Thursday

1998 Directed by Skip Woods

They say the past always catches up with you. This could be the day.

Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey's past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell breaks loose!

Thomas Jane Paula Marshall Aaron Eckhart James Le Gros Paulina Porizkova Michael Jeter Glenn Plummer Mickey Rourke Luck Hari Bari K. Willerford Richard Wong Shawn Michael Howard Gary Dourdan Brian Hooks Jeff Sanders Michael D. Olmos Eugene Collier Marjean Holden Tony Colon Sam Hiona

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Review by Remobo ★ 20

There is a giant, outdoor, flea market/amusement/RV park near me that is, basically, what you would expect it to look like if Ebay threw up all over the physical world. Sure, there are some treasures to be found, but I’ve never found luck when I go looking for treasures. That’s why, I’m here to talk about Spader-Man! Spader-Man is a discovery that I made one day while perusing the action figure garbage, and it sparked an entire mythology of a dimension where James Spader played Spider-Man in an alternate Sam Raimi trilogy, to limited critical and box-office acclaim (but don’t worry about James…his Spider-Man films had a resurgence in popularity when they were re-released on home video for the original’s…
Review by Silent J ★★★★★ 3

It's too fucking badass and way too fucking underrated.
Review by Dawson Joyce ★★★★

The earliest effort from writer Skip Woods (his only film as a director) is not only his best but also one of the few genuinely enjoyable entries in his overall pitiful filmography. Thursday is more than obviously a Quentin Tarantino wannabe but it's one of the better ones of its kind, thanks to its snappy dialogue and fun characters, as well as excellent performances, particularly from Thomas Jane and Aaron Eckhart.
Review by Stephen Earnest ½ 3

Respect for the Coens, for Tarantino, for David Lynch, because black comedy ain't easy. Juggling comedy and horror simultaneously is a hard thing to do right, and even then, the result is rarely as funny or as disturbing as it was intended to be.
Thursday is one of the worst things I have ever seen. It was obviously intended to be a black comedy, but it’s only ever just black, with—as far as I can tell—the sole reason for its existence being the exploitation of every taboo known to cinema. Not only does it glorify violence without any justification whatsoever; it encourages it, throws it onto the screen—dismembered limbs and all—and then smugly comments on it with the kind of…
Review by Brian J. ★★★½ 2

Skip Woods’s Thursday is the reigning champion of the post-Pulp Fiction Tarantino-style ripoff film, a genre which plagued the latter half of the 90s and the early 00s with its oftentimes cheap attempts at stylized violence, pop culture banter, off-the-wall black humor, and nonlinear action. It’s no secret that Tarantino’s vast influence changed the genre, for the better, as far as I’m concerned, and there are several crime films that utilize Tarantinesque elements to great effect. Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Snatch, the Usual Suspects, Get Shorty, and Out of Sight all feel reflective of QT’s influence while also using it as a springboard to further explore their own agendas and ideas.
But then there’s Thursday… Thursday…
Review by Fake Shemp 1

I would’ve loved this back in the day, heck I thought it was fun now, and yeah sure we all know who it’s ripping off, I usually hear about QT’s style being imitated but don’t know many actual movies that do this cause maybe I wasn’t old enough in the mid 90s and they were all forgotten?
Also Mr.Noodle is in this.
Review by Justin Decloux ★★

Straight ahead Tarantino rip-off that starts like a slamming door French farce, but then gives in to its worst instincts by dolling out the flashbacks filled with shock racism, "comedic" scenes of sexual assault, and an ending that plays like they ran out of money and had to cobble something together in editing. It's weird to see Aaron Eckhart and Thomas Jane in the same movie.
Review by Gramercy Riff ★★★

Ah, not for the politically correct, I suppose. No problem. The film does have a few of those though. Thursday tries really hard, too hard in fact, to be cool, flashy, funny and all that. It does have its moments, when it makes fun of suburban life for instance, but I think it would have been better off with a more deadpan style. Skip Woods is no Tarantino. He pushes it from the start and overdoes it in the rest of the movie, to a point where even the violent outbursts don't have much effect anymore.
Minus the scene on the poster perhaps. That will make you go holy this or that no matter what you think of it. There's…
Review by Realkatan ★★★

Ganz nette Gangsterklamotte mit Thomas Jane und Aaron Eckhart, auch wenn vieles zu gewollt cool rüberkommt und sich der Flow eines „Lock, Stock..“ nicht einstellen will.
88 Minuten kurzweilige Unterhaltung, die aber auch schnell wieder vergessen ist.
Review by Phil ★★★★★

When you think it couldn't get any better Mickey Rourke shows up to put the icing on the cake of this highly underrated gem. What the actual fuck.
PS: I need that moo moo cow telephone in my life!
Review by jenna ★★

just a low budget quentin taralini film
Review by Ari ½

If I had a time capsule, I'd stick this film in it so perfectly does it crystallize all the wrongs of post-Tarantino-plagiarizing pseudo-hip 1990s American independent cinema (more so even than 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag or 2 Days in the Valley) and, despite my affection for Thomas Jane (a 'should have been a big star' with classic Hollywood charisma), it's hard to imagine a film from 1998 possibly dating worse. Skip Woods seemed to have parlayed the film (in classic calling card mode) for "bigger" (i.e. studio) projects - a career of screenwriting superhackdom awaits.

