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The Director's Chair => Quentin Tarantino => Topic started by: prophet on October 19, 2003, 12:07:35 PM

Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: prophet on October 19, 2003, 12:07:35 PM
I think this is a bad attempt.

2 Days in the Valley
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: Alethia on October 19, 2003, 01:39:11 PM
GO.
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Post by: Cecil on October 19, 2003, 01:51:01 PM
for a few lousy dollars (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0116338/)
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Post by: MacGuffin on October 19, 2003, 01:55:31 PM
"Resevoir Dogs" is a knockoff of "City On Fire".
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Post by: Cecil on October 19, 2003, 01:58:34 PM
have you seen city on fire? is it that much of a rip off?
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Post by: Alethia on October 19, 2003, 02:00:57 PM
i've actually seen in a book, they have several still frames from city on fire, and they compare them to some still frames of reservoir dogs, and yes, they do look quite ripped off.  but tarantino never denies this either.
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: prophet on October 19, 2003, 02:03:17 PM
Love and a .45
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Post by: Gamblour. on October 19, 2003, 02:17:08 PM
Quote from: ewardGO.

Holy shit, Go is such a ripoff. I love Liman but geez.

And I'll say Rules of Attraction, simply because the movie gained nothing by going backwards. It added nothing to the story. Maybe this is more of a rip off of Memento, but since Avary is attached, I'll say Pulp Fiction.
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: ono on October 19, 2003, 02:24:26 PM
I really don't see how Go rips off Pulp Fiction except for the structure.  And, I like Go, too.  *shrug*
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Post by: MacGuffin on October 19, 2003, 02:27:56 PM
Quote from: Cecilhave you seen city on fire? is it that much of a rip off?

Yes and yes. Here's the plot summary from IMDB:

Chow Yun Fat plays an under cover cop who infiltrates a gang of jewel thieves. He is envolved in a heist that goes wrong when the cops turn up and bullets begin to fly. Our hero is shot in the gut and everyone who is still alive return to a dissused warehouse and then proced to accuse everyone else and point their guns at each other. Several scenes and sections of dialogue, not to mention the plot, have been lifted wholesale by Quentin Tarantino for his film "Reservoir Dogs"
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: Cecil on October 19, 2003, 04:13:13 PM
is the movie good?
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Post by: Gamblour. on October 19, 2003, 05:02:23 PM
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaI really don't see how Go rips off Pulp Fiction except for the structure.  And, I like Go, too.  *shrug*

I think I watched Go right after I watched Pulp Fiction, and I dunno, you could just sort of feel the ripping-off-ness. I remember just naming them off as the movie went along. I've forgotten most of them, but I don't wanna sit through Go again to list any of them.
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Post by: bonanzataz on October 19, 2003, 05:06:03 PM
The Collectors starring casper van dien. it was pathetic. i watched it one night and it made me want to cry it was so bad. i kept thinking to myself, what if i make a movie like this, or want to make a movie like this, and think that it's really good? wouldn't that be pathetic? does that make sense?
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Post by: Alethia on October 19, 2003, 08:17:08 PM
Quote from: Gamblor
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaI really don't see how Go rips off Pulp Fiction except for the structure.  And, I like Go, too.  *shrug*

I think I watched Go right after I watched Pulp Fiction, and I dunno, you could just sort of feel the ripping-off-ness. I remember just naming them off as the movie went along. I've forgotten most of them, but I don't wanna sit through Go again to list any of them.

oh the writing is so wanna-be QT.  i can't really describe it.  just watch and listen i guess.  not to say it's bad tho, i think GO is the best of the post-pulp tarantino wanna be's, i actually quite enjoy it.  i dont admire it at all, but it's nice to have on in the background when you're hanging with friends or whatever.
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: Pozer on October 20, 2003, 07:33:03 PM
Boondock Saints
and I'll never understand why so many people I know liked this movie a lot
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Post by: Jeremy Blackman on October 20, 2003, 08:19:37 PM
Quote from: poserI'll never understand why so many people I know liked this movie a lot

Two words: Willem Dafoe.
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Post by: ShanghaiOrange on October 20, 2003, 08:55:49 PM
Four words, actually: Willem Dafoe in drag.
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Post by: Banky on October 20, 2003, 09:16:56 PM
i like Boon Dock
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Post by: bonanzataz on October 20, 2003, 09:17:39 PM
i turned it off after 15 minutes. i never turn movies off. i really hated it.
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Post by: Banky on October 20, 2003, 09:25:35 PM
paciencte is a virtue
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Post by: picolas on October 20, 2003, 09:40:43 PM
Quote from: Bankypaciencte is a virtue
so is kqwqytllhrr.
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Post by: pete on October 20, 2003, 10:59:46 PM
city on fire is really good, it shares a similar plot with Resevoir Dogs and there are some scenes that do resemble one another, but Resevoir Dogs is done with so much more style.  City on Fire is like a gritty police drama, Ringo Lam even shot it with a lot of handheld for this type of documentary/ news footage feel.  So the tone between the two movies is totally different.  Plus City on Fire focuses on Chow YunFat and his relationship with the cops and the thieves while Dogs gives the thieves so much more individuality and scenes.
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: thedog on October 21, 2003, 01:10:04 AM
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0111705/

