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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 04-04-2020 [TheJamesMadison]
The Ace of Spades Saturday Evening Movie Thread Best Movie of the Year Goes to...
I called Mr. Tarantino on his personal line and he greeted the great news with such exclamations as, "How did you get this number?" and "Go f yourself, you creep."
He was greatly appreciative.
Mr. Tarantino joins the ranks of the Coen Brothers and Christopher Nolan as winners of this award. Ampersands have been sent via UPS.
Quentin Tarantino
I love Tarantino. I don't think he's made a bad film. His worst film, Death Proof is still entertaining if not quite where it could be. He's a massive film nerd and has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema and its history that makes my own personal knowledge seem infantile by comparison. That massive knowledge bank manifests in several different ways.
Connecting this to my last post, Tarantino actually got very early direct encouragement from Terry Gilliam. Gilliam, as an established filmmaker, took part as a mentor in a seminar for up and coming filmmakers, one of whom was Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino came with the script for Reservoir Dogs, and, of the three mentors assigned to him, Gilliam was the only one who seemed to understand what Tarantino was trying to do.
Reservoir Dogs wasn't the movie that made Tarantino, though, that was, of course, Pulp Fiction, the intelligent and highly entertaining crime comedic drama heist film that jumped between several different timelines, creating a world of characters using highly entertaining dialogue. He followed up with Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and finally Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.
Pastiche
One criticism that gets leveled at Tarantino a lot by his detractors is his unoriginality because his movies are so filled with references to other, earlier works that they feel his work doesn't have a life of its own, that without the references, there'd be nothing there. And there's no denying the references and, to expand it slightly, the fact that Tarantino largely works in pastiche. He's mimicking the things he loved before, but to say that that is the limit of his work is a disservice to his talent and the actual work he outputs.
The title of Django Unchained is a reference to a series of Spaghetti Westerns starring Franco Nero about his titular character Django (who makes a reference as another character in Tarantino's film). And yet, to limit Django to just a rehash of Spaghetti Westerns is to ignore a lot of what goes on in the film.
You could say the same thing about Kill Bill and its Kung Fu influences or Inglourious Basterds (another title that's a reference to a previous movie, Inglorious Bastards) and its World War II movie influences. Yes, they are there and they are prevalent, but if that's all that one is seeing, then one is missing the forest for the trees.
Character
When talking about characters on the Opie and Anthony show, Tarantino talks about how the characters in his movie arise from his DNA, about how writing the best character is one of the most important things to him, and I think it shines through in his films. It's also what makes his movies stand apart as more than just flash in the pan pastiches that only film nerds can appreciate. If you needed to get the reference in Calvin Candie getting shot through the flower on his lapel relating back to Jack Palance getting shot through the same rose in The Mercenary, then the moment wouldn't work for anyone who hadn't both seen The Mercenary and could recall that fact in the moment. What makes it work is the fact that Calvin Candie is a great character and villain, that Dr. Schultz, the man who shoots Candie, is such a well written character where his decision makes perfect sense in the moment. The reference is fun for those who get it, but it's not required. What makes the moment work dramatically is the work that Tarantino has put into characters (through both writing and everything around the actors) leading up to that moment so that such a large dramatic turn in the film ends up both surprising the audience and making perfect sense to them at the same time.
And it's obvious that Tarantino puts the time into the characters. From writing, to casting, to directing, to editing, his movies feel like they were made for the characters. The worlds of the movies feel like playgrounds for Tarantino to have them run around which is why we're allowed so much time in them and his movies tend to run long. The dialogue, punctuated by profanity, feels natural without really aging. Even the first major speech in a Tarantino film (given by Tarantino himself as Mr. Brown) is about a piece of popular music ("Like a Virgin" by Madonna) and it doesn't feel dated even now because it's about more than just a reference to a song released in 1984, eight years before Reservoir Dogs came out, but because he makes it about a character revealing himself (essentially Mr. Brown's only real character moment). Suddenly, Mr. Brown isn't just that Tarantino cameo, he feels like a character whose life extends beyond the borders of the plot of the film.
Theme
As with most directors, Tarantino has a certain set of ideas that he revisits through his films. Where Hitchcock focused on voyeurism and Gilliam focuses on fantasy, Tarantino's is the breakdown of codes of honor into revenge. From Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, revenge comes up as at least a minor part of the film. Mr. White killing Mr. Orange after Mr. Orange reveals his true identity, bleeding out, is revenge for what Mr. White sees as a betrayal of the code he assumed was between them. Kill Bill is all about one woman's revenge against the men and women who destroyed her new life and left her for dead. His revisionist history films (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood) are all about Tarantino using his single tool of cinema to try and write what he sees as the wrongs of history.
And it's pretty obvious that Tarantino is pretty pro-revenge when someone betrays a code. Just to take Kill Bill as the main example, the Bride goes through two movies, dozens of Yakuza, and four highly trained hitmen to reach her main target, Bill. In particular, Bill was supposed to treat the Bride a certain way. It was implied that their relationship precluded the Bride from bloody vengeance, but Bill betrays that understood code. When she finally completes her long quest, she's seen as whole for the first time in the film. She was always missing something, and that something was her little girl, BeeBee whom Bill had stolen from her while she was in her four year long coma. Could she have just taken BeeBee from Bill without killing him? No, she couldn't have. In order to live the life she felt she deserved, with her daughter, Bill could not be alive. If she were to leave him alive, she'd never be at rest, always on the run. The only way forward was to kill her past since her past was never going to leave her alone.
And I have to say, that watching the Bride break down and cry in one of her only emotionally unguarded moments of the film on the floor of the bathroom in that little hotel room with BeeBee watching cartoons on the other side of the door, is one of the most emotionally satisfying things Tarantino ever pulled off. Are there lessons to be learned about life from the film? Probably not, but the point wasn't life lessons for us, it was to get us emotionally involved in the Bride's journey so that when she feels that wave of relief we can feel it along with her.
Dialogue
I would be remiss talking about Tarantino as a filmmaker without dedicating a bit more time to talking about his dialogue. Chris Tucker is renowned for ad lib on every movie, using the scripts as general guidelines as he said whatever he wanted, but he did the words of his character Beaumont that Tarantino had written word for word.
Tarantino's dialogue is fun. It's fast, intelligent, and profane all at once.
Do you know why the Royale with Cheese scene works in Pulp Fiction? It's not just because it's an amusing conversation, it's because that's how we get to know the first information dump about Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega. Instead of simple expository statements about how Vincent had lived in Amsterdam for their boss, Marcellus Wallace, we get a realistic little conversation that highlights Vincent's views of Amsterdam that tells us so much more about him than where he's been for the last few years. We learn of his affinity for recreational drug use, his prototypical ugly American attitude while abroad, and that he has a certain worldliness that he may be trying to hide. It's not just amusing, it's insightful as well.
Nihilism
I've seen Tarantino described as nihilistic, and I honestly don't know where that opinion comes from, but I want to take a moment to address it. Tarantino loves to wallow in violence and gore, but he's not someone who writes movies about how nothing has any meaning and there should be no morality (that would be Lars Von Trier whose movie Melancholia I watched recently and it's on my mind). I think his love of violence and gore is window dressing on what is ultimately a very humanist philosophy about the worth of human life.
I would normally talk about Kill Bill here, but since I used the exact scene I would normally talk about when talking about character, I'll use Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood as my example.
Tarantino's revisionist histories are him trying to mete out cosmic justice using cinema, and the subject of his ire in his latest film is the Manson Family, the hippie commune/cult that murdered Sharon Tate in 1969. Amidst all the luxurious details of life in 1969 Hollywood is the undercurrent of violence represented by the seemingly happy go lucky young females of the Manson Family. If Tarantino were a nihilist, he wouldn't be using his film to correct the historical wrong of Sharon Tate's murder, he would, at best, express no opinion about it, but instead he uses his film as revenge upon those who did wrong. He has the three cultists who show up at Rick Dalton's house (in a last second decision that turns them from their historical purpose to the cinematic one) where Cliff Booth and his pitbull violently murder two of the three, leaving the third bleeding from the face so that Rick Dalton can burn her alive with his flamethrower left over from his earlier World War II motion picture, The 14 Fists of McCluskey. Sharon Tate gets to live on, even providing Rick Dalton an implied career boost as thanks.
I think you can see there the odd mix of rampant violence and surprisingly gentle humanism at the core of Tarantino's work.
Always Learning
Probably the most surprising thing about Tarantino to me is how he went from directing Jackie Brown a wonderful and surprising little crime caper and blaxploitation pastiche without a single action scene to directing Kill Bill, one of the greatest action movies ever made. That's because he is surprisingly self-aware as an artist, understanding his own limits, and finding those people who can help him learn what he needs to learn.
Bringing this back to the beginning and Terry Gilliam, one piece of advice that Gilliam, as a mentor before Reservoir Dogs was more than a script, gave Tarantino was that he was never going to know everything about making a film. Instead of trying for the impossible goal of doing every job in order to figure out how to make his vision come to life, it was about hiring the right people who he could explain his vision to who would then make that vision a reality.
From Sally Menke, his editor through all of his films until her death in 2010, to Yuen Woo-Ping, the fight choreographer on Kill Bill, to his bevy of regular actors like Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Uma Thurman, Tarantino has surrounded himself with people who are very good at what they do and that he can communicate with. Most directors do this, but I think it's important to note it with Tarantino since he seems to have a know-it-all reputation though he's actually very generous in his praise for those he works with when you actually listen to him.
In Conclusion
So, those are my thoughts on Tarantino in a nutshell, a 2,000 word nutshell. I think his filmography is great, and it goes far beyond anything resembling a "cool factor". He's talented, hard-working, and very good at what he does. He writes great characters with great dialogue and places them in stories that are steeped in film history and worlds that feel alive and expansive.
I also hope that he decides to do more than 10 movies, unlike his long promised retirement after the tenth. He should be making movies into his 80s like Bergman, Scott, and Kurosawa.
Movies of Today
Opening in Theaters:
Nothin'. There's a virus, dontcha know.
