'Jackie Brown' is a great fucking movie.

Roger Ebert loved it;

"There is a scene here that involves the ex-con Louis (Robert De Niro) and Ordell's druggie mistress (Bridget Fonda) discussing a photograph pinned to the wall, and it's so perfectly written, timed and played that I applauded it."

"It's the only photo I have of Japan... (points at photo) That's Japan."

Great scene.

booya!

Bit where Louis tries to hang up the phone properly is one of the most subtle bits of weed - concentration acting I've seen

best movie

max going to the mall to buy the delphonics tape

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, Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:01 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

came to say essentially this, glad to see it's already been said. in recent months I've read Swag, Tishomingo Blues, and City Primeval, and the first two in particular would make terrific films in the right hands.

I saw this at the cinema the night before last, it still rules. De Niro is so funny as a dude with nothing going on upstairs

Were Get Shorty or Out of Sight good movies? I can't really be bothered to re-watch them. I guess Out of Sight at least gets points for bringing back the Michael Keaton character.

Out of Sight is really good!

Rewatched JB a few days ago w a friend who'd never seen it, still a totally delightful movie

De Niro is so funny as a dude with nothing going on upstairs

He really is. He should have played more dumb guys.

Get Shorty is a lot of fun too.

now he plays smart guys dumbly

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Hooked on Delphonics, it's happened to many of us.

"Nothing going on upstairs" is the perfect description, too. Over his 20 or so minutes of screentime he never once displays the spark of inner life or independent thought. He's barely sentient.

I hate Get Shorty. Out of Sight is pretty good. JB is leagues ahead of both tho.

Justified is one of my favorite shows ever

casting DeNiro in that role was genius

QT must have been a big Justified fan too given he's recently cast Goggins, Olyphant and Herriman

imagine if quentin tarantino had devoted his career to adapting elmore leonard instead of whatever it was that he did

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if the coen brothers adapted elmore leonard

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i downloaded all the elmore leonard books onto my iphone five

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lol

i love out of sight i rank it second in the elmore leonard adaptations, get shorty is fun but it doesnt really nail the leonard vibe turns it into a goofy overblown thing

the Karen Sisco series w/ Carla Gugino is pretty solid too

De Niro is so funny as a dude with nothing going on upstairs

He really is. He should have played more dumb guys.

He just got an Emmy nomination for doing so.

This is, no hyperbole, the most blatantly awful “performance” I’ve ever seen nominated for any award by any awards-giving body. Razzies included. https://t.co/zQYmN5aLXm

— Mike D’Angelo (@gemko) July 16, 2019

(To clarify, the shittiness of his performance made it seem as though he was playing Mueller as a dumb guy.)

i love this movie. its got more heart than any other tarantino film

I co-signed lag∞n’s tweet at the time and I will co-sign it now, if qt is really only gonna make 10 films he will have wasted 9 of them not adapting Leonard

I love how the mall (the food court, AMC theater, dept store) is a supporting actor. It should've gotten an Oscar nomination.

Justified is one of my favorite shows ever

that show really has the best ending, i loved all the tedious and offtm speculation about how it would wrap things up bc it was as if no one had watched the show at all and was just guessing based on other shows.

Boyd asks why Raylan went out of his way to deliver the news in person, and answers himself, "We dug coal together", to which Raylan responds, "That's right."

"...is that Rutger Hauer?"

love Jackie Brown. I think i like Out of Sight a bit more, but I'll have to rescreen both of them to confirm. it's close either way.

Get Shorty is good, it's got a bunch of great performances and it's vv entertaining. It's just a bit more minor, and there's not much heart to it. maybe that's the case with the novel too but i doubt it.

"your ass used to be beautiful" is my favorite line in this (great) movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e7wbs_xfas

iconic

One of the small subtle touches is that Ordell has a respect for Max Cherry -- like, Max keeps surpassing his expectations (cool in the face of danger, the Delfonics, etc).

did his ass used to be beautiful tho?? guess we have to take Ordell's word for it

we dug coal together legit one of the greatest scenes in history

I’m sort of stuck on Max not washing his hands after using the bathroom

I love how the mall (the food court, AMC theater, dept store) is a supporting actor. It should've gotten an Oscar nomination.

i saw Jackie Brown at the Del Amo Mall in Torrance, where those scenes were (mostly?) shot. it was weird!

did strawberry letter 23 play when you walked out of the theater

awesome xp

I’ve hated every Tarantino film since, but this is a masterpiece imo.

It’s certainly the QT film that has the most replay value for me, which is directly related to the fact that it’s his least affected film. I always think of it as the only QT film that actually takes place on what is recognizable as planet Earth as we know it, populated by identifiable Earth Humans.

One of the small subtle touches is that Ordell has a respect for Max Cherry -- like, Max keeps surpassing his expectations (cool in the face of danger, the Delfonics, etc).

LOL that difference and range are a virtue not a fault

It’s funny to imagine what this movie would look like if it was made in QTs post Jackie Brown dgaf style.

“Uh uh uh - I didn’t hear you wash your hands!”
“My what?”
“Your hands - I didn’t hear you wash them.”
“Wash my hands?”
“Those very hands.”
“These hands here?”
“Clean, scrub, disinfect, sanitize. Wash.”
“These hands?”
“Those motherfuckin hands.”
Etc etc etc

lol otm

Thats more like post-IB (ie the death of his editor)