Pulp fiction is the pinnacle of 90s. My all time fave. And I love reservoir dogs. It's awesome. But gonna put out an unpopular opinion.....true romance is awesome. I enjoy watching it more then reservoir dogs
True romance being awesome is far from.an unpopular opinion,it's a universal fact. And I feel like you but not,I put it above Pulp fiction but reservoir dogs is hard to beat. @@mattmiller4821
Directors who truly love movies and keep watching them with a fan's enthusiasm and a critic's discerning eye rather than focusing only on their own standing in the marketplace... are the shit.
That's why I'd rather listen to filmmakers wax lovingly about film than critics - filmmakers, usually, can and do love it all and see the value and art in cinema critics often dismiss or don't see. Like, Scorsese cites Frankenstein Created Woman as one of his favorites...fucking chad move right there. That movie is incredible. Now all of a sudden "critics" are re-evaluating things like that film all because Scorsese repped it when horror and exploitation fans knew the score from the get-go, lol. I'm not one of those "fuck all critics" types, but I don't spend a lot of time on them like seemingly every other film fan online does. There are some I follow and like hearing from, but it's a small pool. And I do enjoy the occasional well written, passionate review/analysis. But you know what I could do with the time film fans waste on reading critics reviews? Watch more movies.
I thought crimson tide was great but the whole scenario was so unrealistic. Then Putin "went for it" instantly became one of my favorite movies of all time.
I'm a huge Tony Scott fan always famous for sunsets and smoke filled rooms I have every one of his movies on Blu-ray truly a sad moment to lose him in the way we lost him in his prime of movie making R.I.P.
Tony was one of the greats. His death is tragic and it makes me sad that we'll never see a new Tony Scott movie. His brother has fallen on my radar ever since the turd called Prometheus. Alien and Blade Runner are still in my top 5. But True Romance, Top Gun, Crimson Tide, The last boyscout, The Fan, Man on Fire etc. Just an epic list of bad ass movies. RIP my man!
One of the great things about Unstoppable is all the risks he took with Chris Pine's character. He comes in as this young punk who was gifted a position he doesn't deserve. Then, once he's made you like the guy anyhow, he reveals an issue with violent jealousy when it comes to his girlfriend. That's a detail that didn't have to be there but it results in maintaining a perception of fallibility as he's attempting all these things to save the day.
I always figured Quentin was on the set of True Romance every day because the whole thing has such a Tarantino feel, but I guess that’s just the strength of his writing. That makes me respect Tony Scott as a director all the more because he obviously understood what QT was going for and delivered in spades.
What's really amazing is that they both came into their own independently and both made iconic films (Ridley moreso). When has that happened before unless they both worked together like the Coen Brothers.
Agreed, it's just so damn entertaining, great dialogue, a real "guilty pleasure". It doesn't pretend to be "deep", it's just a great popcorn flick, sort of underrated if that's possible.
Alien is obviously a masterpiece, but Tony Scott has made more movies I love, and he never became a hack. Man on Fire and True Romance especially are two of my absolute favourites.
@@starwarsroo2448 yeah I know. I didn't make it very clear. I meant that Ridley Scott made Alien, which is fantastic, but Tony has made more movies I enjoy.
True Romance is one of my favourites, and I can’t imagine anyone else making that film look as good as it did. It was the perfect combination of Tarantino’s gritty script full of sleazy characters and Scott’s visual flair.
Ridley is more about "Grandiose" filmmaking. It's almost like he's going thru his own version of what Tony did before his unfortunate passing. I absolutely love Ridley's late career resurgence we are in right now, even though the box office doesn't agree.
It’s always frustrated me that Ridley’s status overshadows Tony’s when Tony is the better of the two; more exciting, more artistic, more human and more consistent.
