Red Mosquito

bart wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:While im recording a podcast about Brian DePalma i cant help to think about how i adore his work as a kid, and how much of a footnote he became with time.

I havent seen his last two movies and the last movie i enjoyed from him was Mission To Mars, which is, lets say, uneven at best.

He was very stylish and I still like his American gialli, but overall there just wasn’t much substance there.

bart wrote:Also kind of funny that the last semi good movies from both De Palma and John Carpenter involved Mars and were made around the same time

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.

bart wrote:Carrie and Scarface absolutely, especially the latter. Wasn’t a big fan of the Untouchables. I have almost no memory of Snake Eyes.

In general I think that—outside of the gialli and adjacent types of films—he’s more of a journeyman than an auteur and the quality of his movies largely depends on the script.

tragabigzanda wrote:I don’t think LV’s return is long for that post

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.

Jorge wrote:Richard Jenkins is the best. I'm gonna be very sad when he dies.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Jorge wrote:Richard Jenkins is the best. I'm gonna be very sad when he dies.

i've been stumping for Jenkins for a while now, please stop biting my style