Next in my Netflix Queue:
Chisum
Movies I Saw This Fortnight:
Alice in Wonderland (Rating 0.5/4) Full Review "This is easily Tim Burton's worst film." [STARZ]
The Last Emperor (Rating 4/4) Full Review "The movie is sumptuous visually, compellingly acted, intimately involved in the history of the country, grand in scale, and intimate in scope. It's a triumph of cinema and one of the best movies of the 80s." [Personal Collection]
Kes (Rating 4/4) Full Review "The movie is a marvelous triumph of independent British cinema. It's intelligently filmed, using the setting with its rolling hills and coal mine in great contradistinctive ways. The acting is naturalistic and feels perfectly in place. Through it all is a clear emotional story that resonates. I love this film." [Personal Collection]
Airport (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Now, a note on my backwards viewing. It's really interesting to watch the ridiculousness toned down with every movie instead of turned up. I kind of wish there was a series of films that went this direction for real, but I kind of want to try this again." [Netflix DVD]
The Hunt for Red October (Rating 4/4) Full Review "It's exciting, really well made, well-acted, and intelligent. It's not only comfort watching, but high quality entertainment as well." [Personal Collection]
Monster House (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "The movie is actually really fun, appropriate for young kids, and a good introduction to horror filmmaking to them." [Netflix Instant]
The Farmer's Wife (Rating 3/4) Full Review "Still, it's airy, light, and fun. A delightful little romantic comedy that attacks the viewer with several different types of comedy well. It's a fun diversion and another small victory for Hitchcock early in his burgeoning career." [YouTube]
The Lone Ranger (Rating 2/4) Full Review "The final action scene is almost worth the price of admission alone. If the movie were about 45 minutes shorter, I'd say that it was definitely worth the price of admission alone." [STARZ]
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Literally. I'm watching MST3K's "Ator, the Fighting Eagle". Hoooooboy!
How much Keeffe we got? Miles O'Keeffe
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 07:54 PM (Dc2NZ)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 07:57 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 07:58 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (Dc2NZ)
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Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (r+sAi)
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Tarantino sourced a lot of Morricone music through his movies.
The only one with an original score was The Hateful Eight, which was written by...Ennio Morricone.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:02 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Luke Jackson at April 04, 2020 08:02 PM (PhLl4)
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Baby steps.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:02 PM (zZbCU)
It's amusing in a comic book kind of way.
I'm slightly suprised that this is the first Angelina Jolie movie I've seen.
Considering how recognizable she is I think I would seen one of her movies before.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at April 04, 2020 08:02 PM (Uu+Jp)
She was right. I was 17 in 1969 and the recreation of the period was so exact it was almost suffocating. And the whole bit with the Manson girls and the flamethrower was ... cathartic.
Posted by: Annalucia at April 04, 2020 08:03 PM (S6ArX)
She was right. I was 17 in 1969 and the recreation of the period was so exact it was almost suffocating. And the whole bit with the Manson girls and the flamethrower was ... cathartic.
Posted by: Annalucia at April 04, 2020 08:03 PM (S6ArX)
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She screamed really loudly. And she deserved it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:03 PM (zZbCU)
Just out of curiosity, was your copy of Kes from the Criterion Collection? They've had it available for a few years now.
Also I just read, although it's gonna be expensive, Sony/Columbia is releasing a box set of their movies in July, all remastered in 4k. The movies in the set are:
- Dr Strangelove
- Mr Smith Goes To Washington
- Lawrence Of Arabia
- A League Of Their Own
- Gandhi
- Jerry Maguire
...I'd like to get it just for Dr Strangelove and Lawrence of Arabia in 4k. Hopefully/likely, each of the individual titles will be released separately in 4k editions.
Also I'm debating whether it's worth it to get Scarface in 4k. I still recall that DePalma left in a ton of film grain on that pic.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:04 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:05 PM (L2ZTs)
KTY bailed after 10 minutes but I liked it
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:05 PM (G546f)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0bDdMJbtx8
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:05 PM (Dc2NZ)
I've tried for years to like Pulp Fiction, but it skeeves me out a little beyond that threshold. It does have excellent moments, but in the end I just can't like it.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:06 PM (x8Wzq)
Just out of curiosity, was your copy of Kes from the Criterion Collection? They've had it available for a few years now.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:04 PM (L2ZTs)
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Yeah, it was the Criterion edition. For a 50 year old independent film, it looks really good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:06 PM (zZbCU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0bDdMJbtx8
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:05 PM (Dc2NZ)
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It's a quality action scene, but the movie leading up to it doesn't match up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:06 PM (zZbCU)
And I enjoy every one of both themes, because I am convinced that when you stop learning, you die internally!
Thanks TJM!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 08:07 PM (BiNEL)
I've been getting emails from Criterion lately stating all their films are on sale at their site. They obviously are doing their best to ride out the CV lockdown as best they can.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:07 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: vivi at April 04, 2020 08:08 PM (11H2y)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:08 PM (G546f)
Since we're talking movies, "Shot Caller" is on Netflix, and I would recommend it highly.
Posted by: UGAdawg at April 04, 2020 08:08 PM (tRd71)
I've been getting emails from Criterion lately stating all their films are on sale at their site. They obviously are doing their best to ride out the CV lockdown as best they can.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:07 PM (L2ZTs)
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It's a 30% discount, bringing them down to Amazon prices. I wasn't that excited when I found out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:09 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:06 PM (zZbCU)
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THere was a movie attached to it?
Eh, I liked it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:09 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:08 PM (G546f)
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It's my favorite, but many people's least favorite.
Everyone is awful and, well, hateful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:09 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:09 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:10 PM (x8Wzq)
Fat ass Chris Penn could act! And he looked good in that track suit!
And he actually sang in "The Funeral". Unlike his brother. Not Sean, the other one. Plus he fucked that wannabe hooker in the ass in the alleyway in that movie for five bucks, so that was nice.
But he couldn't do drugs worth a damn, so he's dead now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 08:10 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2020 08:10 PM (gLRfa)
Although B&N's sales on Criterion are the best.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:10 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: JT at April 04, 2020 08:11 PM (arJlL)
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Vmom, it's about the middle of the Tarantino stack for me, but I appreciate that it's basically a stage play with some wonderfully baroque western dialogue.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:11 PM (Dc2NZ)
hoping for Monday
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:11 PM (G546f)
Shoulda called David French and asked if David Lee Roth was "inna house". Reports say thst French gets a boy boner whenever that happens.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2020 08:12 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:12 PM (L2ZTs)
there are some actors I simply refuse to watch.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:12 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 04, 2020 08:12 PM (WEBkv)
Although B&N's sales on Criterion are the best.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:10 PM (L2ZTs)
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I like Criterion's own sales.
50% off, and every purchase gets counted as points. At 500, you get a $50 gift card.
I still have points from purchases I made 5 years ago. I was just never in a space to spend enough at one time to get free shipping ($50).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:12 PM (zZbCU)
I have Grindhouse but need to still watch it.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:13 PM (L2ZTs)
He's good at what he does, but he needs someone to tell him "no".
Posted by: Viridian at April 04, 2020 08:13 PM (anGdJ)
Posted by: Brown Line at April 04, 2020 08:13 PM (S6ArX)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2020 08:13 PM (r+sAi)
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I saw some smart guy on CSPN Book TV talking about The Illiad. He said that part of what makes it great is that it does two contradictory simultaneously. On the one hand, he shows the spectacle and glory of combat. On the other hand, Homef gives even minor characters who appear only to be killed in a gruesome and explicit fashion by a hero a backstory. So and so was a shepherd who was raised by his loving parents on the plains of grass and left to find adventure but whose lung is now pierced by Ajax' well-thrown spear and whose life trickles out with his blood before the walls of Troy. The glory, the horror, and the tragedy all in one.
Yeah, Homer is OK but what's he done lately?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2020 08:14 PM (+y/Ru)
Also I'd have to put "Death Proof" among my favorite QT films
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 08:14 PM (iTXRQ)
https://abc7.com/jamie-foxx-rescue-car-crash/1165185/
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:14 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2020 08:13 PM (r+sAi)
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I'd have to agree with this.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at April 04, 2020 08:14 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Brown Line at April 04, 2020 08:13 PM (S6ArX)
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Weird coincidence, but I watched the Randolph Scott version of The Last of the Mohicans earlier today, and they used a bunch of Steiner's King Kong score in it. Every action scene is straight from Kong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:15 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:10 PM (x8Wzq)
He also played Manson in Mind Hunters
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:15 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 08:15 PM (ZCEU2)
I wish there was a Discogs for blu-rays and DVDs. eBay sorta/kinda works but just seems a lot more grimy, weird and squirrely than it used to be.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:16 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 08:15 PM (ZCEU2)
me either
I wonder if Netflix has it
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:17 PM (G546f)
Hoping it's so. I admit if I had venture capitalist money, I'd probably spend some to give one a go.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:17 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:15 PM (G546f)
Huh. May go look for that. I like that guy. He's an Aussie, but I'm blanking on his name, and Bing is way over there. Damon? Damien?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:18 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 08:19 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2020 08:19 PM (+y/Ru)
As a kid watching old movies on tv circa 60s noticed that the same or similar music was used whether injuns was attacking on hosses or japs was dive bombing zeros.
TAN TAN TAN TAN TAN-TAN-TAN
Posted by: getting the bannex back together watching london at midnight at April 04, 2020 08:19 PM (lujCI)
RANDOLPH SCOTT
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 08:19 PM (iTXRQ)
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I kept singing that in my head as I watched.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:19 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:20 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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Huston and Hitchcock.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2020 08:20 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:20 PM (2DOZq)
Hoping it's so. I admit if I had venture capitalist money, I'd probably spend some to give one a go.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:17 PM (L2ZTs)
Ditto! Maybe I should start looking at property. Joint
venture.
Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2020 08:20 PM (vF+fs)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2020 08:14 PM (+y/Ru)
Hey, give him a break.
Posted by: Bill Shakespeare at April 04, 2020 08:20 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:21 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:21 PM (Zz0t1)
The whole Travolta-returns-home-with-Uma scene is so evocative; the song, the atmosphere, the dialogue, and where it went, just remarkable.
