Reservoir dogs

Pauliedragon · 08-09-2019 10:28pm #1

What a movie. Just watching it now.

EmmetSpiceland · 08-09-2019 10:28pm

Pauliedragon wrote: »

What a movie. Just watching it now.

Great soundtrack too.

Mad_maxx · 08-09-2019 10:29pm

Pauliedragon wrote: »

What a movie. Just watching it now.

What channel?

Still waters · 08-09-2019 10:29pm

Overrated, like most of Tarantino's sh1te

Insect Overlord · 08-09-2019 10:32pm

Still waters wrote: »

Overrated, like most of Tarantino's sh1te

Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?

Your Face · 08-09-2019 10:34pm

Tarantino was good back then.

08-09-2019 10:35pm

Reservoir Dogs is my favorite Tarantino after Jackie Brown, which I feel is underrated. The Kill Bill movies left me cold though, it's not that they're bad or anything, just too...something. The soundtracks of nearly all his movies are brilliant.

2Mad2BeMad · 08-09-2019 10:35pm

Average film. Like pulp fiction.
Only 2 films I enjoyed from him were the westerns.

Greyfox · 08-09-2019 10:36pm

Pauliedragon wrote: »

What a movie. Just watching it now.

Brilliant film although Pulp Fiction is miles better. Pulp Fiction is still the coolest thing in existence.

Mad_maxx · 08-09-2019 10:36pm

Candie wrote: »

Reservoir Dogs is my favorite Tarantino after Jackie Brown, which I feel is underrated. The Kill Bill movies left me cold though, it's not that they're bad or anything, just too...something. The soundtracks of nearly all his movies are brilliant.

Jackie brown is hugely under rated, pam grier is a terrific woman

Mad_maxx · 08-09-2019 10:37pm

Greyfox wrote: »

Pauliedragon wrote: »

What a movie. Just watching it now.

Brilliant film although Pulp Fiction is miles better. Pulp Fiction is still the coolest thing in existence.

In my top five list

08-09-2019 10:39pm

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

Average film. Like pulp fiction.
Only 2 films I enjoyed from him were the westerns.

While Pulp Fiction never struck me as the masterpiece people say it is, it's far from an average film imo.

Junkyard Tom · 08-09-2019 10:41pm

Many scenes in Reservoir Dogs are stolen/copied a homage to a film made in Hong Kong called 'City on Fire'

fonecrusher1 · 08-09-2019 10:43pm

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are Tarantino's best work but the Kill Bill stuff is awful ****e altogether.

Greyfox · 08-09-2019 10:45pm

Candie wrote: »

The Kill Bill movies left me cold though, it's not that they're bad or anything, just too...something. The soundtracks of nearly all his movies are brilliant.

The greatest fight sequence (vol 1) in the history of cinema left you cold.. ok. Yeah he always gets the soundtrack right

everlast75 · 08-09-2019 10:46pm

Remember watching resevoir dogs while in college in the Cinema on Parnell Street.

A few people walked out at the "stuck in the middle with you" scene.

ziedth · 08-09-2019 10:47pm

While I would not call myself a massive fan by any means and allot of the criticism of his films can be justified I genuinely think sometimes people tend to talk down his films because it's in the thing to do.

08-09-2019 10:47pm

Greyfox wrote: »

The greatest fight sequence (vol 1) in the history of cinema left you cold.. ok. Yeah he always gets the soundtrack right

Spot on.

Opinions, eh? It's like everyone has a different one or something mad like that.

o1s1n · 08-09-2019 10:48pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are Tarantino's best work but the Kill Bill stuff is awful ****e altogether.

Always thought he peaked early. I like a bit of ultra violence like the next person, but found everything after Jackie Brown a little too gory.

Underground · 08-09-2019 10:54pm

I really don't get the notion that his films are super violent, he's still putting up with that stuff today. I mean at the time, yeah the ear thing in Reservoir Dogs would have been pretty shocking but it's tame enough these days, the Hostel and Saw movies make Tarantino stuff look PG.

mzungu · 08-09-2019 11:03pm

The violence is implied in a lot of his early work, and that makes it have a much greater impact.

