Half in the Bag Extras: Tarantino and More 2012 Re-cap |

Dragreder

When’s the next Plinkett review?

Spam

common man, they just did one …
- Sybok
  
  Bullshit, who cares about Titanic. I’m still waiting for Star Trek V review.
  - Guest
    
    We need the Star Trek V review!
    - zeitguest
      
      But also do Prometheus.
      
      I held off on watching it hoping there’d be a RLM review but finally did last weekend. Holy cow. How does the robot know the Engineer is coming for ms cesearan-n-run when he’s a decapitated head on the floor of a windowless room? How does he operate his suit radio to even contact her without hands or a suit? Because like everyone in the movie, he’s what the plot written by a 4 year old needs him to be at that particular moment?
      
      There’s so many dumb decisions by the characters, magical jumps in reality and dumb writing decisions it would be a RLM bonanza.
      
      I was jaw-droppingly amazed that they wanted to rehash the same subplot as Cameron’s Aliens with the corporation trying to smuggle an alien back to Earth inside a human. Ridley Scott decides to return to the Alien franchise and his first step is to focus on a concept already explored by another director?
      
      What we got, despite the protestations that it wasn’t another Alien, was more facehuggers, chestrippers, and aliens – BUT they were kind of a fish-white instead of green-black we’ve never had that before. And it was handled with an operation instead of a chest-burst, we’ve never had that before. The cave-mapping geologist is the key to it though, we’ve never had a character as funny as him before. If we can just get him working.
      
      And they appear to have a breathtakingly deep nonunderstanding of archeology, medecine, history, physics, astronomy, genetics and so on… How they handle carbon dating, a caesarian, ancient cultures, etc is as if a 4 year old came up with it. The carbon dating thing, most people would let slide but come on 100% DNA match with a giant muscly black eyed bald albino alien race? Did they know what 100% means or were they innumerate? I think even attendees of that creationist theme park in Texas would raise an eyebrow on that. Oh this system even has a SUN isn’t that amazing? Oh yeah by definition if it is a system it has a star ie sun. Seriously, like a 4 year old wrote the whole thing.

Negromantic

Too much too soon, why so many videos so quickly, the wait is gonna be more pain now

Dr Plinkett

Fuck the pain away.
- Liquidus
  
  “I-want-to-fuck-more” – Fuck-Bot 5000, April 2012
- Liquidus
  
  “I want to fuck more” – Fuck-Bot 5000, April 2012
Skagboy

Nekromantik was awesome

http://twitter.com/PackedInsanity Packed Insanity

Glad I’m not the only one that didn’t like Ted.

And_The_Gunslinger_Followed

So if I don’t like “Family Guy” chances are I won’t like “Ted” either?
- FabioZC(BR)
  
  I am a huge Family Guy fan, and did not liked Ted very much. Different things…
  - Swede
    
    Well, I hate Family Guy but I enjoyed Ted. Works that way too.
- http://www.facebook.com/joaomccosta João Campos Costa
  
  I enjoyed Ted. Felt to me like the exact same style of humor from Family guy.
- Liquidus
  
  I don’t like Family Guy and I thoroughly enjoyed Ted. Give it a try.
JimCoolAid

It has moments – wasn’t a really great year for comedy.

And_The_Gunslinger_Followed

Couldn’t agree more about “Jackie Brown”. Recalled not liking it back in in ’97, then rewatched it recently and felt embarrassed for my past self. Then cried after realizing that I’m still the same fat, ugly, hollow person.

kobuster

Also agree re. “Jackie Brown”, except I loved it when I saw it in the theaters. There aren’t a lot of us JB lovers, but those who do know that we are just better than everyone else.
- VaginaPenisManInFaceWithPoop
  
  There’s more JB lovers than you think. Wink. Penis.

