Husband VS. Wife Movie Review： Tarantino SPEED ROUND!! ｜｜ We had a TON of thoughts!
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In this episode, Jacob and Yusong review Quentin Tarantino's first film, Reservoir Dogs. They also discuss how Tarantino is one of the most underrated film directors of all time, and what it means to be a Tarantino fan.
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be
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reviewing all of the Quentin Tarantino movies we recently watched in our own
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So recently Jacob and I decided that we were going to do a Tarantino festival
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because I hadn't seen... Yeah, we decided. It wasn't a unilateral husband decision to
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inflict upon my wife. It was totally a collaborative thing because you are
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totally the kind of person who would come up with the idea to put yourself
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through that. Well there was a little bit of me involved because I used to have a
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haircut that looked exactly like Uma Thurman's from Pulp Fiction and people
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used to tell me that I looked like her from that movie and I'd never seen it.
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So I felt like maybe I should so I kind of got dragged into it but also I was okay
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with it. And now eight movies later your mild curiosity about one film that you
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had a haircut similar to has panned out in a brutal time-wasting fashion. So
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because we watched all of these movies we figured we would do five minute speed
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reviews of each film and put them up for you guys to see. So if you're deciding
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whether you want to watch a Quentin Tarantino movie you'll have most of them
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reviewed by us. Yeah the only things we're leaving out are Hateful Eight and
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Hateful Eight because we just cannot put
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ourselves through it. I watched it when it came out in theaters and that was a real
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never again for me and I'm not gonna put my wife through that even for the sake of
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a torturous joke. And then we recently saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and it's
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so fresh doesn't feel like it needs the retread and review. You know you'd give
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that thing its own review if you want because it's so new and then all the
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others you get the retrospective anthology review. Yeah so we're gonna have
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a good time doing five minute reviews. I'm gonna have a timer in one of these
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corners here and you guys will see the countdown. So it'll be a lot of fun and
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let's get into it. Let's establish some ground rules. Describing the movie does
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not count as part of the five minutes. It doesn't. Oh I was gonna say we just
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don't describe the movie then. No we gotta give a little setup. So to start off we
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have 1992's Reservoir Dogs Tarantino's first movie. What's it about? A group of
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jewel thieves who tried to do an operation together steal some diamonds. It all
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falls apart and so the movie is primarily just the aftermath of this jewel heist
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falling apart. Guys accusing each other you're a rat you're the reason why it
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failed and then just drama ensemble cast ensues. Yes. What did you think of this
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movie? Starting the clock. Oh starting now. Okay. I thought it was extremely along
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the lines of if you gave a competent high schooler the opportunity to film a
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stage play. Yeah it was very overrated. People talk about this movie like it's
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amazing and you know what's weird is it's been a couple of days since we've
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watched it maybe a week or so and I kind of get why after a certain length of
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time you remember the snapshots of it but actually watching it no no no it's not
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well that's every Tarantino movie. Yeah exactly I really think that's kind of his
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thing is that afterwards after a little bit of time has passed you remember the
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punchy moments and so you're like oh I remember liking that movie. Is Tarantino
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the memorable ex-girlfriend or boyfriend of film directors in the sense that like
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you're watching it and you're bored because almost 90% or more of his movies
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is just dialogue you don't really care about in order to characterize without
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characterizing people you feel nothing towards. Yes. And then the few things you
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remember are his two to three it's always two to three stylish moments in the movie
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that I go oh that was a cool thing which you probably stole from somewhere else
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because he's a massive film nerd who just cribs notes. Yeah. And then it's a week
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it's two weeks and they're like yeah that was a cool moment maybe look it up on
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YouTube yeah that was a cool moment. Right. And then you forget that the movie is an
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hour and forty minutes of just utter just boring nonsense otherwise or two hours
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then two and a half hours then two hours fifty minutes then three hours of
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nonsense the guy just keeps adding more and more into these movies and there's
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still only two to three scenes that are good. It's very odd but what was
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striking to me because this was the first of his movies was two things one was
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the sound felt like a recorded stage play and I know this now because we've
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worked so much on sound for my channel that you know you kind of start to hear
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things when they're not as well done and you can tell it almost sounds like he
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just recorded people on a soundstage not really professionally it was very weird