I think part of what's kept me from seeing more is that every time there's a new Tarantino, there seem to be a chorus of voices saying that it completely sucks.
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:21 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Yeah, Homer is OK but what's he done lately?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler
He sang with Jethro.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2020 08:21 PM (aKsyK)
I'm curious why my name isn't mentioned here, TJM, given your exuberant and well-known passion for one of my works.
Posted by: Ridley Scott at April 04, 2020 08:21 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:22 PM (Zz0t1)
He does revenge porn and he tries to right the wrongs of history that is true. But he is mainly teaching many all the "history" they will get on a given subject. Sure it is not his job to educate society, but he only makes division worse since his main goal is to create division and exploit it.
At least Scorsese at his most violent shined a light on worlds that existed and we would have never known about. He showed us history as interpreted by him. Tarantino has no greater point that I can see than his own ego. Sure it is art but I don't want any more. No mas.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood intrigues me a bit though. I will probably check that one out.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 08:22 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 04, 2020 08:22 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:22 PM (G546f)
Not sure how often he's there, however.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:22 PM (L2ZTs)
I'm curious why my name isn't mentioned here, TJM, given your exuberant and well-known passion for one of my works.
Posted by: Ridley Scott at April 04, 2020 08:21 PM (DMUuz)
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You'd share them all with Terrence Malick if it were only up to me.
But I don't nominate anything and I don't vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:23 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 04, 2020 08:23 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 08:23 PM (iTXRQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0TUESAL5Y
I'm watching it for the first time.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:23 PM (Dc2NZ)
Examples of this, off the top of my head, are Springsteen, Scorcese, Tennesse Coates, Nicole Kidman, Obama, and, of course, Tarantino. OUaTIH is, 97%, just a pointless, drawn-out exercise in... whatever the heck Tarantino is tryna say.
Having said that, the climax of OUaTIH is... is.... IS the **single most satisfying 5 minutes** I've ever seen in ANY move, ever. I was shocked at how good that made me feel - I was just a kid in '69, never had any feeling for movie stars or hippies, didn't know beans about Tate/LaBianca, etc etc. Also, I have no particular use for movie violence - I can take it or leave it, and most of it is obviously just laziness on the part of the moviemaker.
But seeing the Manson scum get what they so richly deserved.... in wonderfully-drawn-out screams and agony and living color.... man. That's goooood medicine for the soul.
So all hail & respect Tarantino, for that much, at least
Posted by: stingaling at April 04, 2020 08:23 PM (BL4/P)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:24 PM (2DOZq)
Man Glad To Know Job That Fed His Family, Paid His Rent Is 'Non-Essential'
"The job that put clothes on my back and fed my kids is
non-essential? Oh, OK," he sighed as he tried to figure out how to pay
his bills. "I'm glad some bureaucrats have decided that the work I
contributed to our economy and used to pay my bills wasn't really needed
all along."
"Good to know."
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 04, 2020 08:24 PM (59YkD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0TUESAL5Y
I'm watching it for the first time.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:23 PM (Dc2NZ)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIftf6S3hvI
Patrick Explains Alien: Covenant (And Why It's Great)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 08:15 PM (ZCEU2)
It wasn't bad. But gross for the sake of being gross.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (Zz0t1)
I liked that one.
For a crap Tarentino movie that was crap because Oliver Stone took a big crap on it: Natural Born Killers. G-d help me but I saw it twice.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (ykYG2)
is Hateful Eight good?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:08 PM (G546f)
I'm probably in the minority, but... No.
Honestly, I found it to be utterly forgettable, which is unusual for a QT film. I literally can't remember a single line of dialog or the plot.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (EGyGV)
Hoping it's so. I admit if I had venture capitalist money, I'd probably spend some to give one a go.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:17 PM (L2ZTs)
Fort Collins has had a two-screen setup for, well pretty much since Drive-ins became a thing. Oddly, I've only been a couple of times.
As a kid I lived behind a drive-in theater, and that's how I got to see Logan's Run, and especially Jenny Agutter.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (x8Wzq)
1, he refuses (at least, as far as I know) to mouth off about politics very much.
And 2, when critics question him and try to superimpose great SJW themes on his works, he's not afraid to say to them directly, "no, you're full of shit."
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2020 08:26 PM (gLRfa)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 07:54 PM (Dc2NZ)
I'm watching Devil Fish. An Eye-talian movie with Eye-talian actors pretending to be Americans.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:26 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: qdpsteve
I'm in for 3%, who's with me?
We used to have two drive-ins and Guyton's Fun Junction, now they are all gone.
Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2020 08:26 PM (vF+fs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (zZbCU)
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Oh, honey... *shakes head sadly*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:26 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:27 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:27 PM (2DOZq)
And I enjoy every one of both themes, because I am convinced that when you stop learning, you die internally!
Thanks TJM!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 08:07 PM (BiNEL)"
Well said, and seconded !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at April 04, 2020 08:27 PM (cqteU)
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at April 04, 2020 08:27 PM (Uu+Jp)
I don't think his character was a bad guy, either.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:27 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:27 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2020 08:26 PM (gLRfa)
Absolutely agree. That was of the most gripping segments I've ever seen in film, and it was not all Waltz.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flying Kites at Night at April 04, 2020 08:28 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:28 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 08:15 PM (ZCEU2)
It wasn't bad. But gross for the sake of being gross.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:25 PM (Zz0t1)
I can't bash it too much as I bought the most complete dvd version they had many moons ago. I just am not into that kind of violence these days, I don't need it. But the movie was stylish. If he cut out some of the over the top stuff, I would probably still consider it a great film.
btw, this was an excellent article TJM.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 08:29 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Granddork at April 04, 2020 08:29 PM (AwyBS)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (ZCEU2)
Must have been your cable outlet, it wasn't TCM since I watched it too, and it was fine on my end. I really like Rashoman, which came on a little later.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:29 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 04, 2020 08:30 PM (59YkD)
Posted by: Tuna at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (gLRfa)
Thanks for the first-rate work.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:17 PM (L2ZTs)
Ditto! Maybe I should start looking at property. Joint
venture.
Posted by: Infidel
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If you guys can locate the intermission countdown clips and the snack bar advertisements, you'll have a sure fire winner.
You'd better have playground equipment up front or I ain't coming!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:23 PM
I thought you'd already screened Covenant?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (q3gwH)
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Probably either Desperado or Once Upon a Time in Mexico, which are Robert Rodriguez joints. They're buddies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:32 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:32 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 08:33 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:34 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:35 PM (L2ZTs)
I was watching the good, the bad and the ugly last night and I was
thinking the final scene music was used in Kill Bill. Not gonna look it
up. But it reminded me of the snow fight scene.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (r+sAi)
Hmm, I am going to bet against that. I doubt he used Morricone but I could be wrong for sure. There were two Kill Bills. I only saw the first one.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 08:35 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (DMUuz)
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Covenant screened me! *weeps*
No, I mean Critical Drinker's flamethowing of the movie.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:35 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Seal the deal and let's boogie (nee Oedipus) at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (qnaGV)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:35 PM (L2ZTs)
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Magnificent. A marvelous career capper, perhaps the best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (zZbCU)
*blush*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (zZbCU)
You're good at what you do. You certainly have a knack for reviewing flicks.
I just watch them, sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (Zz0t1)
definitely haven't seen any of the others.
Saturday late afternoon is like a dead zone for me here @ the HQ: i don't get chess at all, and not understanding the secret code doesn't help me try and learn anything, and i never go to new movies (last one i saw was "Gran Torino"), or even turn on one of the satellite movie channels, so i rarely know what anyone is talking about here.
guess i'll go kill time making dinner so i'm free for the ONT, which i DO grok.
and drink a few moar beers, because i can.
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (vwf8z)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:35 PM (L2ZTs)
I thought it was spectacular.
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:28 PM (L2ZTs)
Unfortunately, I think it would be a hard go in Mountain Country. It's seasonal.
I'm hoping with the wuhan flu people may want to get back to basics. Time will tell.
Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (vF+fs)
I just watch them, sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm thinking of starting a YouTube channel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 04, 2020 08:37 PM (g8Yc+)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:35 PM (L2ZTs)
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Eh...good battle scenes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:37 PM (Dc2NZ)
I thought TGTBATU was the worst of the triology.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:37 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve
I recently acquired this, haven't watched it since I got it, but I do remember REALLY, REALLY LOVING IT back when it was new (which is why I picked it up recently).
Posted by: Seal the deal and let's boogie (nee Oedipus) at April 04, 2020 08:37 PM (qnaGV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (zZbCU)
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The Prometheus Channel.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:37 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 08:38 PM (ZCEU2)
I thought TGTBATU was the worst of the triology.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:37 PM (2DOZq)
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I agree with this. For a Few Dollars More is the best of the three.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:38 PM (zZbCU)
For me, there wasn't enough narrative thread to keep me interested. Yeah, he got the clothes, music, violence right (he always does). Just didn't love it. It was OK
Anybody ever seen a British film called 'A Field in England'? Watched that recently. I liked it. Seems to be a love it or hate it type film. It's pretty twisted
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 04, 2020 08:38 PM (oAY8z)
As to Kurosawa's Ran, it's not just a good film, it is magnificently, exquisitely beautiful. Makes you dream of what Kurosawa's earlier work would have been like in color.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:38 PM (q3gwH)
there are 3 Morricone pieces in Kill Bill 2
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 08:39 PM (iTXRQ)
Gotta watch Ran then. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:39 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 04, 2020 08:38 PM (oAY8z)
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I saw the screengrab for that while scrolling through Amazon Prime earlier today. Looked interesting. Added it to my Watchlist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:39 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 08:39 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2020 08:39 PM (vF+fs)
But Tarantino uses dialogue to build tension like an inflating a balloon, popping the balloon with whatever violent event happens next. Knowing what's going to happen deflates the tension and makes the dialogue sound tedious and pretentiously overwritten. But it really isn't if you're going into it blind.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 04, 2020 08:39 PM (0V/8D)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:38 PM (q3gwH)
What he said.
