Long time since I saw it, but Reservoir Dogs will always be my favourite. It got denied a video certificate in the UK back in the day, we were sensitive little souls or something. Anyway, one time in General Studies our teacher was off and his substitute, normally a games teacher, thought it would be a good idea to show us a bootleg copy of it on VHS. At the time there was no other way I was going to get to see it and it was obviously great. Equally obviously the guy lost his job over it. Still, better than losing an ear.
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Bullshirt. Everyone knows Batman Forever is the best one.
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I kind of wonder if Tarrantino writes that scene today, does it ever gets done? Maybe, but only because heās Tarrantino.
QTs stuff makes for good debate but anyone that has Basterds among the top 3 is just no. Get why people are confused tho bc ā3 glassesā may be a top-5 Tarantino movie scene and Landa a top-5 character of his, but itās not near his best movie. Jackie Brown is.
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I actually like Jackie Brown, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the best of Tarantino movies. In all his other movies his characters and settings have a kind of a bizzaro world Wes Anderson vibe. Snappy dialog and interesting scenes but characters that are more like dolls carefully arranged in a dollhouse than characters who are recognizable as real people.
Still breaks my heart to see what has become of Tom Sizemore :( he was in his prime when TR was made
Just looked him up and I was all holy shit Tom Sizemore is only 58? I would have believed he was 58 in Black Hawk Down!
Which is actually good by Ridley Scott, usually military officers are cast ridiculously older than realistic in movies. I think Sizemore plays a Lt. Colonel in Black Hawk Down, should be early 40ish.
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QTs stuff makes for good debates but anyone that has Basterds outside the top 3 is just no.
Oh yeah theyāre likeā¦ theyāre marionettes getting forced into doing what QT needs them to do to engineer the right kind of tension in the scene. I say this as a fan of those sort of QT movies moreso than his more realistic work like Jackie Brown. I think the unreality of it acts as a distancing measure which makes that tension feel good. Like in that scene in Basterds where the Nazi guy is questioning the couple while the Jews cower in the cellar, thereās incredible tension in that, but I experience that tension largely as excitement. Because Iām not worried about the Jewish couple or whatever, not really, Iām aware that what Iām watching is not real. More reality would mean more unease; I wouldnāt be so comfortable with intense stuff on screen if I felt it was too realistic.
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That being said I will give Jackie Brown a re-watch, itās been a long time.
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Jackie Brown is the favourite film of his for everyone who doesnāt actually like his films.
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Basterds is tricky for me. On the whole itās maybe average QT, which is still good, but the opening scene may be the best scene in any movie of all time. The French cafe and basement bar scenes are also phenomenal. The rest of the movie is just OK.
Im not gonna try to rank QT films here, but Iāll just say this to stir the pot. Kill Bills are at the bottom for me AINEC. I didnāt even really like them. Hateful Eight was a masterpiece. But Pulp Fiction is #1. That is all.
This, really. Donāt get me wrong, itās excellent ā classic Elmore Leonard characters and story ā but its definitely Tarantino at his least Tarantino iykwim.
Pulp Fiction his best ainec. I thought ouatih was solid, Leo was fantastic and I donāt usually dig him that much.
So much this. Perhaps the most realistic and believable scene heās ever filmed.
OK fine, Iām really bored today. 1-4 are among my favorite movies of all time. They are in a group by themselves. I could probably be convinced to reshuffle them a bit, but the top 4 are pretty clear. 5-7 were good movies that I enjoyed when I watched them, definitely earned an RT āgoodā rating, but arenāt going to make any best of lists. 8-10 were movies that I didnāt particularly care for.
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Pulp Fiction
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The Hateful Eight
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Inglorious Basterds
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Reservoir Dogs.
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Jackie Brown
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Django Unchained
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
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Kill Bill 1
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Death Proof.
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Kill Bill 2
Not as long as Touch Of Evil is still around.
Hell or High Water
8/10
A well put together and crafted Western Itās more grounded and smaller in scope than No Country for Old Men but still entertaining
Mollyās Game
6/10
Aaron Sorkinās too cute and too smart for itās own good writing style getās in itās own way. The story, on its face seems interesting, and the stakes are certainly there, but ugh Molly is such a smug know it all that at some points I was really wanting her to go to jail just to get what she deserves for having a sneering quip for everything.
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Hateful Eight at #2 is quite a hot take, and I say that as someone who saw it in its initial 70mm theatrical run.
Did you watch the extended version recut as a TV series?
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Hateful Eight should have been a play so I would have never had to watch it.
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https://collider.com/amc-theaters-reopen-date-change/
I understand that this is an unprecedented, sensitive situation, but itās also kind of comically clear that weāre just gonnaā keep pushing things back by two weeks until itās just 2021 and/or the end of the world. Neither Mulan or Tenet is likely to debut until New York and California, the two largest money-makers in the country for a blockbuster of that size, can safely re-open its theaters. New York just axed movie theaters from its phase 4 plans a few days ago, while California couldnāt even reopen outdoor bars quite yet. The idea that thisāll all change [checks notes] one month from right now? Not without a dose of time inversion, whatever that is.