Red Mosquito

swan wrote:Devs is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Absolutely a must watch. Really brings in to focus how lame most of the other dreck I’ve watched in the last couple years is. Except for Watchmen.

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:

The Argonaut wrote:The season four finale of The Sopranos really helped me to understand just how truly terrible A Marriage Story was

Please explain

The Argonaut wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:The season four finale of The Sopranos really helped me to understand just how truly terrible A Marriage Story was

Please explain

It's about the early stages of a divorce and there are a couple all-out fights between Tony and Carmela. James Gandolfini and Edie Falco are amazing and fascinating and devastating and embarrassing and sad and strange and everything else in a way that the marriage story movie can only hope to be a shadow of. The movie actually hits quite a few of the same notes as the episode. It comes close enough and the TV show is so superior that the movie just seems redundant. It doesn't say anything that this episode didn't already say and do a hundred times better.

durdencommatyler wrote:Two thoughts:

1. I did not know that if one already has HBO Now, they can "upgrade" to HBO Max for free. That's awesome.

2. ANNA KENDRICK HAS A NEW SERIES PREMIERING ON HBO MAX AND I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED

wease wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Two thoughts:

1. I did not know that if one already has HBO Now, they can "upgrade" to HBO Max for free. That's awesome.

2. ANNA KENDRICK HAS A NEW SERIES PREMIERING ON HBO MAX AND I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED

That’s great news

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.

wease wrote:My oldest just started watching it this week. She wants to quit because the first season starts off pretty slow but I'm making her stick with it. Mrs Wease and I are going back thru Frasier right now, so she keeps wanting him to show up on Cheers.