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It’s also worth mentioning that he wrote Reservoir Dogs in 2 weeks.
I thought he did a workshop at Sundance to develop it and that's how he got all that talent? I could be misinformed.
Led Zeppelin claimed they wrote Stairway to Heaven in 5 minutes... These things should probably be taken with a grain of salt, I think :)
@@runi5413 True, but sometimes inspiration just hits you and you can crank it out.
@@runi5413 1 like just for the idiom 😊
@@runi5413 They stole the best parts of the song in maybe five minutes. And he borrowed very heavily from a Chinese film, "City On Fire." With that template, two weeks is believable. I still love this film.
YOU'RE GONNA BE OKAY SAY THE GODDAMN WORDS
I'm gonna fucking die man. I'M GONNA FUCKING DIE
Miguel Campos ARE YOU A DOCTOR?
DO YOU HAVE A DEGREE IN MEDICINE?
ARE YOU A DOCTOR? Answer me please ARE YOU A DOCTOR?
NO!
Reservoir dogs is literally timeless that film could be rewatched In 50 years and still be just as good
It's also literally a rip-off of a movie called "City on Fire".
@@HarryBuddhaPalm Basic plot is similar, but the structure, style of storytelling & themes explored are much different. Just because something is inspired by another work, doesn't mean it's a rip off.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm Yeah but it's better soooooooo
I, a 19 year old guy, watched it for the first time ever and I loved it. So I guess yeah, it aged well :) I didn't get some references but the style of writing and shooting the movie were amazing by today's standards
Leftists will ban it one day.
the diner scene is great in its own right as it shows you how all the characters act later on mr orange rats out pink to joe as he is a rat. mr pink is only concerned about himself and thinks about his own survival first over everyone else, why he is the only survivour. mr white sticks up for the waitresses which shows that he will stick up for mr orange at the end. mr brown and blue arent important
Mr Blue seemed like completely out of the picture..Why did he include that character? And why did he choose an old man to play the character?
Psaikodelik because Quentin was a fan of Edward bunker aka mr blue he was in San Quentin in real life
Not to mention, Mr. Blonde, when asked to shoot Mr. White, gleefully pantomimes shooting him, foreshadowing his violent outburst that sends the whole job into a tailspin.
Mr Brown talks about pain (in the context of sex) and dies a painful death.
I'm pretty sure Mr. Pink are it when he went outside.
My buddy grew up in LA. Quentin worked at his local video store when he was younger. He said he was like the Comic book store guy from the Simpsons except with movies.
Quentin is insane. He's a guy who learned how to make movies by watching movies.
@@trequor crazy. I learned to talk by listening! (not to discredit Quentin, because he's amazing, but that's how you usually learn).
@@corbeau-_- Yeah but most people go to school for it.
@@trequor After he became famous, Quentin was asked if he went to movie school. His reply was "No, I went to movies."
My coworker literally described him as the same way without knowing him though
5:53 I kinda like the amateur and homemade feel of Reservoir Dogs, it kinda makes the characters feel more real for me.
Yeah definitely. It's a very grounded and realistic feeling film
Isn't it the same for Chungking Express? :)
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It's his most realistic film by far.
I disagree that Reservoir dogs is in anyway inferior to Tartantinos later films. It´s remains the standard by which all the others are judged and is more intense, less self indulgent and "baggy" than all his others.
It's my favorite.
Kill Bill is the worst imo, at least when it comes to self-indulgence and bagginess.
@@tsarnicholasii274 totoally agree! It´s still enjoyable but veryvflawed and nowhere near as good as Dogs!
@@extremetee Yeah... I hate it when people excuse pointless, ugly choices and attribute it to Tarantino just being a genius.
He simply said that it was the most amateur, in regards to whether today’s audiences would receive it if it were released today. He didn’t say it was an inferior film.
I wish I had a friend who was this obsessed with movies
@opap95 NobOdY UndeRStAnDs mY tYpE oF mOvIeS
same here man
I am that friend lmao
Been looking for a friend who is obsessed with rock music. Never met one
same 😭😭
The album-analogy is genius.
CB I like those too. Especially the zeppelin reference
Everything is genius to you people.
Profile so why are you here?
@@Profile.4 you comment in genius
Bro what's the song that played at the end of the video?
