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Continuing with the schizophrenic viewing habits...

Nightbreed (1990) Dir. Clive Barker
Revisited this after decades, and I still don't really get it. Mutant monsters called the Midian hide from the world in a mausoleum somewhere in America. I didn't notice if the film communicates how they got there. David Cronenberg plays a serial killing doctor who dons a gimp mask with button eyes and slays families for being obese and daring to breed (daybreeders?). A young dude escapes a psychiatric hospital (where another patient tears his own scalp off by way of an introduction), discovers the monsters, becomes one of them, and tries to defend them against the mad doctor who, having turned his attention to slaying monsters instead of overweight innocents, has enlisted support from the local fascist police, who arrive at the cemetery, armed to the gills with guns, flame weapons and explosives, for a final showdown. Don't judge people just for looking like a big shaven ballbag is the message, I suppose. The actor who plays Pinhead makes an appearance and gives the film a little more weight.



Freddy vs Jason (2003) Dir. Ronny Yu
For my sins, I've now sat through every F13th film. There are worse entries in the franchise than this one, but that is saying very little. The entire setup makes no sense, but I don't think you're supposed to care. In order to return to Elm St. and resume dream killing, Freddy needs people to remember him. The best way to do that is to have Jason go there first and start chopping people up and this will jog everyone's memory. Then Freddy's power will grow and he can make a proper comeback. The townsfolk have done a good job of covering up the horrid memories of the past by keeping anyone who surived the previous ordeal with Freddy in an induced coma, where they will surely have a better quality of life. Jason enjoys killing too much and starts to steal some of Freddy's victims. This does not sit well so the two of them face off in a junkyard (in Jason's dream). Then a woman who looks remarkably like Brittany Murphy pulls Freddy into the real world where the fight continues...and concludes! Or does it? WGAF. Can't believe I even bothered typing this.



Edit: technically, this should be considered more of a ANoES film than a F13th one, as it has Freddy's signature theme tune and is definitely played for laughs (making it more palatable than dead-straight Nightbreed, in some ways).

The original theatrical release of Nightbreed was cut too short to make sense by the movie studio (Director Clive Barker wasn't happy that this was done to his film project as it was intended to have a longer alloted running time to tell the story from the beginning to eventual conclusion).

If you watch the Director's Cut of Nightbreed, you'll see some scenes that were removed from the theatrical version restored to make more sense, continuity-wise. Originally, Nightbreed was supposed to be at least two or three films long to tell the further stories of the main character and company as the ending leads one to anticipate of what's coming next -- a war with the Doctor and his army of underground creatures (for a Nightbreed sequel that never materialized due to the poor American box office earnings back in 1990). Yes, actor Doug Bradley is quite associated with the famous Cenobite leader of Pinhead, indeed, in the Hellraiser movie series.

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[vol.2]

Originally, Nightbreed was supposed to be at least two or three films long to tell the further stories of the main character and company as the ending leads one to anticipate of what's coming next -- a war with the Doctor and his army of underground creatures (for a Nightbreed sequel that never materialized due to the poor American box office earnings back in 1990).

Nightbreed was one of my favorite movie as a kid. I have rewatched it since, and I still have warm fuzzies about it, but I think Craig Sheffer's acting is something, but it's not good. It's too bad they chose an actor on looks for the role. He really found his niche with One Tree Hill.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

The Great Silence (1968) Dir. Sergio Corbucci

Very cold, very bleak Western. Beautiful mountainous backdrops. Interminable snow. You can feel this one in your bones. The era of bounty hunting is coming to an end -- so citizens and law enforcers hope. Bounty hunters might technically be on the right side of the law, but morally they've become a bunch of psychos, merrily offing anyone whose face appears on a wanted poster before they've had time to blink, much less go fer their gun. The inimitable Klaus Kinski plays the leader of one such gang of bastards. But there's another man, one they call Silence, who fuckin hates bounty hunters (justifiably, as it turns out), and similarly abuses the letter of the law as a way of shooting them in "self defence". Multiple endings were shot by Corbuccci just in case the studio wouldn't go for such a bleak ending. Without spoiling it, I can see why! This film broke multiple rules to great effect, which makes it stand out from the rest. Beautifully scored by Morricone too.

Yeah I was gonna say, it's one of my favourite OSTs by Morricone. Couple of weeks ago the wife and I went to one of those Morricone life concerts, and it was fucking great, but I was still hoping all the time they'd sneak in the Grande silencio theme... it's such a wonderful melody.

