Film

[Carnage]

Clerks was great, very much of its time though. The second one had its moments. Jason Mewes is too annoying to watch, I couodn't be watching those Jay And Silent Bob movies.

[leatherface]

Back then it was Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino and Smith as the 'new school' film directors, influenced a lot by Richard Linklater's success with 'Slacker'.


Bad Lieutenant (1992)

A surreal watch. Not an 'entertaining' movie per se, but I had another look, Harvey Keitel's performance for one. Abel Ferrara knows sleaze like the back of his hand.

[Eoin McLove]

I saw the first Jay and Silent Bob film when it came out. In fact, I might actually own the DVD. It was appalling shite.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'm not even a huge fan of the other two, but Smith is to Rodriguez and Tarantino what Anthrax (though I might almost say Anvil) are to Slayer and Metallica. Marmite dialogue aside, what is his best film, directorially speaking? Like, I hate a lot of Tarantino's dialogue, but it's clear he knows how to direct a movie. A lot of Smith's movies are like the worst scenes in Tarantino films (being those scenes aul Quentin "acts" in himself) but stretched over 90 minutes. Shudder.

[Eoin McLove]

No idea what you're on about. Tarantino? It's apples and oranges... give Dogma a go.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

No idea what you're on about. Tarantino? It's apples and oranges... give Dogma a go.

Back then it was Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino and Smith as the 'new school' film directors, influenced a lot by Richard Linklater's success with 'Slacker'.

I saw Dogma back in the day. I think I enjoyed it, but less than most, it seemed. Guess I wasn't enough of an Alanis Morrissette fan!

[Eoin McLove]

I don't get the connection with Tarantino at all... but sure whatever. They are 90s and that's the link, like Nirvana and Satyricon.

I think the strength of his films, when they are good (the three mentioned above) is in the dialogue. That's I suppose a link you could loosely make with Ol Quent at a push but for me that is the essence of most good films. There's silliness, but it is always aiming for a certain truth- I don't think Tarantino can be accused of that when he is at his best.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Classic battles; Oasis or Blur? Megadeth or Metallica? Nirvana or Satyricon?   

Yeah, I don't like his dialogue, but I get some people love it, so I guess it's a marmite thing. I don't like a lot of Tarantino's dialogue either, so I've never been a fan of Reservoir Dogs which is really dialogue heavy. And that is something the two have in common; a predilection for a certain kind of 'smart' dialogue (e.g. the Madonna 'Like A Virgin' speech type stuff).

[astfgyl]

Jesus Tarantino is the fuckin worst actor ever. I can't even look at his head and then he starts with his lines and it gets worse.

Saying that, Pulp Fiction is one of my favourite films. The rest are ok to good.

[leatherface]

This is the problem with 'auteur' directors (i.e. directors with their own recognisable style in terms of dialogue/ settings), you either like it or you don't,  but Tarantino hit his peak with Jackie Brown and Smith with Chasing Amy. the rest since then? between ok and meh for me. Tarantino definitely knows how to write a scene, e.g. opening scene of 'Inglorious Bastards' but rest of that movie was Tarantino self indulging.

[Eoin McLove]

I watched I Came By. Not a bad thriller at all. I thought Hugh Bonneville made a surprisingly great villain.

[Carnage]

Watched the new Top Gun there, good craic. As cheesy as you'd expect but a better film than the original. The flight sequences were amazing, I'm sorry I didn't see them on the big screen.

Watched Belfast yesterday, better than I'd expected. Tonally all over the place though.

[Caomhaoin]

Mary Queen of Scots. Fairly shite. Why does she have a Scottish accent if she was a babe in arms when she left the gaff. Plenty of other dumb inaccuracies that even your casual watcher would notice.

A Chinese Bess of Hardwick and a black Thomas Randolph plus a coloured person in 90% of scenes set principally in 16th century Scotland, the rest in England? Impossible to take the film seriously.

[warhead]

Mary Queen of Scots. Fairly shite. Why does she have a Scottish accent if she was a babe in arms when she left the gaff. Plenty of other dumb inaccuracies that even your casual watcher would notice.

A Chinese Bess of Hardwick and a black Thomas Randolph plus a coloured person in 90% of scenes set principally in 16th century Scotland, the rest in England? Impossible to take the film seriously.

Rings Of Power fans might call you a racist/fascist for saying that, watch out.......

[Caomhaoin]

I read that the director refused point blank to do the film if the cast was all white. Great.

On a par with Ed Hillary climbing Everest or the defenders of Leningrad for levels of heroism.