What Movies Have You Watched? 17: Blowed Up Real Good

[AdamCrock]

I saw Inglorious Bastards for free. Still wanted my money back.

That is a right opinion ! I don't know left opinion but that opinion is definitely right. Right as if = true, not left as if not right

Definitely TRUE , right or left , left to choice

 

[Zardnaar]

That is a right opinion ! I don't know left opinion but that opinion is definitely right. Right as if = true, not left as if not right

I watched it at mates house. So so stupid.

 

[AdamCrock]

So so stupid.

All the more reasons to watch itr again xD Wait IF You're talking about "kill bill" , than you should watch it again xD If not , it;s probably not worth it. Better to have a cheers with me xD .... and be done with it (unless it's PULP FICTION! , than if You havent You need to watch it !!!!!

Take it or leave it !!!!

He dances real good !!!

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Honestly I hate "Inglorious Bastards" - just for the sheer un-realism of it - it's like American imagination of the sheer horror of the ww2 - it's like takeing a nerd librarian kind of guy talk about how he pick up girls

I mean, Tarantino's whole shtick is comic book fanfiction. I'm not sure why this keeps catching people by surprise.

Kill Bill was the movie that made me stop being a Tarantino fan.

I finally saw Kill Bill in full a couple years ago, and I feel like it exemplifies both the best and worst elements of his auteurism: the choreography is beautiful, Thurman turns a stellar performance when she doesn't have to recite quotebait, and the central story (once it reveals itself) is actually quite compelling—but it's buried under the quintessential Action Genre tropes, wooden dialogue, and edgycool ultraviolence. I love Lucy Liu, but the address to the boardroom was just... ugh.

Also, y'know, the foot fetish...

 

[JohannaK]

Kill Bill is purely an exercise in style. Period. It's beautiful and it has to be appreciated for what it is, it's not supposed to be a movie that means something or has depth before its own references and style

 

[Takhisis]

Kill Bill was the movie that made me stop being a Tarantino fan.

I want to know why.

 

[JohannaK]

Kill Bill is perhaps the purest distillation of Tarantino, and it's not great. As a movie. As specracle, it really delivers on Part 1. Part 2 kind of drags.

Inglorious Basterds is the best Tarantino film hands down.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I want to know why.

Ultragore, quotebait dialogue and edgycool stuff. It was as @JohannaK says, a pure distillation of his movies. And that's fine, I'm not claiming he's objectively bad; he's just hit or miss with me and the misses tend to be real turnoffs.

 

[Samson]

Do Not Split: Freely available, 35 mins long. Some great footage within both the protests and the police actions of the umbrella protests in Hong Kong. It is up for an Oscar, China is not happy and is not showing the Oscars live for the first time in more than 50 years.

Interesting phrasing by the China Central News Agency (google translated, so that may have something to do with it):

in order to avoid political problems and insist that politics is absolutely correct, The official media is required to report the Oscars and related content in a low-key manner, and the media is required to choose to report on insensitive awards. China Central Television cancels the live broadcast of the Oscars.
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[Sommerswerd]

Kill Bill is perhaps the purest distillation of Tarantino, and it's not great. As a movie. As specracle, it really delivers on Part 1. Part 2 kind of drags.

Inglorious Basterds is the best Tarantino film hands down.

I enjoyed both Kill Bill films as well as Inglorious Basterds. I find that I usually really enjoy most Tarantino films. His over-the-top, sometimes completely ridiculous gore and bloodletting don't put me off at all.

I'm trying to think of a Tarantino film I've seen but didn't like and I can't think of any. I was really looking forward to see what he would do with Star Trek, because when I heard the news it sounded like such a bizarre combination.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I was really looking forward to see what he would do with Star Trek, because when I heard the news it sounded like such a bizarre combination.

So was I, actually. It seems to me that both he and Seth MacFarlane would have done a great job with the show given how much they seem to love it. MacFarlane's own Star Trek spoof was arguably better than all the CBS All Access/Paramount Plus Star Trek shows.

I saw Sonic The Hedgehog last night and it was glorious. They did a great job with the IP, and I think they clearly cribbed from Detective Pikachu to figure out how to effectively translate a video game character to the big screen. John Ralphio Ben Schwartz was perfectly cast to play Sonic as he brings the right energy and timber to the roll; similarly, Jim Carey' nailed it as professor Robotnik. All around good stuff, though it's not like it has a deep plot or anything. It's on Amazon Prime for free in the US.

 

[The_J]

Not a great movie selection so far for me this weekend.
I just watched Kenny Begins, which is a Swedish version of Spaceballs, just not as funny.
Yesterday I watched Why Did You Kill Me. The description on Netflix is "The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald". Sounded interesting, was not. The social media part is that the sister of the victim went on MySpace with a fake profile, to connect with possibly related gang members to figure out what car they are driving. The whole story ended up being a gang-related drive-by-shooting gone wrong, nothing exceptional really in it. I have no idea who had the idea to make a movie out of this, there's no real point for this story.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Isn't he in all his movies?

That one was in the double feature with the car chase movie, I remember liking it less than the car chase movie lol. Death Race? Was that the name

Death proof

 

[Takhisis]

Ultragore, quotebait dialogue and edgycool stuff. It was as @JohannaK says, a pure distillation of his movies. And that's fine, I'm not claiming he's objectively bad; he's just hit or miss with me and the misses tend to be real turnoffs.

Perhaps it is because it's the first and nearly only film of his that I've watched (together with Reservoir Dogs) so I'm not much used to the rest of his style except for occasionally stumbling into it while channel-surfing.

Nevertheless, quotebait, yes (doesn't help that it's a ‘homage’ to martial arts films in general and that it's been parodied to death). Ultragore: the black and white makes it bearable and at times it's so ridiculous that it's hilarious (I'm not sure whether it's the intended effect). Edgycool… see quotebait.

Kill Bill is perhaps the purest distillation of Tarantino, and it's not great. As a movie. As specracle, it really delivers on Part 1. Part 2 kind of drags.

Inglorious Basterds is the best Tarantino film hands down.

Actually I haven't watched Inglorious Basterds simply because I'm tired of Hollywood revisiting the Nazis.

But yes, I do agree that in terms of spectacularity Kill Bill: Part 1 is better than Part 2.

 

[Cutlass]

Bill and Ted Face the Music is a missable movie.

 

[Cutlass]

I enjoyed both Kill Bill films as well as Inglorious Basterds. I find that I usually really enjoy most Tarantino films. His over-the-top, sometimes completely ridiculous gore and bloodletting don't put me off at all.

I'm trying to think of a Tarantino film I've seen but didn't like and I can't think of any. I was really looking forward to see what he would do with Star Trek, because when I heard the news it sounded like such a bizarre combination.

I'm going to avoid Tarantino in the future. Every time I see one I'm sorry I did.

 

[Takhisis]

Bill and Ted Face the Music is a missable movie.

Uhm, after what you posted just above regarding Tarantino, I have to ask: have you ever watched the first two films?

 

[BenitoChavez]

Monster's Ball - A really depressing movie. I think the ending was supposed to be uplifting but it left me feeling weirded out.

Uhm, after what you posted just above regarding Tarantino, I have to ask: have you ever watched the first two films?

I agree on his take on both Tarantino and Bill & Ted. And yeah, I saw the first two movies many years ago.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I've liked the Tarantino movies that I've seen, and the gore and language and 'quotebait' dialogue neither impressed me nor put me off. I like most of his references and his casting choices and music. That said, I haven't been moved to see any of his movies since Kill Bill vol. 2, and Jackie Brown was the only one I've watched a second time.

 

[Cutlass]

Uhm, after what you posted just above regarding Tarantino, I have to ask: have you ever watched the first two films?

I saw the first Bill and Ted, and thought it was good. I didn't know there was more than 2.