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: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 07, 2020 8:13 pm
by epilogue
The Road is a transcendent novel. The last few pages -- and the final paragraph in particular -- are perfect. Some of the best writing I've had the pleasure to experience. I finally saw the movie a few years ago and didn't care much for it. A couple of scenes were good.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 07, 2020 8:19 pm
by VinylGuy
yeah, The Road is a great book. I also loved the No Country for Old Men book.
I dont remember if a read another one from him.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 07, 2020 8:31 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Child of God is a great book by him
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat February 08, 2020 5:25 pm
by Orpheus
No Country is great, just watched it the other day and it was fantastic. And Lewellyn isn't stupid, almost all of his actions can be traced to aspects of his character that are realistic and true to the world he lives in.
The Road is IMO kind of a minor McCarthy work, his bests are Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy, which are all fantastic and achingly romantic.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat February 08, 2020 5:30 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Orpheus wrote:No Country is great, just watched it the other day and it was fantastic. And Lewellyn isn't stupid, almost all of his actions can be traced to aspects of his character that are realistic and true to the world he lives in.
The Road is IMO kind of a minor McCarthy work, his bests are Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy, which are all fantastic and achingly romantic.
The entire movie hinges upon him bringing water to a man that any even remotely intelligent person on earth would know is long dead. That is idiotic. Such a dumb fucking thing to link to him having a guilty conscience. Seriously it’s maybe the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in a movie. Goddammit now I’m pissed off
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat February 08, 2020 5:52 pm
by Orpheus
He is aware that it's a dumb thing to do, and even says it! He's self aware about the whole thing. So why does he do it? I believe this is the purpose of his conversation with the border guard. They talk about being in Vietnam and it's obvious he saw some horrible things. It's likely he saw a friend of his gutshot and dying of thirst, just like the guy in the truck. Of course he knows the guy is dead, but his past and his character as a human makes him go anyway. I think this makes him a better and more interesting character, and a good foil to Chigurgh, who would obviously never do something like that.
Also, on a meta level, people generally do stupid things a lot to drive plots forward. Would 75% of horror movies exist without "stupid" characters? Hell, the entire Alien franchise begins with someone sticking their head in a fucking yawning egg! But they're great movies. It's almost impossible to do narrative things like keeping characters in the same place without them occasionally making stupid decisions driven by their character.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat February 08, 2020 6:43 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Orpheus wrote:He is aware that it's a dumb thing to do, and even says it! He's self aware about the whole thing. So why does he do it? I believe this is the purpose of his conversation with the border guard. They talk about being in Vietnam and it's obvious he saw some horrible things. It's likely he saw a friend of his gutshot and dying of thirst, just like the guy in the truck. Of course he knows the guy is dead, but his past and his character as a human makes him go anyway. I think this makes him a better and more interesting character, and a good foil to Chigurgh, who would obviously never do something like that.
Also, on a meta level, people generally do stupid things a lot to drive plots forward. Would 75% of horror movies exist without "stupid" characters? Hell, the entire Alien franchise begins with someone sticking their head in a fucking yawning egg! But they're great movies. It's almost impossible to do narrative things like keeping characters in the same place without them occasionally making stupid decisions driven by their character.
There are absolutely terrible excuses for this godawful, moronic plot contrivance, Nate. Being aware of something being stupid doesn't make it not stupid. Linking it to extremely simplistic character motivations doesn't make it not stupid. Other movies having stupid characters doesn't make it not stupid.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat February 08, 2020 8:29 pm
by Orpheus
Guess what: I disagree!
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sat February 08, 2020 8:49 pm
by LoathedVermin72
OH YEAH WELL GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed February 19, 2020 5:50 pm
by contamination
I'm sure I'm doing a classic dime, but this is pretty damn impressive - and scary at the same time:
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Fri February 21, 2020 3:31 am
by Strat
Im tired of Wes Anderson and think he's maybe a little overrated.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun February 23, 2020 1:01 am
by E.H. Ruddock
What ever happened to Alicia Silverstone?
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun February 23, 2020 1:33 am
by dad
E.H. Ruddock wrote:What ever happened to Alicia Silverstone?
Premastication.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun February 23, 2020 1:34 am
by BurtReynolds
E.H. Ruddock wrote:What ever happened to Alicia Silverstone?
Died
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun February 23, 2020 1:36 am
by dad
Death by premastication.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon February 24, 2020 6:41 pm
by Jorge
I hate this guy
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon February 24, 2020 6:42 pm
by BurtReynolds
He's right though
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon February 24, 2020 6:44 pm
by Anders
That’s a good one.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon February 24, 2020 6:48 pm
by Anders
contamination wrote:I'm sure I'm doing a classic dime, but this is pretty damn impressive - and scary at the same time:
