no i think in goodfellas scorsese was showing that pesci's character actually WAS totally crazy and even his best buddies were terrified of him going off at any second
― John Hyman (misspelled intentionally) (omar little), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
indeed. I have to wonder how anyone could miss that.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 12 February 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
huh pretty good results
i caught abt 10 minutes of 'death proof' last night on encore or some such - first time i'd seen it since the theater...the scene where the gas station attendant has a copy of italian vogue was way weird & bad. idk i just generally do not think it is a good movie
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link
^ part of what makes me think QT just can't deal w girl culture the way he's used to dealing w boy culture. i cringed all the way through that scene
― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
word i read some of your posts upthread and agree w/ that a lot...think i made similar sentiments originally when grindhouse was released
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
like around that time i recall him being on conan i think trying to expound abt 'girl talk' as a topic and i cringed all the way thru it
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised that so few people voted for KB1 and so many voted for KB2 :D
(i like KB2 btw, but no one on the thread even spoke up for it as an all-around best)
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure i went with pf, but this poll got me thinking: one thing rd has going for it over its successor is there are no scenes completely without merit; i like it all. otoh tarantino's "dead nigger storage" bit in pf is just needlessly pugnacious and juvenile with no real payoff (i loved his 'like a virgin' speech in rd tho!). the blueberry pancakes bit is pretty annoying, too, as i think someone mentioned upthread.
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i hated the d.n.s. stuff, and really all the stuff with Keitel and Julia Sweeny seemed totally useless, and kind of: "hey I've finally made it in Hollywood and now I'm gonna get all my friends and idols cameos in my great movie!"
Movie was way too long. By the time we get back to Jules and Vega in the restaurant, I really didn't care what happened. Every time I've watched it on VHS (it's been that long since I've seen it) I've turned it off after, "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead."
― fwiw (rockapads), Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
What? The "Dead nigger storage" scene is hilarious!! And it invented the phrase "That's Kool and the Gang," which I adopted as my own (Hey, cut me some slack, I was 15.)
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
the only scene Tarantino has ever acted in that I liked him in, was the last one in Four Rooms.
― fwiw (rockapads), Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah the more i think about it, they could of edited like 15 minutes out of this bitch and been a-ok.
actually, i find myself saying that about like 90% of the movies i go see these days.
xxpost
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't mind the rest at jimmy's house, it's just the way QT delivers DNS, like 4 times with no apparent reason than to say "nigger"
& tbh, it would probably annoy almost as much if he was saying "dead fireman storage." it's more his delivery & awkwardness that kind oftakes me out of the action completely. Again, i kind of like the "dick dick dick dick dick dick dick" bit in RD. I believed that guy. (Mr. Brown?)
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ya same here
― fwiw (rockapads), Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
when I saw PF in the theater, a bunch of people walked out during the D.N.S. scene. made an impression on me.
― fwiw (rockapads), Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I've always had a completely diff reaction to the DNS scene - a number of scenes in pulp fiction show how power is exercised in the relationships between the players. the DNS scene demonstrates how low tarantino's character is, using the situation to humiliate jules in a way he likely wouldn't dare to otherwise - similarly to how butch is humiliated by marcellus and vincent at the bar. it also shows how jules handles things differently than hotheaded vince, who's in the same desperate situation but still can't help mouthing off to the wolf.
the problem with the scene is that tarantino doesn't have the gravitas to sell it, so he ends up looking like a guy who thinks it's funny to say "nigger" a lot.
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
can't argue with that first sentences, but the last one is more OTM
― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I like True Romance and Natural Born Killers better than all of these.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
the DNS scene demonstrates how low tarantino's character is, using the situation to humiliate jules in a way he likely wouldn't dare to otherwise - similarly to how butch is humiliated by marcellus and vincent at the bar
bingo
― some black dude (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Edward III: i like your reading of that scene. and your last sentence is 100% otm
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
honestly I think it has more to do with the tarantino logic "swearing = always cool" than anything racial
― iatee, Thursday, 12 February 2009 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Glad Jackie Brown was at least a strong runner-up.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
It's cool, Jackie Brown is probably a better film than Reservoir Dogs. It is nice to see that it seems to have lost the stigma it had when it was released, it's a great movie.
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 February 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
finish is in order of merit shockah!
really all the stuff with Keitel and Julia Sweeny seemed totally useless
...but there's always room for lunacy. Keitel plays the role like Jackie Gleason, one of the best things he's done since the '70s.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 February 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
that's crazy talk...
― fwiw (rockapads), Friday, 13 February 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
no way, i loved that
― sorry, i'm not that kind of basement dweller (latebloomer), Friday, 13 February 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish Julia Sweeney was in more stuff
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
that movie had Julia Sweeney, pre-unbearable Kathy Griffin and first season dude from MadTV
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
According to wikipedia, Sweeney was a 29-year-old accountant who took a class at Groundlings and ended up on SNL a year later :O
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
and both Griffin AND Sweeney were in It's Pat the same year as Pulp Fiction!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't tarantino do a re-write for it's pat or something?
― original bgm, Friday, 13 February 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
he produced it, according to wiki
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
"It's Pat, Nigger!"
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― original bgm, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahhahah
― s1ocki, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
XD
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Friday, 13 February 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pS7sKjlzwFg/RmdXqEsq-ZI/AAAAAAAAAj8/IFPuR6OyxjY/s400/sweeney_pat.jpg
― original bgm, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I tend to think of "Kill Bill" as one picture ... maybe it would have done better here if listed that way. I wasn't overwhelmed with either part in the theater, but they stand up better than expected on repeated viewings. "Pulp Fiction" seems a little weaker each time I see it.
I voted "Jackie Brown" because it's the best Elmore Leonard adaptation. "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight" are both good, but "Jackie Brown" actually improves on its source material, mainly because of Pam Grier.
― Brad C., Friday, 13 February 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
voted jackie brown too and I'm glad it had a strong showing. it's true, pam grier is pretty great in it. and so is... uh, the guy from alligator?
it's probably the least annoying qt flick. but I like all of these besides death proof.
― original bgm, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
reservoir dogs is the one that really didn't hold up for me over the years. even tho it was my fave movie EVER in 8th grade.
it's been years since the last time I watched it, but at the time, all of the macho dialog seemed a little lame. but all of the love on this thread is making me think I should give it another go sometime.
― original bgm, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, bam bam bam bam bam.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 February 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
yea, agreed (tho a little later than 8th for me). i was one of those dudes that was like "pulp fiction pffffffft yea it's okay but RESERVOIR DOGS is the MASTERPIECE" in say, 10th grade. but i watched it again a few months ago and it really didn't do anything for me. i was pretty turned off by it. i've got a strong threshold for violence but for some reason the ear-cutting scene really got to me.
voted kill bill part 2. i haven't seen either kill bill more than once, tho. i enjoyed both a lot
― mark cl, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
People preferring Reservoir Dogs to PF remind me of those guys who prefer Bleach to Nevermind.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 February 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
yea i think PF is the better film now
― mark cl, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, but what of us who preferred "In Utero" ?
― Mark G, Friday, 13 February 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
kill bill fans? i prefer in utero
― mark cl, Friday, 13 February 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ha
I'm waiting for his "Unplugged"
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 13 February 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 13, 2009 9:51 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark
this is otm, i'd say
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 13 February 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link