ebert and roper review of freddy got fingered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxGOwjxxNbE

my favorite is them saying tom green should be flipping burgers, maybe, but coming from guys who have had a decades long career doing film reviews that are usually only 3 sentences long it seems ridiculous.

yeah funny stuff

almost the best movie ever. my only disappointment was the lack of cocaine use.

no way in hell he'll ever compare to basil rathbone, but i still want to see it

frame-up - 10/10

Siskel & Ebert did reviews for the Chicago Tribune and the Sun Times, full, lengthy, pithy reviews, well written, for three decades.

go read.

I fucking hate tom green and cannot wait until he dies.

Rob's in a bad mood. But I won't fall for it.

watched BECAUSE I SAID SO last night. I like that Mandy Adams.

bah, rathbone poppycock. this holmes' violin playing jumps with a gypsy beat that is in stark contrast to the former's sterile intellectualism. although the syringe never appeared on screen, downey's portrayal of holmes as a strung out, quivering bundle of neuroses has landed closer to the mark even as it overcorrects for rathbone's shortcomings. oh, and the fisticuffs! i can't remember rathbone ever engaging in fisticuffs.

at any rate, guy ritchie's serlock holmes has suceeded in renewing my interest in a series of books i have not read since junior high school.

Guy Ritchie still has a career? Wild, will have to check this out.

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so a heavy-handed director with no sense of subtlety has made a film where a guy acts like he's on drugs and hits people,brilliant

it'll probably be sort of good, but likely not in the top 10,000 holmes films

Inglourious Basterds (thoroughly enjoyed, aside from too-modern music being used)

Make Them Die Slowly (OK, it's an Italian cannibal movie. About what I expected)

savage is back!

inglorious is excellent. great flick.

basil rathbone was asskickin for the 40's! ha!

The best Holmes, in my opinion, was Jeremy Brett.

Inglorious is a bit of a mess, taking a while to find its voice, but its nearly always an enjoyable mess, despite some weird, uncomfortable inconsistencies in tone-shifting for the first 30 minutes or so. Defintiely Tarantino's best movie since his City on Fire remake. Inspired direction, a SOMEWHAT mature narrative, and some weird little touches (the guitar riff introducing one of the Basterds, for example) kept this movie feeling alive and fun, even with the extremely grim tone. By the way, the star of this movie isn't Brad Pitt, it's Christoph Waltz, who hopefully will win plenty of awards for this role. He's just amazing. On the other hand, Eli Roth looks so out of place in this that it's ridiculous. He took me out of every scene where he had to speak. He was so bad. Wow... Anyway, it's nice how Tarantino casts "big" actors and he doesn't even devote screen time to them for some of the chapters. Also, it's interesting how about 80% of the dialogue is subtitled... it seems like Tarantino actually somewhat respects the intelligence of his audience (and this was his most successful movie, at the same time -- maybe there is hope for mainsteam cinema? Hah...). Also, one conversation that goes on for a good 30 minutes was an example of just amazing writing. In fact, he often stretches some of the dialogue well past the breaking point, and it's beautiful. Also, the music, either by Morricone or by the best Morricone imitator in history (too lazy to look it up currently), is mindblowing. So, yeah, this definitely exceeded my expectations.

Tarantino just keeps kicking out the jams.

Yeah, except Death Proof is horrible.

I'm not a Tarantino hater, just never saw the big deal. He mixes DePalma, Godard, and Scorsesce into a lightly entertaining bowl. All of his best shots and sequences are stolen. Still, his films are enjoyable for the most part, which is all that really matters.. and they're even ocasionally daring, which is respectful. Most importantly, he brought Sonatine, Chunking Express, and The BEyond to America.

I always feel the need to defend DEATH PROOF. But I guess it doesn't matter. I love it. So whatever. I guess I just connected with what he was trying to do.

ps, I felt like pretty much every scene in BASTERDS was the best scene in the movie. Amazing.

Really? My respect for him has went up.

yep. great fucking flick.

deathproof sucks. worse than NO STARS. pointless bullshit.

The great thing about tarantino though is that he makes no distinction between high-brow and low-brow, and will work in whatever genre he feels like.
he has even directed some of the most tense CSI shows.
that's pretty cool.

deathproof was so suck ass, so stupid, as if him and rodriguez just decided to makea shitty movie aping every shitty movie they used to watch back in the day. shit + shit = shit.

tarantino has gone beyond being a depalma, scorcese, godard fanboy.

jackie Brown is perfect.
kill bills are fucking great. (an dI know I am not too big on the second part but I watched them both at the boardies suggestion again over xmas and they do work together)
reservoir dogs is bare-bones perfection.
inglorious bastards is fucking excellent as well.
Pulp Fiction is perfect as is.


sure he had some stinks, but hey, who hasn't? scorcese sure has.

When you direct something as life-changing as Taxi Driver then all mistakes are automatically stricken from the record haha.

that may be true.!

I just can't believe that everyone likes Basterds so much. It's the only Tarantino flick that I was sorely disappointed with.

I've yet to be disappointed. I love all of them for some reason or another. Even the ones he wrote but did not direct. I dont know .I thought I wasn't gonna like Basterds as much cuz I generally don't like "war movies", but it was so much more.

I just love when people kill Nazis.

also I wanted to add about Eli Roth's acting... maybe it seemed "bad," but he's a dude from New England playing a dude from New England. So to a dude from New England (me) it was kind of hilarious. The accent and all.

Eli Roth only got cast in "Death Proof" and "Inglourious Basterds" because Tarantino liked his movie "Hostel". Eli's acting is too cheesy for my taste.

I liked when he killed nazis with a bat.

8/10. Very awesome.

WOW...just fucking WOW!

that might be over simplifying things. Also, no need to put quotes around movie titles. ;)

Great movie in its day. Seemed quite dated when I last saw it. Great soundtrack.

repo man is still fantastic.

after a few decades "dated" becomes "historic"

"but what about us? what about our relationship?"

"Fuck that!"

I bought Blue Velvet, Sonatine and Battle Royale on DVD because I never owned them on that particular format. I also bought A Ghost in the Shell which I honestly haven't seen surprisingly and will be the next thing I watch.

I don't know why I'm saying this as this is about discussing movies you've just seen but I play by my own rules dammit!

ghost in the shell came on ovation yesterday. i DVR'd that shit to show my g/f

Great movie, Rob.

Really? Oh, I forgot, you don't like Casino (one of my all time favs).

NEW YORK NEW YORK is the only Scorsesafdfsdf I even halfway dislike.

TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL, CASINO, GOODFELLAS, KING OF COMEDY, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, MEAN STREETS, and his INFERNAL AFFAIRS REMAKE are all amazing.


I just rewatched Heat. Love that fucking movie.

I wasn't too fond of Gangs of New York, I'm not sure if it was the formatting, and editing for fullscreen (EDIT: I watched it on VHS)...but it just never really hit the right beats with me.

What does everyone think about the upcoming Shutter Island so far?
Personally I'm pumped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKp8xBxTol0