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I am a huuuuuuuge Tarantino nerd. I think hes God. One of the few truly original filmmakers left in Hollywood.
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I am a huuuuuuuge Tarantino nerd. I think hes God. One of the few truly original filmmakers left in Hollywood.
I am a huuuuuuuge Tarantino nerd. I think hes God. One of the few truly original filmmakers left in Hollywood.
What say you of the "conspiracy" that all of his movies are in the same universe?
Or his foot fetish?
I'm not entirely impressed with him, to be honest. He's a fantastic storyteller, but I feel there a few many scenes that are overly gory just to be gory. Not that I'm opposed to gore, I just feel like, unless properly used, it's an empty gesture used solely for shock value and cheap thrills sometimes.
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A lot of his movies looked great on pre release, and then sucked when you saw them.
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I am a huuuuuuuge Tarantino nerd. I think hes God. One of the few truly original filmmakers left in Hollywood.
I am a huuuuuuuge Tarantino nerd. I think hes God. One of the few truly original filmmakers left in Hollywood.
I hate tarantino with a passion unparalleled by any other hatred I have for entertainment. Why? I can't say I just think he's a douche and all his movies are total unentertaining crap. Resevoir dogs was slightly bearable and that's the highest praise I can muster for any of his films. Of your top five, however, we can agree on one for sure. Jaws is an all time classic.
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I wouldn't put boogie nights in my top five but it was a great film.
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I think Tarantino is a lot like M. Night Shamalyan (sp?). The guys both made some really good movies a while ago and as a result get free realm to keep making crappy movies. I will say though I really like Django Unchained, but almost every thing post 2000's from him I hate.
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How can Goodfellas not be in the top 5?
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Westside Stevie...I also happen to be quite obsessed with cinema. Whats your top 5?
Mine, in no best to worst order....
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Boogie Nights
3. Blade Runner
4. Barton Fink5. Jaws
honorable mention...From Russia With Love, Once Upon A Time In The West, Children Of Men, Raiders Of The Lost ArkWestside Stevie...I also happen to be quite obsessed with cinema. Whats your top 5?
Mine, in no best to worst order....
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Boogie Nights
3. Blade Runner
4. Barton Fink
5. Jaws
honorable mention...From Russia With Love, Once Upon A Time In The West, Children Of Men, Raiders Of The Lost Ark
This is impossible but with Boogie Nights in your top 5 you need some work
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My top five:
Tremors
Tremors 2
Tremors 3
Tremors
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my top 5
Pulp Fiction
Godfather 2
Outlaw Josie Wales
Goodfellas
The Great Escape
Best line from all movies ever..............Outlaw Josie Wales......."Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy"
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Birth of a Nation?
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cmon. you have to judge by genre and classic/80-90's/new cgi, european etc. etc..
you don't even have to have a screenplay to shoot leprechaun v.
classic movie making with true cinematographers focusing on subjects to the correct aperture by the 1/19th of focal length is a lost art nowadays. imagine cutting/editing video by just doing that? cutting and splicing by hand. i became audio/video-wise coming of age in the early 70's, so my top five would go against those who saw movies earlier the i did, even though later in life i watched most of what i wanted to via netflix.
that being said my top five:
1. exorcist
2. seven
3. texas chainsaw massacre
4. tell no one
5. i saw the devil
hon. mention: saving private ryan, a clockwork orange, bullit, dirty harry.....................
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The Deer Hunter
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My top five (in no particular order):
- The Wicker Man (not the Nicholas Cage remake)
- Wings of Desire (not the Nicholas Cage remake
) - Thin Red Line
- The Seventh Seal (woe betide Nicholas Cage doing a remake)
- Badlands (don't you dare Nicholas)
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Hey all of you movie buffs. I would assume that fairly soon this thread will be moved over to West Side Steve's movie reviews and I hope you guys will also check that page out on occasion. I pretty much agree with Mike that it's just about impossible to pick 5 out of the hundreds of thousands of movies without at least separating them by genre.
But I wanted to give one tip of the hat to Mike for selecting Tell No One.
I don't usually bother with many foreign films but I did with this one because it was written by Harlan Coben who I think is the best mystery writer working today.
Also The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are the two scariest movies ever made.
And I put a Clockwork Orange at the top of my list. Albeit my list of favorites.
WSS
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but even though it's impossible to pick only five and this list might sway on a daily basis here are five from me.
A Clockwork Orange
Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
Annie Hall
Rocky
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and while we are on the subject I've always thought it was unfortunate that we hesitate to put comedies on 5 greatest of all time list.
Here are 5 of my favorites keeping in mind that it's nearly impossible to narrow it down to 5.
Animal House
Stripes
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
Hollywood Knights
(And even though it doesn't count as a single film if you take the collective series of Mystery Science Theater 3000 both with Joel and Mike)
And I haven't seen it in decades but I remember Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal in What's Up Doc.
WSS
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Boogie Nights is a masterful ensemble piece with a director at the top of his game. The soundtrack is unbelievable and it is the BEST film about the 1970s period. The cast itself is a spectacle.
I guess I love Tarantino because hes consistently new and abundant in his characters, if anyone here has seen Django, you can see Quentin still has a great eye for lighting and dialogue. Anyone who doesnt like him IMO just hates the dialogue and gets bored by it, which I can see, Pulp Fiction may not be the most technically stunning film, but I love everything about it, and think its perfect besides Butch's girlfriends scene.
No one here has seen Inglorious Bastards? Amazing film. Amazing acting, amazing writing.
Jackie Brown? Alot of ppl say this is his best and most underrated. Give this one a try cuz its his least violent and more subdued.
Death Proof? This is meant to be a bad cheesy movie, but it excels at it. Tarantino is a movie nerd who indulges in the excess that cinema can offer.
Reservoir Dogs, for the budget, is an amazing accomplishment. Has done wonders for the crime genre.
Kill Bill 1 and 2 are great. Good action thrillers that still contain fun comedy and blood splattering. Roger Ebert called the 2nd one "one of the best sequels ever made"
Django is fantastic. Just bloody great.
I can see why people dont like his films, but if your a lover of cinema, i dont see how you couldnt at least respect him for what hes done to film history. He changed the way film violence could be represented and staged. I love him for that.
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