1 million times better than the movie

That was pretty awesome. It may have healed 0.0007% of the pain of enduring the actual film.

Just got back from Les Miserables. The stage version is definitely more impactful. The stage version is easily the best musical I've ever seen.

I thought Hathaway was fantastic - reminded me of Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Jackman as good, the girl that played Eponine was good, Cosette was annoying, Marius is a little too opera, Thenadiers were terrific, the little boy (Gavosh??) was great, the rest of the students were great.

Crowe was good presence, terrible singing. Reminded me of Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood in Paint your Wagon.

Fantastic I dreamed a dream and ending, and they should have done the whole version of Here's To You.

73/100

Its my #1 worst film of all time. I thought it was a top 10 worst film to start, then Cameron Diaz starting speaking in that accent and it became a top 5 worst film, then it suddenly took a turn to sci-fi and became the worst film

This is the first thing I have read that makes me remotely want to see this film.

Anyone think that Tarantino's movies would be better if he didn't direct them. (Hard to imagine Pulp Fiction giving better of course.) Just saw Django Unchained and thought it had great scenes, characters and dialogue and if you just got rid of all the gimmicky over-the-top Tarantino stuff that takes you out of the movie, it could be fantastic. (I guess True Romance is a great example of a Tarantino script directed by someone else and being pretty great.)

He's a fine director. He needs to understand how to murder his babies is the problem.

Oh and understand pacing better.

There was a framing problem in this film imo. When a single face was on screen, he always filmed them on the right, and left space on the left. Sometimes it was okay...just... but if Hathaway had been centre and even closer...boy that would have been really something.


The scene was like this:



But imo it should have been more like this:

He's been so successful, he doesn't need to change his style. He seems to get more self-indulgent with each movie.

I think he's been steadily less indulgent with each movie, with the indulgency peak at Deathproof

Why do people keep saying this? Is he giving interviews that give off this vibe? I only ask because a friend of mine refused to go see DU because QT was a "pompous *******" or something like that.

Haven't seen Death Proof. I admit he is more restrained in DU than in KillBill. I found Inglorious Bastards+DU similar in their mix of great parts and weird stuff.

Haven't seen any interviews by him. I mean in his movie making. He puts in lots of stuff in his movies that have nothing to do with the story being told just to satisfy his fetishes or because it makes him giggle.

For some reason, after seeing the trailers for Bullet to the Head, I really want to see it. And I don't even like Stallone.

The Sessions

It's hard to believe this is an American film. It's one of the most sex positive films I have ever seen. There is not a hint of the usual American puritanical sexual phobia.

John Hawkes is really becoming one our our greatest living actors. I only wish someone other than Helen Hunt played the role of the surrogate. She is such a one note actress the film really suffered for it.

Grade: B+

Saw Magic Mike........not bad. 6.2 stars out of 10


TDA

What year is it? I see we have new action movies from Stallone, Willis and Schwartzenager out or coming out right now. Seems like old times

Broken City is pretty bad. Crowe has a few cool scenes, otherwise forgettable.

MAMA has some solid scares, I enjoyed it. Far from perfect, a few lol implausible moments. The jump scares are obvious but this one gets a free pass because of the setup: creepy feral children, ominous score, darkly lit freaky house, hallways and a pissed off ghost mother.

Silver Linings Playbook

I feel like I just watched an entire film in a language I don't understand. Every scene in this felt off. It was edited in a blender. Not a single line of dialogue sounded real. The football junk was ridiculous and totally pointless.

I just didn't get it at all.

Grade: am I an alien?

I saw Savages a couple of days ago... meh. I saw Broken City last night I really liked it thought it was great.

Clovis you are a robot.

Welcome to the forum.

True Romance is quite good, but you're not gonna find very many people who rate it higher than Quentin-directed Pulp, Reservoir, Inglourious, etc.

I rate it higher than every QT movie except Pulp Fiction, and even then it's very close.

for me its:

PF
IG
TR

the sicilian scene is GOAT.