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but then the other thing was that you don't ever get backstory he considers
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backstory the like ten minutes before the stuff in the movie happened you know
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not an actual like you do get your flashbacks that's what I'm saying
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terribly paced so the movie you've probably seen it because it's super
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famous if you haven't you know it's the jewel heist it's gone wrong and your
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first half of the movie is a bunch of the thieves that had managed to make it
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out meeting up at the rendezvous and few guys arrived and some more arrived and
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they're talking yelling at each other oh why did it all go wrong accusing each other
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I'm not a rat you're a rat and then drama ensues one guy gets his ear cut off
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another guy gets shot and then we get flashbacks to like actually who some of
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these characters are and the flashbacks do not characterize them well at all you
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still feel nothing about these people whatsoever but it's just all the tension
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and dramas the first half and then you have really quite useless narratively
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ineffectual boring just kind of backstory one of the guys did turn out to be a rat on the
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right undercover cop and so you see oh some tension for him but we already know
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in the present tense he's been gut shot he's lying bleeding on the floor and they
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don't suspect him really so like I don't there's no tension there's no tension we
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already know where you end up you already successfully infiltrated the crew and also
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you just don't really care what I meant about the flashbacks is that all the
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flashbacks happen in relation with the other characters that we already know in the
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movie so it's not getting to know each character on his own have sympathy for them
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it's getting to know how kind of they ended up in this specific moment not how they ended
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up at this point in their lives yeah and so I don't really care so much about these characters
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because it's just them in this specific moment not in the broader scheme of things something
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that's occurring to me right now is that Tarantino characters are utterly unsympathetic or
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unempathizable because they vaguely have a past for the sake of seeming interesting their present is
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usually just kind of unlikable nonsense and they have no future these people can
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exist out of like time or concern or a normal life so here none of these
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characters have anything going on in their world that I root for that I care
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about hope streams aspirations they're just kind of there for the sake of
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delivering some dialogue oh like cool moment you know like a choice between
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like doing 10 years or blowing away some dumb jerk who's gonna get your way
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trying to escape a diamond eyes ain't no choice at all like right you know I'm I'm
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a professional gonna do it but I ain't no mad man either like okay I guess that's
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fine enough dialogue for that scene but it's the most we ever get out of guys
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like mr. white played by Harvey Keitel or anything else it's just I felt nothing it
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was upsetting because you want to feel something by that ending that ending
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should make you feel something and at least for me it was laying it to these
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people yeah at least for me it was just kind of like oh okay continue but so I
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thought that there was a lot that was left on the table with that movie didn't
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do it didn't it didn't really live up to itself and that was reservoir dogs now
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we're on to Pulp Fiction so Pulp Fiction 1994 again an ensemble crime movie set in
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Los Angeles oh where'd he get that idea before and so here it's even more
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disjointed right reservoir dogs was going to be heist movie it went wrong here
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it's like an anthology series of short stories that are about a bunch of
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different characters across the LA a lot of vignettes a lot of vignettes and they
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intersect they don't intersect and they're anachronistically ordered so yeah
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you're going back and forth in time and across threads and it's like
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stylishness the movie yes not fashion oh my goodness not fashion but in terms of
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like self-consciously directing yes wait yes oh I think we're getting into
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opinion time to hit the clock let's go boom so here's what I thought about
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Pulp Fiction it felt like the kind of movie that tickles your brain you're like
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oh I remember that person from that vignette that's cool it connects does it
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mean anything no but wait I'm sorry we're talking about Pulp Fiction or all Tarantino
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movies does it mean anything no fair enough but this movie specifically I felt that I
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felt like oh this is kind of fun because you're connecting the dots because he's
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kind of like giving you little hints in each vignette of how they all connect and
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that's kind of like entertaining but it doesn't mean anything and I feel like
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that's a big thing exactly like you just said in Tarantino films is that there's
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all this style and there's all these things that he puts in like when you
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open the briefcase it glows oh that's interesting why well it turned out they
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just kind of did that and then later on when one of the guys who was like the big