MatthewMelange

I actually did not even mind how short this was, I just wish he was able to continue his point of pop culture references not being jokes, even though that’s the point…

https://twitter.com/theericlarson monsieur larson

I’m driving through Wisconsin tomorrow…what New Glarus beer should I acquire besides Spotted Cow? Help fellow alcoholic internet dwellers!

beermin

If they’re still making the Hometown Blonde, that stuff is fabulous.

Bob Sacamano

All Tarantino movies have been homage films, even Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. But those films were a little grittier a bit more indie. Tarantino is now big hollywood shlocky throw away with big budget crap thrown everywhere. I haven’t seen the latest, and I will see it, but I am disappointed with where he has gone to. He just seems to be about using filmmaking to scratch the itch he has had since being a kid, wishing he could make the films he used to watch over and over. Now he seems to be going back to remake and pay homage to all those films. I am waiting for him to get it out of his system, check off all the homage films off his list, and finally make something bit more indie and low down with innovative storytelling and dialog.

Chucky

No. Jackie Brown is a paean to every 20-something who watched Pulp Fiction with glee, only to (fast-forward) wake up 40-ish, hating the job they have and wishing for something more.

http://www.facebook.com/bird.glen Glen Bird

I’ve gotta find a way to get a 6 pack of Spotted Cow down here to Texas. I’ve been wondering what it’s like ever since I started watching Half in the Bag.

lv

Holy shit, Mike laughed at something Jay said.

someone

That’s right, Jay.
- AKA
  
  Oh, you.
Liquidus

Wut? Where? I think I missed it!
Anon

Shut up, Quentin.

Dr Caribou

Also starring Rich Evans? He was nowhere to be found you hacks! WHERE’S THE BODY

Real HSP

In my freezer.
http://www.facebook.com/jhonny.malkav Jhonny Malkav

Behind you!

http://www.facebook.com/bigbobpataki Matt DeCostanza

was mike’s sudden interest in the party favors to distract from a possibly divisive discussion about seth “macaroni” macfarlane?

shutup

Or to point out how their own style of comedy isn’t much higher on the food chain.
- Chip Chipperson rules
  
  Comedy is subjective.There is no food chain.Although the most juicy stuff can be found at the bottom.
  - UncleTed
    
    or something…
    - tsstss
      
      ..sure..
  - DavidHilbert
    
    Is comedy subjective?
    - opinion
      
      YES.But…a lot of people share a similar kind of subjective..and the mechanics of comedy can be described..which would imply there is a way of fabricating comedy without any need for comedic talent..still..there is no guarantee that a joke will have the same effect on different people and in some cases even the same effect on the same people at different times…some people find the most taboo themes to be the subject matter of the funniest jokes while other people find the same jokes despicable..so yes,subjective…DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM
    - DavidHilbert
      
      So not subjective in any meaningful sense.
    - Reggie Rock
      
      It’s totally mind dependent and doesn’t exist outside of individual interpretations. This alone may nto be enough for some, so let’s go deeper. To be funny is to elicit a specific emotional response but it doesn this by drawing on our emotion memory, our imagination, and our experiences.
      
      Take for example, a math joke. If a person lacks the knowledge of math then they will not be able to understand why it should even be thought of as funny.
      
      Or we could look at this purely empirically I tell a joke and my friend laughs but not my mother. Or a stranger tells a joke and i laugh but another stranger doesn’t. For something to be found funny there has to exist the right conditions within the person.
      
      So while it is theoretically possible for the most basic joke to be funny to everyone the more complex, nuanced, or dependent the joke becomes the fewer and fewer people could find it funny. Add to this the emotional state at the moment and our tendency to ascribe uncahnging labels to something based on our first impressions it becomes very easy for an emotional connection to make all future jokes of that kind (or from that person) less funny to you than they would have been otherwise.
      
      TL;DR
      Humor is subjective in every way.
Chucky

No, it’s because Family Guy is basically “Hey Bros, laugh at this funny sound I made!” It might be funny, and it might make you laugh, but it’s not comedy.
- Dudebro
  
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http://www.facebook.com/deejaytaufiq Mohamad Taufiq Morshidi

Kill Bill is a movie that got me into filmaking.

