Red Mosquito

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A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.



Saw it last night. Phenominal. J.K. Simmons was scary as hell. Easily reminding you of the teacher that intimidated you the most throughout your school life.

Only 2 things that bugged me:
-When what I'm hearing and seeing don't match up, it drives me nuts. The average person might not notice but as a drummer, when I see a stick hit a piece on the kit, I expect to hear that piece, not a cymbal or any other sound that doesn't line up with what I'm being shown.

-2 words: drummers gloves. In the movie, it's a big thing that the drummers have blistered/bloody fingers from playing so hard, which I get, is symbolic. Still, every drummer knows they're out there, so just fucking wear them!

Helluva movie anyway.

Had tickets but couldn't get to the cinema. I want to see this film.

is this out yet?

Brilliant film. The best of 2014 for me.

this movie sux.

this movie exemplifies the weird kinds of complexes that dominant my liberal arts college.

As I said in tinychat, Dev - you're so very wrong about this one.

loved Whiplash.

Dev wrote:this movie exemplifies the weird kinds of complexes that dominant my liberal arts college.

This pretty much sums up why I'm dreading watching this. An "intense" movie with Miles Teller playing a white jazz drummer in college? Ffffuuuccckkkk yyyooouuuuu

Dev wrote:this movie exemplifies the weird kinds of complexes that dominant my liberal arts college.

dev, would you say a bit more about this? i'm super interested.

does this movie alienate the viewer?

What does him being white have to do with anything, LV? My god you are full of shit.

Iprefertheiroldstuff wrote:What does him being white have to do with anything, LV? My god you are full of shit.

do you want to talk about kanye west?

Sure. Kanye west is a great producer, obnoxious wordsmith and his fanbase can best be described as cult-like - which is off-putting. What do you think?

he's never done a single bad thing in his life

Did you drink the kool aid, Al?

Iprefertheiroldstuff wrote:What does him being white have to do with anything, LV? My god you are full of shit.

Yeah, let's just pretend that jazz isn't a black artform and that making a white kid the protagonist (and another white guy his teacher) in a movie based in the world of jazz doesn't reek of movie whitewashing.

If that character was black the film would have been lambasted for perpetuating racism, you near-sighted pedant. Fuck outtahere.

Iprefertheiroldstuff wrote:If that character was black the film would have been lambasted for perpetuating racism, you near-sighted pedant. Fuck outtahere.

lol

I need to see the movie before I say any more, but lol