@@runi5413 They stole the best parts of the song in maybe five minutes. And he borrowed very heavily from a Chinese film, "City On Fire." With that template, two weeks is believable. I still love this film.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm Basic plot is similar, but the structure, style of storytelling & themes explored are much different. Just because something is inspired by another work, doesn't mean it's a rip off.
I, a 19 year old guy, watched it for the first time ever and I loved it. So I guess yeah, it aged well :) I didn't get some references but the style of writing and shooting the movie were amazing by today's standards
the diner scene is great in its own right as it shows you how all the characters act later on mr orange rats out pink to joe as he is a rat. mr pink is only concerned about himself and thinks about his own survival first over everyone else, why he is the only survivour. mr white sticks up for the waitresses which shows that he will stick up for mr orange at the end. mr brown and blue arent important
Not to mention, Mr. Blonde, when asked to shoot Mr. White, gleefully pantomimes shooting him, foreshadowing his violent outburst that sends the whole job into a tailspin.
I disagree that Reservoir dogs is in anyway inferior to Tartantinos later films. It´s remains the standard by which all the others are judged and is more intense, less self indulgent and "baggy" than all his others.
He simply said that it was the most amateur, in regards to whether today’s audiences would receive it if it were released today. He didn’t say it was an inferior film.
In case you are all still interested, a Reservoir Dogs heist has been released for this amazing game you've probably already heard of, Payday 2. (The game itself takes massive inspirations from movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Heat, Oceans Eleven, Point Break, The Town, Hardcore Henry etc) I'm glad to report that the heist is bloody FANTASTIC for both Payday and Reservoir Dogs fans, one of the best heists in all of Payday 2, it's THAT good and it's free for everyone that owns Payday 2. (I'm mentioning the fact that it's free because there are a lot of paid DLC that i can't really blame the devs for making, they're kinda struggling financially speaking and some DLC uses licenced material like Scarface or John Wick for example)
This movie... ill tell you, is unlike ANYTHING ive seen nowadays. With a runtime less than average movie released today, which would be about around 2+ hours, this movie is one hell of a rare gem to only need 100 minutes of runtime to be this good... I cant even take my eyes away from the movie as every sequence of this movie is so interesting and engaging. You can understand the personality, the pressure and even the feeling the characters were feeling as the story moves forward to the end, and the way it ends just makes me smile in shocked. Its hard to analyze what the story is about as im not a movie analyzer, but i can tell myself one thing. Watch more of this addicting shit.
@@theyoungmoviegoer5915 3 weeks later, my comment asking if the comment has aged well which was originally asking if the commenters question of "Has Resevoir Dogs Aged Well" aged well? Well yes, I'd say my comment asking if the comment has aged well....aged well.
I can't believe it took me this long, but I finally watched RD today. I was sleep-deprived and half-awake the entire day, but as soon as I hit play on the movie I felt like some energy started coursing through me.
Every Quentin Tarantino movie is 'White Guy Says "Nigger", Gets Shot Eventually' starring Actor McCareer-Comeback, Foreign Actor/American Accent Jones, and Michael Madsen.
This video is extremely well edited and extremely well paced. It is actually my favorite video of yours, something about it just always makes me wanna rewatch, you also talk more about things that i haven't heard anyone else really mention.
I was in my twenties when Reservoir Dogs was released. Probably watched it two dozens times by now. And despite it's amateurness, as you say, it's my favourite Tarantino film. And it's not even close. Love this movie so much!
Yes. I rewatched it recently to see how well it’s aged, the dialogue and writing is raw, the acting is great and the effects and makeup look great. It’s gonna be influential for another 2 and a half decades, and even longer, and it deserves it.
That’s what they say about Pulp Fiction but that was a 1 & done for me. Same with Once Upon a Time & True Romance. Django & Hateful 8 I could watch 100x though. Kill Bill & Inglorious were great too. Those are prob the only 5 movies I’d say are must own.
Steven Wright as the radio DJ, and the soundtrack itself, both do alot of the heavy lifting in ensuring the long-term appeal of Reservoir Dogs. Also, Tarantino tried hard to avoid too many references to the time period (save for some pop culture references), as he was knowingly attempting to make a classic for the ages. His stories, including their attendant themes, motifs, and characters, always deal in universal and eternal allegories of redemption and retribution.
"Pain is the brutal and specific attention to the moment" Unbelievably Awesome, very conscious, and aware definition of pain. I raise my hat to you sir.
*Capitalism is inherently exploitative, because workers are never fully compensated for their work.* If a business pays you 14 dollars per hour, that is because you produce more than that in value for the company. The rest of the value goes to the owners of the business as profits simply because they own the means of production. This fundamental problem is why inequality is on the rise in the wast majority of the world, even in countries like Norway and Denmark that have good labor laws and high taxes on the rich. To combat this problem we need to fundamentally change how the economy works. One solution that would would keep all the benefits of the current marked system is to democratize the workplace. By doing away with the owner class and making every worker a shareholder of the company they work at they would get all value that they produce. Nothing about this suggestion is theoretical. The largest worker co-opt that exist right now is the Mondragon Corporation which consists of 257 sub-companies and have over 80 thousand employees. Studies done on worker co-opts show that they are *more* productive than regular companies and offer more stable employment and have smaller difference in wages between managers and regular workers (because they vote on it). Like tuition-free college, universal healthcare and a livable minimum wage, this has already been tested in other countries and it works way better than what we have now. Why shouldn't we fight for it in the same way we fight for universal healthcare, tuition-free college and a livable minimum wage?
god the first scene with mr.orange and mr.white is impeccable and pulls so many strings in my heart. i felt like i was watching what my dad would do if he were in that situation, incredible acting
I remember watching this for the first time in a long time a few years ago. Yes, the opening is pure emulsion and created palpable anxiety. Stupid great film for a hundred different reasons.
