Red Mosquito

evenslow wrote:

Strat wrote:That's a long time to wait. Even in his best years - strat wouldn't wait 4 days.

That was way before strat started talking about strat in the third person.

evenslow wrote:Also I should say that Tim Bierman was super nice.

Tuolumne wrote:Red Mosquito Forum: "I want the band to challenge me! Do something different, delve into new subject matter, don't just do the same ol same ol!!! Please, just different, I dont care what it is, just do something different!"

Band: "Here's something kinda different. It's not what you would expect!"

RMF: "What is this??!!! It's different, it's not what I want, this sucks!"

Tuolumne wrote:Red Mosquito Forum: "I want the band to challenge me! Do something different, delve into new subject matter, don't just do the same ol same ol!!! Please, just different, I dont care what it is, just do something different!"

Band: "Here's something kinda different. It's not what you would expect!"

RMF: "What is this??!!! It's different, it's not what I want, this sucks!"

evenslow wrote:Also, I watched the movie, LET'S PLAY TWO. It was fun. But it's not what I wanted.

However, the lowest form of criticism is talking about shit you wanted it to be, rather than judging it on what it is.

I wanted it to be Immagine in Cornice 2: Chicago Style. Instead it was 10% Pearl Jam, 50% Eddie Vedder and 40% Chicago Cubs. My favorite parts, however small, were the 10% Pearl Jam. Them on the roof at Murphy's, interviews with Jeff and Mike, backstage type shit - that's what I really want to see. The rest of it was wow how great the Cubs are and Edward Vedder really loves the Cubs. That's fine, but not what I wanted.

The music parts sounded really good, however, the selections were very obvious - Elderly Woman, Black, Alive, Jeremy, Given to Fly, Corduroy.

My favorite parts were Low Light and Release - both sounded fantastic and Ed was in top 2016 form.

So, not sure what to say. It was fine. Fun to watch, but I didn't care much for the Cubs stuff and the songs chosen were on the nose. But overall, it was a lot of fun to see at the Metro.

EXCEPT, right in front of me were the absolute worst PEARL JAM FANS YOU KNOW. Two total fucking meathead motherfuckers, straight from Gold's Gym one-day membership cuz they happen to be in town. Talking the entire fucking time, ruining it for everyone, standing up and drunkenly singing along to Elderly Woman (pretty sure I hate that song now). Everyone else was actually super cool - and whaddya know many females were there - but these douchebags made me rethink what the fuck I'm doing with my life. If I like Pearl Jam... and these dipshits like Pearl Jam... something has gone wrong.

Tuolumne wrote:Red Mosquito Forum: "I want the band to challenge me! Do something different, delve into new subject matter, don't just do the same ol same ol!!! Please, just different, I dont care what it is, just do something different!"

Band: "Here's something kinda different. It's not what you would expect!"

RMF: "What is this??!!! It's different, it's not what I want, this sucks!"

theplatypus wrote:I guess a movie about a fucking baseball team is pretty challenging

Rusted wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

evenslow wrote: I wanted it to be Immagine in Cornice 2: Chicago Style. Instead it was 10% Pearl Jam, 50% Eddie Vedder and 40% Chicago Cubs.

Why on Earth did Jeff and Stone sign off on this thoroughly weird project?

Agreed. Actually, from what this sounds like, a more interesting approach would have been for Ed to have filmed this along with what I'm sure is decades worth of other footage he has on 8mm. He could throw in some performance footage, interviews, etc. Maybe that would have been a better 30 for 30 on ESPN instead of a full film, but I would have actually been more interested in something like that then something billed as Pearl Jam.

All of that said, I'm seeing it next Tuesday so we'll see how I feel then.

mikejasond wrote:What percentage of the movie was concert footage? If there's less than an hour of that there's no way Im seeing it. I was hoping like "*Plays through 3 songs* *A little interlude of eddie and the cubs or whatever * *more songs*"

But it sounds ilke the songs are the little interludes so its like...WHY EVEN GO