... Considered by a considerable number of movie enthusiasts as the “coolest” cinema director ever (I personally think that he is a lot more than just that…), Master Quentin Tarantino had in “Reservoir Dogs” his second directing work, (by many labelled as his debut feature film as a director), ... Read review
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Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) ... more
and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature,Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthroughPulp Fiction,Reservoir Dogshas an...
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Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e. a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) ... more
and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature,Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthroughPulp Fiction,Reservoir Dogshas an...
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and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature,Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthroughPulp Fiction,Reservoir Dogshas an...
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Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Action/Adventure - Director: Gore Verbinski - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Bill Nighy, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Chow Yun-Fat
Advantages: Consistent and intelligent script, memorable performances. Disadvantages: ???!
...“Straw Dogs” (1971) and “the Reservoir movie” as Master Quentin would prefer to call “Au Revoir, Les Enfants” (1987), (he couldn’t pronounce it anyway), Tarantino combines both titles to get “Reservoir Dogs”… His first masterpiece…
Released on the theatres two years earlier than “Pulp Fiction” this movie reveals the geniality of Tarantino as screenwriter and director. When the movie starts, with the pop hymn “Like a Virgin”, ... ...Testament, it’s easy to understand that popular culture will be all around the film. Master Quentin is not an erudite and he doesn’t pretend to be one. He deals with the undeniable aptitude of the images, figures, colours, narratives, and sensations that the XX century’s urban culture “cooked”; The “funky” vibration and that “cool” attitude so oblivious to the gravity of the world, and at the same time so close of what is believable and presumptuous. ... more
Je suis malade.
Last night… 4.30am… Something is wrong with me, I can’t sleep. Tired I am, of trying… With a sudden jump I get out of bed, just to, dizzy, fall straight on the floor. Tripping on myself I manage to stumble to the bathroom and wash my face, and it was then that I realize something is definitely very wrong with me!
I’m not one of those people with an illness addiction, very rarely I get out of my natural physical condition, so, what’s happening to me today…? Deeply staring at myself in the mirror, I remembered a soundtrack that would certainly help me get through this… “Lookin’ back on the track for a little green bag, Got to find just the kind or I’m losin’ my mind”: I’m losing my mind! – Voices wouldn’t stop calling me… “Lookin’ for some happiness, But there is only loneliness to find, Jump to the left, turn to the right, Lookin’ upstairs, lookin’ behind…”
I’m sick.
I can’t walk. The floor is always cold and I, standing there, admiring that climatic stability – “my life is not lost, it isn’t…!” I thought in calling for someone, but it’s too early… this lack of communication makes me feel like that old man without ink left to write uses his own blood to finish the script… My body wants to give up; I don’t have too many minutes left… On a last effort I hold myself to the sofa and turn the TV on… No images though, I turn off the antenna tired of the public TV crap(!), only my movies can save me now, and there it was… smiling for my disgrace, like the eternity could be of any interest for me, and dumb I whispered… “Au revoir, les enfants…”
1992. When everyone’s attention was upon “A Few Good Men”, “Scent of a Woman” and especially “Unforgiven”, “Mr. Brown” was trying to finally finish a movie after the failed attempt with “My Best Friend’s Birthday” (1987). Considered by a considerable number of movie enthusiasts as the “coolest” cinema director ever (I personally think that he is a lot more than just that…), Master Quentin Tarantino had in “Reservoir Dogs” his second directing work, (by many labelled as his debut feature film as a director), and the opportunity to show to the world that a “gangsters” movie doesn’t need an exorbitant budget to be simultaneously a great success in the box office and a classic among its genre.
Inspired by Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” (1971) and “the Reservoir movie” as Master Quentin would prefer to call “Au Revoir, Les Enfants” (1987), (he couldn’t pronounce it anyway), Tarantino combines both titles to get “Reservoir Dogs”… His first masterpiece…
Released on the theatres two years earlier than “Pulp Fiction” this movie reveals the geniality of Tarantino as screenwriter and director. When the movie starts, with the pop hymn “Like a Virgin”, sounding like an interpretation of the Ancient and the New Testament, it’s easy to understand that popular culture will be all around the film. Master Quentin is not an erudite and he doesn’t pretend to be one. He deals with the undeniable aptitude of the images, figures, colours, narratives, and sensations that the XX century’s urban culture “cooked”; The “funky” vibration and that “cool” attitude so oblivious to the gravity of the world, and at the same time so close of what is believable and presumptuous.
