great fucking movie...or... fucking great movie? you decide
― Aimless, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
There is some fucking, but--as Bridget Fonda's character will attest to--it's very perfunctory.
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
i like slj's delusions of grandeur in this: he acts like a kingpin but his big macguffin is only half a mil and all of his henchmen are women whose rent he pays (and dumb stoned deniro). the money's just as transformative for him as it is for jackie/max. he can get a place even better than that lil beach house w the tiny tv.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
Three minutes later...
― drash, Sunday, 9 February 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
michael keaton's mounting exasperation in this scene is such a little masterpiece of comic timinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ip79SGVLo
― slam dunk, Monday, 10 February 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Jackie's euphoric expression when she puffs on first post-jail cig
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
keaton's shitbird costume in that movie is so perfect
― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 10 February 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
The most poignant part of the movie is realizing in their last scenes that Ordell genuinely likes Max or at least respects him and is thus devastated that he might be pulling a fast one.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 February 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
had no idea Michael Bowen (who played the lapd detective in this) was uncle jack in breaking bad.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 10 February 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that dude is a total chameleon.
― Beezbo's Magic Does It Again! (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 February 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
No other Val dude can touch him.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Monday, 10 February 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
favorite part is near the end, when Jackie's sitting at Max's desk, rehearsing how to relax and then suddenly pull the gun out of the drawer.
― calstars, Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
"That hit the spot"
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
i like it when jackie says "boo ya"
― caek, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
"Why don’t you be a good hostess and hook a brother up a screwdriver?"
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Odell tapping his fingernails on his screwdriver, trying to interest jackie.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
The stoned concentration Louis puts into untangling the telephone cord
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
Bridget Fonda. Rowrrrr.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 28 August 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Pam Grier - what a beauty! Who knows what to watch earlier in her career?
― calstars, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
her "Cosby Show" appearance.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Foxy Brown
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
Coffy
had totally forgotten she's in Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
i thought the revive was for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnaI-w8h8Ls
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 28 August 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
sweet! even tho there are a lot of leonard movies im always surprised there arent more cause his books just demand to be adapted
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
that one looks good
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
its fun to see how everyone always tries to adapt his vibe into a visual
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
The sweetest part of this movie is realizing Ordell seems to genuinely like Max, thus is disappointed that he'd fuck him over.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
the movie is about people whom Ordell likes (Max, Jackie, Melanie) fucking him over
does he like beaumont
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
shit yeah he would've had Bojangles with him
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
or Popeyes -- I forget
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 August 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Nothing in "Modern Film" annoys me more than QT's refusal to direct someone else's story again (yeah it's been said before, bt still)
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
The movie's backbone is Ordell's wornout support system finally disintegrating to me, dunno if that's down to "ppl he likes" letting him down necessarily
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
Guys, let me help you out here. The movie is called Jackie Brown.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
no it's not
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
sure but it's down to SLJ, who suggests that he respects Max and Jackie.
Yeah and under his old values they'd respect him back, bt those times're gone. This also kinda syncs up w how routine and bathetic Beaumont's shooting is, I guess
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 29 August 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
ordell's let down that max doesn't wash his hands
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 29 August 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
does anybody know what music is playing in the scene where ordell is sitting back on his couch in his living room (i think)? for years i wanted to know, could never figure it out on the internet for some reason.
― j., Friday, 29 August 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
"your ass used to be beautiful" is the best
― caek, Friday, 29 August 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
I love the beat that SLJ takes when he and De Niro are sitting in the van trying to figure out wtf happened to the money, before he says, "It was Jackie Brown." Executed wrong it would be "being caught acting," but he does it so perfectly.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Friday, 29 August 2014 11:53 (nine years ago) link
that whole scene has terrific dynamics. Anger at what Louis has done turns to commiseration to rage again.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 August 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
Ebert began his review with that scene:
I like the moment when the veins pop out on Ordell's forehead. It's a quiet moment in the front seat of a van, he's sitting there next to Louis, he's just heard that he's lost his retirement fund of $500,000, and he's thinking hard. Quentin Tarantino lets him think. Just holds the shot, nothing happening. Then Ordell looks up and says, "It's Jackie Brown.'' He's absolutely right. She's stolen his money. In the movies people like him hardly ever need to think. The director has done all their thinking for them. One of the pleasures of "Jackie Brown,'' Tarantino's new film, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, is that everybody in the movie is smart. Whoever is smartest will live.
Say what you will about QT, but he does quiet pretty good too.
― pplains, Friday, 29 August 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
i watched life of crime it was pretty good
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 September 2014 01:53 (nine years ago) link
they def got some of the subtleties of leonards plotting which was cool
been on such an EL binge lately.reading "unknown Man #89" right now.
― ian, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
bobby womack passed a while ago, and this is always relevant anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzRJgZG98I
― busted (art), Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
prob the best ever writer to binge on xp
― lag∞n, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
lagoon do you like richard stark? his parker novels are like candy bars.
― ian, Saturday, 13 September 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link