[RGC]

CHILD'S PLAY 3

Kinda tempted to go back and take a look. At least 1 & 2 anyway. They're daft fun, but the first was genuinely freaky (at the time). Probably down to the "lifelike" facial animations that had been out of reach for the "Dolls" franchise (those films were earlier, right?). Another I'd like to randomly revisit is A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. That and the first were great (for what they are), but the others...not so much.

[RGC]

Gloria (1980) Dir. John Cassavetes

A tough neighbour shields a six year old boy from the New York mob; her former associates. They've already put holes in the kid's snitching ratfuck family, but he remains on their list. His guardian angel is initially frosty, but soon becomes overpowered by protective instincts, and refuses to turn him over for execution. Attempts to broker a deal go sideways and the pair are forced to go on the run. After deeply appreciating A Woman Under the Influence (1974) last year, especially Gena Rowlands' performance, I had high expectations for this one. Rowlands here was incredibly robust (in every sense), and I love that her character only reveals her affection via the aggressiveness toward the boy's would be harmers, remaining otherwise indifferent toward him. But for some reason I couldn't detect any real chemistry between them, even at the end when I think we're supposed to appreciate it in a more open way. Still highly enjoyable though.

[vol.2]

Gloria (1980) Dir. John Cassavetes

A tough neighbour shields a six year old boy from the New York mob; her former associates. They've already put holes in the kid's snitching ratfuck family, but he remains on their list. His guardian angel is initially frosty, but soon becomes overpowered by protective instincts, and refuses to turn him over for execution. Attempts to broker a deal go sideways and the pair are forced to go on the run. After deeply appreciating A Woman Under the Influence (1974) last year, especially Gena Rowlands' performance, I had high expectations for this one. Rowlands here was incredibly robust (in every sense), and I love that her character only reveals her affection via the aggressiveness toward the boy's would be harmers, remaining otherwise indifferent toward him. But for some reason I couldn't detect any real chemistry between them, even at the end when I think we're supposed to appreciate it in a more open way. Still highly enjoyable though.

Yeah, the kid in Gloria is kind of an NPC. I never got the impression we were really supposed to care about him outside of what was going on inside of Gloria. That was kind of the point of it I think, that this kid is basically a victim and not the protagonist, and Gloria's mommy instincts make her go extra Rambo. I always liked the film, it's got that slightly weird, slightly sideways approach that Cassavetes is so good at.

[GaijinPunch]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Dir. David Lynch
Holy cow, I'd forgotten how intense this is.

Yeah it's a doozy. Not sure how old you are, but I watched this in the cinema 3 times on it's initial run. The Pink Room scene still hits. What a tune!

Did he sit on the secret of what really happened in the woods that night, or reveal it to someone and make himself accountable? I don't remember if any of that is revisited in The Return).

Nothing mentioned in The Return.

Spoiler

I still haven't quite grasped the significance of the owl ring and how it's connected to the black lodge, but I'm sure explanations, interpretations and speculations abound just a search away!

There are some good videos on YT. I think this one sheds a bit of light on the ring, but it's been a while since I watched it, and it's a long one. Also, some eagle-eyed nerds out there caught this.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

CHILD'S PLAY 3

Kinda tempted to go back and take a look. At least 1 & 2 anyway. They're daft fun, but the first was genuinely freaky (at the time). Probably down to the "lifelike" facial animations that had been out of reach for the "Dolls" franchise (those films were earlier, right?). Another I'd like to randomly revisit is A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. That and the first were great (for what they are), but the others...not so much.

Yeah NoES 1 and 3 are undoubtedly the best in the series, but 2 isn't bad at all either. It's admittedly a bit on the "more of the same"-side, but if you look at it as a stand alone film it's a pretty damn respectable 80s horror film with cool handmade effects.

I found Chucky 1 incredibly annoying due to the shitty whining kid. All in all I'd still say in its entirety its the best horror series of all time. It doesn't have any really shitty entries, unlike, say Hellraiser or all the other series that started in the 80s or even before (like Halloween & Friday 13th).