It got me into spaghetti western, samurai cinema, anime, yakuza cinema and 1970′s Grindhouse culture.

I think Tarantino has created a culture of “genre-mashing” where he breaks conventions and limitations in cinemas so that he could do shit he wants to do.

And i don’t care if he “steals” from other movies. If the stealing helps him make good films, then i’m okay with it.

sokrates300

You guys are top of the game! And the game is “Have a strong ending”.

NOT SPACECOP

When is Space Cop coming out?

http://twitter.com/PackedInsanity Packed Insanity

I think it’s in the future, about ready to come back to the past… Space Cop.

http://www.facebook.com/erik.grafendorfer Erik Grafendorfer

Thanks for keeping me from watching Ted by reminding me that Seth MacFarlane is behind Family Guy.

Archie Bunker

Seriously, you guys need to stop cutting footage from your show. I could watch for hours… HOURS!

http://www.facebook.com/people/Mads-Bolding-Fenger-Poulsen/1513209391 Mads Bolding Fenger Poulsen

Why don’t you already?
playdude92

Missing, imo, was Killer Joe. That movie was a brilliant drama.
Also Jay ´n Mike, please talk about something else than “Fuck you, it´s January 1 through 5″ in the next couple of months. More people care about YOUR favorite movies than you might think.
Also cool would be a TV Show spin off, or TV talk included into HitB.

fart jokes

Mike squeezing the party favors at the end made me laugh more than the entirety of Ted.

http://www.facebook.com/johnctibbetts John Tibbetts

Jackie Brown is my favorite Tarantino movie too. I love Robert Forster’s performance as Max Cherry. He’s easily one of the most underrated actors around.

Sapm

Thumbs up to that
Chucky

That said, don’t ever watch Diamond Men. Produced by someone female suspiciously named Forster, shot on VHS, straight to DVD, and up next in your Netflix Instant queue. Ugh.

http://www.facebook.com/andrew.webber.9421 Andrew Webber

I’ll never get the Tarantino fanboyism. I don’t hate Tarantino, there’s just no clothes on him. Best movie: Reservoir Dogs. Completely ripped off and written with another writer. Then Pulp Fiction, which was … okay (once the novelty factor wears off, it’s a terrible narrative). Again, written with another writer. After that … meh. “KIll Bill” was half Yuen Woo Ping movie and half crap Tarantino dialog. “Basterds” was all crap Tarantino dialog. And “Django” … ugh. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Avery is a good writer either (“Silent Hill” anyone?) but obviously their partnership worked, as did stealing. Both suck on their own. Tarantino may be passionate and all that, but he no longer makes good movies.

FatIdiotRetard

Haters gonna hate
Overrated

I have absolutely no idea what people see in Kill Bill. I think the first movie is mediocre and the second one sucks ass.
- deerstop
  
  My brother has a huge philosophic theory about Kill Bill and he admires the character of Bill. He also believes that the film is incredibly romantic. He actually said that this film contained best romance plot he’d seen in years. I cannot see anything romantic about killing a woman you love (?), but my brother says it’s a “man thing”, and a woman could not possibly understand man’s feelings. Meh. I dunno, maybe Bill was indeed great, manly, noble etc., maybe he truly loved Uma Thurman’s character. I just don’t get it at all. If I were Uma, I certainly would not cry about this dick.
  - Marvin Falz
    
    That “man thing” is
    vengefulness after the loved one has hurt you. But love and hate are
    mutually exclusive, you either hate or you love. Otherwise it would sound like:
    “Just because I hate you (from the bottom of my heart) doesn’t mean that
    I don’t love you.” It doesn’t make sense.
  - Marvin Falz
    
    That “man thing” is vengefulness after the loved one has hurt you. But love and hate are exclusive, you either hate or you love. Otherwise it would sound like: “Just because I hate you (from the bottom of my heart) doesn’t mean that I don’t love you.” It doesn’t make sense.
    - deerstop
      
