Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Coach

No one will hate you for it. The Mummy and The Mummy Returns are two of the best action adventure movies ever.

[Sr. Mints]

Got roped into watching my seven year old niece today starting at 8am.

She might as well be an alien, so I took her to two movies today to limit vocal communication--and thankfully she's not the vegan one, so we went for a burger in-between.

1.) Dog Man. Looked great. But a live action film about a dog's head being stitched onto the body of a dead cop? I can get past that, but I did wonder if my niece would bring it up. Or even notice.

2.) The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes movie. I didn't expect to become emotionally invested in the dynamic between Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Their relationship takes on an unexpected depth that I found charming.

The humour didn't work on me like it ought to have, but I did chuckle a number of times. The sheer artistry on display is impressive. The traditional animation is breathtaking from beginning to end, with every frame crafted with remarkable detail. Put me on team 2D Animation. I didn't even know this existed until last night when I was looking up movie times.

[Yamer]

Bill Burr's new special came out today: Drop Dead Years

It's classic Billy Boy. This guy is easily one of the top 3 comedians still doing their thing today. There's even a nice Calgary shout-out sandwiched in there.

On Disney+. Definitely recommend.

[Nadal Fan]

I'm going through Quentin Tarantino's filmography right now, Reservoir Dogs is a fantastic debut. The movie really set up how movies are written for decades to come. The pop culture references, the pop music set to scenes of intense violence, the snappy dialogue, it might be the most influential film of the past 35 years. I've actually only seen like 3 of his films so this was a first time watch for me. Next up Pulp Fiction

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by Nadal Fan

I'm going through Quentin Tarantino's filmography right now, Reservoir Dogs is a fantastic debut. The movie really set up how movies are written for decades to come. The pop culture references, the pop music set to scenes of intense violence, the snappy dialogue, it might be the most influential film of the past 35 years. I've actually only seen like 3 of his films so this was a first time watch for me. Next up Pulp Fiction

You're in for a rollercoaster ride.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Finger Cookin

You're in for a rollercoaster ride.

Hahaha! Wait until Nadal goes from 'Pulp Fiction' to 'Jackie Brown' to 'Kill Bill!'

Theres a monumental shift in tone!

Assuming Nadal is going in order.

[Nadal Fan]

Yup planning on going in order. I honestly don't have a great reason why I've never seen Kill Bill or Jackie Brown I genuinely like all his films I've seen before

[aaronck]

Originally Posted by Locke

Hahaha! Wait until Nadal goes from 'Pulp Fiction' to 'Jackie Brown' to 'Kill Bill!'

Theres a monumental shift in tone!

Assuming Nadal is going in order.

Then Death Proof!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by aaronck

Then Death Proof!

Oh yeah! Good call! That movie was batcrap nuts!

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I would strongly recommend you brush up on the murder of Sharon Tate, if you’re not already familiar, before you watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Every person I know who was not familiar with Charles Manson cult or the Sharon Tate murder hated the movie because they had absolutely no idea what any of it was about.

It would be like watching Inglourious Basterds and not knowing who the Nazis were in WWII.

[keratosis]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I would strongly recommend you brush up on the murder of Sharon Tate, if you’re not already familiar, before you watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Every person I know who was not familiar with Charles Manson cult or the Sharon Tate murder hated the movie because they had absolutely no idea what any of it was about.

It would be like watching Inglourious Basterds and not knowing who the Nazis were in WWII.

There were liberates taken throughout that movie. Point taken though.

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

I would strongly recommend you brush up on the murder of Sharon Tate, if you’re not already familiar, before you watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Every person I know who was not familiar with Charles Manson cult or the Sharon Tate murder hated the movie because they had absolutely no idea what any of it was about.

It would be like watching Inglourious Basterds and not knowing who the Nazis were in WWII.

I knew about the Tate murders and thought the end of the movie was entirely stupid.

An interesting film turned to calcified s### because of Tarantino's obsession with some weird and dumb alternative re-imagining of history. Inglourious Basterds suffered the same fate.

Even The Hateful Eight suffered from Quentin's quirks. The whole white man sucking off a black man was just f###ing useless.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

See I would have said True Romance before Pulp Fiction.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

See I would have said True Romance before Pulp Fiction.

He only wrote that, didn't direct it. That was Tony Scott (RIP).

I do agree, it's utterly fantastic, and still has my favorite Gary Oldman performance of all time.

[Dunnyberg]

You can save yourself ~20 hrs and just watch the final segment of Four Rooms. Tarantino movies only serve to show you how highly Tarantion thinks of himself and his taste in pop culture. They say little else other than 'nazis bad' 'southerners bad' 'Charlie Manson bad'.
(Once Upon A Time in Hollywood has some contrived themes about acting and movie making, probably tacked on in hopes of getting that elusive Best Picture win)

Watching his entire catalogue is a giant waste of time, unless you like characters that all talk and act exactly like QT, or hodgepodged semi-obscure pastiches and homages. In that case go ahead.
Something I wish I would have figured out in my teens and twenties.
Jackie Brown is a bit of an exception because he didnt create the characters or the story, basically his only decent film.

He can occasionally write a compelling scene, like the basement scene in Inglorious Basterds. But that's what youtube is for.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

A conservative that’s butthurt because Tarantino thinks nazis are bad. Shocking.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

Got roped into watching my seven year old niece today starting at 8am.

She might as well be an alien, so I took her to two movies today to limit vocal communication--and thankfully she's not the vegan one, so we went for a burger in-between.

1.) Dog Man. Looked great. But a live action film about a dog's head being stitched onto the body of a dead cop? I can get past that, but I did wonder if my niece would bring it up. Or even notice.

2.) The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes movie. I didn't expect to become emotionally invested in the dynamic between Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Their relationship takes on an unexpected depth that I found charming.

The humour didn't work on me like it ought to have, but I did chuckle a number of times. The sheer artistry on display is impressive. The traditional animation is breathtaking from beginning to end, with every frame crafted with remarkable detail. Put me on team 2D Animation. I didn't even know this existed until last night when I was looking up movie times.

Boy do i have news for you. Dogman was not live action... lol

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

A conservative that’s butthurt because Tarantino thinks nazis are bad. Shocking.

Hating Tarantino is so edgy and subversive. It’s his chit. I don’t want a movie that I’d make because I suck at moviemaking. It’s not what I would have done….well you are a loser, who gives a f what you would have done.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Hating Tarantino is so edgy and subversive. It’s his chit. I don’t want a movie that I’d make because I suck at moviemaking. It’s not what I would have done….well you are a loser, who gives a f what you would have done.

I like Tarantino movies. A couple of them have been a slog, but for the most part? You just never know what he's going to do next because he's willing to do anything.

Sometimes its uncomfortable and most of the time its very gratuitously violent...but you bought the ticket so you've gotta take the ride.

But you can do it any way you want. You can have as much or as little as you want. You can psychoanalyze the art of his work and deem that he is the exact fart-sniffing Hollywood Elite that he portrays to eschew or...if you couldn't care less about any of that crap you can just enjoy the movie.

Yeah, is Tarantino full of himself? Of course he is. Are his movies good? I like them. Not all of them, all the time but in the pantheon of classics? He's got a few in there.

[Cheese]

Went to see Novocaine with Mrs Cheese today. If you love Tarantino like gore and dry humor this one is for you. We really enjoyed this as much as Banshee for it's crazy fight scenes, and if you liked that, you will surely like this movie. Warning not for the squeamish. Solid 8/10

We also watched a Braveheart wannabe called William Tell, unfortunately it lacked the action and focused more on the politics between Austria and Switzerland. 5/10