[Lemnear]

I usually don't post the movies I watch but I follow all the releases, but often here you mention pearls (sometimes sublime trash) that I didn't know. I definitely have to catch up on all the CANNON movies O_O

However, the latest one I saw is The Substance. Very beautiful actually (the body-horror twisting ending is honestly very heavy, more than Basket Case). The general aesthetics are beautiful, but the underlying concept doesn't make much sense unfortunately... even if the message the movie wants to give is very clear, and it often takes care to make you understand it well in case someone hasn't understood it, probably it doesn't want to make the same mistake as Barbie, which had the opposite effect.
an unusual Elevated Horror

[NYN]

Yeah NoES 1 and 3 are undoubtedly the best in the series, but 2 isn't bad at all either. It's admittedly a bit on the "more of the same"-side, but if you look at it as a stand alone film it's a pretty damn respectable 80s horror film with cool handmade effects.

They all have weak parts and strong ones. Part 6 is a dud, start to finish. Part 2 is indeed interesting. It doesn't replicate the original, and has brutal body-horror. Score by Chris Young (fave: Chest-burster). Of course it's obvious gay theme is not coherent, and is very easy to spot. Unfortunate due to the blindness of the production crew to it, it remains somewhat in the closet. That unregulated experimentation! With Dream Warriors it became a formula.

I found Chucky 1 incredibly annoying due to the shitty whining kid. All in all I'd still say in its entirety its the best horror series of all time. It doesn't have any really shitty entries, unlike, say Hellraiser or all the other series that started in the 80s or even before (like Halloween & Friday 13th).

You know, that's my surprise with this. Maybe that's why of all the slasher it's the puppet of all things who is the sole survivor of the ol' gang. I have yet to see Seed, Curse, and Cult of the Chucker (Season 1 is up next ), though strangely I don't fret about that now the duds are coming. Once I got over the prejudice about killer dolls, strictly on my part, it's been a treat. It's when something clearly at odds comes together: the sicko killer trapped in the child-like inanimate object. Throwing tantrums and killing adult authorities. Together it becomes wicked, almost taboo, and that's just the stuff.

[Lord British]

Gloria (1980) Dir. John Cassavetes

A tough neighbour shields a six year old boy from the New York mob; her former associates. They've already put holes in the kid's snitching ratfuck family, but he remains on their list. His guardian angel is initially frosty, but soon becomes overpowered by protective instincts, and refuses to turn him over for execution. Attempts to broker a deal go sideways and the pair are forced to go on the run. After deeply appreciating A Woman Under the Influence (1974) last year, especially Gena Rowlands' performance, I had high expectations for this one. Rowlands here was incredibly robust (in every sense), and I love that her character only reveals her affection via the aggressiveness toward the boy's would be harmers, remaining otherwise indifferent toward him. But for some reason I couldn't detect any real chemistry between them, even at the end when I think we're supposed to appreciate it in a more open way. Still highly enjoyable though.

I loved that movie! Yeah the kid can't act but I got over it. I loved that Rowlands was not nuts but merely kooky for a change. It's reputation is iffy because it's the most accessible JC film, but I'm a fan.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Yeah NoES 1 and 3 are undoubtedly the best in the series, but 2 isn't bad at all either. It's admittedly a bit on the "more of the same"-side, but if you look at it as a stand alone film it's a pretty damn respectable 80s horror film with cool handmade effects.

They all have weak parts and strong ones. Part 6 is a dud, start to finish. Part 2 is indeed interesting. It doesn't replicate the original, and has brutal body-horror. Score by Chris Young (fave: Chest-burster). Of course it's obvious gay theme is not coherent, and is very easy to spot. Unfortunate due to the blindness of the production crew to it, it remains somewhat in the closet. That unregulated experimentation! With Dream Warriors it became a formula.

I found Chucky 1 incredibly annoying due to the shitty whining kid. All in all I'd still say in its entirety its the best horror series of all time. It doesn't have any really shitty entries, unlike, say Hellraiser or all the other series that started in the 80s or even before (like Halloween & Friday 13th).

You know, that's my surprise with this. Maybe that's why of all the slasher it's the puppet of all things who is the sole survivor of the ol' gang. I have yet to see Seed, Curse, and Cult of the Chucker (Season 1 is up next ), though strangely I don't fret about that now the duds are coming. Once I got over the prejudice about killer dolls, strictly on my part, it's been a treat. It's when something clearly at odds comes together: the sicko killer trapped in the child-like inanimate object. Throwing tantrums and killing adult authorities. Together it becomes wicked, almost taboo, and that's just the stuff.