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producer on the movie was interviewed about it because oh my god the fan theories that
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we've heard from people when we went on Twitter and said we weren't the biggest
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fans oh but once you know what's in the briefcase it's profound and then it
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turns out that the people made the movie said oh yeah we it's whatever you want
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to be it's just a plot point like we put out of light in there because it was cool
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right that's the level of the creators relationship to this movie but because
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the style and the way it's talked about feels so significant people want to
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import meaning but like this is like a bad English class where your teacher
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tells you the book is great and so it just gives you an A if you validate that the book is
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great by coming up with literally any interpretation or meaning whatsoever no
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matter how contrived as opposed to well on its own merits I don't think this has
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anything to say and the guy has like a way with constructing sentences but
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literally to no end yeah and that's the thing here is this movie what I said to
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Abigail at the time when we're watching it is this movie comes across like a guy who
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is technically hyper capable of achieving what he wants to in each scene for
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example the Jackrabbit Slim's restaurant scene where John Travolta and Uma Thurman go out
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and they're like not date babysitting thing that Marcellus Wallace had him do the
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way it's shot the camera movement the scene it's all super competent I can only
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imagine that what Tarantino wanted that scene to look like is exactly what it
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looked like but it achieves not it's for no reason this is a guy who like well I
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would one of the things that I said no it's not I'm gonna finish what I was
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saying he's a guy who can do exactly what he wants to do but he doesn't want to do
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anything worthwhile yeah exactly one of the things that I was noticing during
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these movies is that I feel like he is an actor's director he really likes sitting
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there and having people say their lines getting into the nitty-gritty of why
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their character would say their lines but like why are they saying those lines in
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and in the actual get the nitty-gritty why they'd say exactly that's what I'm
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saying it's just they know the actors know and he is the director knows but as
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the viewer those lines are not meaningful to the story they do not push the story
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forward and honestly and a lot of times they don't actually even develop the
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character it's just kind of like this is how normal people talk let's capture it
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on camera okay that's cool but what's the point of that in the scheme of the
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whole movie there's no so there's two comparisons I make here so since these
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movies are almost all dialogue the dialogue is super important and those scenes
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are super important for analyzing whether or not the movie works I know
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you're gonna remember the scene with the adrenaline needle in the heart we're
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gonna remember the scene where Samuel Jackson says his badass fake Bible verse
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and then blows the guy away but that's like three minutes worth of the movie and
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then it's two and a half hours of just conversation otherwise and the thing is
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it's like if Seinfeld were written by someone with like no sense of humor who
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like is um one of those college students who wears like the edgy clothing
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and smokes cigarettes and thinks deep thoughts that aren't deep like man the
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world is messed up sometimes but not even that it's just like it's either that
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or it's like the group of college students who get high and have profound
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conversations and then think this would make an amazing podcast man because we're
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so funny our dynamics so good and then they record it and turns out to be
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terrible there was an episode of that 70s show where they they all get high as I
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can see in the show they record themselves talking because they think we're
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gonna like solve all the world's problems and we have such amazing thoughts they
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play it back and it's just a bunch of high teenagers laughing dumb nonsense
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that's this it's just like your dialogue is nonsense nothing royalties yeah I
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guess the only thing I'll say positives Samuel L Jackson I really amazing as an
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actor amazing did a great job yeah and Tarantino is definitely developing his
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style in this movie now do I like his style maybe not but this movie is
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definitely like a step up from Reservoir Dogs in okay this is Tarantino we know
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Tarantino is now it's it's a mature director here not mature artist a
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mature director in terms of like nothing comes across as if he didn't try to get
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across we wanted to right nothing comes across that whatever I said it right
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nothing comes across poorly here it's just that the guy doesn't want to achieve
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anything worthwhile so like the movie is all a lot of sound and fury signifying
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nothing not a fan not profound get over yourself read a book so next movie is
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in 1997 to Jackie Brown what is Jackie Brown because it's probably the least
