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In Reply to: RE: I'm in heaven or shortly will be so. "Pulp Fiction" is being shown at the local multiplex! Wow! posted by tinear on December 06, 2012 at 17:36:27
We rarely ever agree on anything. In fact this might be a first!
However, I too think this is one of the best movies ever made.
(Despite the non-linear timeline in the movie, of which I am not that much of a fan, but I can get past it). This is the only movie I've ever seen three times in the theater.
It certainly made several of the actors into stars, and revitalized the slumping acting careers of a couple of others.
The dialog is superb, and I love the dark humor running throughout the movie. (And the soundtrack was no slouch either!)
Two thumbs up from me! :-)
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I think it is a good movie, but not as good as "Pulp Fiction".
The performances are very good, but the plot and dialog just does not come up to the level of PF.
But then again, very, very few movies do.
In fact, I believe I prefer Reservoir Dogs and the Kill Bill movies to Jackie Brown. But that is merely a matter of slight preference.
(But I've only seen JB once, and it took me a couple of viewings of RD to fully appreciate it, so perhaps I should take the time to rewatch JB.)
I am looking forward to the new Quentin Tarantino movie "Django Unchained" which is coming out shortly. The initial reviews have been fantastic!
Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction. Don't get me wrong, I really like JB as well but I've seen it exactly once. Amongst Tarantino's ouvre, it would easily place last in number of viewings. Maybe it was the uncomfortableness accompanying Jackson's portrayal of the gangster but the movie just hasn't demanded second viewings from me.
My rating:
Pulp
IB
KB1
KB2
RD
JB
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Death Proof (1/2 damned good, 1/2 Godawful)
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A pox on his family and 100 years of bad luck for the inventor of "Intelligent Touchpads" for laptops!!!
I thought this was Tarantino's finest moment. The character studies worked and the resurgence of Harvey Keitel that year with Bad Lieutenant and The Piano was one of the more enjoyable career resuscitations in cinema history. The dialog flowed better than most of his movies, where it seems forced and stilted. With the low-budget feel and most of the film taking place in an abandoned warehouse, it had the feel of a broadway play in contrast to Tarantino's more overproduced efforts that left me cold.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
Michael Keaton, DeNiro---- and of course, Sam Jackson.
Spectacular dialogue, as usual, a nicely involved plot from Elmore Leonard's, "Rum Punch," and the trademark Tarantino editing: what more could you want? And the soundtrack, also, is legendary.
A crime film w/a vicious criminal, a weak-willed but kind-hearted heroine, her leather tough but similarly soft-hearted and shy love interest, a conniving and amoral federal agent: this film has it all.
Pam Grier should have gotten an Oscar for this. She breathed life into Jackie, making her a multi-dimensional, complex, and enduring character.
This is Tarantino's one film where I think you sense a lot of human warmth. You see flashes of it in Pulp between Vincent and Mia, and Butch and his doe-eyed squeeze, but here it's much more of the story. DeNiro's "relationship" with Fonda's character, also, is bittersweet.
I think JB is a great, not just very good, film.
Thought Robert Forster easily could have got an Oscar as well. This one ranks up there for me....for Tarantino films. It certainly ranks higher than the Kill Bills or Inglorious Bastards.
pulp to another level.
Noir was serious, dark.
Tarantino took it, colorized it, and added a lot of humor.
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Your wife should love it.
I think you'll enjoy it, too.
It is a memorable film, but I don't think quite at the level of Barry Lyndon.
The first half goes down fairly easily, the second loses you quickly, with too many intertwined characters, names, etc, so by the time you make a partial recovery it is already over! :) At one point I gave up on trying to remember all the names, and just went with the flow. When you read a book like this, you go back and forth often, here you are denied that luxury, so you are bound to lose some. Maybe when watched by the original audience, in native language there is less of this issue.
The cinematography is outstanding, much like in BL, with many images worthy of a canvas, but the characters are mostly static, and the story telling tedious. Some sub-plots border on ridiculous, like the deadly 80,000 of something for a night... Perhaps in the TV show format it was more easily digestable, with long pauses between the segments, here it created the acute sense of overload.
So overall, as I said, it is a memorable film, and I am glad we watched it, but I would rate it on par with true masterpieces.
BTW, I was listening to the music of the Portuguese language and I am still unable to crack it. I can recognize many languages by their music, here it is still escaping me... there is something in it that at times sounds almost like Polish, with many Sh sounds, and there are definite spanish parallels, but it is hard to grasp.
Anyway, with something like that your perception often changes with time, but I am afraid a second viewing of this 4 1/2 hour monument will be hard to arrange. I think it could have been easily shrunk down to maybe 3 hours, with more dynamic flow and less tedium.
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http://db.audioasylum.com/mhtml/m.html?forum=films&n=83248&highlight=lisbon+tinear&r=&search_url=%2Fcgi%2Fsearch.mpl%3Fforum%3Damp%26searchtext%3DASL
Slim pickings these days among the streamable films... fortunately our 1-at-a-time service seems to be going faster now.
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