God times, Bad times... The fun part is that I literally discovered - and was hooked by - "Reservoir Dogs" by accident about 25 years ago and one my very best friends and I were huge fan of Led Zep. Such a strange feeling now. Thank you for the review man, I'll happily admit I didn't know about your chan, rarely sub that fast. Good job!
This was the second Quentin Tarantino movie I've watched (first was Inglorious Basterds), but Reservoir Dogs take the cake for my favorite Tarantino flick. I think what I love the most is that the plot is essentially pretty simple and not hard to follow at all: it's a heist gone wrong. And the fact that you never see the heist itself adds so much to the movie's character.
I just discovered your channel today, and I've already watched 6 videos in a row. Your style is very fluid and intellectual and you have a great way of getting your point across well. I love this video especially, because Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorite movies. :)
RD has definitely aged well. I recently watched it side by side with the script on one side of the screen. I noticed that Michael Madsen improvised his lines a lot, fell out of character when he forgot them onscreen, but indelibly made the character his own just the same. Also, the very techniques that made Tarantino relevant now, is what was percolating back then - genre bending without breaking, amazingly clever dialogue and characterizations, strong point of view, clever structure manipulation, and probably most not talked about - he was very interested in the minutiae of the genre, the spaces between the lines.
im sorry i had to stop at 2:20 not because the video was bad, but because ive only seen kill bill vol. 1-2 and pulp fiction. nothing else have i seen. i must watch it now.
Considering I watched this movie for the first time in 2021, being my opening to Quentin Tarantino as well as cinema outside of the mainstream superhero and box office hits. I had a great time watching this, and it will forever go as one of my favourite movies to have ever watched. It opened me up to so much more cinema than before, I started watching directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Scorsese etc. This movie is timeless and to this day stands as one of those gems of cinema that everyone should at least watch once. Taking into consideration also; the extremely low budget and time to write the movie as well, really goes to show how great this movie is.
Don't forget that Tarantino wrote the screenplay for "True Romance"A great film that is overlooked and more often than not, never heard of.If you have not seen it and are a Tarantino fan, you will love it. It has his signature all over it
This remains the undefeated champion of his catalog to my mind, if for nothing else than the genius move of forgoing the typical trope of cliche casting, instead choosing to have rockin' radio disc jockey K-Billy, a voice-only role, portrayed by stand-up comedian and Anthropomorphic Quaalude, Stephen Wright.
I really enjoyed the movie but can't watch it again just because of the ear cutting torture scene, even though it's not actually shown being done. That scene creeps me out more than most horror movies.
He sets us all up how to use music in movie sceans and when he ends what the has to say to himself uses it wonderfully master of this video essay craft nerdwriter hope you will amazes us with more if this types of content
I think it’s aged quite well, and plot-wise it’s probably one of Tarantino’s best films. Tarantino’s style is one which clearly doesn’t really need 100 million dollars to tell a story, and it’s neat to compare it with his higher budgeted films and see that there’s not really much of a difference outside of genre and budget. As an aspiring filmmaker myself, this film is a genuinely inspirational piece for how to make a movie on a low budget, similar to Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets.
I honestly don't think very many people remembered "Get Christy Love" when Reservoir Dogs came out either. The POINT of that line was that it was an almost forgotten TV show that Tarantino wanted to shout out to.
Yes, I think that's a good point. And it is also worth mentioning that much of the music choices QT made were songs that weren't popular at all the time; when the RD characters reference K-Billy's new all 70's format, it was like a meta reference to that fact. Within a couple of years of this film and very quickly after Pulp Fiction was so popular, I definitely noticed that bar bands were starting to cover a lot more songs directly from these movies and were inspired to start playing other "obscure" funk songs.
Christopher B. King You also make a great point, and I hope you don’t mind me developing it a bit more. I’m a son of Los Angeles, and in Los Angeles there was an AM station, 93 KHJ or just KHJ, that played all the hits. This is just prior to the popularity of FM stations playing what we’d come to call Classic Rock like KMET and KLOS that were more in the tradition of 60s counter culture. But I digress. So KHJ was a top 40 station, but they’d also break new artists like Dealer’s Wheel, Linda Ronstadt, or the Eagles, entertainers that were playing around L.A., growing a following, and (most importantly) signing with labels and putting out records. I’m not sure when KHJ went out of business or changed its format, but there was another station that played “oldies” called K-EARTH, and eventually those pop songs of the 70s were included in the “oldies” rotation. I’m not sure if that station is still in existence, but still listened occasionally in the 2000s. Anyway, a little more context and then I’ll shut up. L.A. is/was a car culture town, and people at the time probably listened to the majority of their radio in their car. AM radio was standard, FM was just becoming standard, and 8-tracks wouldn’t be mass market popular until the mid to late 70s. I don’t remember anyone using cassette tapes much until the early 80s. Maybe late 80s. I think Tarantino and I are roughly the same age. This is definitely the music he grew up with. We (me and my friends, and I imagine the rest of youth culture) started thinking it was too commercial and we gravitated toward harder rock and later, punk rock. It should be noted that to a large degree, music formed part of your identity and your peer group’s identity. Tarantino strikes me as nerdy enough that he’d have stuck with 70s pop, embracing a true outsider status. This is the other “secret meaning” of his production company’s name, or at least I think so. Incidentally, I recently acquired a Blu-ray of Godard’s Band á Parte and look forward to watching it soon. I’m also looking forward to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, although it’s not being released here until August.
