I think this is a bad attempt.
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GO.
for a few lousy dollars (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0116338/)
"Resevoir Dogs" is a knockoff of "City On Fire".
have you seen city on fire? is it that much of a rip off?
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.
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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.
I really don't see how Go rips off Pulp Fiction except for the structure. And, I like Go, too. *shrug*
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"
is the movie good?
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.
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?
Quote from: GamblorQuote 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.
Boondock Saints
and I'll never understand why so many people I know liked this movie a lot
Quote from: poserI'll never understand why so many people I know liked this movie a lot
Two words: Willem Dafoe.
Four words, actually: Willem Dafoe in drag.
i like Boon Dock
i turned it off after 15 minutes. i never turn movies off. i really hated it.
paciencte is a virtue
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so is kqwqytllhrr.
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.
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.
I've never seen Boondock Saints but it seems to be the new movie that all the frat boys watch.
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.
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.
lol exactly. i couldn't agree more.
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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Where do we discuss it?
hahah, whereEVER...
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?
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.)
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.
i saw it too. yes, its bad
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.
the best PF knock off
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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.