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JamesV

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Proof that Tarantino is little better than a hack

The Salvation 10/10

Shame it takes foreign actors to deliver a real western, but also good because I think some producer out there might back and deliver good non kitschy-films in the genre.

Pulp Fiction was great, and Django was passable, but for all his acclaim, Tarantino can never deliver anything even close to this masterpiece.
 

A Casual Fitz

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Proof that Tarantino is little better than a hack

The Salvation 10/10

Shame it takes foreign actors to deliver a real western, but also good because I think some producer out there might back and deliver good non kitschy-films in the genre.

Pulp Fiction was great, and Django was passable, but for all his acclaim, Tarantino can never deliver anything even close to this masterpiece.

What?
 

Ns1

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Proof that Tarantino is little better than a hack

The Salvation 10/10

Shame it takes foreign actors to deliver a real western, but also good because I think some producer out there might back and deliver good non kitschy-films in the genre.

Pulp Fiction was great, and Django was passable, but for all his acclaim, Tarantino can never deliver anything even close to this masterpiece.

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THE SALVATION (2015)
The Salvation
All Critics | Top Critics
TOMATOMETER

69%
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 47
Rotten: 21
Critics Consensus: It's all but impossible to add anything new or fresh to the traditional Western, but -- thanks in no small part to Mads Mikkelson's performance -- The Salvation comes close.

AUDIENCE SCORE

61%
liked it
Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 4,361'


DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012)
Django Unchained
All Critics | Top Critics
TOMATOMETER

88%
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 248
Fresh: 218
Rotten: 30
Critics Consensus: Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.

AUDIENCE SCORE

91%
liked it
Average Rating: 4.3/5
User Ratings: 422,247
 

DigDog

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sadly, i agree. tarantino did pulp fiction which is a masterpiece, jackie brown which is really good, reservoir dogs which is ok, and everything else (including kill bill) is between passable and bad.

i don't care. his so-so films are still better than most, and who knows when he will deliver again a great film.
 

Xonim

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sadly, i agree. tarantino did pulp fiction which is a masterpiece, jackie brown which is really good, reservoir dogs which is ok, and everything else (including kill bill) is between passable and bad.

i don't care. his so-so films are still better than most, and who knows when he will deliver again a great film.

That's funny, because JB is considered by many to be his worst film. I've never met anyone that actually liked it other than myself. I didn't know you existed.
 

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Oooh ticket presales are available now for The Hateful Eight. Been waiting for them to show up and it hadn't, now I have to figure out my schedule around Christmas. Looks like it'll be 70mm film from 12/24 to 12/31, no published schedule beyond that.
 

ImpulsE69

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It's interesting that The Hateful Eight started out as a sequel to Django (which I still haven't seen...really wasn't interested) - but Hateful Eight looks to be interesting.
 

Xonim

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It's interesting that The Hateful Eight started out as a sequel to Django (which I still haven't seen...really wasn't interested) - but Hateful Eight looks to be interesting.

Django was good, but I don't think it was great. I'm not such a fan of Jamie Foxx, but Christopher Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio are two of my favorites. The problem is, I don't know who I'd have rather had in place of Jamie Foxx. /shrug

I'm hoping Walton Goggins gets a decent chunk of screen time. He was excellent in Justified.
 

Eug

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Another Earth: 7/10

It's a very low budget supposedly sci-fi movie, but in reality it has very little sci-fi in it, and it's more of a character drama. All shot for under $100000, but they did a lot with what they had. Good acting and decent plot, with a few sci-fi ideas behind it.

Dr. Cabbie: I dunno, but I can't seem to finish watching this movie, it's so bad.

It has Kunal Nayyar (the Indian guy from The Big Bang Theory), Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi from Marvel: Agents of Shield), and Vinay Virmani (relative newcomer), and is a comedy about a doctor from India who comes to Canada only to find out his skills are useless, so he becomes a cab driver and ends up running an ad hoc medical clinic out of it. Well, supposedly, but I haven't even gotten that far into the movie yet but the acting is so horrible I'm having trouble sitting through it, even as a show in the background while I work.
 

ImpulsE69

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Crimson Peak - 6.5/10 - This one was tough to rate. The movie itself is decent, but it isn't really what it was advertised as which made it kind of a letdown. Hard to say more than that w/o spoiling plot. The upside is it has Bobby, Jax, Owen and Loki all in the same movie! :D
 
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sadly, i agree. tarantino did pulp fiction which is a masterpiece, jackie brown which is really good, reservoir dogs which is ok, and everything else (including kill bill) is between passable and bad.

i don't care. his so-so films are still better than most, and who knows when he will deliver again a great film.

