Schoolio's Movie Corner

[TallGuyCM]

Also, the fact that none of you douchebags put Kill Bill 1 up there is horrible. That movie was fucking brilliant.

Agreed. It seems like in general people prefer 2 to 1 too, which I never understood. KB1 is probably third in my book behind PF and JB.

[Miroir Noir]

And sure, I'll do the Radiohead thing for Tarantino:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill with a preference for the second film over the first
3. Jackie Brown
4. Death Proof
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Inglorious Basterds
7. Django Unchained

[ods..]

Wow. I think Death Proof is the worst thing he's ever done. Guess I gotta revisit that. I'll play:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill 1 and 2 (They're tied for me... I kinda see it as one epic)
3. Reservoir Dogs
4. Jackie Brown
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. Django Unchained
7. Death Proof

I'd even count True Romance and Dusk til Dawn above Death Proof.

2-5 change all day. I don't see Django moving up anytime soon. A lot of fun and a wild homage but it's definitely lacking. Jackie Brown always seems to slip down the list for me, until I rewatch it and remember Ordell's glorious ponytail.

[Starraven]

Just watched Searching For Sugar Man an absolutely loved it. It is an incredible story and the movie does a fantastic job of telling it. It is absolutely heartbreaking that Rodriguez didn't take off in the 70's, because he was an incredibly gifted songwriter and he really deserved it. With that being said, seeing the story unfold and seeing him take the stage again was incredibly uplifting. He just seems like he is the coolest fucking guy in the world and all the attention that this documentary bring him is incredibly justified. I urge all of you to not only watch Searching For Sugar Man, but to also listen to both of Rodriguez' albums, because he is a talent that should not go unknown and it is story that should not go untold.

My bf and I were both enthralled with the ending. Thanks for the recommendation!

[faxman75]

I'm not counting Death Proof. I'm also not splitting Kill Bill into 2 movies.

Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill
Resevoir Dogs
Jackie Brown
Inglorious Basterds
Django

[chairmenmeow47]

• jackie brown
• pulp fiction
• reservoir dogs
• django unchained
• inglorious bastards
• deathproof
• kill bill or "the dick sucking of violence and uma thurman"

[JorgeC]

Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Reservoir Dogs
Inglorious Basterds
Django Unchained
Death Proof

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

I am always surprised at how little people like Death Proof. I love that movie.

[eddiebrock]

What the fuck are you talking about, hillbilly?

Also, the fact that none of you douchebags put Kill Bill 1 up there is horrible. That movie was fucking brilliant.

Had I had listed a top five, Kill Bill would have been right behind django at number 5.

I also really like death proof so that'd be my honorable mention.

[HowToDisappear]

I am always surprised at how little people like Death Proof. I love that movie.

So do I.

[boxofbox]

SPOILERS
Zero Dark Thirty was abysmal. Genuinely shocked at the praise this film has gotten. I had nothing good to say about it by the end.

this! atrocious in terms of cinematic quality (e.g., problems with editing->lacking lingering emotionally cogent moments where appropriate) , character portrayal (e.g., terrible/overly-affected acting by the female lead & yelling CIA guy, dialogue was terribad, casting was iffy (see Chris Pratt)), and content (unabashedly biased/nationalistic: mentioned drone strikes once, perfect example of this is the scene where the hotel is blown and the two CIA agents don't even make an attempt to help anyone but themselves). If this is an accurate portrayal, fuck the CIA (as if this weren't already my sentiment), if not, fuck the Bigelow hype.

[rage patton]

I am always surprised at how little people like Death Proof. I love that movie.

As am I. Kurt Russell killed it. I would love to see him in another Tarantino film.

[CrimesceneCookie]

The last bit in Death Proof is wonderful. It's the rest of the movie with the bloated coked out Tarantino dialogue that made it hard to watch, which also made it hard to enjoy Inglourious Basterds. I assume Django is more of the same.

[RotationSlimWang]

Look, I'm sure there are plenty of analyses out there about how the film punctured all these long-standing racial archetypes about revenge and justice, and how it exposed the visceral reality of slavery for audiences who had never really considered it before. I guess you can find reasons to argue it was redeeming.

But for me, it was a just a pothead making an exploitation shoot-em-up spaghetti western about the darkest stain on our nation's history. Rather than being offensive, it was silly.

So you think it trivialized the plight of the slaves? Or you just don't think that a movie should be allowed to have both slavery and humor?

[Miroir Noir]

Essentially, yes. I'm not concern trolling Django like a lot of people on the right have been doing, but at the end of the day, this was the American holocaust. It trivializes the historical horror of the event by turning it into a Sergio Leone-meets-Shaft flick. I realize QT skated around similar issues in his last movie, but even there he didn't go so far as to set it in fucking Auschwitz or something.

