Tarantino Poll

Not really surprised it only got 7 votes but would definitely rank it above either KB personally.

where sarge at

this some blasphemy

oh lol i forgot he doesnt wake up before 3 usually

is true romance any good?

― hazmat yayo (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:04 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I tried to watch it once and had to turn it off because it was so retarded.

― iatee, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

O_O

Sure it's ridiculous but I love True Romance oh and I couldn't disagree more with Jordan about his ranking here. Maybe it has to do with our respective ages when these came out and therefore viewing them for the first time? I don't know. huh.

True Romance is repellent.

Whatever else, QT can stage violence. The scene between Gandolfini and Arquette is so ineptly shot that it's just offensive; I can't watch it.

then there's how smarmy Slater is, and how blank Arquette is. He should have saved the Walken-Hopper confrontation for another movie and dumped the rest of this shit.

That's insane to me. It's an entertaining movie with some seriously awesome scenes (mainly those referenced above with by Omar and Kev). Guess I'm not snobby enough to realize that I should have been offended by it.

Also: "Tony Scott" in the credits makes my teeth grind.

tony scott owns

tOWNy scott

Tony Scott owns a nice house.

alf, how do you feel about Top Gun

xpost Not as nice as Roland Emmerich's

alf, how do you feel about Top Gun

danger zone

you ppl never change do ya

Jerry Lewis was at the roast. There was some kind of charity auction segment, and when someone started with a low bid, Jerry shouted "FUCK YOU!"

(I have a friend who's a Friar)

JB got robbed

tamtamtino

the second one's a lot better, but again i just didnt really feel involved in the ~human drama~

stuff like the buried alive scene - superbly done, but i just didnt feel the drama in it, especially since i knew she'd get out. whereas i loved the long, deliberate conversations in IB, in KB2 it felt like wheel-spinning to me (and i couldnt tell you why one worked for me and the other didnt). the long confrontation with carradine at the end, which seems like its supposed to be the emotional core of the two movies, didnt resonate w/me at all. tho now that im thinking about this stuff, its playing better in my head than i remembered. havent seen either of them since they came out, might be time for a revisiting imo

the trailer fight w/daryl hannah was great tho

― xX_420_GoKu_ChRiStWaRrIoR_Xx (Princess TamTam), Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

this is all evidence that it should have been ONE movie

yeah, just do one movie with the western revenge story and then do something entirely different for your samurai/kung-fu movie pastiche imo... u dont gotta cram it all in there

nah i think the decision to take the one kill bill movie and split it into two was not a smart one, should have been one 3-hour movie instead of 2 2-hrs

I still think the first half was gonna drag.

ya i mean you could probably (definitely) make one tight 3 hour movie out of the two parts. but how about one 2 hour movie about one thing and then one entirely different 2 hour movie about another thing. best of all imo. idk i was just thinking that the tonal shifts, while exciting in one way, were also possibly what created that distancing effect for me. i mean theres something to be said for like jackie brown, where it feels like it takes place in the same universe all the way through and doesn't suddenly dump you into a 70s kung fu movie (entertaining as those sequences were).

ok one more thread never to revive

haha

upon considered reflection, Pulp Fiction is totally his WORST movie. wtf ILX

― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 25, 2010 6:46 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark

totally stand by this. so much about PF that I don't like - Travolta, Bruce Willis (easily two of the WORST casting decisions QT's ever made), the "dead nigger storage" sequence, Samuel Jackson at his hammiest, a real lack of narrative or even thematic cohesion.

Reservoir Dogs is worse.

yeah, no wimmin, we know

lol post-Jackie Brown "thematic cohesion"

great argument there

I think Reservoir Dogs benefits from being smaller in scale than Pulp Fiction. it's tighter, more focused. Pulp Fiction is all over the place, it is quite literally just "a bunch of stuff that happens" with basically nothing tying it together. it's all empty gestures and campy jokes and that's about it. it's the one movie where I think the obvious criticisms, like the ones Morbz is so fond of, actually hold a lot of weight.

lol post-Jackie Brown "thematic cohesion"

imho everything from Jackie Brown on hangs together very well

ya honestly i don't have that much fondness in my heart for PF, hard to tell if that's just because i'm so sick of everything to do with it tho

otm

reminds me of ppl claiming Nevermind is Nirvana's worst album

it kind of is...?

figured you'd be one of em

everyone must have the same opinion.

yes, we established that when B*sterds was crowned greatest film ever

I thought it finished 9th?

yes, we established that when B*sterds was crowned greatest film ever

nah that was Step Brothers

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/unclealp/unclealp0812/unclealp081200035/3984127.jpg

I can't even stand to listen to Nirvana at all anymore and haven't for maybe 10 years or so fwiw. it's too much like reading a suicide note.

probably would go

inglorious basterds
reservoir dogs
pulp fiction
jackie brown
kill bill 1
death proof
kill bill 2

i like all of them to vary degrees but the first five are endlessly entertaining, the last two have some deadly dull bits.

anyone know why tarentino is in the "in utero" liner note thank yous?

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3307/inuterospecialthanks.jpg

dudes who super mega own in reservoir dogs: lawrence tierney, steve buscemi, chris penn

yeah Chris Penn is SO great.

don't point that gun at my dad

according to wiki

He was thanked in the liner notes of Nirvana's final studio album In Utero although the spelling of his name is incorrect. Tarantino returned the favor by thanking Nirvana on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, along with the message "RIP Kurt". It was thought that Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love rejected an offer to act in Pulp Fiction as Lance & Jody.[48] However Tarantino denied this rumor and claimed he had no real connection to Love and Cobain other than the fact that the couple liked Reservoir Dogs.[49]

xp

maybe a veiled reference to 'at close range' where he was all like, "dad don't point that gun at me!"