Last Seen 70s/80s Movie

[The_Return]

Originally posted by alkytrio666
I didn't exactly mean that statement as I typed it. I haven't seen the Kill Bills.

From Dusk 'Till Dawn was okay.

Jackie Brown was dragged on and dull as hell.

Sin City is a superb movie, but he really didn't do that much on it...he was a guest director.

I think Tarintino is a good director. I'll wait to see if he can make a movie with some different characters besides the ones with "fuck" as every other word in their vocabulary before I make the decision of whether he's great or not.

That said, I love Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs- those are his two great films (<that's what I should have said.)

Oh man, you need to see Kill Bill. I personally enjoyed it more than Reservoir Dogs [which I also loved], plus it proves that Tarantino can "make a movie with some different characters besides the ones with "fuck" as every other word in their vocabulary":p

[alkytrio666]

Originally posted by The_Return
Oh man, you need to see Kill Bill. I personally enjoyed it more than Reservoir Dogs [which I also loved], plus it proves that Tarantino can "make a movie with some different characters besides the ones with "fuck" as every other word in their vocabulary":p

Than I will see them. Like I said, I think Quentin Tarintino is a good director. I just find all of his characters unbelievably similar.

[ItsAlive75]

I didn't like the Kill Bill movies. I thought they were trying too hard too be a sort of "cult cool". But it's a major motion picture done by a popular director, there's no way it can be a cult hit. I just thought they were silly.

[pinkfloyd45769]

I fell asleep through the first Kill Bill and never bothered to try watching again.

[Despare]

Originally posted by pinkfloyd45769
I fell asleep through the first Kill Bill and never bothered to try watching again.

I liked them both but my wife had the same reaction to the first one, thought it was just violence with no good rhyme or reason; the second one however she thought was MUCH better. I personally think that you have to watch them together, one after another, they're only a good movie together as Kill Bill as seperate movies they're not that enjoyable.

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[urgeok]

Originally posted by ItsAlive75
I didn't like the Kill Bill movies. I thought they were trying too hard too be a sort of "cult cool". But it's a major motion picture done by a popular director, there's no way it can be a cult hit. I just thought they were silly.

both kill bills were 2 of my favorite films of the last decade.

i never once felt like they were going for th 'cool factor' - i totally understood tarantinos vision because it is similar to mine .. i also grew up with the grindhouse chop socky films/blscksploitation films this guy loves.

the films he is emulating were at the time trying very hard to be cool (which gave them their charm) so it is fair that this would come through in the Kill Bills, but its appropriate in this case.

i remember watching these films and just thinking 'wow' finally something that delivers.

i dont want to harp on the age thing but maybe it helped that i grew up in the 60's/70's ... i completely understood the direction of these films.

(i'm sure you 'understood' them too .. but you didnt live through it .. so nostalgia plays a big roll)

[_____V_____]

Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2...are undoubtedly THE best works of Tarantino after Pulp Fiction. The direction and the acting by Uma Thurman stand out as one of the best on-screen, post Y2K. I m surprised Thurman didnt get an Academy nomination for Vol 2. (Yes she was THAT good)

The unique story-telling plus the raw, ruthless and brutal fight sequences are superb. I liked the way the movie turned into B/W mode once The Bride started her slaughter, and returned to color once the massacre was over. And that one scene when she surveys the club floor, filled with bodies, some dead, some writhing, moaning, lost limbs, hacked heads, arms, legs everywhere, blood, blood, blood...damn I re-played that at least 7-8 times over and over again. :D

Anyway, I saw Dementia 13 earlier tonite. An excellent movie. Coppola's first (so I read somewhere) and I dare say, one of the earliest and best slashers to come out in the early 60s. Some scenes stand out, from which I loved the decapitation scene (probably the first in movies??)

Anyone who hasnt seen it, its worth every dime to check it out. Good value for money. Highly recommended.

[Posher778]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amalthea
The Cell, Gothika and Brother Bear. [/QUOTE

I loved the Cell!

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally posted by ItsAlive75
I thought they were trying too hard too be a sort of "cult cool".

I agree with you dude. Tarantino forgot subtley with these flicks.
This was reinforced for me after watching the Devil's Rejects and the Kill Bill movies pale in comparison. Rob Zombie took a lot of the 70s A.I.P grindhouse conventions and melded them into a more original vision than Tarantino did with Kill Bill. Kill Bill wore that Jack Hill influences on it sleeve and piked out on the Story of Ricky and Itchi The Killer splatter. At least Zombie reinvented the conventions by making the audience become attached to Last House on The Left style scumshit trash villians while being repelled at the same time. Sure tried (you could even say tired)and true conventions were used but at least they weren't overblown. Fuck I grew up on the Shaw Brothers kung-fu, Jack Hill women in gangs/prison/very little clothes kicking ass flicks, the 80s Ninja period (VHS for a babysitter) so I see what Tarantino was going for.... it was just a little to obvious for my liking. But as a teenager the Tarantino shit turned me onto a whole bunch of movies I never would've watched as I'm sure Kill Bill has. How much does he kick ass with subltey!! Jackie Brown was a masterpiece of reinvention and Reservoir Dogs changed my fucking life (saw film in a different way, gave me a attitiude that ANYONE can make a movie thats better than a bunch of the Hollywood bullshit). Tarantino spearheaded a filmic movement (whatever the fuck they'll call it or have called it - QT gets roped into the 90s indie revolution but its more important than that) and now all I see is rehash rather than reinvention. Hopefully it won't be another case of the maverick being reassimilated into the mainstream.............

But whatever I don't have people knocking down doors to film my scripts and Tarantino is a hell of a lot better film maker than Ritchie Cunningham/Speilberg/Lucas (add your own three blind mice kids). Shit I'll probably have a blah, blah, blaaaaahhh "that mans had to much wine" speech about Rob Zombie's next film in the same vein but at the moment RZ is breathing some fresh life into "trash cinema". The Devil's Rejects makes me feel like watching River's Edge/ Drugstore Cowboy/Reservoir Dogs/Clerks/Bad Lieutenant for the first time again.

[alkytrio666]

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap...one of Bud and Lou's most unfunny movies.