I watched this movie a few weeks ago and all I could think of by the time it was over was that Orange's shirt was (relatively) white when the movie started
"The only context in which Reservoir Dogs hasn't aged so well is within Tarantino's own filmography. . . . it's still very clearly his most amateur movie." WHAT??? Oh, pfft, gimme a break! It's far and away better than Django Unchained, Kill Bill Part 2, and especially The Hateful Eight. And Gene Siskel was dead wrong: it's not just "an exercise in style" that didn't go far enough. That's what the aforementioned movies basically are -- exercises in a style Tarantino had already made his trademark and proceeded to indulge in. The Hateful Eight is particularly overburdened with his focus on dialogue. Practically the whole story of the film, and all the characters' back stories, unfold in unbearably longwinded dialogue ill-suited to the medium of film. (Can you imagine if Peter Jackson had used all 32 pages of dialogue from "The Council of Elrond" in The Fellowship of the Ring in his script? That's what watching The Hateful Eight felt like to me.) The strength of Reservoir Dogs is that it's mindful of its medium, and it holds up superbly as an example of economic storytelling in film. For instance, if Tarantino made it today, he'd just have to show us the fate of Mr. Pink; but 1992 Tarantino, not yet self-indulgent, let Mr. Pink's encounter with the cops play out in the background noise while the camera stayed with Mr. White and Mr. Orange (Keitel and Roth), the two characters we really care about. Lacking in the exploration of characters and big ideas that came with Tarantino's later films?! How about economic with exactly how much we need to know about the characters to understand them and the dynamics between them and simply not concerned with ideas that don't belong in the movie? Saying Reservoir Dogs is thin on this score is like saying Alien is thin because it ought to be more like Ridley Scott's later films. That's ridiculous. Take it for what it is, on its own terms. If anything, I'd like to see Tarantino do a film like Reservoir Dogs again -- hard-driving, gritty, so punchy and frenetic that we can't acclimate to the gruesomeness of what we're seeing.
I'm not sure about this, but i remember Michael Fassbender saying in an interview that he auditioned for a stage production of Reservoir Dogs. I think that is such a perfect idea, this movie would work great as a play!
The diner scene is so set apart from the rest of the film that when I would show it to friends for the first time when it ended I would go “Man, that was an awesome movie.” twice it worked and they thought that was it because the credits were rolling. It also helped if you’re stoned.
I remember when this movie burst onto the screen.i went back to see it two more times in a week.It was a milestone in cinema in terms of its impact.as part of QT's filmography it absolutely stands up 25 years later.
"You can't escape the present either. Because that's what pain is. A brutal and specific attention to the present moment." Goddamn, my man. As someone who has dealt with chronic, excruciating pain for years, you really nailed it with that line.
Still my favorite film of his. I actually think it says a lot more on a deeper level in character studies than Pulp Fiction - with the handy cap of labeling the characters by colors.
"After Scorcese and Spielberg, the greatest living director". Pedro Almodovar has been alive and kicking for the last 30 years. Next year, when he finally makes his English feature debut he will get the love the deserves.
As a young film lover, I watched resevoir dogs for the first time (Nov 2017) and it was amazing. The message was still pertanent, special effects still...effective😂 and the acting ever so powerful.
My friend, Monte Hellman, was the executive producer of RD. He has a great story about walking into lunch hoping to direct RD and walking out an hour later looking for money to get the movie made. Monte brought in Harvey Keitel and the rest is history.
Harvey Keitel in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (Two crime comedies): Serious man who cares about his business. Harvey Keitel in Taxi Driver (A serious psychological thriller): The physical representation of the word bruh
Reservoir Dogs is a masterpiece movie and his most MATURE film by far. Pulp Fiction is an absolute genius thrill ride though and black comedy, so kind of have to give it the edge, but Reservoir Dogs is his most mature film and can be argued his best for that alone.
I watched it for the first time few days ago. And at some point in the movie I had this realisation that the event of robbery which has resulted into all this mess was not actually shown on the screen. They just painted it on my mind with all those dialogues and I got this sense in my subconscious mind that it has actually happened and I do know a lot about it. The sequence or rhythm of the scenes and the way they unfold simply with the dialogues is something brilliant about the movie.
It’s also worth mentioning that he wrote Reservoir Dogs in 2 weeks.
I thought he did a workshop at Sundance to develop it and that's how he got all that talent? I could be misinformed.
Led Zeppelin claimed they wrote Stairway to Heaven in 5 minutes...
These things should probably be taken with a grain of salt, I think :)
@@runi5413 True, but sometimes inspiration just hits you and you can crank it out.
@@runi5413 1 like just for the idiom 😊
@@runi5413 They stole the best parts of the song in maybe five minutes. And he borrowed very heavily from a Chinese film, "City On Fire." With that template, two weeks is believable. I still love this film.
