Grindhouse
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Is anyone interested in the new Tarantino-Rodriguez double feature that's coming out on the 6th of April?
"SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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I am as excited for this as I have been for any movie in a long time.
I subsist on a steady diet of B-movie schlock and Creature Features. This seems to be perfectly up my alley.
If anything, it has one of the greatest move posters in recent memory....I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore -
Man, this movie looks like absolute garbage to me. I understand what they are doing but the reaction seems ridiculous. People calling RR and QT artistic visionaries and such seems crazy to me.
Maybe it's just me but spending an A budget on a B movie seems moronic when plenty of B movies are still being produced.
Sorry for the negative feelings but this movie along with QT is being so talked up here at school, it is making me sick.God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8 -
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Love almost everything Rodriguez and Tarantino have done so far, I doubt this will be an exception.If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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Did anybody see the skit on The Soup combining the ex-Paul McCartney and the chick with the gun for a leg in Grindhouse?:D
btw Tarantino has been mandatory college viewing since Pulp Fiction. It's like selling used books and doing the Walk of Fame:pI never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore -
Man, this movie looks like absolute garbage to me. I understand what they are doing but the reaction seems ridiculous. People calling RR and QT artistic visionaries and such seems crazy to me.
Maybe it's just me but spending an A budget on a B movie seems moronic when plenty of B movies are still being produced.
Sorry for the negative feelings but this movie along with QT is being so talked up here at school, it is making me sick.
Hmmmmm...the critics even seem to like it.:rolleyes:"SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE" -
on my to see list,, "Zed's dead"
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It's a chopper baby.I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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Man, this movie looks like absolute garbage to me. I understand what they are doing but the reaction seems ridiculous. People calling RR and QT artistic visionaries and such seems crazy to me.
Maybe it's just me but spending an A budget on a B movie seems moronic when plenty of B movies are still being produced.
Sorry for the negative feelings but this movie along with QT is being so talked up here at school, it is making me sick.
QT lifts material from a lot of directors, but to be honest he steals well. He's a lot better director that is able to make movies unique and entertaining. A feat that is hard to pull off.
It's one thing to steal an idea, it's quite another to make it work. I do respect QT for being a master or his art. -
It is not a lack of respect I hold just a feeling that if even RR was doing this on his own it would fail. I like the concept, I like the plots of the movies - great B-movie stuff. I do not like how when a B-movie is a B-movie it is crap yet when QT's A-movie is B-movie it is genius.
But, QT is just not my style either. Like I said, the amount this movie is being talked up at school just increases my bad feelings towards it probably.
I do hope it does great and from that, current B-movies will be recognized and maybe one of those guys will get their breaks.God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8 -
Agree with you Led, QT is going down the M-nightshittymovie path of getting gradually worse and worse as his career progresses.There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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It is not a lack of respect I hold just a feeling that if even RR was doing this on his own it would fail. I like the concept, I like the plots of the movies - great B-movie stuff. I do not like how when a B-movie is a B-movie it is crap yet when QT's A-movie is B-movie it is genius.
But, QT is just not my style either. Like I said, the amount this movie is being talked up at school just increases my bad feelings towards it probably.
I do hope it does great and from that, current B-movies will be recognized and maybe one of those guys will get their breaks.
How is it B-movie stuff, though? His dialogue is what drives his movies. The rest of it is just a bonus. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs have to be 2 of the best written movies of all time. -
Agree with you Led, QT is going down the M-nightshittymovie path of getting gradually worse and worse as his career progresses.
The popular movies he's written, in chronological order :
Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Grindhouse.
Now, granted there's nowhere to go but down from Reservoir Dogs / Pulp Fiction, but the rest of those movies are all great (Natural Born Killers wasn't quite my cup of tea, but...), and I don't really see a downward trend. Kill Bill was fantastic, and that's his most recent movie until Grindhouse.If you will it, dude, it is no dream. -
Well, I'll probably be hated for this but... I don't think Reservoir Dogs is that great. I do believe it deserves all the credit it gets and it actually held some inspiration for me after I watched it. On a second viewing, I found it boring.
Though like I said, it was influential on me after the first viewing but, that's it.God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8 -
Well, my roommate saw this tonight and said it was good. We typically have similar views on movies and such so maybe I'm just bitter - We'll see I guessGod shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8
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bobman1235 wrote: »The popular movies he's written, in chronological order :
Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Grindhouse.
