What was the best movie to star Bruce Willis? (1 Viewer)

[Homer J Simpson]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Like nearly all of Tarantino's work, it's all style and no substance.

Oh, give me a friggin' break. Yeah, he goes all-out for style but Pulp was a pretty much perfect movie in every way.

If you're gonna throw out his later stuff as an example, just stop right now. Think back to '95 when you first saw it...had anything leading up to that been anything like it?

 

[Insein]

I'd like to see Tanner's top five movies of all time.

How about some off the top of my head from the last 10-15 years?No country for old men

Lost in translation

Drive

Tropic thunder

Mean girls

Toy story 3

Master and commander...

Children of men

United 93

The Town

Oceans 11

Gone baby gone

The good shepherd

Gone Baby Gone and The Town? I never would have guessed. Love those. And Mean Girls. Oceans 11 though?

Ocean's 11 isn't perfect but I like capers.

What do you think of Heist?

The Mamet flick? Pretty damn good.

Great day for the race then.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Ok, now you are getting a tad carried away.

...but I will take the bait out of morbid curiousity: Just how did PF change the way movies were made?

The disjointed timeline, violence, disparate stories coming together, and general tension became a lot more common.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

 

[KarmaPolice]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Ok, now you are getting a tad carried away.

...but I will take the bait out of morbid curiousity: Just how did PF change the way movies were made?

The disjointed timeline, violence, disparate stories coming together, and general tension became a lot more common.

I still think you are overstating it's importance. "General tension"? What does that even mean?

Is there really that much violence in Pulp Fiction? Hell, the other movie that he came up with the story for that came out that year did more for that than Pulp Fiction. Disjointed timeline movies were around before Tarantino was born. Don't get me wrong, it is a damn good movie. I just think that people go way overboard about it. I think for most of us is was "that" movie in college that made us passionate about movies and got us into watching indie movies or dig a little deeper into movies in general. It is nowhere near perfect (for the few reasons I listed) , and I don't think it is his best movie.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Right on cue.

 

[Riversco]

Tarantino took the spaghetti western, film noir, and some other styles (that had fallen out of favor as being cheap and cheesy) and updated and modernized them for current times using a larger budget and A list actors. His constant callbacks to earlier eras also made it fun to go back and dig up the reference material. The real breakthrough into popular culture was Pulp Fiction.

 

[The General]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Ok, now you are getting a tad carried away.

There was about a decade of Pulp Fiction knock offs after Pulp Fiction came out.

 

[KarmaPolice]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Ok, now you are getting a tad carried away.

There was about a decade of Pulp Fiction knock offs after Pulp Fiction came out.

Like what?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Tarantino took the spaghetti western, film noir, and some other styles (that had fallen out of favor as being cheap and cheesy) and updated and modernized them for current times using a larger budget and A list actors. His constant callbacks to earlier eras also made it fun to go back and dig up the reference material. The real breakthrough into popular culture was Pulp Fiction.

I think that first two sentences describe the rest of his career.

What you are saying seems to agree with me to a point - it was the cool entry point for a lot of people (especially our age) to get into movies and dig a little deeper into different genres. I am not sure what came our for them before, but I would guess that it helped put Miramax on the map and made it more likely for indie movies to get looked at and for people to take a chance at them seeing the success that PF had. I am just not convinced that the ganster/crime movies were ever that unpopular. He was just able to channel his movie nerd energy into this movies and make a very good one that had some fantastic dialogue in it.

 

[dparker713]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Like nearly all of Tarantino's work, it's all style and no substance.

Oh, give me a friggin' break. Yeah, he goes all-out for style but Pulp was a pretty much perfect movie in every way.

If you're gonna throw out his later stuff as an example, just stop right now. Think back to '95 when you first saw it...had anything leading up to that been anything like it?

Thinking back to when I first saw it, it didn't live up to the hype. It still doesn't. Some cool scenes, but Reservior Dogs is better.

 

[The General]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Ok, now you are getting a tad carried away.

There was about a decade of Pulp Fiction knock offs after Pulp Fiction came out.

Like what?

http://www.ew.com/article/2014/10/14/pulp-fiction-spawn

 

[Zow]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Django and bastards are pretty entertaining.

 

[KarmaPolice]

But hey, it just inspired me to watch Pulp Fiction right now.

Seriously, this movie changed the way movies were friggin' made.

Ok, now you are getting a tad carried away.

There was about a decade of Pulp Fiction knock offs after Pulp Fiction came out.

