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Post by **bune** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:44 pm

BurtReynolds wrote:Mostly I just think Chris Pine is amazing in everything.

hmm...do you now. What did you think of Into the Woods?

Spoiler: show: He was one of the best things about that movie, so cheesy and well done.

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:44 pm

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 · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:45 pm

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.

E.H. Ruddock · Post by **E.H. Ruddock** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:46 pm

Into the Woods was awful. I say that knowing it had our favorite lady in it, Joey

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:49 pm

I don't think he has the star power to be that choosy, but he seems to elevate anything he's in.

Post by **epilogue** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:49 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Into the Woods was awful. I say that knowing it had our favorite lady in it, Joey

I never saw it. It's a Sondheim musical, after all.

But I do love that cast.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:54 pm

Oh Pine is just wonderful. A true star. His performance in Hell or High Water was one of the ages.

And Wet Hot American Summer? Incredible.

Post by **epilogue** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:55 pm

VinylGuy wrote:Oh Pine is just wonderful. A true star. His performance in Hell or High Water was one of the ages.

And Wet Hot American Summer? Incredible.

TVG gets it.

E.H. Ruddock · Post by **E.H. Ruddock** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:55 pm

Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:55 pm

bune wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Mostly I just think Chris Pine is amazing in everything.
hmm...do you now. What did you think of Into the Woods?

Spoiler: show

He was one of the best things about that movie, so cheesy and well done.

Haven't seen it. I was thinking of Hell or High Water and Z For Zacchariah. He's probably the best thing about Wonder Woman, too.

run2death · Post by **run2death** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:56 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.

Ruddo gets it.

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Fri August 30, 2019 11:57 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.

Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.

E.H. Ruddock · Post by **E.H. Ruddock** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:00 am

BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.

Yeah my favorite type of sci fi is that. Those were good, Burt. Along with Arrival. I'm hopeful for Ad Astra, but let's see.

Post by **epilogue** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:00 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.

I try not to get too locked in to these kinds of definitions. Like most things, this stuff means different things to different people. It's like saying Star Wars is ________ . I tend to agree that my favorite sci-fi treads more toward what you're laying out but I'm not going to say the other things that don't isn't sci-fi.

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:00 am

Yeah Arrival was good too

run2death · Post by **run2death** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:01 am

That's what people forget about sci-fi, it's all about humanity.

Post by **epilogue** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:01 am

BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.

Blade Runner 2049 is a revelation and a masterpiece. Annihilation was interesting but super flawed.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:01 am

BurtReynolds wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Most shit classified as "sci-fi" these days in Hollywood isn't really even. It's just big budget war and explosions in space. True sci fi delves into the human condition in an off-Earth or futuristic environment. Good sci fi, anyway, is cerebral.
Real sci fi bombs horribly. My favorite two movies lately were Blade Runner and Annihilation, and nobody else seemed to like them.

Blade Runner 2049?

Watching that one on Imax was like going into the Louvre. Pure art.

Post by **epilogue** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:02 am

BurtReynolds wrote:Yeah Arrival was good too

Totally agree. Brilliant movie.

tragabigzanda · Post by **tragabigzanda** » Sat August 31, 2019 12:03 am

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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