28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[baby doll]

This guy really likes italics, not only for emphasis (so much emphasis) but also, bizarrely, proper nouns.

[Irish]

This guy really likes italics, not only for emphasis (so much emphasis) but also, bizarrely, proper nouns.

He keeps threatening to retire and writes novels. Imagine an entire book written this way.

[Skitch]

He keeps threatening to retire and writes novels. Imagine an entire book written this way.

I've always wondered what his (aren't they hand written?) original scripts look like.

[Grouchy]

Quentin Tarantino is writing reviews and posting them to the New Beverly website.

Here he is on "Targets" (1968):

http://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-reviews/targets/

And "Cade's County," a TV western (1971):

http://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-revi...gun-for-billy/

Love him. Gotta respect a review that starts with "David Carradine once told me..." hahahah

[Irish]

I've always wondered what his (aren't they hand written?) original scripts look like.

A few float around online.

They're very Quentin. Huge blocks of descriptive prose, lotsa tangents, lotsa detail. He pretty much violates every screenwriting rule-of-thumb imaginable, but then you can do that when you absolutely know you will be the one directing the script.

[Grouchy]

I've always wondered what his (aren't they hand written?) original scripts look like.

I read Jackie Brown and the original incarnation of Hateful Eight. He breaks every rule of traditional screenwriting. More specifically, he adds a lot of information about character backgrounds and history that would never be evident from watching the movie.

[megladon8]

I've started to turn around on Tarantino. Both his films and his persona.

I've seen several clips of him talking movies recently, and his passion for the art form and its history is just so palpable. I could listen to him talking about movies he likes for hours.

[Grouchy]

I've always, always really appreciated that aspect of his personality, the contagious enthusiasm for cinema. Same with Scorsese. They're to film what Borges is for literature - "first a reader, then a writer".

EDIT: There was probably a better choice of word than "contagious".

[Peng]

"Infectious" looks better, but not by much too lol.

[Wryan]

This is a funny, clever little piece. The YouTube thread is a bit dead, but I suppose I could post it there too.

[megladon8]

I'd never seen The Goonies before.

It's cute. Some fun and funny moments. Chemistry between all the kids is great.

Probably would have loved it as a kid.

[Irish]

Quentin Tarantino is writing reviews and posting them to the New Beverly website.

Here he is on "Targets" (1968):

http://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-reviews/targets/

And "Cade's County," a TV western (1971):

http://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-revi...gun-for-billy/

I guess he's posting every day?

Here's a new one about Wang Yu aka Jimmy Yu, actor-director who appeared in Shaw Brothers classics like "One Armed Swordsman":

http://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-revi...uper-director/

[megladon8]

If you haven't seen them, make One Armed Swordsman and Return of the One Armed Swordsman priorities in your to watch list.

[Grouchy]

Well, bravo for Arcade Publishing. Ignore the pulpy headline.

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/03/wo...jL-RYSnK5NzTgg

[Ezee E]

I feel like Contagion is one of those movies that has an hour's worth of deleted scenes and probably entire characters that we never got to see.

[Pop Trash]

I feel like Contagion is one of those movies that has an hour's worth of deleted scenes and probably entire characters that we never got to see.

I love the editing. It clips by and is accurate in the timewarp aspect of a pandemic. The form also matches the function of the speed of a viral outbreak. Sombody's lipstick on a glass becomes a statewide quarantine two weeks later. There's been many times in the last two weeks when I've wondered what day it is. It's very similar to that feeling around the holidays you get, when it's hard to figure out if it's Sunday or Tuesday or what.

[Ezee E]

I love the editing. It clips by and is accurate in the timewarp aspect of a pandemic. The form also matches the function of the speed of a viral outbreak. Sombody's lipstick on a glass becomes a statewide quarantine two weeks later. There's been many times in the last two weeks when I've wondered what day it is. It's very similar to that feeling around the holidays you get, when it's hard to figure out if it's Sunday or Tuesday or what.

Yeah, I was working on Sunday in a store, typically most of my team's day off, and in comes in someone, prime and ready to go. I give him a wtf look, and he was absolutely convinced it was Monday. Same thing happened with another person in the store. Very odd.

Love the movie btw

[Pop Trash]

Yeah, I was working on Sunday in a store, typically most of my team's day off, and in comes in someone, prime and ready to go. I give him a wtf look, and he was absolutely convinced it was Monday. Same thing happened with another person in the store. Very odd.

Love the movie btw

Aren't you a firefighter or paramedic or something?

[Morris Schæffer]

Contagion was engaging, but somewhat boring when I saw it years ago. Outbreak goes bigger, but still within reason and Petersen, cast and crew are far too talented to mess it up. I guess I like it more, but it's been a while for both movies. Its military slant is not unusual given that the Motaba virus (yes I actually remember the name!) was engineered by the military.

[Dukefrukem]

Is this where we write about quarantine watches? Anybody rewatch something? Watch something for the first time? Here's my rundown of stuff recently ...

Maybe we should make it's own thread for historical MC reference?

[Ezee E]

Aren't you a firefighter or paramedic or something?

For a while, from 2007-2012 or so. Then I got a training job in California that eventually got my Regional Facility gig back here in Colorado. It's a much better job in the end even if it's not as sexy sounding.

[Ezee E]

Has there even been a movie about Typhoid Mary?

[megladon8]

Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express feels like it's a short step away from being a "movie that exists".

Everyone's fine in it. It's competently made. I already forget most of it.

It's just a story that has been done before (multiple times) and better (multiple times). The only thing it felt like it had to offer was telling the story with a more modern Hollywood cast.

I can't help feeling like almost all of Branagh's writer-director projects are more about vanity than anything else. He chooses stories and roles that allow him to point the camera at himself chewing up the scenery. He's a good (occasionally great) actor, but he has no directorial flair at all. Everything is just functional.

All this being said, yes I was entertained. There are some individual scenes and performances therein (see: Josh Gad's interrogation) that work really well. The ending is too melodramatic and schmaltzy.

So yeah, it was enjoyable while it was on but instantly forgettable. I'm sure I'll see Death on the Nile at some point.

[Yxklyx]

Room at the Top. Amazon Prime. Watch it. Now!

[Yxklyx]

So I was kind of wrong about streaming (which I just started doing).While the selection is less, there are still a lot of great films on Amazon Prime. Room at the Top has been in my Netflix queue for decades and I finally got to watch it on Amazon Prime. Also watched Stillman's Love and Friendship which I found very enjoyable. Netflix streaming seems much inferior at this point. Any opinions on Prime vs Netflix?