[alyssaf12]

this! atrocious in terms of cinematic quality (e.g., problems with editing->lacking lingering emotionally cogent moments where appropriate) , character portrayal (e.g., terrible/overly-affected acting by the female lead & yelling CIA guy, dialogue was terribad, casting was iffy (see Chris Pratt)), and content (unabashedly biased/nationalistic: mentioned drone strikes once, perfect example of this is the scene where the hotel is blown and the two CIA agents don't even make an attempt to help anyone but themselves). If this is an accurate portrayal, fuck the CIA (as if this weren't already my sentiment), if not, fuck the Bigelow hype.

This movie didn't make me as angry about everything as it clearly did you. But I also don't see all the hype. I thought Hurt Locker was much better, Zero really did NOTHING with the characters, which always bothers me. I only really enjoyed the last 10 minutes.

[RotationSlimWang]

Essentially, yes. I'm not concern trolling Django like a lot of people on the right have been doing, but at the end of the day, this was the American holocaust. It trivializes the historical horror of the event by turning it into a Sergio Leone-meets-Shaft flick. I realize QT skated around similar issues in his last movie, but even there he didn't go so far as to set it in fucking Auschwitz or something.

So the South is Auschwitz?

No, it's okay, Mirior, I get it. Nazis are funny but slave masters aren't. Because Jews are kinda white so your guilt doesn't kick in.

[VigoTheCarpathian]

Essentially, yes. I'm not concern trolling Django like a lot of people on the right have been doing, but at the end of the day, this was the American holocaust. It trivializes the historical horror of the event by turning it into a Sergio Leone-meets-Shaft flick. I realize QT skated around similar issues in his last movie, but even there he didn't go so far as to set it in fucking Auschwitz or something.

It's not a documentary. It creates a black hero out if it. It talks about a sore subject in a pomo way.

[buddy]

Actually, i hated it not for the depiction of violence, how long it was, or the use of the n-word. I just thought it was a shit movie, with no substance.

[VigoTheCarpathian]

A shit movie? Really?

I hate it when fools be talking shit on QBs and running backs and shit. You go do it.

[buddy]

It was an entertaining for what it was. A revenge and rescue flick. How's that?

[Miroir Noir]

So the South is Auschwitz?

No, it's okay, Mirior, I get it. Nazis are funny but slave masters aren't. Because Jews are kinda white so your guilt doesn't kick in.

Candyland, not the whole South.

Look I didn't feel great about Basterds, either. I'm only drawing a distinction to point out that Django goes much further than Basterds did in turning the particulars of an awful historical event into fodder for a revenge flick. I mean, no one in that movie throws a can of Zyklon B at a Nazi or conducts medical experiments as part of an elaborate revenge fantasy.

[VigoTheCarpathian]

I thought I was very well made. The Master was better. Haven't see Zero Dark yet. More than a speghetti western to say the least.

Its like everyone talking shit on cloud atlas. Ok sure it wasn't great, but to put something like that together is a major fucking accomplishment.

Ive tried to write a screenplay and make a film before. Even short, one camera, three actor films are hard to make somewhat not completely shitty.

I mean I don't care if you didn't like the film or not we all have our own taste but it was very good filmmaking and writing and acting and everything.

[RotationSlimWang]

I don't recall Candyland being particularly funny so I don't see how it was treating it trivially. I think slave traders getting shot is fucking hilarious. I would watch a loop of racist assholes being murdered in hilarious fashions all day long if there was a channel for it. And I think your primary problem with both those movies is that you don't know any Jews and you don't know any blacks either.

[VigoTheCarpathian]

Candyland, not the whole South.

Look I didn't feel great about Basterds, either. I'm only drawing a distinction to point out that Django goes much further than Basterds did in turning the particulars of an awful historical event into fodder for a revenge flick. I mean, no one in that movie throws a can of Zyklon B at a Nazi or conducts medical experiments as part of an elaborate revenge fantasy.

Yet this was the movies charm whether you liked it or not. The foreign press obviously liked it very much

[Miroir Noir]

Well, sure, Vigo. But at a certain level, you expect the formalistic aspects of quality cinema to be competent if not excellent. That's why I'm moving on to ideology; my point isn't that QT shoots his films poorly or that Jamie Foxx couldn't carry his role.

[Miroir Noir]

I don't recall Candyland being particularly funny so I don't see how it was treating it trivially. I think slave traders getting shot is fucking hilarious. I would watch a loop of racist assholes being murdered in hilarious fashions all day long if there was a channel for it. And I think your primary problem with both those movies is that you don't know any Jews and you don't know any blacks either.

Something can be trivialized even if it's not being played for yuks, Randy.

[VigoTheCarpathian]

So you found it historically degrading and wish someone would make the Schindlers List of American slavery? Understandable, but Django simply isn't that film nor is QT that kind of filmmaker.

[Miroir Noir]

I don't think we need a Schindler's List of American slavery. And I'm not asking Tarantino to make a different kind of film to satisfy me. I am pointing out what I found troublesome about the film that he did make. That is all.

[RotationSlimWang]

Explain to me what was being trivialized in Candyland exactly.