Reservoir Dogs was supposed to be an Indie post-college low budget type film so Tarantino could show people he could direct. However, when Harvey Keitel read the script he immediately poured money into the project and got top-notch actors to sign on. Secured a distribution deal for Tarantino and suddenly Tarantino was the hottest young director in Hollywood. Making a movie 10 times better quality than his peers for one-tenth the money. Sending Tarantino into legendary status.

"I've never associated this song with terror." -- and now whenever you hear it, this is the FIRST thing you'll think of. Tarantino and Scorsese both seem to be masters of contrast between on screen action, and the soundtrack of the scene.

You caught the implications of Blonde being gun-happy from the opening scene, that's cool, but there were other subtle character hints in there too (Orange, being the cop, rats out Pink for not putting in a dollar)

Two of the many remarkable things about this film: it's a heist movie in which you never see the heist, and with the exception of the flashbacks, it all takes place in that warehouse. You could practically play it on a stage.

Vic (Victor) Vega, aka Mr Blonde, is Vincent Vega's (John Travolta from Pulp Fiction) brother. There are a bunch of references across Tarantino's films that connect them to a cinematic universe. Such as the fictional brand of cigarettes, "Red Apple", that all the characters smoke.

As many have pointed out, Vic Vega is the brother of Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction. One of Tarantino's many unrealized projects was a movie called The Vega Brothers, which would've brought back Michael Madsen and John Travolta. Tarantino implied in an interview at some point that they would be playing the twin brothers of Vic and Vincent, since both characters die in their respective movies. However, the movie was never made -- Tarantino often talks about making sequels or spin-offs of his existing movies, but he never does it. IMO, it seems obvious that he genuinely loves his characters, so he always has fun speculating on what they get up to outside the margins of the films, but the appeal of pulling on those threads is never as strong as making a brand new set of characters (lots of people seem to believe he'll make Kill Bill Vol. 3 as his tenth and supposedly final film, but I'd be very surprised). Sam Jackson said in an interview for Pulp Fiction that he auditioned for Reservoir Dogs and didn't get it. It increased his resolve to get the role in PF. In the final confrontation, there is a notorious gaffe. Joe is pointing his gun at Mr. Orange. Mr. White is pointing his gun at Joe. Nice Guy Eddie is pointing his gun at Mr. White. Mr. White shoots Joe, Nice Guy Eddie shoots Mr. White. Everyone in the stand-off dies, but nobody was pointing a gun at Nice Guy Eddie. Mr. Blue was played by a real-life criminal named Eddie Bunker, who left crime behind by writing a novel based on his experiences called No Beast So Fierce, which was later turned into a movie called Straight Time (very good). He consulted on and appeared in lots of crime movies after that, similar to Danny Trejo, who he met in prison. His character has no story because Bunker is sort of a glorified cameo, a reference to his real-life exploits. There is no other cut of this movie. I really hope you guys watch Tarantino's Jackie Brown soon. I think it's one of his best movies but it is also one of his least-seen and/or least-celebrated, so it never wins polls, but I think it will blow you away. I do get the impression that you're going to do the whole Tarantino catalog, but I hope Jackie Brown isn't last. Also, for reasons I won't divulge, it should be paired with Out of Sight (1998), starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, and directed by Steven Soderbergh (the Ocean's movies), which is another underrated '90s masterpiece.

This was Tarrantino's directorial debut but his first screenplay to be made into a movie was "True Romance" (which features Samuel L Jackson) and should very much be on your list.

I love the connection between this and Pulp Fiction is the Vega brothers. Both are kind of trigger happy, but Victor Vega is ten times moreso than his brother Vincent is in Pulp Fiction.

"Stuck In The Middle With You" was just a fun little song before I saw this movie. Now it's forever associated with Michael Madsen dancing around with a severed ear.

From now on whenever you hear "Stuck in the middle with you" by Stealers Wheel you will picture Michael Madsen dancing in the warehouse.

I’ve been riding the Tarantino train since the beginning, when his films were considered Arthouse. Had to drag my date, now my wife of almost 30 years, to the theatre for Pulp Fiction when it premiered. By the end of that movie, I think the film won her over. Ever since, we’d both go to the latest film from him until Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

1992 was a great year for dialogue in cinema: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs", Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men", & David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross".

I'm surprised George didn't bring up the time when Itchy & Scratchy parodied the torture scene! I recommend looking that up. I'm also really envious of you guys seeing this at an adult age. I learned this by heart when I knew zilch about anything so any element of surprise is forever lost to me. I wish I could forget this and Pulp Fiction and watch them for the first time again. If I get memory loss in my old days, I'm pretty sure that after I've forgotten my kids' faces and where my own hands are, I can still recite all the dialogue from these films.

