This movie was quite awesome, and even if I didn't like certain parts, other bits more than made up for it.
One thing that really didn't sit well with me was how it didn't seem to realize if it was a drama or a comedy. It's just that after seeing Mickey's mother burning to death, you're treated to more comic relief courtesy those dumb black guys who never seem to do anything right.
And I also didn't like how Boris the Blade and Bullet-Tooth Tony die. Tony's death is especially useless, and pissed me off when it happened. But the end of the movie made up for it.
Then end made up for everything. I love how the story is sometimes written backwards. The most amazing use of this is when you see the car scene where first you see the black guys hit somebody, then you see Tommy throw Turkish's milk out the window, then you see the car with Boris in the back get his by the milk, then Boris stumbles out and gets hit by the black guys. Totally awesome.
The other time this method was used was at the triumphant ending, where everything looks bad up until you realize that instead all is right in the world.
I was never a big Brad Pitt fan, because sadly I thought he was a pretty-boy like that fag in Titanic whose name had better never show up on my site. But this movie has totally changed my mind, as Interview With the Vampire had already started doing. This movie was better than Interview though, and Pitt's performance was also better. His accent has to be seen to be believed, and his character is awesome. He's also got some extremely cool tattoos, and as any good barbarian can tell you, cool tattoos go a long way to making a cool character.
Other characters kicked ass too of course. I never really liked Boris the Blade, but his character was sort of cool. Even cooler was Bullet-Tooth Tony. I love the scene where he's getting information out of that one guy by sticking his head in the car window and driving off. And of course the main characters, Turkish and Tommy, are very cool. Turkish comes off as especially cool, since he stands up to Brick Top and wins out in the end.
If you haven't seen this movie because you don't like Brad Pitt, give it a chance. If you've seen it and you didn't like it, well, then I have nothing to say to you. But if you saw it and liked it, than you've seen and appreciated one of the better movies ever made.
Like all good movies, there's are many, many good quotes:
Oh, nothing, Tommy. It's tip-top. It's just I'm not sure about the colour."
--Turkish
Protection from what? Ze Germans? What's to stop it blowing your bollocks off every time you sit down?
--Turkish
Oh no, nothing like that Miss O'Neill, he just likes looking after cars.
--Tommy
So that's the kind of fight it's gonna be.
--Mickey
Oh, bollocks to ya's! This is sick. I'm out of here.
--Gorgeous George
Tommy - the tit - is praying. And if he isn't... he f--kin' should be.
--Turkish
I fought you said he was a getaway driver. What the f--k can he get away from?
--Vince
I ain't f--king buying that.
Well, that's 'andy 'cause I ain't f--king selling it. It's a fact.
--Sol, lady at counter
Now, I know he looks like a fat f--ker. Well, he is a fat f--ker. But he's dirty and he's dangerous.
--Turkish
You take sugar?
No thank you, Turkish. I'm sweet enough.
--Turkish, Brick Top
Oh no, Tommy, I wasn't saying you can't shoot. I know you can't shoot. What I was saying is, that six-pound piece of shit you got stuck in your trowsers there would do more damage if you fed it to him.
--Turkish
What has he got a tea cosey on his head for?
To keep his head warm.
--Lincoln, Sol
Hope this is not a bad moment.
--Brick Top
Well, thank you for that. That's a great weight off me mind. Now if you wouldn't mind telling me who the f--k you are, apart from someone who feeds people to pigs of course.
--Vince
I need a gun.
You don't, Rosebud, me old son. You need me.
--Rosebud, Bullet-Tooth Tony
Why do they call him the bullet-dodger?
Because he dodges bullets, Avi.
--Avi, Bullet-Tooth Tony
Turkish, get your ass up. You lot, follow me and I'll f--king shoot ya.
Calm down, son. Behave yourself.
I've got the gun, son. I think it's you who should behave. What? You want to see if I've got the minerals?
--Tommy, Errol, Tommy
It's a knife, for God's sake. What you use to keep your fork company all these years? A sharp side, a blunt side... what you want, a lesson?
--Bullet-Tooth Tony
And the fact that you've got REPLICA written down the side of your gun and the fact that I've got DESERT EAGLE .50 written down the side of mine should precipitate your balls into shrinking along with your presence.
--Bullet-Tooth Tony
You ain't from this planet, are you, Vincent? Who is gonna mug two black fellas, holding pistols, sat in a car that's worth less than your shirt?
Bullet-Tooth Tony and his friend Desert Eagle point-five-oh.
What've they got to do wiv anything?
They're both staring straight at me.
--Sol, Vince, Sol, Vince
You show me how to control a wild f--king Gypsy, and I'll show you how to control an unhinged, pig-feeding gangster.
--Turkish
It's not a f--king tin of baked beans, what do you mean, "open him up"?
--Bullet-Tooth Tony
Oy, f--k face, who's speaking to you? He asked him, didn't he?
F--k face? I like that one, Errol. I'll have to remember that one next time I'm climbing off your mum.
--Errol, Turkish
'Ave you ever crossed the road and looked the wrong way, and then hey presto, there's a car nearly on ya. So what do you do? Something very silly. You freeze, and your life doesn't flash before ya because you're too f--king scared to think. You just freeze and pull a stupid face. But the Pikie didn't. Why? Because he had plans on running the car over.
It had previously occured to me that the Gypsy had taken the demise of his mother rather lightly. For every action there's a reaction and a Pikie reaction is quite a f--king thing.
--Turkish
Note that a lot of Mickey's lines should count as best line, but it's for the delivery, not the content. There's two reasons I don't list them: one, they would lose too much in being posted into plain old text, and two, some of the time I miss words, or even whole sentences.
Oh, and on a final note, the end song sucks. What a shame. Full Metal Jacket for instance had Paint It Black for the end song, so that ruled. But what can I say? Just turn the volume off for the credits.