Reservoir dogs is literally timeless that film could be rewatched In 50 years and still be just as good
It's also literally a rip-off of a movie called "City on Fire".
@@HarryBuddhaPalm Basic plot is similar, but the structure, style of storytelling & themes explored are much different. Just because something is inspired by another work, doesn't mean it's a rip off.
@@HarryBuddhaPalm Yeah but it's better soooooooo
I, a 19 year old guy, watched it for the first time ever and I loved it. So I guess yeah, it aged well :) I didn't get some references but the style of writing and shooting the movie were amazing by today's standards
Leftists will ban it one day.
the diner scene is great in its own right as it shows you how all the characters act later on
mr orange rats out pink to joe as he is a rat.
mr pink is only concerned about himself and thinks about his own survival first over everyone else, why he is the only survivour.
mr white sticks up for the waitresses which shows that he will stick up for mr orange at the end.
mr brown and blue arent important
Mr Blue seemed like completely out of the picture..Why did he include that character? And why did he choose an old man to play the character?
Psaikodelik because Quentin was a fan of Edward bunker aka mr blue he was in San Quentin in real life
Not to mention, Mr. Blonde, when asked to shoot Mr. White, gleefully pantomimes shooting him, foreshadowing his violent outburst that sends the whole job into a tailspin.
Mr Brown talks about pain (in the context of sex) and dies a painful death.
I'm pretty sure Mr. Pink are it when he went outside.
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I kinda like the amateur and homemade feel of Reservoir Dogs, it kinda makes the characters feel more real for me.
Yeah definitely. It's a very grounded and realistic feeling film
Isn't it the same for Chungking Express? :)
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It's his most realistic film by far.
I disagree that Reservoir dogs is in anyway inferior to Tartantinos later films. It´s remains the standard by which all the others are judged and is more intense, less self indulgent and "baggy" than all his others.
It's my favorite.
Kill Bill is the worst imo, at least when it comes to self-indulgence and bagginess.
@@tsarnicholasii274 totoally agree! It´s still enjoyable but veryvflawed and nowhere near as good as Dogs!
@@extremetee Yeah... I hate it when people excuse pointless, ugly choices and attribute it to Tarantino just being a genius.
He simply said that it was the most amateur, in regards to whether today’s audiences would receive it if it were released today. He didn’t say it was an inferior film.
I wish I had a friend who was this obsessed with movies
@opap95 NobOdY UndeRStAnDs mY tYpE oF mOvIeS
same here man
I am that friend lmao
Been looking for a friend who is obsessed with rock music. Never met one
same 😭😭
The album-analogy is genius.
CB I like those too. Especially the zeppelin reference
Everything is genius to you people.
Profile so why are you here?
@@Profile.4 you comment in genius
Bro what's the song that played at the end of the video?
Too bad you never get to see the actual heist. But the movie would've lost its novelty if you did see it.
@Matt Dursse I played it. You STILL couldn't see the actual heist, just a bit more of the aftermath.
Its better not seeing the heist, it works better in the script
In case you are all still interested, a Reservoir Dogs heist has been released for this amazing game you've probably already heard of, Payday 2. (The game itself takes massive inspirations from movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Heat, Oceans Eleven, Point Break, The Town, Hardcore Henry etc) I'm glad to report that the heist is bloody FANTASTIC for both Payday and Reservoir Dogs fans, one of the best heists in all of Payday 2, it's THAT good and it's free for everyone that owns Payday 2. (I'm mentioning the fact that it's free because there are a lot of paid DLC that i can't really blame the devs for making, they're kinda struggling financially speaking and some DLC uses licenced material like Scarface or John Wick for example)
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Also they made the movie on a tight budget, a scene with actual heist would've cost a lot more, probably.
For his first film Tarantino sure had a lot of star power. How does he get all that on his first run?
Most of them werent stars at the time.
i think somehow Harvey Keitel got the script and loved it and he helped out and became a producer of the film
SDRW He MADE them stars.
there is an interview on youtube where tarantino explains how he managed to get all these actors
SDRW Harvey Keitel was the only big start at the time
This movie... ill tell you, is unlike ANYTHING ive seen nowadays. With a runtime less than average movie released today, which would be about around 2+ hours, this movie is one hell of a rare gem to only need 100 minutes of runtime to be this good... I cant even take my eyes away from the movie as every sequence of this movie is so interesting and engaging. You can understand the personality, the pressure and even the feeling the characters were feeling as the story moves forward to the end, and the way it ends just makes me smile in shocked. Its hard to analyze what the story is about as im not a movie analyzer, but i can tell myself one thing.
Watch more of this addicting shit.
Now I wanna know did this video of “Has Reservoir Dogs aged well” age well? After nearly two years since it was uploaded.
Didn't even notice that so yes...I guess?
Now I wanna know did this comment asking "Has Reservoir Dogs Aged Well age well?" aged well after 6 months of being posted?
Mickey O'Neil my question is does your comment about this Mans comment on based on this other guys video still hold up 3 weeks later
@@theyoungmoviegoer5915 3 weeks later, my comment asking if the comment has aged well which was originally asking if the commenters question of "Has Resevoir Dogs Aged Well" aged well? Well yes, I'd say my comment asking if the comment has aged well....aged well.
