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Whiplash was basically perfect but the timeline of Andrew going back and forth to the competition in his rental car seems impossible with the journey ruins we were given.
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EmmyOk posted:Whiplash was basically perfect but the timeline of Andrew going back and forth to the competition in his rental car seems impossible with the journey ruins we were given. Yeah, that whole sequence felt a little over the top to me. Whatever, the only things that mattered about that movie were JK Simmons being goddamn mesmerizing the entire time and that rad solo at the end.
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a while back, but:Perestroika posted:Yeah, that actually seems decently likely. The movie even makes a point of telling us that there's an anti-meteor defensive network around earth, which went conspicuously unmentioned after Buenos Aires was hit: https://youtu.be/S-s4lEk91ng?t=34s
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EmmyOk posted:Whiplash was basically perfect but the timeline of Andrew going back and forth to the competition in his rental car seems impossible with the journey ruins we were given. yea there was no way he could make that run in real life whatever tho, the acting & the music was so good. who gives a poo poo about a timing thing in a whatever. Did it drag? Did it drag or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDAsABdkWSc
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Sep 24, 2016 11:01
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I hate it when it's apparent that the director is having more fun than their audience. I find Tarantino too self-indulgent to be enjoyable these days. Case in point: the tavern scene from Inglorious Basterds. It's twenty-five-cocking-minutes-long, a sixth of the running time. There's little plot to be had and it doesn't work well on a character level because all of them die at the end of it. Hell all of the characters of the film feel underused compared to Pulp Fiction and it even ends with Tarantino jerking off in front of the camera.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I hate it when it's apparent that the director is having more fun than their audience. I find Tarantino too self-indulgent to be enjoyable these days. Case in point: the tavern scene from Inglorious Basterds. It's twenty-five-cocking-minutes-long, a sixth of the running time. There's little plot to be had and it doesn't work well on a character level because all of them die at the end of it. Hell all of the characters of the film feel underused compared to Pulp Fiction and it even ends with Tarantino jerking off in front of the camera. I don't think you understand suspense. To contribute, I was watching True Lies last night because it's awesome, and the only problem I have with it is the concept of anyone cheating on Arnold Schwarzenegger with Bill Paxton as a used car salesman. Takes me right out of my campy sexy 90s action comedy spy thriller. Mr. Bad Guy has a new favorite as of 14:17 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I hate it when it's apparent that the director is having more fun than their audience. I find Tarantino too self-indulgent to be enjoyable these days. Case in point: the tavern scene from Inglorious Basterds. It's twenty-five-cocking-minutes-long, a sixth of the running time. There's little plot to be had and it doesn't work well on a character level because all of them die at the end of it. Hell all of the characters of the film feel underused compared to Pulp Fiction and it even ends with Tarantino jerking off in front of the camera. This but almost every Tarantino movie for me. I really wish I could enjoy his work, but listening to Bill talk about his kid killing a goldfish for 15 minutes isn't artistic to me, sorry.
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Rolo posted:This but almost every Tarantino movie for me. I really wish I could enjoy his work, but listening to Bill talk about his kid killing a goldfish for 15 minutes isn't artistic to me, sorry. But you got that Bill is an idiot who thinks a kid stepping on a goldfish proves she is a natural killer like him and Beatrix? That and his retarded take on Superman aren't supposed to be profound and agreed with.
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I enjoy Tarantino movies, but whenever a character starts monologuing about obscure film/historical trivia it does kind of rip me out of the movie for a minute because it's so clearly his thing. They might as well cut away to him in the director's chair quizzing us on the German silent film industry.
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Or the gratuitous shots of feet. I think the funniest is when Hans Landa removes the actress/spy lady's shoe and there is this reaction shot of her gasping like he just shoved a dildo up her butt.
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I hated the boring Superman story in Kill Bill. And I know he put in the dialogue about silver surfer into Crimson Tide.
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Away all Goats posted:Or the gratuitous shots of feet. I think the funniest is when Hans Landa removes the actress/spy lady's shoe and there is this reaction shot of her gasping like he just shoved a dildo up her butt. The weirdest thing about Tarantino's foot fetish is when he was the guest on a daytime talk show and, after judging an impromptu foot beauty contest, explained that it was "a black male thing". Does Quentin Tarantino think that he's black? That's what I take away from it.
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"With this sacred fist-bump I dub thee an honorary black man."
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Wheat Loaf posted:The weirdest thing about Tarantino's foot fetish is when he was the guest on a daytime talk show and, after judging an impromptu foot beauty contest, explained that it was "a black male thing". I don't know about that but I've heard that he is adamant that there is no sign in front of his house that says "dead friend of the family storage."
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Oct 1, 2016 00:26
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Whenever I see a foot scene in one of Tarantino's films I can't help but remember that he probably popped a boner while filming that.
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The worst is in From Dusk Till Dawn where Tarantino drinks tequila from Salma Hayeks foot. What a creepy horn dog.
