Metal Reviews

These made my eyebrows perk up. Shitty shit shit flicks.

Haven't seen Whip It, but the other two are great movies.

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Agreed on Inception. Haven't seen most of these, you could be quite right on King's Speech, Social Network, True Grit, etc, and I do owe them a watch, thanks for the reminder.

Watchmen and Inglorious Bastards (or Tarantino generally) are part of what I consider wrong with filmmaking today. Though, to each his own.

I loved the fuck out of Inglorious Basterds.

RW: Tommy.

Putting those two movies in the same category makes me sad. Inglorious Basterds had much better developed characters and ideas than Watchmen imo (Zack Snyder totally missed the deeper ideas of the comic.) And it was a lot better in terms of basic storytelling because Watchmen suffered from "cram too much of a novel into a movie" syndrome.

Knew the Tarantino white knights would be out in full force. Wasn't equating the two films anyway...

Mind, if Inglorious Basterds is indeed a great movie, it still is Tarantino's worst.

Odd, his segment of Grindhouse is the only movie I've walked out on in my entire life. At least I'll give him credit for his first two films.

Actually, the Grindhouse segment you mentioned is the only Tarantino I didn't see. have the DVD but I can't put my heart into watching it...

My Tarantino list:
1 - Pulp Fiction 99/100
2 - Reservoir Dogs 95/100
3 - Kill Bill (1) 92/100
4 - Jackie Brown 88/100
5 - Kill Bill (2) 85/100
6 - Inglorious Basterds 83/100

IB was worth watching for Christoph Waltz alone, let alone all the interesting subtle stuff about cinema audiences and reactions to violence. Much better than that Watchmen bollocks. Respectable filmmaking as opposed to mindless Hollywood nonsense, the only film I'm looking forward to at the moment is the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy remake.

Inglorious Basterds is his best movie.

Agreed.

Starting to watch The Century of the Self on Google Video again (didn't make it to the end last time). It's about Freud, media, controllin' the masses, aww yeah. "Buying things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people who don't like you."

Public Enemies - Quite faithful and well acted (despite that I don't like Depp as an actor) although it was a little dry. There are many more stories about the guy they could have used to spice it up, like how they used to pretend to be a film company scouting locations for a bank robbery whilst actually robbing the bank, or how bystanders dipped their handkerchiefs in Dillinger's blood after he was shot, like Charles I. Good stuff overall.

I turned that movie off after 30 minutes :(

Essentially I thought it was fine, like you did. A rather pale imitation of Mann's generally regarded masterwork, "Heat" though. I'd strongly recommend checking that out if you liked this.

Oh, absolutely, seen it many times. Poor sod's probably sick of people whining about how his latest isn't as good as Heat!

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Haha, no doubt. I did like Public Enemies, but the movie reminded me of Heat in a number of ways.