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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jul 11, 2009 20:39:26 GMT -5
I watched the 1994 Oliver Stone picture Natural Born Killers the other day. I've always liked it, but hadn't seen it in years. Some things that struck me...
-Woody Harrelson is amazing, hard to believe the goofball from Cheers became this unstoppable philosopher/monster. Robert Downey Jr and Tommy Lee Jones are note-perfect in their scenery-chewing roles.
-Has their eve been a mainstream movie that took so many stylistic risks? Jump-cuts everywhere, commercials, stock footage, the sitcom-style origin, anime, etc....I thought it was incredibly innovative to use the film itself to get across the world of the characters.
-Due to the umpteen actual psychos who have used this movie as their defense inc ourt ("I seen this movie and it done made me want to shoot people, yer Honor!"), I think it's been sort of buried. It's an incredibly original and innovative look at our culture, which has actually gotten more relevant as time has gone by.
-Awesome soundtrack.
Any other thoughts?
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Jul 11, 2009 20:52:58 GMT -5
I enjoyed the movie a lot. Yeah, it's over the top. But, the media and reality TV is filled with people who make moutains out of mole hills, which makes the satire so dead on, especially today.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Jul 11, 2009 21:28:36 GMT -5
I tried to watch it a few months ago but didn't know that it was that..........uhhhh........I don't even know what to call it. I wasn't expecting the parody off story stuff. is it that way threw the whole movie. I thought it would just be a straight thriller.
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Post by Paul Servo on Jul 11, 2009 21:38:07 GMT -5
-Has their eve been a mainstream movie that took so many stylistic risks? Jump-cuts everywhere, commercials, stock footage, the sitcom-style origin, anime, etc....I thought it was incredibly innovative to use the film itself to get across the world of the characters. HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES had odd cut-aways. KILL BILL V1 had the anime origin (but then again that and NBK were written by Tarantino)
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jul 11, 2009 21:50:00 GMT -5
-Has their eve been a mainstream movie that took so many stylistic risks? Jump-cuts everywhere, commercials, stock footage, the sitcom-style origin, anime, etc....I thought it was incredibly innovative to use the film itself to get across the world of the characters. HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES had odd cut-aways. KILL BILL V1 had the anime origin (but then again that and NBK were written by Tarantino) True, but Kill Bill's anime sequence was just one uninterrupted sequence. NBK throws them in there at random points in the movie, like the viewer is channel-surfing and happens across an anime version of the story.
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Post by erisi236 on Jul 11, 2009 21:53:45 GMT -5
HE'S ALREADY DEAD YOU DICKWEED! I love that line. The "Rodney Dangerfield watches wrestling" has also got to be one of my favourite cinema moments, as well as him being a general dick all the while have the swearing bleeped out for the most part.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Jul 11, 2009 22:15:32 GMT -5
-Has their eve been a mainstream movie that took so many stylistic risks? Jump-cuts everywhere, commercials, stock footage, the sitcom-style origin, anime, etc....I thought it was incredibly innovative to use the film itself to get across the world of the characters. HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES had odd cut-aways. KILL BILL V1 had the anime origin (but then again that and NBK were written by Tarantino) House of 1000 did? I remember maybe one but not a lot.
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Post by Paul Servo on Jul 11, 2009 22:44:39 GMT -5
HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES had odd cut-aways. KILL BILL V1 had the anime origin (but then again that and NBK were written by Tarantino) House of 1000 did? I remember maybe one but not a lot. It seemed like where commercials would go when it would air on TV theyd have some odd cut away with one of the characters saying something
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jul 11, 2009 23:58:28 GMT -5
HE'S ALREADY DEAD YOU DICKWEED! I love that line. Agreed. As I said, Tommy Lee Jones is pure crazy gold in this movie. Even when he's just a head on a stick.
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Post by 4real on Jul 12, 2009 2:29:06 GMT -5
Its one of the weirdest and strangest films I've ever seen. Loved it first time I saw it and still do.
Actually got introduced to it first time in media class, not the whole film mind.
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