Ya, I agree with this. I think Reservoir Dogs was pretty horrible. I don't understand the love for it.

But Pulp Fiction. That thing is a masterpiece. But I have to admit something. Any time I see a Tarantino film I have expectations inside me that I will see another epic movie. Sadly, Tarantino set the bar very high early on and in comparison we will probably never get another Pulp Fiction.
 

Eug

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Reservoir Dogs was awesome. Probably his best film, although Pulp Fiction is up there too.
 
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Reservoir Dogs was awesome. Probably his best film, although Pulp Fiction is up there too.

I don't understand what was so great about it. Did I miss something ingenious about the story telling? I'm being serious. I never saw it and bought he DVD maybe 5 years ago. I watched it and felt like I wasted $5.
 

zerocool84

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I don't understand what was so great about it. Did I miss something ingenious about the story telling? I'm being serious. I never saw it and bought he DVD maybe 5 years ago. I watched it and felt like I wasted $5.
The story is secondary to the dialogue and how the characters react to each other. It's a great movie. Tarantino movies always have great dialogue and music.
 

Drako

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This. It's all about the way the characters talk and interact with each other.

Joe: Here are your names: "Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink".
Mr. Pink: "Why am I Mr. Pink?"
Joe: "Because you're a lovely human alright."

Love that :D
 

Ichinisan

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sadly, i agree. tarantino did pulp fiction which is a masterpiece, jackie brown which is really good, reservoir dogs which is ok, and everything else (including kill bill) is between passable and bad.

i don't care. his so-so films are still better than most, and who knows when he will deliver again a great film.

I liked "Inglorious Basterds"

He didn't direct "True Romance," but he wrote it. That's one of my favorite films. Amazing theme by Hans Zimmer. Incredible cast.
 

DigDog

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That's funny, because JB is considered by many to be his worst film. I've never met anyone that actually liked it other than myself. I didn't know you existed.

well, it's a similar effect to the recent star wars phenomena. the fans who loved the story and characters popularized it, and the idiots who like lightsabers and swoosh sounds ruined it.

with tarantino, a vocal minority who loved the revolutionary ideas, the direction, the characters, insane script, irreverence, absurd soundtrack.. helped the film to be noticed, and now everyone who loves chopping limbs with a katana thinks they are the OG fans. that's why kill bill was so popular, it appeals to the lowest denominator.

JB has a great pacing, intense characters, fantastic old-school camera work, and a kind of delicate tension that makes it hard for the fanboys to enjoy. it's like, tarantino's last effort at proper filmmaking.

i did not like inglorious basterds. i think the film is far too static, he set out these characters at the beginning, and they pretty much remain unchanged throughout. nothing compared to the rivers of turbulent emotions shit that the characters in PF/RD have to go through.

i did like .. either (i'm not sure) grindhouse or death proof. and did not like the other. i think grindhouse .. zombies + guns instead of limbs, that kind of thing. homage to japanese gore films and sam raimi's zombie films. well done and fairly entertaining, but nothing comparable in scope to PF.
 
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MongGrel

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The story is secondary to the dialogue and how the characters react to each other. It's a great movie. Tarantino movies always have great dialogue and music.

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I'm a pretty big Tarantino fan myself, and still have never watched Django Unchained all the way through. Somehow I had trouble getting into it myself and never bothered again.

Grindhouse/Death Proof were just fun for the drive in theater type of thing, still always got a kick out of the Machete trailer in it that actually turned into a movie.

I imagine I will soon just because I never have watched it all.

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Have been watching Breaking Bad finally after all this time.

9.4/10

People have always raved about that one over time I'd spoken to.

I was so far behind the show at the time I had never bothered, just finished off season 4.

Going to watch 5 and start Better Call Saul, and catch up on that after.
 
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A Casual Fitz

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I'm a pretty big Tarantino fan myself, and still have never watched Django Unchained all the way through. Somehow I had trouble getting into it myself and never bothered again.

Grindhouse/Death Proof were just fun for the drive in theater type of thing, still always got a kick out of the Machete trailer in it that actually turned into a movie.

I imagine I will soon just because I never have watched it all.

Have been watching Breaking Bad finally after all this time.

9.4/10

People had always raged about that one over time, of course.

I was so far behind the show at the time I had never bothered, just finished off season 4.

Going to watch 5 and start Better Call Saul, and catch up on that after.

Saul was so much better than I expected.
 
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