WTF Happened to RESERVOIR DOGS?

WTF Happened To This Movie? - The JoBlo series that looks at troubled productions, curious creative decisions, box-office failures, surprising successes, and cult favorites!
While we await filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and (supposedly) final film, let’s go all the way back to his beginnings with RESERVOIR DOGS. While not a box office success upon release in 1992, this low-budget crime thriller made by an enthusiastic video store clerk was a festival favorite and home video phenomenon, and marked the emergence of a filmmaker who would change the shape of indie cinema and establish a new kind of cool. Let’s go to work and find out “WTF Happened to RESERVOIR DOGS!”
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[@RoverIAC]

this film was an industry game changer, I still remember seeing an interview with Tarantino before the film came out. I was thinking, this guy is nuts. I gotta see this film.

[@robzilla730]

There was this cool Indy film mag called Film Threat back then that previewed this and QT. You should see his pics. He was young and had hair! Lol

[@mrmeerkat1096]

I saw the same interview with him before the movie came out. Acting loud and crazy. I'm sure they built him up as the next big thing before they showed the interview because I remember thinking yes whatever but I was wrong.

[@RoverIAC]

@@mrmeerkat1096 the interview I saw as on Australian TV with 'Margret & David' who use to be a popular review team.

[@mrmeerkat1096]

@@RoverIAC I can't remember what it was on but it I remember them saying it was supposed to be the most violent movie ever made and I think it might have done well at these film festivals then they showed the interview of him. Like you say crazy, and he might have had long hair dressed very casual. That's if my memory is correct after nearly 30 years.

[@chinaski31dj]

Because the film's budget was so low, several of the actors wore their own clothes (most notably Chris Penn's bright-colored shell suit jacket). Steve Buscemi and Tim Roth also wore their own black jeans instead of suit trousers.

[@SurMonstro]

I remember renting this movie and taking it to my friends house during a sleepover watching it like at 1 am eating pizza. It was 4 of us and we were blown away...good times

[@angrykermit3192]

The stupid thing about everyone's objection to the ear cutting scene is Tarantino didn't even show the ear being cut off! So basically everyone was upset about their own imagination.

[@ndogg20]

Indeed. I remember the dismemberment scene in Scarface, covering my eyes and being shocked at the violence. Was shocked a few years later when I stumbled on an article pointing out that no violence/cutting/dismemberment was actually shown! Its and old trick...great direction and acting leading the viewers imagination on will outdo any CGI.

[@leejohnstone894]

Hitchcock pioneer the technique "less is more" you don't have to show the violence... let the audience's imagination run away with them. Hitchcock: nothing is more scary then one's imagination

[@leejohnstone894]

Ridley Scott employed the same technique in Alien. You don't see the creature. Just flashes of it until the end when you finally see it in it's all frightening form

[@Yvolve]

Not only is your imagination scarier, but it is set up so perfectly. Madsen really honours his name by playing the perfect cold-blooded psychopath, so your mind goes way past what it otherwise would. You think of what he could be capable of, not just what you can imagine. With Alien there's also the element of the unknown. What is it, what are it's capabilities, how big or small is it (where can it hide), etc. Every shot is a potential jump scare. Perfectly done.

[@leejohnstone894]

@@Yvolve like you said the Jump scares are time to perfection. And I respect James Cameron for not remaking Alien or copying Ridley Scott in his direction of Aliens and unlike a lot of fans I like Alien 3

[@ClipsGalore247]

That Harvey Weinstein, gentleman comment almost killed me lol

[@ninaa4192]

While films like Pulp Fiction and I glorious Basterds can be argued as objectively better films, Reservoir Dogs will always have a special place in my heart. Such a cool movie.

[@staggerlee6794]

Likewise. It like when a band goes on to make many great albums each one better than the last, it's the first that remains your favourite because that's the one that drew you in.

[@tiaaaron3278]

Reservoir Dogs is better than Pulp Fiction and Basterds. PF and IB have more polished direction but Dogs has the better acting, better story and better characters. Basterds has such a flat cast of characters, with Basterds themselves being the worst.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

"Stuck in the Middle with You," was a hit in 1973 here in the UK and then became really popular in the 1990s after this movie. Because of this, it is often played at weddings in the UK as it is great to dance to and several generations know and like it. It's pretty funny considering it was a torture scene that made it popular for my generation and it was my generation dancing to it at our weddings.

[@leejohnstone894]

It is pretty funny that it took the torture scene to popularize the song

[@nicoffee777]

@Uhh Sure What???

