Pitch Perfect 2 Pretty similar to the first one. Some of the singing was kind of gay, but the funny judges make up for it. 6/10 Trainwreck Amy Schumer isn't funny. Do not undertstand the 85% on RT. Makes me sad to think people got murdered by a psycho while watching this rather bad romantic comedy. 1/10 Insurgent Even worse than Divergent. And Divergent was a very, very bad movie. The girl in these movies is hot though. 1/10
Across 110th Street Basically, this is the movie that Quentin Tarantino has been trying (and failing) to make his entire career...
lolwut. That looks terrible. And Tarantino is probably the greatest director alive today. Pulp Fiction, Django, Inglorious Bastards. The guy has made great film after great film. He makes most of the other highly rated directors look like hacks and one hit wonders.
Tarantino is great at directing isolated scenes that he thought would be cool, but not at directing entire movies.
Again, lolwut? Pulp Fiction is probably the most endlessly watchable film ever made. The editing and the way things follow a logical rather than chronological order is brilliant. It has classic scenes, but the whole package is great too. I don't think I've ever seen a Tarantino film I didn't like. He's had a few misfires, but even those misfires like Jackie Brown and Death Proof were still pretty good and better than movies from most other directors. I eagerly look forward to whatever he's working on next. Tarantino is a genius. I especially like when he teams up with Robert Rodriquez.
Tarantino has a unique style that you can't miss. If you start watching a movie mid-way you should be able to figure out it's a Tarantino flick. The only other director that separates their work so uniquely is Wes Anderson. Film snobs can say they are both over the top... but I find their work refreshing. People like Martin Scorsese also have unique styles, but it's much more subtle. You're average audience member is not going pick up on it.
This is the way Tarantino writes/directs: comes up with a general concept (almost always an homage to past genre films), writes a handful of "money" scenes that he always wanted to see in those genres, then fills in the spaces between with fairly routine stuff that's hidden beneath layers of banter/chit-chat. His movies always seem like a montage of separate ideas that are loosely strung together, not a cohesive whole. Inglourious Basterds is the perfect example of that. It's just a bunch of set pieces, with nothing much to speak of in-between.
His movies are all good stuff with no boring filler. I fail to see how that's a bad thing. But you love boring and lame old movies, so I can see how you wouldn't like his stuff.
lol that is a pretty good description of Tarantino. But I agree with cmdrmonkey... if the end result is a great movie (which it almost always is), I fail to see how that makes him a bad director.
@cmdrmonkey: you could always watch Across 110th Street instead of just trolling. @supersonic: don't invent your own argument. I never said he was a bad director. I'm saying he's failed to make a genre film as good as Across 110th Street.
You name an extremely dated movie that looks to be of dubious quality. Then claim Tarantino has failed to make anything as good. That isn't a roundabout way of saying he sucks? Come on, dude. I did not see this on the 70's retrospective on CNN last night so it can't be better than mork and mindy. I shan't be sitting through this masterpiece anytime soon.
What do you think is dated about it beyond the cars and the clothes? It's not a special effects film. Many of Tarantino's films have been attempts at genre films (Foxy Brown/blaxploitation, Kill Bill/martial arts, Death Proof/grindhouse, Django Unchained/spaghetti western), but Across 110th Street is a better genre film than Tarantino has made. You keep trying to claim I'm saying Tarantino isn't good or none of his films are good. That isn't it. He's a genre fan that can't make a better genre movie.
I guarantee that if you actually watch the movie, you'll understand how pointless it is to watch the trailer.
Miss Meadows Katie Holmes is a perfectly proper kingergarten teacher/vigilante serial killer who in between gardening, knitting, and teaching kids, pops rapists, molesters, and other assorted scum with her trusty purse derringer. Imagine Death Wish 5: The Face of Death, but replace Charles Bronson with someone who dresses and talks like Mary Poppins and you get this movie. Pretty amusing and hliarious, but also really dumb. 5/10