Too bad you never get to see the actual heist. But the movie would've lost its novelty if you did see it.
@Matt Dursse I played it. You STILL couldn't see the actual heist, just a bit more of the aftermath.
Its better not seeing the heist, it works better in the script
In case you are all still interested, a Reservoir Dogs heist has been released for this amazing game you've probably already heard of, Payday 2. (The game itself takes massive inspirations from movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Heat, Oceans Eleven, Point Break, The Town, Hardcore Henry etc) I'm glad to report that the heist is bloody FANTASTIC for both Payday and Reservoir Dogs fans, one of the best heists in all of Payday 2, it's THAT good and it's free for everyone that owns Payday 2. (I'm mentioning the fact that it's free because there are a lot of paid DLC that i can't really blame the devs for making, they're kinda struggling financially speaking and some DLC uses licenced material like Scarface or John Wick for example)
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Also they made the movie on a tight budget, a scene with actual heist would've cost a lot more, probably.
For his first film Tarantino sure had a lot of star power. How does he get all that on his first run?
Most of them werent stars at the time.
i think somehow Harvey Keitel got the script and loved it and he helped out and became a producer of the film
SDRW He MADE them stars.
there is an interview on youtube where tarantino explains how he managed to get all these actors
SDRW Harvey Keitel was the only big start at the time
Now I wanna know did this video of “Has Reservoir Dogs aged well” age well? After nearly two years since it was uploaded.
Didn't even notice that so yes...I guess?
Now I wanna know did this comment asking "Has Reservoir Dogs Aged Well age well?" aged well after 6 months of being posted?
Mickey O'Neil my question is does your comment about this Mans comment on based on this other guys video still hold up 3 weeks later
@@theyoungmoviegoer5915 3 weeks later, my comment asking if the comment has aged well which was originally asking if the commenters question of "Has Resevoir Dogs Aged Well" aged well? Well yes, I'd say my comment asking if the comment has aged well....aged well.
@@mickeyoneil3571 I wanted to continue your rythm but im not clever enough
I saw this movie for the first time in 2015. It totally engrossed me and made me watch every Tarantino film. So yes it still works
The Bacons same thing happened to me. I still prefer this movie to pulp fiction.
I know what you mean happen to me when i was 18 in 2010. Been a fan ever since. Loved once apon a time..
Yep this one made me watch all of Tarantino's stuff
I think I saw it in 2015 too maybe early 2016
The Bacons I’m just watching it this year
Saying this as a 17-year-old who saw it for the first time, I'd say this aged pretty damn well.
Damn, just finished watching the movie. 17 gang baby.
Just finished watching the movie as well, 17 haha
17 here, bloody great movie
Me too. Although I thought it was ok not great. Just my opinion
Same here 💀 17 as well
This movie... ill tell you, is unlike ANYTHING ive seen nowadays. With a runtime less than average movie released today, which would be about around 2+ hours, this movie is one hell of a rare gem to only need 100 minutes of runtime to be this good... I cant even take my eyes away from the movie as every sequence of this movie is so interesting and engaging. You can understand the personality, the pressure and even the feeling the characters were feeling as the story moves forward to the end, and the way it ends just makes me smile in shocked. Its hard to analyze what the story is about as im not a movie analyzer, but i can tell myself one thing. Watch more of this addicting shit.
I can't believe it took me this long, but I finally watched RD today. I was sleep-deprived and half-awake the entire day, but as soon as I hit play on the movie I felt like some energy started coursing through me.
Same. Long day, decided to watch RD, wow I'm awake and now looking at YT movie essays.
I love your channel and respect your work immensely, but I have to defend Carl Franklin. He's an immensely talented craftsman who is still balling on television ("House of Cards", "Homeland", "The Leftovers" to name a few). He didn't set the world on fire like Tarantino, but "One False Move" and "Devil in a Blue Dress" are near masterpieces. Keep up the exceptional work.
Brandon Prieto Was literally going to make the same comment.
agree, Franklin's a very good director.
For wht it's worth, at least nerdwriter1 wasn't wrong about the fact that the average moviegoer doesn't know who he is. While Tarantino's one of those auteur directors who you go to see based on his name alone, Carl Franklin definitely isn't - at least for mass audiences (I've never heard of him).
Yeah, I was just about to go in! Glad I'm not the only one. After One False Move and Devil in a Blue Dress, his career went the path of most great black directors at the time. He found it hard to get their films made, so he ended up directing great TV. Allison Anders & Nick Gomez both directed one other exceptional film, then transitioned to directing some great TV.
I agree. Especially with One False Move. That is a truly underrated movie. And one of Bill Paxton's best roles.
I'm currently in the process of writing my first script. And the first thing I did when I thought "I wanna write a movie!". Was to figure out the feel of the movie... through songs. And I did just that, I chose 12 songs and arranged them to fit the tone I want to get across, picturing full scenes, but in the back of my mind I'm like "I'm doing this all wrong! No movie starts from song arrangement!" so it's a bit of a relief to see that Tarantino himself seems to do something similar.
I'm a scriptwriter myself and one of the most important things I learned when studying it at University was that there isn't really a "right way" or a "wrong way". For every book that tells you how to write a script properly, there's a writer or director saying that they do it another way. Whatever way works best for you really. Remember, nobody has this stuff figured out, because if they did, there'd be more amazing films. The irony is that the majority of successful people in this world feel like they're imposters in some way. As long as you write whatever you want to write, and do it with enthusiasm, and you like what you write, then there's enough people in the world that also like what you like and they'll flock to you and your work.
Josue Peña THATS EXACTLY WHAT I DO
Josue Peña Sorry but I think that's a bad idea as the final product is bound to be way too choppy. I say you write from images. Photographs of empty streets and Peter Doig, or Edward Hopper paintings get me going best. Then you can explore what's behind the image whilst making it your own too.
Don't tell yourself not to do something because no one else does.
I agree that there is no right or wrong way to create art, but I would encourage you to grab your songs later in the process. Start with characters and some kind of personal crisis between those characters. Then you have a basic story, and movie's are about stories. Your songs will help you with your expression of that story, but not with the story itself.
Oh man, overlaying that Zepp opening with the bleeding in the backseat scene was masterful! Awesome.
Reservoir Dogs Might be my favorite Tarantino film.
Trenton Black definitely mine
Mine as well.
Same
Mine is death proof cause i love cars and car movies
Trenton Black sure
sorry for the late video, y'all - thanks for watching!
Nerdwriter1 don't be sorry. We watch your videos any time of the day. Good work!
Awesome as always! Thanks for your amazing videos. Have a great weekend :)
Nerdwriter1 btw how long it took to make this?
Nerdwriter1 i adore your content.
Nerdwriter1 Go fuckyourself you marvel fuckboy.
I love Pulp Fiction, but this is my favorite Tarantino movie.
Julia Silva I personally think Inglorious Basterds is peak Tarantino. But different strokes for different folks.
+Vincent Adultman I feel like there are two kinds of people, the ones who like Pulp Fiction and the ones who like Inglorious Basterds, for me Pulp Fiction is peak tarantino, but Reservoir Dogs is my favorite too.
MyMusicSosa why cant one like both? pulp fiction had a profound impact on my life and then when Basterds was in theaters I saw it four times
Reservoir Dogs is my fav . It has Steve Buscemi. The breakfast sequence and especially "the walk" scene is probably the epitome of "cool" scene in film-making history. Then again, I am also a sucker for Wes Anderson's slow-mo walk scenes set to snappy pop songs too.
mafbloggerdanny You're a good man, my future friend.
Not only has it aged well, it's still my favorite Tarantino film.
Justyn Mychael I cant wait to see the Vegas movie.,, I NEVER watch movies so when he makes one I’m there
Brother. I feel you. But, have you seen Pulp Fiction?
Do you still feel this way after Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?
@@SalemGhassanHanna once upon a time in hollywood is Not the best Film from him im Not saying its Bad but almost every other movie is better from him
@@folex6971 Once upon a time was definitely a step up from Hateful 8, which I really didn't care for
3:57 "Everybody kills everybody" That's like every ending of every Tarantino movie ever... And I love it
Every Quentin Tarantino movie is 'White Guy Says "Nigger", Gets Shot Eventually' starring Actor McCareer-Comeback, Foreign Actor/American Accent Jones, and Michael Madsen.
@@hamupinhere why is this so accurate
Best seen in the Hateful 8....
Except the ending of Pulp fiction, when everybody spares everybody.
Great video! I'm gonna go watch Reservoir Dogs now... again.
metfan4l - Same here.