Like what?

http://www.ew.com/article/2014/10/14/pulp-fiction-spawn

Gotcha. About a dozen movies, only a couple being anything people watched or liked . Stuff coming out within a year or so were probably written about the same time, so that isn't being influenced by the movie, that is studio heads seeing PFs success and scrounging for anything similar in their pipeline.

 

[matuski]

Friends: Season 6, Episode 21

 

[NutterButter]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Django and bastards are pretty entertaining.

Both are fantastic

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Django and bastards are pretty entertaining.

Both are fantastic

I think Django was good but Basterds was much better and is my favorite QT film.

 

[NutterButter]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Django and bastards are pretty entertaining.

Both are fantastic

I think Django was good but Basterds was much better and is my favorite QT film.

Waltz is fantastic in the both of them.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Pulp Fiction was obviously more important and revolutionary, and I still love it to pieces, but the Basterds is my favorite QT flick. Just a perfect film.

 

[Daywalker]

PF one of my all-time favs but Basterds and Django are like cartoons to me. Was entertained first time I watched them but haven't watched them a second time yet after all this time.

PF I've seen 10+times.

 

[Daywalker]

PF dialogue is like a language everyone my age knows too.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Django and bastards are pretty entertaining.

Ug

 

[KarmaPolice]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Django and bastards are pretty entertaining.

Ug

Judging by your list of best movies recently, I would think even a movie grump like you could see the brilliance of the opening scene and bar scene of IB. Django was too much for me and felt like Tarantino running out of ideas.

 

[Hilts]

at Oceans 11 and Heist being anything other than bland piles of stylish mediocrity. On a good day.

 

[Maik Jeaunz]

given that Die Hard is possibly the greatest action movie ever made, I'll go with that one.

 

[netnalp]

North

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[KarmaPolice]

given that Die Hard is possibly the greatest action movie ever made, I'll go with that one.

Truth

I think T2 is in the running, but I watched it recently and it doesn't hold up quite as well.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Too bad QT crapped the bed with every movie he made after PF.

Django and bastards are pretty entertaining.

Ug

Judging by your list of best movies recently, I would think even a movie grump like you could see the brilliance of the opening scene and bar scene of IB. Django was too much for me and felt like Tarantino running out of ideas.

Saw both and saw no "brilliance".

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

at Oceans 11 and Heist being anything other than bland piles of stylish mediocrity. On a good day.

I agree. Both are outstanding.

 

[flapgreen]

Not his best but I really like Unbreakable. It's different but well done. 

 

[flapgreen]

given that Die Hard is possibly the greatest action movie ever made, I'll go with that one.

Yes

 

[Sullie]

Lucky Number Slevin is also criminally underrated.

I could not possibly agree more, such a fantastic movie!

 

[flapgreen]

How about some off the top of my head from the last 10-15 years?

No country for old men

Terrible. You got duped into liking that garbage. Don't be so gullible. 

 

[Sullie]

I voted for Die Hard probably because I was 20 years old when it came out, I was a fan of Moonlighting and I was rooting for Bruce Willis' career to take off plus it's one of the best action movies of all time and it's Christmas movie.

 

[flapgreen]

I voted for Die Hard probably because I was 20 years old when it came out, I was a fan of Moonlighting and I was rooting for Bruce Willis' career to take off plus it's one of the best action movies of all time and it's Christmas movie.

Agreed on all

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Hudson Hawk

 

[msommer]

Not his best but I really like Unbreakable. It's different but well done. 

It is a horrible, horrible movie. M. Night Shamalamadingdong should be exiled for making such crap. Of course he has since made worse movies...

 

[msommer]

Hudson Hawk

Now you're just trolling.

 

[msommer]

Although I really like the original Die Hard I prefer 12 Monkeys here. Have a soft spot for the 5th Element, but that really has nothing to do with Bruce ( Milla  )

 

[James Daulton]

Die Hard

5th Element

Sixth Sense

 

[flapgreen]

It is a horrible, horrible movie. M. Night Shamalamadingdong should be exiled for making such crap. Of course he has since made worse movies...

I liked it. Wasn't awesome or anything. Didn't know who made it. 

 

[Zow]

It is a horrible, horrible movie. M. Night Shamalamadingdong should be exiled for making such crap. Of course he has since made worse movies...

I didn’t think it was that bad. The “twist” was foreseeable and the water kryptonite was incredibly stupid, but I found it entertaining and interesting. And it wasn’t over the top stupid like signs, lady in the water, and the happening. 

 

[Zow]

Die Hard

5th Element

Sixth Sense

Yep. All very good. 

 

[Mr. Ected]

given that Die Hard is possibly the greatest action movie ever made, I'll go with that one.

But is it a Christmas movie?