Reservoir Dogs

[Dillinger]

Is there anyone who hasn't seen this movie?

I can't wait to buy the new Special Edition DVD that goes on sale in a week!

Here are a few things that perhaps you don't know about this movie:

• Quentin Tarantino was originally going to shoot the film in black and white with his buddies for $10,000. But then a friend got the script to Harvey Keitel, who decided he wanted to star in it, and eventually helped secure the final $1.2 million budget.
• Eddie Bunker, who played Mr. Blue, was best known as a writer. He was also a criminal who, after being convicted of armed robbery in the '50s at age 17, became the youngest person ever sent to San Quentin. Tarantino loved Bunker's autobiography, Dog Eat Dog, so much that he even named the company producing Resevoir Dogs Dog Eat Dog Productions.
• In real life, the warehouse where everyone meets is actually a morgue. If you look closely, you can see Mr. Blonde is sitting on a hearse and there are several shots of coffins wrapped in plastic. Tarantino swears the choice was unintentional and that he just preferred the warehouse look of the buildings interior.
• Grossing less than $3 million at the US box office, the film didn't have its popularity surge until hitting home video. In fact, the sountrack, which featured classic rock songs like "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Stuck in the Middle with You," netted more than the movie itself earned domestically.
• Studios bombarded Trantino with offers to direct their movies after hearing the post-Resevoir Dogs hype. Those movies included Speed, which was originally supposed to be an independent-type action flick, and Men in Black, which Tarantino didn't even bother reading!

Can you imagine what a Tarantino directed MEN IN BLACK would have been like? Anyone care to expound on that? *lol*

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

Probably like "Dusk til Dawn"

 

[Dillinger]

I love DUSK TIL DAWN. First DVD I ever bought - and I bought it before I even owned a DVD player!

And the dance Salma Hayak does in that movie is one of the sexiest things I've ever seen (uh - until the end, of course).

 

[WaxNWane]

Tarantino just had the guys come in their own black suits. Buscemi only had black jeans...Madsen had no dress shoes, so he ad-libbed with cowboy boots.

And before shooting, Madsen wanted to be Mr. Pink, not Mr. Blonde. Blasphemy.

 

[HeavyStick]

That's good info about Quentin Tarantino, thanks for sharing.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...............

Mike Madsen!

 

[red_rose]

Can you imagine what a Tarantino directed MEN IN BLACK would have been like? Anyone care to expound on that? *lol*

Everyone would have died in the end.

 

[Ezzie]

I've seen From Dusk til Dawn, but, I have yet to see Reservoir Dogs. Maybe I'll buy it without renting it first. Oh how I love Quentin Tarantino's warped mind.

I'm so behind in my movies.

 

[christo]

A couple of questionsn about "Dogs". How does Mr. Brown, the guy Tarantino plays, die? One second he's driving the getaway car, a little cut on his forehead, and the next second he's slumped over the steering wheel, dead. Huh?

And at the end, the crooks all have guns pointed at each other. Keitel has his gun pointed at Joe, the guy who hatched the caper. Joe has his gun pointed at Tim Roth. Joe's son, played by Chris Penn, has his gun pointed at Keitel. So, at the end, when everyone starts shooting, how is it that they ALL get shot? No one is pointing a gun at Penn. Don't get it.

Tarantino has to be one of the great disappointments of recent movie history. "Resevour Dogs" was a good movie, as was "Pulp Fiction". He had an interesting style, and I looked forward to his movies. Movies that never arrived. "From Dusk Till Dawn"...didn't see it. "Jackie Brown"...didn't see it. Hardly heard of either of them, and I'm a big Elmore Leonard fan.

One big problem is that it seems that Tarantino wants to be an actor as well as a writer/director, and, to be honest, QT is arguably the worst actor I've ever seen. I mean, he's DREADFUL. He was terrible in "Dogs". He came damn close to ruining "Pulp Fiction". The ten minutes I watched of "From Dusk to Dawn" I saw on TV I could hardly bear because of him. "Destiny Turns on the Radio"? Baarrrf. Then he appeared in some play on Broadway and got uniformly horrible reviews.

I don't know if he has anything going on right now or not. I don't know if he has the cache to get a movie made anymore. Ten years ago he could've done anything he wanted, he was the enfant terrible of American cinema. Now he's just a guy lots and lots of medicore directors copy in a vain attempt to look hip.

 

[Dillinger]

Re: Re: Reservoir Dogs

Everyone would have died in the end.

Oh hell - it would have been better than that. Will Smith would have had all his fingers bitten off by one of those tiny aliens and there'd be lots of vampires and stuff. And a few psychos who preferred to bludgeon the aliens rather than shoot them.

 

[Lasher]

"From Dusk til Dawn" isn't a Quentin Tarantino film. He got a writing credit, and an exec produer credit, and of course played Richard Gecko, but the movie was directed by Robert Rodriguez, which would make it a Robert Rodriguez Film.

 

[Nefarious]

Ever seen "Four Rooms"?

The movie follows Tim Roth as a bellboy who is on his first night on the job, which just happens to be New Years Eve. The movie follows the activities going on in four different rooms in the hotel, and each story has a different director. Tarantino directs the final story, and it will leave you cringing and screaming "Oh, that is So FUCKED UP!!!". Not completely a Tarantino flick, but a good segment!