[@joshhilado7291]

One of my favorite movies, still watch from time to time

[@vazilin4ik]

What other director can say that every movie he shot was a masterpice? Fucking love this guy and his work

[@Luca-bv5ic]

Paul Thomas Anderson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Denis Villeneuve, Michael Mann...

[@Locadel2003]

Death proof wasnt great at all and The hateful eight was soooo long and boring, not entertaining like his others

[@HarryBuddhaPalm]

Tarantino is a plagiarist that swipes from old movies and foreign films that most Americans haven't seen. He's an overrated hack that was fortunate enough to start his career before the internet became popular and got away with his thievery.

[@vincentharris2259]

@Sarcastic Dude Anyone who's smart knows that every director borrows for others it's called an homage The guy is a dumbass.

[@phillawrence5148]

Those grindhouse movies were gash

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

I’d go out of my way to watch a dish soap commercial if it was written by Tarantino

[@runi5413]

Wes Craven walked out at a premiere because he was grossed out by the torture scene... Did he ever actually watch one of his own movies, I wonder?

[@michaelbolcato192]

Did he ever watch the rape scene in his movie Last House on the Left (1972)?

[@inkgeneral124]

Wait really

[@badascan8910]

@@michaelbolcato192 haven't seen the original but the scene in the remake made me so uncomfortable

[@michaelbolcato192]

@@badascan8910 Yeah, the original Last House On The Left is a very hard watch film, I watched it on Amazon Prime a couple months ago actually.

[@shelbyvillerules9962]

But you don’t even see anything during the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs, the camera literally pans away.

[@frankcolumbo3447]

I attended the Shot in the Dark crime movie festival of which Tarantino was a patron back in the 90s in the UK before Reservoir Dogs was released. I heard Tarantino say that there was a reservoir near where he lived that always had dead dogs in it that had drowned and that was how he saw the characters at the end of the movie. I never saw him say this in filmed interviews though where he preferred not to be specific, but I always take him at his word from when I met him in person and think that was the definitive explanation.

[@John.Angell]

I still can't hear "Stuck in the Middle With You" without wanting to cover my ears.

[@dnasty312]

Not covering my ears but I always think of Vic dancing with that straight razor

[@andik70]

I can only hear it on one ear...

[@nathanslay6342]

I love this film so much!! I don’t have as big of a soft spot for this as I do for Pulp Fiction but Reservoir Dogs is still absolutely phenomenal to me!

[@Jodah175]

fave gangster movie! "Why do I gotta be Mr Pink?!" 😂🤣😂😂

[@MrChainsaw]

The creator of Last House on the Left walks out...now that's rich

[@stanley-fghijk441]

I remember seeing this at an arthouse theater in Boston and thinking that everything in film was about to change. Tarantino was so far out in front of everyone else its funny looking back at it.

[@UncleAnaesthesia]

My parents let me watch RD at 7 years of age and I was blown away. It started a lifelong love affair with Tarantino films.

[@youtried6157]

That’s not healthy for a child’s development. Don’t show a 7 year old Tarantino films

[@johnschlong]

​@@youtried6157loser

[@everyoneash]

I'll take reservoir dogs over pulp fiction any day...but I'm sure that's just me

[@DroosterH]

Nope. Me too.

[@JonCom3dy]

I agree. There’s fat to trim in Pulp Fiction. Though it LOVE Jules, I don’t care about the Butch story at all and I can do without the rape. I’m engaged in every second of Reservoir Dogs.

[@jwood8769]

I’m right there with you buddy, it’s one of my favorites from him. Definitely top 4 maybe 3. 1. Inglorious Bastards 2. Kill bill ( I count as one movie ) 3. Reservoir Dogs 4. Pulp Fiction 5. Django Unchained Sometimes Dusk till Dawn creeps it’s way in and that is what changes the list

[@arthurguillen8432]

@@jwood8769 from dusk til dawn is a Robert Rodriguez movie

[@arizonaFIREent]

Pulp Fiction > Resevoir Dogs

[@luisrosado9772]

10:52 after almost 30 years, I still believe Eddie died from a stroke

[@Th3Treasoner]

Serious? He's shot by Mr. White. White shoots Joe, and then turns his gun on Eddie.

[@luisrosado9772]

​@@Th3Treasoner watch it a 0.25 speed, White shots Joe twice, and when he´s falling then he gun point Eddie, but never pulled the trigger, in fact, Eddie is already falling wounded, before Mr. White tries to shoot him, and all because the blood bags exploded out of synchronicity. Tarantino noticed the mistake, but left it on the final cut, just to have the audience thinking wtf happened

[@GlassThirdEye]

He actually does die of a stroke. A lot of people don't know this but there was a line cut from the film. Right after Eddie says "stop pointing that fucking gun at my dad!" He says, "anyone else smell burnt toast?"

