Last Lounge in Soho

[InCali]

I was going to scoff and say I've seen a bunch, but I pulled up the list and I've only seen two. It is I who is to be scoffed at.

Already done. Which ones?

 

[Perfect Cell]

Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. I liked both a lot. I don't know why I haven't at least watched the ones that have come out since.

 

[InCali]

Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. I liked both a lot. I don't know why I haven't at least watched the ones that have come out since.

Oh dear lord......You know I'm completely dependent and utterly fascinated by your posts, but you are seriously telling me that you've never seen Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill or Reservoir Dogs or....even Grindhouse??

You poor thing. I think the next time I'm in Canada, we'll go to that restaurant that twirls around and I'll buy drinks, food, and invite someone

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. I liked both a lot. I don't know why I haven't at least watched the ones that have come out since.

Kill Bill 1/2 I think would be right up your alley. It is the anime' aesthetic brought to life... While actually also containing actual anime'... It's a paradox.

And pretty ****ing awesome.

Reservoir Dogs is the best place to start though, then Pulp Fiction, then Jackie Brown and then Kill Bill.

Directors Cut of Death Proof is also worth the watch if for the action scenes of the finale.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Good picks. QT would be a riot, but you'd need to be wearing your potty mouth filters.

I wonder if @Perfect Cell saw QT's movies.....those could have been part of the brackets. They were all random anyway.

I have a feeling neither Smith, Murray, myself or the ladies are in possesion of virgin ears...

Metaphorically.

Literally...? Well listen, what two consenting adults do yadda yadda...

 

[Perfect Cell]

Kill Bill 1/2 I think would be right up your alley. It is the anime' aesthetic brought to life... While actually also containing actual anime'... It's a paradox.

And pretty ****ing awesome.

Reservoir Dogs is the best place to start though, then Pulp Fiction, then Jackie Brown and then Kill Bill.

Directors Cut of Death Proof is also worth the watch if for the action scenes of the finale.

But I hate anime.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

But I hate anime.

 

[InCali]

Me too (meaning I don't like amineats or however you spell it), but if you don't love Kill Bill.....you've got a lot of catching up to do. We'll help.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Perfect Cell]

There's always the exception that proves the rule. It's science, Krypton.

 

[flickchick85]

Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. I liked both a lot. I don't know why I haven't at least watched the ones that have come out since.

Oh man. I literally eliminated Pulp Fiction from my list early on because I thought there was no way you hadn't seen that one. I mean, I personally prefer Jackie Brown, but Pulp Fiction seems like it was exactly what you're looking for in terms of the "the big ones." I do think you'll enjoy the Kill Bill's as well.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

There's always the exception that proves the rule. It's science, Krypton.

For some reason seeing someone going by Perfect Cell making such a statement reminds me of this I came across a few days ago.

Spoiler

 

[InCali]

Oh man. I literally eliminated Pulp Fiction from my list early on because I thought there was no way you hadn't seen that one. I mean, I personally prefer Jackie Brown, but Pulp Fiction seems like it was exactly what you're looking for in terms of the "the big ones." I do think you'll enjoy the Kill Bill's as well.

Jackie rocked the west coast.....frelling loved that movie.


Dude....watch Pulp Fiction....just do a QT marathon with @Reek s Bobo Bhang.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Oh man. I literally eliminated Pulp Fiction from my list early on because I thought there was no way you hadn't seen that one. I mean, I personally prefer Jackie Brown, but Pulp Fiction seems like it was exactly what you're looking for in terms of the "the big ones." I do think you'll enjoy the Kill Bill's as well.

Interesting take. What puts Jackie over Pulp for you flick?

I think Jackie is engaging, a good movie, but... I can't deny the gravitational pull of all the elements in Pulp Fiction that make it such a great time and put it over Q's third film in my estimation.

 

[C. Lee]

How did things go?

Had several hours of heavy rain and a lot of thunder and lightning....but no more tornado warnings around me.

