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#282788
Topic
Star Wars Fans Are Cool Regardless Of Age...
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Originally posted by: Nobody
I submit that there are three classes of fans:

-Those old enough to remember Star Wars as a stand-alone film.
-Those who grew up with the trilogy as a complete set.
-Those who grew up with the Special Edition and prequels.

For the first group, even the second two films were an intrusion of sorts. This is my father - he still insists that "Darth" is Vader's first name.

I'm in the second group. Greedo shoots first, damnit, but I don't flinch at the title "A New Hope," and I'm happy to tell you why a planet of Ewoks is better than a planet of Wookies.

As for the third group, that's my brothers, but I'm not sure there is much consensus opinion, apart from "Natalie Portman is hot." I defer to bkev et all.

Oh, and I'm 26.


Don't you mean "Han shoots first, damnit"?
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#282609
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Grindhouse
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282609/action/topic#282609
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Originally posted by: theredbaron
Originally posted by: generalfrevious
Didn't Rodriguez and Tarantino work together on Sin City? And wasn't that film obscenely violent, or does Frank Miller have a very warped mind?


Tarantino guest-directed on one of the four stories in Sin City, though I'm not sure what.

And Frank Miller is probably the king of comic noir, so it's very much his writing that gives the movie its grisly tone...


Tarantino directed the scene in "The Big Fat Kill" when Dwight is driving to dump Jackie Boy's body and he hallucinates him coming back to life and talking to him.

And I have to agree with JediSage and TRB, The Nightmare Before Christmas was the only time I ever fell asleep in a movie theatre.
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#282567
Topic
Soundtracks!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282567/action/topic#282567
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
Originally posted by: Lord Phillock
Hmm no one ever seems to talk about underrated composer John Debney. His score for Passion of the Christ and Cutthroat Island are amazingly good pieces of work! (Those two are the only one's I've extensively listened to).


YOU HAVE TO LOVE HIS SIN CITY SCORE AS WELL.


He only did part of the score. He did the "The Big Fat Kill" segment, while Graeme Revell did "The Hard Goodbye" and Robert Rodriguez did "That Yellow Bastard". Debney's was okay (I prefer Graeme's stuff) but it was still loads better than Rodriguez's.
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#282469
Topic
Grindhouse
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282469/action/topic#282469
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Originally posted by: BrikHaus81
Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Anyone who goes into a Tarantino movie and doesn't expect more dialogue than actual plot need to do their homework a little bit.
The only problem was that the dialogue in this particular movie was awful. It was about nothing. It was exactly like the conversations about nothing that real people have. For a fucking hour. It wasn't funny, interesting, and it did not advance the plot or give you more insight into the characters. The dialogue, which is usually the highlight of any Tarantino movie, was the thing that ruined it.


How was that dialogue any different from the song about "Like A Virgin" in "Reservoir Dogs"? Or the "Royale with cheese" dialogue in "Pulp Fiction"? Also, this line in particular from your post pretty much illustrates the point I was trying to make:

The only problem was that the dialogue in this particular movie was awful. It was about nothing. It was exactly like the conversations about nothing that real people have.


That was the entire point, as is the point of any Tarantino script. He's able to write people, and he's able to write them in a realistic way.

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#282460
Topic
Grindhouse
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282460/action/topic#282460
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Anyone who goes into a Tarantino movie and doesn't expect more dialogue than actual plot need to do their homework a little bit.

Also, "Death Proof" was more like an actual grindhouse movie; most of the old ones had a whole lot of talking because it was cheaper to shoot, and most of them were made with shoestring budgets.
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#281504
Topic
Upgrade
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/281504/action/topic#281504
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Originally posted by: Jay
It's coming along. Probably entering beta this week. A few last things to finish up.


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