28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[transmogrifier]

Lady Snowblood is better than either of the Kill Bill films, btw. I highly recommend it.

[megladon8]

Lady Snowblood is better than either of the Kill Bill films, btw. I highly recommend it.

It’s not even the same ballpark.

[transmogrifier]

It’s not even the same ballpark.

Ain't even the same fucking sport.

[megladon8]

I can’t rep you twice, but I tried.

[MadMan]

Lady Snowblood is better than either of the Kill Bill films, btw. I highly recommend it.

I own it and its sequel on Criterion. I have to get to my physical media backlog one of these days.

[Skitch]

Lady Snowblood is fucking awesome, but I also love Kill Bill. If it's not the same park or sport, wouldn't that be like saying "I love Lady Snowblood!", and responding "Yeah, but it ain't coffee!"

I kid, I kid.

[Peng]

Jackie Brown (1997) - Finally. The only unseen Tarantino I had left before OUATIH is released here next month, and it is very deserving of the 'best Tarantino' status I have seen over the years from many. I myself slightly prefer Pulp Fiction and firmly love Inglorious Basterds over it, although the latter is pending a 10-year-later rewatch. Curious though that as of now, I feel the reason IB remains my #1 is that I perceive it to be the combination of his other two's strengths, able to juggle between PF's frenzied delirious highs and JB's extreme depth of feelings. Still, this might be Tarantino's best ending ever; the conflicting, breathtakingly bittersweet emotions of his two most well-realized characters render those last two scenes, a kiss and a well-guarded facade dropping, lingering and unforgettable. 9/10

[Skitch]

Oh wow, I dont think the masses consider JB upper tier. Maybe it's just the places i frequent. Personally I've never understood people thinking its lower tier, I think its awesome.

[MadMan]

Jackie Brown is pretty cool. I love how it has people like Jackson and Keaton who were fairly established in 1997 and then features Grier and Foster, two actors that were way bigger in the 1970s/1980s. Also De Niro almost steals the movie.

I love the ending. My favorite QT ending though is still from Reservoir Dogs.

[Irish]

Oral history of Sommers' "The Mummy":

https://ew.com/movies/2019/08/13/the...ephen-sommers/

Worth a read if you're a fan. (I can't believe this movie is 20 years old.)

[Dukefrukem]

Yeh I'm a huge fan of the Mummy. I put it on the same plane as National Treasure.

Let's keep in mind this movie actually made money going up against the return of Star Wars.

[Wryan]

I think I'm supposed to say, of the two Fraser Mummy movies (only two, mind you; there aren't any others), that the first one succeeded at being exactly what it set out to be in a way the second one failed at. But honestly, truly, I actually enjoy the second one too. I mean, probably only one of them is good, but I kind of love both of them. If it's a lazy afternoon and I want to just languidly angle my eyes at a screen for a while as I lounge around or whatnot, I'd happily let it be The Mummy Returns.

[Dukefrukem]

(only two, mind you; there aren't any others),

You hate the third that much eh?

[Skitch]

I like the 4th one better than the 3rd one. Maybe I should give 3 another shot.

[TGM]

I don’t think I ever got around to the third one.

And I don’t think I even knew there was a fourth one. >.>

[Skitch]

I don’t think I ever got around to the third one.

And I don’t think I even knew there was a fourth one. >.>

The one with Tom Cruise.

[Dukefrukem]

The one with Tom Cruise.

Isn't that technically the 5th one?

[megladon8]

Yeah, number 3 was abysmal.

But honestly...wasn’t it by Rob Cohen? Should we have been surprised?

[Skitch]

Isn't that technically the 5th one?

Is there one after the Jet Li one?

[Dukefrukem]

Is there one after the Jet Li one?

So the 1999 movie is the first? And not the 1932 one?

[Grouchy]

Yeah, man, if you're going to count them all together like that, don't leave out the Karloff and Chaney ones. Or The Scorpion King.

The Mummy Returns is a bad movie but I've always loved the visual of the army of Anubis soldiers. They rock so hard.

[Skitch]

Oh if were counting em all theres dozens I think. I was just referring to the most recent continuity.

[StuSmallz]

Just finished writing something about Schindler's List, and long review short, at a certain point, it ceases feeling like a "movie" at all, and just becomes pure... experience, placed onscreen as a warning to never let such horrors repeat themselves, a lesson humanity has sadly proven itself all to eager to forget. However, towards the absolutely heart-rending end of the film, as a character quotes the now-famous line from the Talmud, "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire", we can't help but be reminded that, although this world will always contain evil and people willing to commit it, one person's actions can make all the difference in that world, at least, that is, to the people their lives touch.

[MadMan]

I like the first two Mummy Fraser movies, and I saw both in theaters.

[Wryan]

I mean I did say "Fraser Mummy movies." I thought that was pretty specific.