[@ddrewy5118]

@@GlassThirdEye and the line following after that from mr pink which goes "holy shit i can't believe those three guys guys shot eachother and eddie died from a stroke!"

[@kenfresno1711]

@@ddrewy5118 hahaha

[@JH-ks9oi]

Robert Rodriguez El Mariachi deserves recognition same year 1992 and had absolutely zero studio push.. I lived in Austin as a musician then and those times are full of genius Mike Judge, Richard Linklater, Ian Moore, South by Southwest started really taking off, Steven Van Zandt, Arc Angels, Fastball, Stubbs was coming back

[@steveconn]

Quentin's least gassy dialogue film. All killer, no filler.

[@trequor]

Lol the intro is just people talking about unrelated things for like 5 minutes. I mean I love it, but it's still dialogue heavy

[@TheRyanos]

My all time favourite movie, tightly followed up by apocalypse now and pulp fiction.

[@fuser312]

Oh man I would love you to do every Tarantino movie, it can be a series like the James Bond movies.

[@acehilm.]

"Stuck in the middle" wasn't Tarantino's first choice for that scene. He had originally intended for "Ballroom Blitz" to be the song, but couldn't get enough money for the rights to use it.

[@conorbrierley1]

Rest in peace Hattori Hanzo ( Sonny Chiba) ❤️

[@romangarcia608]

9:08 brilliant slam on Harvey Weinstein 😂

[@MEETMagazine]

Pulp Fiction please!

[@tylerdordon99]

At first I thought this was going to a be a WTF happend to... video about Michael Madsen lol

[@mmickle6191]

This movie is utterly terrific! Tim Roth's movie-long bleeding out terrified me so much it was over 12 years between my 1st and 2nd watchings 😅

[@marpsr]

One of my all-time favorites!

[@JohnSmith-gb5vg]

Saw the movie 3 times, only movie watched that much in a theater. Yeah each time the theater was mostly empty.

[@TRINZINI]

What I REALLY want to see is the interview shown at 12:10 featuring Tarantino at VIDEO ARCHIVES commenting on his favourite films !

[@Mode-7]

Pretty sure it’s on KZbin

[@seebarry4068]

I didn’t realise that the camera cut away for years. I’d cut away myself already. Great movie.

[@paypercutts]

Bravo! Awesome review and insights! I also love Lawrence Tierney as Elaine's father in Seinfeld! Imagine working with this guy in a slapstick immature sitcom, if he was such a pain in the @$$ in a crime drama

[@markusvesa2763]

Good work again! I want to hear wtf happened to Demolition Man and The last boy scout.

[@antoniokastrocarlisledemel6617]

When Tarantino is on I can literally watch a few characters sit and talk for hours and not get bored... bruh is mos def in my top 5 best screenwriters ...his dialogue is so addictive i don't even need action and all that other shit..but of course I'm glad it's not just dialogue..Reservoir Dogs maybe my favorite Tarantino movie with Inglorious Bastards and Pulp Fiction right behind them but i love all his movies i really hope he ain't really retiring..i still hold onto hope we may someday get a Tarantino Star Trek movie..good one on Harvey btw..that ear scene gotta give props to the cop got his ear cut off and was about to be burned alive and he still didn't give up Orange

[@michaelstaunton1632]

Really enjoying the content on your channel keep up the good work 👍👍

[@memyopinionsche6610]

And really if you think about it.. Quentin Tarantino. M night shyamalan. Robert Rodriguez. Gamencio del Toro.. Sorry can't pronounce his name right. Was the next wave of epic directors in the late 90's.. Just like in the late 70's you had. George Lucas. Steven Spielberg. Francis Ford Coppola. Martin Scorsese. Wes craven. And. Toby hooper.

[@maxceron817]

A few people have said on the internet that they have seen the heist scene for reservoir dogs.

[@esmewvimes2901]

I became an instant fan. Tarantino is one of those whose name assures I will be watching repeatedly.

[@hellbilly6532]

One of my all time favorite films

[@SawBlood45]

I think. He's gonna do a Reservoir Dogs remake after his 10th film. It's more of a legacy thing. He wants to show what his experience, status, and funding can create in direct contrast to his debut when he was a young novice without any pull in hollywood. I think it would be really cool to see.

[@inkgeneral124]

That would be amazing and he has hinted at it here and there and he has made concessions with his 10 film rule. (Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 being 1 film)

[@ernestolombardo5811]

Three things come to mind: 1. K-Billy is at 108.1 on your FM dial. 108 on the FM dial doesn't exist. Nice touch. 2. After Mr Blonde cuts the ear, when he goes to get the gas and the music stays behind so you hear the neighborhood noises, I went "Wow!", that playful flourish with diegetic sound was inspired, I'd never seen anything like it. 3. There's naught wrong with A Room With A View and Howard's End, lad!

