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[Homerboy]

Many, many times in my life I've used the expression "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw" but couldnt remember where I learned it.
Apparently it was used in Heathers. But I never watched Heathers until today. Cant remember where I heard it first.

Also, Heathers is excellent, mostly cuz of the nasty one-liners.

I love my dead gay son.

 

[Muse]

I don't like Roger Ebert

Ok, I paraphrase you there, don't want to find your disparaging characterization of my fave movie critic.

Tell me this review is anything but brilliant (it ain't):
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Pulp Fiction
US (1994): Drama/Crime/Comedy
Roger Ebert Review: 4.0 stars out of 4

154 min, Rated R, Color

Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn't care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking. His new movie PULP FICTION is a comedy about blood, guts, violence, strange sex, drugs, fixed fights, dead body disposal, leather freaks, and a wristwatch that makes a dark journey down through the generations.

Seeing this movie last May at the Cannes Film Festival, I knew it was either one of the year's best films, or one of the worst. Tarantino is too gifted a filmmaker to make a boring movie, but he could possibly make a bad one: Like Edward D. Wood, Jr., proclaimed the Worst Director of All Time, he's in love with every shot—intoxicated with the very act of making a movie. It's that very lack of caution and introspection that makes PULP FICTION crackle like an ozone generator: Here's a director who's been let loose inside the toy store, and wants to play all night.

The screenplay, by Tarantino and Roger Avary, is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it—the noses of those zombie writers who take "screenwriting" classes that teach them the formulas for "hit films." Like CITIZEN KANE, PULP FICTION is constructed in such a nonlinear way that you could see it a dozen times and not be able to remember what comes next. It doubles back on itself, telling several interlocking stories about characters who inhabit a world of crime and intrigue, triple-crosses and loud desperation.

The title is perfect. Like those old pulp mags named Thrilling Wonder Stories and Official Detective, the movie creates a world where there are no normal people and no ordinary days—where breathless prose clatters down fire escapes and leaps into the dumpster of doom.

The movie resurrects not only an aging genre but also a few careers. John Travolta stars as Vincent Vega, a mid-level hit man who carries out assignments for a mob boss. We see him first with his partner Jules (Samuel L. Jackson); they're on their way to a violent showdown with some wayward yuppie drug dealers, and are discussing such mysteries as why in Paris they have a French word for Quarter Pounders. They're as innocent in their way as Huck and Jim, floating down the Mississippi and speculating on how foreigners can possibly understand each other.

Travolta's career is a series of assignments he can't quite handle. Not only does he kill people inadvertently ("The car hit a bump!"), but he doesn't know how to clean up after himself. Good thing he knows people like Mr. Wolf (Harvey Keitel), who specializes in messes, and has friends like the character played by Eric Stoltz, who owns a big medical encyclopedia, and can look up emergency situations.

Travolta and Uma Thurman have a sequence that's funny and bizarre. She's the wife of the mob boss (Ving Rhames), who orders Travolta to take her out for the night. He turns up stoned, and addresses an intercom with such grave, stately courtesy Buster Keaton would have been envious. They go to Jack Rabbit Slim's, a 1950's theme restaurant where Ed Sullivan is the emcee, Buddy Holly is the waiter, and they end up in a twist contest. That's before she overdoses and Stoltz, waving a syringe filled with adrenaline, screams at Travolta, "YOU brought her here, YOU stick in the needle! When I bring an O.D. to YOUR house, I'LL stick in the needle!"

Bruce Willis and Maria de Medeiros play another couple: He's a boxer named Butch Coolidge who is supposed to throw a fight, but doesn't. She's his sweet, naive girlfriend, who doesn't understand why they have to get out of town RIGHT AWAY. But first he needs to make a dangerous trip back to his apartment to pick up a priceless family heirloom—a wristwatch. The history of this watch is described in a flashback, as Vietnam veteran Christopher Walken tells young Butch about how the watch was purchased by his great-grandfather, Private Doughboy Orion Coolidge, and has come down through the generations—and through a lot more than generations, for that matter. Walken's monologue builds to the movie's biggest laugh.

The method of the movie is to involve its characters in sticky situations, and then let them escape into stickier ones, which is how the boxer and the mob boss end up together as the captives of weird leather freaks in the basement of a gun shop. Or how the characters who open the movie, a couple of stick-up artists played by Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer, get in way over their heads. Most of the action in the movie comes under the heading of crisis control.

