Also really enjoyed Deadstream

i should probably start doing this more but my forte is not verbalizing how i feel about media...

hush (2016) - 8/10

a pretty perfect horror movie. i really enjoy everything flanagan & siegel have done together. a great conceit, very well acted, the tension continues to grow until the climax, and when it finally boils over the intensity is ramped all the way up. plus it has a the perfect run time of 80 minutes.

Is 80 the perfect run time or is 80 the perfect run time for this specificly

definitely for this specifically, but in general i like a nice, tight, economical script. of course there are plenty of movies i love that are 2+ hours, but if i had to choose between 120 minutes or 80 minutes based on run time alone, i'm going 80 every time. a movie like detour (1945) is a great example. i think it's like 70 minutes and absolutely knocks it out of the park.

i mean i hate to speak in generalities because of course it depends on things like who is writing the script or editing the final product but you get what i mean i hope.

80-90 min is honestly my preferred run time for most things

The Ancient Greeks had it right...almost every ancient greek play - comedy or tragedy - runs right around 90 min because they thought it was a good run time to hold an audience's interest

I think i don't have a preference honestly. The question boils down to how long it feels bs how long it is.

yeah i get you on that one, which is why i definitely don't shy away from a longer movie based on the run time. something like pulp fiction runs over two and half hours but doesn't feel like it at all, so that run time doesn't bother me. best example i think of off the top of my head but i know there are plenty more.

Im a mark for Tarantino so you'll get no complaints here

I would say something like Two Towers thats 3+ hours but feels like a breeze vs Return of the King with a similar run time but the 20 min after the climax make it feel like 8+ hours is a good example.

What is everyone's favorite Tarantino film (there is obviously no wrong answer to this question)

This second Inglorious Bastards but the more i watch Once Upon A Time in Hollywood the more i think it may become my favorite.

I think it's a toss-up for me between Jackie Brown and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

The opening scene to bastard is his best scene though imo

I love all his stuff so its not a big statement for me to say i love Jackie Brown. Forrester is sublime in it. Its one of my favorite performances. Ever.

jackie brown but it's obviously hard

i think my favorite tarantino script is true romance

A million actors couldve been Max Cherry but Forrester adds this...understated sorrow. Its phenomenal

i, no joke, have the screenplay on my coffee table right now. Reading Natural Born Killers currently

he and pam grier do enough acting for an entire career. amazing chemistry.

I really wish he could have remade Casino Royale with Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman like he really wanted to...a QT Bond would have been so good

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.