I don’t think he was saying the movie copied Tarantino, he just meant it was a great scene that reminded him of great scenes in Tarantino movies. I think so far everybody’s been unanimous in praising this movie, as well as the cinematic output of its country of origin, so there’s no need to get up in arms.
I think they used a similar gun building scene in another Korean thriller, SHIRI. It was a pretty unremarkable, very Hollywood-like action flick, but I remember the gun scene.
No moment was pure Tarantino… Tarantino is the one copying this moments. Please show more respect where it’s due ok?
No offense, Roachboy, (There’s a fun phrase we’ll only find on the internet, eh?) but I’m a little disappointed in your loose use of the term “badass” to describe old lady Vorhees. She killed a bunch of youths & that 1 creepy dude for no good reason. She was insane, not badass, though she arguably took care of business in her twisted mentality. I nitpick because I love.
I watched THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE WEIRD last night. It was amazing! I like the other films you guys talk about here, but man, “Oriental Westerns” needs to be a much more common genre in this world!
Oh, and as others have said on here, everyone on this site should see The Good The Bad The Weird – right fucking NOW.
The fact that it’s a mom who is so badass is half of what qualifies it. Momsploitation is like, the new, more universal nunsploitation.
Wait, people actually think that it was all a dream because there is a flashback to him shadowboxing at the end? I don’t follow that logic. I thought the scene was there to underline the tragic nature of the ending. It shows that, yes, this impossibly badass guy was human. There was one time when he horsed around. Saving the one time smiles for the very end makes the ending even more emotional, more bittersweet. Basically it’s a way, way better version of those Polaroids Of Happier Times that you often see show up ironically at the end of horror films.
But I guess it’s been a decade or so (IMDB says the movie came out in 1999) since I saw it on an impulse rental. Maybe I should give it another go.
To me a movie that has a moment as good as that is worth watching, and this movie has a bunch of them.