[@NinjakX]

It’s safe to say it is one of the biggest cult classics of all time.

[@Iconoplastt]

Reservoir Dogs is actually rated lower on the list of Tarantino movies, it's a phenomenal film and ground-breaking too. Gotta see it again soon!

[@laurocoman]

This was a great video.

[@theroebuck123456789]

Reservoir Dogs > Pulp Fiction

[@SuperDeucen]

whilst I agree, I would go as far to say Jackie Brown is better than Pulp Fiction.

[@cwn41]

Still one of the best soundtracks ever

[@stephensclater2812]

Everyday of the week and twice on Sunday!! PF is no slouch film but RD'S is gold and takes me back to my 20s good memories watching this film the first time.

[@shanelynch7757]

RESERVOIR DOGS was NEVER banned in Ireland

[@edwardbloecher4563]

In the special features of the 10th Anniversary set Chris Penn tells a story about Lawrence Tierney inviting him over for drinks and some free lawn furniture. I can't do it justice you just have to watch it. Lol

[@whysoserious652]

Loved it, great movie, one of his best work. Great video bro, gonna share it in a quentin Tarantino fb group...

[@BOTzerker]

Tarantino knows what side his bread is buttered on; 8:01 I don't work in Hollywood; just a viewer of movies and I purchased the published screenplay after seeing Pulp Fiction.

[@intruder313]

Still my favourite because it just changed everything overnight - there’s yet to be a leap like it. I fainted during the car scene.

[@judsongaiden9878]

I loves me some Tarantino and Rodriguez movies, but the firearm handling tends to be incompetent to the max. Don't snap revolver cylinders shut like that! Revolvers aren't invulnerable to damage. Cinema Sins would back me up on that.

[@chrismosquad1056]

Great video! Very informative! Thanks, JoBlo! 😎👍🏻

[@trikkerman1]

He really only made 8 movies because Kill Bill was originally one movie cut in two.

[@inkgeneral124]

No it’s still 9 (it’s super easy to forget one tho for me it’s death proof) 1. Reservoir Dogs 2. Pulp Fiction 3. Jackie Brown 4. Death Proof 5. Kill Bill 6. Inglorious Basterds 7. Django 8. Hateful Eight 9. OUTIH

[@betafitness]

He should Definitely do that remake

[@tomhahnl1927]

Great Video, some inside - infos about this movie!

[@thehighlightreal3128]

I think this my be my favorite Tarantino film such a simple and yet effective. I feel like his later movies feels to over the top

[@StillTheVoid]

*The one that started it all...*

[@ricogomez4020]

This video made my top 10 of anything I have seen on the web in my life!

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

In some ways, I think it probably is QT's best film. There's some actual depth there which is missing from his other works - the whole "honour amongst thieves, and how ultimately - there is none" - that is what sets it apart. It was definitely a gamechanger. I very much doubt that a film could have that kind of impact on popular culture nowadays, what with the internet.

[@swaninabox1488]

Keitel is the only one you really do think is the "Professional". Buscemi alludes to it, although his acting was great, I just didn't buy his professionalism. Like this was his first real job. I always think Roth would get a perfect 10 from me for this movie, just watch what he is doing. And when he blows Blonde away... Like Whaa!!! But Keitel sells the whole movie, without him it wouldn't be what it is.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

@@swaninabox1488 It was a very good performance from Keitel. He is an underrated actor - I don't think he gets the credit he actually deserves. What with this film and "Bad Lieutenant", he made some what of a comeback in the 1990s.

[@christinaluna2055]

My late older sister Rachel Martinez (by 17 rs) watching this scene and couldn't believe it but was still dancing to the song Steelers Wheeler's Stuck in the Middle With You. She died when riding her bicycle hit by the bus the song always remind me of her.

[@staggerlee6794]

Condolences to you and your family.

[@christinaluna2055]

@@staggerlee6794 Thank you she was a meth addict in her late 50s with multiple arrests lost her career and house getting hit by the bus is the only thing that stoped her.

[@johndawhale3197]

RIP

[@ryanbrooksleslie3170]

One of the best scripts ever written.

[@eddead4235]

So many movies have the slow walk

[@giacomogotta2253]

The matching black suits are taken from A Better Tomorrow 2, which is also shown on tv in True Romance

[@TheBigmobe]

Of all things that Dexter's Lab reference was a deep cut for how you showed it and one point as fuck

[@KronnangDunn]

Tarantino supposedly wanted James Woods to play Mr. Orange but Woods' agent refused. When Woods later watched the film he immediately fired his agent afterwards.

