Last movie you watched......

'Zero Dark Thirty' last night.
Very good.

 

You've posted more than six times a day for five years (frequently about a non-playoff team's 3rd-string quarterback) on a site that's designed for adults who write thousands of words about every facet of children's games played by adults who are paid millions of dollars, and yet you're complaining about movie analysis on a movie analysis thread?

 

Django was a fun Tarantino romp but I am surprised that anyone would consider it for one of the best movies of the year. Agree with all the criticisms up above.

Plus, there was never a plantation in the history of the South that had dozens of hired gunmen. That was over-the-top crazy.

 

"Shame."

A little late on this one, but glad to finally get to it. A challenging, uncomfortable tour de force. It shakes you up, even if you end up finding the message slightly puritanical (which would be a fair critique).

More on it later when I have time and a real keyboard.

 

Were you the kid in the back of the class in high school English bitching about how the teacher was reading way too much into "The Great Gatsby"?

 

'Shame' was a great, great movie.
Not something I'm probably going to watch again, but it was excellent.

 

Silver Linings Playbook. I didn't love it. Didn't hate it. Kind of meh on the whole thing.

 

Yeah, take it to the Politics thread.

 

Alien
First viewing, because I was curious how "Prometheus" fit in. "Alien" was a far better movie, a taught thriller that relied on its simplicity, much like "John Carpenter's Halloween." It seems to me that Ridley Scott wanted to return to the franchise to provide groundwork for asking those bigger questions about interstellar life. He just let a mediocre script get in his way.

 

I'll be less kind ... it made no sense at all.

Someone like Waltz's character would've challenged DiCaprio to a duel or something of that ilk back in those days.

Edit: Reservoir Dogs happened to be on just after I finished typing this ... and now I'm more disappointed in Django than ever.

When you compare the two, there's no comparison. Reservoir Dogs is a fully-realized, compelling, vital piece of work. It single-handedly establishes Tarantino's oeuvre, but does so while maintaining a fast-moving -- but not too fast -- storyline that, in hindsight, might have been Tarantino's best extension of his exploitation influences than anything he's done since.

Then there's Django. Way too long, way too lumbering, and while it's not pretentious, when you look at it in comparison to Reservoir Dogs, it's very pretentious. It doesn't feel as immediate or reach you in the same way Reservoir Dogs did. If anything, Tarantino's influences are more obvious 20 years down the line than they were when Reservoir Dogs was made.

I guess its a matter of taste, but I can't believe anyone would prefer the bloated recent Tarantino movies over something as great as Reservoir Dogs.

 

Gosh, I'm sorry it took you so long to catch up with that one. It still packs a punch.