With the music of the 70’s he draws a tune and a rhythm to the movie, and with references to Lee Marvin or Charles Bronson, tough among the toughs, he creates a game of mirrors for his own characters, he puts up a plaque as a tribute and typifies their iconophile – where you can fit as well, the film noir, the spaghetti western, the oriental cinema or the comics. Master Quentin loves to tell stories, you’ll pick that straight away in this first movie and you will understand it even better if you take a look to all the other ones or to any interview with the director. The art to narrate is not something simple, is not a democratic faculty. If not a privilege is a vocation. Tarantino, a natural cinephile, shows us he knows quite well that some of his cinema’s historic strength comes from his capacity to create illusions, manipulate expectations, surprise or confuse (the references to Corman or Godard are, in general, an exact illustration of it).
Anyway, six men are hired by a mob boss and his son to carry out an armed robbery to a diamante’s warehouse. However, nothing goes as plan and the six colour-coded men (Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), Mr. Blue (Eddie Bunker) and Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino) are taken by despair and possessed by madness. Not knowing each other the heist should have been perfect, but there’s someone in the “gang” that’s not quite what he looks like…
Intrinsic to the best fiction are always the artificial and the demagogy: the lying truth. And Tarantino knows that more than comfort, the spectator loves the provocation. “Reservoir Dogs” is a movie with a provocative narrative. Recurring to a non-linear style (not flashbacks!), he makes the story go backwards and slow down so he doesn’t push us straight to the abysm. The story starts by the middle and ends up on the right moment: one, two, three, four gunshots and a black screen, echoing the sadness, the pain and the betrayal…
You will soon notice that the characters in this movie talk a lot. They scream, ironize, complain, revindicate, and compromise themselves. It’s not a polished language; it’s a “gang” language, from the streets, from the underground. It even gets to be laughable and sometimes irritant. A dialogue can be a circus number or a texture study, the timber, the speech’s rhythm. The characters fire words with the same aptitude – masculine, heroic and nostalgic – that they pull their guns. They tell stories, loads of them, none really pedagogic though, some even getting very close of the absurd. And realising this you will easily understand how much Tarantino loves the language games. There are people like this, using the verb as a trampoline…
These characters live from their virility, from the ceremonial (just pay attention to the shooting scenes), but I wouldn’t say that the movie transmits an anti-feminist feeling. Maybe it is there, involuntarily, unconsciously, it’s hard to know. There are no feminine characters that I can tell you. But as James Brown would say “this is a man’s world”. Not an insensible one though, otherwise there wouldn’t be the affection, the betrayal, the “dead-end”, the tragedy, that after all is the moral key of the movie. There are several models of the man, and something that unifies them – maybe the honour, the link that shortens any human gathering, as we know from other stories of cops, gangsters or the army. Here, one life may not be worth more than one bullet, but one death may symbolize the integrity of justice – as you will know by the end.
“Reservoir Dogs” is a violent movie without any doubt. Not during or after the movie is it easy to relax. Just focusing on the well-known ear-cutting scene, the violence here is of an intolerable domain, unacceptable really. You will prefer to be blind, to look around, to force the ignorance just to protect yourself; and even knowing that you will not be able to really see it in detail as Tarantino hides it, the image of violence stays, engraved in your mind in a way you can’t claim against...
Among other things, engraved in your memory one more thing will stay: the (photo)graphic elegance of the movie. The contrast between the black suits and the red of the blood; the reference, on the final scene, to a figurative stereotype of the occidental imaginary: Mr. Orange in the arms of Mr. White, emulating pieta; It’s the dramatic density achieved in these long shots that, through real time, allow us to absorb the most subtle detail of every movement or expression; the virtuosity of a phenomenal cast; More than enough to make “Reservoir Dogs” a cult and of Master Quentin a genius of the cinematography.
A final word for the sensational soundtrack, a superb mixture of dialogues and songs from George Baker’s entertaining rock n’ roll in “Little Green Bag” to Joe Tex’s “I Gotcha”. Another special mention to “Stuck in the Middle With You” originally from Bob Dylan, here on a (just) famous version by the Stealers Wheel, and to Bedlam’s killing version of “Magic Carpet Ride” (Steppenwolf) entitled this time “Harvest Moon”. Closing the movie with a golden key there’s Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut”, and by the way, I’m not dying anymore…
Advantages: Quentin at his best Disadvantages: Tim Roth is a dick..
