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Film Tarantino
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Jackie Brown is excellent. Much prefer early tarantino (pre kill bill).
No movie can ever be 'timeless' but I think Tarantino's work ages pretty well. He is someone who is not heavily influenced by modern trends, and that's what dates movies the most.
I think Django is his best film by miles. Probably reservoir dogs next. I didn’t even like pulp fiction that much tbh.
No love for Inglorious?
Hateful 8 I absolutely loved when I first watched it, the soundtrack is fantastic and it’s beautifully shot, but I rewatched it a while ago and tbh I found it boring and a bit self-indulgent in terms of the dialogue.
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Gregorious is one of those love it or hate it films it seems
Disagree, it still holds up well, and remains an all time classic for me. The dialogue remains brilliant. While the Bruce Willis storyline doesn’t hit the same heights as Travolta and Jackson, it’s not so bad it brings the overall movie down.
What are your favourite films from the past few years, out of interest?
I'm curious to see what ticks your boxes if you find Jackie Brown boring.
That’s a new low for iOS.
My favorite movies from the 2000s are probably There will be Blood, Werckmeister Harmonies and Dogville. In the last few years it’s probably the Zone of Interest.
To be honest, I've always had a bit of a question mark about Tarantino's clear obsession with having characters (including himself) throw that word around constantly when not necessary or adding anything narratively, almost like it gives him a thrill that he can get away with it via this medium.
I absolutely adored the opening scene of Inglorious Bastards. The tension, performances and cinematography were totally on point.
The film does have some other memorable moments and some consistent performances but the opening act was such a ridiculous high point that the majority of the film post that seemed a little underwhelming, abit cartooney and familiar.
But, again, the opening act of I.B is peak Tarantino and he hasn't bettered that act since imo , even though I have found enjoyment in the majority of his film post I.B.
Feel the same way.
It's going to be interesting seeing David Fincher direct a Tarantino script. Fincher used to be a favorite of mine, but has fallen quite a bit for me since The Social Network. Maybe this can inspire him to do something great again. I'm at least a bit intrigued.
TV series, but Mindhunter is great.
And he did the first few episodes of House of Cards which were great as well. His past couple of films has been mediocre though and I disliked The Girl With The Dragonn Tattoo a lot.
I was going to counter with Zodiac, thinking it was released after Social Network, but it actually pre-dates it by 4 years. So yeah, apart from Mindhunter, he hasn't made anything great in a while.
Fincher is notoriously hard to work with and very demanding (of actors, filming crews and studio execs) hence why he isn’t making more movies than he should, because his movies are legitimately good.
Like Kubrick, he will film a scene where someone knocks on the door of a house 30 times and each time he’ll ask the actor to deliver the line the exact way he wants it, or he’ll change the lighting or the camera movements or the wardrobe of the actor etc. That annoys those three groups of people I mentioned above. The former two feel micromanaged to hell and the latter knows excessive time and money is being spent doing it.
Like Kubrick, he will film a scene where someone knocks on the door of a house 30 times and each time he’ll ask the actor to deliver the line the exact way he wants it, or he’ll change the lighting or the camera movements or the wardrobe of the actor etc. That annoys those three groups of people I mentioned above. The former two feel micromanaged to hell and the latter knows excessive time and money is being spent doing it.
I haven't seen the Killer but you have to go back to Panic Room to find an "objectively" mediocre film by him. I'd say he does it right (the whole filmmaking thing) and being a perfectionist is no bad thing.
Plus Pitt knows what Fincher is like by now so minimal complaints on that side when the star is well acquainted. I'd absolutely go see this one in the cinema. Pitt's character was the best thing about that film which film, btw, is terribly treated by people who are genuinely knowledgeable about film. It was a film about film-making with the meta-alternative Polanski stuff on the side.
Mank. A very good film imo. Bit like OUaTiH in that it is another film, meta(ish), about film-making.
He has no bad films, except that recent one (2023) in about twenty odd years.
Mank was very underehelming I thought. It obviously is very well made and acted but it is a monotone bore of a film. It's way too long to only have one gear. I think it's his weakest film since since before Se7en.
Yeah I really wanted to like Mank, and there were things in there I did enjoy, but overall it's a bit of a big pile of nothing.