Why people claim Boondock Saints to be the "greatest movie [they've] ever seen" is completely beyond me. I don't see it to be that much of a Tarantino ripoff because Tarantino can make good movies.
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: SHAFTR on October 21, 2003, 01:19:36 AM
I've never seen Boondock Saints but it seems to be the new movie that all the frat boys watch.
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Post by: coffeebeetle on October 21, 2003, 07:46:23 AM
Quote from: SHAFTRI've never seen Boondock Saints but it seems to be the new movie that all the frat boys watch.

Heh heh.

Yup, this movie sucks.  I think the part I cringed the most from was when they slipped in through the ceiling, suspended from ropes, and took all the gangsters out.  

Blech.
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Post by: thedog on October 21, 2003, 08:13:02 PM
Quote from: coffeebeetleI think the part I cringed the most from was when they slipped in through the ceiling, suspended from ropes, and took all the gangsters out.  

Yeah, everytime I think that maybe the movie isn't so bad, I always think about that. Especially since the characters claim it to be an accident, one of the brothers even says "stuff like that only happens in the movies". barf.

It seems like the writer/director only made the movie to hold his over-the-top slow motion action sequences.
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Post by: coffeebeetle on October 21, 2003, 08:16:07 PM
lol exactly.  i couldn't agree more.
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Post by: modage on October 21, 2003, 09:22:14 PM
i hated hated hated boondock saints.  first of all, i heard about it from about 4 or 5 different unrelated people so by the time i finally got around to watching it, i thought it might be some little gem that went unrecognized upon release.  but no, it was awful awful shite.  and troy duffy SOOOOOOOOOO wished he was tarantino i thought it was the mid-ninties again with all the pulp wannabes.  and willem dafoe was clearly acting in a different film from the rest of the cast, not that its the first time...  speed 2 anyone?  (the infamous leeches scene)
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Post by: MacGuffin on October 21, 2003, 09:24:00 PM
mod-age:
http://xixax.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1271

Where do we discuss it?
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: modage on October 21, 2003, 09:25:19 PM
hahah, whereEVER...
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Post by: pete on October 24, 2003, 10:13:11 AM
oh, roger ebert, I remember for a while, wouldn't talk about this movie titled "Thursday" that he claimed was like a racist QT wanna be movie.  Anyone seen it?
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: ono on October 24, 2003, 10:19:43 AM
I think this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124901/) is the film, but I can't find Ebert talking about it anywhere.  (It's awfully hard to search for Ebert talking about a film called Thursday when it's also the name of a day.  Heh.)
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: Weak2ndAct on October 24, 2003, 01:39:03 PM
Oh god, I did see 'Thursday'.  It's a fucking abomination.  Yeah, it played in Toronto(?) one year and Ebert went after the director during the Q&A.  Skip Woods, the guy who did it, ended up getting a blind two-script writing deal at WB.  Result: Swordfish (I admit, tremendous guilty pleasure), and almost a remake of Logan's Run, which thankfully never got made.
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: Cecil on October 25, 2003, 12:17:24 PM
i saw it too. yes, its bad
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Post by: Pozer on October 26, 2003, 02:40:12 PM
Weird, I just caught this Thomas Jane, cliched piece of crap flick on cable last night. Spanked it to the scene where the chick rides him while he's tied up to the chair, then turned it off.
Title: Pulp Ficion knockoff?
Post by: Banky on November 14, 2003, 08:41:45 AM
the best PF knock off

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.inkfrog.com%2Fpix%2Fvedman%2Fhulkfiction.jpg&hash=ff39712256f128937324221ba1378c33ab228f06)
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Post by: ReelHotGames on November 15, 2003, 04:10:09 PM
Say what you will about "Thursday" but it does have Paulina Porizkova raping Thomas Jane, that's got to be worth the price of admission. It really does try to be a flip "Pulp" type tale told an what had to be a $10 budget. Shooting almost entirely in what had to be Skip Woods house. It was only worth watching because you have Thomas Jane and Aaron Eckhart in the same film, finally proving they aren't the same person.