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[tim elliott]

I believe that would be 'Death Proof'
tim 8>)...


On 1/17/08, mike coleman <insect.brain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Michael, no these are quite american Quintan Tarantino films, and the
> first
> one about the insane lady-basher driver should appeal quite nicely to your
> jaded self
> you'll love the end, I know I did.....(I bitched through most of the
> movie,
> just like I bitch at almost everyone about everything)
> I'll find out the titles, eventually
> you must see that one though, it's bad-good
>
> On 1/17/08, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > mike coleman writes:
> >
> > > M wrote:
> > > > Well, while he's no great actor, and the movies tend to be very
> > > > formulaic, they are at least mostly fun. I particularly liked "Under
> > > > Siege" which they might as well have called "Die Hard on a Ship".
> >
> > > >True. His movies have something that makes them far more fun to watch
> > than
> > > >the works of van Damme, or Stallone, for that matter
> >
> > > *and then recently, enterTarantino: what was the one with Russell
> where
> > he
> > > bashes women up to death in his race car???
> >
> > I must have missed that one. Is it one of those movies with
> > incomprehensible black street patois? I always switch those off in the
> > first five minutes. It's hard enough to grok yank accents without them
> > not even speaking English. There oughta be subtitles I tell ya.
> >
> > > and then the other one with
> > > aliens where Tarantino himself has a dripping-off private part???*
> > > now that's SUPERBAD
> >
> > Hmmmm.  You're not thinking of "Battlefield Earth" which is based on
> > Scientology god L.Ron Hubbard's book and in which John Travolta (the
> > actor and not the Director Tarantino) had some sort of thing dripping
> > from his nose for the entire movie? I suspect it was supposed to be
> > breathing apparatus but it could have been his Operating Thetan for all
> > I cared.
> >
> > If so, I saw it as part of a comedy show in which three folks talk us
> > through the movie like the robots in Mystery Science 3000. A lot of fun
> > was had because this is a movie that is so bad that it's entertaining
> > *as* a bad movie (as is Armageddon because of the abysmal science
> > therein).
> >
> > Compare and contrast with "Kill Bill". I was assured by several people
> > that this was a great movie. I watched at least 45 minutes and damn near
> > lost the will to live I was so bored. The acting was so dire, the plot
> > so hackneyed, and the action sequences so dull, that it wasn't even
> > interesting as a bad movie. I've seen porn that's had a better script.
> >
> > I do watch a lot of telly though. Maybe I'm just fussy. Certainly not a
> > lot of people agree with my movie reviews on facebook (feel free to
> > try...)
> >
> > FoFP
> >
>



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