Post by Still Churchill on Jul 28, 2010 18:55:04 GMT -5
Well, I looked on the first two pages for a thread to revive, but I couldn't see one, so I made my own.
Anyways, the point of this thread is simply a discussion of film, hopefully through sharing favorites we'll be able to gain some recommendations, and people will expand their horizons somewhat. I absolutely love film, so this is the sort of things that excite me. Hopefully we can get a little participation here.
My favorite movie has to be Pulp Fiction I think. Tarantino isn't my favorite director, but he has to be pretty fucking close. Scorsese and Kubrick hold that spot. But Tarantino has made some damn good films, and in particular, he made a fucking masterpiece with Pulp Fiction.
It's hard to explain everything I like about it that makes it my favorite movie. He took violence, which is so commonplace in films it's like breathing, and made all of the violence in Pulp Fiction pure style. And the dialogue! It's amazing, it moves the story along with all of these conversations that at times seem like meaningless banter, but it all adds into the story itself. Tarantino made these characters, the kind you'd usually like to stay the fuck away from, seem like these guys you would like to spend an afternoon with. Like actual people, they had personality, they had their own likable sense of humor. I feel like these are actual people, not actors, because each character has been fleshed out to allow that to happen.
And then it moves as a non-linear narrative. It works through being unconventional. Pulp Fiction was something new, something truly fresh. I don't think the movie could have been as good if it had taken the conventional linear narrative. Tarantino throws you into these different situations at the perfect times. I love it. Everything about the movie. It's never boring to me, and never gets boring.
Behind it for my favorite spot are all 70's movies, because that was the golden age. Movies like Taxi Driver, or A Clockwork Orange, or The Godfather. All of these came out in one decade, an outstanding decade for film. But I think that's what made Pulp Fiction so interesting. It's greatness would fit in that era, but instead it came out in the 90's. It was a great film, and was there to try and get people to realize how film could be, instead of having to wade through waves and waves of hollywood and romantic comedy shit just to find one fucking film with artistic merit. Tarantino is a genius, and Pulp Fiction was his masterpiece. I don't have much else I can say.
Anyways, the point of this thread is simply a discussion of film, hopefully through sharing favorites we'll be able to gain some recommendations, and people will expand their horizons somewhat. I absolutely love film, so this is the sort of things that excite me. Hopefully we can get a little participation here.
My favorite movie has to be Pulp Fiction I think. Tarantino isn't my favorite director, but he has to be pretty fucking close. Scorsese and Kubrick hold that spot. But Tarantino has made some damn good films, and in particular, he made a fucking masterpiece with Pulp Fiction.
It's hard to explain everything I like about it that makes it my favorite movie. He took violence, which is so commonplace in films it's like breathing, and made all of the violence in Pulp Fiction pure style. And the dialogue! It's amazing, it moves the story along with all of these conversations that at times seem like meaningless banter, but it all adds into the story itself. Tarantino made these characters, the kind you'd usually like to stay the fuck away from, seem like these guys you would like to spend an afternoon with. Like actual people, they had personality, they had their own likable sense of humor. I feel like these are actual people, not actors, because each character has been fleshed out to allow that to happen.
And then it moves as a non-linear narrative. It works through being unconventional. Pulp Fiction was something new, something truly fresh. I don't think the movie could have been as good if it had taken the conventional linear narrative. Tarantino throws you into these different situations at the perfect times. I love it. Everything about the movie. It's never boring to me, and never gets boring.
Behind it for my favorite spot are all 70's movies, because that was the golden age. Movies like Taxi Driver, or A Clockwork Orange, or The Godfather. All of these came out in one decade, an outstanding decade for film. But I think that's what made Pulp Fiction so interesting. It's greatness would fit in that era, but instead it came out in the 90's. It was a great film, and was there to try and get people to realize how film could be, instead of having to wade through waves and waves of hollywood and romantic comedy shit just to find one fucking film with artistic merit. Tarantino is a genius, and Pulp Fiction was his masterpiece. I don't have much else I can say.