wasted Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Tarantino seems to do 3 basic movies Scorpions in a Bucket - Res Dog, Hateful Arty Crime movies - Pulp, Jackie, and Hollywood Revenge movies - Kill Bill, Inglorious, Django Quote
wasted Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Maestro is on NF. Some movie about a Bankerish conductor Bernstein. Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 4 Posted January 4 I watched an extended cut of Dawn of the Dead (1978). I'll not bore you with a convoluted conversations on the various cuts of Dawn but irrespective, Dawn has returned again to my ''top ten films of all time list''. I'm probably going to have to demote Blade Runner or some other film? 1 Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 4 Posted January 4 9 hours ago, wasted said: Tarantino seems to do 3 basic movies Scorpions in a Bucket - Res Dog, Hateful Arty Crime movies - Pulp, Jackie, and Hollywood Revenge movies - Kill Bill, Inglorious, Django Following his '90s heyday, he just tends to remake and mash together exploitation plotlines. Kill Bill 1 is basically a remake of Lady Snowblood. Kill Bill 2 is a generalised summary of a Cheng Che Shaw Brothers films. Inglorious Bastards mashes up Naziploitation, spaghetti westerns and a Dirty Dozen style film. Quote
wasted Posted January 4 Posted January 4 2 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said: Following his '90s heyday, he just tends to remake and mash together exploitation plotlines. Kill Bill 1 is basically a remake of Lady Snowblood. Kill Bill 2 is a generalised summary of a Cheng Che Shaw Brothers films. Inglorious Bastards mashes up Naziploitation, spaghetti westerns and a Dirty Dozen style film. Res Dogs and Pulp are just remixes of other crime movies. Res Dogs is just a heist movie. Pulp seems the most fresh. Chopping up the story and having it out of order seems like something Godard did. A mix of Godard and John Woo movies with crime movies. He mentioned Rochard Gere's Breathless. Maybe A Bout De Souffle is all chopped up. Jules et Jim is also an influence, Truffaut. I prefer the crime movies. I just don't like war movies or spaghetti westerns that much anyway. I've never watched a Kung fu movie. I used to watch that tv show Monkey. I've seen Bruce Lee movies and Jackie Chan. One time in Hong Kong I stumbled across a Bruce Lee memorial park. I just accepted he's like when GNR made they met all their heroes, Tarantino just made movies with all his heroes. He's just making mega mixes of all the movies he watched and applying his aesthetic to everything. He's pretty skilled director and meticulous, but he's too much off a nerd. There's no lived experience to his scripts. There's no emotional impact. Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 4 Posted January 4 1 hour ago, wasted said: Res Dogs and Pulp are just remixes of other crime movies. Res Dogs is just a heist movie. Pulp seems the most fresh. Chopping up the story and having it out of order seems like something Godard did. A mix of Godard and John Woo movies with crime movies. He mentioned Rochard Gere's Breathless. Maybe A Bout De Souffle is all chopped up. Jules et Jim is also an influence, Truffaut. I prefer the crime movies. I just don't like war movies or spaghetti westerns that much anyway. I've never watched a Kung fu movie. I used to watch that tv show Monkey. I've seen Bruce Lee movies and Jackie Chan. One time in Hong Kong I stumbled across a Bruce Lee memorial park. I just accepted he's like when GNR made they met all their heroes, Tarantino just made movies with all his heroes. He's just making mega mixes of all the movies he watched and applying his aesthetic to everything. He's pretty skilled director and meticulous, but he's too much off a nerd. There's no lived experience to his scripts. There's no emotional impact. Reservoir Dogs mashes up Kubrick's The Killing and Ringo Lam's City on Fire. Broadly, it is the old ''double agent's personal drama'' device which you can see in the films of John Woo (A Better Tomorrow) and Scorsese. Quote
wasted Posted January 4 Posted January 4 7 hours ago, DieselDaisy said: Reservoir Dogs mashes up Kubrick's The Killing and Ringo Lam's City on Fire. Broadly, it is the old ''double agent's personal drama'' device which you can see in the films of John Woo (A Better Tomorrow) and Scorsese. Is The Killing the heist of a racetrack? It's like the rat in The Departed. Casino too. Res Dogs seemed the most obvious story. Heist gone wrong. With some A Team planning. All the gangster small talk is Goodfellas. The two guns and suits must be Chow Yun Fat / John Woo. Tim Roth gets shot like a western movie. I saw some doc where it compared camera shots to Godard. I think maybe Chungking Express is where the structure of Pulp Fiction comes from. But they are both 94 so can't be. Breathless hops around a bit maybe. Maybe Tarantino just talks too much about his influences. Whereas as Scorsese doesn't say anything much. Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Spontaneous Combustion (1990) Gloriously bad straight-to-video trash by Tobe Hooper and starring Brad Dourif. Quote
