Red Mosquito

tommy wrote:Manhunter is awesome. Have you seen Thief?

BurtReynolds wrote:

tommy wrote:Manhunter is awesome. Have you seen Thief?

Yeah I love Michael Mann.

bart wrote:I like Manhunter but I don’t hold it in quite as high regard as others. Translating Will’s inner dialogue from the novel to just him talking to himself in the film comes off as comedy to me.

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.

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BurtReynolds wrote:

tommy wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Hundreds of Beavers

Not for me.

I started this a few days ago and quit a few minutes in

I didn't last very long either.

I have this on my 40 last movies of 2022 list that I’m watching in the upcoming weeks.

However, so far today, I’ve watched a few Christmas movies instead.

Christmas movies I've watched so far this year

Black Christmas - Great
Better Watch Out - Garbage
Christmas Vacation - Not good
Silent Night, Deadly Night - Pretty good
It's a Wonderful Life - Wonderful
Elf - Also Wonderful

tragabigzanda wrote:

bart wrote:I like Manhunter but I don’t hold it in quite as high regard as others. Translating Will’s inner dialogue from the novel to just him talking to himself in the film comes off as comedy to me.

I love the scene when he figures out where Dolarhyde works; the monologues work here, but Farina’s there to provide some context.

bart wrote:Is that The Endless from 2017? The guys who did that one also did a great movie called Spring.

BurtReynolds wrote:It's a Christmas Eve Amazon Prime Slopfest Marathon!

The Devil Below: amateur dogshit, girlboss, cartoonish characters. bailed after 15 minutes. Bad.

Black Mountainside: boring, the scenes are filmed from a distance with a static camera and the characters are all bland, so you can't tell any of them apart. The monster has a silly voice and talks to people. It's very bad. Forwarded to the end, and it didn't improve.

A Sound of Thunder: Ben Kingsley will do anything for money. Also stars Edward Burns, remember him? Sub-scifi channel shit about shooting cartoon dinosaurs. Lasted about 15 minutes.

No One Lives: cool name and stars Luke Evans, but then I saw that this is a WWE movie. But I don't think any wrestlers make an appearance. Cool premise, terrible movie, but there was some moments that I laughed out loud at it. Pretty decent horror slasher schlock.

The Endless: this was... Actually pretty good? Compared to most of these types of things, it's great. Didn't feel like film school bullshit. It gets a little sloppy toward the end, but this was surprisingly professional, and had some good weird stuff. I might watch some more of his stuff.

Spoiler: show

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