Which movie?

[Usarka]

Tarantine Rodriguez fest. Whats the best if the best. I've subjectively exlcuded those I deem crap (even though I left in RDogs which i dont like).

Are you a mexican or a mexican't?

[Usarka]

To the person who voted sin city - just watchin it now and it's a serious contendor.

That and duck till dawn - how many peoples heads did that fuck with.

[Big Dave]

Pulp fiction's circular script and the way you can start it at any scene and it will come back to the same spot make it a classic piece of cinema.

The rest are just violent movies.

[Drew]

Pulp fiction's circular script and the way you can start it at any scene and it will come back to the same spot make it a classic piece of cinema.

The rest are just violent movies.


Sin City has been shot in a similar vein methinks Dave.

[Big Dave]

Sin City has been shot in a similar vein methinks Dave.


And the comic book effect is enthralling.
But there can only be one original - anything.

[Gubb]

Dusk till Dawn was a complete headfuck.

Started out as a perfectly normal bank robbery, ended up as something completely different. Certainly didn't expect that, then again, most of what I remember focus around a certain albino snake.

[jrandom]

The rest are just violent movies.

You shouldn't really dismiss Sin City like that.

Mind you, the story with Clive Owen was a bit weak and formulaic.

But Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis's subplots were superb cinema, no two ways about it.


... there can only be one original - anything.

Stories told on film can be (and have been) just as good as, or better than, the books that inspired them.

Bladerunner, The Ice Storm...

And the second film version of 'Solaris' was better than the first.

[jrandom]

I left in RDogs which i dont like

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[Big Dave]

You shouldn't really dismiss Sin City like that.

Yeah OK - but I could still argue it's merely a violent comic strip with a 'killer' effects.

Spaaaarta.

Name another Pulp?

[martybabe]

I wanted to vote for pulp and sin city, Oh well, Pulp's the one. I really liked True romance as well.

3.00 mins on is superb

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[Big Dave]

Let's update that score at home.

Originals - 65 Million.
Sequels - 2

:-)

[Sully60]

Hmmm, it's a tough call, Sin City is mesmerising (JA gyrating will do that!)in it's fantasy comic book nature it's also a little different from the ordinary Joe in the extraordinary scenario which is a theme that seems to run though Tarantino's work.
Suppose that's a product of not producing the original material though.

I voted for Dusk Till Dawn though, as Gubb said it's just a complete head fuck in the middle of the film and I like Chicken Pussy!

Usarka would this film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113101/fullcredits#directors) rate a mention? Not all the masters work but an entertaining film none the less. The scene with Quentin, Tim Roth and the zippo is one of the classics IMHO.

[jrandom]

Name another Pulp?

It'll always be one of the highlights of twentieth century cinema.

I just think Sin City's a great film, is all. Shouldn't be dismissed.

Also, Kill Bill was bollocks, but the soundtrack album is my favouritest ever. Tarantino's two strengths are writing and directing pointless conversation so that it sounds witty and profound, and choosing absolutely super music.

[jrandom]

Let's update that score at home.

Originals - 65 Million.
Sequels - 2

Who's talking about sequels? I thought we were discussing adaptations of books or remakes of earlier movies.

Also, given that no originals have actually been proposed and agreed as being better, I make it Originals - 0.

Not to mention that it's not a scored competition - you presented a falsifiable proposition which has been duly falsified.

:sunny:

Edit: Also, er... I mentioned three.

[Big Dave]

It'll always be one of the highlights of twentieth century cinema.

I just think Sin City's a great film, is all. Shouldn't be dismissed.


But the question is 'which movie' - no mamby pamby also runnings

(re three - I don't agree with one.)

[jrandom]

But the question is 'which movie'

I wasn't addressing that, I was addressing this:


The rest are just violent movies.

Which is ill-considered; Sin City gets a head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest second placing. Snot 'just a violent movie'.


(re three - I don't agree with one.)

I wait with bated breath in the hope of finding out which.

A small part of me suspects that you're still deciding on that.

:msn-wink:

[Trumpess]

They are all great movies!
I voted Dusk till Dawn.

Other stan outs include Pulp Fiction and Sin City.
Tarentino is excellent!

[Gubb]

Yeah OK - but I could still argue it's merely a violent comic strip with a 'killer' effects.

Spaaaarta.

Name another Pulp?

It'd odd, but Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels always struck the same chord with me that Pulp Fiction did.

I think it's just the ways that the stories intertwined.

[jrandom]

It'd odd, but Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels always struck the same chord with me that Pulp Fiction did.

S'funny, I was going to say the same thing, but I've never watched Lock Stock sober, so I wasn't sure whether I'd just be talking bollocks.

[Indiana_Jones]

Close between Reservoir dogs and Pulp fiction,

Went with Dogs, not sure way, guess i like seening Chris Penn in fat mode lol

But those are Tarantino's only 2 good films, he's too over rated and believes all the BS written about him really.