Literally doing it after this video lmao
Jackie Brown doesn't get enough love
TJ Hastie Jackie Brown underrated af
His most mature movie and one of the best ever made
wertor666 I agree
I agree, Jackie Brown is probably his most underrated and his most mature film.
Tell me about it, and its Sam Jackson's best acting next to Pulp fiction in my opinion
This video is extremely well edited and extremely well paced. It is actually my favorite video of yours, something about it just always makes me wanna rewatch, you also talk more about things that i haven't heard anyone else really mention.
Good Times Bad Times playing over Reservoir Dogs worked so well
And I will still be watching your videos 25 years later Evan. You have made me fall in love with the art of film. Keep doing you.
I adore this film; the relationships, character building, colour and setting choices and dialogue
Yes. I rewatched it recently to see how well it’s aged, the dialogue and writing is raw, the acting is great and the effects and makeup look great. It’s gonna be influential for another 2 and a half decades, and even longer, and it deserves it.
Man the cast of this masterpiece is so good and cool. Quentin hit the jackpot when he managed to sign these actors!
I love the choice of soundtrack throughout every one of your videos, could you do a video on how you chose you music and the momentum you want your own videos to have? That'd be so cool to see.
It is still my favorite of his. Best dialogue I think.
Man, you guys have amazing production value. Ive just watched 3 of your videos and Ive been impressed with each one. Good job!
You're officially in my top 3 favorite youtube channels of all time thank you for the crossover of my favorite band and my (second) favorite director.
-We called her Lady-E -Why? Is she from Compton? My favourite joke from the movie.
Eazy E !
Steven Wright as the radio DJ, and the soundtrack itself, both do alot of the heavy lifting in ensuring the long-term appeal of Reservoir Dogs. Also, Tarantino tried hard to avoid too many references to the time period (save for some pop culture references), as he was knowingly attempting to make a classic for the ages. His stories, including their attendant themes, motifs, and characters, always deal in universal and eternal allegories of redemption and retribution.
I just discovered your channel today, and I've already watched 6 videos in a row. Your style is very fluid and intellectual and you have a great way of getting your point across well. I love this video especially, because Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorite movies. :)
I think a great artist creates his own style. His dialogues unique and tense scenes are amazing.
How can you not love this movie? It's a masterpiece that transcends time.
That’s what they say about Pulp Fiction but that was a 1 & done for me. Same with Once Upon a Time & True Romance. Django & Hateful 8 I could watch 100x though. Kill Bill & Inglorious were great too. Those are prob the only 5 movies I’d say are must own.
I remember watching this for the first time in a long time a few years ago. Yes, the opening is pure emulsion and created palpable anxiety. Stupid great film for a hundred different reasons.
The quality of your videos are unreal. Your channel is so unique, keep up the good work!
Nice video. I agree with everything you said. Great quality. Just overall good job! Keep'em coming.
Great work as always. This is still my favorite QT film, if not mostly because it's such an obvious first film possibly because of what he went on to achieve. There is something charming about it grittiness, something alluring about it's budget limitations and yet it boasts a great cast and is the introductory film into the Tarantinoverse that was later expanded in Pulp Fiction through The Hateful Eight. Being a no budget filmmaker/student, I am sometimes drawn to the potential of something rather than the realization of it. The fact that it lacks polish sets it aside from those later works. The 90s indie feel of it always sucks me in and gets me in the mood for other newcomers of the time like Rodriguez, Linklater, Kevin Smith and more. Keep up the awesome work!
Awesome as always! Thanks for your amazing videos. Have a great weekend :)
"Pain is the brutal and specific attention to the moment" Unbelievably Awesome, very conscious, and aware definition of pain. I raise my hat to you sir.
I really love this video essay gives me lot of insp!
I can watch the whole movie with my eyes closed and i can still comprehend every scene and appreciate every minute of it.
Yes it has ! Reservoir Dogs is still one of my all time favorite films.
Sometimes I fall into a Nerdwriter1 binge and just re-watch EVERYTHING ever uploaded by this great channel!!!!
YOU MADE THIS 5 YEARS AGO.. AND IM STILL LEARNING NEW THINGS FRON R.DOGS. THANKS MAN. WHAT A VIDEO .....