[@droopyballbag]

It came and set a new genre

[@biguy617]

Mr Blond is my favorite

[@donHooligan]

"are you gonna bark...all day, little doggie....or are you gonna bite?" i never remember that quote when appropriate, in real life....

[@markw.loughton6786]

So many scenes lifted from Ringo Lams movie City on Fire.

[@swaninabox1488]

It was banned in the U.K. as well. When it was shown, in like '94 maybe '95, it was a limited release. I talked my friends at the time into driving a 80+ mile round trip, to one of the few cinema screens that showed it, to watch it. We all couldn't understand why it was banned and they thought it was rubbish. Like so many things I doubt they would admit that now. Yes BANNED as late as 1992!!! I think the handing out of names scene is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. And Roth was a fucking God in everything he does in it, he was so cool. I can't tell you the amount of times I have listened to Mr Pink leaving the building trying to escape, trying to figure it out. "Hey Buddy.. Freeze.. Freeze Buddy"! Bang Bang Bang. I am reminded of Romeo is Bleeding with Gary Oldman. Maybe I should go rewatch it but I could never understand why it never got the same kind of attention. Even now, it is right up there with this movie. Slammed by the critics but that too was a masterpiece.

[@darreldarrenman3334]

I always thought the title of the movie was referring to how the people act like animals in a resevoir. Like, they have plenty of water/loot but tear eachother apart anyways.

[@rafemanrafeman6705]

My favorite Tarantino movie

[@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443]

"Do you ever listen to K-BILLY's Super Sounds of the 70's?"

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

What happened was it was a movie and they didn't need to reboot it or make sequels.

[@alancranford3398]

Using colors as character code names was a thing in the 1976 Matt Helm novel, "the Retaliators." For added international flavor the colors and "Mr." were rendered in the primary languages of each of the conspirators.

[@4545567vvhc]

Good timing i just watched it yesterday again

[@glockseventeen233]

THAT FILM IS A MASTERPIECE .

[@davidhopper9793]

What a consequence. I just watched reservoir dogs for the first time.

[@juevosrantsyoutube]

great video !

[@marcoscholte9911]

still have the VHS tape

[@nathanslay6342]

Please do a Pulp Fiction video next!

[@wstine79]

Can't listen to "Stuck in the Middle With You" without covering my ears.

[@grxzzly94]

his last movie HAS TO BE the return of Vivica Foxes daughter in Kill Bill…it’s only right !!!!

[@hpa2005]

About the scene where Mr. White is beating up the cop. Michael Madsen had difficulty filming the torture scenes, due to his strong aversion to violence of any kind, and was particularly reluctant when he was required to hit Kirk Baltz. When Baltz ad-libbed a line that his character has a child at home, Madsen, who had just become a new father himself, was so disturbed by the idea of leaving a child fatherless, that he almost couldn't finish the scene. This take made it into in the movie, and in some versions of the film, you can clearly hear someone, possibly Quentin Tarantino himself, utter "Oh, no no!" off-screen. (from IMDB)

[@vazilin4ik]

The mr.blond scene is like VTMB,fallout1/2 or morrowind, once someone mentions it someone else will definetly try to revisit it

[@sethkaicer319]

The reservoir dogs got their asses kicked by The Alley Cats.

[@tomb8430]

I'll go out on a limb here and say this is probably one of the best m*therf*cing films ever made, and the see a sequel or remake on what happened after that heist would bring Tarantino full circle. What a great idea that is. Who's with me on this?

[@JH-ks9oi]

Are you gonna bark all day little doggy...or are you gonna bite..?

[@TPG25153]

There are only 4 Directors i think belong on my Mount Rushmore of film making James Gunn Kevin Smith Martin Scorsese Quentin Tarantino These 4 Changed Movies Forever Nothing But Respect For Them RESERVOIR DOGS is My Favorite Tarantino Flim

[@bisqwikbatter6486]

Reservoir Dogs can be interpreted as "Container of Criminals" might not be what Tarantino meant it to be, but taking the two words separately, could be meant as container and criminal

[@Prawnsacrifice]

I fucking loooove this movie

[@juliajones2318]

WTF happened to Basic Instinct

[@KeithTayler]

How about a WTF Happened to Natural Born Killers?

[@gilbertlopez183]

Have the game on the PS 2 and it has a cutscene for Mr Blue.

[@robertfrost8264]

12:43 Today I learned Patton Oswalt is a black man.

[@cl5619]

Reservoir Dogs is just gruesome and stylistic.