Red Mosquito

tommy wrote:I was craving some split diopter shots, so I'm watching Blow Out.

tommy wrote:I watched True Lies last week and I was a little blown away. Is that movie underrated? It feels like it flies under the radar, but it's absolutely spectacular - up there with T2 and Total Recall in Arnie's catalog.

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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Alien: Romulus is a beautifully made piece of shit. So extremely tired of movies populated entirely by anonymous 12-year-olds. Especially in something like this, where the characters are supposed to be beaten down and world-weary. Didn’t buy any of them for one second. Like why go through all the work to create such a tangible, lived-in world only to immediately break the illusion with a bunch of doe-eyed babies? I’ve been so spoiled by the far superior way old British genre movies were filled with veteran thespians playing adults with unique experiences, interests, and personalities. American horror casts are so goddamn dull by comparison, and this awful, formulaic, faceless script does them no favors.

I’ll give Alvarez credit for a lot of his visual work, though. I don’t remember being impressed by the imagery/craft of any new movie like this since West Side Story. Amazing what having black levels that are actually black can do for your movie.

Jorge wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Alien: Romulus is a beautifully made piece of shit. So extremely tired of movies populated entirely by anonymous 12-year-olds. Especially in something like this, where the characters are supposed to be beaten down and world-weary. Didn’t buy any of them for one second. Like why go through all the work to create such a tangible, lived-in world only to immediately break the illusion with a bunch of doe-eyed babies? I’ve been so spoiled by the far superior way old British genre movies were filled with veteran thespians playing adults with unique experiences, interests, and personalities. American horror casts are so goddamn dull by comparison, and this awful, formulaic, faceless script does them no favors.

I’ll give Alvarez credit for a lot of his visual work, though. I don’t remember being impressed by the imagery/craft of any new movie like this since West Side Story. Amazing what having black levels that are actually black can do for your movie.

Kinda shocked at the extent to which your assessment of this film hinged on the cast