I love how Red Dead Redemption 2 starts off like Reservoir Dogs! There both failed heist that start after the heist is over and they both heist also went wrong in Reservoir Dogs & Red Dead Redemption! I wonder if it's suppose to be a very hard to recognize reference?..
"Get Christie Love" (mid 70s) was an ancient reference when this movie was made!
"Get Christie Love" was about as long ago then as "Friends" is now.. Would you call those references 'ancient'?
Yep. No one remembered that show in 1992. It's obscurity wasn't a flaw, it informed QT's world & characters just fine.
@@Eis_Bear Eh, it was still culturally ancient. Get Christie Love was not equivalent to Friends.
You're right. I don't know how old the narrator here is, but he may not realize that the aesthetic of RD was RETRO at the time it was made.
God times, Bad times... The fun part is that I literally discovered - and was hooked by - "Reservoir Dogs" by accident about 25 years ago and one my very best friends and I were huge fan of Led Zep. Such a strange feeling now. Thank you for the review man, I'll happily admit I didn't know about your chan, rarely sub that fast. Good job!
god the first scene with mr.orange and mr.white is impeccable and pulls so many strings in my heart. i felt like i was watching what my dad would do if he were in that situation, incredible acting
Nerdwriter talking about my favorite movie? Is it Christmas already?
no
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And your favourite album of your favourite band, hahha
Holy shit, I just can't go by not congratulating you on your editing. You're good at this man.
Dude....U are awesome. Keep the works coming.
"...here i am, stuck in the middle with you..." that's one of the most memorable scenes ever!
Bunch of softies left the theater after seeing that
Reservoir Dogs is like my 2nd favourite Tarantino movie after Pulp Fiction.
KissMyAsthma same
KissMyAsthma I like resivour dogs more, pulp fiction is still great tho
Man, seriously I love your vidoes and the way you approach your topics and the whole style you present your videos in. But the way you were able to fit Led Zeppelin (my favorite band) in, was so great, it gave me chills dude :D Keep on making such awesome videos and greetings from Germany :)
welches Album war das?
zumindest der Song ist "Good Time Bad Times"
naja er sagt doch das erste lied auf dem ersten zeppelin album .D
Late comment, but I've gotta say that you've also come a long way with your craft, and your first videos were pretty awesome to begin with!
This was the second Quentin Tarantino movie I've watched (first was Inglorious Basterds), but Reservoir Dogs take the cake for my favorite Tarantino flick. I think what I love the most is that the plot is essentially pretty simple and not hard to follow at all: it's a heist gone wrong. And the fact that you never see the heist itself adds so much to the movie's character.
I clicked this shit so fast
Me too. LOL.
insta-click
SAMEEE
same... Maybe I should apologize to the pad
We get it.. people click video's fast.
RD has definitely aged well. I recently watched it side by side with the script on one side of the screen. I noticed that Michael Madsen improvised his lines a lot, fell out of character when he forgot them onscreen, but indelibly made the character his own just the same. Also, the very techniques that made Tarantino relevant now, is what was percolating back then - genre bending without breaking, amazingly clever dialogue and characterizations, strong point of view, clever structure manipulation, and probably most not talked about - he was very interested in the minutiae of the genre, the spaces between the lines.
When I did film studies or English classes I loved dissecting opening chapters or paragraphs of stories and scenes from movies or tv shows.
The editing in this video was wonderful, as was the whole thing tbh.
*Capitalism is inherently exploitative, because workers are never fully compensated for their work.* If a business pays you 14 dollars per hour, that is because you produce more than that in value for the company. The rest of the value goes to the owners of the business as profits simply because they own the means of production. This fundamental problem is why inequality is on the rise in the wast majority of the world, even in countries like Norway and Denmark that have good labor laws and high taxes on the rich. To combat this problem we need to fundamentally change how the economy works. One solution that would would keep all the benefits of the current marked system is to democratize the workplace. By doing away with the owner class and making every worker a shareholder of the company they work at they would get all value that they produce. Nothing about this suggestion is theoretical. The largest worker co-opt that exist right now is the Mondragon Corporation which consists of 257 sub-companies and have over 80 thousand employees. Studies done on worker co-opts show that they are *more* productive than regular companies and offer more stable employment and have smaller difference in wages between managers and regular workers (because they vote on it). Like tuition-free college, universal healthcare and a livable minimum wage, this has already been tested in other countries and it works way better than what we have now. Why shouldn't we fight for it in the same way we fight for universal healthcare, tuition-free college and a livable minimum wage?
