waste
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Post by waste on Apr 8, 2007 10:29:20 GMT -5
Anyone going to see that movie or have any comments about it?
Personally I can't wait to see it.
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Post by espy on Apr 8, 2007 11:54:21 GMT -5
I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but I went to the official site and watched the trailers......................it looks pretty lame....unless you just want to waste your money [glow=red,2,300]
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Post by waste on Apr 8, 2007 17:08:55 GMT -5
The reason it looks the way it does is because the creators: Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodreguez wanted the films to look like 1970's B films like you'd see at a grindhouse(movie theater that showed B list movies back to back.)
But I respect you opinion and give you kudos for the joke.
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Post by espy on Apr 8, 2007 17:36:37 GMT -5
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waste
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Post by waste on Apr 8, 2007 18:21:35 GMT -5
I agree. "This is my boomstick! Twelve guage sawed off shot gun. Isle six at S Mart. Remember Shop Smart, Shop S Mart!"
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Post by dixiepixie on Apr 9, 2007 1:37:42 GMT -5
I think that Rose McGowan has really done a number on her career with this one. As if Dating Marilyn Manson and showing up on the Red Carpet in a chain mail dress with her girlie parts hanging out, now she is in a Quinten Tarantino flick... I guess a girl can only be "Charmed" once. LOL
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Post by Chris Hobbs on Apr 9, 2007 5:23:03 GMT -5
I can't stand Tarantino. He's very creative and is great for those that want eye candy in their films. But I want more than that in my movie-going experience. Oh look! More violence, more gore! No thanks...just give me a good storyline. Tarantino is just wierd for the sake of being wierd.
That being said, McGowan is eye candy enough. Me-OW!
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Post by Dale Jackson on Apr 9, 2007 6:09:21 GMT -5
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Post by rich on Apr 9, 2007 8:19:51 GMT -5
I can't stand Tarantino. He's very creative and is great for those that want eye candy in their films. But I want more than that in my movie-going experience. Oh look! More violence, more gore! No thanks...just give me a good storyline. Tarantino is just wierd for the sake of being wierd. That being said, McGowan is eye candy enough. Me-OW! I dunno. There's certainly something to be said for the old style-over-substance argument where Tarantino is concerned. Much of his stuff is so self-consciously hip that it does tend to break the suspension of disbelief for me a bit ... but I can't help but like his films, if for no other reason than he writes dialogue like no one else. And, I'm no gore-hound, but I haven't been bothered by anything he's done in that regard. There are certainly directors who do it more gratuitously, in my opinion. Jackie Brown had almost no gore whatsoever. Kill Bill was over the top, of course, but it was supposed to be, being an homage to the old Shaw Brothers chop-socky films and what-not. That said, I'm torn on the subject of Grindhouse. Robert Rodriguez tends to annoy me at times. His tone ... and some of his, uh, artillery placement. He pretty much ruined Desperado for me with the whole rocket-launcher in a guitar case thing (although I loved El Mariachi) ... completely skewered my suspension of disbelief. Totally ruined From Dusk Till Dawn for me with his change in tone from the first half to the second. And now, a chick with a machine-gun for a leg. I don't know. Just seems kind of stupid. I'm all about the b-movies, but Rodriguez's half of the film looks more b-silly than b-cool.
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Post by fragerella on Apr 9, 2007 9:11:55 GMT -5
I can't wait to see it myself!
I'm not a Tarantino fanboy (errr, girl), but I do like most of his work. I think I'm one of the only people on the planet who liked the Kill Bill movies better than Pulp Fiction, though.
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Post by dixiepixie on Apr 9, 2007 10:15:12 GMT -5
ME! ME! ME! I liked Kill Bill & HATED Pulp Fiction....But I like David Caridean (SP?) and despise John Revolting.
