Red Mosquito

Jorge wrote:I don't conflate people's opinions on movies with their value as people

But I am glad The Holdovers is emerging as an RM favorite

Ello Sailor wrote:Argo had to go and ruin it. Just couldn't help himself.

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:

Jorge wrote:I don't conflate people's opinions on movies with their value as people

But I am glad The Holdovers is emerging as an RM favorite

I thought it was ok. A good Christmas movie. Overrated

The Argonaut wrote:

Jorge wrote:I don't conflate people's opinions on movies with their value as people

But I am glad The Holdovers is emerging as an RM favorite

I thought it was ok. A good Christmas movie. Overrated

tragabigzanda wrote:

Jorge wrote:Double feature this Sunday: The Zone of Interest followed immediately by Ferrari.

Been a while since I watched two different movies back to back in the theater, and these seem pretty different from each other

this feels so weird. How could you watch ZOI then immediately be like "ok, now time for a racing soap opera!"?

tommy wrote:Hard to believe it was Dominic Sessa's first movie role. The whole cast was brilliant. I'll definitely be revisiting it next Christmas.

epilogue wrote:

tommy wrote:Hard to believe it was Dominic Sessa's first movie role. The whole cast was brilliant. I'll definitely be revisiting it next Christmas.

That's where we disagree.

Spoiler: show

The one that contains his thoughts on those two movies!

Have a great night, everyone.

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.