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.

The Argonaut wrote:I later toon back my winning over comment. It was a desperate grasping for something. The end is less insufferable than the beginning, that's the best I can say

Spoiler: show

"her" old husband being an unambiguously cruel and evil man, the personification of the class divide she'd just spent weeks learning all about, and all his dialogue where he loudly announced his intentions and spelling out "YOU ARE MY PROPERTY" just in case the audience was made up of literal children who couldn't figure out what one of the movies key themes are

Anders wrote:Ouch. Glad Yorgos Lanthimos isn't a poster on RM.

Jorge wrote:Ruffalo was fucking awful, just awful

tragabigzanda wrote:Jorge Discusses Poor Things and Breaks Down THAT Shocking Scene

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Under the Silver Lake - I didn't know much about this going in, outside of Argo's strong recommendation. It was a real treat and easily my favorite Andrew Garfield role

Beau is Afraid - Aster is a mixed bag for me. I like aspects of Hereditary though it didn't work ulitmately, and I thought Midsommar was a big miss. When I read a snippet of the premise and saw Joaquin Phoenix's image on the poster, I was very much interested. I loved the first half, but my interest and enjoyment level did decrease as it went a bit. I still really enjoyed it, and Joaquin was great as expected

The Holdovers - Lower half Payne for me. I couldn't find much I actively disliked about it (sans maybe the dad storyline that's a bit played), but overall found it average. Will never not watch a movie with a Giamatti role such as this though.

The Creator - Pass.

Spring Breakers - Watched it.

spike wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Under the Silver Lake - I didn't know much about this going in, outside of Argo's strong recommendation. It was a real treat and easily my favorite Andrew Garfield role

Beau is Afraid - Aster is a mixed bag for me. I like aspects of Hereditary though it didn't work ulitmately, and I thought Midsommar was a big miss. When I read a snippet of the premise and saw Joaquin Phoenix's image on the poster, I was very much interested. I loved the first half, but my interest and enjoyment level did decrease as it went a bit. I still really enjoyed it, and Joaquin was great as expected

The Holdovers - Lower half Payne for me. I couldn't find much I actively disliked about it (sans maybe the dad storyline that's a bit played), but overall found it average. Will never not watch a movie with a Giamatti role such as this though.

The Creator - Pass.

Spring Breakers - Watched it.

stop watching so many movies and post more instead

The Argonaut wrote:I honestly don't know what it is going for. What is it even trying to say?