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tragabigzanda wrote:Sicario
Dune
Arrival
Enemy
Blade Runner 2049
Prisoners
Can we just confirm you've actually seen these movies, Trag? Hoping to avoid a Cinemabon situation.
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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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BR 2049
Enemy
Prisoners
Sicario
Arrival
Dune

i need to see Incendies too.
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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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feel the exact opposite. Once Harrison got there, everything made sense. Saw it on Imax, the score, the beauty of the images....the ending. It was pure art.
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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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Prisoners
BR 2049
Arrival
Sicario
Incendies

Not seen Enemy or Dune, but own Enemy on Apple Movies, and Dune arrives on HBO here on Monday. I have only seen each of the other movies once, and plan rewatches of all in the coming years.
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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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For some reason I thought he directed Sicario 2, which is better than the first.
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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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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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The first one is bogged down by the good guy cops. The second is better because it dispenses with these "relatable" characters.
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That last scene is weak, but doesn't hurt the rest of the movie for me.
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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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Prisoners
Arrival
Dune
Enemy
Sicario
Blade Runner 2049
Incendies

I checked my notes and I did not log any of these as a 'favorite' upon first viewing, though I think back fondly on at least the first five and appreciate elements of the final two
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I want to know why Malloy dislikes him so much
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Jorge wrote:I want to know why Malloy dislikes him so much
It's because Villeneuve is a lot less clever than he thinks he is, and his formal sensibility aint Malloy's bag
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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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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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tragabigzanda wrote:
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Jorge wrote:I want to know why Malloy dislikes him so much
It's because Villeneuve Is a lot less clever than he thinks he is, and his formal sensibility aint Malloy's bag
Do you think he's every strived to be clever in the way that Nolan has? I don't get that from him at all. I think he's much more interested in mood (all his films) and size/spatial relationships (everything from the Mexico shootouts in Sicario to the ships in Dune). When I think of annoyingly clever film makers I think Nolan, Kevin Smith, Sorkin, people like that.
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