wasted Posted January 4 Posted January 4 Maestro (2023) Only got about half way through, it was like the black and white part of Oppenheimer. I might have to start it over. Bradley Cooper has a giant nose in it. Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 5 Posted January 5 Toolbox Murders (2004) A rare late ''okeyish'' film from Tobe Hooper, which contains only a passing resemblance to the 1970s exploitation film of the same name. It just plays as a standard naughties 'torture porn' slasher so there isn't anything especially interesting here but it is considerably better than stuff like Spontaneous Combustion and Night Terrors. Mortuary (2005) Schlocky garbage from Tobe. It reminds me a bit of Argento's Phenomena whereby unrelated horror concepts are just thrown in there, - black ooze possessing people (check) - zombies (check) - deformed retard, stalking in a slasher manner aka Jason Vorhees (check) It is curious as Tasha Yar was killed by a pool of black ooze in ST: TNG, This film also sees Tasha Yar, this time possessed (zombified) by similar black ooze. Tasha Yar has a perpetual relationship with black ooze. Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Three dodgy career tailenders from three masters of horror, Land of the Dead (2005) 'Just' about a worthy sequel to the original trilogy but a few problems here-and-there, mostly relating to implausible plotting. You see the zombies as the good guys yet you need to still show their flesh eating antics so it creates an incongruence that is never quite resolved. Still, there's a lot to enjoy here. Giallo (2009) An Argento, ehh, giallo starring Adrien Brody. Brody who is unconvincing as a ''hard boiled'' cop, gurning, side-ways-glancing and NY-accenting it like Bobby De Niro. French lead actresss is more wooden than a chair. Not even the Turin locale can save this turkey - one of Argento's weakest efforts. Djinn (2013) Tobe Hooper's final film, a UAE production employing Arab folklore (but not really doing much with concept). Basically plays like a standard supernatural slasher (think Ring) with bits of Rosemary's Baby plonked in. Middling. Bombed and barely had a release but probably not much worse than James Wann's stuff to be honest and that is lauded and performs stupendously at the box office. Quote
See You End Tee Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Somehow I never saw this one..... til today F'n Awesome old school 90's Los Angeles, make your own rules Cop movie 90s LA, was the Wild West still in a lot of ways, I miss those days. Great Movie💥 Found this cuz Netflix just added it Still watching this , Snoop Dog, and now Dr Dre both have cameos. 👈 Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 9 Posted January 9 Dracula 3D (2012) Absolutely and stupendously god awful. Dawn of the Dead (2004) The first ten minutes are probably the best depiction of a zombie apocalypse's commencement depicted. The rest of the film does not really live up to this opener however and predictably settles into an actioner, lacking Romero's satirical commentary on consumerism. Still fairly decent though for a remake. Quote
Guest The Monkey Posted January 10 Posted January 10 My Neighbor Totoro Fuck you Miyazaki, making me cry like a bitch. Quote
Guest Posted January 10 Posted January 10 >avengners clearly assembled and ready to go cap: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE >everyone starts charging like a fucking retard god i hate this movie every time i watch it i find a reason to hate it more Quote
wasted Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Equalizer 3 is coming to Netflix. I didn't even know there was a 3. Quote
wasted Posted January 11 Posted January 11 On 1/9/2024 at 9:47 AM, Donny_TPB said: Somehow I never saw this one..... til today F'n Awesome old school 90's Los Angeles, make your own rules Cop movie 90s LA, was the Wild West still in a lot of ways, I miss those days. Great Movie💥 Found this cuz Netflix just added it Still watching this , Snoop Dog, and now Dr Dre both have cameos. 👈 Man on Fire is another good Denzel movie. It's directed by Tony Scott. 1 Quote
wasted Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Those 28 Days Later movies are terrifying. They are not fun zombie movies. Alex Garland has a new movie Trying to get everyone pumped up for a revolution? Quote
DieselDaisy Posted January 11 Posted January 11 2 hours ago, wasted said: Those 28 Days Later movies are terrifying. They are not fun zombie movies. Alex Garland has a new movie Trying to get everyone pumped up for a revolution? US already nearlz there now. The forces of Woke v the forces of Trump. Quote
wasted Posted January 12 Posted January 12 7 hours ago, DieselDaisy said: US already nearlz there now. The forces of Woke v the forces of Trump. An assassination attempt on Trump then his motorcade to the WH, riots by Woke masses. Gaza and Ukraine get nuked. Season 3: Return of the Don. Quote
Guest The Monkey Posted January 12 Posted January 12 The Bonfire of the Vanities This was horrible. I really don't get when you have actors ADR their lines and it doesn't even come close to matching their mouth movements. I'm sure the book is much better. But the set, number of extras, and all that is very impressive. Something from a bygone era. Quote
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