tragabigzanda wrote:early reviews of Gucci are bad.
Now you care about reviews ? The last duel had great reviews and you said they awful
The Last Duel also looked awful. That trailer made me wince and sigh right out loud in the theater. It physically hurt me.
But people seem to like it? I don't know. Adam Driver's in it so I'll probably end up watching it at some point to see for myself. But that first trailer I saw was yikes!
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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there weren't many Great horror films this year, not like there were in 2014-16, and I miss finding them over and over again; I guess that's what happens when a genre blows up in popularity, the gems get harder and harder to find among the basically fine
I was just talking to my dad on the phone and he told me he watched House of Gucci. I asked him how it was and he said the cast did a great job, especially Carlos Rens. It took a few moments for me to figure out that my dad legitimately thought Adam Driver's name was Carlos Rens
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
It really bugs me in Back to the Future that after the lightning strikes sending Marty back, the storm mysteriously stops. No lightning. No wind. No nothing.
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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