If the situations are inventive and original, so is the dialogue. A lot of movies these days use flat, functional speech: The characters say only enough to advance the plot. But the people in PULP FICTION are in love with words for their own sake. The dialogue by Tarantino and Avary is off the wall sometimes, but that's the fun. It also means that the characters don't all sound the same: Travolta is laconic, Samuel L. Jackson is exact, Plummer and Roth are dopey lovey-doveys, Keitel uses the shorthand of the busy professional, Thurman learned how to be a moll by studying soap operas.

It is part of the folklore that Tarantino used to work as a clerk in a video store, and the inspiration for PULP FICTION is old movies, not real life. The movie is like an excursion through the lurid images that lie wound up and trapped inside all those boxes on the Blockbuster shelves. Tarantino once described the old pulp mags as cheap, disposable entertainment that you could take to work with you, and roll up and stick in your back pocket. Yeah, and not be able to wait until lunch, so you could start reading them again.

 

[shortylickens]

Forgot to mention:
I should have seen Heathers in 1988, not 2017. Would have made a world of difference in my mental instability.

 

[AdamK47]

Forgot to mention:
I should have seen Heathers in 1988, not 2017. Would have made a world of difference in my mental instability.

You have mental instability?

 

[shortylickens]

You have mental instability?

NOT ENOUGH!

 

[zerocool84]

A) The Jerk is a timeless (much overlooked and forgotten about) classic
B) Sandler, Stiller... not funny. Rogan funny. Farley hysterical.

Rogan is not funny at all. Worse than Sandler.

 

[Muse]

I, Tonya

Starring Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding. This was a fucking awesome movie. thats all I will say about it. Go watch it.

It is very high on my to-watch list, but I'll wait until my library has it. Mick LaSalle's review in the S.F. Chronicle a week ago was off the charts inspired.

 

[Muse]

Saw Titanic again. 10/10

Cried. sniff sniff. You can't tell me that you've never cried watching that movie!

Probably every time. One of my all time favorites. Gonna have to wait a few years to see it again, though. I've seen it 5 times, last time in July 2014.

Great line: "You're so full of shit, boss!"

 

[DigDog]

it's not hard to love Pulp Fiction. Ebert fails when he doesn't see the appeal of films like Commando.

 

[Muse]

Escape from New York (1981, John Carpenter) 0/10

What an unmitigated piece of crap that is. Hit ^ about 1/2 hour in.

 

[Muse]

it's not hard to love Pulp Fiction. Ebert fails when he doesn't see the appeal of films like Commando.

You're talking about what? The 1964 Italian film? More likely the 1985 Schwarzeneger vehicle. Seems like a B movie for sure.

Besides, IMO the reviewer who gets every movie doesn't exist, and that absolutely includes you. When Ebert is spot on, he's peerless. Yes, he can miss entirely, that's the nature of his profession. It's impossible to get it right all the time, so caveat emptor.

Leonard Maltin's review of Commando (1985):

Commando
US (1985): Action
Leonard Maltin Review: 2.0 stars out of 4

88 min, Rated R, Color, Available on videocassette and laserdisc

Exceptionally noisy comic-book yarn about retired special agent Schwarzenegger, who's forced to go back into action when vengeful goons kidnap his daughter. Film's sense of humor (courtesy scripter Steven E. de Souza) is largely obliterated by all the noise and mindless violence. For undiscriminating action fans.

 

[Homerboy]

Rogan is not funny at all. Worse than Sandler.

He himself might not be a better comedian, but his movies are infinitely better.

 

[Homerboy]

Escape from New York (1981, John Carpenter) 0/10

What an unmitigated piece of crap that is. Hit ^ about 1/2 hour in.

LOL WHAT?! Your opinions on not just movies, but everything, are now null and void.

 

[DigDog]

i'm right and everyone else is wrong

Look at Commando. This has nothing of the "for action fans only". I'm not saying that action fans wouldn't enjoy it, but If A = B also means If B = A. I don't think fans of Commando would also like Invasion U.S.A, because people who like Commando like it because Schwartzenegger is awesome. He is strong to the point of embodying the human ideal, oozes charisma, has a unique sense of humour, and is blessed with an accent which leads to film quotes for days. And our friendly reviewer does not get that because he's not a consumer, he's an overpaid self-important fake intellectual who would do anything to cling to his job, and while you may disapprove of the first three, the fourth is factual, if you're a film critic of the caliber of Siskel or Ebert it's not like you can let someone else have your job and you can go filmcritiquing somewhere else for the same money; in other words, it's not their opinion, it's their job.

 

[DigDog]

you know Muse, i like you, and i will continue to like you even after reading that you do not like Escape From New York. It will not be as easy, but i will continue to like you.

Plissken! Come In !! What are you doing Snake!!