      I would understand hatred and vengeance but I didn’t get the impression that Bill hated “Uma”. He couldn’t let her go, that’s for sure. I think he was more sorry/bitter/sad than angry. But to be honest, almost all Kill Bill characters were complete mystery to me. I hardly got their inner life, I did not feel emotionally attached to anybody. So… Yeah =_=
    - Marvin Falz
      
      Wasn’t Bill the boss of a group of assassins and “Uma”‘s been one of them and her former colleages turn against for a reason that might be explained at the end of the movie? I’ve never seen the whole movie for technical reasons first and then I lost interest in it. So maybe Bill’s love to her had nothing to do with his order to kill her. “Business first, then private life” could be his motto.
      Besides that the only moment in the movie that really got my attention and admiration is when the half American half Chinese woman is standing on the edge of a high-rise building without any visible fear and in total balance. To be fair, I like the manga part of the movie as a whole. The Chinese/American woman is so extreme and driven by hatred she would go to any length to exact revenge. Just like “Uma”.
i_spit_hot_fire

I think his legacy as an uber-fanboy-of-film-turned-indie-writer/director-du jour was the major selling point behind most of his movies up until Grindhouse, maybe. In my opinion, when he released Reservoir Dogs, it had a different feel to the dialogue and the individual shots/scenes (which are all memorable). Same with Pulp Fiction, same with Kill Bill. I hit my teens in the 90′s, and I started branching out when it came to the movies I watched, and his films had a very interesting feel to them despite their individual plots. He also wrote two of my other favorite films of the time “Natural Born Killers” and “True Romance,” so I guess to each his own.
Tal

You sir, are a complete asshole and ignorant douche, who doesn’t understand the language of cinema, or what makes a scene work of what is capable a good dialog.
- http://www.facebook.com/bigbobpataki Matt DeCostanza
  
  Shut up
Chris Wood

Naturally you are entitled to your Tarantino hate, but just out of curiosity, what are some filmmakers or movies you would consider to be counter-programing to QT?

Skagboy

Jackie Brown was the movie that got me interested in QT’s movies. I still don’t understand why so many people don’t like it. It’s probably because there is too little violence in it.

Chip Chipperson rules

No,I think it’s because the movie is too realistic.Tarantino has to be gimmicky for the general public,’cus that’s what people like,stuff to be labeled and quantified and clearly in the expected category.Personally I’d like to see him make a movie that is not referencing anything and is not in any particular over the top genre and is not any kind of homage to any other movie or director or style.
Chucky

Or maybe that it cuts a little too close for most. As whispered by the inimitable Ordell Robbie: “man, yo’ ass used to be beautiful.”

Spam

So It ends on a high Note

Duckler

Ba-Zing!

Devil_Dinosaur

Why doesn’t Mike want Jay to say the Family Guy sucks? Is he afraid of alienating audience members who actually think that crap is funny? Panderers!

That said, I’m a bit sick of hearing what movies Tarantino should be making. He’s a master filmmaker at the top of his game, successful enough to do whatever the fuck he wants. Enjoy it while it lasts! (And place your bets on the next genre. ’20s gansters? Super spy? ’80s cartoon adaptation?)

Larmo

I hope he does a space western like Coyboy Bebop, crazy space violence, in SPACE or maybe a romantic comedy where they all die in a fire at the end.

You know, for kids
- Liquidus
  
  Oh fuck, yes, please, we need MOAR space western, please, please, make it happen. I’d be totally happy if Tarantino makes the Dark Tower movies, or at least one of ‘em
Famous_Original_Feigenbaum

Colonial war era native american raiders.
JarJarOReilly

“He’s a master filmmaker at the top of his game”
HA HA HA HA HA HA! Good joke, bro
- Devil_Dinosaur
  
  Big Family Guy fan, I’m guessing.

Robby

An episode of Half in the Bag that was too long? DOESN’T EXIST!

