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Quote: Leevil @ August 27 2011, 12:43 AM BST

Much like your argument on what makes a good film.

I used to be a bit of a snob towards movies but then I remembered that they're allowed to be just fun. Kill Bill wasn't a great masterful piece of cinema. But it was fun. I like martial arts movies and this was just another one in a big long list of cheesy fun.

Fun. Fun. Fun.

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What possible martial arts film was as dull and unconvincing as Kill Bill?

Even fat Segal moved faster than Uma Thurman.

Who ressembled a blind woman waving her white stick cautiously.

I find most martial arts films dull as buggery.

Although I did go through a Jet Li phase.

Is that cos you've tried buggery till it lost its appeal?

Yep. Am all buggeried out.

Quote: sootyj @ August 27 2011, 12:52 AM BST

What possible martial arts film was as dull and unconvincing as Kill Bill?

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I don't think we like martial arts films for the same reason. I like lots of ass kicking, cheesy sounds effects and a plot so thin that I can watch it during the ad breaks of a better film and still understand what's going on.

Quote: zooo @ August 27 2011, 1:02 AM BST

Yep. Am all buggeried out.

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Quote: sootyj @ August 27 2011, 12:52 AM BST

What possible martial arts film was as dull and unconvincing as Kill Bill?

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Can people not just enjoy different things? Really? Please?

No Matt tolerance for all opinions is how fascists come to power.

Dances With Wolves. It's got its faults, and should never have beaten Goodfellas to Best Picture at the Oscars, but it's still a great piece of cinema. Funny in places too: "I've just pissed my pants and nobody can do anything about it!"

Quote: sootyj @ August 27 2011, 1:57 PM BST

No Matt tolerance for all opinions is how fascists come to power.

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Quote: chipolata @ August 27 2011, 2:08 PM BST

Dances With Wolves. It's got its faults, and should never have beaten Goodfellas to Best Picture at the Oscars, but it's still a great piece of cinema. Funny in places too: "I've just pissed my pants and nobody can do anything about it!"

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It's been a while since I've seen that. But it's one of those movies, that don't tend to exist anymore, that draw you in and when it's finished you feel like you've been living in that world for about 3 hours.

This feeling always makes me think of 'Shawshank Redemption. I love watching a film like that in the middle of the night when there are no disturbances. You get sucked in and it's only when the credits role or you "put normal TV on". You snap out of it.

F**king love that feeling, and is the reason I wish I would read more books. Because I believe this is the feeling that a lot of book readers talk about.

Great film but it sent Costner nuts didn't it?

I assumed he ways always one of those fellas in a world of his own.

I've just watched Doug Stanhopes new DVD, worth the £19 the pricks at HMV charged me for it. So funny.

Before that Scream4, what tosh! 1 and 2 were spot on, brilliant slashers, but 3 and 4? Just no need for 'em. If you don't want to know the ending... Look away now ...

"THE ENDING'S STUPID CRAP!!"

Okay, you can look again.

Quote: Leevil @ August 27 2011, 2:39 PM BST

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True, he has that look in his eyes, there's nobody home.

As for Tarantino, I fall into the fanboy category so am not equipped to have a level-heaved neutral discussion about him.

I think Death Proof was a bit silly, a lot silly actually, even Quentin himself has since said he had more money than sense. The soundtrack was top notch though.

Inglorius was epic, really indulgent and fractured but still, the opening scene and the scene in the Nazi basement with the British spy, that was borderline genius.

Jackie Brown is such a good Elmore Leonard adaptation, really cool tone to the piece, better than Out Of Sight or Get Shorty/Be Cool. De Niro shooting Bridget Fonda is pure black comedy.

NBK is simply an Oliver Stone lsd flashback. Harrelson and Downey Jnr are good guys to watch. The opening scene "Her Name, Is Mallory" is class, the rest, not so much.

Pulp Fiction, everything that can be said on the subject has already been said.
Close to perfect.

Res Dogs/ True Romance, both scripts smack of pure raw talent.

Not to bore anyone who's got this far into the post, but, at school, studying Romeo & Juliet, our final exam essay was the question "Which character is most responsible for the overall tragedy?", when you begin to answer you realise that every single person in the play, every one, plays a part, or makes a decision or does something that contributes to that final scene.

Exact same with True Romance, no bullshit.

Kill Bill 1 and 2 are completely opposite to eachother, not the same formula at all. Action vs Talky, High energy vs low energy, Sprawling space vs claustrophobia. All the info and backstory in 1 is re-evaluated in 2 giving the true version of events rather tha what we thought we knew. I could go on, but who cares?

His next film is supposed to be casting Di Caprio and Will Smith, "Django Unchained" a western (a southern)about a freed slave who seeks to reunite with his slave wife, a journey which will see him team up with a German bounty hunter to take down an evil plantation owner.

**Will never post essay length post again - Sorry, get carried away, strictly one sentence, single emoticon or acronym from now on**

I'd really like to see Will Smith stretch his acting muscles again. Haven't seen Ali yet. I think he's awesome but I want to see him do something different. Take a day of from saving the world and play a scumbag, even a scumbag with a heart would do.