Ta-Nehisi Coates says No thanks, not for me.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
nothing like judging a movie by its trailer
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
isn't that what a trailer is for?
― goole, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
no?
― Number None, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will see the shit out of this movie, but the trailer itself doesn't really do anything for me.
by way of comparison, the trailer for Children of Men was HORRIBLE, so much so that it made me not want to go anywhere near the film - and yet when I did eventually see it I thought it was one of the two best sci-fi films of the last 20 years
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
The other was Species.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
close but no Short Circuit
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah the trailer for this is surprisingly generic, but i'm pretty sure the inglourious basterds trailer (or several of 'em) was nothing special either. in any event, people who write think pieces about movies based around their trailers are just--
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
more yes than no. it is meant to elicit a belief that the film is worth paying to see all of it, which is def a preliminary judgment of the film.
― Aimless, Thursday, 7 June 2012 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's marketing, and most of the time the director of the film doesn't even have anything to do with it (although i doubt that's true in this case to be fair)
― Number None, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost
no it is not. it is a preliminary judgement of WHETHER YOU WANT TO SEE THE FILM. and if you actually know anything more about the film or the people who made it that might actually supersede or at least complement the trailer. jeez, people.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
looks cool. IB had crappy trailer too. i feel confident now that will smith would've been horrible in this
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:40 AM (4 hours ago)
script has been out for a year
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
People who read QT scripts the moment they leak are the worst savages.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol I'm not an actor, I don't read scripts
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
"if it was all in the script, why bother to make the movie?" - nicholas ray
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
well Ta-Nehisi Coates is an actor and a pretty damn good one xp
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Back in college, months before it came out, someone gave me a copy of the "Pulp Fiction" script. I literally opened it up, saw the word "chainsaw," then closed it back up again until I had seen the movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
apparently robert downey jr does that with the word "warehouse."
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 8 June 2012 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I've been reading a lot of scripts lately. You know, it's a lot cheaper than GOING to the movies." - Troy McClure
― the mating calls of sarcastic sharks (jer.fairall), Friday, 8 June 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
lots of corbucci-style shock zooms, nice.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 14 June 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
he should cut the film like that & keep it under 12 minutes
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sam Jackson looking like I hoped he would.
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Monday, 2 July 2012 20:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
god this looks unbelievably stupid
that being said, i will see it and enjoy it
― buh, Monday, 2 July 2012 20:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
granddad freeman?
― contenderizer, Monday, 2 July 2012 20:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am looking forward to seeing this!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 July 2012 21:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
samesies
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 2 July 2012 21:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
Lack of stupidity would have been fatal in Inglourious Basterds imo
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah but stupid comes in many forms
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 17:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Quentin says things, etc.:
Django Unchained a Shaft prequel? Really? There’s one more week of shooting on Django, and they just did scenes with Jonah Hill as a member of the Regulators (the pre-Civil War version of the KKK). Quentin Tarantino said it turned into one of the funniest scenes he’s ever done, which he says is up there with the name-colors conversation in Reservoir Dogs. There is one character in the movie that ties into the larger Tarantino-verse which he’s keeping a surprise, but he says Kerry Washington‘s character Brunhilde von Shaft is, in his mind, an ancestor of John Shaft – this prompted QT to start singing the theme song out loud. The panel was moderated by Anthony Breznican from Entertainment Weekly, who said he needed a whole new level of grandiloquent profanity to describe Django, a “twisted, bloody fairy tale,” before introducing Jamie Foxx, Walton Goggins, Don Johnson (with Jeff Bridges-looking facial hair and gray ponytail), Christoph Waltz (long hair and a bushy white beard that almost looks false, like Santa Claus), Washington, and Tarantino (in a leather