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Post by Frameous on May 1, 2011 14:29:15 GMT -5
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Post by Shep on May 2, 2011 2:11:50 GMT -5
Very nice! QT's films are always worth a watch imo. (I'm on a Western kick lately, too. Have recently watched "The Wild Bunch" and "Duck You Sucker" and am planning on watching "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" in the near future) |
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Post by Frameous on May 2, 2011 2:42:00 GMT -5
Have you seen My Name Is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name, and The Shooting? Those are the films that made me take notice and rediscover westerns. Those films fueled my passion for the timeless genre. I've since worked backward and tried to reverse engineer my understanding of it all.
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Post by Shep on May 2, 2011 3:33:46 GMT -5
Have you seen My Name Is Nobody, They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name, and The Shooting? Those are the films that made me take notice and rediscover westerns. Those films fueled my passion for the timeless genre. I haven't seen "The Shooting." I'll definitely check that out. Those other films you mentioned are excellent. I got in a huge argument with a guy at work about a month ago because he said "Once Upon A Time In The West" was pointless and boring. I basically told him he had "no attention span and no eye for visual poetry" lol. A great film and possibly Henry Fonda's finest performance. |
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Post by Frameous on May 2, 2011 3:49:06 GMT -5
OUaTitW blew my socks off, as did The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Leone is a master and his abandon for average movie going time constraints really speaks to me. This damn the torpedoes type of sentiment is the hallmark of a true artist. He knew the artistry of mes en scene and made his mark at an important time in film making history.
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Post by Mitchell on May 6, 2011 18:10:58 GMT -5
Very nice! QT's films are always worth a watch imo. I don't know. He's become so self-indulgent lately that I find him bordering on self-parody. I know I'm in the minority, but I didn't care for Inglorious Basterds. The movie was more about that woman with the theater and the somewhat-nice Nazi kid (who couldn't act AT ALL) than the Basterds. I know people really enjoyed it, but it almost was like Tarantino was trying too hard to make a Tarantino Movie. |
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Post by BJ on May 6, 2011 18:59:27 GMT -5
^That's exactly how I felt. All the right ingredients were there for a fun movie, but I just didn't care for it. Death Proof was an even bigger disappointment. Grindhouse, a Vanishing Point homage, Kurt Russell, YEA! And then I almost fell asleep in the theater.
Also, and entirely unrelated, but your Estrada avatar creeps me out. The writing on his sunglasses makes him look like one of the bad guys from "They Live".
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Post by Frameous on May 6, 2011 21:59:57 GMT -5
I'VE GOT ONE THAT CAN SEE!
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Post by mrmeadows on May 6, 2011 22:15:39 GMT -5
Inglorious Basterds was a fairly mature departure for QT in my opinion....certainly not self-parody. If it WERE all about the Basterds beating the crap out of Nazis, that would be self-parody. I thought it deserved the accolades, and makes this upcoming Western all the more promising.
Death Proof, I will agree, was way over-indulgent with his "clever" dialogue. The only problem was most of it wasn't clever. The final chase was cool, but getting there was a chore.
But I'm down for anything this guy puts out there. I'll probably watch this opening weekend. He's had more hits than misses for me.
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Post by Shep on May 7, 2011 4:31:52 GMT -5
Inglorious Basterds was a fairly mature departure for QT in my opinion....certainly not self-parody. If it WERE all about the Basterds beating the crap out of Nazis, that would be self-parody. I thought it deserved the accolades, and makes this upcoming Western all the more promising. Death Proof, I will agree, was way over-indulgent with his "clever" dialogue. The only problem was most of it wasn't clever. The final chase was cool, but getting there was a chore. But I'm down for anything this guy puts out there. I'll probably watch this opening weekend. He's had more hits than misses for me. Absolutely agree! He's one of a handful of directors (along with Paul Thomas Anderson, Mike Leigh, Terrence Malick, etc) whose work I always look forward to. |
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Post by mrmeadows on May 7, 2011 11:50:59 GMT -5
Absolutely agree! He's one of a handful of directors (along with Paul Thomas Anderson, Mike Leigh, Terrence Malick, etc) whose work I always look forward to. Yes sir. I do need to catch up with my Mike Leigh viewing, but Malick's newest film looks very intriguing. What's PTA up to? I heard he was doing a movie about Scientology's origins (not called Scientology in the movie, but a thinly-veiled representation), but that the project "fell through". MODIFY: I just went to IMDB and answered my own question. It looks like it's back in pre-production with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the Hubbard part (I think it was originally Daniel Day Lewis). The working title is "The Master". I'm sure he only cast Hoffman since Lee Van Cleef is no longer with us. |
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