Topgun according to Tarantino

[Damage]

Brilliant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyN8VN4BSzM

 

[No Regard]

"You know how I know you're gay?"
"How?"
"You like Coldplay."

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

Hilarious. What is that from?

I remember going to get a haircut when that movie first came out and telling the skank I wanted it cut to look like Tom Cruise. Does that make me gay? She must have been like "wtf?"

 

[Maximus]

Jim Rome has been arguing that Top Gun is soft gay porn for years too.

 

[chiefwahoo]

Hilarious. What is that from?

It's from a movie called 'Sleep With Me' - link

Tarantino has some great rant scenes like this... reminds me of when he played Jimmy in Pulp Fiction.

 

[TAS]

Classic Clip

Pulp Fiction>>>

 

[Damage]

Jim Rome has been arguing that Top Gun is soft gay porn for years too.

Perhaps Jim Rome also liked Taratino's take on Top Gun. I like Rome a lot but he does take other people's ideas and runs with it.

 

[aaronbev79]

Tarantino is so overrated. He's made two good movies -- the rest of them he tries too hard and ends up making shit that only film school geeks enjoy.

 

[chiefwahoo]

Tarantino is so overrated. He's made two good movies -- the rest of them he tries too hard and ends up making shit that only film school geeks enjoy.

I would argue four good movies... I liked Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1, and Kill Bill 2. He also wrote Natural Born Killers (which I thought was great) and I have yet to see Grindhouse.

I'm more worried about M. Night Shamalamadingdong (or however you spell it). Loved Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs... then came The Village, Lady in the Water, and The Happening which all seem to have gotten progressively worse.

 

[Damage]

Tarantino is so overrated. He's made two good movies -- the rest of them he tries too hard and ends up making shit that only film school geeks enjoy.

I dont know what planet you're from, but Tarantino's flicks are the shit.

Reservoir Dogs: One of the best
Pulp Fiction: Tremendous flick
Jackie Brown: Excellent
Kill Bill 1, 2: I liked 1 better, but both were very good
Grindhouse: I can see how your only film school geeks enjoy comment could apply to this 2 parter, but I truly enjoyed them both.

Don't forget Dusk till Dawn.

 

[Damage]

I'm more worried about M. Night Shamalamadingdong (or however you spell it). Loved Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs... then came The Village, Lady in the Water, and The Happening which all seem to have gotten progressively worse.

I liked The VIllage but I am in the minority. Didn't see Lady in the H2O but the Happening was ****ing awful. The first 30 minutes, I was like, hmm, this has some semblance of a decent movie. Then all hell broke loose and it was went from absurd to embarrassingly pathetic. He's losing his luster big time.

 

[Maximus]

Perhaps Jim Rome also liked Taratino's take on Top Gun. I like Rome a lot but he does take other people's ideas and runs with it.

I wouldn't be shocked if they came up with the idea independantly. As a heterosexual male, I didn't need to listen to Rome or see Tarantino to be disturbed by the volley ball scene. :chuckles:

 

[chiefwahoo]

I liked The VIllage but I am in the minority. Didn't see Lady in the H2O but the Happening was ****ing awful. The first 30 minutes, I was like, hmm, this has some semblance of a decent movie. Then all hell broke loose and it was went from absurd to embarrassingly pathetic. He's losing his luster big time.

I was OK with the Village until I figured out 'the surprise' about 20 minutes before it was revealed. Once you knew that it was just not a very good movie. Lady in the Water had potential but was really a silly story. But I loved Paul Giamatti in it. I actually haven't even seen The Happening but I was advised by people I trust to avoid it altogether.

 

[aaronbev79]

M. Night has been suffering from what I call ineffective marketing. The Village was marketed has a horror movie when it was actually social commentary. Lady in the Water was marketed as a thriller when it was a bed time story that M. Night wrote for his daughter (I think -- that's what I heard...?). I really liked the Village and Lady in the Water -- but that's because so many people said they were horrible before I watched them, so I had low expectations. However, The Happening was pretty bad -- I tried hard to enjoy it, but I thought it sucked.

As for Tarantino being the shit...yeah -- you're definitely in the film school geek category. I've never seen a more over-hyped figure in hollywood. Just because someone makes a movie that's indy or outside the norm, that does not mean that they're good. Kill Bill is a great example of this...those movies sucked unless you like cross genre crap that tries too hard -- which is all those movies were. Again...refer to my previous film school geek comments.

 

[DDJ7777]

Lady in the Water was so so so so stupid bad. The whole "Let's go talk to the wise Chinese woman that only her daughter can translate" thing got old so fast. It was like he couldn't think of a way to get a plot going, so he just made this wise Chinese woman to give me the whole story. One of the worst movies of all time, IMHO.