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well-known I had never even heard of it yeah I'd seen all of the Tarantino movies
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except Jackie Brown before this festival and then we rewatched them so Jackie Brown
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is based upon and I'm reading it here film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1992
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novel Rum Punch it is the only feature-length film that Tarantino has adapted
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from a previous work interesting and it's meant to pay homage to 1970s
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blaxploitation movies that comes across with like the music and the theming and
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the way it's shot things like that but plot of the movie so it's the most
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straightforward I guess Tarantino movie it's just a little crime heist story
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unlike Reservoir Dogs where you get the aftermath and you jump back and forth
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unlike Pulp Fiction where it's disparate little vignettes anachronistically
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ordered here it's a story that starts at one point in time follows the
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characters doing things and then reaches a resolution at the end where they have
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accomplished what they need to yeah and that's it so super straightforward so now
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to commence with the review oh so here are my thoughts on Jackie Brown it was
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entirely forgettable I literally feel like I've forgotten it are there stylish
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moments in the movie I've seen people cut YouTube clips of Samuel L Jackson saying
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AK-47 for when you absolutely have to kill every mofo in the room except no
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substitutes which is in the first minute of the movie yeah and then there's
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nothing else to remember from the movie that's to the degree that you remember
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that one line right now here's the thing I think Jackie Brown is actually a good
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example of what I was talking about where he is where Tarantino proves that he is
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an actor's director because everyone in the movie puts in good performances yeah
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they're all good actors to begin with so he really does work well with actors
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it's just the story itself I think theoretically could have been told well but
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he's just so interested in myself well in that character driven conversation
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which isn't character driven but in those conversations that it really slows
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down the movie so there's just no pacing he's not good at pacing oh yeah well
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he doesn't notice trying to achieve at the movie he's just trying to put stuff on
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the screen that he'd like to see in separate moments I'm guessing the way it
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comes across with all this dialogue with all this indulgence of the actors and
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being an actors director it's as if you made a movie designed to be a series of
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audition tapes for an actors like highlights real like my portfolio
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includes this five-minute sequence I can show you where I have this
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conversation which you need no context for has no significance outside itself but
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gives me an opportunity to come across as affable conversational have like an
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opinion on something have some back and forth it's like it's just a constant
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opportunity for his actor friends or people he worships the craft of to do a
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series of moments but they're all disjointed like the plot here exists and
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there is stuff that runs through it's just that I don't care right like none of the
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characters exist in a way that you grapple I remember while we were watching
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it saying to you I just don't feel the tension in a way the story felt so too
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small is that weird to say because normally with the heist movie you don't
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feel like oh it needs to be huge it needs to be enormous but for something
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for something for some reason this movie just felt too small so I was like well
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takes aren't that what we said at the time is that the it's too little plot it's
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just an arms dealer played by Samuel L Jackson with five hundred thousand
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dollars that he has like in a bank in Mexico trying to get over to the states
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so he can have his money the ATF is trying to crack down on the guy and arrest
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him and the main character is an airline stewardess that the arms dealer is
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using to funnel money back and forth she gets roped in she's coming up with a
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plan to outwit everyone and run away with the money herself and it's that so
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the tension the movie is is her plan gonna succeed and is the arms dealer who
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does kill people going to kill her does he have a massive organization no the
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operations like a dude and a half is there like tension no she seems to have
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him under her thumb like within the first 20 minutes of the movie so it's just
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characters doing things and also I think this is the funny thing and I'm
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realizing it now it's that she has we don't know why she needs this money
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really I said she got busted doing something earlier in life has never
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been able to make a successful career of anything else and so she's in her 40s
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doing a job that a woman 20 years her junior could do for the same pay
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absolutely but I'm saying it's not because she needs to support her family
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no she has no family she needs to pay off all of these bills that you know she just
