[ SECRET POST #3349 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3349 ⌋

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Notes:

Early today, places to go!

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Comments

Re: Movies

[dethtoll]

We watched Pulp Fiction and Desperados last night. I'd last seen PF 20 years ago and Desperados not at all, so it was a fun time. Reservoir Dogs is a great film but I think it's Pulp Fiction where Tarantino really found his voice as a filmmaker.

Desperados is also a great film; it's a slightly less slapstick take on El Mariachi, but I don't know how anyone could mistake it for anything except a comedy. There's a guy who fucking dials a phone with a knife for Christ's sake. It and El Mariachi are pretty obviously parodies of Mexican gangster films, and I really dig them.

Re: Movies

[feotakahari]

Pulp Fiction has the best use of dramatic irony I've seen in film. At first, I had no idea why it was out of chronological order. Then I saw the death of a certain character, and I thought "Oh. That's why." All that arguing over religion and whether to stay in the business, and hanging over it that one of them's about to die for his choice . . .

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[(Anonymous)]

Watch once upon a time in mexico! It's the best within the mariachi trilogy (though desperado is a soft reboot...)
The genre has been dubbed "mexploitation" if you did't know, and I can also recommend "Machete" which is just as crazy. Gotta love Robert Rodriguez.
(On a related note I've come to like the movies of Fatih Akin for their similar approach to peripheral culture, though he's doing "Türksploitation", which makes much more sense in the context of my own country. But when I watched "Soul Kitchen" I realized why I had no problem understanding the dynamics behind Rodriguez' mexploitation films.)

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[dethtoll]

I plan to watch it eventually! Once a month we have Grindhouse Nights where we watch Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez films, two per night. We've only just started (last month was Reservoir Dogs/El Mariachi) so Once Upon A Time In Mexico will likely be later in the year.

Next month is Four Rooms and From Dusk 'til Dawn :)

Re: Movies

[(Anonymous)]

Fatih Akin is really something. I've seen two of his movies.

And every time I see his name, I read it as "Faith Akin."

Re: Movies

[(Anonymous)]

Both great movies!