Lots of good thoughts. Chucky has always been semi-legendary in my circle since there was this murder of that kid in Britain, which happened in the late 80s?, allegedly connected to it, plus Germany, for the longest time, used to censor the shit out of horror films, and there used to be this cultural taboo around them. This was particularly true for the Chucky films, where no doubt the taboo around them also heavily influenced by what you described, the mixture of a child's toy and a voodoo killer inside it). Slashers particularly had this grimy, barbarous reputation, which made them all the more interesting for us as kids. When I finally watched it, Brad Dourif was what immediately made me a fan (the guy has such a distinctive, expressive and above all hilarious voice), and while I enjoy his other work (Alien 4! also some hip indie film involving rings and bong-wizards or something), Chucky is his best role IMHO.

[NYN]

Brad Dourif was what immediately made me a fan (the guy has such a distinctive, expressive and above all hilarious voice), and while I enjoy his other work (Alien 4! also some hip indie film involving rings and bong-wizards or something), Chucky is his best role IMHO.

I can hear the glee in the voice whenever the possessed good guy laughs in a sinister timbre. Not to overlook, I will mention 2 Lynch movies with him: Blue Velvet and Dune. (Cuckoo's Nest a given)

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Brad Dourif was what immediately made me a fan (the guy has such a distinctive, expressive and above all hilarious voice), and while I enjoy his other work (Alien 4! also some hip indie film involving rings and bong-wizards or something), Chucky is his best role IMHO.

I can hear the glee in the voice whenever the possessed good guy laughs in a sinister timbre. Not to overlook, I will mention 2 Lynch movies with him: Blue Velvet and Dune. (Cuckoo's Nest a given)

I haven't seen either and before reading your post wasn't aware that he was in both films! Holy mackerel

[Sumez]

First thing that sold me on Brad Dourif and made me start noticing him in other things was the X-Files episode he is in. He's in so many cool things (he's even in Heaven's Gate) it's hard to pick a favorite role, but I'm definitely also partial to Cuckoo's Nest. I actually had no idea he was Chucky.

[BIL]

Dourif really is one of those stalwarts who makes even the worst stuff tolerable, at absolute minimum. Damn-near singlehandedly redeems the weak Graveyard Shift adaptation. A powerhouse in quality works ala The Exorcist III.

[Vexorg]

Dirty Dancing: ***

Another 80s classic I've somehow managed to not see until now. A fairly low-budget ($4.5 million, equivalent to $12.7m now) film released with low expectations, it ended up with a gross of $214 million, put Patrick Swayze on the A List and earned a Best Original Song Oscar. That said, my wife warned me before we watched it that it gets rather contrived, and that it definitely does, leading up to a finale where the dancing is so good that it makes all the chairs mysteriously vanish from the room. But really the plot is just padding on this one, you're really here to see Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey anyway, and you see plenty of them.

[emphatic]

Dirty Dancing: ***

Another 80s classic I've somehow managed to not see until now. A fairly low-budget ($4.5 million, equivalent to $12.7m now) film released with low expectations, it ended up with a gross of $214 million, put Patrick Swayze on the A List and earned a Best Original Song Oscar. That said, my wife warned me before we watched it that it gets rather contrived, and that it definitely does, leading up to a finale where the dancing is so good that it makes all the chairs mysteriously vanish from the room. But really the plot is just padding on this one, you're really here to see Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey anyway, and you see plenty of them.

Too bad the fame made Jennifer Grey overly self-conscious about the shape of her nose, so she had work done and couldn't get any roles as she was basically unrecognizable.

[Sumez]

Pulp Fiction

It's been years, decades actually, since I last watched this movie.
I've always been of the impression that it's entertaining but really nothing special. I just didn't get the hype when it came out. I'd say it's overrated, but obviously it made a splash so it must have been doing something right.

Well, time to re-evaluate that opinion. Tarantino finally clicked for me when Inglorious Basterds came out, I thought it was fantastic. Really showcasing an excellent understanding of cinematic language. Is his stuff derivative as fuck? Sure. But it uses that as an excellent form of communication that transcends storytelling and becomes enjoyable to watch just for the smaller details, with individual scenes often working well as small stand-alone experiences - I feel like that's true for everything he's made. I revisited Kill Bill recently, another movie of his that didn't make much of an impression on me when it came out. Vol. 2 has been weirdly elusive, but now that both parts are on Netflix I finally got the whole deal. Great movie with tons of enjoyable scenes, that only suffers from a really stupid pacing due to the split between two movies.
And I don't mean the "quiet parts" - those are the best parts. If I had to cut something out, it would be the overly long action scenes from Vol. 1, which keep going on for like 20 minutes after "ok we get it".

