Reservoir Dogs

[Guest What?]

For the past three years, I've been listing this film as my #1 Favorite movie of the Time. Just today, I went out and bought the DVD (Mr. Pink version, of course) and realized that I was wrong. It's my #1 Favorite Movie of All Time. Great plot, great acting and Mr. Blonde's classic line of "Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy?...or are you gonna bite?" gets me everytime.

 

 

 

What are your opinions?

[Guest John Dub]

Beautiful and genious movie, but I only saw it last December. Since childhood, I had this one friend with Reservoir Dogs posters in his room and crap, and it was one of those movies I wanted to see, but never made a concious effort to. Then I reunited with him last year, and we went to his house on the first day of Christmas vacation to watch it, and I fell in love with it. I got 2 Reservoir Dogs posters, the Mr. Blonde doll (What was I thinking) and eagerly waited for the Special Edition DVD to come out, and the day it did, I got Mr. Blonde, and I've watched it twice, I love it. I like it a little better than Pulp Fiction, as well, which is also a great movie.

 

EDIT: Since Travolta and Madsen (Mr. BLonde)'s characters are brothers in the movies, I heard Tarantino was making a prequel focusing on just them. Oh, that would be beautiful.

[Guest areacode212]

I think that prequel was just in the idea stage, I'm not sure if there are any serious plans for the Vega brothers.

 

Anyway, Michael Madsen will be appearing in Kill Bill (which sounds really cool, btw), so you haven't seen the last of him in the Tarantino-verse.

 

Anyway, here's a question: in the Mr. Pink DVD package, it says that though Mr. Pink was the only one to survive the ordeal, he didn't escape justice.

 

What exactly does this mean? Are we meant to assume that he didn't actually escape with the diamonds, and that he was caught by the cops a few steps from the warehouse? Since that's never actually shown in the movie, I find it odd that they would explicitly come out and print that on the box.

 

Yeah, I know it's extremely likely that Mr. Pink got caught by the police, but it's nice to think that MAYBE he got away, and is living it up somewhere, and still not tipping waitresses.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

I like RD, but I'm not a fanatic about it. I think the Mr. Pink DVD will make a nice Xmas gift however...

[Guest John Dub]

I think that prequel was just in the idea stage, I'm not sure if there are any serious plans for the Vega brothers.

 

Anyway, Michael Madsen will be appearing in Kill Bill (which sounds really cool, btw), so you haven't seen the last of him in the Tarantino-verse.

 

Anyway, here's a question: in the Mr. Pink DVD package, it says that though Mr. Pink was the only one to survive the ordeal, he didn't escape justice.

 

What exactly does this mean? Are we meant to assume that he didn't actually escape with the diamonds, and that he was caught by the cops a few steps from the warehouse? Since that's never actually shown in the movie, I find it odd that they would explicitly come out and print that on the box.

 

Yeah, I know it's extremely likely that Mr. Pink got caught by the police, but it's nice to think that MAYBE he got away, and is living it up somewhere, and still not tipping waitresses.

When Pink runs out of the wearhouse, turn the volume way up. Through the whole scene with Roth and Kietel, you'll hear Buscemi and the cops. Here's the script for it from a Tarantino fan site.

 

 

We hear outside a CAR START. Then the SOUND of a BULLHORN

yells out:

 

 

POLICE FORCE (OS)

Freeze! Get out of the car and lie

face down on the ground!

 

 

MR. PINK (OS)

Don't shoot!

 

 

We now hear SIRENS, the SOUNDS of more CARS DRIVING UP,

[Guest areacode212]

Thanks. I'll have to rewatch that scene since I didn't hear that at all. Well, at least he doesn't get killed.

[Guest godthedog]

i used to pinball back & forth between RD and PF as my favorite tarantino movie. PF, as inventive as it is, and though it's one of my favorite movies ever, is a lot more leisurely paced and sometimes wanders, the beginning of it can get dull (including the single most boring shot in the history of cinema). RD is more intense, and the pace rarely lets up for very long, & it's just more exciting. i don't really know which is better.

[Guest Mr. Pink]

Yeah, it's a great movie...my personal favorite line is in my sig.

 

 

 

Word

[Guest godthedog]

shit. i have to get some shopping done at walmart later, & after reading this thread i'll probably go buy the dvd. even though i don't have a dvd player.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

I just picked up the SE today...Mr Pink...think I'll try and get a few bucks for my old one now

 

QUESTION: At the end who shot Nice Guy Eddie

 

Eddie has his gun on Mr White...Mr White had his on Eddie's dad...and Eddie's dad had his gun trained on Mr Orange...and Mr Orange was in no shape to fire a gun...let along after he took another in the gut...

