Four Rooms - Anyone ever see it?
09-30-14, 08:57 AM
#28
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Four Rooms - Anyone ever see it?
Timely bump for me because I just rewatched this movie last week on NetFlix streaming. (The only other time I saw it was in the late '90s on a DVD rental as I recall.)
My overall impression is still basically the same as before:
- Tim Roth's performance is just too over-the-top
- I didn't like the 1st segment (the coven of witches) aside from the nudity
- it got better with the 2nd segment (the crazed husband with a gun)
- the 3rd segment (kids don't misbehave) is the best one by far
- the 4th segment (the man from hollywood in the penthouse suite) goes on too long but has a great ending
But I forgot how much I liked the short cameo by Marisa Tomei when she was on the phone with Tim Roth's character when he was trying to reach his boss. And I completely forgot that his boss was played by Kathy Griffin.
And I think the Tarantino segment serves as a strong argument against one of cinema's favorite artistic flourishes: the long unbroken shot. That segment was at its worst during the unbroken shot and only got good after editing returned to the segment. Without the unbroken shot, the scene could have tightly edited to work much better overall instead of dragging on for so long.
My overall impression is still basically the same as before:
- Tim Roth's performance is just too over-the-top
- I didn't like the 1st segment (the coven of witches) aside from the nudity
- it got better with the 2nd segment (the crazed husband with a gun)
- the 3rd segment (kids don't misbehave) is the best one by far
- the 4th segment (the man from hollywood in the penthouse suite) goes on too long but has a great ending
But I forgot how much I liked the short cameo by Marisa Tomei when she was on the phone with Tim Roth's character when he was trying to reach his boss. And I completely forgot that his boss was played by Kathy Griffin.
And I think the Tarantino segment serves as a strong argument against one of cinema's favorite artistic flourishes: the long unbroken shot. That segment was at its worst during the unbroken shot and only got good after editing returned to the segment. Without the unbroken shot, the scene could have tightly edited to work much better overall instead of dragging on for so long.
Last edited by dhmac; 09-30-14 at 09:15 AM.
09-30-14, 09:24 AM
#29
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Four Rooms - Anyone ever see it?
I enjoyed the film. It was one of my first LD purchases back in the day. I remember it came it with the trailer and the trailer had a few scenes that weren't in the finished film. I know Kathy Griffin had a bigger role, because in the trailer she was telling Ted what he had to do and she was also wearing a uniform. She was his supervisor or something.
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