Red Mosquito

spike wrote:

bart wrote:I haven’t seen this movie but I agree with Burt, this seems like a caricature of the typical navel gazing Hollywood bildungsroman.

Weird take on Boogie Nights.

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.

VinylGuy wrote:I read burt's posts with Trump's voice

tree_ wrote:seems to me burt is lacking in empathic skills both as a viewer of cinema and in life

VinylGuy wrote:maybe...just maybe...he has a similar story as a youngster but never got the girl and it hurts. It just hurts so much.

tree_ wrote:Even when viewing the film from a cold, emotionally detached perspective it really is brilliant. I really thought burt was smarter than this.

Disappointing! Sad!

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.