I first heard about this movie when a friend from my hometown started posting these:
The original Taco Bell was closed. It was a hang out spot for a lot of us while in school. So when the sign went back up (but it looked retro) people started keeping an eye on it as they passed by every day. Then one day, Tarantino showed up.
I wanted to see the film this weekend but we got busy - so some time this week or next weekend we’ll get out to see it.
Pretty great experience seeing this in 35MM last night. Thought it was a fairly profound portrait of aging, and had a lot of good subtle comedy. Not making it to his early career heights, but so much better than Hateful & Django for me.
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Jackie Brown
4. Kill Bill 1
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
7. Kill Bill 2
8. Django Unchained
9. Hateful Eight
10. Death Proof
Also, this was DiCaprio's best work in quite some time. So impressed with him.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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swan wrote:Pretty great experience seeing this in 35MM last night. Thought it was a fairly profound portrait of aging, and had a lot of good subtle comedy. Not making it to his early career heights, but so much better than Hateful & Django for me.
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Jackie Brown
4. Kill Bill 1
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
7. Kill Bill 2
8. Django Unchained
9. Hateful Eight
10. Death Proof
Also, this was DiCaprio's best work in quite some time. So impressed with him.
I think I'm with you in terms of your ranking of this movie and on DiCaprio. The sequence beginning with his book discussion with the child actor through the completion of their scene together was excellent. I'll definitely end up watching this again. I'm sure there are some smaller touches that I missed on my first viewing.
swan wrote:Pretty great experience seeing this in 35MM last night. Thought it was a fairly profound portrait of aging, and had a lot of good subtle comedy. Not making it to his early career heights, but so much better than Hateful & Django for me.
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Inglorious Basterds
3. Jackie Brown
4. Kill Bill 1
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
7. Kill Bill 2
8. Django Unchained
9. Hateful Eight
10. Death Proof
Also, this was DiCaprio's best work in quite some time. So impressed with him.
I think I'm with you in terms of your ranking of this movie and on DiCaprio. The sequence beginning with his book discussion with the child actor through the completion of their scene together was excellent. I'll definitely end up watching this again. I'm sure there are some smaller touches that I missed on my first viewing.
Yeah, definitely excited to see it again & pick up more details.
I was disappointed. Some great stuff but it was too long and not enough action. Critics love it because it's an "inside hollywood" movie. If you don't have a love for hollywood, you won't get half the references/jokes, and that's fine. The acting was superb. I love all of QT's movies but this one is very near the bottom for me.
It's still fresh in mind, but I really like how every single scene has a purpose. It is economical storytelling but allows each individual moment plenty of time to breath.
Monkey_Driven wrote:It's still fresh in mind, but I really like how every single scene has a purpose. It is economical storytelling but allows each individual moment plenty of time to breath.
imo, this is a given in any Tarantino flick. It's the gold for which he can be relied upon. Its why I don't understand the hate for Hateful 8.
Monkey_Driven wrote:It's still fresh in mind, but I really like how every single scene has a purpose. It is economical storytelling but allows each individual moment plenty of time to breath.
imo, this is a given in any Tarantino flick. It's the gold for which he can be relied upon. Its why I don't understand the hate for Hateful 8.
True, but this one stood out more than most of his more recent films.
I'm just confused why you said "but..".. because nothing you said should change with time.
In future viewings I may think he spends too much time setting things up or that scenes drag on a little to much.
Ah, yeah... I've watched a lot of non-spoiler reviews and that seems to be something a lot of them complain about. Also, how they portrayed Bruce Lee. But it seems like the hard-core Tarantino fans loved everything about the movie. I think I'll like it. We'll see. I love all his movies except for Hateful 8. I gave it many chances but it has never clicked for me.
Monkey_Driven wrote:It's still fresh in mind, but I really like how every single scene has a purpose. It is economical storytelling but allows each individual moment plenty of time to breath.
imo, this is a given in any Tarantino flick. It's the gold for which he can be relied upon. Its why I don't understand the hate for Hateful 8.
True, but this one stood out more than most of his more recent films.
That movie looked like so much fun to make! I Can't imagine Tarantino ever getting turned down by an actor... and that means guy or girl... I won't say actress... it implies weakness of the acting, or something like that... LINE!!!
