Movies, Actors & Directors (MAD) Tournament: TRAG WINS!!

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What's the point of life?

Relish movies
5
31%
Ogle actors
1
6%
Laud directors
4
25%
Sleep to dream
6
38%
 
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epilogue wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I thought about both Lebowski and Jackie Brown. Both are masterpieces for me, but i went with Pulp Fiction, which is a safer choice for RM i guess.
Pulp is still his best movie
Reservoir Dogs is his best movie. But Pulp Fiction is good too.
Reservoir Dogs is a great debut, but it pales in comparison with Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown or Once... Those feel movies with actually something to say or prove.

Kill Bill might be another one in that list.
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VinylGuy wrote:
epilogue wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I thought about both Lebowski and Jackie Brown. Both are masterpieces for me, but i went with Pulp Fiction, which is a safer choice for RM i guess.
Pulp is still his best movie
Reservoir Dogs is his best movie. But Pulp Fiction is good too.
Reservoir Dogs is a great debut, but it pales in comparison with Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown or Once... Those feel movies with actually something to say or prove.

Kill Bill might be another one in that list.
Haven't seen Jackie Brown unfortunately. So I can't compare that one. Otherwise I stand by my comment.
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VinylGuy wrote:
Mickey wrote:The thing about Lebowski is probably how many of its parts are represented elsewhere--not just the Coens and their other films from decades that were less stacked, but also Goodman, Hoffman, etc.
i was hoping to see you playing this one
I thought about it and in some ways Leon is a less intuitive choice but it's a personal fave. Plus I already had True Grit slotted in.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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epilogue wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
epilogue wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I thought about both Lebowski and Jackie Brown. Both are masterpieces for me, but i went with Pulp Fiction, which is a safer choice for RM i guess.
Pulp is still his best movie
Reservoir Dogs is his best movie. But Pulp Fiction is good too.
Reservoir Dogs is a great debut, but it pales in comparison with Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown or Once... Those feel movies with actually something to say or prove.

Kill Bill might be another one in that list.
Haven't seen Jackie Brown unfortunately. So I can't compare that one. Otherwise I stand by my comment.
watch it
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Mickey wrote:True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
Also not a Tarantino film.
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VinylGuy wrote:
epilogue wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
epilogue wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:I thought about both Lebowski and Jackie Brown. Both are masterpieces for me, but i went with Pulp Fiction, which is a safer choice for RM i guess.
Pulp is still his best movie
Reservoir Dogs is his best movie. But Pulp Fiction is good too.
Reservoir Dogs is a great debut, but it pales in comparison with Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown or Once... Those feel movies with actually something to say or prove.

Kill Bill might be another one in that list.
Haven't seen Jackie Brown unfortunately. So I can't compare that one. Otherwise I stand by my comment.
watch it
It's high on my list. LV thinks it'll be my favorite QT movie and he understands how much I hate QT so I trust him.
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i really need to watch TR again...saw it only once when it came out and forgot about it.
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epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
Also not a Tarantino film.
Check that writing credit playa
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
Also not a Tarantino film.
Check that writing credit playa
Check the directing credit homie
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epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
Also not a Tarantino film.
Check that writing credit playa
Check the directing credit homie
Check the wording of my post sweetie.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
Also not a Tarantino film.
Check that writing credit playa
Check the directing credit homie
Check the wording of my post sweetie.
Check the accuracy of my post darling
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So much sexual tension
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epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
Also not a Tarantino film.
Check that writing credit playa
Check the directing credit homie
Check the wording of my post sweetie.
Check the accuracy of my post darling
Just did an accuracy test turns out you're 100% nit-picking!
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:So much sexual tension
They are re-enacting The Professional
Clouuuuds Rolll byyy...BANG BANG BANG BANG
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Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:
epilogue wrote:
Mickey wrote:True Romance is a better Tarantino film than Reservoir Dogs. The latter is a good movie but it's a warmup act.
Also not a Tarantino film.
Check that writing credit playa
Check the directing credit homie
Check the wording of my post sweetie.
Check the accuracy of my post darling
Just did an accuracy test turns out you're 100% nit-picking!
Ok
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Then I guess I should have picked Wolf of Wall Street, three great Terence Winter film.
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So to be clear, my claim is that True Romance, written by Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott, is a better movie than Reservoir Dogs, written and directed by Tarantino, and it's also more "Tarantino"-y!
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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epilogue wrote:Then I guess I should have picked Wolf of Wall Street, three great Terence Winter film.
You could but Dolor y Gloria is one of your better picks.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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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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