 

[Dillinger]

"From Dusk til Dawn" isn't a Quentin Tarantino film. He got a writing credit, and an exec produer credit, and of course played Richard Gecko, but the movie was directed by Robert Rodriguez, which would make it a Robert Rodriguez Film.

Ooops.

 

[Dillinger]

Re: Ever seen "Four Rooms"?

The movie follows Tim Roth as a bellboy who is on his first night on the job, which just happens to be New Years Eve. The movie follows the activities going on in four different rooms in the hotel, and each story has a different director. Tarantino directs the final story, and it will leave you cringing and screaming "Oh, that is So FUCKED UP!!!". Not completely a Tarantino flick, but a good segment!

I will have to look for that one, I haven't seen it.

 

[Worm]

Four Rooms and Pulp are my favorite movies Tarantino had any directing credits on.

 

[RudeNastyAssBitch]

Re: Re: Ever seen "Four Rooms"?

I will have to look for that one, I haven't seen it.

Really!?
You HAVE TA See It! Tim Roth Is A Riot LOL

The Last Room, And The Babysitting Gig Are Pretty Good, But The Nutcase Husband Really Makes My Cry With Laughter.

***** See It!

 

[Dillinger]

Thanks RNAB and Worm - I'm definitely going to have to see this one.

 

[Guest]

 

[Smooth_Operator]

Tarantino wrote or had something to do with True Romance, correct? That one was fun.

"Do I look like a blonde with big tits and an ass that tastes like french vanilla ice cream?"

 

[glamorilla]

weird...i just watched resevoir dogs two nights ago.

great flick.

the best part of true romance was when patricia arquette excalims "that's so romantic" when she finds out christian slater offed her pimp.

 

[Private Vasquez]

I'm such a sucker for a special edition DVD. Besides, who couldn't use a bit of cool blood and gore in their lives? I'm on it!

 

[plaid star]

I have yet to see Resevoir Dogs, my husband loved it and is looking to purchase the DVD.

I just finished watching Pulp Fiction a few minutes ago, one of my favorite movies. I can't wait to buy the DVD.
I'd love to know what is in the briefcase, I know, I know not really plot relative--but I'm just plain nosey.

 

[medjay]

Let's see if I can answer these questions.

A couple of questionsn about "Dogs". How does Mr. Brown, the guy Tarantino plays, die? One second he's driving the getaway car, a little cut on his forehead, and the next second he's slumped over the steering wheel, dead. Huh?

It wasn't a cut on his forehead, he had been shot in the head, driving as he was dying.

And at the end, the crooks all have guns pointed at each other. Keitel has his gun pointed at Joe, the guy who hatched the caper. Joe has his gun pointed at Tim Roth. Joe's son, played by Chris Penn, has his gun pointed at Keitel. So, at the end, when everyone starts shooting, how is it that they ALL get shot? No one is pointing a gun at Penn. Don't get it.

Keitel shot joe first then shot Penn. The action is fast but you can see it if you slow it down.

Tarantino has to be one of the great disappointments of recent movie history. "Resevour Dogs" was a good movie, as was "Pulp Fiction". He had an interesting style, and I looked forward to his movies. Movies that never arrived. "From Dusk Till Dawn"...didn't see it. "Jackie Brown"...didn't see it. Hardly heard of either of them, and I'm a big Elmore Leonard fan.

How can he be a disappointment if you liked the first two and didn't even see the others? Jackie Brown was a critical success and From Dusk till Dawn, while not a Tarantino film, is still a cult classic. You ought to be disappointed in yourself for failing to keep up with the times on these movies.

One big problem is that it seems that Tarantino wants to be an actor as well as a writer/director, and, to be honest, QT is arguably the worst actor I've ever seen. I mean, he's DREADFUL. He was terrible in "Dogs". He came damn close to ruining "Pulp Fiction". The ten minutes I watched of "From Dusk to Dawn" I saw on TV I could hardly bear because of him. "Destiny Turns on the Radio"? Baarrrf. Then he appeared in some play on Broadway and got uniformly horrible reviews.

No comment.

I don't know if he has anything going on right now or not. I don't know if he has the cache to get a movie made anymore. Ten years ago he could've done anything he wanted, he was the enfant terrible of American cinema. Now he's just a guy lots and lots of medicore directors copy in a vain attempt to look hip.

Tarantino is actually in the middle of shooting his latest movie called Kill Bill starring Uma Thurman and David Carradine. This has been big news for several months and it looks as if production will wrap in time for a 2003 release.

 

[lavender]

 

[medjay]

I didn't know he was working on a new movie. I really think he better do something different, because the old Tarantino style just isn't going to cut it anymore. It will seem tired and overdone now.

Kill Bill is actually an action movie starring Uma Thurman as a deadly assassin. He's got a big budget and is doing location shooting all over the world. Also on board are Sonny Chiba and the fight choreographer from the Matrix (sorry I don't remember his name right now). It's an original Tarantino script and promises to be entertaining and comical; perhaps along the lines of Big Trouble in Little China.