@@mickeyoneil3571 I wanted to continue your rythm but im not clever enough
I saw this movie for the first time in 2015. It totally engrossed me and made me watch every Tarantino film. So yes it still works
The Bacons same thing happened to me. I still prefer this movie to pulp fiction.
I know what you mean happen to me when i was 18 in 2010. Been a fan ever since. Loved once apon a time..
Yep this one made me watch all of Tarantino's stuff
I think I saw it in 2015 too maybe early 2016
The Bacons I’m just watching it this year
Saying this as a 17-year-old who saw it for the first time, I'd say this aged pretty damn well.
Damn, just finished watching the movie. 17 gang baby.
Just finished watching the movie as well, 17 haha
17 here, bloody great movie
Me too. Although I thought it was ok not great. Just my opinion
Same here 💀 17 as well
Oh man, overlaying that Zepp opening with the bleeding in the backseat scene was masterful! Awesome.
Reservoir Dogs Might be my favorite Tarantino film.
Trenton Black definitely mine
Mine as well.
Same
Mine is death proof cause i love cars and car movies
Trenton Black sure
I can't believe it took me this long, but I finally watched RD today. I was sleep-deprived and half-awake the entire day, but as soon as I hit play on the movie I felt like some energy started coursing through me.
Same. Long day, decided to watch RD, wow I'm awake and now looking at YT movie essays.
3:57 "Everybody kills everybody"
That's like every ending of every Tarantino movie ever...
And I love it
Every Quentin Tarantino movie is 'White Guy Says "Nigger", Gets Shot Eventually' starring Actor McCareer-Comeback, Foreign Actor/American Accent Jones, and Michael Madsen.
@@hamupinhere why is this so accurate
Best seen in the Hateful 8....
Except the ending of Pulp fiction, when everybody spares everybody.
Not only has it aged well, it's still my favorite Tarantino film.
Justyn Mychael I cant wait to see the Vegas movie.,, I NEVER watch movies so when he makes one I’m there
Brother. I feel you. But, have you seen Pulp Fiction?
Do you still feel this way after Once Upon A Time In Hollywood?
@@SalemGhassanHanna once upon a time in hollywood is Not the best Film from him im Not saying its Bad but almost every other movie is better from him
@@folex6971 Once upon a time was definitely a step up from Hateful 8, which I really didn't care for
This video is extremely well edited and extremely well paced.
It is actually my favorite video of yours, something about it just always makes me wanna rewatch, you also talk more about things that i haven't heard anyone else really mention.
I was in my twenties when Reservoir Dogs was released. Probably watched it two dozens times by now. And despite it's amateurness, as you say, it's my favourite Tarantino film. And it's not even close. Love this movie so much!
Good Times Bad Times playing over Reservoir Dogs worked so well
Man the cast of this masterpiece is so good and cool.
Quentin hit the jackpot when he managed to sign these actors!
Yes. I rewatched it recently to see how well it’s aged, the dialogue and writing is raw, the acting is great and the effects and makeup look great. It’s gonna be influential for another 2 and a half decades, and even longer, and it deserves it.
It is still my favorite of his. Best dialogue I think.
How can you not love this movie? It's a masterpiece that transcends time.
That’s what they say about Pulp Fiction but that was a 1 & done for me. Same with Once Upon a Time & True Romance. Django & Hateful 8 I could watch 100x though. Kill Bill & Inglorious were great too. Those are prob the only 5 movies I’d say are must own.
I adore this film; the relationships, character building, colour and setting choices and dialogue
I can watch the whole movie with my eyes closed and i can still comprehend every scene and appreciate every minute of it.
Steven Wright as the radio DJ, and the soundtrack itself, both do alot of the heavy lifting in ensuring the long-term appeal of Reservoir Dogs. Also, Tarantino tried hard to avoid too many references to the time period (save for some pop culture references), as he was knowingly attempting to make a classic for the ages. His stories, including their attendant themes, motifs, and characters, always deal in universal and eternal allegories of redemption and retribution.
"...here i am, stuck in the middle with you..."
that's one of the most memorable scenes ever!
Bunch of softies left the theater after seeing that
5:00 Christy love may be forgotten, but Tarantino made damn sure viewers knew who the hell Pam Grier was.
"Get Christie Love" (mid 70s) was an ancient reference when this movie was made!
"Get Christie Love" was about as long ago then as "Friends" is now.. Would you call those references 'ancient'?
Yep. No one remembered that show in 1992. It's obscurity wasn't a flaw, it informed QT's world & characters just fine.
@@Eis_Bear Eh, it was still culturally ancient. Get Christie Love was not equivalent to Friends.
You're right. I don't know how old the narrator here is, but he may not realize that the aesthetic of RD was RETRO at the time it was made.
"Pain is the brutal and specific attention to the moment"
Unbelievably Awesome, very conscious, and aware definition of pain.
I raise my hat to you sir.
*Capitalism is inherently exploitative, because workers are never fully compensated for their work.* If a business pays you 14 dollars per hour, that is because you produce more than that in value for the company. The rest of the value goes to the owners of the business as profits simply because they own the means of production. This fundamental problem is why inequality is on the rise in the wast majority of the world, even in countries like Norway and Denmark that have good labor laws and high taxes on the rich.
To combat this problem we need to fundamentally change how the economy works. One solution that would would keep all the benefits of the current marked system is to democratize the workplace. By doing away with the owner class and making every worker a shareholder of the company they work at they would get all value that they produce.
