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Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)
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Joe Carnahan (screenplay)
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16 October 1998 (USA)
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Every generation has a hero. more
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A Cherry Pontiac Lemans Convertible...Two Days...Two-Hundred & Fifty Grand. When your lemon lot hits...
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OK Tarantino retread.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Joe Carnahan | ... | Sid French |
| Dan Leis | ... | Bob Melba |
 | Ken Rudulph | ... | FBI Agent Jared |
| Dan Harlan | ... | Danny Woo |
 | Hugh McChord | ... | Mr. Reich |
| Kurt Johnson | ... | Hillbilly Sniper |
| Mark S. Allen | ... | FBI Agent Franks |
| Kellee Benedict | ... | FBI Agent Littel |
| Mike Maas | ... | Victor Drub / Dumpster Bum |
 | Nick Fenske | ... | Mechanic |
| Mark Priolo | ... | Frank Priolo |
| Andrew Fowler | ... | Mike Carbuyer |
| Gloria Gómez | ... | Julie Carbuyer |
| Josephine Arreola | ... | Elda |
| Dave Booth | ... | Jerry |
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Rated R for violence and pervasive language.
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87 min
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Continuity: When Sid is shot and Bob is helping to bind the wound, they both begin to tie off below the wound, instead of above it (between the wound and the heart, in order to constrict blood flow). When we next see Sid's leg, the wound is bound correctly, above the wound.
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Referenced in Narc: Making the Deal (2003) (V)
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Spreadin' My Love
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It amazes me the impact that two movies ("Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction") can have. Quentin Tarantino has become by far the most imitated director of his generation on the strength of those two movies.
"Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane" is one in a long, long string of Tarantino ripoffs, but it's certainly not a bad one (like "Two Days in the Valley," which made me want to puke). As the title suggests, it's high-energy, high-impact, and gritty. Actual, indie-film gritty, not Hollywood faux gritty. Still, the overwhelming unoriginality of the whole affair kind of bogs it down.
Carnahan has since attained his own identity and gone on to vastly better things, though: "Narc" is perhaps the best cop movie I have ever seen.