Sir a second 90s pulp fiction rip off with a great soundtrack that isn’t on Spotify has hit letterboxd(the other one was go! 1999)
There are lot of wrongs in this movie
but it makes every point it tries to make
The main problem with this movie is that you have to compare it to tarantino…and that’s a problem for 2 reasons….one tarantino is objectively great at making movies…two- this is not a tarantino movie.
In reservoir dogs the very first scene is a scene of a guy crying and bleeding…the guy is actually whimpering.
the start point of the movie is that violence is bad and causes pathetic outcomes and as the movie goes on you’re afraid of the violence that’s gonna come
This is the one thing this movie does differently and actually works.
This movie starts with how cool violence is and then doesn’t show any of it for the next half an hour making you wait for it and when it finally happens it comes with dread… you feel tense when it happens… you want it to stop but it’s just keeps on coming.
When it finally stops. there is no guarantee it won’t happen again… you can never ever truly leave the cycle.
this is NOT a tarantino Movie..but the message is the same .
And this what made me be so into the 3rd act I genuinely felt the dread, this the main point of this movie and it does it great.
The things that are bad about this movie are the exact things it tries to copy from pulp fiction instead of being its own movie.
The cutaways don’t contribute anything to the story especially since it’s NOT before the non linear parts of the story… the dialogue while good was to much… it kept coming with no break in pulp fiction there was literally entire scenes where nothing happens. and it helps sets the world feeling and added tension… and the last and main thing this movie does wrong is black culture
tarantino grew up with a mom that had a lot black boyfriends while he himself is not black he grew up with people who were from the culture.
every black man in this movie is stereotypical as hell EVERY SINGLE ONE( i do have to say that pizza guy kind of grew on me)
and while the n words are there to show that the main character has changed and his now falling back to his old habits by Initially not using it but than getting back to his old self from the flashbacks by using it.
half of the times they were used it felt like it was just to add a “cool and edgy” vibe to the movie…and it just felt weird and a little racist.
Unlike pulp fiction which in my opinion wasn’t racist (I’m a white Jewish dude so take that with a grain of slat)
Sir a second 90s pulp fiction rip off with a great soundtrack that isn’t on Spotify has hit letterboxd(the other one was go! 1999)
There are lot of wrongs in this movie
but it makes every point it tries to make
The main problem with this movie is that you have to compare it to tarantino…and that’s a problem for 2 reasons….one tarantino is objectively great at making movies…two- this is not a tarantino movie.
In reservoir dogs the very first scene is a scene of a guy crying and bleeding…the guy is actually whimpering.
the start point of the movie is that violence is bad and causes pathetic outcomes and as the movie goes on you’re afraid of the violence that’s gonna come
This is the one thing this movie does differently and actually works.
This movie starts with how cool violence is and then doesn’t show any of it for the next half an hour making you wait for it and when it finally happens it comes with dread… you feel tense when it happens… you want it to stop but it’s just keeps on coming.
When it finally stops. there is no guarantee it won’t happen again… you can never ever truly leave the cycle.
this is NOT a tarantino Movie..but the message is the same .
And this what made me be so into the 3rd act I genuinely felt the dread, this the main point of this movie and it does it great.
The things that are bad about this movie are the exact things it tries to copy from pulp fiction instead of being its own movie.
The cutaways don’t contribute anything to the story especially since it’s NOT before the non linear parts of the story… the dialogue while good was to much… it kept coming with no break in pulp fiction there was literally entire scenes where nothing happens. and it helps sets the world feeling and added tension… and the last and main thing this movie does wrong is black culture
tarantino grew up with a mom that had a lot black boyfriends while he himself is not black he grew up with people who were from the culture.
every black man in this movie is stereotypical as hell EVERY SINGLE ONE( i do have to say that pizza guy kind of grew on me)
and while the n words are there to show that the main character has changed and his now falling back to his old habits by Initially not using it but than getting back to his old self from the flashbacks by using it.
half of the times they were used it felt like it was just to add a “cool and edgy” vibe to the movie…and it just felt weird and a little racist.
Unlike pulp fiction which in my opinion wasn’t racist (I’m a white Jewish dude so take that with a grain of slat)
