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I'm going to see it in a few hours. Will report back tomorrow. I expect it to be excellent. For a frame of reference, I think Inglorious Basterds is Tarantino's best work. Sure his first movies moved the needle more but I think it all came together in that movie. His most polished and complete work. So I expect this to compete with that.

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So, first a few negative things. It's long. It's unnecessarily long in my opinion. It drags and seems a bit confused in parts. That's really about it.

Other than that it's excellent. It doesn't surpass Basterds, where every scene hit it and was spot on but it certainly pays off. It's 100% worth going to see and the acting of Leo and Pitt is fantastic. Perhaps Pitt has too much Aldo the Apache but it's great nonetheless. Definitely recommend. It's a beautiful movie.

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5 hours ago, Moorgan said:

So, first a few negative things. It's long. It's unnecessarily long in my opinion. It drags and seems a bit confused in parts. That's really about it.

Other than that it's excellent. It doesn't surpass Basterds, where every scene hit it and was spot on but it certainly pays off. It's 100% worth going to see and the acting of Leo and Pitt is fantastic. Perhaps Pitt has too much Aldo the Apache but it's great nonetheless. Definitely recommend. It's a beautiful movie.

Thanks man...I personally consider Basterds a lesser of his movies so this should be good.  

How many QT movies have you seen?  IGBSTRDS is great but there are many others better

 

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On ‎7‎/‎27‎/‎2019 at 2:54 AM, Shocker said:

Thanks man...I personally consider Basterds a lesser of his movies so this should be good.  

How many QT movies have you seen?  IGBSTRDS is great but there are many others better

 

I've seen them all. I think Pulp Fiction is a more polished version of Resevoir Dogs. RD was a game changing movie and I loved True Romance but that's not technically QT. However, I view Basterds as his most polished movie of all. Every scene just hit. Django was great and I like H8 too but I still think everything came together in Basterds.

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On 7/30/2019 at 3:54 PM, Moorgan said:

I've seen them all. I think Pulp Fiction is a more polished version of Resevoir Dogs. RD was a game changing movie and I loved True Romance but that's not technically QT. However, I view Basterds as his most polished movie of all. Every scene just hit. Django was great and I like H8 too but I still think everything came together in Basterds.

I agree with all of this...

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19 hours ago, Shocker said:

Kill Bill 1 is still a favorite of mine and love the Grindhouses too.  I can’t discount IBs though, that movie is fuggin amazing.

Forgot about KB1. Yes that movie is fantastic. It's very QT and it's nod to Kung Fu movies of the 70s is fantastic. However, I do think that specifically that nod to those movies makes it less...mature? (from a film making stand point) than IB. I'm not sure what I'm thinking is what I'm saying. Anyways, I agree that Leo's performance was fantastic but I saw the Red Letter Media review of Once and they did bring up an interesting point.

Leo did a great job playing the has been actor who has revelation relating the story of the has been cowpoke in the book he's reading to his own life. Leo does a great job with that scene. BUT how much more meta or impactful would it have been if, instead of Leo, that part wasn't played by an A lister but instead an actor that QT is rehabilitating? I don't know who that might've been but that would've been an extra level that would've be amazing. But I thought Leo was great and did a fantastic job. He doesn't really make bad movies.

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On 7/31/2019 at 9:26 AM, Shocker said:

Kill Bill 1 is still a favorite of mine and love the Grindhouses too.  I can’t discount IBs though, that movie is fuggin amazing.

Love QT Grindhouse, highly underrated IMO,  the dialog between the  characters is Outstanding! 

 

Bastards is one I seen in the theater and didn't really care for it, seen it at home several times after that and its incredible also great dialog. Prbly in my Top 5 now

 

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I'd go, from worst to first (still haven't seen OUATIH):

Four Rooms (partial-director)

Death Proof

Jackie Brown

Sin City (partial -director)

True Romance (partial-director)

Reservoir Dogs

The Hateful 8

Pulp Fiction

Kill Bill 2

Kill Bill 1

Django Unchained

Inglorious Basterds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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