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 04, 2020 08:39 PM (Uu+Jp)
Worth watching? I've heard of it, but don't remember why or if it was something I needed to see.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (Zz0t1)
If anyone is curious what I look like I posted a brief clip of me while working on getting skin tones to look better.
https://tinyurl.com/wragzbc
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (le57Z)
It's amusing in a comic book kind of way.
I'm slightly suprised that this is the first Angelina Jolie movie I've seen.
Considering how recognizable she is I think I would seen one of her movies before.
Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at April 04, 2020 08:02 PM (Uu+Jp)
Please go watch 'Hackers' then.
So bad, its good.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (NgKpN)
Fat ass Chris Penn could act! And he looked good in that track suit!
And he actually sang in "The Funeral". Unlike his brother. Not Sean,
the other one. Plus he fucked that wannabe hooker in the ass in the
alleyway in that movie for five bucks, so that was nice.
But he couldn't do drugs worth a damn, so he's dead now.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 08:10 PM (Z+IKu)
It is a shame he passed away so young. But it is funny to see thin Chris Penn in Pale Rider.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (L2ZTs)
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The Cohen Bros. seem to have a stable as well. It's interesting that, for example, Frances McDormand is a major character in Fargo and a very minor character in Hail Caesar as Steve Buscemi is a major character in Fargo and The Big Lebowski and a minor character in Miller's Crossing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (q3gwH)
Worth watching? I've heard of it, but don't remember why or if it was something I needed to see.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm on an island on this one, because I despise that movie.
It's annoying, makes no sense, and is poorly built and filmed.
But so many people disagree with me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Eromero at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (XhWtx)
Reminded of Warren Oates in "Bring me the head of alfred garcia" shooting the corpses on the highway talking to himself.
"Why?! Because it feels so goddamn good, that's why".
Saw it the day it opened on hollywood blvd.
Posted by: getting the banned under the fence at the gilmore drive in at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (AqYSP)
Worth watching? I've heard of it, but don't remember why or if it was something I needed to see.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Just watched Boondock Saints and Boondock Saints 2 last week. I like them but I wouldn't think it would be something women would like.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (ykYG2)
I love that Goldfinger has one of the very first promotional product placements in a film... for Kentucky Fried Chicken. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:42 PM (L2ZTs)
I ask because Criterion just reissued it on bluray and DVD. I remember it caused an uproar when it came out in 2000. Today it couldn't be made at all.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:42 PM (L2ZTs)
could choose just 2 filmmakers to watch on the proverbial desert
island, who would you choose? And for my tastes, I think it is Tarantino
and the Cohen Brothers.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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Huston and Hitchcock.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2020 08:20 PM (axyOa)
Scorcese and Leone
but damn, I could come up with a good five more that I would want.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 08:43 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 04, 2020 08:43 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2020 08:43 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:44 PM (L2ZTs)
You like it better than Fist Full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More?
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:44 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:42 PM (L2ZTs)
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Well, they had to show they were in Kentucky.
IIRR, the film came out about the time KFC was making the jump from regional to national.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at April 04, 2020 08:44 PM (g8Yc+)
Posted by: JTB at April 04, 2020 08:45 PM (7EjX1)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (Zz0t1)
It's blitheringly stupid. Wannabee edgelords liked it but the only good part is Willem Dafoe as a gay FBI guy.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 08:45 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: getting the banned's pistols edited out of new cut bcuz barrymore pussywhip at April 04, 2020 08:45 PM (AqYSP)
that's right- I also like when a scene is building to some climax, and he throws in an 'oh shit' moment
like in Pulp Fiction at the end, Jules and Vince in the diner talking, then you hear the robber shout 'garcon!'
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 08:45 PM (iTXRQ)
After Rick's acting crucible on the set of Lancer and Cliff's journey into sordid darkness at Spahn Ranch, he was arguably poised to develop a rich parallel character study. But he soon frittered it away, and was drawn again irresistibly to the orgy of jejune violence.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at April 04, 2020 08:45 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 04, 2020 08:45 PM (oAY8z)
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I saw Alice Cooper exclaiming that Glen Campbell could snort him some cocaine! Two things: 1) I never thought Glen and Alice hanging out and 2) if Alice Cooper is telling you to cut back, it's time to re-evaluate your life.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (+y/Ru)
KFC was already national while McDonalds was still trying to find its feet in the fast food marketplace, I believe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (le57Z)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 08:47 PM (BAsqb)
I plan to watch this movie at some point, because said cob said it was good. But I expect to be disappointed... Tarantino was one of those guys who had successful ideas, they paid off, and made him yuuuuge.
Then his head got yuuuuge and he just started doing whatever he wanted, and that was mostly lame, and nobody had the nerve to tell him.
Kind of like Adolf Hitler.**
*please don't do a Zappa-style Tarantino series, TJM.
**insert Godwin's Law joke here.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 08:47 PM (II2Y0)
So bad, its good.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2020 08:40 PM (NgKpN)
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Hack the planet!!!!
RLM, "Hackers":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM7_oyCZqj0
They're so right: There were two paths to take, fashion-wise, and they chose poorly. Instead of Japanese Goth Cyberdelia, let's go with khakis and flannel.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:47 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Corn Fed at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (EA1BR)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (4thlk)
I spent a night once in a motel where the rooms wrapped around a drive-in.
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Vanya
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Yea us!!
--- The Kennedys
Posted by: Tonypete at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (Y4EXg)
You like it better than Fist Full of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More?
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:44 PM (2DOZq)
Oh yes, much more.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (q3gwH)
And watching (murderous) hippies get brutally killed was just icing on the cake.
I recall Tarantino being asked about the nihilism/violence charge, and he said something to the effect of "people who do bad things in my movies have bad things happen to them." So yes, he's actually kind of a moralist.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: IrishEi at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (sGotD)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Ford Mustang convertible. Don't remember which movie.
Posted by: 6-4-3 Turn Two at April 04, 2020 08:49 PM (BtClI)
It just never seems to go anywhere, largely I think because Tarantino is a master at laughing the SJWs off and ignoring them. He just doesn't give a shit what they think.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:49 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
do it already!
now is a good time
everyone bored to death
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:49 PM (G546f)
Plus Kurt Russel gives one of his best ever performances in DP.
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 08:49 PM (YWmx/)
It just never seems to go anywhere, largely I think because Tarantino is a master at laughing the SJWs off and ignoring them. He just doesn't give a shit what they think.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:49 PM (L2ZTs)
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And Samuel L. Jackson comes to his defense all the time. That helps.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (2DOZq)
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I LOVE Boondock Saints.
Haven't seen Nr II. Heard it wasn't very good.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (L2ZTs)
KFC was already national while McDonalds was still trying to find its feet in the fast food marketplace, I believe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (L2ZTs)
As a kid very many years ago it was a treat to go to an A&W drive I'm.
It's shocking to think those cute carhops are in their 70s.
Now I'm sad.
Posted by: Northernlurker at April 04, 2020 08:51 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
do it already!
now is a good time
everyone bored to death
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:49 PM (G546f)
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We have 9 days left in this house. Not the best time to invest in a microphone.
I've started writing a few scripts, so I can start filming once I have a decent microphone, though. They're essentially just posts I've written here done in a video format.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:51 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 04, 2020 08:51 PM (oAY8z)
Tried to be more humorous but I think it's worth a watch if you like the first one.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:51 PM (2DOZq)
could snort him some cocaine! Two things: 1) I never thought Glen and
Alice hanging out and 2) if Alice Cooper is telling you to cut back,
it's time to re-evaluate your life.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at April 04, 2020 08:46 PM (+y/Ru)
Cooper tells some funny Keith Moon stories. (videos on youtube) One was Moon stayed at his home. Just showed up unannounced and stayed at Cooper's home. One day Cooper and his wife came home and Moon was dressed in a French maids outfit cleaning their home.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2020 08:51 PM (tQSvt)
I liked the first Boondock Saints well enough, except for Willem Dafoe in drag of course, and haven't seen the second.
But the fanatical following I saw for it was all chicks. Chicks loved that movie.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 08:51 PM (II2Y0)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 04, 2020 08:52 PM (ykYG2)
I have seen bits and pieces of Tarantino's films, but never one in its entirety. No draw for me in them, although I do want to see OUATIH.
I've watched "The Last Waltz" and "Gallipoli" in the last 24 hours (rewatched, actually, but the last watchings were years ago). I found myself filled with really visceral dislike, even hatred, for the pig-headed Australian Colonel who refused to call off the slaughter of the Light Horse in "Gallipoli", largely, I think, because he strongly resembled that ass, Prince Charles, for whom I hold intense loathing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2020 08:53 PM (pNxlR)
Looking forward to your thoughts on it, good and bad. Seriously, I need honest feedback on the thing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:53 PM (L2ZTs)
Really? I have to assume the bad boy personas of the characters.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:53 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
but with bewbs, right?
lol j/k
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 08:53 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (2DOZq)
I think most guys like Boondock Saints 1 & 2.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 08:54 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 08:54 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (2DOZq)
It does not age perfectly. Except the part that's a takeoff on Bruce Lee or something. That's eternal.
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:54 PM (dOV9E)
Looking forward to your thoughts on it, good and bad. Seriously, I need honest feedback on the thing.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:53 PM (L2ZTs)
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Oh, yeah. I did receive that.
I'll get to it. Just in the middle of moving house, so it may take a bit of time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:54 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:54 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:54 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (le57Z)
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (dOV9E)
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There's Serenity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:54 PM (L2ZTs)
Well, you got me. I have not watched it in so long that I don't even remember that part. But that also means that it had aged out even 10 years ago.
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:56 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 08:48 PM (j4zcI)
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Yeah, Tarantino beats the viewer about the face and neck with the blunt end of the moral premise.
Not saying that as a criticism.
But look at his best movie, Pulp Fiction. He makes the dichotomy between Jules and Vincent as unambiguous as humanly possible.
They both go through the same gauntlet. One takes a moral inventory and resolves to change, the other blithely rejects his lesson.
