durdencommatyler wrote:All five Disney era Star Wars films are better than this.
I cried when Po was all like "Iknow! I'll do some hyperspace skippin'! That's a good trick!"
Really? That's a weird moment to get emotional about. Especially for you. I figured you as more of a "I cried when Brad Pitt smashed a woman's head against a fire place mantel again and again and again" kind guy.
That's an odd take to go with gender, when it was essentially just an assailant trying to kill him
Maybe in a film that isn't just fantasy wish fulfillment and masturbation.
Some of the all-time great cinema is fantasy wish fulfillment and masturbation
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Finished my second view...yeah i like this one a lot. The bond between Dalton and Boothe is really well done. Im not really interested on the ending though....the violence felt off. And im tired of the gimmick of the rewrite history....but its a damn fine movie.
Like i said before, i think the best part of the movie is the relationship between those two guys and the moment they are in their lives. It resembles Jckie Brown a lot not only character wise but also in the pace of the movie.
The ending is QT by its numbers, its fine, i liked it but i prefer the other stuff. Luckily for me, its the bulk of the movie.
I don’t think anything about the ending is “by the numbers” at all. Chalking it up to “he’s done alternate history stuff before” is lazily reductive; this doesn’t have the same meaning it did in Inglourious Basterds. QT has never done anything as sweet and melancholy as the ending makes this movie. It’s a moral reckoning that upends our cultural obsession with true crime and basically says, “Fuck these people. They don’t deserve your fascination.” His deep affection for the Hollywood the movie portrays is largely just nostalgia without that denouement.
i wasnt talking about the alternative stuff before, but the resolution of that scene. Comedic gore and violence. I love that stuff for sure, but it wasnt surprising. I was bored watching that scene just thinking ¨well, lets get to the part when they save Sharon¨.
If he had the intention of making a strong statement like the one you think, then it drags the scene way more.
Rick entering to the world of Sharon was cool. Specially when he is waiting for the gates to open.
I see the movie as a love letter to classic Hollywood, and that would be ruined if it ended with the death of one of its stars. By saving her, and slaughtering the killers, he keeps a red thread throughout the movie.
VinylGuy wrote:i wasnt talking about the alternative stuff before, but the resolution of that scene. Comedic gore and violence. I love that stuff for sure, but it wasnt surprising. I was bored watching that scene just thinking ¨well, lets get to the part when they save Sharon¨.
Not sure I get the distinction you're making here?
Anders wrote:I see the movie as a love letter to classic Hollywood, and that would be ruined if it ended with the death of one of its stars. By saving her, and slaughtering the killers, he keeps a red thread throughout the movie.
Yeah. The love runs so deep that it seems like he can't bear to visualize the horrible fate that befell her.
Anders wrote:I see the movie as a love letter to classic Hollywood, and that would be ruined if it ended with the death of one of its stars. By saving her, and slaughtering the killers, he keeps a red thread throughout the movie.
Thats another different view from what LV said, and its a possible one sure. It gets more in line with the ¨another alternative universe¨stuff he already did.
VinylGuy wrote:i wasnt talking about the alternative stuff before, but the resolution of that scene. Comedic gore and violence. I love that stuff for sure, but it wasnt surprising. I was bored watching that scene just thinking ¨well, lets get to the part when they save Sharon¨.
Not sure I get the distinction you're making here?
When Pitt and his dog attacked those guys, i already knew what QT was going to do. It dragged the scene for me. Including Sharon being alive.