As far as the title goes, this is from imdb: The title for the film first came to Quentin Tarantino while visiting a production company and noticing that they had a pile of unsolicited scripts under the label "Reservoir dogs". All those scripts were fighting with each other for attention as dogs trapped in a reservoir tank. The name got stuck in his mind.

My favorite line in this movie is "you shoot me in a dream you better wake up and apologize", even not yet in the movie knowing for certain the men were criminals that line was ice cold gangster.

Hey George and Simone, the character subtext in this movie is so next level. Because Harvey Keitel feels responsible for getting Tim Roth shot. HE stops thinking like a criminal and starts taking on a father figure role, soothing Tim Roth as he bleeds out. He knows ROth's going to die, he feels responsible for it and it won't let him entertain the fact that Tim Roth is a cop. Tarantino's subtext is always next level and gives the meaning of events in the movie so much more psychological impact than would be in a normal shoot-em-up heist flick.

One thing that often gets overlooked. When Orange is telling his story, he gets asked why the buy was taking place at the train station with the drugs right there and why the brother was arrested. Orange was able to quickly give an answer without missing a beat, further validating the truth of his story. In contrast, when Eddie was telling the story of Lady E, he could not explain what things her husband "did" to her, thus destroying the credibility of his story.

one of my favorite bits in the film, is when Mr. Orange is casing the store with Mr. White, you can tell he's getting soft with Mr. White with how he is joking and talking to him, but the moment Mr. White describes how to torture and manager to give up the safe, shows to us and Mr. Orange that despite how funny or interesting we see these guys, they are ruthless criminals willing to do anything for themselves and their goal.

What makes this reaction so amazing is that George and Simone never consider Tim Roth to be the rat until he shoots Vic Vega. The Cinebinge team falls for the psychological trick that Tarantino played with the characters. BEcasue Tim Roth was shot so early in the movie we absolve him of being the rat, even though Geroge says it earlier in the reaction, subconsciously he lets his human empathy mislead his logical thought process. This is the beauty of how Tarantino layers his character's progression throughout a movie. Tarantino knows how to mind fuck the audience like few others can.

Debut film as a director and has absolute perfect control of narrative, camera, editing and the actors. I saw it when it came out at a midnight screening and I still think it's his best.

DJ is stand up comedian Steven Wright, one of my all time fave comedians. "So I put a skylight in my roof. The people in the flat above me are furious !" A great film with Stallone (really untypical non-hero role) with Harvey Keitel, Robert de Nero, and Ray Liotta is Copland.

There's a line in the film where Joe says that Mr. Brown is"dead as Dillinger" that's because the actor Laurance Tierney played John Dillinger decades earlier.

fun fact, the restaurant they are eating at in the beginning of the movie is still open to this day in Eagle Rock California. Its called Pat and Lorrain's and their food is awesome.

Now you will never hear THAT song without thinking of that scene. Welcome to the club.

Legendary comedian Steven Wright was also in a movie called Canadian Bacon where Americans were played by Canadians and vice versa to poke fun at each other. Wright played a Canadian Mountie. It's hilarious.

This film shows that if you make great characters and have incredible dialogue you can make a iconic movie. I mean it's a movie about a heist where you never even see the heist.

This was so different, so new, back when it came out in 93 or so. The style, the dialogue, the story were all unlike anything i'd seen up to then. I'm always amazed that no-one has done this as a play, as the main scenes are all in one setting, with only the events leading up to being in the warehouse being shot outside. Of course, a year later, in 94, Tarantino gifted us Pulp Fiction and confirmed there was a new maestro director in the world.

As for why it's called "Reservoir Dogs"... The title for the film first came to Tarantino while visiting a production company and noticing that they had a pile of unsolicited scripts under the label "Reservoir dogs". All those scripts were fighting with each other for attention as dogs trapped in a reservoir tank. The name got stuck in his mind. As for Samuel Jackson, he actually auditioned for Reservoir Dogs but didn't work out well because Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth didn't show up and Jackson had to audition with unknown actors that were taking their place and they were "terrible" according to Jackson.

Tarantino has history of seeing cool names and just using them. With nothing more than 'it sounds cool' as the reason, so I wouldn't think too hard on it.

To think this film is where Tarantino started. Blows my mind.

The code names are a homage to an older crime movie The Taking of Pelhem 123 (1974)

George asks about Samuel L.Jackson being in this movie but it's hard to believe he may not have been in any Tarantino movies if Laurence Fishburne hadn't tuned down the role of Jules in Pulp Fiction.

