djchameleon

He is a fellow foot worshipper. Watch his other films and be on the look out for little scenes where he highlights them. I do that bust out laughing every time. The two Kill Bill movies and Deathproof are my faves. I have to re watch Jackie Brown to see if there was any foot worship going on.

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Paedantic Basterd

I'm a huge Tarantino fan, but that said, I think Tarantino gets better with time. I'm not a huge fan of his early pastiche stuff, but I think he's brilliant when he puts a linear story together.

For me, the appeal of Tarantino is how he humanizes his antagonists in a world that is otherwise highly stylized and hyper-realistic. Tarantino's villains are often the most realistic aspect of the entire story, protagonists, violence, and plotlines be damned.

Any one of his antagonists could easily be found outside in our world, because they're normalized people with concrete, human motives. This is in contrast to the vast majority of movie villains who are often motivated by some sort of vague, illogical desire to destroy the world.

My take on his use of violence is not that it's there to be edgy, but that it's there to lampshade society's perverted love/hate relationship with violence. We're so frightened of it and we admonish it vehemently, but we also DEVOUR it in every aspect of our free time, from video games to sports to film to TV. We're obsessed with it, and for me, it's like Tarantino is taking that interest in violence and wryly ramping it up exponentially as if to say "this is what you wanted, isn't it? Isn't it? ISN'T IT?".

Also, he's a brilliant director, even if you can't get behind his stories.

Chula Vista

Liked Jackie Brown the first time just because I wanted to see how it played out. Got bored and bailed the second viewing. I can watch Dogs, Pulp, and the Bill movies over and over again. Style over substance? Sure.

Not that's there anything wrong with that. Plus he writes some of the best dialogue ever.

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Yeah I noticed about fifteen minutes in when they were talking about that guy's wife

Some decent foot action in it tbf...

I'll have to give some of the films named a go then, but it will probably be a while.

My favourite film is ET I think. And I loved Amelie as well, I just like stuff you can get into really quickly with a nice story line. Oh I liked School of Rock as well

Paedantic Basterd

Amelie is another one I can watch repeatedly. Such a beautiful, quirky film. It just makes me feel warm inside.

Cuthbert

Agree such a cute film.

LoathsomePete

Have you seen any other Jean-Pierre Jeunet films? If you haven't I suggest checking out The City of Lost Children and Delicatessen

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Paedantic Basterd

I haven't; they're both on my to-do list though.

Frownland

Ja those are both excellent films, Delicatessen more so.

On the topic of French directors, everyone should check out Godard's sci fi distopian film Alphaville.

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LoathsomePete

Out of curiosity, why do you prefer Delicatessen over City of Lost Children?

Anyways, I've been slowly watching my way through the non-Dead films by George A. Romero. I started with his 1978 Martin which I quite enjoyed, and I decided to move on to Monkey Shines



The movie is about an athlete named Allan who is rendered quadriplegic after being hit by a large vehicle while out on a jog. His friends and family don't really know how to console him in a dignified way and mostly start to drift away while his mother starts to baby him. One friend however, one friend who happens to be a scientist has been secretly doing experiments on capuchin monkeys by injecting human brains into them, making them incredibly intelligent, and thus supplies Allan with one. The helper monkey, named Ella, starts off as just a means of making life easier for Allan, but they create a deeper bond after Ella turns on the stereo and begins dancing to some music. Eventually though, a sort of telepathic link between Allan and Ella is formed, with Ella essentially becoming Allan's id, and she begins to attack and kill the people Allan think has slighted him.

That's a pretty decent hook, and the fact that Allan is quadriplegic makes him even more vulnerable. As with Martin, the way the movie was shot is quite a bit different from his Dead movies, which all felt more like they were made in editing from lots of b roll footage. It wasn't an especially scary movie, and it ends on a super lame jump scare that's so emblematic of horror movies these days. I dunno if I'd recommend it, but it's definitely an interesting take on horror, and an interesting film from one of Hollywood's most underrated talents.

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