Tarantino Re-Watch Series Part 1 - Reservoir Dogs Review - New Segments, New Series - Ep 204

Published: June 2, 2019, 4 a.m.

We begin our Tarantino Re-Watch Series with this review of Reservoir Dogs. Yes, you get the usual non-spoiler then spoiler sections. But you also get EIGHT new segments including a special performance of one of our favorite scenes from the movie! ***Now do beware. In our spoiler section, we also spoil some plot details from Pulp Fiction. Hopefully that’s not an issue for you all cuz we’re guessing that if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen the other. But do beware. What Makes These Episodes Unique? - 1:48 Format to all MMO Reviews - 4:30 NON-SPOILER REVIEW: Cast and Crew - 7:00 Specs - 14:27 (Including a Year in Review - 17:42) Plot Premise/Where We First Saw It - 20:33 Production Values: Sight - 23:33 What Made Quentin Dance? - 25:20 Performances - 27:15 Script Thoughts/Homages - 33:09 Oscars Lens - 35:05 MMO Theater’s Spoiler Warning Scene - 41:03 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: Trademark Tarantino - 42:39 Unnecessary Worsts + Lowlights - 57:32 Tarantino’s Screenwriting Advice - 1:05:40 Easter Eggs/TarantinoVerse Building - 1:10:35 Odds and (Tying Up Loose) Ends - 1:17:04 Your Homework/Our Social Medias/TALK TO US! - 1:22:07 Coming Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 1:22:37 We continue doing all your favorite segments, beginning with a production profile, where we discuss the Cast & Crew & then all the numbers and fun facts about the film in Specs. Then we pepper in almost a dozen behind the scenes anecdotes that have become legend since the movie’s debut. There is the usual non-spoiler reviews of the production values & performances before we discuss the plot with all its best & worst scenes after a spoiler warning. Of course, we also do a massive Oscar Lens, where we ponder how we’d rank this movie with other nominees from that year, & we discuss the effects on the industry at large. But here’s all the new stuff. Mike 1 does a year in review for 1992, which gives you an amazing context for how innovative this story was. We tell you our first watch stories about how we took in the film in for the first time. Our production values review features a What Made Quentin Dance segment, where we highlight the best banger of the bangin’ soundtrack. Our non-spoiler script thoughts discuss all the homages Tarantino loves to make to previous films & how he put his unique spin on the genre. Then instead of a spoiler warning dance breakdown, we get crazy & dare to perform one of our favorite scenes from the film! Yes, yes, you’re welcome, and also, we ham it up like the idiots we are. In the spoiler section, our first segment is called Trademark Tarantino. Here, we breakdown the iconic scenes that Tarantino has become known for & how he made his name. Of course, as we did with Pixar, we dive into the screenwriting principles on display & discuss Quentin Tarantino’s advice to screenwriters. In the midst of all the newness though, we must also address the problems in our typical worst scenes segment, & this is a loaded one. Tarantino’s films are controversial for many reasons, and we certainly need to tackle how & why these films are much maligned. But then we also must add an 8th & final new segment, and that’s the Easter Eggs of the Tarantino-Verse. Here, we connect this film to all his others & describe some of the more clever clues he drops throughout the script, etc… to deepen his world. It’s a fully loaded review, and we hope you come back for many more as we build up to July’s release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood! What do you think of Reservoir Dogs? We wanna know. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!