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'Jackie Brown' is a great fucking movie.

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The only thing that could have improved JB would be if QT had had a tiny role in it.

WRONG.

Also: I love Keaton in this.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I think it's great. The first time I saw it I was massively disappointed, because I was expecting Pulp Fiction 2: Electric Boogaloo, and the pacing really threw me. But the second time, about a year or two later, I really warmed up to it. I love the relationship between Jackie and Max.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I will join the crowd of those procliaming it Tartantino's best. More adaptations please. Not that I loathe his original writing, but yeah, it's leaps and bounds more humane than anything else he's ever done.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I think Keaton is great in this, and I love that his character carried over from "Out of Sight." I don't know if JB is my favorite QT movie, but it's up there with "Reservoir Dogs" and KB1.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

thank GOD qt doesn't appear in this

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

and yeah man, keaton is the icing on the cake. i love him so much

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Actually, now that I think about it (and the smoke cleared), KB2's pacing is kinda Jackie-Brown-esque, is it not? Forsooth?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Indeed. Three movies in a row with no guest starring role from the director gives me hope that he finally realizes he's not an actor.

And it certainly is Keaton's best recurring role, maybe his best role ever. Well, until Multiplicity 2, The Beginning: This Time It's Personal is finally released.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

QT : acting :: kryptonite : Superman

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...
Just caught it again on cable. So great.

Three movies in a row with no guest starring role from the director gives me hope that he finally realizes he's not an actor.

He couldn't resist, though. He's the "automated" voice on Jackie's answering machine.

― not logging in, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I see gear beat me to that.

― not logging in, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

faced

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

His best movie.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Hell no.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Hell yes.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

i remember people asking me how this movie was and me saying "it was really... RELAXED!" and the little diodes behind their eyes clicking fruitlessly, "does not.. compute"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

It's by far the best role Pam Grier ever had, and maybe Robert Forster too. And De Niro didn't phone it in for once. But the gabby lowlifes are just not worth all that time and wow, Sam Jackson doing a blaxploitation riff? how novel!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Yeah it's much better he's doing things like Snakes on a Plane than riff-raff like this.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm not kidding, btw.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

But the gabby lowlifes are just not worth all that time

dude!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

you're criticizing this movie on the basis that it features LOWLIFES?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

they were gabby hobbyists

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

midmorning trolling. it's casual.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Lowlifes who talk like the ones in Jackie Brown do not commit grand larceny; they end up making 4-hour Uma Thurman foot-fetish movies.

It's a GOOD movie, but Tarantino is/was the most overhyped talented person on the planet. (He and Jimmy Kimmel after the Oscars: two geeks getting ready to watch 16 hours of splatter movies til their girlfriends come back from vacation.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea how the five QT movies would fall in my ranking - I think, a month or two ago, I ranked them thusly - PF>KB1>JB>KB2. I watched all four in one day (It was AWESOME, btw). I have not seen Resevoir Dogs for a few years, though. I remember liking it a whole bunch, but would like to revisit it sometime soon.

Jackie Brown is just so good, though. I need to buy me a copy of it so I can re-watch the dressing room scene.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

"It's a GOOD movie, but Tarantino is/was the most overhyped talented person on the planet."

I'm pretty sure there are other more over-hyped talented people (and fare more over-hyped LESS talented people.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

UNPROVABLE POINTS! YA CAN'T RATE "HYPE"

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Well in Morbius' case he's taken Spielberg out of the running, so yeah, that sticks Tarantino with it as runner-up.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Hah ouch.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

One of the few things the Academy's done right in recent years is recognizing Robert Forster's good work in JB; he got a Best Supporting Actor nod.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

except he was the main character, gah

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Tom, I'd be worried if you recognized that Spielberg and Prince are the two American pop-culture giants of the last 30 years. But I knew "Uma foot-fetish" would bring you out.

And I just remembered Pam was better in Mars Attacks! :D How is she on The L Word?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I love Jackie Brown.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

i remember seeing it when it came out, and the cinema was packed with people who (like me, facing it) wanted another quote-packed 'pulp fiction'. and we didn't get it, and i think we were all a bit put out

so otm. was disappointed with this the first time round, but watched it again last night, and it's great.

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

greatest. not to mention the best ever adaptation of a leonard book imo.

― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:33 (sixteen years ago)

^cosign

― Jack traded Milky-White to the troll for a magical (remy bean), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:09 (sixteen years ago)

luv dis movie

― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm not sure I can call this my absolute favorite QT movie - but its the one I come back to the most often. Although, looking at my shelves right now, I have no idea what happened to my DVD copy.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:25 (sixteen years ago)

this is some repugnant shit

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:49 (sixteen years ago)

not to mention the best ever adaptation of a leonard book imo.

I dunno. I have a lot of love for the movie of Get Shorty. Two totally different tones, obv. Both great Leonard movies, though.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not sure I can call this my absolute favorite QT movie

I hesitate myself, but I think... ok, yeah. I can say that. Jackie Brown is my favorite QT movie.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

IB beats this imho

― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

I will fight you!

No wait... I won't.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:27 (sixteen years ago)

whew shakey got all shaky there for a sec

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:36 (sixteen years ago)

is there an anigif of robert deniro having stand-up style intercourse with jane fonda's daughter yet

― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:49 (sixteen years ago)

jane's niece, peter's daughter

― my full government name (WmC), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:52 (sixteen years ago)

fine but my primary point is the anigif, is there one

― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:55 (sixteen years ago)

So good. It's always been my favourite, though maybe Basterds matches it? Time will tell. But I watched JB again only last week, oddly enough. Everyone is so good in this, even Chris Tucker ("you're catching a nigga off guard with this shit"), and the whole switch scene in the mall is just brilliant.

― Duke Newsom (DavidM), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

xp Lemme rip the movie, see what I can do. This could take a little while.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

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A "script" isn't even a play -- it's a network of suggestions that a resourceful director will modify.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 21:44 (four years ago)

The source material maybe helps the pacing of the movie somehow? I dunno. But t has a much more relaxed vibe than anything else he’s done and I love it so much. It moves at the speed of Forster’s character, and with his same intensity

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:52 (four years ago)

There's a shot of Forster walking out of a screening at an AMC mall theatre, his hands in his pockets, that's so casually good, so redolent of the character he plays, that no one else could've realized it.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:55 (four years ago)

he's walking out of an weekday afternoon screening!

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:55 (four years ago)

that's a great shot

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:55 (four years ago)

It’s such a *casual* film, even when shit gets wild.

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:16 (four years ago)

yeah exactly

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:21 (four years ago)

It's a great movie, great cast, great book, but to argue any Tarantino movie doesn't have his fingerprints all over it (for better or worse) and that anyone could have done it is crazy

AND he's literally the only director on Earth who was going to cast Forster and Grier as the leads in a movie in 1997

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:22 (four years ago)

I remember reading an interview with Stephen King where he said his reward for finishing a novel was reading an Elmore Leonard book. I thought that a really wonderful compliment.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:25 (four years ago)

it’s a really great version of the kind of films and TV shows I normally hate

― Dan S, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:26 (four years ago)

and yeah, Tarantino’s fingerprints are all over it. It is a movie out of time, like Forster & DeNiro & Grier, so all the locations & cars & outfits have a very specific 70’s look while also seeming like present day…down to like, the car Forster drives or the loungey carpeted bar they go to, Grier’s airline & uniform. Tarantino cares enough about that granular stuff to hire the kind of ppl who *also* care. Same with the music. To me his specificity is what defines his style

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:47 (four years ago)

Y'all are my people, y'all know this.

― pplains, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:30 (four years ago)

But

― pplains, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:30 (four years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/hfHQVoB.gif

― pplains, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:30 (four years ago)

lmao

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:33 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZNufFkpgIc

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:41 (four years ago)

sry pplains

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:03 (four years ago)

please pass the milk, please

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:48 (four years ago)

AND he's literally the only director on Earth who was going to cast Forster and Grier as the leads in a movie in 1997

yes, and probably the only one with the confidence to play out the entire heist scene twice & at that pace. The film is a miracle.

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:44 (four years ago)

lol pp

Tarantino more about footprints anyway surely

― siffleur’s mom (wins), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:04 (four years ago)

https://media1.giphy.com/media/BMTzHbtf96few/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e476barkc2oirf4s7whed7dqp8y4ciywyev112uy7d3&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

QT while he's editing one of the numerous female foot shoots in his movies

― calzino, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:21 (four years ago)

Oh no, someone accidentally added sexual overtones to the scene in Jackie Brown where the first woman Louis has seen in many years seduces him, in a manner that establishes her propensity for boundary-pushing. No wonder Sally Menke got fired for this blunder.

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 15:47 (four years ago)


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