 

WHO THE HELL SHOT EDDIE?!

[Guest areacode212]

I think Mr. White managed to shoot him just as he was collapsing.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Man...I'll need to frame by frame this bitch and see what's what...cause I've watched in slow mo before and could never pick it out

[Guest J*ingus]

Mr. White fired twice. It all happens very quickly, but if you slow it down you can see it.

[Guest Mr. Pink]

I thought Mr. Pink shot Eddie while he was hiding...

 

 

 

Hmm, weird

[Guest areacode212]

Nah, what I liked about Mr. Pink was that he didn't care about the other guys' little drama. He didn't give two shits about whether or not Nice Guy Eddie lived or died, all he wanted was to get out of there with his cut.

[Guest Mr. Pink]

Hmm...

 

 

Yeah, that's what made me like him too. He knew that this was a job and that he would most likely never see them again, so he didn't give a shit about Orange, Eddie, White or Blonde.

 

 

Cool, cool guy I am

[Guest John Dub]

Joe shoots Orange as White shoots Joe. Whte moves his gun ever so slightly and kills Eddie at the same time Eddie fires, so White gets two off.

[Guest Ozymandias]

Joe shoots Orange, White shoots Joe, Eddie shoots White, White turns and manages to shoot Eddie before he falls over. If you pause it at the right time or use slo-mo you can see it very well.

 

I'd always heard gunshots in the background after the sirens at the end, so I assumed either Pink was killed or arrested.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Que: Steelers Wheels

[Guest Ozymandias]

Oh, of course, I forgot: Can ANYONE listen to that song without hearing the cop's muffled screaming in the back of your head? I can't.

[Guest Mr. Pink]

I love that song...

 

 

complete and utter Awesomeness

[Guest godthedog]

i broke down & picked it up today. checked out some of the special features, & it seems pretty cool so far. very nice deleted scenes, add lots of dimension to the story you didn't get before.

 

but i hate having to pay for a widescreen AND a fullscreen version. if you're going to make a special edition dvd, either put everything on one disc (and i think they probably could have), or just put all the special features on a separate disc. everybody nerdy enough to get a special edition disc doesn't care about fullscreen anyway.

[Guest areacode212]

I'm just disappointed that it didn't get a REAL commentary; just some bits & pieces thing where it's obvious that a lot of the "commentary" came from interviews. Tarantino couldn't take a couple of hours to sit down with some of the cast to record a track for the movie that launched his career?

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

That song "Little Green Bag" that the credits play to is so great. I thank Tarantino for putting it in the film so I could discover it's greatness.

[Guest Lethargic]

Who shot nice guy Eddie? It's explained on the DVD.

 

Keitel was supposed to spin around and shoot him. But during filming, the squib on Eddie screwed up and exploded too soon. So Keitel didn't actually get all the way around to shoot him. This was at the end of the movie and they were out of time. They didn't really have time to shoot it again and Tarantino knew that the mistake would give the scene some mystery and keep people talking about it years later, which we are, so he kept it in that way.

 

I don't hear that Mr Pink background stuff in the background either. I hear the police bullhorn but then all I hear are gunshots.

[Guest converge241]

If they do make a Vega Boys:

 

have to have officer scagnetti (mentioned in dogs and on screen in NBK.)

 

I think the cops shoot at Pink but he gets away.

[Guest J*ingus]

I always heard the cops yelling "Drop the briefcase! Don't move! Put your hands in the air!" and so on in the background at the end, and no gunshots at all until they burst into the warehouse.

[Guest Ozymandias]

If they do make a Vega Boys:

 

have to have officer scagnetti (mentioned in dogs and on screen in NBK.)

 

 

 

Different Scagnettis. In RD Seymour Scagnetti was just a local parole officer, in NBK Jack Scagnetti was a nationally famous detective who even had his own best-selling book.

[Guest imajackoff?]

One semi hidden gem that I just found on the second disc of the new RD DVD is a recreation of the Mr. Blonde/Marvin Nash ear cutting scene using Resevoir Dogs action figures. It had us howling.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

One semi hidden gem that I just found on the second disc of the new RD DVD is a recreation of the Mr. Blonde/Marvin Nash ear cutting scene using Resevoir Dogs action figures. It had us howling.

That may have been the greatest thing since Buffy season 2...now THIS is the kind of thing I want on SE DVDS dammit!