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.

epilogue wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Lads. The Kneecap movie is out in the US

dont sleep on this one. See it in a cinema. Have an edible beforehand. Have two

it's a wonder and a thing of beauty.

Guess who is seeing this later this afternoon

oasisfan35 wrote:

Jorge wrote:Speed is a nearly perfect action movie, isn't it? I hadn't watched it since I was a kid and kind of wrote it off as 90s shlock but I just gave it a watch and was thoroughly impressed by about 80% of it. The fight atop the subway train is the only part where the filmmaking really lets it down. Everything else is so well executed even when it's being extremely stupid

That film is gold.

Jorge wrote:Speed is a nearly perfect action movie, isn't it? I hadn't watched it since I was a kid and kind of wrote it off as 90s shlock but I just gave it a watch and was thoroughly impressed by about 80% of it. The fight atop the subway train is the only part where the filmmaking really lets it down. Everything else is so well executed even when it's being extremely stupid

epilogue wrote:

epilogue wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Lads. The Kneecap movie is out in the US

dont sleep on this one. See it in a cinema. Have an edible beforehand. Have two

it's a wonder and a thing of beauty.

Guess who is seeing this later this afternoon

This was fucking great

dimejinky99 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

epilogue wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Lads. The Kneecap movie is out in the US

dont sleep on this one. See it in a cinema. Have an edible beforehand. Have two

it's a wonder and a thing of beauty.

Guess who is seeing this later this afternoon

This was fucking great

Ah cool. Knew you’d like it

It’s so bonkers I can’t think of anything like it but I can see it being loved if people go see it Cult hit or massive success? Let’s see

epilogue wrote:

Jorge wrote:Speed is a nearly perfect action movie, isn't it? I hadn't watched it since I was a kid and kind of wrote it off as 90s shlock but I just gave it a watch and was thoroughly impressed by about 80% of it. The fight atop the subway train is the only part where the filmmaking really lets it down. Everything else is so well executed even when it's being extremely stupid

You wrote it off as 90s shlock when you were a kid?

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.

BurtReynolds wrote:Was Demolition Man before or after? I remember thinking Sandra Bullock was gonna be a huge star after those two movies.

BurtReynolds wrote:I only saw it when it came out, but I remember it feeling pretty formulaic even back then.

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:I don’t think it felt formulaic at that time at all; it seemed to be wildly successful specifically because it invented a new formula, which was then ceaselessly regurgitated. But the core concept was very novel, and the script was very punchy.

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.