Rurouni Kenshin - 7/10
I liked the anime series. The movie was quite watchable as well. The action scenes were well done.
I liked the anime series. The movie was quite watchable as well. The action scenes were well done.
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If you like Bond, you will love it, if you don't then you will more than likely hate it.
Indeed. I saw the running time and thought that it might drag but already I feel like watching it again.
Waltz was excellent but I didn't expect anything different. He carried over the verbose and charming traits from his Hans Landa character and built a guy that was the moral core of the story.
The dynamic between him and DiCaprio was great. I loved that he was holding back intellectually but
when the true intentions of their visit became evident he didn't hold back from humiliating him in his own home which led on nicely to the handshake scene.
Yea, the fried chicken bit got me as well. How hot was the blonde girl though? Even her accent was sexy as feck, I thought.
The fried chicken bit seemed to be trying far too hard.
Yea, the fried chicken bit got me as well. How hot was the blonde girl though? Even her accent was sexy as feck, I thought.
Yeah, I thought the blonde girl was pretty sexy in a really weird/unconventional way... makes a change from your normal "sexy" character in a film anyway!
I'd go along with that, if the film had been a bit more out-there/mental before that point. Up to the then, there hadn't been anything that weird to demonstrate that Joe is just a little bit insane...
Plus, it started off what was an excellent climax.
Beasts of the Southern Wild for me tonight. Considering how many top ten lists I've heard it on in the last week or so, I have high hopes.
I might go see that as well AN, not sure, it's that or Jack Reacher. I know Beasts will be the better film, but my girlfriend and I will probably just want to see something where we can shut out brain off for a couple of hours after a day of work. Not sure yet.
About Killer Joe, I think the fried chicken scene was perfect, hindsight might actually do it disservice as you might remember it slightly wrong. It doesn't start completely batshit, it's a very slow crescendo that really builds up right til the end of the picture. It just fecks with your mind over a little while, very very well done.
As for the blond girl, she's definitely got something even though she's not beautiful in a conventional sense. She was in Kaboom (definitely worth a watch, really weird film that!) and played Anne Hathaway's protégée in the last Dark Knight (very small part, hadn't even recognized her the first time I watched it).
About Killer Joe, I think the fried chicken scene was perfect, hindsight might actually do it disservice as you might remember it slightly wrong. It doesn't start completely batshit, it's a very slow crescendo that really builds up right til the end of the picture. It just fecks with your mind over a little while, very very well done.
As for the blond girl, she's definitely got something even though she's not beautiful in a conventional sense. She was in Kaboom (definitely worth a watch, really weird film that!) and played Anne Hathaway's protégée in the last Dark Knight (very small part, hadn't even recognized her the first time I watched it).
This thread now seems to dictate what I watch. Almost Famous was great, Thank You For Smoking was good. I like how no one ever smokes in it.
It's been dictating what I watch for about a month now. I started from the most recent page and worked my way backwards just picking random films that people had reviewed. I'm on page 142, at the minute. The best one so far has probaby been 12 Angry Men, watch it Scrumpet. The 1957 version is on youtube in HD.
Yea, the fried chicken bit got me as well. How hot was the blonde girl though? Even her accent was sexy as feck, I thought.
Have you seen Atonement?
Just saw Django Unchained. Tarantino's best after Pulp Fiction. Di Caprio and Jackon were awesome. The soundtrack was amazing as well. Defo gonna watch it again.
Saw Django last night. I'm docking half a point for being too long and half a point for not including anything from Django Reinhardt.
9/10
9/10
Killing Them Softly - 3/10
I was bored to death most of the time just praying for the movie to be over.
I was bored to death most of the time just praying for the movie to be over.
Nope, why? Is it good?
Zebra Crossing
Sarf Lahndan version of Juice or La Haine. Fackin orrible little toerags givin it the big'un, finkin ey's ard. Bleh.
4/10
Sarf Lahndan version of Juice or La Haine. Fackin orrible little toerags givin it the big'un, finkin ey's ard. Bleh.
4/10
I liked Basterds more than Django. Django's first half was brilliant when it was dominated by Christoph Waltz.
1. I didnt buy into the dynamic between jackson and caprio, esp the scene in the library.
2. The movie should have ended when caprio dies. Obviously not excatly there but should have been played out in that sequence. the movie was about half an hour too long.
3. what was going on with that woman beind the scarf that they showed twice but never revealed?
2. The movie should have ended when caprio dies. Obviously not excatly there but should have been played out in that sequence. the movie was about half an hour too long.
3. what was going on with that woman beind the scarf that they showed twice but never revealed?
She's shown when Django first rides into Candyland, and then at the end in the first place he comes back to after QT's bizarre Australian cameo.
I really enjoyed it, but I don't think it's quite as good as IB. There are slightly too many indulgences. IB had about 3 stories that all converged at the end that covered or excused it's over longness. This only having one sort of makes it drag a bit after the Library scene.
Still, it's mostly great and when it's good, it's very good. I love that he purposefully named his two main characters for no other reason than he could fit in his two favorite Luis Bacalov tunes at some point.
I'd give it an 8
The Hobbit on the other hand is massively overlong for no reason at all, and is also hugely unsatisfying for anyone not wetting themselves over the prospect of watching a stretched out trilogy of the same exposition dialogue and New Zealand tourism idents. I'd give it a 6.5 - Mostly for the scene with Gollum, the first part of the Goblin fight (until it gets repetitive & video gamey) & Martin Freeman.
I really enjoyed it, but I don't think it's quite as good as IB. There are slightly too many indulgences. IB had about 3 stories that all converged at the end that covered or excused it's over longness. This only having one sort of makes it drag a bit after the Library scene.
Still, it's mostly great and when it's good, it's very good. I love that he purposefully named his two main characters for no other reason than he could fit in his two favorite Luis Bacalov tunes at some point.
I'd give it an 8
The Hobbit on the other hand is massively overlong for no reason at all, and is also hugely unsatisfying for anyone not wetting themselves over the prospect of watching a stretched out trilogy of the same exposition dialogue and New Zealand tourism idents. I'd give it a 6.5 - Mostly for the scene with Gollum, the first part of the Goblin fight (until it gets repetitive & video gamey) & Martin Freeman.
She was one of the pyschos that worked for caprio. They showed her twice and in a way that drew attention to her like she was soemthing special. Once when they had the dogs tear apart d'Artagnan. And then again when foxx came to hunt them down, she was looking at pictures but they only showed them for a second so I couldnt tell if they were of any significance.
Yeah, that too. Not quite like his Pulp Fiction cameo which served some purpose. Now he was just a fat extra with a bad accent.
I thought he was trying and failing miserably at doing a southern accent, but when I clocked, it was genuinely a "WTF is he doing?" moment. He might in fact have originally been doing that, and they simply hired another Aussie to be in that scene just to cover him so it made some semblance of sense why he was doing it.
She had some purpose but it was cut from the film.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/what-was-cut-from-django-unchained.html
I didn't think the three different stories mixed that well in IB, so I thought the linear narrative in this one was pretty refreshing.
http://www.vulture.com/2013/01/what-was-cut-from-django-unchained.html
I didn't think the three different stories mixed that well in IB, so I thought the linear narrative in this one was pretty refreshing.
Wasn't that the role Joseph Gordon-Levitt was meant to be doing before he dropped out? I'm pretty sure Tarantino is already in the movie earlier as one of the KKK masked fellas, sounded like him anyway.
Would seem like an incredibly redundant role for someone like that. But then I wouldn't put it past Quentin.
Jonah Hill's role was also pretty much redundant too. A quick google tells me it was:
Still, that really was a distracting performance from Tarantino.
I'd forgotten about Hill. That scene with him & Don Johnson was brilliant tbf. Probably my favorite in the whole movie.
That whole sequence was fantastic yeah, probably my favorite after the introduction of Stephen and his interaction with Candie outside the house.
Also forgot to mention, I bet QT is at home right now rubbing one out to Michael Park's 5 minute cameo performance.
Also forgot to mention, I bet QT is at home right now rubbing one out to Michael Park's 5 minute cameo performance.
The way it stopped in the middle of Verdi's Requiem to divert into a little sketch about their hoods was brilliant.
Did anyone else get a little bit uncomfortable by the overuse of the n word by the end? It didn't affect my enjoyment, but it was unremitting. I felt he could've used another word a few of times, or just not used it EVERY time ANYONE addressed a slave.
Did anyone else get a little bit uncomfortable by the overuse of the n word by the end? It didn't affect my enjoyment, but it was unremitting. I felt he could've used another word a few of times, or just not used it EVERY time ANYONE addressed a slave.
I didn't realise we were ruining cameos but yeah Don Johnson had the best one in the film.
His reaction to Django riding in on the horse was Blazing Saddles'esque and then the sudden switch in tone when he's offered the money from Schultz into "Well c'mon inside and get yaself a cold drink" absolutely slayed me.
Re the ending :
And yeah, wtf was that woman in the mask all about? Cut scenes or something else?
It's as good as Basterds for me. I've just watched it again and I love it. Funnily enough the last film I watched twice in quick succesion was IB. He's got a unique ability to craft scenes of amazing tension and diffuse them with something outrageous.
His reaction to Django riding in on the horse was Blazing Saddles'esque and then the sudden switch in tone when he's offered the money from Schultz into "Well c'mon inside and get yaself a cold drink" absolutely slayed me.
Re the ending :
I know what you're saying about it feeling drawn out after DiCaprio bites it. I think this is compounded by that awful cameo but he definitely had to come back for Jackson and the redneck, if only so we could be treated to 2 of the best exhanges in the movie.
Redneck: Dah-Jango you black sonofabitch!
Django: *shoots him* The D is silent hillbilly.
and
Jackson: I count 6 shots nigger.
Django: I count 2 guns nigger.
Probably he could've done this if he'd have escaped with Broomhilda initially and then they could've tacked on that shootout into the credits as they were coming back from the funeral.
Redneck: Dah-Jango you black sonofabitch!
Django: *shoots him* The D is silent hillbilly.
and
Jackson: I count 6 shots nigger.
Django: I count 2 guns nigger.
Probably he could've done this if he'd have escaped with Broomhilda initially and then they could've tacked on that shootout into the credits as they were coming back from the funeral.
And yeah, wtf was that woman in the mask all about? Cut scenes or something else?
It's as good as Basterds for me. I've just watched it again and I love it. Funnily enough the last film I watched twice in quick succesion was IB. He's got a unique ability to craft scenes of amazing tension and diffuse them with something outrageous.
Just watched Django earlier, loved it. Waltz was amazing.
I was in a theater of probably 275 black people and 15 white people. I didn't know that until we left. I just tried not to laugh louder than they did... My friend who went with me, who's black, asked if we invited him so we could have our token to keep us safe.
It's as much about the aesthetics as the offence to be fair. Obviously with that kind of thing it's about context, and clearly it's historically accurate & narratively important to use it a certain amount of times. Plus the film is clearly on the side of Django & the slaves, and using it mainly to highlight it's derogatory nature, not compound it, but by the end it felt like he was deliberately doing it as much as possible. Writers are always conscious of using the same word too often. QT knew what he was doing. It didn't impact the film's quality, it just became amazingly obvious.
You know when you notice that someone's saying a word a lot, from then on it's almost all you can hear them say? Well take a word like nigger that's already a hugely noticeable & explosive word. Once you pick up on it's ubiquitousness, it's that principle magnified. It's being used as punctuation by the end.
You know when you notice that someone's saying a word a lot, from then on it's almost all you can hear them say? Well take a word like nigger that's already a hugely noticeable & explosive word. Once you pick up on it's ubiquitousness, it's that principle magnified. It's being used as punctuation by the end.
He does it to piss off Spike Lee.
I really enjoyed this
Spoony didn't, the soulless ogre.
Watched Django Unchained last night and currently I'd rank it up there with the top 5 best films I've ever seen. It was entertaining enough that it was easy to overlook some of its smaller flaws. I thought Waltz was exceptional along with Di Caprio, I felt that Foxx did a good enough job but was slightly distracted by the fact I knew it was a part designed for Will Smith.
Had some of the great comedy scenes and some hilarious violence too.
9/10
Had some of the great comedy scenes and some hilarious violence too.
9/10
Insufficiently Korean.
I thought it was terrific. Just finished watching it, and although I'm not a Will Smith hater, I feel Foxx did a much better job than Smith could ever have done. Sure it was OTT and a bit mentally violent, but what do you expect from a Tarentino flick? Di Caprio muct be now ranked one of the best movie actors on the planet and yes Waltz was very very good.
I'll admit I did have to look away at the;
Dog scene, that was just sick and when it flashed up again later it caught me out. Thought the ending was great with Stephen getting what he deserved the Uncle Tom prick. Special mention to Samuel L Jackson there too as I'm not a fan at all and I thought he played that perfectly. The only bit which was too stupid for the story was convincing the guards to let him go and give him a gun.
All in all, highly recommended - 9/10
I just thought she had it on as she was cutting wood. Only spotted her twice and didn't read too much into it.
Disagree totally about Jackson and Caprio. One of the best parts of the movie for me and I bought it totally, every aspect. Little of what I have read about slavery in US during those times, such fecked up dynamics did exist as well. But even if they didn't, it is not totally relevant.
Agree on the second bit, the final sequence felt drawn out.