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Watched London has Fallen on Amazon prime. I know I was in for "More Extreme Presidential Assasination attempt 2" but they really cranked it up to a silly degree. And in spite of the sheer scale of the terrorist plot, it came off as colossally inefficient. I had assumed the terrorists were going to get all the world leaders in that church for the funeral, then blow IT up, with the President of the US having some sort of plot armor sparing him from the same fate. Instead, you get a bunch of presidents assasinated piecemeal; the German Chancellor by disguised guards, the Japanese PM by blowing a bridge, the French president by an exploding barge, and the Canadian PM by a car bomb. But whatever plan they had for the US prez was by far the worst- just a bunch of terrorists disguised by policemen raking his limo with gunfire. You could argue it was the secret service guy's experience to be unpredictably early saved the President's life, but it wasn't even suggested they had anything in particular in store for dispatching the President. And yet the terrorists have a literal army of guys crawling all over London chasing them, which is a helluva contingency plan. Not to mention going to London in the first place, after the White House had gotten blown in half by North Koreans (which I don't even remember if they even acknoleged what happened; the movie is as good as a standalone film. I thought White House down was the better of the 2, because at least it didn't try to take itself too seriously.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:What a creepy horn dog. In Inglourious Bastards, when the French farmer lists the components of the Jewish family to the SS officer, he gives the ages of the children. In the exact instant he says the daughter is 18 years old, I knew that one, she would be the protagonist of the movie and two, we would see her feet. I'm surprised he made her 18 and not 15 Also, from IMDB: quote:In the scene where Bridget von Hammersmark was choked to death after being discovered as a spy, Diane Kruger was almost accidentally really choked. Quentin Tarantino was unimpressed with choking scenes in other movies, in that actors are rarely in any considerable danger while shooting them, and convinced Kruger to be strangled for real in order to get the scene just right. Fearing that actor Christoph Waltz would choke her too much or too little, Tarantino decided to literally take matters into his own hands and did the scene himself. In an interview, Tarantino said, "What I said to her was, I'm gonna just strangle you, alright? Full on, I'm gonna cut off your air, for just a little bit of time. We're gonna see the reaction in your face and I'm gonna yell cut." Kruger decided this was reasonable and let Tarantino sit on top of her and choke her to the point of unconsciousness. Fortunately for Kruger, the shot was accomplished in one take. What a creepy little man
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm glad as hell that some people in this thread are taking off the rose-colored glasses about that first movie, I've gotten a lot of hassle over the years for claiming the 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a better movie.
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'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite film ever, but drat Tarantino sucks as a person. Thankfully, I'm apparently the rare person who can easily divorce the artist from the art.
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FELD1 posted:'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite film ever, but drat Tarantino sucks as a person. Thankfully, I'm apparently the rare person who can easily divorce the artist from the art. 
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hackbunny posted:In Inglourious Bastards, when the French farmer lists the components of the Jewish family to the SS officer, he gives the ages of the children. In the exact instant he says the daughter is 18 years old, I knew that one, she would be the protagonist of the movie and two, we would see her feet. I'm surprised he made her 18 and not 15 
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Same deal with Joss Whedon, I think - I believe he joked that "Summer Glau's feet" could be credited as a character in Serenity.
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Inglorious Basterds is the best film Tarantino has ever done. The tavern scene is the best scene in Inglorious Basterds.
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After stopping midway through the final season, I finished watching Under the Dome today. Of all the amazingly irritating things in there, I think the best way when they want to induce someone to give birth, they just start pushing the baby out of the swollen belly with their arms, like they're trying to roll out a massive lump of dough with a rolling pin. And it's played completely straight. Or was it awesome? I'm not quite sure. If I ever knock up a woman and need the baby out asap, I'll definitely give it a try.
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Something that's kind of stupid about the first Highlander movie is that Ramirez talks about his sword and how it was made in the 7th century BC, which is like a thousand years before Japanese swordsmiths made anything like that. The thing is, the love interest sword expert then SAYS this when talking about the sword but absolutely nothing comes of it. Its like how they don't have any kind of explanation as to what the deal is with the immortals.
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muscles like this? posted:Its like how they don't have any kind of explanation as to what the deal is with the immortals. No way, Sean Connery has an answer ready for when MacLeod asks "Why are we immortal?" 
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:I don't think you understand suspense. That's kind of the point. Arnie is - well, Arnie - but he's playing the part of the world's most ordinary man and that makes him boring. Meanwhile while Bill Paxton is an ordinary man playing the part of a heroic secret agent, and that makes him exciting. It's worth remembering that True Lies is a remake of a French farce, and the French love that kind of exchange of positions.
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I think it's better that the reasons for immorality are never explained. Because when they actually did a film that explained it the explanation was really lame.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I think it's better that the reasons for immorality are never explained. Because when they actually did a film that explained it the explanation was really lame. Immorality needs no rationale. 
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In Ringu (the original Japanese version of The Ring), how did Sadako get the teenagers in their car at the beginning? Can she enter the world without using a TV? Am I just too used the overly expository American movies?
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Didn't she get a dude in his car in the american version too? I think she's capable of appearing to whoever watched the tape, regardless of where they are. Or maybe she popped out of the nearest TV and took a cab to wherever the guy was, who knows.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Didn't she get a dude in his car in the american version too? I think she's capable of appearing to whoever watched the tape, regardless of where they are. Or maybe she popped out of the nearest TV and took a cab to wherever the guy was, who knows. Did somebody say she could could come out of mirrors, too? Or any kind of screen images could appear on. They didn't have cell phones capable of video back then though.
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Man, there's a movie that got obsoleted by the development of technology. You may think the advent of video capable cell phones might make a hypothetical remake more interesting, but the video would just go viral on youtube and everyone would have seen it within hours. People would prank each other into watching it. "drat, ringrolled again!"
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My Lovely Horse posted:Man, there's a movie that got obsoleted by the development of technology. You may think the advent of video capable cell phones might make a hypothetical remake more interesting, but the video would just go viral on youtube and everyone would have seen it within hours. People would prank each other into watching it. "drat, ringrolled again!" Isn't that the plot of the upcoming sequel? There is a ds horror game about a ghost possessed video game that had been posted on the internet and people totally do prank each other by tricking them into playing "haunted" game that is in fact haunted and capable of killing you inside a week.
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