Did they boo? Sorry...one-track mind.
Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike ,'Lineage'
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erikaj - Aug 18, 2009 11:16:00 am PDT #3747 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Strega - Aug 18, 2009 1:47:25 pm PDT #3748 of 30000
I think I remember that the Cannes version was an early rough cut. But I always enjoy Tarantino so we'll see it this weekend.
And both of the above reviews confused me for different reasons, but this bit from Denby really jumped out:
Tarantino has gone past his usual practice of decorating his movies with homages to others. This time, he has pulled the film-archive door shut behind him—there’s hardly a flash of light indicating that the world exists outside the cinema except as the basis of a nutbrain fable.
This time?
DavidS - Aug 18, 2009 2:04:38 pm PDT #3749 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This time?
Seriously. The list of "homages" in Pulp Fiction runs to like sixty pages. But if people haven't seen HK classics like City on Fire or 70s grit like Charley Varrick they'll never know.
Ditto for Kill Bill and Death Proof.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 18, 2009 4:16:20 pm PDT #3750 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And he's not exactly shy about acknowledging them, either. He want necessarily volunteer them (though he does on some), but if they get noticed he'll talk all day about them.
DavidS - Aug 18, 2009 4:24:20 pm PDT #3751 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The one that always hauled me up short was the "hard men with pliers and a blow torch" line that he stole from Charley Varrick.
Dana - Aug 18, 2009 4:47:17 pm PDT #3752 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Tonight's DVD is Underworld 3.
That's a whole lot of British actors doing terrible things for a paycheck.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2009 4:51:48 pm PDT #3753 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently Kate Beckinsale is returning to the franchise for the next one.
Dana - Aug 18, 2009 5:01:35 pm PDT #3754 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Bill Nighy in particular should be ashamed of himself.
quester - Aug 18, 2009 5:08:55 pm PDT #3755 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Bill Nighy in particular should be ashamed of himself.
British actors have no concept of this. Think in Michael Caine in Blame it on Rio.
Dana - Aug 18, 2009 5:10:55 pm PDT #3756 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's not his presence in the movie. It's the way he's chewing his way through the styrofoam castle.