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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: WilldCrd on April 06, 2007, 09:09:01 AM
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Anybody gonna go see it today?
I just bought my ticket for this afternoon:cool:
i shall endeavor to report back afterwords and let all the unwashed masses know if they should even bother to see it
Carry on
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My daughter is seeing it tonight, I'll have to wait until next weekend
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All I had to see was Quentin Tarantino and that was enough for me to say no thanks.
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Zombies!
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If its by Quentin Terrortino, no thanks.
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Half of it is by Robert Rodriguez, who is leagues better then Quentin Tarantino.
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Quentin Tarantino did one half and Robert Rodriguez did the other half. I'm going for the Robert Rodriguez side :cool:
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Whats so bad about Tarintino? Y'all hate B movies?
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Originally posted by Kuhn
Whats so bad about Tarintino? Y'all hate B movies?
I like B movies!
I don't think his gets above a Z movie.
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Originally posted by Mightytboy
I like B movies!
I don't think his gets above a Z movie.
So you didn't like Pulp fiction, Dusk till dawn or Kill bill?
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Be seeing Grindhouse this evening, if its anywhere near as good as Pulp Fiction, or as good as Kill Bill im all for it!
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After seeing the trailers for this thing I figured I'll wait for it to come out in DVD then get it as a free rental on a 2 for 1 day. It should be worth the price in that case. I would never ever have considered this film for any full price or even half price theater ticket.
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I'm going to see it in local theater, $5 with military ID, wowowwowow. If I had to spend more than that I'd wait until ppv or dvd...
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Originally posted by Kuhn
So you didn't like Pulp fiction, Dusk till dawn or Kill bill?
I know I didn't like any of those. But on the other hand, the Wife and I stopped seeing anything from QT after Pulp Friction. I think it is still the only movie we left before it was halfway done. Just seeing the ads for his other movies, all look the same. It's all about gratuitous violence, gore, maming, and general butchery. Not exactly what we call entertainment.
No offense to those who like that sort of thing. Just not our cup of tea.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I know I didn't like any of those. But on the other hand, the Wife and I stopped seeing anything from QT after Pulp Friction. I think it is still the only movie we left before it was halfway done. Just seeing the ads for his other movies, all look the same. It's all about gratuitous violence, gore, maming, and general butchery. Not exactly what we call entertainment.
No offense to those who like that sort of thing. Just not our cup of tea.
Hasn't that always been the main theme of B movies?
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Not all B movies. There are many 'B' horror movies which have absolutely no visible bloodshed in them. Sci-fi as well.
Most of the Japanese 'B' monster movies are pretty clean as well.
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I'll rent it.
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Army of Darkness...best B movie ever.:D
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Yep, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2 and the Army of Darkness :D
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I know I didn't like any of those. But on the other hand, the Wife and I stopped seeing anything from QT after Pulp Friction. I think it is still the only movie we left before it was halfway done. Just seeing the ads for his other movies, all look the same. It's all about gratuitous violence, gore, maming, and general butchery. Not exactly what we call entertainment.
No offense to those who like that sort of thing. Just not our cup of tea.
Skuzz, do yourself and your wife a favor and rent Jackie Brown. Yes, there is some violence in it but not as much as a typical QT movie. IMHO it's QT's best effort and my favorite of his movies. Yes, I am a huge Tarantino fan. Rodriguez, too. Desperado and Once Upon A Time In Mexico are great shoot-em-ups with style. And Selma Hayek...how can you go wrong?
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Skuzz, do yourself and your wife a favor and rent Jackie Brown. Yes, there is some violence in it but not as much as a typical QT movie. IMHO it's QT's best effort and my favorite of his movies. Yes, I am a huge Tarantino fan. Rodriguez, too. Desperado and Once Upon A Time In Mexico are great shoot-em-ups with style. And Selma Hayek...how can you go wrong?
I didnt hurt that it was adapted from an Elmore Leonard book
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Originally posted by Airscrew
I didnt hurt that it was adapted from an Elmore Leonard book
Yeah, it didn't hurt L.A. Confidential, Get Shorty, and many many others either. Tarantino changed quite a bit of the details but left the meat of the story pretty much intact.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
It's all about gratuitous violence, gore, maming, and general butchery. Not exactly what we call entertainment.
No offense to those who like that sort of thing. Just not our cup of tea.
