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Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue March 18, 2025 11:39 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue March 18, 2025 11:41 pm
by tree_
tragabigzanda wrote:tree_ wrote:Loving A Scanner Darkly. Top tier dialogue, fun visuals.
Love this one
I remembered you saying that before. Good taste.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 2:03 pm
by tree_
oh man I just realized this is Freck
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 2:13 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 3:22 pm
by BurtReynolds
Enemy, directed by Denny Vanilli.
Tedious. Sucked.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 3:28 pm
by epilogue
BurtReynolds wrote:Enemy, directed by Denny Vanilli.
Tedious. Sucked.
You should read The Double. It's awesome.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 3:56 pm
by BurtReynolds
epilogue wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Enemy, directed by Denny Vanilli.
Tedious. Sucked.
You should read The Double. It's awesome.
I might. Does it have spiders?
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 4:57 pm
by tree_
trying to get through Point Break. whew it's rough
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 4:59 pm
by epilogue
BurtReynolds wrote:epilogue wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Enemy, directed by Denny Vanilli.
Tedious. Sucked.
You should read The Double. It's awesome.
I might. Does it have spiders?
It does not. Which may be the one change Denis got right.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 4:59 pm
by epilogue
tree_ wrote:trying to get through Point Break. whew it's rough
OG or reboot?
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 5:03 pm
by tree_
epilogue wrote:tree_ wrote:trying to get through Point Break. whew it's rough
OG or reboot?
OG, trying to see what all the fuss is about. This movie sucks.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 5:04 pm
by Jorge
Point Break is good
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 5:05 pm
by tree_
oh ok
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 5:17 pm
by tree_
ok it's ironically entertaining, like MacGruber
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 5:36 pm
by Farmer John
MacGruber is meant to be sincerely enjoyed, without affectation.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Wed March 19, 2025 10:44 pm
by Buby
Finally got to watch Parthenope last week.
For a movie about the passage of time and memories, the one thing you come out learning is that Italians talk really fast.
Will definitely re-watch because there's a whopping amount of eye candy you miss while reading subtitles.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Thu March 20, 2025 12:41 am
by BurtReynolds
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Dang, Roy Scheider's wife in this (Madolyn Smith Osborne) is super hot. Wonder why she never became a star.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 1:21 am
by The Argonaut
I saw Mulholland Drive at the local cinema today and I have nothing to say about the film that hasn't been said a thousand times before, but I will share three interactions I overheard on the way out of the theatre.
1. As soon as the movie ended, a male voice a little behind me said quietly "I don't think I get it".
2. In the lobby, a woman standing in line for concessions says loudly to her companion "I don't think I know what that movie is." Then loudly announced to the crowd ambling out of the movie in her direction "What is Mulholland Drive about?". A truly funny question
3. The two young women in front of me walking to the parking lot, one of whom was wearing a green "Fleet Foxes" baseball cap. "I'll be honest, I couldn't follow it at all. At a certain point, I was just all vibes."
Oh, and 4, mid-movie, in the scene right after the dimension-shift-dream-end-reality-change whatever where there is a bunch of jump cuts and linearity of emotion and costume and motivation is all getting jumbled around, someone behind me said "What is going on?" quite exasperatedly
I think all four of these moments were rather charming. And I certainly didn't understand that movie the first time I saw it and before I read interpretations, so I'm certainly not judging any of these folks. I like them all
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 1:27 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
lol @ #2...I've only seen it once and definitely struggled with it. I'm sure i'll give it another go one day.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Sun March 23, 2025 1:31 am
by BurtReynolds
I think I got the gist of it the first time, but not the specifics.