Now, granted there's nowhere to go but down from Reservoir Dogs / Pulp Fiction, but the rest of those movies are all great (Natural Born Killers wasn't quite my cup of tea, but...), and I don't really see a downward trend. Kill Bill was fantastic, and that's his most recent movie until Grindhouse.
My ratings in Chronological order:
RD: Good, entertaining. Genre defining
TR: eh
PF: A refined version of RD
NBK: Ok
FDTD: B movie's at their best, so bad it's ok
JB: Sucked
KB: Ok to poor, grossly overrated
To me, nothing beyond PF and RD has any rewatchability for me. Of course I can see how others love him, I just don't.There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin -
I've never seen Reservoir Dogs, but I've seen the other 3 (or 4) he's personally done. I thought Pulp Fiction was excellent. Jackie Brown is highly underrated, to me it was a great movie. Maybe because it's not written so over-the-top like his others it desn't get the same interest. My reaction to Kill Bill was mixed. The first movie started good and then became rather repetitive. The second movie blew me away, but it could have used a little more action. I think cutting both together would have produced a superior movie.
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Tarantino wanted the Kill Bills to be one movie, but couldn't cut out enough to make it into a less than 3 hour movie, so he split it up to avoid cutting out too much.If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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Based on the NYT review, it sounds -- actually -- pretty interesting.
Kurt Russell is ideal for a movie like this... ever see "Big Trouble in Little China"? -
Well, I'll probably be hated for this but... I don't think Reservoir Dogs is that great.
Its OK, I'm sure there are other people with low IQ's that would agree with you.
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bobman1235 wrote: »The popular movies he's written, in chronological order :
Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Grindhouse.
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I loved Kill Bill - especially part Deux. RD was great also. I never dug Pulp Fiction and couldn't get through the first 20 minutes of True Romance. Grindhouse looks too dark and violent for me.Sharp Elite 70
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Grindhouse was effing sweet! It was worth the $ just to see the "previews" they came up with. fun fun fun
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Going to see it Monday when my brother gets back in town. **** yes!Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Kurt Russell is ideal for a movie like this... ever see "Big Trouble in Little China"?
My favorite B movie of all time.
Pretty sure I can quote it from start to finish, I've seen it so many times.
"China is here, Mr Burton..."
"What does that mean, huh? China is here? I don't even know waht the hell that means, all I know is this Lo Pan character pops up in the middle of a goddamn alley, while his buddies are flying around on wires cuttin' everybody to shreds, and he just stands there, waiting for me to drive my truck straight through him? With LIGHT comin' out of his mouth?"If you will it, dude, it is no dream. -
Just got back from the marathon of B-movie action we call the Grindhouse.
****POSSIBLE SPOILER BELOW!!!****
Planet Terror - Great Man movie. Plot sucked, acting sucked, lots of action, hot chicks showing skin, pointless explosions, mutants/zombies, blood splattering, Fergie died (HURRAY!), limbs getting ripped off with the greatest of ease... overall a great man movie!
Death Proof - WTF was that QT??? Horrible is what I call it. Talk about retarded and pointless. Started out boring, then a big collision. Then what felt like 4 hours of boringness/time filler and then a cool car chase scene that went on way to long and ended really bad. Acting was better than in Planet Terror but for what? They spent all that time building up the first group of girl's storyline for a cool ending to them. Then the buildup of the next group of girls was so boring, all I could keep hearing in my head was from Monty Python's Holy Grail, "GET ON WITH IT!" That was the only thing that kept me awake was my laughing at the mental thought of that. GET ON WITH IT! Oh oh sorry... So the ending was....eh. And could there be a few more "Mother ****" thrown in there or what??? Damn! Definitely had the feeling of QT with absolutely no idea where he wanted the story to go and really took some of my respect for QT down a couple notches. Pathetic and an hour and a half I'll never get back. Because of that alone, I will not own this movie. I don't think I'll get a want to watch Planet Terror again so no, I won't even rent this.Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.
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Simple answer YES.
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Its OK, I'm sure there are other people with low IQ's that would agree with you.
my iq never was anything stellar, nor worthy of mention. but i have to admit, i own RD, and i hate it.
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http://polkarmy.com/forums/index.phpbobman1235 wrote:I have no facts to back that up, but I never let facts get in the way of my arguments. -
my iq never was anything stellar, nor worthy of mention. but i have to admit, i own RD, and i hate it.
Well, at least you know now what the song Like a Virgin was about. -
I can't wait to see it.Samsung 52" Flat Panel LCD
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