...movies just breathe class and Reservoir Dogs has it all. The cast ******* Harvey Keitel ... Mr. White/Larry Dimmick Tim Roth ... Mr. Orange/Freddy Newandyke Michael Madsen ... Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega Chris Penn ... Nice Guy Eddie Cabot Steve Buscemi ... Mr. Pink Lawrence Tierney ... Joe Cabot Randy Brooks ... Holdaway Kirk Baltz ... Marvin Nash Edward Bunker ... Mr. Blue (as Eddie Bunker) Quentin Tarantino ... Mr. Brown Steven Wright ... K-Billy DJ (voice) ... ...Tim Roth dying in a reservoir of claret, the others at each others throat to find out the rat and who is still breathing, all this with a kidnapped cop in the trunk of the getaway car, about to suffer horrific torture at the sharp end of Mr. Whites razor. When the bosses son in ‘Nice guy Eddie’ (the now deceased Chris Penn) arrive its inevitable someone’s going to get whacked for the current situation. “Are you going to bark all day doggy, or are ...
thedevilinme 20.11.2009 (13.12.2009)
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~ ~ When you mention the name Quentin Tarantino to anyone, the chances are that the film they will associate most closely with this somewhat wacky American film director is the 1994 classic, “Pulp Fiction”. (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson)
But two years before, in 1992, Tarantino wrote and directed another movie of the same genre. A madcap and sadistic gangster movie called “Reservoir Dogs”, which made his name in Hollywood, ... ...phenomenal success of Pulp Fiction.
This movie has always been a particular favourite of mine, and I actually rate it as highly as Pulp Fiction itself. (which I also love) But I hadn’t watched it in a good while, and so decided to rent it on DVD yesterday evening, to enjoy it yet again on my new DVD player and widescreen Dolby Digital TV.
The TV and DVD player did make a huge difference to my overall enjoyment of the movie, far more so that ...
the_mad_cabbie 15.05.2002
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Advantages: Sharp and stylish Disadvantages: Blood and language
...The opening scenes of Reservoir Dogs, like those of Pulp Fiction, are mind bendingly snappy and sharp and usher you breathlessly into the extraordinary world of the mobster lowlife Americana, replete with its f***s etc. In this one as the credits roll we get the sharp dudes in their black suits and ties and shades and white shirts stylishly strding down the street like nothing so much as a more knowing and mature Madness. At least all of them do ... ...felt a bit cheated by Reservoir Dogs, with its relatively shallow fare and overweening obsession with violence, guns and buckets of blood. It's the story of a jewellery robbery which goes bad and the aftermath of violent action and words which befall our hapless little band of foul mouthed hoods. There's an unpleasant and sickening preoccupation with blood and guts and hatred and a blithe disregard for even the most slight of finesse. There's an ...
dave27 26.02.2004
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Advantages: Tarantiono's masterful debut Disadvantages: Can get extremely violent at times, frequent swearing
After purchasing Reservoir dogs a mere week ago on DVD, and subsequently watching it twice, I feel compelled to write an opinion on a film which has left me both enthralled and stunned. The storyline is set around a bungled jewlery store robbery, and the events both leading up to it, and following on from it. Each gangster is assigned a colour, and instructed not to discuss each others personal background so as to minimise the chances of them being ... ...identified in the team.
Reservoir dogs is both powerful and contraversial, and is a thrilling and worthy debut from Tarantino. Tarantino himself makes a brief yet memorable appearance in the film as one of the gangsters, but is killed during the robbery after a tip-off to the police leads to a frantic shootout.
Steve Buscemi makes a fantastic performance as Mr Pink, and Tim Roth makes an accomplished appearance as the undercover cop (Mr Orange) ...
tomhughes78 10.04.2003
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Advantages: Cast, script, direction, just the coolest film ever made Disadvantages: only 1 dissapointment, was a rip off
I have to review this film as for a long time it was my all time favourite and I know it is not for everyone but I knew nothing about this film when I went to watch it on a preview screening when I was a teenager working in a cinema and it blew my socks off. I realised what people who saw the first Coppola, Kubrick or Scorsese film must have felt, wow this is totally original and I want in on the ground floor with this guy Tarantino.