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Review by Timothy Evans ★★★

Post-Pulp Fiction crime film that in its opening scene, steals from both From Dusk Till Dawn and The Doom Generation (truly stealing from the best) and makes something of its own from it.
Yes, the pop culture riffing is there, along with hitmen carrying mysterious briefcases, the flashes of white when gunshots transition us into the next scene, the provocatively outfitted '90s bad girl with the attendant vulgar sexual language, and even the misogynistic and racist tough guy posturing that was played off as cool back then, but it's impossible for me to hate on those Mark Bridges costumes that pair chunky combat boots with a latex dress and put an electric Aaron Eckhart (hot off In the Company of…
Review by Realkatan ★★★

Ganz nette Gangsterklamotte mit Thomas Jane und Aaron Eckhart, auch wenn vieles zu gewollt cool rüberkommt und sich der Flow eines „Lock, Stock..“ nicht einstellen will.
88 Minuten kurzweilige Unterhaltung, die aber auch schnell wieder vergessen ist.
Review by Phil ★★★★★

When you think it couldn't get any better Mickey Rourke shows up to put the icing on the cake of this highly underrated gem. What the actual fuck.
PS: I need that moo moo cow telephone in my life!
Review by Nisi ★★★★½

Thursday is a great thrilling Action-Crime Drama, aligned at works from the incredible Director "Quentin Tarantino", and truly reminds on some of his movies. This movie trys to get to the style of Tarantino. The dialogs, story, kind of humor and of course, the violence. Some homages including. It is fun, even though it don't reaches Tarantino totally.
The role of Casey is spoken by the dubbing actor of "Nicolas Cage" in the german synchronisation.
Thursday ist ein großartiges, spannendes Action-Crime-Drama, angelehnt an Werke des unglaublichen Regisseurs "Quentin Tarantino" und erinnert wirklich an einige seiner Filme. Dieser Film versucht, den Stil von Tarantino zu erreichen. Die Dialoge, die Geschichte, die Art des Humors und natürlich die Gewalt. Einige Hommage sind ebenso enthalten. Es macht Spaß, obwohl er Tarantino nicht vollständig erreicht. Die Rolle von Casey wird vom Synchronsprecher von "Nicolas Cage" in der deutschen Synchronisation gesprochen.
Review by Travis Leamons ★★

If I saw this on the video/cable TV circuit in the late 1990s/early 2000s (it was released in 1998), I can't recall.
Writer-director Skip Woods channels Quentin Tarantino with this drug comedy, where a former L.A. drug dealer (Thomas Jane) has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect.
Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by his old dealer-friend (Aaron Eckhart) who comes carrying heroin.
Even though most of the action takes place in a home setting, for movie supposedly set in Houston (it was all shot in L.A.) they could have included at least one aerial shot.
THURSDAY has its moments, but not nearly enough to sustain its already slim run time. Still, it's better than most of the screenplays Skip Woods would go on to write (SWORDFISH, HITMAN, A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD).
Review by sophianolan ★★★★½

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THIS ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE? am i missing something like actually why? if you like true romance other early tarantino films you’ll love. such a good plot with great characters and a literally amazing flashback backstory bit. love love love LOVE this film <3
Review by SultanDolle ★★★

Einiziger Film,an den ich mich erinnern kann, in dem ein Mann vergewaltigt wird.
Review by James Caan's Pinky Ring ★

Aside from the cinematography there was really not much here at all. Another offensive Tarantino copycat. In fact, I had a really hard time figuring out what rating to assign. For some reason all I could think about was how its both not as bad as Smokin Aces and also simultaneously so much worse. On paper I thought I was gonna enjoy Thomas Jane and Aaron Eckhart together enough to enjoy this but they barely have a scene together. And when they do the skip woods is usually too busy complaining about Soy Milk to do anything substantial. I came out of this hoping it was some sorta spoof or satire on all the offensive stuff in the post tarantino…
Review by Tony Mirra ★★

Can't help but feel that this badly executed Tarantino riff would have been much better with a different cast, except for Paulina Porizkova who absolutely killed. I'm giving both of my stars to her.
The rest of the cast and crew, including the awful Thomas Jane and Aaron Eckhart, were not up to the task. Basically set in 1 location, the whole thing feels like a slog, even at 88 minutes.
Review by suppaloddar ★★★½

Unterhaltsam, an manchen Stellen etwas zäh, ansonsten guter Film, welcher von Besuch zu Besuch sich immer mehr aufschaukelt.
Review by Brian J. ★★★½ 2

Skip Woods’s Thursday is the reigning champion of the post-Pulp Fiction Tarantino-style ripoff film, a genre which plagued the latter half of the 90s and the early 00s with its oftentimes cheap attempts at stylized violence, pop culture banter, off-the-wall black humor, and nonlinear action. It’s no secret that Tarantino’s vast influence changed the genre, for the better, as far as I’m concerned, and there are several crime films that utilize Tarantinesque elements to great effect. Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Snatch, the Usual Suspects, Get Shorty, and Out of Sight all feel reflective of QT’s influence while also using it as a springboard to further explore their own agendas and ideas.
But then there’s Thursday… Thursday…
Review by Joe Ketchum ★

It’s a bad 90s “i saw pulp fiction and all i want is to remake pulp fiction” movie.