-Indy

[jrandom]

... he's too over rated and believes all the BS written about him really.

007XX met him in a bar once and reckons he's a slimeball.

I told her she should've just taken her shoes off.

[Big Dave]

Snot 'just a violent movie'.



(laughing) Compared to pulp fiction it is.

[jrandom]

(laughing) Compared to pulp fiction it is.

A majority of film critics (http://au.rottentomatoes.com/m/sin_city/) disagree with you.

"It’s violent, it’s sexist, it’s clichéd and it’s trashy. And for once those are all plus-points."

I guess if you gotta ask, you'll never understand...

Edit: You are still trying to decide which of my three remakes you didn't like, aren't you? :laugh:

[Big Dave]

It'd odd, but Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels always struck the same chord with me that Pulp Fiction did.

I think it's just the ways that the stories intertwined.

Trainspotting i thought the standout in that genre.

[Sully60]

Trainspotting i thought the standout in that genre.

Despite being a very gutted version of the original story.

[jrandom]

Trainspotting i thought the standout in that genre.

'That genre'?

What, movies with lower-class British characters in them?

That's a bit broad to be a 'genre'.

Although, admittedly, this thread was overdue for the use of the word 'genre'. You totally get cool points for being first.

[Big Dave]

Although, admittedly, this thread was overdue for the use of the word 'genre'. You totally get cool points for being first.

If you find anyone with the cred to award them let me know.

[Winston001]

It'd odd, but Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels always struck the same chord with me that Pulp Fiction did.

I think it's just the ways that the stories intertwined.

Completely OT but saw "In Bruges" the other day. It's a worthy successor to Lock Stock and Snatch. Same idiom.

[MTW]

...Tarantino's two strengths are writing and directing pointless conversation so that it sounds witty and profound, and choosing absolutely super music.

I went with Pulp for exactly this reason...YEARS ago my work mates and I would sit outside at lunch break with a tape recording of the dialogue from various parts of this movie and listen to it. Without the picture it's still just as brilliant and just as enjoyable.

[Tank]

Pulp fiction. 100%

Love that movie and watched again just the other day.

I would vote on the poll - but Im still restricted till April'ish (from memory)

[Trudes]

I love Kill Bill and especially loved Kill Bill 2. Loved them. Natural Born Killlers is one of my favs, it was based on a Tarantino screenplay I think, so not sure if it can really be put in this category, but WTF.

[WhatThe???]

I liked Kill Bill, Hostel 2 was alright too :)

[wbks]

Hostel 2 seemed like a big let down. I was hoping to see all the ends tied up for atleast be elaborated a little but all the dude was just killed off at the start. Not even sure if I watched it the whole was through. The bloodbath (literally) was just a tad strange...

[FlangMasterJ]

Yeah Tarantino's acting was appalling in Hostel 2. The scene with the helicopter chasing the Lambo was pretty well done.

[Usarka]

IMHO Pulp Fiction was a groundbreaking movie one that marked new era in movie making. Sure there were similar ones before but none that left their mark. It had humour, great dialogue, sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.

Duck toll Dawn rates high purely for the fact that it fucked with so many heads. Those that didn't know the plot were jizzing themselves over the clooney/kietel thriller then where left shell shocked at the first site of a vampire at the tittie twister. It was like watching someone actually slip on a banana skin, not sure which was funnier the movies or the audience reaction.

Sinc City was movie making brilliance. Plot is only part of a movie, something tarantinio and rodreguiz undersand.

Haven seen 4 rooms,must check it out.

Desperado was a classic Roderiguez movie, equalled it not bettered by planet terror. Once upon a time in mexico was one line "Are you a mexican, or are you a mexi-can't".

[rachprice]

mmm i cant decide i love them all....i kinda view kill bill as one big movie though

[retro asian]

Kill Bill I&II should count as one movie...

[SixPackBack]

Hard to believe any discussion is necessary?.........Pulp Fiction ushered in an era that restarted John Travolta's career and created other stars. Kill Bill followed along nicely, but really not in the same league. Sin City was absolute shite-I asked for my money back; additionally it cemented my belief special effects are best used for SF.

Pulp Fiction for the win.

Some other movies (http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/album.php?albumid=974) for your interest.

[Hitcher]

From Dusk Til Dawn. Selma Hayek. Whoar.

[Sully60]

From Dusk Til Dawn. Selma Hayek. Whoar.

+1. Never so much in my life have I wanted to be a White Python.

[jrandom]

Kill Bill I&II should count as one movie...

Kill Bill I & II should have received the services of a good post-production editor and been trimmed, along with the director's ego, to a single film of reasonable length. Might have actually been a good 'un then.

[Sidewinder]

hahaha what about his lamest movies?
Hostel1
Hostel2
Hostel3

yea they are pretty shit, may of been good if there wernt like 50 movies that were basicly the same that didnt come out before them