The first is redeemed. The other dies in a pile of blood and shit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 08:56 PM (II2Y0)
Just from the DP clip, I may have to go find a copy to watch the whole thing.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 08:56 PM (BiNEL)
But most of all, I'm still snickering over part of Mel Gibson's performance as Voz in Machete Kills. Machete gruesomely kills Zaror and Gibson says, "Boy, you f*cked him up worse than a high school science fair project!"
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at April 04, 2020 08:56 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Cheriebebe at April 04, 2020 08:57 PM (a4qVe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (zZbCU)
Yes, and I'm sure I will watch it when I get to the end of the series. I do like how it resolves some central mysteries of the series. But I will have to brace a bit for...certain events in the movie.
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:57 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at April 04, 2020 08:57 PM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (2DOZq)
Cleopatra Schwartz
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2020 08:58 PM (tQSvt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:58 PM (L2ZTs)
re-watching Firefly, which is exactly as awesome as I remembered.
Yes!
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 04, 2020 08:58 PM (59YkD)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (zZbCU)
Yes, and I'm sure I will watch it when I get to the end of the series. I do like how it resolves some central mysteries of the series. But I will have to brace a bit for...certain events in the movie.
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:57 PM (dOV9E)
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*nods sagaciously*
Jayne wishing he had brought grenades.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:58 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:58 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2020 08:58 PM (H5knJ)
that movie!!! And the real star of the film is Eli Wallach's Tuco -
Leone himself said that in an interview a few years back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 08:41 PM (q3gwH)
Whom are you disagreeing with? I want to know because that person is wrong if they don't appreciate the film lol. And of course Tuco was the star.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (oAY8z)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (AFSld)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (2DOZq)
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Point Blank, directed by John Boorman, crazy person.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:00 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 08:55 PM (dOV9E)
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If you watch Serenity (2005) right after, you're watching one of the best Sci-fi stories ever put on video.
Those stories just hold up! However you might want to look online for the "true order" of Firefly episodes.
Fox screwed the pooch.
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:00 PM (YWmx/)
The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?
Mal: Oh hell, I'm a fan of all seven. But right now, I'm gonna have to go with wrath.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 04, 2020 09:00 PM (59YkD)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (2DOZq)
Only saw Point Blank once, and IIRC it wasn't that great. Payback was much better.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:00 PM (BAsqb)
I admit to coming up with, and kind of liking, an idea for a superhero movie spoof... about a cross-dressing superhero. TightsMan.
Problem is, if I wrote it and it got made, the SJWs would take it over in no time.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:01 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (AFSld)
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"If I had to fuck a guy, I'd fuck Elvis".
Love that movie.
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:02 PM (YWmx/)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2020 09:02 PM (4thlk)
That's my take. Also if it was a alternate history fantasy, I would have been more satisfied with Manson having his smug head smashed.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:03 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:03 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 08:50 PM (2DOZq)
Yes!....."Take him to Detroit" was true then and true now.
My, how things have not changed.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 09:03 PM (Z+IKu)
Great cast, from Christian Slater to Walken, to Hopper. The dialogue was just amazing
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 04, 2020 09:04 PM (AFSld)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow.....Coloradomorondezvous2020 at April 04, 2020 08:57 PM (/UQ/R)
Comrade WDS, tell her to be forewarned that der Staat will crush her and her family and laugh while doing it!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:04 PM (BiNEL)
decent microphone, though. They're essentially just posts I've written
here done in a video format
The easiest way to film yourself with decent quality and sound is to use a Logitech 920S camera plugged into a usb 3.0 port. The Logitech software download allows you to do 1080p at 24 frames per second and the microphones in the camera are pretty decent considering the whole thing is $69.95. Mount it on your monitor screen and you are good to go.
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:05 PM (le57Z)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:00 PM (BAsqb)
I agree .
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:05 PM (2DOZq)
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Coen Bros and Christopher Nolan.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:05 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:06 PM (L2ZTs)
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Coen Bros and Christopher Nolan.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:05 PM (j4zcI)
Oh come on, where's the love?
Posted by: Joel Schumacher at April 04, 2020 09:06 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:06 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 04, 2020 08:59 PM (AFSld)
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I loved True Romance, and I thought it would have been better if QT actually directed, instead of just writing.
But Basterds, I hated. I'm not even a stickler for historical accuracy, I think that directors take license with it, out of narrative necessity.
But what happened in the Second World War was a surreal enormity that defies fictionalization. Anyone who tries to come up with something more bizarre and mind-bending than what actually happened will fail, and cheapen the factual reality, too.
Same with Django Unchained. Revising that history doesn't improve the story.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 09:06 PM (II2Y0)
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 09:06 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:07 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 08:56 PM (BiNEL)
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Just keep in mind the ending is pure shameless Tarantino. But the development is quite good, even within the B-movie structure. And there still is plenty of B-movie, despite some top-rate performances.
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:07 PM (YWmx/)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (NWiLs)
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Explosive depression.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:06 PM (j4zcI)
One hardly any one talks about is the one that made a lasting impression on me. OK, it was the only one I saw. I think it was called Kagemusha, and it was about what happened when a dude who looked just like the King (Shogun?) was used as a substitute after the monarch died, and what happened next. Visually great, but what's really stuck with me is how much it engages the viewer's brain in ways not typical for movies.
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 09:09 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (NWiLs)
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Explosive depression.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (zZbCU)
Starship Showgirls Anti-Christ
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:09 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Caliban at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (QE8X6)
I thought I was the only one who hated that movie.
Basterds plays like a twentysomething know it all mentally jerking off over what he'd have done if he had been in World War II because naturally he's smarter than everyone else.
I'd catch NAZIS. And I'd have a JEWISH guy BEAT THEM TO DEATH. It's IRONIC. And then I'd KILL HITLER. I would be AWESOME.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:06 PM (j4zcI)
One hardly any one talks about is the one that made a lasting impression on me. OK, it was the only one I saw. I think it was called Kagemusha, and it was about what happened when a dude who looked just like the King (Shogun?) was used as a substitute after the monarch died, and what happened next. Visually great, but what's really stuck with me is how much it engages the viewer's brain in ways not typical for movies.
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 09:09 PM (dOV9E)
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Ah, the movie that Kurosawa called his dress rehearsal for Ran.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (ja/kn)
Posted by: Frododlb at April 04, 2020 09:11 PM (cnWDV)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:11 PM (2DOZq)
*squinty eyes*
Posted by: Clyde at April 04, 2020 09:11 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (L2ZTs)
Paul Fieg had it coming.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:11 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (NWiLs)
The barrel is a wet market!
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 09:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:12 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:00 PM (BAsqb)
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Gregg Henry is not appreciated enough, but you really hate him in this movie. I hate the guy right now just thinking about the movie.
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:12 PM (YWmx/)
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2020 09:08 PM (4thlk)
I think there are almost no Eastwood movies I regret watching, and almost all of them I would watch again and enjoy.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:12 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: Splunge at April 04, 2020 09:10 PM (dOV9E)
Ummmmm.....Yes.
"Ishtar" plays on an endless loop.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 09:12 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:12 PM (YWmx/)
Which one was he?
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (L2ZTs)
Watched Fiddler on the Roof this afternoon and cried. Why? I don't know - part of it being that the film brings back memories, part of it being Noel Coward's dictum about the potency of cheap music, part because I wear my damned heart on my sleeve and part just sheer depression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:00 PM (BAsqb)
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Gregg Henry is not appreciated enough, but you really hate him in this movie. I hate the guy right now just thinking about the movie.
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:12 PM (YWmx/)
In Point Plank all I could think of is Dean Wormer.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (2DOZq)
"I'm going to give you your fondest wish. I'm going to show you a world without sin."
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at April 04, 2020 09:14 PM (ja/kn)
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The genius who gave us Sean Connery running across post-apocalyptic Britain in a red mankini and thigh boots?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (BAsqb)
The double crossing partner.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (2DOZq)
- Ishtar
- Gigli
- Final Star Wars trilogy
- Ghostbusters remake with those annoying women
- Barbra Streisand marathon
- Cats
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (L2ZTs)
Get Carter. The original Michael Caine version is much, much darker and better than the shitty Stallone reboot.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (oVJmc)
Note, I have disconnected to the extent that this is a serious question.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (BiNEL)
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Coen Bros and Christopher Nolan.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:05 PM (j4zcI)
Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks.
And I love both the Coen brothers' films, as well as Tarantino's.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (hku12)
Posted by: jmel at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (OeWgo)
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The genius who gave us Sean Connery running across post-apocalyptic Britain in a red mankini and thigh boots?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (Dc2NZ)
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Yes. He is a crazy person.
I think more crazy people should make films, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: BourbonChicken with Face Colander at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (LxTcq)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (2DOZq)
Ah, yes. Delightfully evil and easy to hate.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (BAsqb)
Cooper appears in Campbell's excellent Alzheimer's documentary "I'll Be Me". They were golf buddies until Campbell was put in a nursing home full time.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (6XLoz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (L2ZTs)
Note, I have disconnected to the extent that this is a serious question.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (BiNEL)
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If you actually want a major source, the Criterion Channel has a bunch.
They should have a 14 day free trial, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:42 PM (L2ZTs)
Actually, it isn't a product placement. Director Guy Hamilton was English and thought the KFC outlet was a local restaurant and used it for "local color."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (2JVJo)
So although I didn't expect it at the end of OUATIH, I recognized it.
It's becoming a signature, of sorts.
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (YWmx/)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (BiNEL)
Criterion.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:17 PM (L2ZTs)
Should have included a disclaimer on his movies I haven't seen.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:17 PM (2DOZq)
I went with standard shipping to save some money. They'll be here in six weeks...
Posted by: Gov. Andrew Fredo at April 04, 2020 09:17 PM (cfSLd)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (Dc2NZ)
Watched Fiddler on the Roof this afternoon and cried. Why? I don't know - part of it being that the film brings back memories, part of it being Noel Coward's dictum about the potency of cheap music, part because I wear my damned heart on my sleeve and part just sheer depression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (2JVJo)
Watching the movie, Fiddler on the Roof felt like the longest 6 hours of my life.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (hku12)
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me either
I guess it was the nostalgia factor?
