Samuel L. Jackson: How many good films has he been in?
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I'm old, and so are these movies: but consider this you kiddo's list of late night entertainment. I wouldn't call any of it *art*, but they are pretty damn captivating.
Unbreakable
The Negotiator
Sphere
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Pulp Fiction
Why can't I remember the title of the film in which he wears a kilt and makes drugs? That was sick.
Unbreakable
The Negotiator
Sphere
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Pulp Fiction
Why can't I remember the title of the film in which he wears a kilt and makes drugs? That was sick.
He was also in True Romance very briefly.SniperWolf427 said:
OP: I don't like Samuel L. Jackson that much, mostly because he plays the same exact character in every single movie: the angry black guy who says '************!' every second word.
And I'm not too fond of Pulp Fiction. It's my least favorite Tarantino movie besides Deathproof which is just plain stupid.
You know how many good movies he's been in? EVERY SINGLE ONE HE'S EVER BEEN IN. Samuel L. Jackson makes a movie good, no matter what.
Snakes on a Plane was his masterpiece. It is a film that might well be overlooked now but in the future will be considered more important than even Citizen Kane or Death to Smoochy.
Snakes, ladies and gentlemen...
...are more than snakes. The Snake, as such, is a metaphorical personification of our deepest and most atavistic desires: lust, sexuality, hunger. Hence, Snakes on a Plane is not, as you all might think, just a completely idiotic excuse for a totally lame plot: quite to the contrary, the Snake on a Plane is a subtle metaphor for the dichotomy of technologic progress contrasted with basic primitivity.
Fifty years ago, a man in a rubber suit trampling over toy trains, Godzilla, was known to represent our primary fear of atomic mutation. But how narrow, how hollow, how shallow is Godzilla compared to the Snake on the Plane! Isn't the snake - or, to evoke a Biblical image - the Serpent - the very essence of everything that makes technology (here: symbolised by The Plane) so fragile? And isn't snake poison known both as a deadly toxic and as healing medicine, as symbolised in the rod of Aeskulap?
Snakes on A Plane, ladies and gentlemen, is a deeply symbolistic film, a metaphorical mass for the most disquieting sides of modernity, a simile of the futility of Human Existence vis-a-vis of our own incompetence, and a terrible memento mori in our post-modern society. And Samuel "Loudspeaker" Jackson is nothing else but the Eternal Adam resisting to the timeless temptation offered to him by his own most ancient instincts which might, or might not present him with the easiest solution of all to escape the dilemmata of modern life - death! Thus, Snakes on a Plane will become yet another epitaph of diaphanous symbolism après la lettre.
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for listening.
Snakes, ladies and gentlemen...
...are more than snakes. The Snake, as such, is a metaphorical personification of our deepest and most atavistic desires: lust, sexuality, hunger. Hence, Snakes on a Plane is not, as you all might think, just a completely idiotic excuse for a totally lame plot: quite to the contrary, the Snake on a Plane is a subtle metaphor for the dichotomy of technologic progress contrasted with basic primitivity.
Fifty years ago, a man in a rubber suit trampling over toy trains, Godzilla, was known to represent our primary fear of atomic mutation. But how narrow, how hollow, how shallow is Godzilla compared to the Snake on the Plane! Isn't the snake - or, to evoke a Biblical image - the Serpent - the very essence of everything that makes technology (here: symbolised by The Plane) so fragile? And isn't snake poison known both as a deadly toxic and as healing medicine, as symbolised in the rod of Aeskulap?
Snakes on A Plane, ladies and gentlemen, is a deeply symbolistic film, a metaphorical mass for the most disquieting sides of modernity, a simile of the futility of Human Existence vis-a-vis of our own incompetence, and a terrible memento mori in our post-modern society. And Samuel "Loudspeaker" Jackson is nothing else but the Eternal Adam resisting to the timeless temptation offered to him by his own most ancient instincts which might, or might not present him with the easiest solution of all to escape the dilemmata of modern life - death! Thus, Snakes on a Plane will become yet another epitaph of diaphanous symbolism après la lettre.
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for listening.
Or, you know, it could just be about snakes on planes. I think that works too.cuddly_tomato said:
Uuh, Pulp Fiction?Milky_Fresh said:
Seriously, I really don't know. He's more of a prescence than an actor though. Like Michael Cera, although his wallet's not the one that says BAD ************.
Pulp Fiction
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Jackie Brown
Coach Carter (not a great movie, but he was great in it)
1408
He's been in alot more but with smaller roles that I dont want to name (Iron man, Inglorious etc etc).
It's not about the amount of movies he's been in though. It's the quality of his work in those movies.
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Jackie Brown
Coach Carter (not a great movie, but he was great in it)
1408
He's been in alot more but with smaller roles that I dont want to name (Iron man, Inglorious etc etc).
It's not about the amount of movies he's been in though. It's the quality of his work in those movies.
I actually haven't seen many Samuel L. Jackson films, but all I have to say is Afro Samurai. That anime/movie/manga/game is the single greatest invention of all time.
Damn you!!! You even ninja'd me to the example I was going to use....Sir Kemper said:
OT, I can only name about....4: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Episode III, Pulp Fiction and...uh....okay only 3
Thank you so very much. I was about to rage about how people could forget his second best film, behind Pulp Fiction of course, but then you saved the day. HUZZAAAHHHH!!!!!Zero Pattern said:
