Road House (2024) (and 1989, if you want)
Posted: Sun March 24, 2024 5:34 am
I wasn’t expecting greatness but, my God, this is horrendous. I owe an apology to Patrick Swayze’s memory for even having bothered to watch this.
Jorge wrote:Definitely not worthy of its own thread
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:haven't watched this yet, but I kind of feel like Jake G is hitting a bit of a rough patch. Let's go ahead and cancel him preemptively, I'm sure something will come out eventually.
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.
I think he's probably too big to fail.tragabigzanda wrote:You guys are gonna have to explain yourselves when he gets cancelled
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.