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Hooroo

I was expecting that out of Guardians of the Galaxy but was pleasantly surprised.

booboo

I am Groot!

antipodean

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Dark Knight is awesome, the Nolan batman trilogy is an awesome watch,
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Agreed. I never liked the previous Batman movies as they were all far too camp for my liking. It was fantastic to see someone take an artistic direction away from the TV show and make it much darker. But then I also wanted the Dark Side to prevail in Star Wars, I guess some men do want to see the world burn...

Nepia

Watched the Hateful Eight in 70mm last night. 
 
I'm a fan of Tarantino so I was predisposed to liking it, but I thought it was great. Much better than The Revenant (I watched them a week apart). 
 
Was a bit weird having an intermission though. Kind of took me out of the film a bit.
 
Walter Goggins from the Shield and Justified was great and it was a film that weirdly didn't have a real lead as the focus point of the story kept moving.
 
Obviously as it's Tarantino there's a lot of gratuitous violence and use of the N word.

Mokey

Watched American Sniper. Really enjoyed it, but then I think I've liked most of Clint Eastwood's flicks, he tells a great visual story.
 
Re-watched Casino Royale (where Daniel Craig made Bond a hardarse again instead of a playboy caricature) and original Point Break. On principle, I won't watch the remake.

MN5

Hateful 8 looks great, definitely gonna catch that at some stage. Michael Madsen is awesome. 
Clint is god among film stars, he's been on top of the game for nearly 60 years, incredible really given he could have easily retired yanks ago. 
I think Casino Royale is still the best Craig Bond, Quantum wasn't too flash but Spectre and Skyfall were great too. I hope he continues in the role.

Nepia

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Watched American Sniper. Really enjoyed it, but then I think I've liked most of Clint Eastwood's flicks, he tells a great visual story.
 
Re-watched Casino Royale (where Daniel Craig made Bond a hardarse again instead of a playboy caricature) and original Point Break. On principle, I won't watch the remake.
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I'm the same, and due to the awful awful reviews too, it was $10 movie this week and I couldn't bring myself to go and see it. I seem to remember when we discussed this earlier when the preview clip came out at least one poster saying it looked good and they wanted to see it ... maybe they can give us a run down of how it was?

jegga

Found out my son had never seen point break , so we all watched it. Still awesome, banned any mention of the remake in this house. 
How cool was Patrick Swayze? It's so sad he went so young.

antipodean

Bone Tomahawk. Pace is slow, but excellent movie.

Hooroo

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="552976" data-time="1453016225">I'm the same, and due to the awful awful reviews too, it was $10 movie this week and I couldn't bring myself to go and see it. I seem to remember when we discussed this earlier when the preview clip came out at least one poster saying it looked good and they wanted to see it ... maybe they can give us a run down of how it was?</blockquote>
 
That was me. I'm not so sure now, but.

Cookie

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="552949" data-time="1453009179">
Watched the Hateful Eight in 70mm last night. 
I'm a fan of Tarantino so I was predisposed to liking it, but I thought it was great. Much better than The Revenant (I watched them a week apart). 
Was a bit weird having an intermission though. Kind of took me out of the film a bit. 
Walter Goggins from the Shield and Justified was great and it was a film that weirdly didn't have a real lead as the focus point of the story kept moving. 
Obviously as it's Tarantino there's a lot of gratuitous violence and use of the N word.</blockquote>
Did exactly the same and watched on the super wide screen last night. Apparently Odeon Leicester Sq is the only cinema in London that can project in 70mm panavison. 
Thought the idea of an interval was a bit pretentious- but it really worked the cinema was buzzing talking about the film and it kinda reminded me of going to the cinema as a kid when it was a real event. Also the film works well in two halves as they are quite different in feel. 
Loved the film, felt like watching a theatre production at times with the scenes inside the "haberdashery", also had a Reservoir Dogs feel in the 2nd half. The Shield guy was great, Samuel L did what Samuel L does best, Jason Leigh also great. Sadly Michael Madsen seems a bit past his sell by date though.

Milk

I liked the Hateful 8 too. It was slow as molasses, really long, filled with Tarantino's self-indulgent dialogue and yet when the credits started rolling at the end I couldn't be but that it was kind of awesome!

