― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
dude!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
It's a GOOD movie, but Tarantino is/was the most overhyped talented person on the planet. (He and Jimmy Kimmel after the Oscars: two geeks getting ready to watch 16 hours of splatter movies til their girlfriends come back from vacation.)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Jackie Brown is just so good, though. I need to buy me a copy of it so I can re-watch the dressing room scene.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure there are other more over-hyped talented people (and fare more over-hyped LESS talented people.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
And I just remembered Pam was better in Mars Attacks! :D How is she on The L Word?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
i remember seeing it when it came out, and the cinema was packed with people who (like me, facing it) wanted another quote-packed 'pulp fiction'. and we didn't get it, and i think we were all a bit put out
so otm. was disappointed with this the first time round, but watched it again last night, and it's great.
― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
greatest. not to mention the best ever adaptation of a leonard book imo.
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 1 April 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^cosign
― Jack traded Milky-White to the troll for a magical (remy bean), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
luv dis movie
― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not sure I can call this my absolute favorite QT movie - but its the one I come back to the most often. Although, looking at my shelves right now, I have no idea what happened to my DVD copy.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
this is some repugnant shit
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 1 April 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
not to mention the best ever adaptation of a leonard book imo.
I dunno. I have a lot of love for the movie of Get Shorty. Two totally different tones, obv. Both great Leonard movies, though.
― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not sure I can call this my absolute favorite QT movie
I hesitate myself, but I think... ok, yeah. I can say that. Jackie Brown is my favorite QT movie.
― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
IB beats this imho
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I will fight you!
No wait... I won't.
― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
whew shakey got all shaky there for a sec
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
is there an anigif of robert deniro having stand-up style intercourse with jane fonda's daughter yet
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
jane's niece, peter's daughter
― my full government name (WmC), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
fine but my primary point is the anigif, is there one
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
So good. It's always been my favourite, though maybe Basterds matches it? Time will tell. But I watched JB again only last week, oddly enough. Everyone is so good in this, even Chris Tucker ("you're catching a nigga off guard with this shit"), and the whole switch scene in the mall is just brilliant.
― Duke Newsom (DavidM), Thursday, 1 April 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Lemme rip the movie, see what I can do. This could take a little while.
― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
you would
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Jackie Brown - Get Shorty - Out Of Sight is like the trifecta of great Leonard adaptations.
― Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Hey don't request a gif and then insult me for offering. Doo-doo head.
― kenan, Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i never requested a gif dog i just said is there one! so chill with the ad hominem attacks you rapist
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
It's always been my favourite, though maybe Basterds matches it?
This.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 2 April 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
that one scene where the car leaves and comes back and the camera just stays in the same spot is awesome
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 2 April 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
the camera is lifted or whatever but the whole effect it gets is great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 2 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
so chill with the ad hominem attacks you rapist
Ok that's kind of funny.
― kenan, Friday, 2 April 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Ripped the whole movie, and was just about to whittle it down to a little animated gif, but decided that it wouldn't be funny enough without the punchline at the end: DeNiro saying, "That hit the spot."
― kenan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Followed by a brief scene of Robert Forster in a record store buying a cassette. Which made me sad, because I bought so many cassettes in so many record stores, and now those stores don't exist at all.
Yeah, I watched the whole movie again. It sucks you in. It's that good.
― kenan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 12:52 (fourteen years ago) link
RG: My favourite film you've made is 'Jackie Brown', and I was sorry to hear you were cool on it.
QT: I have never talked bad against Jackie Brown!
RG: But you said it was the film you felt most distanced from while you were making it.
QT: That's true, but that did not mean that I don't love Jackie Brown. No, no, no, no, not at all. This comes up, and I couldn't love Jackie Brown more. However - when I was making it there was a slight… Let me put it like this. With Inglourious Basterds, every aspect of it is a product of my imagination. Until I filled up those 160 pages, there was no Inglourious Basterds, it was completely created by me: the characters, the backstory, mythology, even the stuff that never finds its way into the movie but which I know about. Now, Jackie Brown is not that way. As different as the movie is from the book, there is a second-hand quality to it. It is Elmore Leonard's. I completely made it my own. Having said that, it did already exist. And I didn't know I'd have that feeling until when I was in post-production, and I found myself losing patience with the process. And that's the hardest part for me, when you're kind of over it, and you still have to do colour timing; the sound mix gets wonderful and sounds like a proper movie, but it's also hard work getting there.