Enemy of the State is the reason why I got involved in the world of IT. I have watched almost every T.S. movie at least 15 times each. I just love Crimson Tide, underrated True Romance, Revenge and of course - Man on Fire! Tony will always be my favorite director!! God I miss him so much! Rest in Peace, Maestro! ♥♥
Incredibly prescient in the current climate. (especially the opening premise, involving the nationalist President desperate to re-establish Russia as a great power)
When Tony Scott died, many of us in the film community were heartbroken and wondered: why? Was it because he felt overshadowed by his brother Ridley or Michael Bay thinking their filmmaking surpassed his frequency? Of all the accomplishments and hard-work he's done with Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, was it all for nothing? What I had always envisioned during the late 2000s was that someday The Scott Bros. would've directed their first film together; two minds joined as one. Who knew what we could've received? But such enthusiasm now is left in the dust. Tony's films alike Ridley's welcome the new wave of sophisticated stories with that pinch of gothic principal photography With the help of great producers and a valuable and dedicated cast & crew, these films are now timeless classics and what Hollywood in America used to be. RIP Tony Scott and Don Simpson...thank you for redefining Blockbuster movies! 💐
If I remember correctly, Tony always had a reputation for being clinically depressed, even in the eighties. I don’t think there was any main motivation or silver bullet to cure it. Some people just have an imbalance, sadly.
@@andrewhudson7108 I know it's a cliche, but it seems like artists are predisposed more to mental illness than typical "civilians". I think that's a price some pay for their genius. Many of them are hypersensitve and egotistical, and those are hard characteristics to keep on a leash for "creatives".
True Romance, Man on Fire, and Spy Game to me are criminally underrated! Scott definitely had some amazing shooting techniques and vision. Unfortunately, we didn't get anymore films from him. He must have been in a lot of pain to end his life as he did. Very unfortunate! RIP Tony!
04:20 I don't know if Quentin Tarantino meant to say, _kaleidoscope_ of characters and just settled for "calliope" (he does talk fast), but I think it works either way.
The film of his that gets lost a bit because IMO it's not quintessentially in his oeuvre is the masterpiece Spy Game. It's brilliant on so many levels and it's almost totally forgotten. I love that film, but again, it's not going to grab you by the throat with over the top, obvious visuals. What a filmmaker that guy was, Top Gun, Last Boy Scout, Spy Game, Crimson Tide are my Tony Scott favorites. Days of Thunder wasn't half bad, either. Man, that guy knew how to make a film.
@@One21Jiggawatts That's a very fair comment. I think Spy Game might be the most underrated film of all time, so many moments of brilliance in it. The film score is incredible, such an eclectic mix of music. And the visuals are unforgettable, there are several scenes that are so uniquely brilliant. The rooftop scene with Redford & Pitt, the way it zooms out at the end, and the scene in the car in East Germany when Pitt throws the defector out of the car and you see him "shrink" from the car perspective as it pulls away. I mean, who thinks of stuff like that? That's off the charts, the guy was a visual genius.
Spy Game is a bit incoherent though when you break it down. The woman was an admitted terrorist. China had every right to imprison her. Redford agreed too. He also had a hard policy of abandoning assets. Yet he suddenly decides to invert his values for a guy he's not seen in a decade (who is completely to blame for his own circumstances) throwing away his life savings, risking life in prison, and war with China? Pitt's allies get left behind too, and a bunch of innocent prison guards are murdered. All to save a guilty terrorist!? I'm with the CIA on this one. She deserved to be in that cell, and rescuing a rogue asset who screwed up on a personal mission is not worth sacrificing other lives, or risking dragging the nation into war.
@@zoomalfunction They were operating from emotion, outside of their normal duty "protocols", which made it compelling as a film for me. It was a story of redemption. Sure, if you want to analyze it from a strictly logical standpoint, you can blow it up, but this is a film about humans, and they don't always follow the script.
Unstoppable was not even that good. It's incredibly forgettable. It's one of his worst. Man on Fire is hands down his best. That movie is in the perfect catagory. The best kidnapping movie ever made & nothing comes close. The only movie that comes closest is High & Low.
It's such a shame to have lost Tony Scott might very well be my favourite director Top gun, Unstoppable, Man on Fire and Crimson tide are some of my favourite movies of all time and i watch them regularly. Even though they didn't need remaking i read he had the rights To The warrior's and the wild bunch remakes i think he could have nailed both if given the chance.
great to watch, but i'm honestly SO gutted there's no mention whatsoever of 'the hunger'. i realise it was panned by the critics and even some of the people making it, but it remains in my top 10 ever films and i'm absolutely prepared to defend it in a 'what about' angle.