I liked Bad Times at El Royale better, for what I consider to be a similar type of movie
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (G546f)
Yes. He is a crazy person.
I think more crazy people should make films, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (zZbCU)
zombie Ken Russell: I couldn't agree more...
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (tQSvt)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (L2ZTs)
No Netflix for me! But Thanks
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If you actually want a major source, the Criterion Channel has a bunch.
They should have a 14 day free trial, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:16 PM (zZbCU)
I'll take a look. Thank you.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (BiNEL)
Get Carter. The original Michael Caine version is much, much darker and better than the shitty Stallone reboot.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (BAsqb)
The same holds true for The Italian Job.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (hku12)
Watch Kenneth Branagh's full length version of Hamlet.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:13 PM (L2ZTs)
Hahaha.
The horror, the horror.....
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (Z+IKu)
I really like the Coen Brothers.
I've only watched one movie by Florian Henckel-Donnersmarck, but it was the best movie I've ever seen.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (II2Y0)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (ZCEU2)
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Michael Bay and... goddamit, there's another one that a movie-loving buddy gives me crap for hating, and I can't think of him now.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (Dc2NZ)
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I suspect that 90 minutes spent reading the reviews of that film would be more entertaining than watching the film itself.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (XVuno)
I'm watching Robo Vampire on rifftrax. Chinese therefore the hopping vampire variety. The first western person to see a chinese vampire movie probably died from laughter.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (l6b3d)
Posted by: jmel at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (OeWgo)
People complain about his accent in the film.
I think it was intentional. This was a subtle clue that it was an alternate reality. Not just an alternate history.
Even the spelling, "Basterds," is a small way of conveying that.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (hku12)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (BAsqb)
The same holds true for The Italian Job.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (2JVJo)
And Alfie
Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (Oj41N)
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Michael Bay and... goddamit, there's another one that a movie-loving buddy gives me crap for hating, and I can't think of him now.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (j4zcI)
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I actually think that Bay is a really talented director. He just doesn't give two shits about the scripts he works from. He just films what's there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (Dc2NZ)
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I suspect that 90 minutes spent reading the reviews of that film would be more entertaining than watching the film itself.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 04, 2020 09:20 PM (XVuno)
And what the actual fuck is "jellicle" anyway?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (H5knJ)
That movie totally repudiated and shamed the culture that says hippies and dopers are cool.
They're f**king assholes and killers. Period.
Posted by: PJ at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (qlTN9)
Night Hunter (201
it had Henry Cavill, Ben Kingsley, Alexandra Daddario, Stanley Tucci, Nathan Fillon... and it SUCKED BALLS
Just awful
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (G546f)
I hear the Barrel 6 also likes to run Glitter from time to time.
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (L2ZTs)
Can you watch it? Have they released for streaming or on CD? It's probably so bad they're going to bury that one.
Posted by: lowandslow at April 04, 2020 09:22 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (hku12)
**smiles** Well, to each his own. But while watching the scene where daughter Hodel is waiting for a train to take her to her lover in Siberia, I thought of film writer Jeanne Basinger's take on musical movies being inherently absurd, and thought that the direct realism Norman Jewison brought to Fiddler makes any singing seem absurd and that, perhaps, the movie might have worked better had it been deliberately set in a non-realistic studio setting rather than being filmed in Yugoslavia.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:22 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Gref at April 04, 2020 09:22 PM (AMIL/)
I love Tarantino's revisionist history movies - Inglorious Basterds being my favorite.. but this one was right up there with that one.
Brad Pitt is perfect for his part, and the period cars and scenes are perfect as well.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 04, 2020 09:22 PM (CjFDo)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:22 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: getting the banned before hidden planet at April 04, 2020 09:23 PM (dGdGH)
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:23 PM (YWmx/)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (NWiLs)
a cutesy slang for "angelical"
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 09:23 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Eromero at April 04, 2020 09:24 PM (XhWtx)
Just looked at Criterion, I could be watching for quite a while, not sure I will dive in but there are so many recommendations for Kurosawa, I really should give him a try, even though I am not really a film aficianado.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:24 PM (BiNEL)
I could totally see a midnight show double feature of Moulin Rouge and Cats for furries on hallucinogenics.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 04, 2020 09:24 PM (+oVP5)
Posted by: getting the banned back to biden level mentally at April 04, 2020 09:24 PM (dGdGH)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 09:24 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (L2ZTs)
Cutthroat Island
Gigli
Dune
Waterworld
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (BAsqb)
The Postman is slightly worse than Waterworld.....
Oh hell, both sucked ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (Z+IKu)
https://youtu.be/AC9SF7TOyHQ
You can sympathize that he seems to stand for lawful order against chaos.
Epic Rap Battles, Spielberg vs Hitchcock
https://youtu.be/_wYtG7aQTHA
Posted by: BourbonChicken with Face Colander at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (LxTcq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (zZbCU)
This right here^^^^^
Bay is like a ghostwriter, I think. Whaddaya need? Fifty thousand words with a mummy, a plane crash, two sex scenes and an accordion player? Roger that, you'll have a draft in three weeks.
He doesn't care. Giant robots? Whatever. We'll have shaky cam, a shitload of explosions, a comic relief and a hot chick in tight shorts. Oh look, we printed a billion dollars. Same thing again, boss? Roger that, you'll have the rough in six months.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (BAsqb)
did you see the flame thrower in Rick Dalton's tool shed?
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 04, 2020 09:26 PM (P1GvV)
Hateful 8 is a lousy movie.
Basically, it's Tarantino's Agatha Christie movie with a huge cheat at the end,
stuffed with leftover dialogue from Django Unchained that Tarantino couldn't let go of.
Watch it but it's the most hollow of all his movies.
And "Alien: Covenant" ugh. *barf*
I won't say it's the worst Alien movie. That honor belongs to "Prometheus".
But, it's wrongheaded in every way. Lousy script. surprisingly, piss-poor direction from Ridley Scott.
Perhaps, it's worst offense is the totally alien mystery of the Alien into a robot revenge crapfest.
I think Ridley Scott has Joe Biden Brain.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:26 PM (z0XD8)
I've only watched one movie by Florian Henckel-Donnersmarck, but it was the best movie I've ever seen.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (II2Y0)
The Lives of Others? I have it here, but haven't gotten around to watching it.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:27 PM (hku12)
Totally agree with you on "Once Upon a Time..."
That movie totally repudiated and shamed the culture that says hippies and dopers are cool.
They're f**king assholes and killers. Period.
Posted by: PJ
..........
naah.. that is too much of a generalization..
I had long hair, smoked dope and was in rock bands.. I was nowhere near like any of the hippies in that movie. I didn't participate in the war protests, etc. etc..
People are people.. you can't lump people into categories like that.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 04, 2020 09:27 PM (CjFDo)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (l9m7l)
BeckChas, once you are older than 29, it is comforting to have patterns of behaviour that we can more or less depend upon as being immutable!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:28 PM (BiNEL)
did you see the flame thrower in Rick Dalton's tool shed?
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (iTXRQ)
If it's in-view when Brad Pitt goes in for tools to fix the antenna, no. Will look for it next time.
Posted by: Gref at April 04, 2020 09:28 PM (AMIL/)
Cutthroat Island
Gigli
Dune
Waterworld
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (BAsqb)
Eh. "DUNE" doesn't belong on that list.
It's a near great movie. One of the few where maybe 125 more minutes would've pushed it into movie immortality.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:28 PM (z0XD8)
Happy to discover that Life and Fate, based on Vasiliy Grossman's WWII novel (Stalingrad, elsewhere in USSR) is free on Prime. Whole bunch of episodes, so there's some time kilt during the lockdown.
Front-running manana's book thread, highly recommend the annotated translation of Grossman's war-time diary, A Writer at War.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2020 09:28 PM (El6T/)
Get Carter. The original Michael Caine version is much, much darker and better than the shitty Stallone reboot.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:15 PM (BAsqb)
The same holds true for The Italian Job.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (2JVJo)
Red Dawn, Point Break just to name a few closer to b type movies that were really good. There are the rare remakes like 3:10 to Yuma and True Grit that are at least decent films. But mainly remakes are a horrible waste of time these days. Then again, the other option is super hero and star wars universes.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 09:29 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:29 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: Gov. Andrew Fredo
*snort*
Posted by: deplorable unperson - END THE LOCKDOWN : It's just a damn bug at April 04, 2020 09:29 PM (59YkD)
https://tinyurl.com/vwzeg2d
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:30 PM (2JVJo)
Honor Blackman who played Pussy Galore was actually a competitive Judo Blackbelt.
Speaking of Judo, one of the movies I watched during this lockdown was Cocktail with Tom Cruz and Elizabeth Shue. Cruz was a high school wrestler, and not an easy person to throw. The scene where she throws him on the beach was an ad libbed rehearsal, and there was a camera running on that rehearsal - which is how the throw, a drop step O-Soto Gari made it into the film.
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:30 PM (le57Z)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 09:30 PM (ZCEU2)
Cutthroat Island
Gigli
Dune
Waterworld
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:21 PM (BAsqb)
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So Solarbabies finished it's run?
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:30 PM (YWmx/)
Posted by: jmel at April 04, 2020 09:31 PM (OeWgo)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:18 PM (hku12)
Watch Kenneth Branagh's full length version of Hamlet.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:19 PM (BAsqb)
Naw, I think his Hamlet is fantastic. It's probably sacrilegious to say this, but I think it's better than Olivier's.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:31 PM (hku12)
Money well spent.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:31 PM (d1uFV)
Oh hell, both sucked ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (Z+IKu)
Dude, I liked The Postman.
But per a book thread tip from our own Anna, the book is far more interesting!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:31 PM (BiNEL)
The only thing I disliked was they apparently ran out of money and let a high school Audio Video Club do the special effects at the end of the movie.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:31 PM (2DOZq)
Wound up with realistic looking but featherweight jetski prop motor made of foam from that abortion. *Accidentally* dropped it on a friends cherry motorcycle - of course no harm but his reaction priceless.
Posted by: getting the banned back together for pranks at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (dGdGH)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (le57Z)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (ja/kn)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (2DOZq)
Greatest portrayal of Satan evah.
