Serious Movie Discussion XXXII

[Champ]

Originally Posted by ZappBrannigan

Watched killing them softly. It was pretty good.

Flight was also good

i just watched killing them softly....brad pitt never disappoints me

[Flem]

Originally Posted by shotintheface2

Been watching them all day. Die Hard with a vengeance is underrated. Jeremy Irons and Samuel L. Jackson are great

Originally Posted by PolishHeadlock

Yeah it's my favorite one

man, i thought you guys were cool.

[Shot]

Originally Posted by Flem

man, i thought you guys were cool.

Not a fan of the third one? It's not as good as the first but it's a hell of a lot better than the second.

[Flem]

Originally Posted by shotintheface2

Not a fan of the third one? It's not as good as the first but it's a hell of a lot better than the second.

nah, i don't like it that much. certainly, it's got nothing on the first.

[Champ]

contemplating between End of Watch and Looper to watch now

[HuntersCreed]

Originally Posted by Champ

contemplating between End of Watch and Looper to watch now

Both good but I would go w/ Looper. If you like it you should watch Brick and The Brothers Bloom. Rian Johnson is the writer/director of Looper and the other 2 films I mentioned. He spawned from theater and is one of the few guys in Hollywood that is doing original screenplays and not remakes, sequels, spinoffs, etc. He does a great job.

End Of Watch is also a very good flick, but starts to stretch itself thin by the end and also suspends reality a bit while expecting you to believe that it takes place in the real world.

[HuntersCreed]

Just watched Beasts of the Southern Wild. I liked it. My lady completely didn't understand it. She thought it was scatterbrained. I understand why she thought that, but I thought for a low budget flick I thought it was good. It's about a 9 year old homeless girl who lives w/ her sick father in the bayou amongst a homeless community as the polar icecaps are melting. It's a solid 6-7/10

[Bullitt68]

My Tarantino rankings (excluding True Romance, Four Rooms, and From Dusk Till Dawn):

Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill Volume 2
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill Volume 1
Inglourious Basterds
Django Unchained
Death Proof

Really didn't care very much for Django. It certainly wasn't bad seeing how Tarantino seems to be literally incapable of making a bad film, but it's definitely his weakest outside of Death Proof, and the gap separating it from his A+ early work like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs is quite large.

I've got nothing against Jamie Foxx, he's a solid actor, but as soon as he was cast, my expectations dropped pretty low. I just don't care about him enough, nor do I believe he's strong enough to lead a fucking Tarantino movie.

Christoph Waltz was excellent, but he didn't have the edge he had in Inglourious Basterds. It's rare for me to say this, but I actually disliked what Tarantino did with that character, from how he was conceived to how he figured into the plot. Really dropped the ball here, but Waltz did as much as he could with what he had and he did more than probably anyone else would've been able to come up with.

DiCaprio brought the motherfucking house down. He acted his balls off and really impressed the shit out of me. I'd have to rewatch Shutter Island, but regardless of specific rankings, Django is unquestionably in the mix with Shutter Island and Inception as his very best work.

And what can you say about Samuel L. Jackson? Always been Tarantino's go-to guy, and he delivers once again. Brilliant performance.

There were some cool parts (the opening scene with Waltz' intro is the best scene of the film, and the scene towards the end with Django and the Australians is great, too) and some flat-out hysterical shit (the scene at Don Johnson's plantation was gold and the KKK thing is maybe the funniest scene in any Tarantino film ever), but overall, it was honestly a little boring at times (never leveled that complaint at a Tarantino film before) and I really disliked the way Tarantino wrapped everything up. The last 30 minutes or so suck, just bad decision-making on Tarantino's part, IMO, and the way he decided to end shit really dragged the film down lower than where it already was, which was pretty damn low.

Very flat outing overall. The dialogue never crackled the way Tarantino dialogue usually does, the chemistry between the actors wasn't electric the way it needed to be, and outside of DiCaprio, there was a super low level of intensity, which really doesn't work for Tarantino. It just felt lazy and weak, just plodding along, and the final destination didn't make the trip feel worth it.

I sincerely hope Tarantino leaves this history shit behind him and moves back into contemporary shit. IMDb has a Kill Bill 3 on the docket, and while a retread isn't exactly moving forward, it'd be a better move than him staying in this Basterds/Django territory, IMO.

[Shot]

We is gonna have a long talk bout dis.

[Bullitt68]