Just been to see it, a very good film indeed. Enjoyed it immensely.
Bring on District 9 and The Hurt Locker, for a while I thought this was going to be a summer of crappy films; yes Transformers I mean you.
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I like the looks of The Hurt Locker as well. Yet to see Inglorious Basterds.
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Yeah looks like it should be good plan to see it.
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Saw it last night. Great film. Go see. Very Tarrantino!
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saw TARANTINO on Sky the other night doing his preview type thingy of it...
MUST SEE it soon
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I saw the hurt locker a while back. It's rather poor.
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I can't wait to see IB and District 9, Gamer and Surrogates look promising as well.
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Saw it this afternoon and loved it, possibly his best yet.
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Saw it last night and loved it!
Return to form after Death Proof
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yep it was wicked serge leonne via the ateam and allo allo, with a bit of powell and pressburger
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It was awsome, proper Tarrantino like the older stuff, but lots of humour as well.
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Very Tarrantino!
I'll be avoiding it then. Is it just me that thinks that everything since Pulp Fiction has been pretentious, emperor's-new-clothes old w@nk?
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Is Death Proof worth watching?
I don't get a lot of time to watch films, so have to be picky.
Is it just me that thinks that everything since Pulp Fiction has been pretentious, emperor's-new-clothes old w@nk?
I thought Jackie Brown was great.
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I enjoyed it
It may not be his best - but I did find it funny, and it certainly didn't bore me - which is more than can be said for many contemporary films
Death Proof is a bit pants to be honest - I would quite like to see it as part of the original "Grindhouse" thing, I think that cut is shorter. I'm not sure if that version is available on DVD though?
Pretty much the entire first half of Death Proof could be watched on fast forward and you would miss nothing - the only bits worth watching is the stuff when people are actually driving cars/ shooting guns
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Is Death Proof worth watching?
Not really it's like the Duke's of Hazzard with swearing.
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The only review I've seen (not counting those above), in today's Guardian, gives it 1 star and calls it 'A Nazi piece of work'.
'Having seen it once in Cannes earlier this year, and again for its UK release, I was struck afresh by how exasperatingly awful and trascendentally disappointing it is: a colossal, complacent, long-winded dud, a gigantic two-and-a-half-hour anti-climax, like a Quentin Tarantino film in form and mannerism but with the crucual element of genius mysteriously amputated.'
Was going to see it on Saturday night, might save the £20 and wait till it's reduced to a £5 on DVD.
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"I'll be avoiding it then. Is it just me that thinks that everything since Pulp Fiction has been pretentious, emperor's-new-clothes old w@nk? "
I guess I dont agree with you because I think everything he has done comes into the category of witless tripe!
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"serge leonne via the ateam and allo allo" sounds perfect to me.
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the category of witless tripe!
Bet that's the most popular category at Blockbuster.
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On the subject of good films just coming out, check Mesrine Pts 1&2. Vincent Casell is fantastic in it....and to think i remember him as a spotty herbet in La Haine all those years ago.
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Is it just me that thinks that everything since Pulp Fiction has been pretentious, emperor's-new-clothes old w@nk?
No, I am with you on that. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs were great then...Posted 2 years ago # -
Quentin Tarantino and WW2 no thanks.
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Quentin Tarantino, no thanks.
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I think sometimes critics can be sanctimonious ****, I guess it comes with the territory, Peter Bradshaw however is a first class dick.
I love this quote from Tarantino "I respect criticism. But I know more about film than most of the people writing about me. Not only that, I'm a better writer than most of the people writing about me. And I can write film criticism better than most of the people writing about me. [My goal was] to get the biggest standing ovation of the festival, and I got it"Posted 2 years ago # -
Got to say I'm with tomzo - can't stand his style. Whether he or others think he's a god, I dont really care, his films are, in general, over-acted, over hyped and quite dull. Kill Bill being the pinnacle epitome of his work for me.
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I think sometimes critics can be sanctimonious ****, I guess it comes with the territory, Peter Bradshaw however is a first class dick.
Agreed - Seems attention seeking to give it 1 star! If he wasn't a fan, 3 or even 2 stars I could understand, but 1 star puts it in the same league as 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop'...!
If it had been by a new, upcoming director, I wonder if he would have rated it the same...?
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"I'll be avoiding it then. Is it just me that thinks that everything since Pulp Fiction has been pretentious, emperor's-new-clothes old w@nk? "
*including pulp-fiction*, yes.
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I thought Jackie Brown was great.
I do.
Tarantino's biggest problem is that his films are vacuous. Stylish, often, but vacuous - he isn't a "good" writer in the way he claims, simply someone who has a certain ability in overtly plagiarising the work of others and still receiving crddit for it.
I thought we had moved beyond post-modernism of this type? Maybe not.
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I'm a Tarantino fan, agreed there's not a whole lot of depth to the films but for entertainment value they're right up there IMO. Not seen IB yet but although Death Proof got panned (and was way over-hyped) I enjoyed it, not sure I'd want to pay to see it in a cinema though. Kill Bill 1 & 2 and Pulp Fiction I was happy enough to pay to see though...
Did anyone see the bit on the news about Avatar - looked like Halo to me... Not sure who it's aimed at but will be interesting to see if stands up outside of the 'revolutionary' 3D stuff.
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I loved Pulp Fiction and Resevior Dogs and Thought Jackie Brown was ok, but hated a lot fo his mroe resent stuff, Kill Bill and Death Proof, this I feel is on a par qaulity wise with the earlier work but more comedic.
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Tarantino rocks guys, don't believe whatever Mark kermode says.
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Mark Kermode is a sanctimonious prick.
He'd fit right in on this forum.
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Just watched Basterds and thought it was really rather good. Little odd in places and plenty of Taratino winks in it, but also violent, brutal, cinematic, funny and intelligent.
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I go to the cinema to watch a film and forget all the outside world, as long as it does that i really dont min how pretensous etc a film is , years ago the daily express film critic whose name i forget often slated films and found if he didnt like i loved it.
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I saw it. Really liked it. Tongue in cheek with loads of dark humour.
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