That whole scene reeks creepy.
Though my second favorite Satan from "The Prophecy" is awfully good as well.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (z0XD8)
Money well spent.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:31 PM (d1uFV)
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I keep thinking about watching that, but then a new wave of releases hit the channels I already subscribe to and I'm all, "Well, there's another ten movies from my queue ready for me to watch."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 09:33 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:33 PM (YWmx/)
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
https://youtu.be/JZtSLO4tsH0
Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 04, 2020 09:34 PM (P1GvV)
That whole scene reeks creepy.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (z0XD
Peter Stormare is versatile as hell.
Posted by: hogmartin at April 04, 2020 09:34 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2020 09:34 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 09:33 PM (iTXRQ)
Damn, I forgot about that.
Full frontal female nudity and I turned it off halfway. Jesus that movie sucks.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:34 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:35 PM (YWmx/)
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:33 PM (YWmx/)
*hi five*
one of my favorite movies
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 09:35 PM (G546f)
Oh hell, both sucked ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 04, 2020 09:25 PM (Z+IKu)
Dude, I liked The Postman.
But per a book thread tip from our own Anna, the book is far more interesting!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:31 PM (BiNEL)
I think Kostner films, like M. Night Shamalamadingdong films, are lambasted way more than they deserve.
Are they great cinema? No they are not, but I'd rather watch those guys' film than, say, Bruckheimer and Bay crap.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:35 PM (hku12)
I mostly agree, though I don't like the Hateful 8 and I refuse to watch Django Unchained.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:35 PM (d1uFV)
The Lives of Others? I have it here, but haven't gotten around to watching it.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:27 PM (hku12)
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Watch it. It's a case study in the total degradation of human character by the will to power.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 09:35 PM (II2Y0)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 09:36 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:36 PM (2DOZq)
I love Goldfinger, but it veers just a little too close to silliness, IMO. My "best" is From Russia With Love.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:36 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at April 04, 2020 09:36 PM (7s3Gx)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:34 PM (BAsqb)
This is why God provided the mute button.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 09:36 PM (Zz0t1)
And I just as firmly think that The Hateful 8 is easily the worst piece of trash in the history of cinema. It is utterly unwatchable, has absolutely zero redeeming qualities, and in my opinion was simply the vehicle through which Tarantino exercised his certifiably insane need to get away with having the word "n*gger" come out of his characters' mouths a couple of hundred times without him being rightly blacklisted by Hollywood. I watched it in disgust and disbelief, wondering how the same person could possibly have made KB 1 & 2. One of life's great mysteries, I guess.
Your Mileage May Vary, of course.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2020 09:37 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:27 PM (hku12)
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Watch it. It's a case study in the total degradation of human character by the will to power.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 09:35 PM (II2Y0)
Yes, I think I know what to expect, more or less, and that's why I haven't watched it yet. I don't necessarily need to be reminded. Especially right now.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:37 PM (hku12)
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No, I can't, and no, he doesn't. He stands for using the power of an overbearing we-know-what's-best government to make the world a "better place" no matter who he has to kill to do it.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at April 04, 2020 09:38 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (zZbCU)
I'm biased, but I'd rather watch Mifune act than almost anything released in the last 10 years.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:38 PM (d1uFV)
Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2020 09:38 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 08:01 PM (Dc2NZ)
I'm here darlin', are you still? I hit ctrl+F5 "eris". Because that's what I do.
And yes, I'm a Superfanboi. I can't believe Madison got something right.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 04, 2020 09:38 PM (gd9RK)
I bought a Kubrick anthology recently. Because I tend to rag on him. I think I owe him a second look. Or third look, in some cases.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (hku12)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (zZbCU)
I'm biased, but I'd rather watch Mifune act than almost anything released in the last 10 years.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:38 PM (d1uFV)
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They're rarely "new". The most recent that I dropped everything to watch because it suddenly came back to Prime was Marty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Jewells45
oh, I remember different ticket prices for movies dependon what section!
Orchestra (ground) was cheapest, balcony (upper was second cheapest) and loge (the seats where you could spit on the cheapskate orchestra watchers) was the mosr expensive.
And double features!
Posted by: vmom 2020 at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (G546f)
I view Costner as a competent workman-like actor, not sure I will ever watch any of his films a second time, but the first viewing was always worth the time for me!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (BiNEL)
Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (X5CsJ)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 04, 2020 09:38 PM (gd9RK)
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I get so much right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (zZbCU)
Well as I said it IS campy.. and To Russia With Love is also a great Bond flick...agreed.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 09:40 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 09:40 PM (iTXRQ)
I usually get like four out of ten film references he makes but I don't have to get them to know what he's trying to do in paying homage to what he grew up watching.
A true master. Ask me to watch Schindler's list ten times and I'd say nah, bro. Ask me to watch Kill Bill ten times and I'd laugh because I've already watched it twenty.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:40 PM (JFe9H)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:40 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 09:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Mute wouldn't have saved it. The whole thing is just gross. I don't know, maybe it's secretly genius, and Verhoeven's making this commentary on the sex trade or industry or something that's meant to weird you out.
Watching that movie is like being in a strip club, stone cold sober. It isn't fun, it isn't sexy, it isn't hot, it's just fucking gross. The last straw for me was that scene where the main character is sitting on her boyfriend's lap and he asks if she wants to screw. She says no, she's on her period. He says she's BSing just to put him off. She spreads her thighs and says, "Check."
Click. Eject. We're done here.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:40 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 09:41 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at April 04, 2020 08:31 PM (L2ZTs)
Yes. I found it disturbing in a way I can't really describe.
Posted by: a.moron at April 04, 2020 09:41 PM (bjCNA)
Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (El6T/)
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I used to take the Metrorail train into LA everyday. I remember that it passed by a piece of property in East LA that held the Exxon Valdez set from Waterworld. Right in the middle of a bunch of grimy industrial yards and ramshackle houses.
It was there for a long time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 04, 2020 09:41 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (le57Z)
I love Goldfinger, but it veers just a little too close to silliness, IMO. My "best" is From Russia With Love.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
.....
Goldfinger has my most favorite Bond scene.. he is driving his Astin Martin with thugs in pursuit. He has a wry smile on his face.. you know this is where he gets his kicks.. it is what exhilarates him.
But From Russia With Love is one of the best.. the least gimmicky ones..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (CjFDo)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (le57Z)
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Low budget British film with power?
Kes. My review is linked in the post.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (zZbCU)
"Marty" is a great "small" movie.
Lovely portrait of regular folks lovingly done. Great script.
And man, was Ernest Borgnine good in that.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (z0XD8)
His quality movies are Open Range, Mr Brooks and Perfect World.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (BAsqb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (q3gwH)
Good.
Posted by: Vanya at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (BAsqb)
not sure I will ever watch any of his films a second time, but the first
viewing was always worth the time for me!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (BiNEL)
Field of Dreams and Bull Durham were great movies. The first half of Dances with Wolves was good too.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (hHxp2)
Open Range
Mr. Brooks
A Perfect World
Fandango
and Waterworld
Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (P1GvV)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (bhBSF)
Oh God I love that movie!! Only saw once in the theater. I would love to see it again.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (Npe2A)
Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (Npe2A)
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Marcellus Wallace's soul.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (41rs/)
Mr. Brooks
A Perfect World
Fandango
and Waterworld
Posted by: Jake Holenhead at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (P1GvV)
Open Range for sure.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 09:45 PM (hHxp2)
TJM, did you check my link for Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen? I would think that would be right up your alley.
Here's a trailer:
https://tinyurl.com/saz23yw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:45 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 09:45 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (JFe9H)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
how did the Tim Roth character know what it was then
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Moron Robbie has got the Kung Fu Grippe at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (41rs/)
TJM, did you check my link for Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen? I would think that would be right up your alley.
Here's a trailer:
https://tinyurl.com/saz23yw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:45 PM (2JVJo)
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That looks...interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (H5knJ)
I'm still vaguely pissed that "Mr Brooks" did so poorly at the box office that the planned on trilogy was never completed.
One of Costner's best movies and performances.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (z0XD8)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (ja/kn)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2020 09:47 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (le57Z)
Indeed. Feral and degenerate.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:47 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:32 PM (zZbCU)
I'm biased, but I'd rather watch Mifune act than almost anything released in the last 10 years.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:38 PM (d1uFV)
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They're rarely "new". The most recent that I dropped everything to watch because it suddenly came back to Prime was Marty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:39 PM (zZbCU)
Borgnine had a lot of range, back when actors weren't all pretty (see also Bogart)
I rarely actually watch the movies I want to, cuz wife, but I'm making an effort to watch all the Mifune I can this month while it's featured on Criterion.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:47 PM (d1uFV)
watch any of his films a second time, but the first viewing was always
worth the time for me!
I thought The Bodyguard was his best work. His character in that movie comes the closest to my personality of any movie I've ever seen.
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (le57Z)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2020 09:46 PM (H5knJ)
both great. I won't give him credit for Silverado but he was good in it. No Way Out was excellent.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (hHxp2)
Bruce Greenwood is a great JFK and Costner puts down the worst "Bahh-ston" accent ever on film.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Dumbo at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2020 09:43 PM (q3gwH)
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It was truly awful. I was on TDY with a bunch of dudes and it was one of the few DVDs available. Like, it was Mr. Bean or Showgirls, and we'd seen every Bean show. We watched it as a joke. We all agreed it was garbage.
Gina Gershon managed to ride the wave of sleeze to shore safely and it didn't seem to hurt her career.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (Dc2NZ)
He did it for Travolta. Same for Kurt Russel and Daryl Hannah.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (JFe9H)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (le57Z)
C'mon. There's no way you're THAT boring and devoid of personality.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (Dc2NZ)
Gina Gershon's best movie was Bound.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at April 04, 2020 09:49 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: nope at April 04, 2020 09:49 PM (4erAA)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at April 04, 2020 09:49 PM (d1uFV)
on TCM. Directed and acted in by Peter Bogdanovich. Boris Karloff was the hero. I was obsessed with the set decoration and color scheme at the sniper's home. Lavenders, blues, yellows, and white. Karloff's hotel suite was great too.
