The Movie House

^^^Man of Steel's gonna be epic... Nolan as producer...

Okay so the only Quentin Tarantino movie I've watched before was Inglourious Bastards, and I've watched it one and half times and understand feck all of it... Now that's not a good start for a great director with me. So I decided why not give the guy a chance again by watching some of his other movies. I got Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 from a friend. And boy was I glad I did that. The only sad thing was that the movies didn't have subtitles, and a fairly lot of scenes include parts where the characters communicate in Japanese, but the fighting and wonderfully told story made up for it... Hopefully I can also make plans to watch Pulp Fiction and Reservior Dogs before Django Unchained comes out.

Kill Bill Vol. 2
Where do you start? When the movie opens with the song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" you can't go wrong, right? Yes you can not. The Bride takes on a cool fighting scene against Copperhead, her codename, and it was awesome. And then after she kills Copperhead, she leaves in her Pussy Wagon, cool eh? Anyways this is juz a fabulously told story over two movies. The girl, who was put through some nasty sh*t, out for revenge ~~> can never go wrong! She goes on an epic blood spilling, blood spewing rampage. Goes on and kills Lucy Liu's character. Who truth be told, ain't that bad herself. The fighting scenes with all those bad guys' of Lucy Liu's character, the Crazy 88, was brilliant in my opinion. Better than Neo's against those lots of Agents in The Matrix Reloaded. The Bride then kills of Lucy Liu's character after it looked like she was down and out of the fight. She then sends Bill a message, by sending one of his girls to him with only one arm. The Bride's coming for Bill. And then the movie ends with that cool whistle song. I juz loved the soundtrack. Made the movie about ten times better.
My Rating: 8.2/10

Kill Vol. 2
So after that epic start. It's gonna be hard to maintain that throughout a sequel, right? Well the sequel, actually tells us a little more about what happened in the beginning. When Bill who was jealous of one of his girls leaving him, and not juz any girl, his favourite girl ... Beautrix Kido he plans revenge on her because he thought she betrayed him. We get told the story and get a more knowledgable view on it and now know why Bill did what he did. This movie doesn't have as much action and cool fighting scenes as the first, and not at all the great soundtrack that the first one had. But what the 2nd movie did was juz shed a little bit more light on all of characters and little more about their backgrounds. It rounds of the whole film perfectly. And it ends as expected. After being buried alive with only a torch, she escapes. And after ripping out the remaining eyeball of Elle the driver. And after finding her daughter at the hands of Bill, she still goes on and kills Bill. Finishing her revenge with a cool move.
My Rating: 7.8/10

Okay so the only Quentin Tarantino movie I've watched before was Inglourious Bastards, and I've watched it one and half times and understand feck all of it... Now that's not a good start for a great director with me. So I decided why not give the guy a chance again by watching some of his other movies. I got Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 from a friend. And boy was I glad I did that. The only sad thing was that the movies didn't have subtitles, and a fairly lot of scenes include parts where the characters communicate in Japanese, but the fighting and wonderfully told story made up for it... Hopefully I can also make plans to watch Pulp Fiction and Reservior Dogs before Django Unchained comes out.

Kill Bill Vol. 2
Where do you start? When the movie opens with the song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" you can't go wrong, right? Yes you can not. The Bride takes on a cool fighting scene against Copperhead, her codename, and it was awesome. And then after she kills Copperhead, she leaves in her Pussy Wagon, cool eh? Anyways this is juz a fabulously told story over two movies. The girl, who was put through some nasty sh*t, out for revenge ~~> can never go wrong! She goes on an epic blood spilling, blood spewing rampage. Goes on and kills Lucy Liu's character. Who truth be told, ain't that bad herself. The fighting scenes with all those bad guys' of Lucy Liu's character, the Crazy 88, was brilliant in my opinion. Better than Neo's against those lots of Agents in The Matrix Reloaded. The Bride then kills of Lucy Liu's character after it looked like she was down and out of the fight. She then sends Bill a message, by sending one of his girls to him with only one arm. The Bride's coming for Bill. And then the movie ends with that cool whistle song. I juz loved the soundtrack. Made the movie about ten times better.
My Rating: 8.2/10

Kill Vol. 2
So after that epic start. It's gonna be hard to maintain that throughout a sequel, right? Well the sequel, actually tells us a little more about what happened in the beginning. When Bill who was jealous of one of his girls leaving him, and not juz any girl, his favourite girl ... Beautrix Kido he plans revenge on her because he thought she betrayed him. We get told the story and get a more knowledgable view on it and now know why Bill did what he did. This movie doesn't have as much action and cool fighting scenes as the first, and not at all the great soundtrack that the first one had. But what the 2nd movie did was juz shed a little bit more light on all of characters and little more about their backgrounds. It rounds of the whole film perfectly. And it ends as expected. After being buried alive with only a torch, she escapes. And after ripping out the remaining eyeball of Elle the driver. And after finding her daughter at the hands of Bill, she still goes on and kills Bill. Finishing her revenge with a cool move.
My Rating: 7.8/10

Argo
So I saw it today...
To be honest, I was disappointed. I mean, the hype around and all about it. I juz expected it to thrill me more.

First of all it's a good story. I'll admit. A good true story. But there was juz something wrong with it, for me to consider it a GREAT movie. The first hour of the movie was juz a built up to the real action of the movie.

The second hour is where the suspense started. It kept me on the edge of my seat, and especially the whole process through the airport when they were escaping. But it was juz too cliched... Because I knew in the end what was going to happen. They were going to try the almost impossible and there's gonna come moments where it looked like they were gonna get caught. But they escaped, and I juz knew it throughout the movie. I don't know, it juz doesn't do it for me. I juz can't quite put my finger on it. And in my honest opinion it could've been far better.

And if someone says to me that Argo is better than The Dark Knight Rises, I think I'll juz tell that person to feck off. Maybe not the best comparison, because Argo's this serious true life story, touching a serious subject, and TDKR is an all out action packed superhero movie. But juz in terms of the better movie in general, it's The Dark Knight Rises by far. And still my favourite movie of the year.
My Rating: 7.1/10 (Argo)

McLewis wrote:I must be the only one that preferred Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown over Pulp Fiction

I'm looking forward to Django Unchained, but I don't think it will quite reach the heights of past Tarantino movies. I like Jamie Foxx, but this just isn't his type of genre. A more serious and gritty actor was needed for this role I feel.

+1. I can't help but feel that if there's gonna be a flop in this movie. It's gonna be it's main actor, mr. Jamie Foxx himself.

I mean, next to Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio you have two great actors. The former who is almost made for this type of films and the latter who we all know can adapt to any concept/style/theme of a film.