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The knife in the hand scene is iconic!
I don’t think anything went wrong with Jackie Brown. It’s a great film.
One thing that comes to mind though, that might have contributed to a slight disconnect with what fans/audiences were expecting vs. what they got is that Jackie Brown is (I think) the only film that Tarantino directly adapted from an existing work. So maybe he restrained himself a bit, made an effort at cohering to the original mood supplied by the novel, and that energy came through in the final product?
Because me personally, I feel like this is his most calm, most plaintive film. And that’s what I love about it. A good slow burn, and not hyper violent (though I really don’t mind his ridiculous excessive use of graphic violence because said violence always seems to border on the realms of comical rather than morbidity).
And yeah, the acting/casting was great all around.
This film is super re-watchable, it just isn’t for everybody (in my humble opinion).
Also, it is the Tarantino film that I recommend to people who may not like his other movies.
Your reasoning (as to Deep Impact being more realistic) makes a lot of sense.
I don’t necessarily dislike this movie, it’s just that the ride is quite a bummer, in my humble opinion.
Can’t quite decide whether I prefer cheese or melodrama…guess it depends on my current mood, haha!
Svengoolie’s little side gags are mostly unbearable and sometimes funny in the most driest sense.
The film had cool ghost effects for its time, but the dialogue was ridiculously expositional—to the point where it made the acting horribly unconvincing.
Very weird movie.
And the score was pleasant, but it also seemed misplaced.
2/4 for me.
Eh, it wasn’t so bad!
I particularly enjoyed Cranston turning on the Walter White for a moment at the end. I thought the reversal of roles was a clever take.
That’s cool! I had never heard of that particular piece of literature.
Agreed! A ridiculously fun and entertaining farce.
Yeah, as Porsche wrote, Rules of Attraction provides an adequate prequel for the Bateman character. I’m speaking more of the book, but I believe he is also in the film adaptation (only seen it once very long ago so my recollection is fuzzy).
I don’t think any further Patrick Bateman origin/reboot is necessary. Best to leave that to the imagination for the viewers based on what has already been written.
Are you a fan of Huey Lewis and the News?
It is a wonderful film. Gets better with the rewatch.
You should probably put a spoiler alert in your post regarding Buscemi.
Never seen her boobs, but she was great in Scott Pilgrim!
“Bad Boys 3” was not great, in my humble opinion. “Bad Boys 2” however has one of my favorite comedic scenes ever: when Smith and Lawrence are grilling the prom date for the daughter—gave me a bunch of hearty laughs.
“MIB 3” was probably the last time I got a wonderful bit of true joy from a Will Smith movie.
Also, I thought his performance in “Ali” was very good. [edit: also “Enemy of the State” is of course a classic]
But so much for all of that, because the Fresh Prince decided it was cool to slap Chris Rock (who is a national goddamn treasure) in the face on national TV, and now I can’t stand the sight of Mr. Smith. Which is a shame, because I really was a fan of the guy for a long time.
I disagree. If you’re gonna say one is better than the other, it’s only by a measure of inches. Because they are both pretty damn great.
Totally agree. I love the atmosphere that Mann and his cinematographer created here. It turns ‘LA at night’ into another character in the film.
I really liked Yelchin in the Star Trek Movies.
Also “Thoroughbreds” is an under appreciated gem, despite his role being small.
He was also really good in “Fright Night”.
However, this is the film that put Yelchin on my personal radar, and I honestly can’t think of a performance by him that I don’t enjoy. Definitely gone too soon, there was so much more he had to give.
I recently watched newsreel footage of the Manson trial on YouTube, and low and behold one of the clips has some of the girls skipping arm in arm down the courtroom hall, singing “all is one all is one all is one.”
So yeah, Quentin did some research for this one.
Also, that sequence at the beginning with the girls singing always holds a heavy sense of dread whenever I watch this film, but seeing members of the actual Manson family do it was downright chilling.
Definitely agree about the symbolism.
Cheers to your next viewing! 🍻
I’ll look for it next time I watch this film.
But my thought is that Corso actually IS the Devil, but he is simply unaware of what he is. The reason he is drawn to the book is because the book will lead his soul back home. The Mysterious Girl is his guide.
Everyone who used the book, and killed for the book, in order to find the Devil were too blinded by their own narcissism to recognize that it was Corso all along, and they all meet ugly demises.
Corso even toys with Balkan at the end, when Balkan is playing with fire. And pay attention to how that sequence is shot: Balkan above, earthly; Corso down below, his face amongst dancing flames. And Corso goads the arrogant Balkan into burning himself alive.
However, this is just my interpretation of the film, which very well might be wrong, but I really delved into this film a couple years back and found that there were many clues that point to Corso being the Devil, that he has been wandering the earth for millennia, but he has forgotten who/what he was, and it is the book (which he co-wrote so long ago) which eventually sets him free from his earthly limbo.
Also, this interpretation was inspired by a thread way back when from IMDB, just to clarify.