An obscure actor named Tim O'Kelly played the sniper. He looks like a lot of other actors, vaguely familiar. I thought ole neckerchief would do more with Boris in the climactic scene at the drive-in but for a first directorial effort it wasn't too bad.
At one point Pete and Boris are lying on a bed together, clothed, worse the wear from booze. Pete is passed out. Boris turns out the light. A long pause, then we see an alert Pete's face as he lights a cigarette. (!!!!)
Posted by: JuJuBee at April 04, 2020 09:50 PM (Rvqyz)
Literally. I'm watching MST3K's "Ator, the Fighting Eagle". Hoooooboy!
How much Keeffe we got? Miles O'Keeffe
If ever there was a movie that needed more gratuitous nudity to save it from itself, this is it.
Posted by: Fox2! at April 04, 2020 09:50 PM (qyH+l)
Posted by: His Weapon at April 04, 2020 09:50 PM (CDGwz)
They had to rebuild one of the most elaborate sets from scratch after a Pacific cyclone (hurricane) destroyed it mid-production.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (+oVP5)
Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (Npe2A)
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Marcellus Wallace's soul.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:44 PM (zZbCU)
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That's assumed...to be honest I was just being a wise ass. I saw an interview with Tarantino and he answered that question perfectly. He made it clear that it doesn't matter what it was. It's a vague maGuffin...and that's all it was meant to be. I think that's why I enjoy his films so much. He doesn't conform a lot of the time, and doesn't apologize for doing exactly what HE wants to do. That, and the dialogue. The boy writes some great dialogue...sometimes to a fault.
Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (Npe2A)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (2JVJo)
They had to rebuild one of the most elaborate sets from scratch after a Pacific cyclone (hurricane) destroyed it mid-production.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (+oVP5)
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"Some people have all the luck."
-Terry Gilliam
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (JFe9H)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at April 04, 2020 09:52 PM (NWiLs)
Heard the sea anchors gouged the hell out of some "protected" coral beds.
Posted by: getting the banned to watch a fishy story at April 04, 2020 09:53 PM (4erAA)
C'mon. There's no way you're THAT boring and devoid of personality.
I was thrilled when mathematicians decided zero was a number and not a place holder - as that meant I did have a personality.
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:53 PM (le57Z)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Several good quotes in that movie:
"Now, I don't want kill you, and you don't want to be dead.."
"You know, a good smelly saloon is my favorite place in the world."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2020 09:53 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at April 04, 2020 09:48 PM (Dc2NZ)
She's made some terribly whorrific movies and still managed to have a long career.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 09:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (JFe9H)
Nah. That's one of Tarantino's steals (or homage, if you prefer) from another movie.
In this case, the film noir movie "Kiss Me Deadly".
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:54 PM (z0XD8)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:54 PM (JFe9H)
I don't think I ever saw that, I'll have to look for it!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 09:55 PM (BiNEL)
I always took QT's use of the briefcase as a macguffin, itself and homage to macguffins.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:51 PM (JFe9H)
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Totally. It matters not a whit to the story. It could be drugs, money, evidence, something more metaphysical, whatever. The story doesn't change. It's just a thing. I always saw it as a wink and a nod, breaking the fourth wall kind of thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 09:55 PM (II2Y0)
I was thrilled when mathematicians decided zero was a number and not a place holder - as that meant I did have a personality.
Posted by: An Observation
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You might enjoy 'Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra', Derbyshire. Yes, *that* Derbyshire. Quite an interesting read.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 04, 2020 09:55 PM (xSo9G)
In this case, the film noir movie "Kiss Me Deadly".
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:54 PM (z0XD8
Whatz it?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:56 PM (JFe9H)
Posted by: Ben Had at April 04, 2020 09:56 PM (0jFNh)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:42 PM (le57Z)
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I've basically never seen a revenge flick I didn't enjoy, but I did sure like that one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2020 09:56 PM (II2Y0)
Posted by: DB- just DB, under house arrest at April 04, 2020 09:58 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 04, 2020 09:58 PM (bhBSF)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 09:58 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 09:59 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: jmel at April 04, 2020 09:59 PM (OeWgo)
I have to work on my book tomorrow, but then decide what movie I want to watch. I'm torn between Masie Gets Her Man with Ann Sothern or Sweet Rosie O'Grady with Betty Grable.
My cue includes To Catch a Thief with Grace Kelly, who was really beautiful and a terrible driver. (See also High Society for confirmation)
Posted by: An Observation at April 04, 2020 09:59 PM (le57Z)
Long list.
I'll add the protagonist sitting on a couch with a bottle of booze smoking cigarettes in the dark as a way to show despair.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 10:00 PM (JFe9H)
Upon a Time in Hollywood is probably his most wholly original film and concept among his films.
It's pretty good, except for the Bruce Lee scene which was completely uncalled for.
Posted by: Inspector Johnson at April 04, 2020 10:00 PM (U8WBs)
Posted by: jmel at April 04, 2020 10:00 PM (OeWgo)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 10:01 PM (JFe9H)
Posted by: Wenda at April 04, 2020 10:01 PM (tnRL3)
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 09:54 PM (z0XD8
Whatz it?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 09:56 PM (JFe9H)
That's a bit of a spoiler so I won't tell.
But, it provides a nicely horrific ending.
"Kiss Me Deadly" is one of the classics, so it's easy to find, if you care to.
Or, there's always wikipedia.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 04, 2020 10:01 PM (z0XD8)
Posted by: Inspector Johnson at April 04, 2020 10:00 PM (U8WBs)
I thought it was hilarious.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 04, 2020 10:02 PM (JFe9H)
Posted by: Axeman at April 04, 2020 09:35 PM (YWmx/)
That movie creeps me out, and the Dreams that repeat for anyone who sleeps there. The Devil is real and is from another dimension.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 04, 2020 10:02 PM (dKiJG)
Oh God..my memory is so awful but yes the actor who played him was hilarious! That movie holds a special place in my heart.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 10:02 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 04, 2020 10:02 PM (XVuno)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at April 04, 2020 10:02 PM (BiNEL)
I've got The Taking of Pelham 123 (the original) and 1984 in my queue, but I don't feel like watching them just yet.
Erich von Stroheim couldn't drive either. For the scene in Sunset Boulevard where he drives through the Paramount gate, the car was towed in, but Stroheim still managed to run into the gate itself.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 04, 2020 10:02 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 04, 2020 10:03 PM (dUJdY)
I had a friend complain about that. You have to recognize that that was loving. Tarantino had a whole movie where Uma was dressed as Bruce Lee. He loves Bruce Lee.
In Hollywood he has Rick Dalton hate spaghetti westerns. If there weren't spaghetti westerns there would be no Tarantino.
I say don't take it so seriously. It's a mash note.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 04, 2020 10:05 PM (gd9RK)
1. Omega Man with Charleton Heston. World stops in March due to biological war between China and Russia.
2. The Andromeda Strain. Scared the turkey stuffing outta me as a kid.
3. Silverado. Western escape. Yes, some (most) of the actors in it really pissed me off since it was made, but still love the movie.
Posted by: TakeFive at April 04, 2020 10:29 PM (uvVVT)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at April 04, 2020 08:22 PM
THIS
Posted by: Cybersmythe at April 04, 2020 10:31 PM (edlKR)
Posted by: Traddy at April 04, 2020 10:52 PM (5f0Sh)
One more example of a movie that should never have been remade.
Posted by: Quint at April 04, 2020 10:56 PM (hHxp2)
Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2020 11:00 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: TeleSkier at April 04, 2020 11:25 PM (ua1m6)
But out here in L.A. people did kinda think the Manson family was cool, until they killed a bunch of people. They just have no judgment, and they still don't.
Posted by: PJ at April 04, 2020 11:26 PM (qlTN9)
However, one point of the revisionist history at the end of the film that I'm surprised you didn't point out was Roman Polanski's potential redemption. One can assume that if Tate didn't get murdered, Polanski wouldn't have gotten into his trouble. I would guess that Tarantino believes (as do most in Hollywood) that Polanski has been unfairly persecuted over the years, and this is a sort of homage to the guy Tarantino respects as a filmmaker.
Posted by: necron at April 05, 2020 12:38 AM (hCqcJ)
Posted by: ... at April 05, 2020 01:02 AM (uEbPt)
The idea that an old man could pluck your eye in just one quick move, break wood with his fist, and execute a fatal attack that will kill you after you take 5 steps was... hmm legendary.
Posted by: nono at April 05, 2020 02:15 AM (TYVzD)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at April 04, 2020 08:36 PM (zZbCU)
I'll watch it! Movie review sites are my favorites.
Posted by: Gem at April 05, 2020 02:46 AM (65i3Q)
Really great flick.
Posted by: Gem at April 05, 2020 02:51 AM (65i3Q)
When it comes to his; crafty references to earlier cinema, I wish he was obsessed with better movies.
Posted by: Brett at April 05, 2020 09:04 AM (YCnFz)
Coincidentally I JUSTED watched this off Netflix DVD last night.
Here are my conclusions:
1) Apparently Brad Pitt won an Oscar for Supporting Actor for this. This was an EASY role for Pitt who has some range and I think he should not have gotten the award for this role simply because it was not a challenge for him and his abilities.
2) Plot? None.
3) WAY too long. They could have kept it to 120 minutes tops and still has the same results.
4) Tarantino is STILL an overrated director. He just is. Not way overrated, but just overrated.
5) I concluded that this movie should not have been in my DVD queue as the hype just did not come close to actual movie experience.
6) I predicted that the Audience Score at Rotten Tomatoes would be roughly 12 to 18% lower than the Critics Score as critics like packaging and not substance. I was right.
7) I give it a C+/B-. TOO LONG, NO PLOT, some sympathetic characters, etc.
In the end, I would put that silly Red vs. Blue "The Hunt" in my DVD queue instead of this as this movie simply was nowhere near the hype. I do think that both the main actors are very good actors but they could not rescue this movie.Posted by: Sapwolf at April 05, 2020 02:06 PM (nuv3n)
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