I completely agree! The Hunger had so many stylistic elements of what later defined his style, but they were so subtle, so well tempered I actually think its his very best film, followed by Man on Fire But The Hunger is an absolute masterpiece, that is definitely in my top-10 list
He would be the ultimate film school prefessor I agree, not only because of his knowledge but because he's into so many different genres that he would not try to bend you to his own vision but help you to achieve your own style without being condescending, it's a very rare quality. And I'm not even talking about his enthousiasm.
i was definitely a tony scott disser back when it was cool like quentin says, and i still kinda gotta look down on his more popcorny flicks, but i always had full respect for true romance!
This is like what happened in Italy with Sergio Leone. While he was hold in high regard internationally for his movies, in Italy, at least among the critics, he was and still is considered irrelevant.
1 thing about Tony’s movies, that nobody notices is that, when a scene involves characters talking, the camera is fixed in place, it’s not hand held or on someone’s shoulder, it is fixed to the ground and in doing so, you get a small bouncy up and down effect, but the camera is still in place, and even in the action scenes, Tony still used camera shots that were fixed to the ground. Also, Tony’s filming style, progresses over the years, in the late 80’s and 90’s, there would be some shots that were turned at an angle, then from 2001 to 2010, Tony would use zoom ins and zoom outs for certain scenes, but would still have the camera fixed to the ground, which he always used for scenes close up to the action or the characters. Tony’s filming style, was its own entire thing, literally no other director filmed movies like Tony did, and that style progressed with time, it evolved. I enjoy every single one of Tony’s films, there’s something about them, that I can’t help but love. We miss you Tony Scott, and we love you
To me , Michael Bay emulates George Lucas more than Sir Tony . Also to me , Sir Tony is a more fun director than his brother Sir Ridley . Bladerunner is more of a serious movie , where you have to pay attention and seriously examine how well it was shot . Whereas Sir Tony seemed more fun and commercial like TOP GUN , Beverly Hills Cop 2 and DOMINO . Those are all fun movies .
A STUPID movie fanboy will say the success of TOP GUN is Tommy Cruise . A SMART movie fan will say Director Sir Tony Scott made Tommy Cruise a FUCKIN star . Sir Tony Scott didn't get the credit Tommy Cruise got .
Unstoppable is a masterpiece. Amazing movies Crimson Tide, Man On Fire, Top Gun, Days of thunder, True Romance etc. Tony Scott was brilliant. Definitely a director when you see his name on the poster or dvd cover it is like 'hellyeah i'm watching that'
I always had a soft spot for Deja Vu. Just up my alley. Wasn’t Tony prepping a remake of The Warriors before he died? Set in LA? I would have loved to have seen that. If anyone who loves Tony hasn’t seen his BMW short film “Beat the Devil” with Gary Oldman….you might want to check it out. It’s on RU-vid. Part of the BMW “The Hire” series.
There is nothing gay about Top Gun or Navy pilots as a whole!!! I have no dog in the fight for either…but I play semi naked volleyball all the time with my male friends, and high five and spank some arses during the game! Stop projecting Quentin! 😡
He might not have made the best movies ever but his movies really epitomized and defined 80’s and early 90’s cinema. A lot of what you see now originates with him.
Time has proven that Tony was the genius and Ridley is a hack. And if you can only see one Tony Scott movie see Revenge (1990). It's both brutal and emotionally devastating.
I was always a bigger Tony fan over his brother. I put True Romance in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, I love Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout and BHC 2 were all great or a least entertaining.
"Unstoppable" is an outstanding action movie that craps on half the stuff that came out within a decade on either side of it, and it's not even in Tony Scott's top 3.
CR is the king. He is letting Tarantino talk and acknowledging that he is listening. Would you have liked Simmons talking over him instead? He would have dropped a "Tony Scott and Denzel in this movie are like Tatum and Brown" comparison.
I would love to see a Quentin Tarantino cut of TRUE ROMANCE, where the scenes are put into the order they were written in the screenplay, which was done like RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION -- out-of-sequence -- yet they all tied together by the end. The theatrical release version of TRUE ROMANCE is terrific -- don't get me wrong -- but when I read the screenplay, it really made me want to see a cut of the film that followed Tarantino's scene-by-scene out-of-sequence method. Maybe, if Tarantino himself doesn't seek out an option to do this, maybe some clever Editor out there in RU-vidLand can do a 'fan-edit' of it . . . ?
