Popular Post DieselDaisy Posted January 3, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2016 I just do not think I like his films. I think he is cack personally. He was on a blaxploitation documentary slagging off the use of the Shaft theme and he was slagging off Hitchcock's final few films on some thing I watched with directors sitting around discussing directing. The worst Hitchcock film - Jamaica Inn for instance - is superior than Tarantino's greatest film. You should probably watch less films with directors and try and make up your own judgement without any snobs sitting and discussing around youHitchcock is history, Tarantino is the presentComparing them is like if you compare a dingus with a vaginaHitchcock is timeless.Is Tarantino really the present? He does not seem to have an original idea in his head. All his films are rips. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I love it when in any film sam jackson says "Bitch".Yyyooouuu gggooonnnnnnaaa mmmaaakkkeee aaa dddeeeaaalll wwwiiittthhh ttthhhaaattt dddiiiaaabbbooollliiicccaaalll bbbiiitttccchhh??? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Martin Scorsese is one of the most unoriginal directors of all time but he's also made some fucking brilliant movies.I do not agree in the slightest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 How so?Firstly, Scorsese doesn't write. It's a tough gig. Secondly, most of his films are directly based off of novels / real life events. That does not make them any less his films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 You are in error. He is not 'inspired' but 'rips off'' and it is not just ''films of the past''. Reservoir Dogs plagiarises City on Fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 You could not give a Scorsese equivalent of the advice to, stay at home and watch Lady Snowblood or Foxy Brown. Scorsese's films, especially his 1970's work, are thoroughly original creations. What influences they are (e.g. I Vitelloni on Mean Streets) are just that: influences. In fact there are few films more original than Mean Streets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 For the record, I do not like everything Scorsese has done. Some of those criticisms are valid - although I do love Casino. I was not that keen on Shutter Island to be honest. But it is not exactly a good argument to defend Tarantino with, by stressing the shortcomings of Scorsese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacardimayne Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I found Casino to be an inferior rehash of Goodfellas. Still OK, but I'd rather just rewatch Goodfellas. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I just saw a new TV spot that only feature's Channing Tatum's character. Talk about giving away the whole movie in the advertising Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Tarantino did what GNR did. He remade the 70s in the 90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLegend Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I just saw a new TV spot that only feature's Channing Tatum's character. Talk about giving away the whole movie in the advertising Ouch.Just seen this today, it was just released here. I thought it was fairly good, but it was very-by-the-numbers for a Tarantino film.I didn't take issues with alot of the stuff, it was basically what you'd expect from one of his films. Certain scenes that border on self-indulgence, in other words lasting a little bit longer than needed. Dialogue scenes that go on a bit too much and don't advance the plot, some pretense to justify excessive use of the n word and the ending was almost too predictable.It's what I expect from one of his films and I normally love it, this though was missing a spark. It wasn't one of his better films, but it was still a Tarantino film I guess . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_n_coke Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I just saw a new TV spot that only feature's Channing Tatum's character. Talk about giving away the whole movie in the advertising Ouch.Just seen this today, it was just released here. I thought it was fairly good, but it was very-by-the-numbers for a Tarantino film.I didn't take issues with alot of the stuff, it was basically what you'd expect from one of his films. Certain scenes that border on self-indulgence, in other words lasting a little bit longer than needed. Dialogue scenes that go on a bit too much and don't advance the plot, some pretense to justify excessive use of the n word and the ending was almost too predictable.It's what I expect from one of his films and I normally love it, this though was missing a spark. It wasn't one of his better films, but it was still a Tarantino film I guess .^This about nails it for me. Not saying it was bad by any means, but it kinda falls into the "Jackie Brown" category of "yeah, it was a Tarantino film." Thank the god for all that hype about the leaked script Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Speaking of the leaked script - I just finished skimming it. It was quite similar to the final film other than the ending - the actual ending in the film is far superior to the leaked script. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 It was tasteful in the same way Jackie Brown was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan H. Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) Thought it was fantastic. Better than Django and Bastards for sure. I'll have to check it out again. It was a little long, and uncomfortably brutal at some points, but the first and second acts of the film had that classic Tarantino style Edited January 9, 2016 by Dan H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spuffy78 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Giving it a rewatch right now. Thought it was underwhelming on a first view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I've watched it 4 times now. Seemed to get better on rewatch. I missed a lot. Still not sure about the red jelly bean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacardimayne Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I've watched it 4 times now. Seemed to get better on rewatch. I missed a lot. Still not sure about the red jelly bean.When the Domergue gang showed up at Minnie's, they shot her through the jellybean jar, blowing it up. That's why there's a bean on the floor and an empty space on top of the cabinet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 It was pretty good. Much worse than Django and Bastards, though. No comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan H. Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) I've watched it 4 times now. Seemed to get better on rewatch. I missed a lot. Still not sure about the red jelly bean. When the Domergue gang showed up at Minnie's, they shot her through the jellybean jar, blowing it up. That's why there's a bean on the floor and an empty space on top of the cabinet.Yeah, it's Sam Jackson's character understanding that something is amiss in the cabin. It also foreshadows the guy hiding under the floor.I just love it, it's a slow and careful character study, then becomes a classic 'Clue' style murder mystery, then dissolves into mass violence and panic. The movie tells a really gritty and nihilistic take about what happens when you take a handful of people in a broken and emotional country(just slightly after The Civil War) and shove them in a cabin together.It highlights the really shitty and cynical parts of the American West, and what loneliness, desperation, and survival does to people, and the disgusting lengths they will go to keep themselves alive.The Revenant essentially tells a similar tale, but it's a story of the disgusting toll survivalism takes on a person, with a more honorable, and less outwardly nihilistic approach.The Revenant ends with Glass getting revenge for his sons murder, accepting that judgment is reserved for a higher power, and realizing that his pain won't end, not matter how great and brutal his survivalist journey was.Hateful Eight ends with two characters brutally hanging the person who caused their imminent death. They're both dying, and Sam Jackson openly uses that as an excuse to brutally murder and enjoy the death of another human being, and we do too, because our two 'heros' are the only characters in the movie we can relate two, because they were the only bystanders in the movie. The Hangman and everyone else all picked a side in the plot twist of the movie. Everyone makes a decision on or against the side of Daisy Domergue except Sam Jackson and the Sheriff, who we are forced to root for even though they are both awful and do terrible brutal things Edited January 10, 2016 by Dan H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I did laugh at Roth's character bartering with his own corpse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan H. Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) It also captures the lie of the American dream, showing the lengths to which Sam Jackson's character would go to just make himself equal in the eyes of others, and the whole film ends on the note of him reading the letter from Lincoln, which was an elaborate hoax he divised just to give himself the opportunity to be proven equal by whites, and how awestruck even the most radical and hateful of the racist South were in the presence of a relic by Lincoln. The American Dream is just as much a beautiful and saintly hoax as the Lincoln letter, and the film goes to great lengths to justify that. Edited January 10, 2016 by Dan H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Watched it tonight and really enjoyed it but I do think it was more suited to the stage than the cinema. Reminded me a bit of an Agatha Christie at times too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 How is Casino like Goodfellas? They are based on two completely unrelated true stories, ones about a young lad growing up in a mafia family and the others about a guy picked by gangsters to run a Casino in Las Vegas, whats one got to do with the other? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Ennio Morricone just won the Golden Globe for best score. Well deserved, IMO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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