 

[Perfect Cell]

It is important to point out that I still have 23 movies to watch...

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Jackie rocked the west coast.....frelling loved that movie.

Pam, Pam, Pam... (shivers)

Spoiler

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

It is important to point out that I still have 23 movies to watch...

How'd ya find Lethal Weapon?

 

[flickchick85]

Interesting take. What puts Jackie over Pulp for you flick?

I think Jackie is engaging, a good movie, but... I can't deny the gravitational pull of all the elements in Pulp Fiction that make it such a great time and put it over Q's third film in my estimation.

The characters. It'll sound weird but that's the one QT movie that feels like a real "grown-up" movie to me because its world and characters have a beating heart and soul. Grier and Forster are just magical in that movie to me. I love his movies but for the most part they feel more like style exercises above all to me...kinda like the latter half of Hitchcock's filmography. Where the filmmaker is the star. But Jackie Brown by contrast just feels like a more straightforward movie about people - more human, if that makes any sense.

 

[InCali]

Interesting take. What puts Jackie over Pulp for you flick?

I think Jackie is engaging, a good movie, but... I can't deny the gravitational pull of all the elements in Pulp Fiction that make it such a great time and put it over Q's third film in my estimation.

This is from a quickly, yet long fading, memory, but when I saw Reservoir Dogs, I was like "What the Front Door was that?" QT's idea of a love story was Kill Bill. LOL.

 

[Perfect Cell]

How'd ya find Lethal Weapon?

I liked it. I'll eventually watch the sequels. Eventually. I probably haven't watched enough of the buddy cop film genre, so I can add them to the list that will follow me to my tomb.

 

[InCali]

The characters. It'll sound weird but that's the one QT movie that feels like a real "grown-up" movie to me because its world and characters have a beating heart and soul. Grier and Forster are just magical in that movie to me. I love his movies but for the most part they feel more like style exercises above all to me...kinda like the latter half of Hitchcock's filmography. Where the filmmaker is the star. But Jackie Brown by contrast just feels like a more straightforward movie about people - more human, if that makes any sense.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

The characters. It'll sound weird but that's the one QT movie that feels like a real "grown-up" movie to me because its world and characters have a beating heart and soul. Grier and Forster are just magical in that movie to me. I love his movies but for the most part they feel more like style exercises above all to me...kinda like the latter half of Hitchcock's filmography. Where the filmmaker is the star. But Jackie Brown by contrast just feels like a more straightforward movie about people, if that makes any sense.

Oh I get it.

Spoiler

Jackie will probably always be an anomoly in his filmography because of those aspects. Both Pulp and Dogs for sure have certain heightened reality thing happening as have most of his movies. It's not super in your face in Dogs I think because of purely budget considerations but it's there right at the start with the conceit that a heist group would just be shooting the **** together in public in a dinner wearing the exact same matching clothes they would be wearing during a robbery just a few hours later. It's not close to "real" in that sense. Fiction is the real start of the Q-universe (Trademark Krypton Inc. 2021) in my eyes where the settings of his movies take place. They aren't all connected ala the MCU but they all partake of a certain Movie Universe logic... Except Jacke Brown which is indeed as you stated about real people in the real world, and not played by the young photogenic stars of the moment. Forrester, Grier, Jackson and Deniro are playing people battered and bruised by time and that's not a background thing, it's upfront that the age and quashed dreams and mortality of the characters plays into the plot as it goes along.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I liked it. I'll eventually watch the sequels. Eventually. I probably haven't watched enough of the buddy cop film genre, so I can add them to the list that will follow me to my tomb.

You don't have to go beyond number two which is as good or better than LW1.

After that it really is diminishing returns, though I would say generally that it doesn't quite go as dumb as the Die Hard sequels, the ones after the first sequel are just not as good.

 

[flickchick85]

Lethal Weapon 4 isn't exactly a good movie by any particular stretch, but if you think you'd get the same joy watching Jet Li repeatedly destroy Riggs and Murtaugh that I did, I say go for it.