Red Mosquito

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:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:a serious man may be one of my favorite coens' works now

Wow, why is that? I'd say they are my favorite directors, and A Serious Man is easily my least favorite of their films. My assumption is that a lot of Jewish humor is going right over my head. What is it that you like so much about this movie?

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:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:a serious man may be one of my favorite coens' works now

Wow, why is that? I'd say they are my favorite directors, and A Serious Man is easily my least favorite of their films. My assumption is that a lot of Jewish humor is going right over my head. What is it that you like so much about this movie?

i'm sure some of the jewish humor went over my head too, but it did not permeate the whole film and wasn't a distraction at all

i guess i just really enjoy their approach as to how we try to understand why things happen to us and how we respond to them - albeit in their own bleak, almost sarcastic way

they've had a lot of great performances, and stuhlbarg's is right up there with the best

The performances are definitely great. I just felt like there were whole swaths of dialogue that were boring, which isn't something I can say about any other Coen Bros. film; and I think that boredom is more a reflection on my own background, rather than the story they were telling.

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.

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:

BurtReynolds wrote:Heh looking at that list, they were in a real slump there for awhile (imo). I didn't like that Lady Killers phase at all.

Oh man, Tom Cruise and JK Simmons are both so excellent in that movie. Hanks in particular turns in one of the most criminally underappreciated performances I can think of.

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.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Kinda surprised Burt isn't a fan of Ladykillers

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i like intolerable cruelty a lot more than most die hard coen's fans

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i like intolerable cruelty a lot more than most die hard coen's fans

I'm a big fan of IC. Underrated.