He got a reputation for ultra-violence and it stuck, maybe because of his screenplay for Natural Born Killers as opposed to any of the movies he wrote and directed himself.

Reviews and Books Galore · 08-09-2019 11:09pm

Greyfox wrote: »

The greatest fight sequence (vol 1) in the history of cinema left you cold.. ok. Yeah he always gets the soundtrack right

You know, I read a fan theory that the reason why the Bride was able to take down the Yakuza was because they were young trainlings. She had much more difficulty taking down any of the members that were balding (hence more experience) vs the younger members.

Just an interesting take on it.

patrickc · 08-09-2019 11:10pm

Once upon a time in Hollywood is top drawer

Los Lobos · 08-09-2019 11:13pm

patrickc wrote: »

Once upon a time in Hollywood is top drawer

I keep hearing the opposite unfortunately. Haven't seen it yet

Canis Lupus · 08-09-2019 11:27pm

When I finally got round to watching it was like.... what was all the fuss about.

As with most of Tarantino's movies it's just a load of verbal diarrhea dressed up as 'cool' dialogue.

JustAThought · 09-09-2019 2:01am

Went to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood the other day -major overindulgent boring yawnfest with little to recommend it and only minor violence at the end. Had the film/script (because there is no plot) been offered by anyone other than Tarrintino it would never have been produced or got past the sherdder.Total waste of 2 1/2 hours of my life. Thank God I'd bought popcorn. Avoid like the plague or better still give the tenner to the childrens hospice.

Resevoir Dogs on the other hand was mostly a brilliant film.

simongurnick · 09-09-2019 2:39am

Django was brilliant, as was inglorious basterds. Hateful eight wasnt great so interested to see hollywood. Pulp fiction and reservoir dogs are classics at this point.

FanadMan · 09-09-2019 4:03am

Watched Kill Bill V1 on Dave on Saturday night. The usual pre-film warning was This film contains strong language and "over the top violence"

Has to be the best description of nearly all Tarantino's films. Still love them though. And the soundtracks are brilliant.

Outlaw Pete · 09-09-2019 7:28am

Canis Lupus wrote: »

When I finally got round to watching it was like.... what was all the fuss about.

As with most of Tarantino's movies it's just a load of verbal diarrhea dressed up as 'cool' dialogue.

He's convinced me, gimme back me dollar!

Earthhorse · 09-09-2019 9:17am

Greyfox wrote: »

The greatest fight sequence (vol 1) in the history of cinema left you cold.. ok. Yeah he always gets the soundtrack right

Have you actually watched any martial arts flicks?

Reservoir Dogs is great even as, as someone else pointed it, it borrows heavily from other sources. I do think Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs were his masterpieces (possibly because of his writing partner at the time) and everythinge else has fallen far short.

Jackie Brown and Once... are decent, watchable films though.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 09-09-2019 9:36am

Underground wrote: »

I really don't get the notion that his films are super violent, he's still putting up with that stuff today. I mean at the time, yeah the ear thing in Reservoir Dogs would have been pretty shocking but it's tame enough these days, the Hostel and Saw movies make Tarantino stuff look PG.

I’d find the ear thing more scary, feeling claustrophobic and a bit more rooted in reality. Hostel and Saw were just torture porn.

Stevieluvsye · 09-09-2019 9:38am

Remember watching it years ago thinking it was unreal, finally got my mrs to watch it with me for first time and i thought it was sh!te second time round.

Madsen and Roth were good but just felt flat second time around

Greyfox · 09-09-2019 10:45am

Earthhorse wrote: »

Have you actually watched any martial arts flicks?

Lots, grew up loving Jet Lee, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Van Damme etc.

Baggly · 09-09-2019 11:47am

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Thread belongs in the Films forum.

If/when the local mods there reopen, please pay attention to the local charter. You aint in AH anymore.

champ79 · 22-09-2019 2:04pm

I know Tarantino himself says he didn't like how Death Proof turned out, but it's actually my favourite of his films. Reservoir Dogs is up there though!

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