Anyway, back to Pulp Fiction. This got me in a Tarantino mood, and I wanted to rewatch the "classic" movie that really whirled him into superstartdom.

My first "re-impression" is that it clicked with me a lot better this time. It's pretty insane how modern it feels, considering it's from 1994. I don't consider 90s movies old, but they tend to have a certain tone to them (which I both appreciate and miss fwiw), while you could have easily told me Pulp Fiction had been made 10 or even 20 years later and I'd believe you if I didn't know better.
So yeah, I guess Tarantino really was well ahead of his time when he made this, if not straight-up influencing all of Hollywood to come.

I pretty much loved it all the way up until the point where Bruce Willis and the crime boss get caputed by a couple of rapists. At this point it starts feeling childish, and it's followed up by the weirdly plotted-in flashback scene with the blood spattered car, which serves no purpose, isn't particularly entertaining, goes on for far too long, and is punctuated by the uncomfortable awkwardness of Tarantino's own acting.

Ultimately the weaker scenes really detract from the more solid ones, as if all of it was just tossed in with no sense of trimming the fat. More notably though, the movie just ends randomly without having really gone anywhere. It's not that I wanted resolution for anything, but the whole thing does feel kind of pointless. Why did everything happen? The scenes being tossed in out of chronological order seems like it would have some sort of clever idea behind it, but the only thing it results in, is giving us the explanation for why Jules and Vincent were wearing casual clothes when they showed up in the mob HQ early on - something I'm sure no one thought was interesting. And I guess, offering us a sort of book-end with Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer's robbery of the diner, which ultimately also felt pointless.

I'm ready to accept that I "just don't get" the movie, but rewatching really didn't change my impression of it - rather, it just reinforced the one I had from all those years ago. It's a cool movie, but feels more like abunch of ideas which could be made into something, than something really of its own. But hey, Tarantino would go on to make Kill Bill, Basterds, Django and Once Upon. So it's all good, really. The guy obviously has talent.

[NYN]

Why did everything happen?

What? It's just an extravagant over-long music video, with furious anger monologues, to learn to quote from.

I don't mean to spray-paint over your existential need to create coherence, yet I somewhat smugly point out the more than apt title of the flick. I hesitate to re-watch many movies now, purely for reasons of run time.

Get back to Jackie Brown now, and we will talk some more... about The Delfonics.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Pulp Fiction

It's been years, decades actually, since I last watched this movie.
I've always been of the impression that it's entertaining but really nothing special. I just didn't get the hype when it came out. I'd say it's overrated, but obviously it made a splash so it must have been doing something right.

Well, time to re-evaluate that opinion. Tarantino finally clicked for me when Inglorious Basterds came out, I thought it was fantastic. Really showcasing an excellent understanding of cinematic language. Is his stuff derivative as fuck? Sure. But it uses that as an excellent form of communication that transcends storytelling and becomes enjoyable to watch just for the smaller details, with individual scenes often working well as small stand-alone experiences - I feel like that's true for everything he's made. I revisited Kill Bill recently, another movie of his that didn't make much of an impression on me when it came out. Vol. 2 has been weirdly elusive, but now that both parts are on Netflix I finally got the whole deal. Great movie with tons of enjoyable scenes, that only suffers from a really stupid pacing due to the split between two movies.
And I don't mean the "quiet parts" - those are the best parts. If I had to cut something out, it would be the overly long action scenes from Vol. 1, which keep going on for like 20 minutes after "ok we get it".

Anyway, back to Pulp Fiction. This got me in a Tarantino mood, and I wanted to rewatch the "classic" movie that really whirled him into superstartdom.

My first "re-impression" is that it clicked with me a lot better this time. It's pretty insane how modern it feels, considering it's from 1994. I don't consider 90s movies old, but they tend to have a certain tone to them (which I both appreciate and miss fwiw), while you could have easily told me Pulp Fiction had been made 10 or even 20 years later and I'd believe you if I didn't know better.
So yeah, I guess Tarantino really was well ahead of his time when he made this, if not straight-up influencing all of Hollywood to come.