Nothing about this suggestion is theoretical. The largest worker co-opt that exist right now is the Mondragon Corporation which consists of 257 sub-companies and have over 80 thousand employees. Studies done on worker co-opts show that they are *more* productive than regular companies and offer more stable employment and have smaller difference in wages between managers and regular workers (because they vote on it). Like tuition-free college, universal healthcare and a livable minimum wage, this has already been tested in other countries and it works way better than what we have now. Why shouldn't we fight for it in the same way we fight for universal healthcare, tuition-free college and a livable minimum wage?
YOU MADE THIS 5 YEARS AGO.. AND IM STILL LEARNING NEW THINGS FRON R.DOGS. THANKS MAN. WHAT A VIDEO .....
had a crush on tim roth when i first saw this
Same here 😂
Me too! I also liked Michael Madsen, even though he's a sociopath in this movie.
No, but Chris Penn had me going.
i thought it was just me!! something about guys that are built like a string bean with fluffy hair just gets me goin
He was pretty darned cool in his youth, and if you're going to have a signature role, it may as well be in a cult classic like this.
"I said BUDDY, I'm. Gonna. Shoot. You. In. THE FACE" Brilliant dialogue perfectly delivered. Shout out to Bill Burr
I know, I know buddy.
That guy was one of Quentin Tarantino's co-workers at Video archives. You can see him in Quentin's first real film "My Best Friend's Birthday"
Good Times Bad Tims over the opening car sequence went really hard. loved that.
god the first scene with mr.orange and mr.white is impeccable and pulls so many strings in my heart. i felt like i was watching what my dad would do if he were in that situation, incredible acting
" _What's it gonna be , Mr. Pink_ ?"
Similar to jessie pinkman's
"What's it gonna be yo?"
Bitch
Sometimes I fall into a Nerdwriter1 binge and just re-watch EVERYTHING ever uploaded by this great channel!!!!
I think a great artist creates his own style. His dialogues unique and tense scenes are amazing.
You're officially in my top 3 favorite youtube channels of all time thank you for the crossover of my favorite band and my (second) favorite director.
I remember watching this for the first time in a long time a few years ago. Yes, the opening is pure emulsion and created palpable anxiety. Stupid great film for a hundred different reasons.
Tipping scene is one of the greatest scenes ever.
The quality of your videos are unreal. Your channel is so unique, keep up the good work!
Yes, Reservoir Dogs has aged well. Its one of the most perfect movies I have ever seen.
Man, you guys have amazing production value. Ive just watched 3 of your videos and Ive been impressed with each one. Good job!
Of all of the movies I’ve watched, and all of the movies I’ve ever loved, this one is the only movie that demands I watch it almost once a year.
Resevoir dogs is definitely my favorite movie of all time 100%
God times, Bad times... The fun part is that I literally discovered - and was hooked by - "Reservoir Dogs" by accident about 25 years ago and one my very best friends and I were huge fan of Led Zep. Such a strange feeling now. Thank you for the review man, I'll happily admit I didn't know about your chan, rarely sub that fast. Good job!
I remember someone saying that Tim Roth was doing a Bobcat Goldthwait impression through the whole thing and the movie was never the same for me.
The woman in the car that Orange shoots, was Tim Roth's voice coach, so blame her.
This was the second Quentin Tarantino movie I've watched (first was Inglorious Basterds), but Reservoir Dogs take the cake for my favorite Tarantino flick. I think what I love the most is that the plot is essentially pretty simple and not hard to follow at all: it's a heist gone wrong. And the fact that you never see the heist itself adds so much to the movie's character.
I just discovered your channel today, and I've already watched 6 videos in a row. Your style is very fluid and intellectual and you have a great way of getting your point across well. I love this video especially, because Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorite movies. :)
YES THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT ALBUM SEQUENCING. I been talking about this for years.
RD has definitely aged well. I recently watched it side by side with the script on one side of the screen. I noticed that Michael Madsen improvised his lines a lot, fell out of character when he forgot them onscreen, but indelibly made the character his own just the same. Also, the very techniques that made Tarantino relevant now, is what was percolating back then - genre bending without breaking, amazingly clever dialogue and characterizations, strong point of view, clever structure manipulation, and probably most not talked about - he was very interested in the minutiae of the genre, the spaces between the lines.
im sorry i had to stop at 2:20 not because the video was bad, but because ive only seen kill bill vol. 1-2 and pulp fiction. nothing else have i seen. i must watch it now.
Have you watched reservoir dog yet or not
"Say the god damn words! YOURE GONNA BE OKAY!!!!" I literally die laughing and start repeating it every time I hear it hahahaha
"and why am I mr. Pink?" 😂
@@stevangonzalez5908 😂
Considering I watched this movie for the first time in 2021, being my opening to Quentin Tarantino as well as cinema outside of the mainstream superhero and box office hits. I had a great time watching this, and it will forever go as one of my favourite movies to have ever watched. It opened me up to so much more cinema than before, I started watching directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Scorsese etc. This movie is timeless and to this day stands as one of those gems of cinema that everyone should at least watch once. Taking into consideration also; the extremely low budget and time to write the movie as well, really goes to show how great this movie is.
I'd forgotten just how good Reservoir Dogs looks - every frame could be a photograph, might have to go back and rewatch it...