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waste
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Post by waste on Apr 9, 2007 21:08:03 GMT -5
I can't stand Tarantino. He's very creative and is great for those that want eye candy in their films. But I want more than that in my movie-going experience. Oh look! More violence, more gore! No thanks...just give me a good storyline. Tarantino is just wierd for the sake of being wierd. I'm going to defend my favorite movie writer of all time with this: even though his movies have been called violent and lacking morals, they really have good qualities to them. Pulp Fiction: Two hitmen talk a couple of thieves out of the business. A hitman, after facing a miricle gives up his life of crime. A boxer saves the man that is out to kill him. Body count: Eight people: gangsters, rapists and a hitman. Reservior Dogs: The men keep remarking that they don't want to kill anyone unless they have to. Mr. Pink said he only took the job because he was broke. Body count: Nine people: cops and robbers; basic noir. True Romance: A man talks a showgirl out of the business and marries her. The couple stop drug dealers and gangsters. Body count: Fourteen to Sixteen people: the ones who die are the gangsters and drug dealers, with the exception of one innocent bystander. Kill Bill: A woman is seeking vengence for her wrongful almost assassination. She is only killing those who wronged her and the people that associate with them. The Bride spares a kid in a gang, and whips him, telling him to go home to his mother. One of the characters says that they have everything she has comming to them and more. Body count: 96: killes, gangsters, rapists, and otherwise corrupted people. The number is high because Tarantino was making a movie like that of a 70's samuri film. Quiz me, I know my stuff.
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Post by solinvictus on Apr 9, 2007 21:38:58 GMT -5
Rose McGowan is completely hot. Completely, totally hot. Alyssa Milano's not bad either.
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Post by galaxygoddess on Apr 10, 2007 13:55:22 GMT -5
I hate him myself.
Basically all of his movies have one thing going for it. "what men want" he basically crams everything a guy would want into a movie and then hopes the storyline makes sense without any real meat to back it up.
All of his movies suck I don't care how you put it.
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Post by fragerella on Apr 11, 2007 16:33:39 GMT -5
For anyone interested, here's a review. In the end, Tarantino has his triumph in “Grindhouse,” but, apart from this scene and a few good jokes, the movie won’t do much for anyone who doesn’t have an academic or fanboy absorption in junk. Tarantino and Rodriguez assume that we’ll relish the movie’s violence or shrug it off as play, as they do, but not everyone in the audience will want his enjoyment of it taken for granted that way—the mashed and maimed bodies leave depressing images in the mind and, at this moment in history, carry terrible associations. The two men love movies, love movie culture, love audiences, but how can you accept a love that expresses itself obsessively with an assault on the human body?
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Post by W.O.M.I on Apr 11, 2007 19:02:08 GMT -5
You know...it could be timing...and for a couple of reasons:
I heard on AOTS that there are something like 54 horror movies that have been released since the beginning of 2005. Oversaturation, perhaps?
Could also be a case of bad timing. the nation is at war and we see violence- real violence- on the tv every night. If you go to the movies for escapism, and the movie features lots and lots of violence, then you're not exactly 'escaping' from real life.
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Post by jules on Apr 13, 2007 12:18:20 GMT -5
I heard on AOTS that there are something like 54 horror movies that have been released since the beginning of 2005. Oversaturation, perhaps? Has anyone even seen a good horror movie lately? We don't even rent them anymore because they're so stupid. Ever since The Ring, most of the movies are banking on disturbing images (a la contorted faces in the photos). You know what was laughably stupid? The Grudge.
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Post by rich on Apr 13, 2007 15:01:06 GMT -5
Has anyone even seen a good horror movie lately? We don't even rent them anymore because they're so stupid. Ever since The Ring, most of the movies are banking on disturbing images (a la contorted faces in the photos). You know what was laughably stupid? The Grudge. The Grudge was stupid. Hardly any plot. Best I've seen in recent years were The Others and Below (a ghost story set on a WWII submarine). Both very creepy. But, then again, I like the more subtle horror movies where the suspense builds ... two of my favorites are The Haunting (the original 1963 version, not the silly remake) and The Changeling (1980).
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Post by fragerella on Apr 13, 2007 16:06:24 GMT -5
Bbbbut The Grudge 2 was so much better! OK, not really. Speaking of subtle horror, has anyone ever seen the early Polanski film, Repulsion? I caught it one night on A&E a few years ago and ended up ordering it from Amazon ( only available on VHS, lol). It was one of the creepiest movies I've seen & the closing shot is one of the most disturbing "gotcha" moments I've experienced. The Exorcist is still the scariest movie I've ever seen in my entire life. I've watched it a few times, but never without having to cover my eyes (and I'm not a 'fraidy cat!). And the book was even more terrifying.
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