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Pulp Fiction ripoffs gave birth to Boondock Saints so it's ripoffs are worse.
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Aug 31, 2019 19:17
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Philthy posted:I thought Matrix ripped off Blade. Agreed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOP2t9FObw In Matrix 2 they even have a rave but instead of a rave of vampires that suck blood, the film itself sucks.
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Aug 31, 2019 20:20
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Some of you have stronger opinions about Quentin Tarantino movies than I do about major events in my own life
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Aug 31, 2019 20:25
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I'd say Pulp Fiction rip offs are worse since they're cheaper and easier to make, so more abundant, were made longer than Matrix rip offs (probably to this day), they totally miss the point of Tarantino's style of brief, unglorified violence, and that every goddamn student film since was about hitmen. Matrix rip offs were redeemed post withthis wonderful episode of Lasagna Cat. (I haven't seen Equilibrium since high school but it rules.)
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Aug 31, 2019 20:31
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Detective No. 27 posted:I'd say Pulp Fiction rip offs are worse since they're cheaper and easier to make, so more abundant, were made longer than Matrix rip offs (probably to this day), they totally miss the point of Tarantino's style of brief, unglorified violence, and that every goddamn student film since was about hitmen. Tarantino movies are cool usually, but they're also really strange in this sort of way where it's one dude's bizarre but functional thing, very much his own strange mix of obsessions. Its way more cringy to try and copy something like that.
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Aug 31, 2019 20:58
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There was one really bad Pulp Fiction knockoff in the 90s that starred Marky Mark, Benjamin Bratt, and Avery Brooks but I don't care enough to look it up at the moment. Saw part of it months ago on Starz.
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Aug 31, 2019 23:48
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If Lou Diamond Phillips was in it that was The Big Hit, of which I only remember the ending between the two
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Sep 1, 2019 01:05
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It was Lou Diamond Phillips. I thought it was him at first then fell back to Benjamin Bratt but yeah, that's the movie is was thinking of.
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Sep 1, 2019 01:09
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the big poo poo
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Sep 1, 2019 02:32
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Grape posted:A bunch of goons being incredulous that a bunch of late 90's action films are somehow extremely and incompetently influenced by Tarantino is really funny to me. Does this help?  
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Sep 1, 2019 05:38
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The Big Hit is like 1997-98 distilled into its purest essence and then transferred to celluloid. It's an awful trainwreck and a transcendent vision of beauty, with frosted tips and the scent of Axe body spray.
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Sep 1, 2019 07:01
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remember that three musketeers movie that had a bunch of wire work for some reason. that poo poo looked dire. welp im gay c u l8er
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Sep 1, 2019 10:23
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Saint Drogo posted:aren't student films just meant to be competency demonstrations? how do you even end up seeing them if you don't work in a film department? they can also be real movies that are just extremely low budget. for example the super trooper guys made a movie and tried so hard to get it actually published. its called puddle cruiser and they never really got it out there but it did lead to super troopers which got them all jobs eventually.
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Sep 1, 2019 12:33
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Boondock Taints, The Gaytrix, Pump Friction; etc
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Sep 2, 2019 00:46
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star war episode 1 the phantom pennis
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Sep 2, 2019 03:13
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:star war episode 1 the phantom pennis Star Whores Episode 2: Attack of the Boners
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Sep 2, 2019 03:33
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Episode 3: Revenge of the Slit
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Sep 2, 2019 03:35
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This music starts blasting whenever you go to the bathroom at work. Everyone notices it but no one has had the courage to ask what's going on.
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Sep 2, 2019 04:42
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Laterite posted:The Big Hit is like 1997-98 distilled into its purest essence and then transferred to celluloid. It's an awful trainwreck and a transcendent vision of beauty, with frosted tips and the scent of Axe body spray.  Axe wasn’t introduced into the US until 2002.
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Sep 2, 2019 06:02
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The Matrix sequels are pretty much to blame for all the dumb Underworld and Resident Evil movies. The heroine in Resident Evil is named Alice because the writer or whoever was awkwardly shoehorning in Alice in Wonderland references to the script, probably because they were cribbing anything they could from The Matrix.
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Sep 2, 2019 09:46
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:The Matrix sequels are pretty much to blame for all the dumb Underworld and Resident Evil movies. also this loving thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j972H8SnZRs
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Sep 2, 2019 13:47
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That's Ultraviolet which I think was made by the same guy who made Equilibrium. It was very lovely.
