**

It's terrific

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 2:41 pm**

What a cast

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 2:53 pm**

One of my all-time faves

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 2:57 pm**

tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah it’s awesome. Curtis Hanson has a weird filmography.

You ain't lying. Such a random looking filmography. This guy directed 8 Mile?

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 3:09 pm**

i need to rewatch it, i was very into the movie and the ending threw me off, i dont remember what changed from the book, which i loved, but it felt bad at the time.

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 3:59 pm**

I haven't been posting in this thread much lately, so here's the last 21 movies I've watched.

Once Upon ... Hollywood
Warrior
Stalag 17
Fall
Saltburn
John Wick 4
Bad Santa
Play Misty for Me
St Valentine's Day Massacre
To Catch a Thief
Class Action
Die Hard 2
Joker
Poor Things
Sneakers
The Favourite
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Witch
Beau is Afraid
Scarface (1932)
Total Recall
Casino

Some great movies in there.

Scarface, Play Misty for Me and St Valentine's Day Massacre were movies I watched with my parents and I enjoyed all 3 of them. St Valentine's Day Massacre was probably the best of those 3.

Warrior was surprisingly good, I really like Joel Edgerton.

Total Recall, The Witch, Bad Santa, The Joker and Once Upon a Time were rewatches. I enjoyed The Witch a lot more on second viewing. I think it really caught me off guard in the theater and I may have been influenced by the fact that the people I saw it with didn't like it.

It would be tough to pick a favorite from the list, but it would probably be one of Casino, Once Upon a Time, Total Recall or Poor Things (fuck you, Argo)

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 4:00 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 4:21 pm**

tragabigzanda wrote:How did Sneakers hold up? Been contemplating a revisit

I enjoyed it. Great cast (I'm a sucker for Robert Redford), it moves pretty quickly and it's got some good laughs. Nothing mind blowing, but an entertaining watch.

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 4:37 pm**

That’s a good list of movies, and sensible choices for the favorites.

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 9:12 pm**

High Plains Drifter

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 9:29 pm**

tommy wrote:High Plains Drifter

Pretty crazy opening 15 minutes. Clint's character rode into town, murdered three guys and then raped a woman.

Posted: **Wed January 10, 2024 11:20 pm**

tommy wrote:
tommy wrote:High Plains Drifter
Pretty crazy opening 15 minutes. Clint's character rode into town, murdered three guys and then raped a woman.

yeah that movie is nuts. Kind of like if the Man With No Name was turned on the townsfolk.

Posted: **Thu January 11, 2024 7:48 am**

Society of the Snow. Anybody else watch this shit? The crash scene was very well done. I've never watched Alive but I'd be curious to compare the two.

Posted: **Thu January 11, 2024 11:50 am**

Seems everyone is loving it; but I don’t really care to see it. I also never saw Alive!, but I’m sure it’s the better movie.

Posted: **Thu January 11, 2024 4:10 pm**

It wasn't shit. It wasn't stupendous, but the crash scene was great and it holds together emotionally. Not a bad movie

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