I pretty much loved it all the way up until the point where Bruce Willis and the crime boss get caputed by a couple of rapists. At this point it starts feeling childish, and it's followed up by the weirdly plotted-in flashback scene with the blood spattered car, which serves no purpose, isn't particularly entertaining, goes on for far too long, and is punctuated by the uncomfortable awkwardness of Tarantino's own acting.

Ultimately the weaker scenes really detract from the more solid ones, as if all of it was just tossed in with no sense of trimming the fat. More notably though, the movie just ends randomly without having really gone anywhere. It's not that I wanted resolution for anything, but the whole thing does feel kind of pointless. Why did everything happen? The scenes being tossed in out of chronological order seems like it would have some sort of clever idea behind it, but the only thing it results in, is giving us the explanation for why Jules and Vincent were wearing casual clothes when they showed up in the mob HQ early on - something I'm sure no one thought was interesting. And I guess, offering us a sort of book-end with Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer's robbery of the diner, which ultimately also felt pointless.

I'm ready to accept that I "just don't get" the movie, but rewatching really didn't change my impression of it - rather, it just reinforced the one I had from all those years ago. It's a cool movie, but feels more like abunch of ideas which could be made into something, than something really of its own. But hey, Tarantino would go on to make Kill Bill, Basterds, Django and Once Upon. So it's all good, really. The guy obviously has talent.

I do recall watching Pulp Fiction on the silver screen back in 1994 -- it was quite something to behold, especially with it's non-linear progression of scenes all mixed up. The Pulp Fiction pinball machine that Tarantino wanted made with 1990s-based pinball aestethics and gameplay mechanics really is a cool companion piece/tie-in to the film itself but to the tune of spending a whopping $11,000 usd to aquire one for one's personal game room, it certainly ain't exactly "chump change" these days.

Within the Kill Bill universe/mythos, five remaining characters including Beatrix Kiddo and company are still around with plenty of more stories left to tell that Tarantino could do with Kill Bill Vol. 3 making it the final film as a proper trilogy unto itself (assuming if actress Uma reprising her role as an "older & wiser" Beatrix and Co. want to do it, of course). Tarantino could tie-up the five remaining Kill Bill characters' stories and go "all-out" as his tenth and final film before retiring to "greener pastures". Mr. Q's latest film project, The Critic, was canceled and it's anyone's guess as what he'll do for his tenth and final movie, at least with a possible Kill Bill third sequel, he can go all-out with it. I'd pay good money to watch it on the big screen as that'd be one movie for the ages not to be missed for sure. Or make Kill Bill Vol. 3 as a full-length anime film and use Uma and Co.'s voice-overs to tell the story would work equally as well -- that'd be legendary/epic, indeed.

As for the classic "Crazy 88" gang melee scene featured in Kill Bill Vol. 1, if it was shown in color during it's American theatrical release, it would've earned a dreaded and shocking NC-17 rating with the MPAA at the time rather than the more favorable and respected R rating -- hence why it's shown as a "black 'n' white" montage format instead (as most American movie theater chains absolutely refuse to carry/show such NC-17 rated films even nowadays). Heck, even the classic 1987 sci-fi film of RoboCop garnered an X rating with the MPAA during it's initial screening with them due to the unprecedent and unheard of usage of "F-bombs" said on-screen. Of course, RoboCop was edited/toned down to earn the more favorable R rating when it did finally premiere on the silver screen back in 1987.

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[Sumez]

What? It's just an extravagant over-long music video, with furious anger monologues, to learn to quote from.

I don't mean to spray-paint over your existential need to create coherence, yet I somewhat smugly point out the more than apt title of the flick.

I think you're reading too much into that specific statement. Like I said I've watched and enjoyed other Tarantino movies, and my general taste in movies doesn't exactly call for coherence or any sort of linear narrative at all. The thing I'm reacting to here is that it feels like the movie ran out of juice before the end, and ended up going out with a whimper instead of a bang. And it's a movie that really wants to bang.

Get back to Jackie Brown now, and we will talk some more... about The Delfonics.

Actually the real reason I ended up rewatching Pulp Fiction is that I couldn't find my Jackie Brown DVD, and that movie isn't on any available streaming services. It's the last QT movie I haven't seen, and I've been sitting on that DVD for a couple of decades now. I probably tossed it out recently alongside a bunch of other ones when I realised I had too many.

[NYN]

And it's a movie that really wants to bang.

