Red Mosquito

bart wrote:The answer is Hackers. Slackers, rollerblades, internet, topless Angelina Jolie, a cast that intersects with like a dozen other 90s staples, etc

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tommy wrote:tree nailed it with Clerks

epilogue wrote:It's literally Reality Bites. That's the answer.

These are both movies about unmotivated whiny white people, no way are they the answer

Why not

You know why

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Yeah but where’s the black people? Brown people? Latinos? Gays?

This is less about representation granted in hindsight than it is that the very idea of representation had already been commodified and sold back to the masses by the corporations in the 90s. We had Living Single and Fresh Prince of Bel Air; Ellen and Roseanne both had lesbian-themed episodes; the Selena story had broken through to white audiences, and Benny the Jet Rodriguez pickled the Beast. This was all very mainstream stuff.

tragabigzanda wrote:Show me a melting pot movie dammit

BurtReynolds wrote:Trag thoroughly lodged in the 2010s. Latinos didn't even exist until around 2008.

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:Honestly a solid pick

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:You’ve overplayed your hand Leonard