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Ah. I've heard some about it but have never seen it. Didn't Kubrick direct Full Metal Jacket? Hated that one. Not saying I wouldn't take a look at it, though. I'll probably go see the second Kill Bill movie today, and I don't much care for Tarantino either and despised Natural Born Killers and didn't sit through all of Pulp Fiction. But I do like swordplay. :-)
Tarantino didn't do NBK, it was Oliver Stone. Since one of NBK's themes was the parodying of movies like Kill Bill (glorification of violence) it makes sense that you'd like one and not the other. You probably won't like Dr Strangelove for somewhat different reasons.
I think John Carpenter did an homage to Slim riding the nuke in his first(?) movie - Dark Star, anybody else remember an astronaut riding a missile, or something equally deadly, in there?
Yeah... had a guy riding a 'planet killer' like a surf board in Dark Star.
Weird synchronicity happened today - Dr Strangelove was on TV this afternoon, shortly after I read the latest posts on this thread.
-- John
Dr. Stranglove! Wow, we just caught part of that Friday night.
Major T. J. "King" Kong: "Well boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on those Rooskies. At this height why thy might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen!"
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And, of course, the famous scene involving the Sgt.'s namesake:
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: "Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there."
Colonel "Bat" Guano: "That's private property."
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: "Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine?! Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!!"
Colonel "Bat" Guano: "Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?"
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: "What?!"
Colonel "Bat" Guano: "You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."
Then there's Dark Star, which for some reason makes me think of Silent Running too.
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My bad... mixed up my directors I guess. Although NBK is a very Tarantino kinda film.
I guess if I didn't like NBK it may actually make more sense if I also disliked Kill Bill. Both have over-the-top violence. Both are frankly quite weird on many levels. I'm not real big on Kill Bill either (especially the second one out right now), but I took a chance because it's a sword movie and I like swordfights. :-) I had to watch NBK as an assignment for a class in college, and it really sucked. I much preferred having to watch Higher Learning as an assignment. Now that was an interesting flick and something everyone should see.
Kill Bill, more particularly the first one, is so extremely over-the-top with the violence that it gets cartoonish. They spout so much blood that you think it would take several bodies to have that much, and it has such a fake quality to it that it becomes funny. It doesn't really gross you out much with the way it was handled. Too cheesy for that.
EDIT: Quentin Tarantino did write the script for NBK but did not direct. I knew it smelled of him. :-)
With all of the Tarantino bashing going on I'd like to state that I like his script writing and directing abilities... very original.
Now, on with the shooooooooo!
Two-thumbs up (and an ear!) for "Resevoir Dogs". Simply the best.