Hey Simone and Geroge, I feel that the opening scene of them at breakfast establishes many things, but mainly each character is intensely passionate for whatever ideology they have come upon. The other thing is Harvey Keitel is willing to go against JOe, when he won't give him his notebook. Tarantino's dialogue is never there for fluff. it always takes us somewhere. We never understand until the movie credit roll, but it's there for a reason.

One of the best moments of foreshadowing is in that very first scene. When Joe asks “Who didn’t pitch in for the tip?” Mr Orange rats him out immediately!!

Tarantino says that he originally wanted to play Mr. Pink (Buscemi's character) "which is why I gave him so many great lines".

No Samuel L. Jackson, although he did audition for the part of Marvin, the cop.

Simone's reference to Fargo saying Steve Buscemi is gonna take the diamond and bury them in the snow was so funny and brilliant! Really made me laugh! Great reaction too, guys!

Tim Roth was in a junkie-comedy movie alongside Tupac, "Gridlock'd". Worth checking out.

Vic Vega is supposed to be Vincent Vega's brother. Tarentino intended to do a movie starring them both but the project never saw the light of day. But I think some of the ideas for it went into From Dusk till Dawn : With the "2 brothers, one level headed, and one psychopath" sort of plot.

People were really up in arms about the ear scene at the time but you never actually see the act but hearing the screams somehow makes it more terrifying

Such an amazing neo noir thriller from Quentin Tarantino! Following the aftermath of a failed jewelry heist, violent thieves begin to realize that one of their own might be a police informant, but which one? Saw this on VHS in 1996 and it's pretty impressive! Tarantino said that John Carpenter's THE THING was a major influence on making this movie, as the criminals suspect one of these guys is not who he appears to be.

Vic Vega: "You're gonna stand there and bark all day little doggy, or you gonna bite." Love it. Such epic lines, such epic dialogue. Thank you Tarantino for inventing the Vega brothers.

When you watch this movie again. Notice that Mr. Blond ( Michael Madson's character) leaning against something when you first see him in the movie. What he is leaning up against, are coffins. When Nice Guy Eddie tells Mr. Blond to babysit these two. Mr. Blond is sitting on a hearse.

$200 million marvel movies Vs a good story filmed mostly in a warehouse. Just goes to show how far the story and acting can carry a low budget movie.

I saw this in the theater back in 1992 and was blown away and had never seen anything so tense take place on one set. Such incredible writing. Made me an instant Tarantino fan (being securely cemented when Pulp Fiction came out a few years later). Edit - I know it didn't take place on one set, but the "present" story mostly does.

I saw an interview a long time ago in which Tarantino mentioned the 1987 French film, Au Revoir Les Enfents, and sort of misheard the title as Reservoir Dogs and he liked it so much that he wanted it to be the title of his first film even though it didn't really mean anything.

It is actually great interogation technic, to pretend that you are not interested in what the subject can tell you, and just interrogating him for your own pleasure.

That's some movie for a first time Director. What's amazing is how confident he was in doing his own vision. There are scenes where the camera stays on one character and doesn't do a reaction from the other character. The DoP would tell Tarantino, "want to shoot some reaction footage in case you decide you want it while editing?" and Tarantino would reply, "no, not necessary." I think he was going to make it with the $50,000 he got from writing True Romance. Then Harvey Keitel saw the script and said he wanted to be in it and need he'd talk some friends into doing it, too. Once Keitel was on board Tarantino was able to get some more money but it was still very low budget. That's why he put himself in it, so he wouldn't have to pay another actor.

My favorite fan theory connects "Reservoir Dogs" with "Pulp Fiction" through Steve Buscemi. Reservoir Dogs would happen first, meaning that Mr. Pink managed to survive and escape from the police. Things obviously didn’t go well after that, with Mr. Pink on the run and unemployed, so he had to take a job that would allow him to keep a low-profile - and what better than one where you have to wear a disguise all day. Ironically, Mr. Pink was now being forced to work the job he criticized so much, and now he had to deal with non-tippers. Life is a roller-coaster, they say.

I saw this 3 or 4 times in a local independent theater when it first came out. Needless to say, I was mesmerized. Glad you two got a chance to experience it unspoiled.

3:04 That is the legendary comedian Steven Wright, he delivers gags just like that. My favourite: "I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, “Steven, time to go to sleep.” I said, “But I don’t know how.” She said, “It’s real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left.” So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said “I thought I told you to go to sleep.”

I think the reason that I can't lock down a favourite Tarantino movie is that I love this one so much, I'm hesitant to put anything ahead of it (even though he's certainly made "better quality" films). The writing, the casting, the soundtrack and the fact that it could largely be put on as a stage play just make this one an unforgettable classic.

