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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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"This is the first film I've seen by director Jules Dassin. Du rififi chez les hommes (Rififi) With a reputation as such a seminal heist film I was anticipating something quite special from Rififi. The elements of a heist and it's unstable aftermath can be compared to some of my favorite films like The Killing and Reservoir Dogs. The former of which came out about roughly the same time and thus I'm not sure how much influence one could have on the other. Maybe because I've seen so many heist films now that run along these same lines, I was a little more bored at first and a little less surprised by the end at the outcome. Still it was an exciting film and I can see it's innovation. One of the most notable portions of the film is the actual heist which is quite long and features no music, and no dialogue (the characters must be quiet. They are performing a heist after all). It shows many steps of the mechanics of the heist in real time. This makes you feel like you are really ... "
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"In Bruges features one of the most stylized child murders I have ever seen on film. I repeat – Stylized Child Murder. Later in the film we have another stylized murder of a midget that results in a suicide because the suicide victim thought the latter murder was a child murder. Now, I think gangster death can be fun just like everybody else, including the Reservoir Dogs clones up and through In Bruges. But the British took it too far – I am not a fan of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for many of the same reasons that I am not a fan of this movie. The British take on the humor in these films is generally a bit too sadistic. Furthermore, we have an illegal drug subplot that is placed just to give the film an additional edge it does not deserve or need. Farrell and Gleeson are entertaining enough as the wayward buddy gangsters - especially Gleeson who we need to see in more "
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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"This week Filmspotting set the challenge of recasting Reservoir Dogs. Now, I've seen this movie before but it's been a while. I've kept meaning to pick it up on DVD but have never quite got around to it. What I love about Reservoir Dogs is its simplicity. Pulp Fiction is certainly a great movie but Dogs wins out for me simply because it tells a simple story well and is packed with excellent moments. With almost all of the movie shot around one location, an empty warehouse, it really is up to the actors to dictate the pace and style of the film. Tarantino's story flicks between the present, the set up before leading to the pay off - a great standoff. I love the casting too. From Keitel to Madsen to Buscemi - they really stand out and quickly inhabit the characters. Give good actors material that they believe in and you'll get good performances - that certainly happens here. This is what's making the recasting game so frustratingly difficult. In fact, I'm at the stage now where I sus ... "
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"Jackie Brown is really an overall strange movie, not in subject matter but in style and content. It's an obvious Tarantino movie, with the ghetto conversations about seemingly superfluous topics and the long, meandering narrative with plenty of plot-twists and episodes, some labeled on-screen as such. It's really enjoyable despite its 2 1/2 hour run time, which actually seems to fly by without so much as a stutter in plotting. This movie really made me realize just how great Tarantino is with story structure. Even his critics can't say that the man has such a distinctive and confident poise behind the camera, and such a grasp on the intricacies of typical story structure. He seems to be having so much fun with this movie, and effortlessly makes the story glide from plot-twist to plot-twist. It would be so funny to see what a convoluted mess this movie may have been in the hands of most other directors--but Tarantino doesn't even let you think about how extensive the plot is, h ... "
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"My list, in continuation… 6. Fargo See my blog entry on it…it’s a while back, but I feel it’s pretty comprehensive as to how fricken incredible this movie is. 7. Chinatown An absolute classic. Jack Nicholson’s greatest role, and an amazing turn by Faye Dunaway. See my review of it…it’s a little while back as well. 8. Mulholland Drive This David Lynch masterpiece of the absurd is just plain awesome. Everything in his power is brought full-on into creating one of the most hypnotizingly gorgeous films ever put onto the screen. T "
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SXSW Review: 21
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"The true-story-based 21 comes off as an extremely interesting, though likely unintended concept: a gangster/crime film for nerds. In structure, it’s basically Little Caesar set in the world of card counting, which in fact isn’t illegal, yet in Vegas is viewed as being just as criminal as bootlegging was during Prohibition. There are a number of moments that exactly fit the mold of the crime genre and some moments that even seem specific to individual films (a short scenario involving new identities feels like a wink at a similar scene in Reservoir Dogs if you’re already thinking about gangster movies). But as interesting as the concept sounds, nerds just aren’t as entertaining as gangsters and blackjack and brains just isn’t as cool on screen as bank robberies and machine guns. Coinciding with the crime genre structure are the conventions of the geek-gets-popular genre (I guess as social climbing stories, they’re basically the same thing). The story centers on an MIT student (Jim S ... "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Born to KillI really wanted to see an old Lawrence Tierney film. Sadly my only exposure to him had been his comical role in The Naked Gun and his elderly but hardass role in Reservoir Dogs. Seeing the latter and hearing all of the stories about him from various sources made me want to see him in his younger days!I wasn't sure which movie of his to see, although I was a little hesitant about picking this one because it's directed by Robert Wise. Now I've only seen a few of his movies, and they are ok, but they just seem a little too tame and traditional in style to make me expect any more from him. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, West Side Story. Criticize me if you want for not loving these, but they do not stand out for me.Howev "
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"Reservoir Dogs seemingly came out of nowhere and so did Quentin Tarantino. But those of us who saw it knew something big was happening. Not only was Tarantino discovered, but Harvey Keitel was given new life in his acting career, Tim Roth was just breaking in America, and we were introduced to the wonderfulness that is Steve Buscemi. It was cool and everything, but I kind of wrote it off as perhaps a one-hit-wonder director. Little did I know that in two years time, Pulp Fiction would come around and blow me away. Good stuff - if you like Tarantino, you'll love this. If not...don't bother. "
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Failed in USA, but not UK!
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"This is a film which was made famous by a country it wasn't made in! "
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"I've always been fascinated by Hitchcock because he had a way of making a single murder seem particularly grusome without needing to resort to in your face graphic violence. He always made just a single death seem so much more important then any of the killings in the slasher films.I think part of what made Hitchcock the master of suspense was what he didn't show not what he did show. The only scene that Tarantino ever filmed twice in Reservoir Dogs was the infamous ear scene. The first time that they filmed it they actually show the ear being cut off, but Tarantino went back later and had the camera pan off to the side so that viewers had to imagine the ear being cut off. This was a lot more disturbing and was what made the final cut.I wonder if Hitchcock was still alive today if his films would include the fancy special effects and digital manipulation that we see in so many of today's films or if his movies would be filmed more like live plays with limited effects. "
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