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reads a crummy life just a crummy line a terrible line just like a mediocre existence
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that's whatever and she doesn't want that to be the case so plan to steal and
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is Samuel L Jackson like super intimidating I mean there's one moment
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the movie where he might kill her and then he doesn't and that's the first 20
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minutes and so then he's kind of under her thumb throughout the rest of it
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Samuel L Jackson does a great job by the way he's always great everything he's in
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he's great in everything but his role in Tarantino movies he is much of the time
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the best most compelling actor on the screen the problem is that he is given a
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lot of opportunity to act but no story for it to matter in yeah also is his
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fashion sense in this movie was an assault upon the eyes like if I think it
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was fun look up Samuel L Jackson like scenes from this movie he's got the
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ponytail he's got a chin like little brain a little rat tail he dresses like a
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weird early 2000s golfer like yeah it's an odd it's amazing it's terrible so one
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thing I'll say is that what I felt about this movie was that it was like taking
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the Tarantino out of a turn there was no Tarantino isms in this right out of a
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Tarantino movie so we still had it's well it still had the feet car conversation
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head trunk shot still had the trunk shot it still had the long conversations that
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don't really give a great plot but then it didn't have any of the fun stuff that you
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remember so in all the other movies you leave with oh I remember this really
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in like expressive part didn't happen in Jackie Brown not memorable we're
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getting good at finishing time yeah I mean all I wanted to say was it was too
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much movie for too little story yeah and it's just just diluting it sorry I'm
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going over the time and it's just that it's like the equivalent of me doing this
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right now if I could say something in ten words and add a little bit extra on in
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terms of content over the course of a hundred words the lack of like you know
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efficiency to saying it dilutes everything and makes it feel nothing it's
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like when you say a point and you just keep going on like right now like what I'm
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doing right here that's this movie just all the way through that's why there's no
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tension just seen and it just kept happening okay next up we have two
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thousand threes Kill Bill a volume one yep that's the one okay set up for this
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movie so this one is a friend had said it to me in terms of this is like
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Tarantino's version of a samurai movie where's the second one is like
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Tarantino's version of a Western in some ways but basic plot there was a woman
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played by Uma Thurman called the bride who was a member the top female member
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of the deadly Viper assassination squad top assassin squad she wants to leave
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them because she was pregnant and they don't take it well and they kill her and
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massacre everyone else who's at the church where she's gonna get shotgun
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married to like some poor rube and she falls into coma she wakes up and then she's
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gonna kill Bill and get her revenge and the basic premise of the movie is she's
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woken up she's getting things together and then she goes on the hunt to hunt
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down the first of the set of members of the Deadly Viper assassination squad who
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betrayed her and then the second movie is her finishing the job yeah and so now
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we're going to start the clock now okay so Kill Bill I actually liked this one yes
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this is the first Tarantino movie that we enjoyed enough Wawa Greg oh yeah okay yeah
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that was an experience we had fun at the movies watching this it was not a great
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movie but it was okay yeah you know he had he had a story he felt okay with the
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pacing it didn't feel like there were a lot of these long drawn-out
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conversations that I'm not a huge fan of and he had kind of honed his style okay
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well I wouldn't say honed his style I would say here for once the artistic
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objective he was accomplishing of just a straight-up revenge story was so focused
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because his characters couldn't have long indulgent like friend conversations
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with each other in the same way that he couldn't do his natural impulse of have
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people spend so much on-screen time doing nothing right because the latter
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movies that we're gonna review sorry for you all the latter movies that we're
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gonna do he goes right back to and I sold you on this as an action movie so
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let's spend 50 minutes unbroken of boring conversation you won't remember ha ha
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yeah this was not that and I liked that he what I mean by honed really is more
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just that he figured out what his style was and it worked with what this film
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well disagree agree disagree that he has now figured out a style I think he did
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that in Pulp Fiction I think he was he was Tarantino as Tarantino's gonna be
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then I think here it's just that he picked something that it worked well with
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and couldn't fit in and accommodate his vices which are terrible of the long
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indulgent conversation we don't care about in the lack of characters here because it had