Reservoir Dogs is my personal favorite Tarantino film. Yes, Pulp Fiction is a slick and endlessly quotable modern classic, but the "whodunit" factor in Reservoir Dogs gives it a slight edge for me
I prob won’t like it. I only liked Django Hateful 8 Kill Bill & Inglorious Bast. I think Dogday Afternoon is more up my alley.
Good Times Bad Tims over the opening car sequence went really hard. loved that.
Thanks for making me want to rewatch this film for the third time this week 👍
"That's what pain is: a brutal, specific attention to the present." GOD this channel is good.
Corey Marie dot com this guy is awesome
had a crush on tim roth when i first saw this
Same here 😂
Me too! I also liked Michael Madsen, even though he's a sociopath in this movie.
No, but Chris Penn had me going.
i thought it was just me!! something about guys that are built like a string bean with fluffy hair just gets me goin
He was pretty darned cool in his youth, and if you're going to have a signature role, it may as well be in a cult classic like this.
He sets us all up how to use music in movie sceans and when he ends what the has to say to himself uses it wonderfully master of this video essay craft nerdwriter hope you will amazes us with more if this types of content
The way he edits videos ! Man you're good .
Reservoir dogs was awesome
There is a Nerdwriter video every We... oh wait
right
Tipping scene is one of the greatest scenes ever.
Considering I watched this movie for the first time in 2021, being my opening to Quentin Tarantino as well as cinema outside of the mainstream superhero and box office hits. I had a great time watching this, and it will forever go as one of my favourite movies to have ever watched. It opened me up to so much more cinema than before, I started watching directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Scorsese etc. This movie is timeless and to this day stands as one of those gems of cinema that everyone should at least watch once. Taking into consideration also; the extremely low budget and time to write the movie as well, really goes to show how great this movie is.
" _What's it gonna be , Mr. Pink_ ?" Similar to jessie pinkman's "What's it gonna be yo?"
Bitch
Buscemi looks soooooo young!
YES THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT ALBUM SEQUENCING. I been talking about this for years.
As a young film lover, I watched resevoir dogs for the first time (Nov 2017) and it was amazing. The message was still pertanent, special effects still...effective😂 and the acting ever so powerful.
Watched it a year or so ago in a hostel in Dublin with a load of people who had never seen it and were either very young or not born when it came out. Can confirm first hand that yes it has aged well.
"Before you have time to blink, you're involved." That's my prophetic statement for the week
Just saw it today for the first time, loved it!
i love your reference to zeppelin here so good, love qt and super love zep. looking forward to your next vid!
"I said BUDDY, I'm. Gonna. Shoot. You. In. THE FACE" Brilliant dialogue perfectly delivered. Shout out to Bill Burr
I know, I know buddy.
That guy was one of Quentin Tarantino's co-workers at Video archives. You can see him in Quentin's first real film "My Best Friend's Birthday"
I have a request for a video essay, if anyone dares tackle the concept. What makes The Room one of the worst movies ever period but perhaps the most entertaining a rewatchable movie ever? In other words, what makes a movie so bad it's good and what makes a movie just generically bad? I'd love to see you hit this topic using The Room as an example. Great video, I think Reservoir Dogs ages well but not on a period scale more of a quality scale. The older it gets, the more I love it because almost every crime movie nowadays tries to copy the humour, the rat and massive shootout.
Renegade Richard Grayson my guesses 1. It's constantly surprising to watch. who expected FOUR lengthy sex scenes filmed like a censored porno? Most bad movies just aren't interesting, but The Room has a decently compelling story hook and keeps you on your toes, and really nothing has the same kind of atmosphere (the closest comparison is FMV adventure games like Phantasmagoria 2). 2. Wiseau both as a character and a person is just so enigmatic and fascinating. No one acts like he does, his delivery isn't just bad but actively confusing, it makes you wonder how his mind works to think lines should be said they way he says them. As if he has an inherent misunderstanding of the scenes and characters that he himself wrote, or just of humans in general. By extension his character is unique and becomes extremely memorable. 3. It's got layers, son. Layers of shittiness. You have to watch some of those scenes again and again just to see the profound amount of things wrong with it, you might never spot them all. The flower shop is an example and that scene is just 20 or so seconds long. That kind of thing keeps it funny after multiple watches.
