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17 years ago
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Four Rooms
It's a comedy from the mid-nineties divided into four sections. Taking place in a swanky Hollywood hotel on New Years eve, Ted the Bellhop (played by Tim Roth in a gloriously funny amount of excess and overacting) has a collection of strange encounters with the guests in four different rooms.
Each room constitutes a segment, and the interesting thing is that each segment is directed by a different director. The first two are by ones I am not too familiar with (Allison Anders and Alexandre Rockwell), but the last two are guys I hold near and dear; Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino! Can't go wrong with them!
In the movie, Ted gets involved with a coven of (possibly Lesbian, possibly not) witches, a husband and wife who play some strange games, two kids who he needs to babysit or the father will kill him, and an odd drunken bet by a rich producer in the penthouse. It starts out good and gets funnier as each segment goes along, and Ted slowly starts to lose it with all the inanity around him.
While I think they're all funny, I personally enjoy the last two segments the most (which are, coincidentally, the ones directed by Rodriguez and Tarantino); the babysitting and penthouse affairs. The babysitting one is full of slapstick humor and gets completely outrageous at the end, and the penthouse one (starring none other than Tarantino himself and a cameo by Bruce Willis) is full of that trademark Tarantino-dialogue, and it's a stitch watching it happen.
It's a terrific little comedy that doesn't get enough fame, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wants something off (not really weird, just odd) and funny.
Trailer:...
Unfortunately, I couldn't locate a suitable trailer, so instead, enjoy the really cool opening animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMWzyZyrwo
It's a comedy from the mid-nineties divided into four sections. Taking place in a swanky Hollywood hotel on New Years eve, Ted the Bellhop (played by Tim Roth in a gloriously funny amount of excess and overacting) has a collection of strange encounters with the guests in four different rooms.
Each room constitutes a segment, and the interesting thing is that each segment is directed by a different director. The first two are by ones I am not too familiar with (Allison Anders and Alexandre Rockwell), but the last two are guys I hold near and dear; Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino! Can't go wrong with them!
In the movie, Ted gets involved with a coven of (possibly Lesbian, possibly not) witches, a husband and wife who play some strange games, two kids who he needs to babysit or the father will kill him, and an odd drunken bet by a rich producer in the penthouse. It starts out good and gets funnier as each segment goes along, and Ted slowly starts to lose it with all the inanity around him.
While I think they're all funny, I personally enjoy the last two segments the most (which are, coincidentally, the ones directed by Rodriguez and Tarantino); the babysitting and penthouse affairs. The babysitting one is full of slapstick humor and gets completely outrageous at the end, and the penthouse one (starring none other than Tarantino himself and a cameo by Bruce Willis) is full of that trademark Tarantino-dialogue, and it's a stitch watching it happen.
It's a terrific little comedy that doesn't get enough fame, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wants something off (not really weird, just odd) and funny.
Trailer:...
Unfortunately, I couldn't locate a suitable trailer, so instead, enjoy the really cool opening animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMWzyZyrwo
