What i think is so strong about OUaTiH though is how naked the scrpit is. You can see clear as air whats going on at the other end of the pen. He's reflecting on his career and his childhood as he goes into his twilight. He's Rick Dalton. It makes the film honest in a way his other pictures probably are but are too personal for us to see. This one strips that away. It makes it very special and someone who isnt as young as he once was the more time goes by the more relatable it becomes.

The Hateful Eight
Jackie Brown
Reservoir Dogs

Death Proof is under-rated

it's funny because at the time i recall more people being into planet terror (or at least in my little sphere), but i only find myself returning to death proof.

Same. I own death proof, planet terror and the drindhouse Theatrical double feature. I nearly always just watch the death proof solo release. But everyone i know was firmly in the planet terror camp

Got a lot of catching up to do on Tarantino. Still haven’t watched Django, Eight, or Hollywood.

Quentin Tarantino is a complete freak and I can’t stand his face or voice but he has made a few pretty sweet films.

“Jackie Brown” is my favourite that he directed but I would say “True Romance” is the best thing he had any input into. Tony Scott was made for Tarantino, they should have done more together.

I love true romance and would like to see and edit in line with the screen play (and the ending put back)

I’m trying to remember if it’s actually in the commentary for True Romance or if I heard it elsewhere but there’s a horrendous bit of audio from QT gushing over the Sicilian speech and how he stole it wholesale from a guy his mother was dating or some shit.
There’s nothing original in a Tarantino film and a lot of it is outright plagiarism, the bits that aren’t tend to be re-enactments of wet dreams he has had.

Analysis of any QT film reveals a sad little wanker of a man behind it.
Anybody who ever makes an independent film should have to watch fifty hours of Tarantino interviews just to make sure they know not to look, sound and act like a monumentally pretentious moron.

I suppose if my whole career was based around copying B movies for Hollywood I’d be a defensive little prick too. I’d have a better name, haircut and reputation though.

Michael Cimino was original and possibly the worst working director of all time but equal to Tarantino in arrogance, ugliness and lack of taste so it’s swings and roundabouts really

Awful take

Kill Bill

I realize that objectively it's not his best work, but I am a shameless mark for old spaghetti western and kung fu revenge tales, so I love it to death.

Are you counting them as one?

Not if you understand people and cinema.

Destor you are a dilettante when it comes to film appreciation.
I do like your desire to review things, but what a lot of shite you come away with.

You sound like a kid at a table for adults.

What he doesn’t realise is that it’s a nonsense project made to impress numpties like him.

That’s the Lynch MO.

Those are my good takes.

You don’t want none of that while you’re still growing son.

I see you you big bastard. Come in here now and insult my opinions you pussy

I cant help you have the worst take possible. I could write a long winded post about how its not only impossible not to write based on lived experience but its impossible to even think without doing it but your point is so outlandishly bad that im simply going to roll my eyes and keep walking like i shouldve done when you challenged the idea of Kubrik being anything short of the most influential director of all time outside of Hitchcock.

Its a bad take. I was kind enough to not quote it in my reply so if you ever have enough sense to be embarrassed by it you could delete it to hide the evidence.

Nice straw man bro, bravo.

I would have did you dirty more honestly but good for you.

No matter how wrong you are i still love you

I know, I love you too.

That’s the real Star Wars and I probably would be the chick, but whatevs bros it’s 2022

Bridget Jones Diary

This movie is so fucking stupid... the entire premise falls apart when you realize that Bridget is sposto be fat, but she isn't fat, she is some hot ass woman. They made the actress gain 40 pounds for the movie and do a British accent, why wouldn't you just hire a heavier actor who already speaks British accent. I mean I know why but still. I don't understand the point of this movie... very clearly was trying to reimagine the book it was based on but I didn't know the book so it was disjointed and also just weird.

Okay, I know I made a joke before about you being a child and walking in on your mom being railed by Stanley Kubrick while filming it in like 47 takes, but I'm starting to wonder how close that is to some kind of truth with such vocal disdain for various directors...

Who was the actual film director that hurt you, Seanny?

You're in a safe place. You can tell us.

Michael Bay. But Michael Bay has violated us all at some point.

If I didn’t have strong opinions that offended fags like you I’d just end up making something up to see you upset anyway so get over it.

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Lightyear - 2 1/2 stars out of 4.

Animated and acted well enough but, man, does it start to drag in that second half. Which is a shame because the first half sets up some potentially good shit. Sox is easily the best thing about the movie and I found myself hanging on just to see what he would do next. There's nothing terribly offensive or awful about it, it just needed a better direction. I find it hard to believe that this is the favorite movie of an 8-year-old like Andy like the title card claims.

Amsterdam - 7.5/10

Watched it on the Disney+..... was enjoyable. Feel like I would have enjoyed the story a lot more as a book for some reason, but I was entertained.

The Old Guard- 6.5/10 a more exciting version of The Eternals.

The Gray Man-5/10 all of the performances are good, but a lot of the action isn’t that great. Really tough to see and follow a lot of the time.

Dude Where's My Car

A little funny... maybe 3 or 4 aspects that made me laugh. felt like there should have been more inuendo. Music was deece... did some good y2k nostalgia. Got kinda repetitive in act 3 and i was waiting for it to end

I saw that at the cinema with a group of mates and we had a fine time. American Pie 2 still the most I have ever laughed in a cinema. People got up and moved.

Randomly rewatched the American Pie series the other month (main series only, not all the direct to DVD spin-offs)

You missed out, James Gunn’s missus gets them out in The Book Of Love

Google it I guess

Watching “Barbarian” to see what all the fuss is about.
So far it seems like a classic set up but I hear there are twists aplenty.

It’s playing heavily on classical xenophobia(not modern usage) and the fear of causing offence which is underused in horror.

I have seen them all, I just didn't watch them in my series rewatch....

Those are worth seeing again you big gay

Maybe Band Camp and Book of Love.... don't remember the others as being worth it... but maybe I am wrong

Barbarian - 2.5/4

The first act is very well played and it puts you in the mood for a mystery rather than a far fetched horror film. The second act is trying to be too clever after a ridiculous transition and it falls flat for me, though I appreciate what was attempted with the social commentary. The third act tries to pull the madness together but the personification of the back story as a villain was just plain silly. I felt a bit robbed after such a great introduction to the story which is a shame because there was a lot of good stuff later on in there that didn’t require anything quite so daft topping it off.

If you didn’t enjoy “Don’t Breathe” then probably give this a miss.

I was talking about her tits you boob

It's my favorite to for the above reasons and that fucking soundtrack. The 1st one was so good the 2nd one had no where to go but down.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio - 7.5/10

Not sure who exactly the target audience was for this, with the singing but also the fascism and other creepy stuff.... but I was entertained. Better than the live action Disney one.

Boosting it to 8/10 after watching the behind the scenes thing they put out too....

Kill Bill was alright but that stupid “Beatrix Kiddo” maguffin annoyed the hell out of me.

Slik have you seen “Something In The Dirt” yet?
I am watching it now. I also need to see “Synchronic” and “Spring”.

Spring is very hard to find online, at least it was until I found it today.

“Something In The Dirt” - 3.5/4

These guys should always be in their films. They are fantastic actors and this is a great vehicle for their performances to carry a mysteriously vague, yet oddly detailed story towards an ending that will confuse and infuriate some and which creates more questions about the world in which these stories take place.
I think when it comes down to it there is so much detail and inner-world speculation that it helps me get right on board with their films because the characters are asking the questions we are. A lot of films like to gloss over things. These guys like creating scenarios that raise more and more questions until the incidents become secondary to hypotheses but add greatly to the overall intrigue.

I liked it a lot, I think it’s a character study rather than a genre film, but it has a consistent sense of unease about it much like their previous work.

Benson and Moorehead make fucking great films. “Synchronic” is yet another in-world film but not starring them. A designer drug that you can time travel with. It is far better than it sounds and it keeps the mysterious red plant story going and expands upon it greatly.
I think they put that plant in every film…it certainly gets mentioned a lot.
So many possibilities.

Violent Night - 7.5/10

Was entertained.

Watched Terror Train a little bit ago on Tubi. I didn't realize it was a remake of a 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis flick. It was alright...there's a sequel coming out soon.

I always meant to watch the JLC horrors from her early career but the poster for Terror Train is laughably bad so I never gave any of the others much consideration.
Trading Places is good for a wank if you have A-B repeat though, just saying.

Horror is my favorite genre. That being said, I was never a huge fan of the Halloween movies. I was more of a Jason/FreddyChucky/VHS rental B level movies fan.

What came first? rez and his Sears/JCP Christmas catalog lingerie or 80's horror titties? I'm not sure now!

Horror is one of my least favoured genres but it has given me more memories than most.

“The Hitcher” is a film that I would call purebred horror but that could be called a psychological thriller. I suppose it’s what scares you that matters.

I had a recurring nightmare about Rutger Hauer for years. He would do his hitcher routine then I’d end up pulling my own teeth out.

Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even (aka Step Kids). aka one of the trailers on the TMNT Secret of the Ooze VHS.

I think I watched it when it came out but I woulda been little. It's got Kevin McCallister's sister Meghan in the lead role and a buncha popular actors of the time.

I liked it.

You recognize it.

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OMFG!!!


I remember the tag line "Coming relatively to a theater near you" after watching that.


100% watched that movie.

Reminds me of the Pizza Hut commercial on the TMNT VHS.




IIIIIII plaaaaaay, right-field, where the dandelions grow........


and some kid catches a ball, they go celebrate at pizza hut. Gonna find it and feed you nostalgia junkies your fix.

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Apparently there's a whole god damn channel of retro VHS TV stuff!




https://www.youtube.com/@reeyees3

Feed me the good stuff straight into my veins

How about that Pepsi vhs commercial. Got a Pepsi for me? Who knew!

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Fern Gully....The last rain forest

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Loved Fern Gully as a kid.

i wore my tmnt vhs out as a kid and watching that pizza hut commercial was an integral part of every viewing.

The Burger King Kids Club

100% had this one

https://i2.wp.com/serialkillercalend...-KIDS-CLUB.jpg

The Fog is my favorite horror film of all-time

well this post isn't going to help this

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Semi Pro

Pretty funny... cool Andre 3000 role

Anyone see the new Pussen boots

seeing it next week

Yeah I know, you say this every so often.
I still think it’s an odd favourite to have, even if it is good and has a classic feel to it.

Avatar 2

With all the spectacle of the first one removed this ones pretty medium... couldnt tell who anyone was... also its so fucking long... they shouldnt be allowed to make movies that long

I was thinking about that film the other day. One of those movies that seemed to be shown on TV fairly regularly back in the early to mid 90s, usually on a Sunday afternoon.

*Movie producer snorts a line of coke*

"Hear me out! Hulk Hogan - That wrestling dude (peak Hulk) is a space alien that saves that that that doc guy from Back to the Future and Taxi!"

Annie Hall - 8/10


Gooder

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - 8/10

Started off slower than the first one but I ended up really enjoying it. Too bad it didn't get a wider/longer theatrical release....

"Code Pere Noel" or some shit... really fucking funny French movie thats like Home Alone vs Santa Claus. Really fucking funny... very high production value... good

Glass Onion - 8.5/10

I thought this was really good -- there are several shots that remind me of famous paintings -- a well written satire/whodunit and different from Knives Out.

That said, I did enjoy Knives Out more.

Knives Out definitely better.

The Whale

I should read Moby Dick

Kimi

eh

Avatar: The Way of Water - 7.5/10

Was "too long" but once it got started it became pretty ok, and the climax was pretty sweet...

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Strange World: 2 and 3/4 stars out of 4

I liked it fine enough. The pulp-style presentation is pretty neat as it has this throwback feel to something like Journey to the Center of the Earth. The "world", such as it is, is nice to look at and the characters are likeable enough.

The story is kind of paint-by-numbers, though, and it pales in comparison to stuff like Raya and the Last Dragon and even Encanto where they tackled family generational issues, too. I was into it, though, probably because of my own abrasive relationship with my father. It's a shame it bombed as I think people would've been OK with at least one viewing of it, but on the other hand I don't think it's anything you need to go out of your way to see.

Top Gun: Maverick 2/5. Ok for a bit of nostalgia

An Education

Not sure who told me to watch this. It's about a Jew who grooms a young girl... Gotta hope the libs of tik tok crowd doesnt get word of this one

This is the exact same trailer that I had on a VHS for something like Hook or TMNT2:Secret of the ooze. I haven’t seen Suburban Commando but can imagine the best bits are in that trailer.

twas. you should check it out

should also look up there ^^^^^

There’s an Austrian film called “Michael” you should watch.

Terror Train II. This film series shoulda had some marketing and been put in theaters. I think it would have been successful.

Fun popcorn movie. 7.7/10

Tolkien - 3/10

Was like one interesting part in the entire movie maybe

Lawrence of Arabia 8/10

I've seen little bits of it in the past, but this was my first time watching the film in its entirety: all 3 hours 47 mins of it.

Bladder busting, bum numbingly long but worth the slog. It seems like a film that would benefit from being seen on a cinema screen rather than that of a laptop for the full effect.

With white actors browned up and the casual racism, I wonder whether they even show this film on TV these days.

21 Bridges- 10/10

I couldn't finish this movie, hated it.

Just watched it again to spite you. Was still very enjoyable.

Undertaker as a bad guy with the kid voice, CLASSIC!