Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Thu July 28, 2022 3:58 pm
I generally hate these Hollywood hagiographies. They are so fake.
You mean like in a sorta I’m Not There kinda way?Jorge wrote:I think this one is trying to be "fake"
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.
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.
i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.The Argonaut wrote:I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
"Meal Ticket" and "The Mortal Remains" were average. The rest is top shelf.Malloy wrote:Buster is mostly gold.
Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?Malloy wrote:i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.The Argonaut wrote:I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?
former kaufman fanboy. i don't know that my relationship to his movies is necessarily complicated enough to merit a narrative account. the fairest way to put it is this: my boredom with myself has grown proportionally to my impatience with self-reflexivity & neurosesThe Argonaut wrote:Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?Malloy wrote:i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.The Argonaut wrote:I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?
I don’t even know.Malloy wrote:i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.The Argonaut wrote:I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?