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.
What movies are you watching?
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in some movies maybe yes, but others look like regular tv
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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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I just looked a his filmography. Jesus, he is all over the place. Some really great movies but also some superbly shitty movies.
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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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Unlike Denis Villenueve, he has a perfect record.
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i really liked the basketball one, that one looked good. But Unsane looked awful and was awful.tragabigzanda wrote:his iphone movies definitely look shittyVinylGuy wrote:in some movies maybe yes, but others look like regular tv
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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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Not according to the academy!E.H. Ruddock wrote:Unlike Denis Villenueve, he has a perfect record.
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Or me. Prisoners is ass.tommy wrote:Not according to the academy!E.H. Ruddock wrote:Unlike Denis Villenueve, he has a perfect record.
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I didn't love Enemyepilogue wrote:Or me. Prisoners is ass.tommy wrote:Not according to the academy!E.H. Ruddock wrote:Unlike Denis Villenueve, he has a perfect record.
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I haven't seen it. Though, I've read the book it's "based on" and I love that book. So...tommy wrote:I didn't love Enemyepilogue wrote:Or me. Prisoners is ass.tommy wrote:Not according to the academy!E.H. Ruddock wrote:Unlike Denis Villenueve, he has a perfect record.
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Havent seen that one or Kimi, the one with Zoe Kravitz.tragabigzanda wrote:yeah Unsane, that's the one I was thinking of. But then Let Them All Talk looked great.VinylGuy wrote:i really liked the basketball one, that one looked good. But Unsane looked awful and was awful.tragabigzanda wrote:his iphone movies definitely look shittyVinylGuy wrote:in some movies maybe yes, but others look like regular tv
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The Naked Gun is not as funny as Airplane
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Finally giving parasite a watch
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Unlike Denis Villenueve, he has a perfect record.
What bad movies did Villenueve make?
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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Blade Runner 2049
Sicario
Enemy
Incendies
Prisioners
Arrival
Dune vol 2
Dune vol 1
Havent seen
Polytechnique
Maelstrom
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Sicario
Enemy
Incendies
Prisioners
Arrival
Dune vol 2
Dune vol 1
Havent seen
Polytechnique
Maelstrom
August 32nd on Earth
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