*Random trivia:* In the Tarantinoverse, Vic Vega (Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madsen) and Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction, John Travolta) are supposedly brothers. *Another random trivia:* The personal traits of Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) and Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) are said to illustrate the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath, respectively. And the title Reservoir Dogs would be something like these guys are the reserve hired hands that you pull in for a job.

This was Tarantino's first feature film. It was only made because Harvey Keitel was his friend and read the script. He thought it was so good he got Tarantino the money to make it.

The rat is revealed during the Tip scene, he immediately rats out Mr Pink that he was not the one to Tip. In the end before the stand off the old man alludes to it when he says he should have his head examined because he didn’t realize it at the tip scene.

Tim Roth starred in the film "Four Rooms" , which is an unusual film with 4 parts , each directed by a different director ( including Tarantino and one by Robert Rodriguez ). It has the framing device of each of the segments being one room in the hotel Roth works in. Very worth seeing.

After this was released, Madonna sent Tarantino a letter. "Dear Quentin, It's about love. Madonna." LOL!

Keitel should have at least gotten a nomination for this movie. It's probably my favorite role of his, but it was Tarantino's first movie and I'm guessing the Academy had no idea what to make of it.

0:40 Reservation Dogs (TV Series 2021-2023)

Tarantino has mentioned a LOT in the past few years that he's contemplated circling back around to this movie in book form. Would be super curious to see what shape that would take. This movie hit like a ton of bricks when it first came out. There was NOTHING like it at the time. ...at least nothing stateside. LOL Dude borrowed a TON from international cinema in this movie and subsequent movies.

The soundtrack(whatever form you prefer), is excellent….it’s like listening to a Steven wright radio show. Hope you react to Four Rooms.

0:59 “Does that mean, like, they’re all going to kill each other?” Goddamn, what? She called the ending of this movie in LITERAL seconds… That has GOT TO BE some kind of a record!

Y'all my new favorite channel You watch all the movies that shaped me and it's fun to see movie fans discovering some of these classics

A great movie you need to see is “No country for old men”.

"Easy, peasy, Gary Sinisee" is AWESOME

A heist movie without a heist in it. Hell of a calling card for Quentin!

This movie is taking place on the same day of “Pulp Fiction” and Mr. White’s brother is Vince in the movie. You now need to react to Tarantino’s lesser reacted to movies: “Pulp Fiction”, “4 Rooms” and “From Dusk Til Dawn”!

The actor who played Mr blue is an actual robber turned actor his role is just a cool little cameo

I like how George gets the title mixed up with that of Reservation Dogs starring Jerry Seinfeld. Its tagline was, "Anybody can just take a reservation. You have to hold the reservation."

Another subtle clue of who the rat was was in the bathroom scene between Pink and White. If you look at the bottles of liquid on the counter behind them, there are pink and white liquids together and orange liquid separated on the other side.

One Of Quentin Tarantino's Masterpieces Ever Made, Cool Reaction As Always Simone & George, You Both Take Care

Tarantino loves to work with the same actors in multiple films. Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel both had roles in Pulp Fiction, as did Steve Buscemi ( a very small role as a waiter). Michael Madsen had a significant role in Kill Bill Vol 2

Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen) Had a hard time with the torture scene since by all accounts he was a really nice guy. You can hear him break character when the cop mentions his family "No, no, no ..." just before he sparks the gasoline.

The razor blade Mr. Blonde uses to cut off the cop's ear is the same razor blade used by the Bride in Kill Bill 2. when she escapes the grave.

The name Reservoir Dogs comes from Tarantino's mom, Connie, She called him and his friends, when he was a kid, a bunch of Reservoir Dogs back in his hometown, Knoxville, Tennessee. It is like a bunch of hooligans or a motley crue of little trouble makers.

The lady Orange has to shoot was Tim Roth's dialect coach. He pleaded for her to take the role, I guess because he knew what would happen to her.

Mr. Blue was a guy named Edward Bunker, who was a real career criminal who had spent almost all of his early life in prison, but had also gone on to be an accomplished writer (if you want a spectacular example of that, watch "Straight Time", 1978- book and screenplay by Eddie Bunker.

Not sure if it was answered, but it was called Reservoir Dogs because Tarantino liked a film by the late, great French director Louis Malle called, Au Revoir, Les Infants (Goodbye, Children). Tarantino could never remember/pronounce it so he just kept referring it to as Reservoir Dogs. When he wrote the script for Reservoir Dogs, the ill-used name fit perfectly for the gang of diamond thieves.

