Quote: TheBlueNun @ 31st October 2015, 10:04 PM GMTNot really, I'm often extremely random like that
Ha! Was about to post this, but you got there first.
Quote: zooo @ 31st October 2015, 10:02 PM GMTAre those two facts related?
I was wondering that too.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 31st October 2015, 10:07 PM GMTHa! Was about to post this, but you got there first.
I was wondering that too.
That's me.
Quote: zooo @ 31st October 2015, 9:46 PM GMTHa, no. Not Coppola.
The person I'd got Tarantino mixed up with looked like a fat Colonel Sanders.
I just figured it out!
Lol, he is a bit KFC there.
I've actually been wondering whether it was...
Although I've always known who he was, so it seems unlikely I'd get them mixed up.
Quote: TheBlueNun @ 31st October 2015, 9:49 PM GMTQT has a well-known foot fetish apparently. I haven't seen one of his films for years.
In Pulp Fiction Jules & Vincent have a long conversation about giving a foot massage. In Kill Bill there is a long scene that's pretty much just a close up of Beatrix' feet as she tries to wiggle a toe after waking up from a coma.
I was a teenager in the mid 90s, so I thought he was pretty cool for a while. I'm not so keen now. I like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. I think Jackie Brown is his best film by quite some way (it probably helps that I love Pam Grier and her presence in a film automatically gives it several extra points with me).
Everything since then I've been a bit disappointed with. I think he likes his own dialogue a little too much. Every dialogue scene is two people talking slowly and using ten words when they only need one.
Quote: zooo @ 1st November 2015, 12:14 AM GMTLol, he is a bit KFC there.
I've actually been wondering whether it was...Although I've always known who he was, so it seems unlikely I'd get them mixed up.
Surely not the director of:
Just to keep on topic, as it's Halloween I thought I would watch a horror film. Just finished watching the portmanteu John Carpenter film 'Body Bags'.
Not exactly scary, but great fun and quite tongue in cheek. Lots of interesting casting with people who have acted before but aren't primarily actors like Debbie Harry, Sheena Easton, Twiggy, Roger Corman, Tobe Hooper (who directs one of the three stories), Wes Craven and John Carpenter himself.
Carpenter plays a creepy perverse coroner in a hospital morgue. He talks directly into the camera and introduces each story. He's really good and it makes me wish he'd done a Tarantino and cast himself in supporting roles his other films.
All I've got left to see is 'Elvis' and 'Someone's Watching Me!' then I've seen all of John Carpenter's films.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 1st November 2015, 12:30 AM GMTSurely not the director of:
Was that a prequel to Harry Potter?
Quote: DougWonnacott @ 1st November 2015, 12:44 AM GMTAll I've got left to see is 'Elvis' and 'Someone's Watching Me!' then I've seen all of John Carpenter's films.
'Someone's Watching Me!' is really good. Saw it years and years ago on telly.
JC wrote some cool music for his films too.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 1st November 2015, 12:30 AM GMTSurely not the director of:
Oh god.
Scariest film ever.
Well, top ten anyway.
Quote: DougWonnacott @ 1st November 2015, 12:30 AM GMTIn Pulp Fiction Jules & Vincent have a long conversation about giving a foot massage. In Kill Bill there is a long scene that's pretty much just a close up of Beatrix' feet as she tries to wiggle a toe after waking up from a coma.
I was a teenager in the mid 90s, so I thought he was pretty cool for a while. I'm not so keen now. I like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. I think Jackie Brown is his best film by quite some way (it probably helps that I love Pam Grier and her presence in a film automatically gives it several extra points with me).
Everything since then I've been a bit disappointed with. I think he likes his own dialogue a little too much. Every dialogue scene is two people talking slowly and using ten words when they only need one.
I loved Kill Bill, but I wasn't that bothered about Inglorious Basterds.
There's another foot bit in his half of Dusk Till Dawn. He's a bit of a weirdo.
Quote: George Kaplan @ 1st November 2015, 12:55 AM GMT'Someone's Watching Me!' is really good. Saw it years and years ago on telly.
JC wrote some cool music for his films too.
I just bought it on DVD, haven't got round to watching it yet.
He did. He actually released an album of new material earlier this year called 'Lost Themes'. Every track sounds like it could be a theme from a Carpenter film. It's really good http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Themes-John-Carpenter/dp/B00P2XK9VK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446394095&sr=8-1&keywords=lost+themes+john+carpenter
Here's one of the tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YZ60mQA4Q8&list=PLyd5aA-8Hhlut6LzxJB1UmZVR0hjpQsrF&index=117
Quote: zooo @ 1st November 2015, 11:33 AM GMTOh god.
Scariest film ever.
Well, top ten anyway.I loved Kill Bill, but I wasn't that bothered about Inglorious Basterds.
There's another foot bit in his half of Dusk Till Dawn. He's a bit of a weirdo.
I'd probably like Kill Bill more if I hadn't already seen the 1970s Japanese chanbara film Lady Snowblood. QT listed this film in the many that influenced him on Kill Bill, but vol 1 is almost a scene for scene remake of Lady Snowblood, right down to the chapters, character names appearing onscreen and animated back story section.
It's not even the best remake of Lady Snowblood. That honour would go to the Hong Kong kung fu film Broken Oath.
Lady Snowblood trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBvPgzpoH8
Broken Oath trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NajLT3edQyw
Kill Bill vol 1 trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kSuas6mRpk
I just did a search for Meiko Kaji (the star of Lady Snowblood). I think she might look younger than Uma Thurman despite being old enough to be her mother.
Meiko Kaji in 1973 (aged 25)
Uma Thurman in 2005 (aged 35)
I think Uma may have been hanging around with Renee Zellweger.
Quote: DougWonnacott @ 1st November 2015, 4:57 PM GMTI'd probably like Kill Bill more if I hadn't already seen the 1970s Japanese chanbara film Lady Snowblood. QT listed this film in the many that influenced him on Kill Bill, but vol 1 is almost a scene for scene remake of Lady Snowblood, right down to the chapters, character names appearing onscreen and animated back story section.
It's not even the best remake of Lady Snowblood. That honour would go to the Hong Kong kung fu film Broken Oath.
Lady Snowblood trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBvPgzpoH8
Broken Oath trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NajLT3edQyw
Kill Bill vol 1 trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kSuas6mRpk
Ha, yes. Seems he's quite famous for 'paying homage' / nicking stuff from more obscure films.
John Shuttleworth - One foot in the gravy
"Oof!"