RG: Is there a sense in which a person whose favourite movie of yours is 'Jackie Brown' could be said to not really 'get' you and what you're about?
QT: No. I love Jackie Brown. Although I do actually think, truthfully, that it's easy to call Jackie Brown my best movie. It's easy.
RG: How so?
QT: Well, there's a maturity to it that you can very officially hang your hat on. It's dealing with older characters. And the three-dimensional aspects of the movie… well, it's become almost revisionist among critics to love that. I was not given that much credit for the long, three-dimensional aspects at the time. When the movie came out, it was like, “Get fucking to it. Get on with it.” Now everyone seems to feel differently about it. That's not me being a smartass. The thing about Jackie Brown is that it gains a tremendous amount upon second, third, fourth viewings, and people had to go through that. And now they're there.
The thing is - and I'm being a bit of a smartass here, but in a fun way - that was literally what I always intended. I always intended Jackie Brown to be like Rio Bravo, which I feel is a great 'hangout' movie. Jackie Brown is a hangout movie. And that was always intended. I'm sincere about this. I thought that, if you liked Jackie Brown, then maybe it'd be a movie you'd watch every three years or every five years, and when you did, it would be almost like Jackie and Ordell and Max Cherry would be your friends, and you'd hang out with them every time you watched it. Dazed and Confused is a movie like that. So I always knew it'd take years for people, if they liked it, to get a sense of what I was doing.
At the same time, you know, if you watch Pulp Fiction tomorrow, you would go, “Wow, look at what he did here.” I mean, the experiments I did in that movie are still very bold. My point being: it's very easy to say Jackie Brown is your favourite. Look, I'm not trying to talk you out of that, but take a look at some of the other ones again and… you know, it's easy to take the others for granted.
― caek, Sunday, 4 April 2010 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Jackie Brown is a hangout movie.
Spoken like someone to whom "hanging out" means nothing more than watching movies.
I take his point, but fuck it, it's even more my favorite having just watched it again. I like the way that Elmore Leonard gives it a paperback structure that QT would have avoided otherwise. I love that is has these chapters, and that each of them end with some majorly punchy dialog and a fade-out. As a movie, it's a real page-turner.
― kenan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
will possibly be the last good one we see from him, unless he does more adaps.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 April 2010 15:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Did I just hear you say that QT made a good movie?
― kenan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a GOOD movie, but ...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, March 8, 2006 4:53 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― caek, Sunday, 4 April 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
haha Ok.
― kenan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Tarantino is/was the most overhyped talented person on the planet
he's undeniably talented, and i don't think he's the most overhyped, but i do think he's plenty overhyped. his biggest strengths: snappy dialogue and style. but many times his movies aren't much beyond those two elements, and there's an unseemly quality to them that gets grating.
having said that, i like tarantino's films. i just rented inglorious bastards. the revisionist-history and revenge-aspect of the film appeals to me as a jewish man.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 April 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"I'm being a bit of a smartass here, but in a fun way"
― kenan, Sunday, 4 April 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Off topic, maybe, but I'd LOVE to see a Tarantino adaptation of Swag, set in '70s Detroit before every liquor store had a surveillance camera. The city could use the money, and T could use another good coffee break of a movie, which that book is even truer to than Rum Punch. And maybe he could improve the ending--as he did with Rum Punch. Jackie Brown's not a great movie for me because it just doesn't feel like it's really happening most of the time--I thought Forster and Grier were "pretty good," but every scene with Samuel L. Jackson crackles.
― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 5 April 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
lol ppTarantino more about footprints anyway surely
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
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QT while he's editing one of the numerous female foot shoots in his movies
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
Oh no, someone accidentally added sexual overtones to the scene in Jackie Brown where the first woman Louis has seen in many years seduces him, in a manner that establishes her propensity for boundary-pushing. No wonder Sally Menke got fired for this blunder.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link