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:

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:if you can't laugh at that scene, you have no soul.

tree_ wrote:I tell my wife all the time I have a dark dark soul and she agrees.

theplatypus wrote:I did laugh really hard at those movies when I first saw them

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tree_ wrote:I tell my wife all the time I have a dark dark soul and she agrees.

does she pray for you?

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:

theplatypus wrote:Slapstick is not very deep

It depends on the case, but in this case I disagree completely. That tarantula-on-the-face scene, with Daniel Stern's bloodcurdling scream, is the pinnacle of the third act of the movie; they've spent like 90 minutes building up to that joke, with the iron-mark on Stern's face a good indication of where the viewer has already been. That scene would not get the same reaction if it were placed even one minute earlier in the movie. 90 minutes of fairly complex (given the genre/audience) buildup to that punchline is the definition of depth.

tree_ wrote:

theplatypus wrote:I did laugh really hard at those movies when I first saw them

When you were 12?

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:

tree_ wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

theplatypus wrote:Slapstick is not very deep

It depends on the case, but in this case I disagree completely. That tarantula-on-the-face scene, with Daniel Stern's bloodcurdling scream, is the pinnacle of the third act of the movie; they've spent like 90 minutes building up to that joke, with the iron-mark on Stern's face a good indication of where the viewer has already been. That scene would not get the same reaction if it were placed even one minute earlier in the movie. 90 minutes of fairly complex (given the genre/audience) buildup to that punchline is the definition of depth.

He was making fun of my depth, trag. It's a running joke.

this thread sucks