Not my idea of entertainment either....Yet, I continue to fire tens of thousands of rounds of machine gun and cannon rounds, and 1,000 pound bombs on towns day in and day out in Aces High....=) lmao.
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joking by the way
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Well here is my report.
if you can make it thru the halfway mark....its worth it imnsho.
It really builds to that point then...QT rodriguez fans will go nuts.
i dont wanna ruin it for anybody.
I liked it because of how it was filmed, alot like PF but different. it had a sureal but could happen kinda quality that i like
Lots and lots of action and the part where the 2 girls are only wearing bullet laden bandoleers.....ah was heaven! I wont tell WHICH 2 girls :huh but those several scenes alone should be enough for many who frequent this board :cool:
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I thought Pulp Fiction was an outstanding adult movie... it was great entertainment.
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Yeah, it didn't hurt L.A. Confidential, Get Shorty, and many many others either. Tarantino changed quite a bit of the details but left the meat of the story pretty much intact.
I thought Get Shorty was closer to the book than most movies adapated from books. I think Rum Punch was the first Elmore Leonard book I read, then Maximum Bob, then Stick. Now that I think about most of the ones I've read that were adapted to movies seem to have stayed pretty close, even some of the dialoge. I'm reading Glitz right now, finished Tishomingo Blues last week, The Hot Kid a couple of weeks ago and Freaky Deaky last month. That man can write. My dad introduced me to him when I came home in 98 when I retired. I needed something to read and he handed me Get Shorty and I've been reading Elmore Leonard ever since. My dad has all his books but its more fun for me to hunt them down in bookstores, so far I got about 15. My Dad also got me hooked on Len Deighton's books.
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i think QT makes some pretty wacked out shows:)
any of you watched that movie he did a long time ago called four rooms? hehe it defentaly was a funny show for its time..specialy the hooker stuffed in the bed part..lmao!! just wrong..but funny..lol
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Originally posted by Gunthr
I thought Pulp Fiction was an outstanding adult movie... it was great entertainment.
Its a good movie to see, about once every 5 years. Any more then that and it's bad for your health.
Tarantino isn't bad, but he has a habit for making dialogue scenes just to talk about modern affairs. For example, Reservoir Dogs. I don't give a **** about 6 or 7 men sitting around doing nothing but talking. The same exact thing happened with Clerks and Clerks 2.
Robert Rodriguez is a godsend though. He has made some great movies, most notable being Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Sin City. Some of his lesser known movies were great as well, especially his true start in El Mariachi. (However, Desperado was a really bad movie. It's painful to sit through.) He even made a kid's movie that was actually pretty decent (Spy Kids).
Rodriguez was even kicked out of the Directors guild for giving credit of making the movie Sin City completely to the man who wrote the Graphic Novel, Frank Miller.
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Originally posted by Kuhn
So you didn't like Pulp fiction, Dusk till dawn or Kill bill?
Hated the first 2 and never saw Kill Bill.
Actually I saw about 1/2 hour of Kill Bill on tv and that was more than enough.
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Originally posted by Mightytboy
All I had to see was Quentin Tarantino and that was enough for me to say no thanks.
Meee too.
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I always thought that QT was best behind a desk writing. His dialog's were great, but I really could take or leave his directorial efforts. The best parts of any of his films (in my opinion of course) have been two actors having a conversation.
Rodriguez on the other hand... I haven't seen El Mariachi or Desperado, but tried to pick up "Once Upon a time in Mexico" I really didn't care for it, though I don't know why. My Stepdaughter loves "Spy Kids" though lol.
This is the first QT effort that I really have no desire to see.
-Sik
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Wow, I'm shocked there are so many QT haters. I think he's a genious.
Yeah, his violence is over the top, but it's supposed to be. It's like when you watch anime and everyone has coffee cup sized eyes or film noir and everyone is bathed in shadows.
I haven't seen a Robert Rodriguez that I didn't like. He's Austin, not Hollywood.
Rodriguez and Tarentino should be an excellent meld. I see 2 - 3 films a year in a theater. Grindhouse might be one of them.
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Well, the movie was so so - but the skits however...
I particularly enjoyed the Mexican Day Worker who was hired as an assassin, but in reality was a Federali (sp?), with Cheech playing the Padre toting a shotgun.
And yea, the lines about "I never miss were good up to the end - though the Pegleg with a minigun on her stump was over the top."
Wolf