There is one ... ...of this film which is basically a group of criminals that are brought together to pull a bank job, which goes disasterously wrong. The police are waiting for them as soon as they have pulled the job and its clear that someone in the gang has betrayed them to the police. And those that make it out alive or just seriously wounded have a somewhat violent debate about who ratted them out.
Well thats the thread but it does not even scratch the surface ...
gray001 23.02.2005
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Advantages: got three classics in it, special features on all three! Disadvantages: if complex plot and in depth storylines aint your thing its not good!
This boxset is amazing. Containing Jackie brown, Pulp fiction and ReservoirDogs it truly is epic.
Each film is a two disc special edition DVD.
the Special features include:
Interviews
Commentary
Subtitles
Different languages
interviews from MTV(on some)
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(all with commentary form Quentin himself)
The films themselves are all special. Jackie Brown is about a lady(jackie Brown, played by Pam Grier) who gets caught smuggling drugs and money as an airplane assistant. She get lured into a deal ,by two policemen, where it would trap the person who she smuggles for. This is Ordell Robbie(played by Samuel.L.Jackson). He is a dealer in many things. In the film he has just moved from drug dealing to gun dealing. He does anything for money or just to keep himself clean(even killing his friends). Along the way ...
Advantages: Fantastic performances from an utterly sublime cast, memorable dialogue. Disadvantages: One of Tarrantino's earlier films, doesn't contain all the typical Tarrantino features as some of his newer work.
Reservoirdogs, the most quotable film of all time, in my opinion Tarrantino's best, Madsen and Buscemi's best ever roles and including one of the brutal "look away now" scenes in film history.
The storyline follows a group of small time gangsters lead by a cold and heartless character named Joe and his spoilt son Nice guy Eddie, as an attempted heist on a local jewlery store turns into a blood bath.
The soundtrack is full of classics from Little Green Bag to Stuck in the Middle, in fact in the film, all they listen to is a radio station dedicated to playing classic songs from the early 70's and previous.
Performances in this picture are simply stunning. Harvey Keitel is one of my favourite actors here and gives an excellent performance as Mr White a character to look out for and take note off in my view. I feel he doenst ...
Advantages: Steve Buscemi, excellent commentary Disadvantages: Parts that drag
ReservoirDogs is the film that made Quentin Tarantino a cult name. Funded by Tarantinos scripts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers. This was nominated at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.
---Cast---
Harvey Keitel - Mr White/Larry
Michael Madsen - Mr Blonde/Vic
Steve Buscemi - Mr Pink
Tim Roth - Mr Orange/Freddy
Edward Bunker - Mr Blue
Quentin Tarantino - Mr Brown
Chris Penn - Nice Guy Eddie
Lawrence Tierney - Joe
This is a film that is highly violent, amusing and strangely enough with a 70's soundtrack that works well.
To me the standout character in this is Steve Buscemi, who seems to have been gets the Lions share of amusing lines.
Tarantino has character himself who just cracks out memorable lines, with the Madonna 'Like a Virgin' rant and "Mr Brown, that's too much like Mr Shit."
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An audacious high-wire act....[Tarantino] has a gift for writing great bursts of caustic, quirky dialogue... (Los Angeles Times, )
Sometimes dazzling cinematic pyrotechnics and over-the-top dramatic energy....RESERVOIR DOGS features a cast of splendid actors, all of whom contribute equally to the final effect... (New York Times, )
Nothing less than genius (Uncut, )
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Former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut, RESERVOIR DOGS, is a brutally funny, supercharged introduction to his supremely distinct cinematic vision, which was later to become one of the most mimicked styles of the 1990s. Mastermind Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a crew of top-notch criminals to pull off a jewelry store heist. As the film opens it becomes immediately clear that the plan backfired, forcing the survivors, who have gathered at an abandoned warehouse, to figure out if one of them is, in fact, a police informer. The crew Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), an aged veteran; Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), a wounded newcomer; Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), a psychopathic parolee; Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi), a bickering weasel; and Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn), Joe's son begin to unravel as the pressure becomes too much for them to handle. When Joe arrives, the truth becomes clear in a vicious Mexican standoff.Tarantino takes liberally from Hong Kong action flicks, most notably Ringo Lam's CITY ON FIRE, but his ultra-hip '70s soundtrack and hysterical pop culture dialogue make the film seem wholly original and new. Taking a cue from the French New Wave most notably Jean-Luc Godard RESERVOIR DOGS remains one of the decade's most influential motion pictures.
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