Some more hints of Mr. Orange. In the scene where Mr. White & Mr. Pink are talking, on the right there are colored bottles. A bunch of pink ones and a white one on the left side of the shelf. On the right side are a couple of orange ones, seperate from the other group.

Saw this during the first run, remember coming out of the theater, 'I'm feeling raw.' A watershed moment, witnessing a new genre.

I can't hear "Stuck in the Middle With You" anymore without thinking of that scene!

I love Tarantino's first two movies. I just wish I had seen them in the cinema at the time but without the world wide web is was so much harder to get info on a movie. Tv shows about movies were often very commercial in nature (still are) so I got to know many of these movies by watching them on tv or buying them after reading the dvd reviews on Amazon back in the 90's.

One of the singer Pink's origin stories of her name are from this movie, she was Mr Pink in her crew. There are other stories I have heard her tell though.

Nice Guy Eddie (the kid in the track suit) is Chris Penn, Sean's brother. Chris died of heart disease at age 40.

Awesome reaction guys, loved it. Do you like smart and weirdly funny one-liners that are just non-stop getting fired at you? Then please search for Steven Wright, he's the voice in the radio! And he's one of the best at it. I realized much much later he was the DJ and I was like holy shit it's Steven Wright haha. You might already know him, just not the name^^ But you totally won't regret watching some of his stuff if you don't! "I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it." "Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen." "For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out." "I bought some batteries, but they weren't included." And many more that i don't want to spoil^^

Michael Madsen dancing kills me everytime :)

Anyone getting a laugh from Simone counting the “dicks” in the first scene should join the Patreon so they can see the True Detective episode where Simone counts the “butts” in the show’s intro.

There is foreshadowing in near the beginning that tells you that Orange is the rat. When Mr. White and Mr. Pink are talking in the back by themselves there is a wide shot in which you can see off to the right there are three pink containers sitting next to a white container, and then further to the right by itself is an orange container, subtly hinting at how Orange has separate loyalty from the other two. As a separate piece of trivia, some of the money that Tarantino used to make this movie was earned from a cameo appearance as an Elvis impersonator in an episode of The Golden Girls.

Scenes that make you imagine what is happening can be quite fun. For example, in the first Avengers movie when Thor holds his hand out to call for Mjolnir while fighting the Hulk. When Mr. Pink seems to get a clean getaway in this film you can hear the police shooting Mr. Pink to death outside and the scene plays in your imagination alone because this film delivers the mantra of "live by the sword, die by the sword" to every one of the characters.

Another great reaction! I have never been a huge Tarantino film, but I do like this film quite a lot. Quick recommendation: The use of colours for the aliases is an homage to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) which is an AMAZING heist film. Highly recommend!

I watched this movie back-to-back when I was a kid. I love it.

This was my favorite movie for a while. When I saw Pulp Fiction for the first time in the theater it didn't seem as good at first because it had so much color to it, and I liked how neutral and desaturated everything was in the first movie. Plus how low-budget the whole thing was. The reservoirs are everywhere in the L.A. area. They're for run-off from the rain.

And you will now forever think of that scene when you hear Stuck in the Middle with You.

Tarantino says he wrote the part of Mr Pink for himself. Steve Buscemi came in to audition and T said, alright, this is mine, you have to take this from me. He was so blown away by his audition that Buscemi got the part instead.

Not sure if someone else explained here in the comments but a "reservoir dog" is dog that has no home and no pack. It survives day to day on the streets by toughness and ferocity. Hence........ Reservoir Dogs. I enjoy your reactions.

See also the Winchester stand off in Shaun of the dead, " stop pointing that gun at my mum!! "

Reservoir Dogs = old early 20th Century slang referring to enormous rats that you'd find in reservoirs. Rat. As in snitch. As in undercover cop.

The title of "Reservoir Dogs" is meant to evoke the image of dogs fighting over water and/or in an enclosed space, like the characters.

Reservoir Dogs was originally going to be a much shorter film, and it was actually going to be one of the three segments of Pulp Fiction back when Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary intended for Pulp Fiction to be a crime anthology movie, with Avary writing and directing The Gold Watch segment. They scrapped the idea after being unable to find a third collaborator for Pulp Fiction and Tarantino ended up expanding Reservoir Dogs into a full length feature, and then wrote The Bonnie Situation and Vincent Vega and Marcellus Wallace's Wife as a replacement in Pulp Fiction, directing the entire movie himself.

The song at the end was "da lime in the coconut" a song about a woman with a stomachache and Orange had a gut shot the entire movie. Also I saw Simone's head bobbing lol 😆