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who cares whats in the box


to me it was a great story about revenge and loyalty it could have ruined the film to know whats in the box cause it may not have lived up to the expectations we set or it could have blown us away 50/50 shot so for me atleast im glad they left it a mystery













he was the Shoguns decapitator
He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords

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what's in tha bawwwwks!?-Brad Pitt.

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Se7en loooool,
The whole box thing in Hell Ride was just soooo wanna be pulp fiction, they even threw in a MacGuffin

" Look, there's two women fuc*ing a polar bear!" - Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas 1998

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Which was just sooooo wannabe Repo Man. Which was just sooooo wannabe Kiss Me Deadly. There were movies before Quentin Tarantino invented them.

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Yeah, but the whole film is very Tarantinoish since he's the producer, so there is no reason NOT to mention his films.

" Look, there's two women fuc*ing a polar bear!" - Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas 1998

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Except that his films are all amalgamated cocktails of other films and ideas. Endless arguing has ensued for years over whether his particular mixes make for originality, but in this case, if you know QT's work and have a minimal knowledge of 60s/70s biker films and spaghetti westerns, there's just not a lot of QT's fingerprints on this stylistically. I know he contributed to the script and in the editing room, but for anyone who's seen Larry Bishop's first shot at writing/directing - the absurdist gangster deconstruction Mad Dog Time - and the Bishop-scripted Underworld with Denis Leary, will see this thing is him through and through. The dialogue especially with the repetition and homophones is very Bishop, rather than Tarantino. All of the elements in this that feel "Tarantinoish" date back much farther than Reservoir Dogs. Hell Ride, ironically, succeeds at being a more fully fledged grindhouse throwback than Death Proof.

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It was something to do with deuce being his father. Thats why he calls camanche son when he returns and also tells the gent that its none of his business

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Umm, not The Deuce, but Pistolero, I think you mean.

"I'll tell you what he said, He told me to forcibly insert the lifeline activity card into my anus"

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