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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:33 pm

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Postby Rainbow Battle Kid » Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:36 pm

finaly saw this

when people were leaving the theater i heard this one guy say to his friend after some silence "so instead of going there they went there"
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:41 pm

The Manson family really just wanted to destroy the patriarchy
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Postby Rainbow Battle Kid » Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:41 pm

already thought Pussycat was the cutest girl ever in her little scenes and was ready to marry her at "fuck you, you fucking pigs"

is this tarantino's cutest movie? lots of sweet stuff with the dog, a lot of the cliff/rick friendship stuff, the little girl actor complimenting rick, etc
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:46 pm

It's definitely his most heartfelt outside of Jackie Brown
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Postby Rainbow Battle Kid » Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:51 pm

yeah even the initial booth/pussycat stuff was super cute despite knowing she was probs in the manson family
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Postby antoine » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:57 am

Saw this tonight. I hadn't eaten for like 24 hours so I was nodding out during some of it. Weird movie. Beautifully shot, good performances all around and overall I'm positive on it but it's not one of my favorites of QT's. Feel like the script was weirdly undercooked for qt and could've been tightened up. The pacing felt off and it kind of meandered too much at points. Still I kinda want to see it again with more nourishment in my body and feeling more alert.
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Postby antoine » Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:00 am

I agree that this is prob Leo's best performance ever, he was very good.
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Postby antoine » Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:29 am

Also the ultraviolence at the end was really uncomfortable and out of nowhere, even for a Tarantino movie. Especially since the rest of the movie was mostly violence free. It felt tacked on and unnecessary. Not sure I get what he was going for there beyond some cheap shock value and mean sense of humor about it all. I liked Hateful 8 more than this. Better story, better dialogue, better pacing. Inglorious Basterds is still the best of his historical genre whatevers he's been doing for the past decade or so.
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Postby Buzz Fledderjohn » Sun Aug 25, 2019 3:45 am

in that PTA interview that just came out QT says that the concept for whole film/script started with the ending and he worked backwards from there
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Postby high bias » Sun Aug 25, 2019 4:03 am

Celiac wrote:Saw this again and actually I think I love it


yeah saw this with my parents today at the vista in 35mm. they loved it, and i think i actually liked it more the second time around. the climax felt in no way as jarring and off or whatever this time. leo needs an oscar for this
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Postby kid8 » Sun Aug 25, 2019 4:06 am

Is this still playing tomorrow? Can I take a date?
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Postby kid8 » Sun Aug 25, 2019 4:08 am

I haven't seen it yet and I love Quentin tarantino, get free tickets like that.
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Postby Plainsong » Sun Aug 25, 2019 4:57 am

Saw this last night. Easily my fav Tarantino film since Jackie Brown. DiCaprio and Pitt worked really well together, and the rest of the cast were great.
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Postby easy » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:27 pm

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Postby guy forget » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:29 pm

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Postby Wrong Titus » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:50 pm

Buzz Fledderjohn wrote:in that PTA interview that just came out QT says that the concept for whole film/script started with the ending and he worked backwards from there


This makes sense to me. It seems he needs to work up to these ridiculous violent set pieces as an incentive to write. I just wish, with this one especially, he reconsidered once he had such a nice breezy prelude mapped out.

There’s a way to use violence as blackly comic catharsis. Quentin used to know how, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown contain good examples. The Coens pull it off all the time. But I just don’t get why he needs to go so overboard lately, I don’t care if it’s a Manson family member, seeing someone burned alive with a flame thrower is fucking horrific and it’s perverse to be in a theater with people cheering and laughing at it. It totally colored the preceding 2.5 hours and left a nasty taste.

Leading up the disaster of a climax, this was one of his best. Damn Quentin, I dunno, film this shit to get it out of your system and then maybe leave it on the cutting room floor. I’m down to see a tripping Brad Pitt dispatch a few creeps, but this was something else.
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Postby Eyeball Kid » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:55 pm

I didn't mind it in this film, but the super-bloody shootout that climaxed Django Unchained always bothered me because it trivialized the realistically depicted violence against slaves shown elsewhere in the film.
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Postby high bias » Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:59 pm

i’ve had “out of time” stuck in my head since seeing this again last night. love that sequence
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Postby sleigh » Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:55 pm

finally watched this, hated it. peace
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Postby shacky » Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:42 pm

Eyeball Kid wrote:I didn't mind it in this film, but the super-bloody shootout that climaxed Django Unchained always bothered me because it trivialized the realistically depicted violence against slaves shown elsewhere in the film.


isn't this like saying hitler's face being blown off with a machine guy trivialised the holocaust
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Postby Giuseppe Castiglione » Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:54 pm

don't recall inglourious basterds having many realistically depicted scenes of the holocaust
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:14 am

really fucking love this movie now. i hope he wins a billion awards and Disney goes straight to hell
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Postby shacky » Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:35 am

yeah, i just, it's not a coincidence that the fantastical parts are fantastical and the horrifying parts are horrifying? the contrast amplifies the horror of the reality
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Postby Honk For Dracula » Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:41 am

Giuseppe Castiglione wrote:don't recall inglourious basterds having many realistically depicted scenes of the holocaust


sorry i'm not sure how sincere this post is since there's a part where SS soldiers shoot through the floorboards to kill Jewish families hidden beneath.

in terms of allegory i don't think there's anything more necessary than recalling Anne Frank to the general dumbass public
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Postby groupb » Wed Aug 28, 2019 6:44 pm

Rainbow Battle Kid wrote:already thought Pussycat was the cutest girl ever in her little scenes and was ready to marry her at "fuck you, you fucking pigs"

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Postby NegativeCapability » Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:27 pm

There's a lot of things I really loved in this movie and a lot of things I absolutely hated. No idea how to feel about this one. Gotta watch it a second time.
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Postby neuartillery » Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:42 pm

I saw it again this week. It felt significantly different the second time because I wasn't dominated by a sense of dread over what was going to happen with the Manson family murders (and my anticipation was that they would still occur). This time I was more curious to see how the three 50-60 year-old women seated in my row would react to the end (more calmly than expected, their big reaction was an "Oooh" when Brad Pitt took off his shirt on the roof).
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Postby draw » Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:55 pm

to be fair, Brad Pitt looked like a freakin snack
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Postby Rainbow Battle Kid » Sun Sep 01, 2019 5:02 pm

i was just thinking how good Pitt looked on the roof and leaned in to my wife to say something and she was just like "yeah i know"

and THEN he took his shirt off :ahuh:
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