Red Mosquito

Simple Torture wrote:

david80 wrote:ďalej len " Equilibrium " je jeden z mojich najobľúbenejších

LV, your rebuttal?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

david80 wrote:ďalej len " Equilibrium " je jeden z mojich najobľúbenejších

LV, your rebuttal?

rah!ug applselau! on lait ontiac

Simple Torture wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

david80 wrote:ďalej len " Equilibrium " je jeden z mojich najobľúbenejších

LV, your rebuttal?

rah!ug applselau! on lait ontiac

Can't you just fucking enjoy something for what it is without being so critical?

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

david80 wrote:ďalej len " Equilibrium " je jeden z mojich najobľúbenejších

LV, your rebuttal?

rah!ug applselau! on lait ontiac

Can't you just fucking enjoy something for what it is without being so critical?

No, I must lash out whenever I see happiness

BurtReynolds wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:The Witch. Ugh. Sucked. So sick of all this dull "art horror" bullshit.

looks good. Can't wait

yeah no surprise, it was a pretty cool movie.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Jesus, Everest was fucking harrowing. Man alive.

b_i_revisited wrote:Watched "Children of Men" again. Still great, and more relevant today than it was when it was released.

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:

ABNorman wrote:Trying to force myself to watch the Hateful Eight. I hate Tarantino, but love westerns. Yay or nay?

I say nay. It's beautifully shot and the dialogue is really good (and the first 3/5 of the film are all dialogue), but the ending is completely gratuitous. This is not a "western" so much as it is a Reservoir Dogs re-hash in a cabin, but minus the heart of Reservoir Dogs.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

ABNorman wrote:Trying to force myself to watch the Hateful Eight. I hate Tarantino, but love westerns. Yay or nay?

I say nay. It's beautifully shot and the dialogue is really good (and the first 3/5 of the film are all dialogue), but the ending is completely gratuitous. This is not a "western" so much as it is a Reservoir Dogs re-hash in a cabin, but minus the heart of Reservoir Dogs.

Ha, the ending is the best part, QT has no eye for scenery, and the dialogue is pretty questionable.

But I wouldn't suggest subjecting yourself to it if you hate QT.

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:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

ABNorman wrote:Trying to force myself to watch the Hateful Eight. I hate Tarantino, but love westerns. Yay or nay?

I say nay. It's beautifully shot and the dialogue is really good (and the first 3/5 of the film are all dialogue), but the ending is completely gratuitous. This is not a "western" so much as it is a Reservoir Dogs re-hash in a cabin, but minus the heart of Reservoir Dogs.

Ha, the ending is the best part, QT has no eye for scenery, and the dialogue is pretty questionable.

But I wouldn't suggest subjecting yourself to it if you hate QT.

I won't try to argue the ending or the dialogue -- those things are pretty clearly subjective. But I'm surprised you think he has no eye for scenery. I thought the mountain shots were great, and I loved the shot of JJL catching snowflakes on her tongue with a banged up face. And the Haberdashery was really well staged, with good blocking. It felt like a vital part of the film.

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.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

b_i_revisited wrote:Watched "Children of Men" again. Still great, and more relevant today than it was when it was released.

love that movie

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

ABNorman wrote:Trying to force myself to watch the Hateful Eight. I hate Tarantino, but love westerns. Yay or nay?

I say nay. It's beautifully shot and the dialogue is really good (and the first 3/5 of the film are all dialogue), but the ending is completely gratuitous. This is not a "western" so much as it is a Reservoir Dogs re-hash in a cabin, but minus the heart of Reservoir Dogs.

Ha, the ending is the best part, QT has no eye for scenery, and the dialogue is pretty questionable.

But I wouldn't suggest subjecting yourself to it if you hate QT.

I won't try to argue the ending or the dialogue -- those things are pretty clearly subjective. But I'm surprised you think he has no eye for scenery. I thought the mountain shots were great, and I loved the shot of JJL catching snowflakes on her tongue with a banged up face. And the Haberdashery was really well staged, with good blocking. It felt like a vital part of the film.

I mean, it certainly wasn't ugly. But you'd have to be a complete imbecile to go to a pretty location and shoot in Super 70 and make something that didn't look at least mildly compelling. But if you compare the cinematography and shot selection in it to what David Lean accomplished with the format, QT is totally out of his depth. The setting and equipment are there, QT just doesn't have the sensibility.

I don't even know who David Lean is, so you've got a more informed frame of reference here, I think. But I will say that the mountains look like they were shot in my back yard here in MT, and both myself and my buddy thought he captured the expansiveness and beauty really well. There's a TON of mountain footage that I see from around here that is poorly shot -- just 'coz the mountains are in the frame doesn't mean I feel their grandiosity. So I guess that's why I was impressed with that aspect.

tragabigzanda wrote:Children of Men is great, I should watch it again.

I watched Spike Lee's The 25th Hour. Hadn't seen it since it first came out. It's fantastic -- probably in my top five Spike Lee films. The whole cast is excellent, but Ed Norton and Barry Pepper make the movie for me.