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11-17-2016, 02:15 PM | #18091 (permalink) |
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Ya. Love that Scorsese gave Mitchum, Balsum, and Peck cameos in his remake.
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11-17-2016, 02:20 PM | #18092 (permalink) | |
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Speaking of Natural Born Killers, I saw it for the first time a few months ago and god damn. All I knew was that it was a 90s movie about some Bonnie and Clyde type thing. Was in no way prepared for the acidfest that followed. I love how it pokes fun/a finger at society's love affair with serial killers, media spectacles, and generally bad ****, not by haranguing the viewer but by actually making you feel like you really shouldn't towards the protagonists and then hitting your over the head when you're least expecting it with how legitimately awful they are.
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11-17-2016, 02:45 PM | #18093 (permalink) | |
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11-17-2016, 02:58 PM | #18094 (permalink) | |
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If I'd known what it was I would have been prepared. After the first 30 minutes I was picking up what it was putting down, but at first I was just like, "Wasn't this supposed to be some ****ty, wannabe-gritty 90s action movie with delusions of grandeur?"
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11-17-2016, 03:05 PM | #18095 (permalink) |
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Did you know going in that Quentin Tarantino wrote the screenplay and Oliver Stone directed it? If you did, and was still blown away, you are an inferior Cinema nerd.
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11-17-2016, 03:17 PM | #18096 (permalink) | |
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I'm not a cinema nerd.
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11-17-2016, 04:31 PM | #18098 (permalink) |
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Bollocks.
Turn the clock back to 1992-1994. The dude completely re-wrote the book on modern cinema. I'd be willing to bet that a bunch of the movies that you guys love from the past 20 years were in some way directly influenced by how Tarantino changed the way it's done. Bollocks I say!
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11-17-2016, 04:32 PM | #18099 (permalink) | |
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But in the end he makes movies that are just meant to be fun and whacky. No brain is needed to appreciate a Tarantino movie.
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11-17-2016, 05:22 PM | #18100 (permalink) |
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Nobody said you can't be great and overrated at the same time.
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