Jenma

I hate to bring this up on any real life conversations since there’s always somebody to nail me to the wall, but I really and very sincerely fucking hated Ted. I went in with an open mind and a highly positive review by Ebert. As far I I’m concerned, it’s worse than family guy.

And I saw Jackie Brown once when I was 11 years old or something, thought it was really boring. Now after 11 years might be a good time to give that movie another eyeful.

Seth McSomeone

If you don’t like Family Guy why in god’s name would you see Ted?

Astor

yay! I had actually thought that the recap had been too short in the previous episode!

Leo Ladenson

Heart-warming schmaltz.

http://www.facebook.com/treknologist Clifford T. Hall

Pop culture references are not jokes. Ergo, QT’s films are joke-free.

Archie Bunker

But that’s not to say that they aren’t funny… because they are.
guest

It’s a good thing Tarantino’s not trying to make straight up comedies then.
fries with mayonnaise

I hear you brother, like when Marvin got shot in the face I was all – that is sooooo boring and unfunny.

Leo Ladenson

MS: “It’s a movie about drinkin’ booze.”
JB: “I’m assuming it glorifies alcoholism.”

Ladies and gentlemen: Projection!

Famous_Original_Feigenbaum

Jay you just became one of my favorite people.

Anonymous_Elmore_Leonard_Fan

The reason Jackie Brown was unlike other Tarantino movies is that it was based on an Elmore Leonard novel called “Rum Punch.” Leonard is a MASTER of dialogue. His plots are basically the same from book to book (he also did Get Shorty, Maximum Bob, and Out of Sight, among many others), but they’re always super fun.

Chucky

“Touch” doesn’t follow this formula, and I can name a few more. Leonard is Modren Pulp for the modren (circa 1972) reader.

Tarantino elevates Rum Punch. It’s more a film about aging and deflated expectations, played masterfully by every new wrinkle on Pam Grier’s face.

Anonymoose

Get off your lazy f*cking ass and give us what we want you fat homo. Nobody cares about Half in the Bag.

i_spit_hot_fire

I care. I love watching them riff on movies they just watched. Make your own damn review if you need something that badly, geez.
- obvious
  
  Yeah, you got the joke…
  - Duckler
    
    That’s the problem, it’s always the same regurgitation of RLM jokes… it’s old.

http://www.facebook.com/dathan.nrysdale Dathan Nrysdale

Did either of you guys see Hit and Run this year? Of the few movies I saw this year, it was probably the one I enjoyed the most. I would say that about Prometheus, but that movie made my brain hurt too much to say it was the one I enjoyed the most.

Mckay

Didn’t expect this, thanks. Glad somone liked JB, like you, I didn’t care for it, too long and boring. Wanted to see Argo, and Flight and Ted are a rent.

tarantino is a fraud

Even more of dicksucking :->.

Famous_Original_Feigenbaum

For what Jay said in this one I’ll swallow.

totalllyserriousssbusssinessss

“There’s no rules.”

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO RULES ??? O.o ?????

Alex Three

I had hoped y’all saw Les Mis! It was effing terrible. But everyone gets an Oscar.

http://www.facebook.com/balo.timar Baló Timár

I liked Anne Hathaway in it, but somebody really, really should tell Russel Crowe that he can’t sing for shit.
deerstop

I loved Russel Crowe’s performance in it.

i_spit_hot_fire

I really liked “Jackie Brown,” but the pair of “Kill Bill” films was the shit. Also, I love Family Guy and some of the Cleveland Show, but I wasn’t into “Ted.” It wasn’t funny, and the one pop-culture reference that was almost a payoff (the “Flash Gordon”-fandom of Wahlberg) ended up dominating the movie for no reason, and if you’ve never seen “Flash Gordon” (like myself, never have, don’t want to), you get lost quickly.

deggen

Have to agree with the boys. Tarantino’s artistic career is like a bell curve that peaks midway through Jackie Brown. I can even give you the exact scene. Just after he gets Beaumont into the trunk, Samuel puts on the gloves and the music starts up. From that point on, it’s been an increasing decline, though in terms of box office, it doesn’t seem to matter.