(Plissken, while piloting a ultralight) "I'm Masturbating"

 

[clamum]

The game is, but not in VR yet..coming this year. They decided to make the VR portion timed exclusive.

For me, so far it's been Alien: Isolation in VR....holy hell that game was tense before....

Oh man, I only have about an hour or so into Alien: Isolation (standard game, no VR) but it is pretty cool and very atmospheric. Didn't realize you could play it in VR. Gonna have make sure I'm wearing my brown Levis before I play that mofo in VR.

I finally tried watching That 70's Show.

It was horrible. Why did everyone like it?

Eh, I get a laugh out of it. Kelso is an idiot, Red is awesome, Mila is gorgeous, Eric is your standard likeable nice guy. I think it's a pretty decent show, but nothing new really.

I saw Darkest Hour last night... 9/10. Man that was a great movie, especially for history nerds like myself. I think in the story, in general, the civilian "Little Boats" are overstated as to how much they contributed (almost none were piloted by their owners, too) but I'm no super expert and it's a minor complaint that isn't just restricted to this movie. I thought the story, acting, soundtrack were all excellent. Highly recommended if you're into history or even have an interest in it.

 

[purbeast0]

I'm binge watching Breaking Bad for the first time since it finished airing. I'm watching it with my wife who has never seen it. There's a lot of stuff I don't remember that is fun to watch again and be like 'OOOH YYEEAAAHH!!'. I will say though, the show is A LOT slower than I remember it being. We're on episode 4 of season 4 and it just seems way slower than it seemed the first watch through. I remember thinking Better Call Saul was really slow (and I like that show a lot) but I feel it's about the same pace as Breaking Bad is actually.

 

[Homerboy]

I'm binge watching Breaking Bad for the first time since it finished airing. I'm watching it with my wife who has never seen it. There's a lot of stuff I don't remember that is fun to watch again and be like 'OOOH YYEEAAAHH!!'. I will say though, the show is A LOT slower than I remember it being. We're on episode 4 of season 4 and it just seems way slower than it seemed the first watch through. I remember thinking Better Call Saul was really slow (and I like that show a lot) but I feel it's about the same pace as Breaking Bad is actually.

I was underwhelmed with Breaking Bad. I didn't watch it from the beginning and tried to jump on the bandwagon when it was in full hype mode. Never finished it. It was good, don't get me wrong. It just couldn't live up the expectations that it was given so I moved on.

 

[KeithTalent]

I was underwhelmed with Breaking Bad. I didn't watch it from the beginning and tried to jump on the bandwagon when it was in full hype mode. Never finished it. It was good, don't get me wrong. It just couldn't live up the expectations that it was given so I moved on.

I'm with you in Breaking Bad. It was good, but not great. It all got a bit ridiculous in the later seasons and I didn't really love the characters.

KT

 

[Six]

My memory is a little hazy, but Breaking Bad was great the first season and a half, then it became trash. Also, if you only watched a couple episodes here and there, you'll be bored. This show takes forever to build up to build up to a few powerful scenes. ie. recovering addict girl with the dad, head on tortoise. With that said, there were plenty of stupid, implausible stuff though.

 

[JEDI]

blade runner 2 is 2hr 45min long?!

ugg.. looks like im not watching it tonite

 

[slayer202]

We started it a month or so ago and found it quite good, but life got busy and we haven't gone back to it yet. I also became obsessed with Archer so have not been interested in watching anything else. Definitely planning on watching all of Boardwalk Empire in the new year though.

KT

Let me know what you think of the most recent season or two of Archer. I loved the first few seasons but the last two haven't seemed funny to me. I'm not sure if the writing has gotten lazy or if I've just gotten tired of the characters

 

[DigDog]

i tried watching Slack Bay - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4726636/
but found it insufferably pretentious.

instead, i watched Marshall - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5301662/
police procedural with a twist: it's set in the 1940s, with a black lawyer defending a black defendant in racist America.
the film clearly has a lot of effort put in, but it lacks that je ne sais quoi; the humour is always off-beat, the camera doesn't love the actors, but the acting isn't bad. the photography is excellent, the dialogue has ups and downs. the story is simple and you've seen it before, but again, it's not done badly.

moderately entertaining. 7/10

 

[PottedMeat]

blade runner 2 is 2hr 45min long?!

ugg.. looks like im not watching it tonite

its totally fucking worth it

 

[JEDI]

its totally fucking worth it

re: blade runner 2

so I watched the 1st 45min or so.
turned it off at the 1st plot hole. (but will watch the rest of the movie when I have more free time.)

there's a microscopic serial # in the tiny cut of the bone made by the scalpel?
Wtf?!?!