One note on IB: something you may not realize is that thé french actors are playing incredibly bad. It completely kills most of the scenes for a french speaking audience. (not that you care)

Evil Dead (2013)


should have been called There Will Be Blood.


A little too obsessed with showing how tools can do damage to flesh in very graphic terms when a little character development would have been better maybe, I give it credit for a story that actually weaves the disparate elements of the original into something more cohesive. The tree rape makes sense here, the way the possessed actually become that way makes sense here, and the reason they stay there even when bad things happen makes sense. Scary? No. ****ed up? Yep.

I give it 62/100

Inglorious Basterds gets better and better for me with each viewing. Django does not.

Indeed. The more I think about DU the less I like it. IB is great.

See the original. The DePalma version feels more like a remake than a homage, missing the point completely. Whereas Blow Out, for example, hits all the right notes.

Did Upstream Color just come out and I can expect it to get a little more widespread release? I am excited after reading it is by the guy who did Primer. It is playing about 60 miles away right now.

The Bastards gets better everytime I watch it.

Shane Carruth is releasing Upstream Color on his own. Google the website to see if it's playing closer anytime soon. Think it'll be on demand soon. I can't wait to see it.

Wuthering Heights (2012) ain't in the same league as the '39 version, but it ain't very similar outside of the plot either (yes I realize it is a novel). The younger actors are excellent, as is the atmosphere of the countryside. The adult versions of the characters are somewhat flat; it becomes less interesting once it leaps ahead in years. Certainly worth checking out though. 8/10

42 has some moments but it's essentially exactly what you think you'll get walking in. Standard biopic, paint-by-numbers type treatment. It's a competent Hollywood movie, nothing more, nothing less. 6/10

John Cole is like my long lost brother. We agree on so many things.

Of course, he'd be my much, much older brother.

I feel like DU is a much superior movie up until that part I mentioned. Every single scene beforehand is absolutely amazing with amazing shots, dialogue and characters.

I love Basterds, but agree the Brad Pitt and the Basterds parts are not that interesting. It ends nice, tho.

Even though it's not his best effort I still enjoyed DU when I saw it, but I think it's odd that QT won Best Screenplay at both the GG and AA when I'd consider DU to be one of his worst scripts. The characters (some of them) and dialogue are indeed sparkling for the most part, but structure-wise it makes some pretty huge mistakes imo... and like William Goldman says: Screenplays are structure. It was a long time coming for QT at the Academy Awards though so maybe it was more of a pseudo-lifetime achievement award than something based strictly on the DU screenplay.

Favourite parts of IB?

I disagree. They did a fine job.

Ryan, QT won best screenplay for Pulp Fiction and, I think, IB.

Ah yeah, you're right. He did win for PF but not IB. Well then, I don't understand why they gave him an award for DU.

Jew hunter/Frenchman scene.

Jew hunter/Shoshanna at restaurant, her reaction the moment he leaves is great.

Bear Jew with the baseball bat.

Entire basement scene when Pitt is talking to the englishman(name escapes me) to the climax.

The Bastards trying to speak with an Italian accent.

Off the top of my head these are probably my top 5.

the basement bar scene is just too good, i remember rewinding it to watch again the first time I saw it. Only movie I've ever done that during the first viewing.

Upon further reflection and even a second viewing, I am amending my comments about Life of Pi (not that anyone really seems to care).

I really like how ambitious it is, and feel like it could not have been done too much better. There are limitations to what they were trying to do, but aside from the issues intrinsic to such a story, it was pretty perfect, I think.

P.S. Is anyone else pretty impressed by Ang Lee? I mean, for him to make the diverse films he has (Life of Pi, Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), and to make them so well...that's pretty damned impressive.

Zach Braff is trying to finance his next film via Kickstarter. He's already raised more than 10% of his goal on the first day.

If this is successful, this will definitely grow as a trend among "known" Hollywood people.

On a personal level, one out of four isn't bad these days... though I did like Hulk myself.

I thought CTHD was so good at the time of it's release, I saw it like seven times before it left the theaters.

I can never decide whether I like Raiders or Crusade more. Raiders has the iconic scenes of the series, but the last 15 minutes of Crusade are fist pump awesome. and Sean Connery is spectacular.

Also, couldn't agree more about Django being inferior to Inglorious Bastards.

I really enjoyed Django both times I saw it, but there's a few things that keep it form being one of his very best. For all the fanfare his characters and dialog receive, his plots are usually just as awesome. Django's plot was just ok. It was especially disappointing for me because the Western is one of my favorite genres, and the best ones usually have some kick-ass plot. I know that The Good the Bad and the Ugly is one of Tarantino's favorite movies, and going into the movie I knew that if he could even approach the awesomeness of that movie's final sequence it had a chance to be one of my all time favorites. Instead, he made a great movie, that went a little too long, with an especially unimaginative last twenty minutes. Whether you want to call that last bit of revenge the climax is another topic, and one I wish I wouldn't have to consider (because the Waltz 'climax' is so cool).

Probably the most critical I can be of a movie I thoroughly enjoyed (and will continue to enjoy). Tarantino is one of my favorite (if not my favorite) directors so I look at everything of his under a microscope.

We really need a Tarantino thread. anyone else agree? I've mentioned it before but I think a few director (or genre) specific threads wouldn't hurt.

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agree to a tee

+10000000

21 and Over - ok movie. had some good laughs, but definitely not a top tier comedy. very typical college stuff happens. it's partially annoying but also worth watching for a cheap laugh.