Cookie

Yeah, probably more of a watch for QT fans. Sometimes I like a more relaxed pace. So many films with frantic quick cuts these days, it's nice to sit back and let the characters and plot develop rather than constantly wondering wtf is going on. Or maybe I'm just slow

Virgil

Caught up with Se7en over the weekend, superb movie. 
Brad Pitt does the cocky not in control with his emotions superbly. Morgan Freeman is just Morgan Freeman. And Kevin Spacey in an u credited role does John Due perfectly. 
But by fuck it's a depressing ending movie.

MN5

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Did exactly the same and watched on the super wide screen last night. Apparently Odeon Leicester Sq is the only cinema in London that can project in 70mm panavison. 
Thought the idea of an interval was a bit pretentious- but it really worked the cinema was buzzing talking about the film and it kinda reminded me of going to the cinema as a kid when it was a real event. Also the film works well in two halves as they are quite different in feel. 
Loved the film, felt like watching a theatre production at times with the scenes inside the "haberdashery", also had a Reservoir Dogs feel in the 2nd half. The Shield guy was great, Samuel L did what Samuel L does best, Jason Leigh also great. Sadly Michael Madsen seems a bit past his sell by date though.</blockquote>
Yeah I think MM is a bit tubby and less menacing these days. Hard to project menace when you're a bit lardy unless you're Jabba the Hutt. 
In the spirit of mid 90s classics ( I wanna see Se7en again ) I watched Heat recently. Fucken brilliant flick, long but it never drags.

Virgil

I'm thinking Fight Club might have to be next up to catch up on.

Nepia

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I liked the Hateful 8 too. It was slow as molasses, really long, filled with Tarantino's self-indulgent dialogue and yet when the credits started rolling at the end I couldn't be but that it was kind of awesome!
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Yeah, probably more of a watch for QT fans. Sometimes I like a more relaxed pace. So many films with frantic quick cuts these days, it's nice to sit back and let the characters and plot develop rather than constantly wondering wtf is going on. Or maybe I'm just slow :)
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I thought it was slowish at the start, but never boring slow. And the second half just flew by.
 
Agree that it is enjoyable to let the characters and plot develop - I don't think Tarantino gets enough credit for that TBH. On my recent re-watch of Inglorious Basterds I noted how much character development, across the board, was built into that one film.

MN5

QT has been around for ages yet hasn't actually directed a huge amount of flicks. In my opinion his truly outstanding efforts are Reservoir Dogs ( which is actually a bit dated now ), Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Inglourious Basterds. Django was bloody good but not quite p in that league and put me down as a bit of a hater of Kill Bill and Death Proof. 
Any I've missed?

Nepia

Yep, that's it, unless you count his segment of Four Rooms.
 
Empire Podcast recently did a rate Tarantino's films segment so I've been thinking about this. They separated Kill Bill.
 
Mine would go: Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1, Jackie Brown, Django Unchained, Kill Bill 2.
 
Weirdly enough I haven't seen Death Proof, but that's because I want to watch it as part of Grindhouse and the copy I've had has been crappy (actually crappy, not how it was filmed to look retro). I haven't watched Hateful Eight a second time so still too early to rate it. If Kill Bill was combined it would come last.

MN5

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="553073" data-time="1453078933">Yep, that's it, unless you count his segment of Four Rooms. 
 
Empire Podcast recently did a rate Tarantino's films segment so I've been thinking about this. They separated Kill Bill. 
 
Mine would go: Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1, Jackie Brown, Django Unchained, Kill Bill 2. 
 
Weirdly enough I haven't seen Death Proof, but that's because I want to watch it as part of Grindhouse and the copy I've had has been crappy (actually crappy, not how it was filmed to look retro). I haven't watched Hateful Eight a second time so still too early to rate it. If Kill Bill was combined it would come last.</blockquote>
 
I've seen Death Proof only once so perhaps need another viewing to confirm where it stands. I just really didn't dig Kill Bill for whatever reason, 2nd was definitely better ( mainly cos of Michael Madsen ). I enjoyed Jackie Brown heaps more than most folk I know, SLJ and Robert De Niro were fantastic as always but the lesser lights in that were awesome as well.

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