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That movie where Anthony Hopkins is a captain and Daniel Day Lewis and Mel Gibson are his first mates.

 

Never heard of Lady Snowblood, but most of his borrowing from older movies is definitely not ripping them off.

Funny, his movies are actually known for the quality/fun/interesting dialogues. But yeah, opinions

 

I'll admit I'm just biased. Lady Snowblood is my favoritist movie of all time and he basically remade it with a white woman and called it Kill Bill. Nothing against white people of course, but that movie is white savior af. That being said, Jackie Brown was a really good movie

 

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

 

Nobody has. But they've all heard of Kill Bill...

I'm just salty

Yeah, but his overuse of the n word just upsets me. It's too much. The way he worked it into Inglorious Bastards really said to me that he has to say this word.

 

Exactly! Who is paying this guy to insert the n word in every movie. Sadly, I'm not too into Quentin Tarentino flicks. I tried Hateful 8 for a second run recently though. I unfortunately ended up thinking better of it and shutting it off before it breached any etiquette; which is I think early in the film...

 

The one scene that I find really distasteful and has honestly been enough to turn me off to Tarantino as a whole is the gratuitous rape scene in Kill Bill
"I'm Buck and I'm here to fuck"
It was meant to shock but not in any way that gets the audience thinking about rape with any sort of depth. It was just gratuitous.
But I also loved loved loveeeed Kill Bill when it first came out because I had never seen an action movie before that featured so many bad ass women doing bad ass things. But I always skip the rape scene whenever I watch it.

 

It's partly to shock and partly to portray a character like Buck as blunt and confronting as they are in real life.

And god knows these people are out there: and there are lots of men like the fictional Buck who think and speak like him, but would never rape. Just like there really are plenty of people who overuse the n word irl. So he feels like shining a light on that in a nonjudgemental way. He portrays and highlights certain aspects in our culture in his violent cult movies, just like romcom directors do in their own way. I love it how he portrays unlikeable characters That it's not for people like Soulcompromise doesn't mean Tarantino is doing something wrong or dubious.

 

The only scene i found hard to watch in his movies is when they release the dogs on an escaped slave in Django unchained. Not for moral reasons, but because its quite realistic and striking how he gets torn apart. I'm not into 'realistic' gory horror for the same reason

 

Rape scenes in general make me uncomfortable but I can excuse the Buck scene in Kill Bill. The main character kills people. In order for the audience to like her then, everyone she kills has to be bad. If Buck is just a nice guy and she kills him, the audience stops sympathizing with Uma. And the whole story falls apart.

The rape scene that to me just came out of nowhere was Pulp Fiction. That guy getting raped by the dude in that leather fetish suit in the back of a pawn shop? That was the most random thing ever. I mean, I didn't like the movie to begin with but when I saw that scene I was like "I'm done." I couldn't make sense of that scene or the movie as a whole

 

Fantastic scene and how random it came up only adds to it. Pulp fiction is a movie i only appreciate more over the years

'Bring out the gimp!'

Yes, superb in timing and strangeness. Brilliant imo.

 

this one is a pretty cool watch

 

Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows

 

I am watching The Social Network now.

 

Saw that back in 1991 great movie