Uhm, beg to differ? If the chapters were in a strict chronological order, what would be the last scene then? Butch and Fab aka Blueberry Pancake riding out of town... Does it blow the mind? Instead it's laundry-day-bowling-alley-chlothes-goons-diffusing-diner-robbery-without-violence. Y'all welcome. Roll credits. Way be cool.

Actually the real reason I ended up rewatching Pulp Fiction is that I couldn't find my Jackie Brown DVD, and that movie isn't on any available streaming services. It's the last QT movie I haven't seen, and I've been sitting on that DVD for a couple of decades now. I probably tossed it out recently alongside a bunch of other ones when I realised I had too many.

Thanks for this bit. It sums up what I find highly absurd in practice. In streaming services and human behavior. Not meant to be cynical or personal. It's a rare confirm for me on the subject.

[Sumez]

Uhm, beg to differ? If the chapters were in a strict chronological order, what would be the last scene then? Butch and Fab aka Blueberry Pancake riding out of town... Does it blow the mind? Instead it's laundry-day-bowling-alley-chlothes-goons-diffusing-diner-robbery-without-violence. Y'all welcome. Roll credits. Way be cool.

Ok now I really don't know what you're arguing against here. I wasn't advocating for putting the chapters in chronological order. I was just highlighting what I thought were weaknesses of the film, and the last third of it is definitely a weakness in my book, doesn't really matter what order it goes in.

Actually the real reason I ended up rewatching Pulp Fiction is that I couldn't find my Jackie Brown DVD, and that movie isn't on any available streaming services. It's the last QT movie I haven't seen, and I've been sitting on that DVD for a couple of decades now. I probably tossed it out recently alongside a bunch of other ones when I realised I had too many.

Thanks for this bit. It sums up what I find highly absurd in practice. In streaming services and human behavior. Not meant to be cynical or personal. It's a rare confirm for me on the subject.

Always in a good mood, eh?
If a movie isn't available to me, I'm typically not gonna go out of my way to acquire it. I don't know if you're advocating for piracy between the lines, but I'm not trying to take any moral high ground here - just, there are a shit ton of movies that I want to watch that are already readily available to me, so those just automatically get a higher priority. Pulp Fiction was due for a rewatch anyway.

[NYN]

Putting in order of things: I claim that is something every PF viewer does, since there are certain fatal encounter, that would leave some characters ending a bit different. And my suggestion to the ending was merely this: some characters go out of their usual (erstwhile shown) mode, to achieve just this. So I cannot find it a whimper or a bang. I loathe explaining things, that's why I can be misunderstood.

Piracy? Perish the thought! I can just relate, being one to have a physical relation to things, not a digital. *sigh* For the most part.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Putting in order of things: I claim that is something every PF viewer does, since there are certain fatal encounter, that would leave some characters ending a bit different. And my suggestion to the ending was merely this: some characters go out of their usual (erstwhile shown) mode, to achieve just this. So I cannot find it a whimper or a bang. I loathe explaining things, that's why I can be misunderstood.

Piracy? Perish the thought! I can just relate, being one to have a physical relation to things, not a digital. *sigh* For the most part.

Yes, if you want to watch certain movies that aren't available on streaming, it's best to buy it on dvd, blu-ray or 4K uhd format (or in the event said movie isn't streaming anymore, at the very least, physical media will still be within reach at a moments notice 24/7).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[GaijinPunch]

L'Eclisse

The story of a fresh-out-of-a-relationship Monica Vitti, and a cocky, well-to-do stock broker, played by a very young Alain Delon. Clips of this one have shown up in my IG feed for a while. Pretty high "will they/won't they" tension, and a slow burn, but not too slow and not too long. Watched on a long haul flight and helped the time go by.

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[Vexorg]

Sgt. Bilko: **1/2

Mid 90s remake of a 50s TV sitcom starring Steve Martin in the title role of Sergeant Bilko, the commanding officer of a motor pool at a fictitious Army base who is far more interested in running massive illegal gambling operations than in actually doing his job while the base commander (played by Dan Aykroyd) mostly looks the other way, until a major with a grudge against Bilko over being reassigned to the Arctic as a result of a fixed boxing match (played by Phil Hartman) shows up looking for excuses to shut down the base and to exact revenge. The result is mostly Steve Martin playing Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd playing Dan Aykroyd. Poorly reviewed and failed to break even at the box office, you can probably pass on this unless you really like Steve Martin.