Don't forget that Tarantino wrote the screenplay for "True Romance"A great film that is overlooked and more often than not, never heard of.If you have not seen it and are a Tarantino fan, you will love it. It has his signature all over it
Nice video. I agree with everything you said. Great quality. Just overall good job! Keep'em coming.
This remains the undefeated champion of his catalog to my mind, if for nothing else than the genius move of forgoing the typical trope of cliche casting, instead choosing to have rockin' radio disc jockey K-Billy, a voice-only role, portrayed by stand-up comedian and Anthropomorphic Quaalude, Stephen Wright.
Jeez dude do you sleep with a thesaurus under your pillow?
I really enjoyed the movie but can't watch it again just because of the ear cutting torture scene, even though it's not actually shown being done. That scene creeps me out more than most horror movies.
I feel like I'm the only one who kinda adores Hateful 8...
DJGamingSmash I like it a lot. Walton Goggins nails it.
I liked it, but the twist felt unfair
I fuckig love that movie, would say it lies on 1st place together with django
fantastic film
I think its better than jackie brown and isn't a bad movie. The acting is great but its not my favorite
That commode story scene is beyond amazing! He acted his ass off!
The editing in this video was wonderful, as was the whole thing tbh.
My stomach hurts when I watch orange struggle with the slug in his gut and bleeding every where
He sets us all up how to use music in movie sceans and when he ends what the has to say to himself uses it wonderfully master of this video essay craft nerdwriter hope you will amazes us with more if this types of content
Just showed it to my 19 year old nephew and my 69 year old mother and they both loved it! I think that's saying something!
The way he edits videos ! Man you're good .
I think it’s aged quite well, and plot-wise it’s probably one of Tarantino’s best films. Tarantino’s style is one which clearly doesn’t really need 100 million dollars to tell a story, and it’s neat to compare it with his higher budgeted films and see that there’s not really much of a difference outside of genre and budget. As an aspiring filmmaker myself, this film is a genuinely inspirational piece for how to make a movie on a low budget, similar to Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets.
I honestly don't think very many people remembered "Get Christy Love" when Reservoir Dogs came out either. The POINT of that line was that it was an almost forgotten TV show that Tarantino wanted to shout out to.
Loved that reference
This. It was obscure in 1992, and only Tarantino the nerd would have written that into the script.
Yes, I think that's a good point.
And it is also worth mentioning that much of the music choices QT made were songs that weren't popular at all the time; when the RD characters reference K-Billy's new all 70's format, it was like a meta reference to that fact.
Within a couple of years of this film and very quickly after Pulp Fiction was so popular, I definitely noticed that bar bands were starting to cover a lot more songs directly from these movies and were inspired to start playing other "obscure" funk songs.
Christopher B. King You also make a great point, and I hope you don’t mind me developing it a bit more. I’m a son of Los Angeles, and in Los Angeles there was an AM station, 93 KHJ or just KHJ, that played all the hits. This is just prior to the popularity of FM stations playing what we’d come to call Classic Rock like KMET and KLOS that were more in the tradition of 60s counter culture. But I digress.
So KHJ was a top 40 station, but they’d also break new artists like Dealer’s Wheel, Linda Ronstadt, or the Eagles, entertainers that were playing around L.A., growing a following, and (most importantly) signing with labels and putting out records.
I’m not sure when KHJ went out of business or changed its format, but there was another station that played “oldies” called K-EARTH, and eventually those pop songs of the 70s were included in the “oldies” rotation. I’m not sure if that station is still in existence, but still listened occasionally in the 2000s.
Anyway, a little more context and then I’ll shut up. L.A. is/was a car culture town, and people at the time probably listened to the majority of their radio in their car. AM radio was standard, FM was just becoming standard, and 8-tracks wouldn’t be mass market popular until the mid to late 70s. I don’t remember anyone using cassette tapes much until the early 80s. Maybe late 80s.
I think Tarantino and I are roughly the same age. This is definitely the music he grew up with. We (me and my friends, and I imagine the rest of youth culture) started thinking it was too commercial and we gravitated toward harder rock and later, punk rock. It should be noted that to a large degree, music formed part of your identity and your peer group’s identity. Tarantino strikes me as nerdy enough that he’d have stuck with 70s pop, embracing a true outsider status. This is the other “secret meaning” of his production company’s name, or at least I think so. Incidentally, I recently acquired a Blu-ray of Godard’s Band á Parte and look forward to watching it soon. I’m also looking forward to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, although it’s not being released here until August.
Dude....U are awesome.
Keep the works coming.
I watched this movie a few weeks ago and all I could think of by the time it was over was that Orange's shirt was (relatively) white when the movie started
"The only context in which Reservoir Dogs hasn't aged so well is within Tarantino's own filmography. . . . it's still very clearly his most amateur movie."
WHAT??? Oh, pfft, gimme a break! It's far and away better than Django Unchained, Kill Bill Part 2, and especially The Hateful Eight. And Gene Siskel was dead wrong: it's not just "an exercise in style" that didn't go far enough. That's what the aforementioned movies basically are -- exercises in a style Tarantino had already made his trademark and proceeded to indulge in. The Hateful Eight is particularly overburdened with his focus on dialogue. Practically the whole story of the film, and all the characters' back stories, unfold in unbearably longwinded dialogue ill-suited to the medium of film. (Can you imagine if Peter Jackson had used all 32 pages of dialogue from "The Council of Elrond" in The Fellowship of the Ring in his script? That's what watching The Hateful Eight felt like to me.) The strength of Reservoir Dogs is that it's mindful of its medium, and it holds up superbly as an example of economic storytelling in film. For instance, if Tarantino made it today, he'd just have to show us the fate of Mr. Pink; but 1992 Tarantino, not yet self-indulgent, let Mr. Pink's encounter with the cops play out in the background noise while the camera stayed with Mr. White and Mr. Orange (Keitel and Roth), the two characters we really care about.
