Studio executives summary / pitch
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| Quentin
Tarantino's color
coded bloody
Mother F-worder fest. |
Short plot
summary |
|
A robbery goes
wrong as police have infiltrated the hand picked, color coded group. Cast:
Mr. White/Lawrence 'Larry' Dimmick (Harvey Keitel),
Mr. Orange/Freddy Newandyke (Tim Roth), Mr. Blonde/Vic
Vega (Michael Madsen), Nice Guy Eddie Cabot (Chris
Penn), Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), Joe Cabot
(Lawrence
Tierney). |
Rating |
| Adult:
Contains the N****r word, recommended for f-word connoisseurs, blood warning,
cutting ear off with a razor warning, 1970's music warning. Contains moments of
cop abuse. |
What our
panel of critics thought |
|
"F-word
f-word f-wordity f-word this n-word-dy biatch! Quentin, does this pass as humor
where you come from? I washed my ears out with soap and water after watching this
movie. A delight from start to f-wording finish, f****t." "Mr
Blond reminds me of my Chemistry teacher at school." "Mr
Pink looks like my dentist." "Made
back in the days when cell phones were all the size of small bricks. Smaller than
the pavement slab sized phones used in Wall Street
but still as heavy as a dumbbell - no wonder Nice Guy Eddie had such well developed
upper arms." "Nice
movie, Quentin, but your plot goes all over the place. Does your word processor
have a 'cut and paste this plot' feature? You will be relieved to hear I do not
want my money back this time, but if any of your other movies do this I will ask
for it then with interest." |
Please tell me the ending
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| It
is not clear if Police Officer Mr Orange is dead or not. The police arrive at
the end and Mr White seems to be hit, presume Mr Pink gets it too, but not sure...
everyone else dies. |
Justify
this movie's existence in the classic strand. From
theVoiceof Reason.com's f-wording Veritable Cornucopia |
| Nothing
less than a moment of f-wording modern movie history. This movie serves as a high
water mark for modern movie making, the likes we had not seen before, and afterwards
the term pre/post Tarantino entered our f-wording movie lexicon for f-wording
ever man. To
be f-wording honest f****t, the blood is a little too mother f-wording much at
times, and some of the scenes gruesome to video nasty standards of tolerance,
but that put to one f-wording side, then this movie f-wording rocks. Pulp
Fiction is still our favorite Taran-F*****G-tino effort, but this one is good
in a redder, gooier, sense. A
vicious and yet f-wording enjoyable romp in the be-suited underworldlian Los Angeles
gangster land. Well
acted, a nicely non linear plot and an ear amputation of mesmerizing psychoticness.
The ending, where three of them all kill themselves at once, is also interesting,
although probably this is a tribute to some other movie. (If any reader gets the
movie references please let me know and I'll put them up on this review.) |
Quotable
quotes (real) |
"Why
am I Mr Pink?" - "Because you're a f****t!"- "Why
can't I be Mr Purple?" "I
don't tip." "You
shoot me in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize." |
If
I were to watch this at home how best should I sit? |
|
In the tomato
ketchup all over your shirt position of pain. |
Could this
movie be improved with more blood? |
|
Short of swimming
in a tank filled with blood, not likely. This movie is not for the blood hater,
and has become a fetish movie for vampires ("The Budweiser
of movies" - Vampire Today) and blood lickers the world over. The
moment of ear cutting offage is brutally effective, but, sadly, we don't get to
see the blade go in, a disappointment. |
How pro-gangster
is this film? |
|
Gangster fashion
is well catered for, with the now classic black suits with white shirts, black
tie and sunglasses in abundance throughout. There's
a lot of cop hating, cop splicing and cop killing here. |
Would your
pets enjoy this movie? |
|
It
is a dog nightmare to go for a slow motion walk, which this movie is famous for.
Dogs will hide their eyes under their paws at times and whine. Cats
like Mr Pink and may attempt an impression of him at times during the movie. Tropical
fish in tanks may swim on their backs with joy during the blood scenes as it looks
nicely moist. |
Are there enough sunglasses in this movie? |
|
A sunglasses
convention would have been poorer served. Did they have a promo deal for this
movie? |
How much would
you pay for a copy of this movie in goods? |
|
Three pints
of fake blood. |
Does this movie offer a male bonding sub text to viewers? |
| A
moment of wrestling in the office mayhem, but only references to cock suckage,
no actual examples given. However
Mr Blond IS a foxy chick, if a little too psychotic. |
Other comments
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| A
bona fide classic, if a little too bloody and gory at times. Well written, cast
and filmed. The
dialogue is very witty, and the movie withstands repeated viewings, the sign of
a real classic. Don't
miss it, although, if you have a blood thing, miss it. See
also Pulp Fiction. |
Date of Review |
| June
2, 2003. |