The bit about why he was technically a legit space pirate was great,

Oh god yes. And "I'm gonna science the **** out of" line was just perfect.

I read the novel before seeing the movie and was worried that they were going to hack it up. They nailed it.

Best line of the movie?

"They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars.

In your face, Neil Armstrong!"

Watched Pulp Fiction last night. A shit film.

Not too big a Tarantino fan in general and I remember thinking Pulp Fiction was just sort of passable. Jackie Brown is his best movie since it's the only one where the characters don't feel cartoony.

It's the second one I've attempted, after Reservoir Dogs. Got bored of both about an hour in.

I like Inglorious Basterds and Jackie Brown. That's about it of all the one's I've watched, which is most of them. His style just doesn't appeal to me at all. It's like he's trying way too hard to make the characters and dialogue edgy and cool. I can't get into the stories he tells - his style keeps me at an arms length so I usually don't care about the characters at all.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 :cool:

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

Agree such a cute film.

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

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

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.

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

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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.

City of Lost Children seems to take itself a little too seriously and Delicatessan has funnier characters. I also saw Delicatessan first so you know that goes.

OK, I saw The City of Lost Children first, so maybe it's just because of that. Kind of like how I admit that Spirited Away is Miyazaki's best movie, but I still enjoy Princess Mononoke more because I saw it first.

I don't really like City of Lost Children. The villains are downright annoying. Amelia and Delicatessen are both pretty good. I watched Micmacs in the movie theater years ago. It was good too, but not really a classic like their older movies. Their movies have that trademark quirk that you either like or loathe.

1982s The Thing

Still holds up and the non-CGI effects are as mind blowing as the first time I saw the movie (on acid :yikes: - wasn't sure how much of what I was seeing was real and how much was hallucination). Was a second trip to see it straight and realize the acid had nothing to do with it).

Personally, I don't think all of the creature effects hold up, but since the movie really relies on everything else than that, I still think it's incredible. I ****ing love that movie.

The movie holds up. The effects don't. But they are still mind blowing in the sense it was 35 years ago. The FX people didn't have computers and had to rely on stuff like Karo syrup, mayonaise, and red dye for the gore.

I actually really love that old school wet, gory, monster effect ****. It looks so bad in some ways but it has this uncanny valley quality that makes it creepy anyway.

It does have some sort of impact that CGI just doesn't. Much as I think the monster effects in The Thing look kind of silly, they also stir my guts in an uncomforable way that no CGI monster movie has managed to yet.

So... I just came back home from watching Blade Runner 2049 and much to my surprise and disappointment, I almost ****ing hated it. Charmless, dull, bloated, misguided and an expansion on the original story that I don't have any need for. I really, really, thought that I would at least like it - but I had already given up on it barely half way through. I've got a feeling not many will agree with me on this, but I found it almost entirely unappealing. Biggest movie disappointment of recent memory for me.

I finally got to see the Wonder Woman, and here's some thoughts:
1. Gal Gadot is stunning
2. This is imo the best DC superhero movie, even better than Nolans batman vs joker, though I don't know if they can be directly compared to be honest.
3. Gal Gadot is gorgeous.
4. The movie - characters, pacing, the way it's filmed, seems like DC finally considered learning a trick or two from Marvel.
5. Gal Gadot is also a decent actress.

I liked it a lot. And it wasn't as silly as most summer blockbuster movies tend to be, basically the only 2 things I have a small problem are:
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Other than that though? As far as superhero movies go, I'll give this one a 9/10.

I was sort of 50/50 about whether I wanted to see it, so I'm going to give it a chance now. I watched Batman V Superman recently and... not exactly a perfect movie, but not horrible. Wonder woman was decent in that movie although a bit superfluous.

But Gal Gadot is srsly fine. Her jawline alone is breathtaking.

Did ya know that she was crowned Miss Israel back in 2004 when she was 18?

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The media reported that incorrectly, she was actually crowned Mrs. Real in 2004.

I watched Ghost in the Shell (2017) again for the second time in a week or so. I just wanted to pay more attention to the details and the sound and music this time around. I can confirm that according to me and my ****ty tastes, this movie is better than Blade Runner 2049 by a mile.

God you're objectively wrong to the Nth degree. Haven't seen the new Blade Runner but it would have to be a dog **** dumpster fire to be worse than the new Ghost in the Shell.

Just got home from seeing Mother.

Huh.

Is she in good health?

A flawed but entertaining movie against a bloated, dull, pretentious load of bs.

As long as I don't compare Ghost in the Shell with the original animated movie, I think it works quite well. The new Blade Runner movie bored me senseless. Come back to me again when you've seen it.

Dressed to Kill, Body Double, and Blowout. DePalma's psychological thriller trilogy. All three still hold up really well.



Think about all of the classics this group have made through the years!

Speilberg, Scorcese, DePalma, Lucas, and Coppola

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