Film/Video Discussion Thread - The Bear and Badger

davyK

I saw Pulp Fiction in the cinema, knowing nothing about Q. There was little animated short before it in which everyone was Kirk Douglas - I'd like to see that again. Overall it was a magnificent experience - you felt you had to hold onto the chair arms as you swept through those scenes.

I cooled off Q a tad after Kill Bill but I have since reviewed my opinion of it and enjoy it for what it is. I suspect if I had seen more JP cinema I'd enjoy it all the more.

Django is great entertainment - Waltz is the highlight among its many great turns.

I enjoyed Hateful 8 too. Hollywood felt a trifle slow in some places but it made up for it in others. I watch any Q film I've seen again.

ShabbyMcCrabby

I like most of his stuff but I would agree with people's criticism that his stuff has gotten more self-indulgent since his usual editor died. I think from Django onwards.

b0r1s

Let’s do it.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Jackie Brown (growing appreciation over many rewatches and probably because I’m getting old)
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Kill Bill (I’m putting em together)
6. Django Unchained
7. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
8. The Hateful Eight
9. Death Proof

regmcfly

1. Jackie Brown
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill
4. Inglorious Bastards
5. Pulp Fiction (I was 9 when it came out and I came to it late)
6. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
7. The Hateful 8
8. Django Unchained
9. Deathproof (although I also was lucky enough to see it as part of the full double bill. FU MANCHU)

Diluted Dante

1. True Romance
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. From Dusk Till Dawn.
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Kill Bill
6. Jackie Brown

regmcfly

Unbelievable but I'll entertain- True Romance somewhat holds up, Dusk Till Dawn is a bit of a shanner. Where's 4 Rooms you coward.

nick_md

You know full well True Romance wasn't directed by Q. May as well throw NBK in there.

Kow

Like saying Scarface is an Oliver Stone film.

Yossarian

S tier: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction.
A tier: Hateful 8, Django.
B tier: Jackie Brown, Inglorious Basterds, maybe Kill Bill.
C tier: Death Proof
F tier: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Having said that, I’ve only ever rewatched RD and Pulp Fiction, so it’s possible that the other films may move if I did so. Except OUATIH.

regmcfly

He's giving us the Joan rivers treatment

Yossarian

I only watched True Romance recently, generally a good film, but the Walken racism scene didn’t sit right with me at all, left me with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

regmcfly

Yossarian wrote:

I only watched True Romance recently, generally a good film, but the Walken racism scene didn’t sit right with me at all, left me with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

Yeah we watched it 2 years ago and flora had never seen it. She was looking at me during that scene going "this is the great movie?"

Diluted Dante

I know it wasnt directed by him but its his script. Natural Born Killers was re-written so heavily Tarantino doesn't consider it to be one of his films.

I've not seen 4 Rooms, so its not on there.

I_R

I think Hollywood might have overtaken Jackie Brown at the top for me, could be recency bias though.

davyK

Dogs, Fiction and Jackie Brown on one tier.
Then the rest altogether one notch down from those.

I have yet to see Death Proof.

poprock

Y’know, I’ve enjoyed a lot of Tarantino’s films but I don’t think I’ve really loved any of them.

He creates amazing moments, literally incredible scenes, but for me that’s never really tied together into brilliant films or stories.

He’s a master of atmospherics, and of styling that’s so thorough you’re forced to believe in the scene - however ludicrous the character behaviour.

But the stories are often just not there. Which I get is deliberate. I know. But … imagine if his films had both. They’d be glorious.

davyK

Yeah. He's a great director. But he isn't a great director. And I believe he would say that himself.

He can write. And he's damn good at casting.

He has made his mark and that's all anyone can hope to do.

Q is a lover of scenes more than the overall film. That's what I take away from watching his stuff.

LivDiv

Death Proof is much better if watched as part of the Grindhouse double bill with trailers as well.

Moot_Geeza

Pulp and Dogs at the top. Inglorious and Deathproof at the bottom. Everything in between is interchangeable depending on mood.

regmcfly

Do we add Tarantino to the Ghibli and Nolan roundabout

Minkymu

Never mind page turn already dealt with it lol

mannaboy

Bought The Matrix on Apple movies for the 4K/HDR goodness, came with the sequels for a decent price. The original holds up well and it corrects a lot the visuals that got messed in the HD/Bluray versions.

Watched Reloaded last night, with very low expectations of course, and it’s still shockingly poor in places, first hour boring background building of places and people I don’t care about. A very poor CGI fight with multiple Agent Smiths. The freeway scene is of course is the highlight and is just about worth the rewatch.

What I’d totally forgot about was how it ends, the musical ‘dun nuh nuh!’ when the cliffhanger is revealed, has to be a pisstake.

Not looking forward to the final part of the trilogy, I cannot remember a single thing about it, but have a horrible feeling all the boring characters introduced in the previous film are going to feature more.

b0r1s

Yeah watched em all recently to see if I was a bit unfair on my original watch and while I was probably a bit angrier about it back then they really are not great films at all.

The Daddy

There are no sequels to the Matrix.

Lord_Griff

b0r1s wrote:

Deathproof was forgettable shite.

I'll give Tarantino a pass on a lot of films, because I like his style but also didn't care for Hateful Eight and while Brad and Leo are great in Hollywood, the film doesn't do it for me as a whole. Both films just felt like an overindulgent wank fest for his own interest in cinema rather than actually good films.

But who doesn't love a wank?

hylian_elf

davyK wrote:

Dogs, Fiction and Jackie Brown on one tier.
Then the rest altogether one notch down from those.

~~I have yet to see~~ Death Proof (theatrical release) is off the bottom of the scale.

superflyninja

Kate on Netflix. Really liked it, beautifully shot.

Facewon

b0r1s wrote:

Let’s do it. 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Jackie Brown (growing appreciation over many rewatches and probably because I’m getting old) 3. Inglorious Basterds 4. Reservoir Dogs 5. Kill Bill (I’m putting em together) 6. Django Unchained 7. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood 8. The Hateful Eight 9. Death Proof

I'd need to do a proper rewatch of all, but my gut says....

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Dogs
4. Kill Bill
5. Django Unchained
6. Hateful Eight
7. Jackie Brown
8.Death Proof

Have Once upon a time loaded to watch.

Outside of Pulp, I'd say the above chat about moments is what's driving my list order.

Dark Soldier

Jackie Brown
Hateful Eight
Pulp Fiction

Reservoir Dogs
Hollywood
Django
Basterds

Kill Bill 1
Kill Bill 2

Death Proof

Dark Soldier

I fucking love Hateful Eight so much

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