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Sep 2, 2019 14:15
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Stink Billyums posted:also this loving thing This makes my cells hurt
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Sep 3, 2019 04:38
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:A bunch of action movies ripping off action scenes and "cool" stuff and film techniques is still infinitely better than movies trying desperately hard to imitate wholesale a very idiosyncratic directorial style. I am kind of drawing a blank on ersatz Lynch movies, what are some examples of this? (TV obviously is a different story with Wild Palms, Northern Exposure, etc.)
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Sep 3, 2019 05:19
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Valko posted:I haven't seen BS either but I did watch the documentary Overnight. It wouldn't surprise me if Troy Duffy casually dropped racial slurs in everyday conversation. That trailer for the documentary just doesn't do justice to how big an rear end in a top hat Duffy is/was. I really just love how Duffy keeps the documentarian around because he is just oblivious to what a prick he is to everyone around him. The guy wears only dirty overalls to a meeting with movie execs who are preparing to write him a seven figure check, then blows off all the follow up meetings to promote with his lovely nu-metal band. It’s an incredible film for fans of train wrecks.
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Sep 3, 2019 06:01
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red19fire posted:I really just love how Duffy keeps the documentarian around because he is just oblivious to what a prick he is to everyone around him. The guy wears only dirty overalls to a meeting with movie execs who are preparing to write him a seven figure check, then blows off all the follow up meetings to promote with his lovely nu-metal band. It’s an incredible film for fans of train wrecks. My favorite part is that after burning his bridges the only distribution deal he could get was one where he didn't make any money off of the DVD release, so even though it became a sleeper hit after the fact he made zero dollars from it.
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Sep 3, 2019 06:08
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Gaunab posted:This music starts blasting whenever you go to the bathroom at work. Everyone notices it but no one has had the courage to ask what's going on. livin' the dream 
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Sep 3, 2019 06:43
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regarding the Boondock Saints/Pulp Fiction connection: Boondock Saints is a movie that basically rips off all of Pulp Fiction's aesthetic trappings, it just uses them to make a dumb action movie instead of a sprawling nonlinear crime epic
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Sep 3, 2019 06:56
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Grape posted:A bunch of goons being incredulous that a bunch of late 90's action films are somehow extremely and incompetently influenced by Tarantino is really funny to me. There's a huge difference between influence and inspiration and ripoff. All of Tarantino's films for example are heavily influenced by his favourite films and directors but they're not ripoffs. I mean so far the best anyone has done is to say that they have two male assassin characters?? This weird strawmanning nonsense you guys keep doing where you respond to arguments we never made is just dumb.
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Sep 3, 2019 08:36
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a hot gujju bhabhi posted:There's a huge difference between influence and inspiration and ripoff. All of Tarantino's films for example are heavily influenced by his favourite films and directors but they're not ripoffs. I mean so far the best anyone has done is to say that they have two male assassin characters?? it's a combo of: "cool" hitman/criminal protagonists without guilt about their crimes dialogue featuring a lot of casual conversation that doesn't advance the plot that may be about pop culture casual & sudden brutal violence lots of swearing classic rock style soundtrack none of those things were original to Tarantino but when there's no movies like that then suddenly dozens of independent filmmakers are making them you go 
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Sep 3, 2019 11:08
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a hot gujju bhabhi posted:There's a huge difference between influence and inspiration and ripoff. All of Tarantino's films for example are heavily influenced by his favourite films and directors but they're not ripoffs. I mean so far the best anyone has done is to say that they have two male assassin characters?? Just watch 2 Days in the Valley and all will become clear.
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Sep 4, 2019 05:54
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Pulp Fiction ripoffs are worse because I'd rather watch a dozen bullet time sequences than a scene where white dudes say slurs because they don't get the joke of that one scene in Pulp Fiction.
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Sep 4, 2019 06:06
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Sleeveless posted:Pulp Fiction ripoffs are worse because I'd rather watch a dozen bullet time sequences than a scene where white dudes say slurs because they don't get the joke of that one scene in Pulp Fiction. What was the joke?
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Sep 4, 2019 11:06
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the joke is that question tarantula really, really, really likes to say the n word with impunity, or have his characters say it
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Sep 5, 2019 23:51
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The Clowner posted:the joke is that question tarantula really, really, really likes to say the n word with impunity, or have his characters say it What a strange joke
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Sep 6, 2019 00:06
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The joke is that in a movie full of cool badasses the directer has a cameo as a loser.
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Sep 6, 2019 01:06
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