Zurkon

To bad you didnt bring up “Life Of Pi”, was really looking forward to hear your thoughts on this movie

tso

you should review a fantastic fear of everything. conflicting as hell, that one

Orange_Wedge

Fart joke of the year definitely goes to The Master. Only PT Anderson could throw a colossal ass blast into the greatest scene of the year.

capitandelespacio

You, midwesterns frauds! Where’s the Star Trek V review?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Mads-Frederik-Toft/607603878 Mads Frederik Toft

American hostages in Iran, and not Iranian hostages.

alfaecotangoromeo

Any comments on the spill.com attack to django unchained?

thechillerdewd

Lol, same humor as Mike. ^^ The funniest moment I remember from watching TED was the fart scene, when Mila Kunis walks out on that douchy guy.

Marvin Falz

I miss Rich Evans and I love Jackie Brown the movie. I’m not a fan of gory stuff. (I prefer subtle horror like The Care Bears in Rainbow Land.) Jackie Brown’s the only Tarantino movie I like to watch from beginning to end. Pulp Fiction wouldn’t have this strong appeal to me without Jules’ miracle conversion and the powerful Bible verse. Tarantino invented a master piece with his Bible verse and the Jules character. So I usually skip most parts of Pulp Fiction.

One detail in Jackie Brown I’d like to pick out now is the end of this movie. Jackie just left and Max Cherry’s trying to avoid his feelings of sorrow and in the last moment you see that his emotions start to take over and then you’re on your own with your imagination. Is he crying? Why is he crying? Is it only the pain of separation from Jackie or is it maybe older pain, pain he was trying to avoid for a longer time, a pain he was rationalizing away? That’s just one little detail that makes the movie so great.

justme

Jackie Brown? I cannot remember anything….just the nice music that carried the whole intro.

Anna

I love everything about Red Letter Media…. that is all. Your reviews are accessible and non-pretentious, but also not pandering. Very genuine and and genuinely entertaining. I learn things (i.e. the frames per second explanation/demonstration in the Hobbit review.) My fiancé laughs at me because every time I’m doing some menial task, I have one of your reviews/shorts in the background. If you need any help promoting anything in Louisiana, hit me up (I already donate.) In short… thank you for your awesome work!

Don Crux

Quintin Tarantino is a faggot manchild and one day I am going to hunt him down and expose his tiny penis.

sweetsadness

I love you two guys but I just don’t get how few films – relatively – you have seen for film buffs. I’ve seen more films, it seems, than you and I’m a nobody.

Kalle

Hey, in all honesty a lot of the jokes that you do on your show are “non jokes” ackward pauses and all that…

Leo

I’m sure they know that. That’s why Mike did that stuff with the party noise makers at the end, I would imagine.
Bill Clinton’s Saxophone

They’re not jokes, but it is comedy. Pop culture references are neither.

Rick_Berman

If you laughed when “extras” popped up in the beginning of this episode then you will like Ted.

againagain

What was that heart-warming goo?

JimTreacher

Seth MacFarlane is too lazy to write jokes. For example, his “Hitler joke” the other day? It wasn’t even a joke. He just said the word “Hitler” and expected people to laugh. I don’t have anything about Hitler jokes, but at least try to create an actual joke around it.

Thank you, Mike and Jay. References are not jokes.

Omegasmash

For me, Ted was basically a Family Guy episode in theaters. It had all the elements of a FG episode (the “jokes”, the pop culture references and appearances, the way some of the scenes played out, hell even the music), yet it was actually entertaining. Mainly because, at least for me, the characters were actually likeable and the relations between them pretty good and believable to a certain extent.

miles

you guys could talk a little more about moonrise kingdom, the part in the spiderman review was a little short and its my favorite movie this year. keep it up though guys

bRUNOMARS

CAN YOU GUYS MAKE A WORST OF VIDEO?!!?

bRUNOMARS

WORST OF 2012

Meester Smeeth

Hey, assholes, do more stuff already, please. Thank you.

