Inez's Favorite Movies
The Godfather
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You don't have to worry about nothing, I'm not gonna criticize this movie and all. I understand my position is, I understand how BIG the movie is, so I ain't gonna say no words to criticize it, otherwise I want to be called the rudest person in the world. But here are few thoughts.
Francis Ford Coppola is a movie god for making this movie, he's slightly the best director of all time. And there's no one can replace Marlon Brando here, Don Corleone is no doubt the best character ever made in a movie. And there is no one, I mean NO ONE can play the role Don Corleone, except Brando, otherwise nobody can guarantee that The Godfather is still #1 in IMDB, 1973 Academy Award's Best Picture, and with no any hesitation, THE BEST MOVIE OF ALL-TIME.
Pulp Fiction
R
You won't know the facts until you've seen the fiction.DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino
STARRING: Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Umma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Christopher Walken, Quentin TarantinoSynopsis
Pumpkin (Tim Roth and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) are two thieves who, while dining at a coffee shop, decide that the best thing to do is to rob it. Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), two hit men working for mob kingpin Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), are sent to retrieve a very special and very mysterious briefcase for their boss. Vincent later must also show Mrs. Wallace (Umma Thurman) a good time while her husband is out.
Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is an aging prizefighter who is being paid to "take a dive", but instead, accidentally kills him opponent, and tries to flee town, but not before getting his dead father's lucky golden watch. These four seemingly unrelated stories are interwoven together in a non-linear fashion.
Source: IMDbMy Review
This is why I love about Tarantino. BOLD, ORIGINAL, AND HOT! I mean, how often we got a chance to see a movie with the whole different idea and humor? Pulp Fiction is a dark comedy with bunch of good casts, good script, f*cking many memorable scenes. What I love the most about Tarantino is that he didn't see his movie as a movie, he made it to tell story to people. He doesn't care how long the scene is, or how strange the scene as it captured with the camera, as long as the message of the movie is delivered by an original way of story telling. And WE LOVE THAT. The casts gave a fresh performance we want to see. Jackson played as Jules, freshly, nothing like his performances before. Travolta the best performance I've ever seen in his career. (I'm not sure it still is after his performance in Hairspray, he was so damn good there) Yes, I can say that Tarantino has spelled Thurman and Travolta into top grade actors. They should be thankful to him for their whole life. Anyway, I think Travolta and Jackson's role here is the best duo performance since they made the first Hollywood movie.
Script was terrific. Well, to me, subjectively, Pulp Fiction is a movie who got the plentiest of memorable scenes in movie history. Guess this one will fly slightly to one of my favorite movies of all-time.
No Academy Award's Best Picture? I guess this movie is just not so lucky to be released in 1994, facing Forrest Gump in the final battle. If only this was released in 1998, they would be a bunch of crazy men if they wouldn't pick this as the best, and choose Shakespeare in Love instead. ONE OF THOSE MOVIES WHO DESERVE OSCAR'S BEST PICTURES, BUT THEY DIDN'T GET ANY.
There's a passage I got memorized.
Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities
of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.
-Samuel L. Jackson as Jules-


Pumpkin (Tim Roth and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) are two thieves who, while dining at a coffee shop, decide that the best thing to do is to rob it. Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), two hit men working for mob kingpin Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), are sent to retrieve a very special and very mysterious briefcase for their boss. Vincent later must also show Mrs. Wallace (Umma Thurman) a good time while her husband is out.
Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is an aging prizefighter who is being paid to "take a dive", but instead, accidentally kills him opponent, and tries to flee town, but not before getting his dead father's lucky golden watch. These four seemingly unrelated stories are interwoven together in a non-linear fashion.