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to be keep going he was reined in yes and I think that the thing that makes it
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work for me and the thing that gives it tension is the fact that he made it so
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the bride lost her baby I think that's what gave it the pull and the push to do
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vengeance instead of just you tried to kill me and it's a little bit more
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straightforward if it's you tried to kill me and now I want to take revenge
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it comes across as selfish if it's just about you getting revenge because you're an
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assassin garbage person who murders people and so who cares if your
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assassin friends try to kill you whereas if you lost the baby and they were that
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brutal and they knew you had it and they killed you anyway or tried to oh well
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they're worse than you yes so you have a right to mama bear at them with a katana
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and it's exciting it's like oh great like we're rooting for you cuz and I'll give
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credit to Uma Thurman cuz she's the emotional core of the movie and for once
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the first time market there was an emotional core that we would care about to a
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Tarantino actually cared we care what's trying to get revenge and you said you
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weren't the biggest fan of Uma Thurman's acting in general that you don't have the
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best impression of like her as an actress I I mean I don't remember her from too
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much it's like Tilda Swinton I remember and don't remember her from anywhere also
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they come across very similarly to me interesting they're like that's kind of
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funny Tilda Swinton is in my opinion sorry if this is very important Nordic ice ice
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I would say Uma Thurman is not that regardless here Uma Thurman did a great
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job across both movies but we'll talk about Kill Bill 2 for the next one here
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she did a great job just selling the rage and the energy and kind of like the
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coolness and confidence of being the top assassin but not in too cartoony a way
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even though her demonstration of being the top assassin is a cartoony nonsense
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fight I will say I like the idea that it worked in this movie for it to be
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cartoony because Tarantino leaned into the cartooniness of everything and he
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did the Tarantino indulgence for that big fight for the actual yeah so the the
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negatives of this movie were two things for me that went on too long because I
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think that Tarantino's not good at editing himself one is the cartoon
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sequence anime sequence the anime sequence Oren Ishi's background story how long that was
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and then the actual fight was way too long in my opinion the big fight at the
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restaurant against the crazy 88 that just kept on going yeah and so I'm a big fan
00:25:21.540
of action movies got Abigail into them a little bit and so there's this
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Indonesian movie the raid has a sequel that's amazing action sequences because
00:25:29.820
everyone can do choreography and fight here not so so it's like oh it's
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audacious it's exaggerated so much limb chopping and blood everywhere but it's not
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like what the physical movements we're seeing are that core interesting it's a
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lot of choppy fast it was very long I think the thing for me is you can do a
00:25:49.020
long fight scene if you still aren't sure that the good guy is gonna win so
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constantly you're like building the tension of oh they're gonna get to the
00:25:57.300
point where maybe they're gonna lose once she starts fighting the 88 and
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she's winning everything you're like okay now this is just 45 minutes of her
00:26:03.820
winning everything yeah and the spectacle isn't that interesting because it's
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smack smack sword cut or just oh guy tries to do something cut it's not like
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physically impressive or interesting to watch and so it falls by okay okay nine
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also there's the problem you're only as good as your villain over and he she's
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like the one she's hunting down and then I'm gonna go box boring there's like no
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character to them you need your villains characterized the sequel is much
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better in that regard my little extra thing for Kill Bill is just that I would
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recommend it and I think it's fun especially with the next movie together
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I think they're a fun evening and it's not like super deep or anything but it
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is well done fun to watch yeah I would recommend it oh that's it
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same Z's so if you guys enjoyed our speed reviews of these Quentin Tarantino
00:26:53.100
movies hop on over because we're gonna finish the reviews on the right angles
00:26:57.540
channel my my channel and we're gonna be doing that in his studio on his channel
00:27:04.020
and we're gonna be finishing them off so and so not only have I done reviews here
00:27:08.700
with Abigail but I also did a review of parasite in my very first video that I
00:27:13.820
did and then also review of the just abominable despicable disappointing
00:27:19.440
garbage no good very bad Witcher TV series which was just a disappointing pile of
00:27:25.080
mess since we played through the entire weekend together might do a review on
00:27:29.520
it and we've been listening to the Witcher on audiobook and it's spectacular
00:27:32.940
and so with all that background you just you've ruined it budget and Henry cap yeah
00:27:38.520
sorry I'm relitigating it right now because it was so just don't even listen
00:27:42.060
to him here go on to his channel and watch it there and watch our follow-up set of
00:27:47.760
reviews to this the closer Tarantino volume two is going to be Kill Bill
00:27:53.580
volume two it's gonna be death proof it's being glorious bastards and Django
00:27:57.540
and Chained and to reiterate we are not doing hateful eight because we that's the
00:28:02.260
review in of itself we can't bring ourselves to watch it and then also once
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