Flaccid

You did even more recap and you still didn’t do Seven Psychopaths? The fuck guys?

Leo

I enjoyed Ted even though I totally agree with the assessment that there are no jokes really. I found it an entertaining ‘buddy comedy’ and a sort of celebration of 80′s pop culture. The Flash Gordon stuff was a joy to watch. It was pretty much what I expected it to be and that’s fine. Not gonna go down as one of my favourite comedies or anything, but it delivered on what I wanted it to be.

Junk

I really dislike when people suggest that Tarintino should “grow up” and direct more serious films. Why? So he can do what 90% of every other director out there does? He has honed his style of film making to a tee and is entertaining as hell. I see no reason why he should attempt a more mature style of work when his current pulpy, grindhouse style of directing is something the 21st century is sorely lacking.

http://www.facebook.com/adrian.inness Adrian Inness

No, it’s more likely he’ll be like John Carpenter and begin the slow downward spiral into irrelevance. Grindhouse exploitation movies relied on shock value to boost sales. But F-carpet bombing and gory death only shock for so long.
Junk

I don’t see Tarantino trying to shock anybody with the violence in his movies. It is entertaining, stylistic violence. It isn’t like his movies are pure blood baths without soul. He uses action sequences sparingly, but when the action comes, you know it will go out with a huge, bloody bang. It also helps that Tarantino has directed some of the most famous, critically acclaimed and most iconic movies of all time. John Carpenter is a really poor comparison.

WfrtM

The background music.. I can’t listen too it. Maybe my hearing is too good and I get distracted but however much I hate music playing in a café .. having it interfering in something as good as a redlettermedia video is horrible and totally awful. Had to stop watching the first part and now skip this one as well.. please stop. I beg you

Anon

You guys are great, and I love what you are doing. Sorry if you have heard this before..but you realize these adds at the beginning of your videos are putting money in Mr. Lucus’s pocket: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=D265330

http://www.facebook.com/sebastian.geitner.5 Sebastian Geitner

Please write SCHMALTZ without the T!

Jean-Michel

“I don’t really like Serth MacFarlane’s style of comedy” Who does anymore? The first couple of seasons of Family guy were great, but it all went downhill after that, such trash.

Up Up and Away

So maybe one or both of you could explain what’s going on in Four Rooms? I made it past the Witches Coven story before I lost all interest. What should I be looking for here?

melponeme_k

You both liked “Jackie Brown” and I love that. I thought I was the only one who wanted Tarantino to go further in that style. It wasn’t a big hit, and typical Tarantino reaction was just to say to hell with you all. Then he went back to cartoon violence semi-drama comedies.

Oh well. Maybe he’ll surprise us one day.

jsmith0552

The main problem with Jackie Brown is that it followed Pulp Fiction and audiences wanted more of the same. Also (and this does have to be taken into consideration) it features a Black protagonist that is the focus of the narrative and does not really have a white co-star even though there are many other actors in the cast. This is Pam Grier’s movie, and sorry, but mainstream audiences don’t flock to theater’s to see movies that are solely about black people. Even if it is a universal story.

http://www.facebook.com/lukelegere Luke Legere

you liked the town….what

web

funniest line in TED: “Bridgette Jones Something Asshole”

FlyingBustard

That ending cracked me up. Why is it comedy movies don’t make me laugh like these two?

deerstop

I would also recommend a Bradd Pitt movie called Killing Them Softly. It was not great, but it was interesting and sometimes clever.

leeory jenkins

I disagree that the actors in Russian terminator were imitating sounds.
That’s just the result of school english withouth learning in an actual native environment.

jsmith0552

Why does Tarantino get labeled as this blaxploitation filmmaker? True he likes those films and he knows a lot about those films, but he’s only done one film that could be considered paying homage to blaxploitation cinema, and that’s Jackie Brown. Django is more of a hybrid of spaghetti western and blaxploitation and that just came out. He’s definitely a grindhouse director though.