Tarantinos entire film career is one giant excuse to say the n word and suck on some toes.
When he wakes up he cant even remember quite right if they had sex. And regardless was still underage
I predict that will change within 2 years. George no longer has any say in the matter, Disney’s purchase of Fox gives them clear distribution rights to all the movies, and Disney loves money. I foresee a 9 film box set just in time for the 2020 holiday shopping season, complete with remastered versions of the original trilogy, because Disney knows it will sell and Disney loves money.
I’d say, again, the real arbiters of this would be African Americans.
For myself, I still find the scene funny and shocking. I don’t know how Samuel Jackson feels about it now, but I do recall reading that he had no issues with the n-word in Django Unchained. Different historical context, of course.
For me, the scene in Pulp Fiction works because normally one would never dare risk offending Jackson’s character (Jules). Yet, Tarrantino’s character (Jimmy) apparently knows Jules well, has a genuine beef because of the risk being forced upon him and is taking the opportunity to yank Jules’ chain. Jules has to push through that while also managing the behavior of Travolta’s character. Is it OK for Jimmy to use that word? Probably not. But it’s interesting and funny in context. Not for everyone, but it works for me, and again I’m not the proper arbiter of whether it’s OK in the larger context.
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I predict that will change within 2 years. George no longer has any say in the matter, Disney’s purchase of Fox gives them clear distribution rights to all the movies, and Disney loves money. I foresee a 9 film box set just in time for the 2020 holiday shopping season, complete with remastered versions of the original trilogy, because Disney knows it will sell and Disney loves money.[/QUOTE
One thing I wonder is if Disney owns the rights to the Star Wars Holiday Special? Would they release that on DVD? They could include it as a bonus on your 9 film box set idea/
I always thought it was a pretentious product of its times, i.e., the prosperous 90s, when it was so easy to make money that people who didn’t care to were considered geniuses. Like *Babbitt *was for the roaring 20s.
An interesting sequel to AB might show Lester Burnham as a faded movie star who went to prison for indulging in his predilection for sex with young people. 
Apparently, neither had the actors. 
Re: Caddyshack vs. Animal House: the humor of Caddyshack was based on perennial class lines, which still holds up pretty well (although the performances by Rodney and Ted Knight may be mostly the reason for that).
In contrast, the battle lines in Animal House seemed more meaningful when we were 18. As the ads said, it was the Deltas against the rules.
Except that in 2016, the Turner division of Time-Warner bought the basic cable rights to the Star Wars films. Did Disney buy those rights back?
I suspect that ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness was referring to physical or digital distribution (i.e., the putative 9-movie boxed set), which basic cable rights wouldn’t impact at all.
Not only that, they fare poorly too. 
I can picture Wez from The Road Warrior telling his “partner” about a less enlightened time before the 'pocylypse when he and some friends went to a party in a Chicago suburb and sub rich punks pulled a gun on him and called them “faggots”.
They did. It’s called Gross Pointe Blank.
When I was in second grade, I thought Journey to the Seventh Planet was the coolest SF movie ever. When I watched it online a few years ago, I couldn’t believe how bad it was. :eek:
I wonder if Robinson Crusoe on Mars stands up any better. 
I liked Superman III when I was a kid.
It’s terrible.
I have always hated that movie because of the ending.
I saw it once and didn’t care for it at all. It was two hours of sheer nothing-ever-happens boredom.
You have to be a Chicagoan to appreciate the genius that is “The Blues Brothers”. There is not a shot wasted in that movie. It is perfection.
Ferris Bueller is indeed a punchable jerk. But I realized that when the movie first came out.
I agree. But the tallywhacker scene is priceless. The coaches in the background are progressivley losing it.
On Golden Pond. 38 years ago, it was an amusing film about a cantankerous old coot. Now that I’m 71 I see it as more about someone dealing with his mortality.
Halloween.
First saw it with my stepmom at the drive in. It scared the bejeezus out of us that night and for years afterward.
Now it seems almost quaint.
When we first saw Porky’s my wife was literally doubled over with laughter and had to run out and pee in the middle of the movie because she was afraid she’d wet her pants. I doubt she’d have the same reaction today.
As for The Graduate, I still like it, but it’s a lot easier now to understand that Benjamin and Elaine were every bit as bad as their parents.
I still love Airplane! as much as I ever did (maybe even more now that I’ve seen Zero Hour,) but now I want to kill Johnny the instant I see him on screen, rather the three or so gags I used to laugh at before I wanted to kill him.
Most war movies, with All Quiet on the Western Front being the example that comes to mind immediately. In my teens and twenties, I could watch them as a sort of intellectual exercise, like reading Greek tragedies or Beowulf. Now I just can’t do it. I see all those soldiers being mowed down, and I just feel like bawling.
All the classic mafia movies.