Lacking in the exploration of characters and big ideas that came with Tarantino's later films?! How about economic with exactly how much we need to know about the characters to understand them and the dynamics between them and simply not concerned with ideas that don't belong in the movie? Saying Reservoir Dogs is thin on this score is like saying Alien is thin because it ought to be more like Ridley Scott's later films. That's ridiculous. Take it for what it is, on its own terms.
If anything, I'd like to see Tarantino do a film like Reservoir Dogs again -- hard-driving, gritty, so punchy and frenetic that we can't acclimate to the gruesomeness of what we're seeing.
I watched this film today (2022) for the first time. It caught my attention immediately and never let go. It's a great movie.
No, it hasn't aged well at all. The CGI Steve Buscemi was made on a Macintosh IIfx.
Zorbak962 which one
Zorbak962 you're not suppose to say his real name. Call him mr. PINK
huh?
@@olegyefremov2583 How about Mr. Purple?
There is a Guy called Mr purple in another job
You are Mr pink
I'm not sure about this, but i remember Michael Fassbender saying in an interview that he auditioned for a stage production of Reservoir Dogs. I think that is such a perfect idea, this movie would work great as a play!
Ouf, that would be messy
I watched this in the cinema when I was 13 and it blew my fucking mind. I am 40 now and I watched it again last week and it still blew my mind.
I like when film bros are allowed to put their favourite songs in their videos
Saw the movie for the first time a couple months ago, it aged very well
Late comment, but I've gotta say that you've also come a long way with your craft, and your first videos were pretty awesome to begin with!
The diner scene is so set apart from the rest of the film that when I would show it to friends for the first time when it ended I would go “Man, that was an awesome movie.” twice it worked and they thought that was it because the credits were rolling.
It also helped if you’re stoned.
I remember when this movie burst onto the screen.i went back to see it two more times in a week.It was a milestone in cinema in terms of its impact.as part of QT's filmography it absolutely stands up 25 years later.
I really love this video essay gives me lot of insp!
I watched it for the first time today. Being a 15 year old boy in 2021 I can say it’s a fantastic movie.
"You can't escape the present either. Because that's what pain is. A brutal and specific attention to the present moment."
Goddamn, my man. As someone who has dealt with chronic, excruciating pain for years, you really nailed it with that line.
Still my favorite film of his. I actually think it says a lot more on a deeper level in character studies than Pulp Fiction - with the handy cap of labeling the characters by colors.
Resevoir Dogs is my second favorite movie but I still love asking people who've not seen it, who they think the snitch is
My friend, Monte Hellman, was the executive producer of Reservoir Dogs. He started the ball rolling for Quentin.
"After Scorcese and Spielberg, the greatest living director". Pedro Almodovar has been alive and kicking for the last 30 years. Next year, when he finally makes his English feature debut he will get the love the deserves.
As a young film lover, I watched resevoir dogs for the first time (Nov 2017) and it was amazing. The message was still pertanent, special effects still...effective😂 and the acting ever so powerful.
The German shepherd in this movie was soooo cute
My friend, Monte Hellman, was the executive producer of RD. He has a great story about walking into lunch hoping to direct RD and walking out an hour later looking for money to get the movie made. Monte brought in Harvey Keitel and the rest is history.
Harvey Keitel in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction (Two crime comedies): Serious man who cares about his business.
Harvey Keitel in Taxi Driver (A serious psychological thriller): The physical representation of the word bruh
99% of nowdays movies gets forgotten right after premiere.This kind a masterpiece will outlast generation to come
Reservoir Dogs is a masterpiece movie and his most MATURE film by far. Pulp Fiction is an absolute genius thrill ride though and black comedy, so kind of have to give it the edge, but Reservoir Dogs is his most mature film and can be argued his best for that alone.
I watched it for the first time few days ago. And at some point in the movie I had this realisation that the event of robbery which has resulted into all this mess was not actually shown on the screen. They just painted it on my mind with all those dialogues and I got this sense in my subconscious mind that it has actually happened and I do know a lot about it. The sequence or rhythm of the scenes and the way they unfold simply with the dialogues is something brilliant about the movie.
恰恰是开头赋予了这部电影的深度,一群吃早餐的男人看似在说废话.但是映入观众眼帘的却是展现出了每个人不同的性格每个人不同的价值观念,以及每个人在这个团队中的位置和等级.而这在后面的剧情中起到了非常重要的作用 同时这个导演的电影风格一向是极为激烈的对比, 比如这群匪徒,我们都知道他们要去抢劫,但是在早餐桌上他们却就小费的问题谈论道德这个深刻的话题 .导演特别喜欢将截然不同的价值观放得很近让他们在对比关系中产生激烈的碰撞,从而撕开生活中看似合理的表层,彰显出后面更为深层的东西. 还有一点导演特别喜欢在电影里扮演自己讨厌的人,比如这个喋喋不休沉浸在自己世界里的 MR. Blue,却是第1个挂掉的