Awesome approach man!!!!
Great, great video! So I probably would have said that for me, no, Dogs hasn't aged as well. And it's a great point that I probably do unfairly compare it to his later work. I love, love, love the commode story section and I think Steve Buschemi and Tim Roth are as close to perfect as you can get in their roles. Harvey Keitel had a tough role...he really made himself vulnerable. I love him for making this movie, as his involvement was instrumental to its creation. Thank you for reminding me how great this movie is. I may never watch it with the same passion I did when I first saw it at 14 years old, but I am at least reminded of how damn good it is. Cheers!
I don't want a film to "age well". I want a snapshot into the era it was filmed and written. I want pop culture references, musical references, slang and mannerisms to be captured for future generations to enjoy, explore and experience so they aren't lost.
MrKajithecat usually when someone says that a movie ages well, they mean that it is still good and actively watched/talked about years after initial release.
That's why I love films from the 1920s-50s so much.
Lots of mainstream movies are this, maybe not in the style you demand, but they don't aim to be timeless. Some quite literally drench the frame with tweets and text messages, like Nerve.
MrKajithecat an example of a movie that didn't age well is matrix. It just isn't as impressive as all those years ago, since cgi technology has gotten so far.
MrKajithecat - why not both? - in my opinion this is pretty much what Reservoir Dogs is doing, isn't it?
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I just watched it a few weeks ago, as I was showing it to my niece as part of her film education. I had forgotten that Tim Roth was really at the center of the film. Overall it holds up pretty well. It's not as shocking as it was when it first came out, but still great to watch. My niece liked it and then watched Pulp Fiction a few days later. While we were watching Reservoir Dogs, I told her to keep an eye out for all the connections it has in Pulp Fiction, so many similar shots/angles, even scenes. All good stuff... And then we went to see Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, which I loved, she liked it -- But I am a huge Polanski fan so the alternative history was an especially interesting "what if"
"The only context in which Reservoir Dogs hasn't aged so well is within Tarantino's own filmography. . . . it's still very clearly his most amateur movie." WHAT??? Oh, pfft, gimme a break! It's far and away better than Django Unchained, Kill Bill Part 2, and especially The Hateful Eight. And Gene Siskel was dead wrong: it's not just "an exercise in style" that didn't go far enough. That's what the aforementioned movies basically are -- exercises in a style Tarantino had already made his trademark and proceeded to indulge in. The Hateful Eight is particularly overburdened with his focus on dialogue. Practically the whole story of the film, and all the characters' back stories, unfold in unbearably longwinded dialogue ill-suited to the medium of film. (Can you imagine if Peter Jackson had used all 32 pages of dialogue from "The Council of Elrond" in The Fellowship of the Ring in his script? That's what watching The Hateful Eight felt like to me.) The strength of Reservoir Dogs is that it's mindful of its medium, and it holds up superbly as an example of economic storytelling in film. For instance, if Tarantino made it today, he'd just have to show us the fate of Mr. Pink; but 1992 Tarantino, not yet self-indulgent, let Mr. Pink's encounter with the cops play out in the background noise while the camera stayed with Mr. White and Mr. Orange (Keitel and Roth), the two characters we really care about. Lacking in the exploration of characters and big ideas that came with Tarantino's later films?! How about economic with exactly how much we need to know about the characters to understand them and the dynamics between them and simply not concerned with ideas that don't belong in the movie? Saying Reservoir Dogs is thin on this score is like saying Alien is thin because it ought to be more like Ridley Scott's later films. That's ridiculous. Take it for what it is, on its own terms. If anything, I'd like to see Tarantino do a film like Reservoir Dogs again -- hard-driving, gritty, so punchy and frenetic that we can't acclimate to the gruesomeness of what we're seeing.
I really enjoyed the movie but can't watch it again just because of the ear cutting torture scene, even though it's not actually shown being done. That scene creeps me out more than most horror movies.
I was in my twenties when Reservoir Dogs was released. Probably watched it two dozens times by now. And despite it's amateurness, as you say, it's my favourite Tarantino film. And it's not even close. Love this movie so much!
Watched it for the first time last night. Loved it