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What's your favorite feature by Tony Scott?

The Hunger
0 (0%)
Top Gun
6 (13.3%)
Beverly Hills Cop II
0 (0%)
The Last Boy Scout
3 (6.7%)
Domino
1 (2.2%)
Crimson Tide
7 (15.6%)
The Fan
0 (0%)
Days of Thunder
0 (0%)
Deja Vu
3 (6.7%)
Man on Fire
3 (6.7%)
Revenge
0 (0%)
Spy Game
1 (2.2%)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
0 (0%)
Enemy of the State
7 (15.6%)
True Romance
13 (28.9%)
Unstoppable
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
0 (0%)
don't like any
1 (2.2%)

Total Members Voted: 45

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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #30 on: September 02, 2012, 08:44:11 AM »
Love it worm!
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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #31 on: September 02, 2012, 12:19:01 PM »
This would be the easiest marathon ever.
It really is :).
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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #32 on: September 02, 2012, 12:42:48 PM »
It begins.

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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #33 on: September 02, 2012, 04:49:28 PM »
The Fan | 1996
Hmmmm. Pretty enough but this is the first one I couldn't just embrace and have fun with.
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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #34 on: September 02, 2012, 05:19:49 PM »
So... Tony Scott episode of the podcast coming?

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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #35 on: September 02, 2012, 05:39:04 PM »
So... Tony Scott episode of the podcast coming?
Yep! I wasn't planning on it mostly because he doesn't really fit into the focus of the podcast per se + I'd only watched 3 of his films before his passing. But a friend who's a fan suggested it and even offered to come on the podcast. So it's on and I'm trying to catch up on as many as I can before we record tomorrow. It's been a really fun ride so far :).

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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #36 on: September 02, 2012, 09:49:11 PM »
Oh oh! Can I ask what you thought of Domino or do I have to wait for the podcast?

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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #37 on: September 02, 2012, 09:57:50 PM »
Oh oh! Can I ask what you thought of Domino or do I have to wait for the podcast?
Aww, I can tell you but I do hope you'll still listen to the podcast. I loved it. I plan on posting a ranking once I'm done watching the 3 remaining ones (Man on Fire, Enemy of the State and Loving Memory).

I am not sure I always knew what was going on .. especially during the scenes set in Las Vegas towards the end where he's cutting so rapidly and the scenes are so impressionistic etc. But I feel like none of that matters. It's all recollection and memory anyway. What I loved most about it I guess is the crazy visual and aural style. Watching it, I kept wondering how audiences seeing it in the theater responded to it. It's quite unlike anything else I've seen.

Edited to add: I can see people hating this. Of all his films, I found this one the most experimental. Whereas normally his films have friendships / human interaction at the center, Domino is pretty much talking to herself here. She has a wall built around herself. And the film's style mirrors that in that it never lets us grasp the narrative entirely. But I loved how hazy and trippy those flashbacks look in the film... mostly blurry with a few key moments sharply in focus for an instant.
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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #38 on: September 02, 2012, 10:25:00 PM »
Oh oh! Can I ask what you thought of Domino or do I have to wait for the podcast?
Aww, I can tell you but I do hope you'll still listen to the podcast.

You know I will :)

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I loved it. I plan on posting a ranking once I'm done watching the 3 remaining ones (Man on Fire, Enemy of the State and Loving Memory.

I am not sure I always knew what was going on .. especially during the scenes set in Las Vegas towards the end where he's cutting so rapidly and the scenes are so impressionistic etc. But I feel like none of that matters. It's all recollection and memory anyway. What I loved most about it I guess is the crazy visual and aural style. Watching it, I kept wondering how audiences seeing it in the theater responded to it. It's quite unlike anything else I've seen.

It gets into a zone doesn't it! All the different elements kind of harmonize right at the end, and suddenly your making the jump to light speed. :D


Also, Keira Knightley dual-wields like a champ.

So happy you loved it :))

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Re: Director's Best: Tony Scott
« Reply #39 on: September 02, 2012, 10:47:24 PM »
Yet I'm still the only one who picked it as his favorite.  :'(