Zathura looks like fun.
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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SEAN! He's aliiiiiiive!
Hi Teppy! Yes, I live.
Wow. That's exactly RD.
That's why there was a big stink by cult movie fans when Reservoir Dogs first came out. They felt QT should have at least acknowledged how much plot he took from City on Fire. Chris Gore at Film Threat made it a big issue.
Some of QTs more famous lines have been directly lifted from other movies too. For example, the line in Pulp Fiction by Marcellus: "I'm going to get a hard man with pliers and a blowtorch" comes directly from the 70s crime film Charley Varrick. But not the "get medieval on your ass" part.
Hi Teppy! Yes, I live.
How goes the living, out in the land of starlets and back lots?
It goes okay. Trying to find more work, as the work I have is not enough and also ending soon.
Yeah, the plot of RD is definitely CoF, but I think the jumbled time structure was all QT (well, by way of the Killing, sort of), as was the mixmaster blend of pop culture references, and the great conceit that an undercover cop basically needs to be a really good method actor.
And the casting was cool.
I am a big QT fan. Except the dude should never ever act. REALLY not his forte.
No...he can't be anything but him.
Except the dude should never ever act. REALLY not his forte.
I love his little cameo in Pulp Fiction, but yeah. (He was originally planning to play Pai Mei in KB2, and I can only imagine the train wreck it would have been.)