jacket, dorky felt fedora, and a T-shirt depicting many of his characters as kids playing in a sandbox).Asked about historical accuracy (i.e. will there be anything like killing Hitler,) Tarantino said there was no need: the pre-Civil War South can’t be depicted as any scarier or more surreal than it was in real life. Django begins the story as an anonymous slave on a chain gang and becomes a cowboy and hero at the end. Foxx drew on experiences growing up in Texas, where he said he had “certain parallel experiences” to Django.Waltz said he loved that Italians had taken the American genre of the western and made spaghetti westerns, and now American director Tarantino is appropriating their take on that genre. His character, a dentist named Dr. King Schulz, “doesn’t care about other white men.” He doesn’t “rescue” Django, but needs him.Tarantino said he felt most westerns bend over backwards not to mention slavery, and placing western tropes in the antebellum South with a black character made it fresh for him.The “sizzle reel” was put together with industry viewers in mind, (featuring only stuff from the first half of the movie, Tarantino noted). “If this is good enough for the industry, it’s good enough for the fans.” The audience predictably loved the exploding gushes of blood, gunshots, Johnny Cash music (possibly temp for the trailer, but let’s hope it’s not), Johnson decked out like Col. Sanders, Foxx shooting Mr. Friendly from Lost (Seriously, he looks exactly the same in this movie as he did on that show) in the chest saying “I like the way you die, boy,” the goofy giant tooth on a spring atop Waltz’ van, the bright blue suit worn by Foxx and mocked by slaves who can’t believe a free man would choose it, Foxx training as a gunslinger against a snowman, and wreaking righteous vengeance with a whip against one of the men who once tortured and branded him. Visually it felt perhaps closest to Kill Bill – which makes sense, since Kill Bill 2 was arguably Tarantino’s first go at incorporating the spaghetti western meme.Goggins’ character was described as the kind of person Basil Rathbone used to play in swashbucklers, the “schemer who has the king’s ear.” Johnson got a big laugh when he said he worked on his Big Daddy accent by studying Foghorn Leghorn. It turns out Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t in the movie after all, but Quentin still wants to work with him on something. Answering the inevitable fan question, Tarantino said he has no idea what his next movie will be.
Asked about historical accuracy (i.e. will there be anything like killing Hitler,) Tarantino said there was no need: the pre-Civil War South can’t be depicted as any scarier or more surreal than it was in real life. Django begins the story as an anonymous slave on a chain gang and becomes a cowboy and hero at the end. Foxx drew on experiences growing up in Texas, where he said he had “certain parallel experiences” to Django.
Waltz said he loved that Italians had taken the American genre of the western and made spaghetti westerns, and now American director Tarantino is appropriating their take on that genre. His character, a dentist named Dr. King Schulz, “doesn’t care about other white men.” He doesn’t “rescue” Django, but needs him.
Tarantino said he felt most westerns bend over backwards not to mention slavery, and placing western tropes in the antebellum South with a black character made it fresh for him.
The “sizzle reel” was put together with industry viewers in mind, (featuring only stuff from the first half of the movie, Tarantino noted). “If this is good enough for the industry, it’s good enough for the fans.” The audience predictably loved the exploding gushes of blood, gunshots, Johnny Cash music (possibly temp for the trailer, but let’s hope it’s not), Johnson decked out like Col. Sanders, Foxx shooting Mr. Friendly from Lost (Seriously, he looks exactly the same in this movie as he did on that show) in the chest saying “I like the way you die, boy,” the goofy giant tooth on a spring atop Waltz’ van, the bright blue suit worn by Foxx and mocked by slaves who can’t believe a free man would choose it, Foxx training as a gunslinger against a snowman, and wreaking righteous vengeance with a whip against one of the men who once tortured and branded him. Visually it felt perhaps closest to Kill Bill – which makes sense, since Kill Bill 2 was arguably Tarantino’s first go at incorporating the spaghetti western meme.
Goggins’ character was described as the kind of person Basil Rathbone used to play in swashbucklers, the “schemer who has the king’s ear.” Johnson got a big laugh when he said he worked on his Big Daddy accent by studying Foghorn Leghorn. It turns out Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t in the movie after all, but Quentin still wants to work with him on something. Answering the inevitable fan question, Tarantino said he has no idea what his next movie will be.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 July 2012 22:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
Johnson got a big laugh when he said he worked on his Big Daddy accent by studying Foghorn Leghorn.
If he doesn't bust out a 'Boy I say boy' at least once I will feel cheated.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 July 2012 22:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
the spaghetti western "meme"?
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Saturday, 14 July 2012 22:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
We live, as you know, in a stupid world.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 July 2012 22:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
the italian neorealist meme
― max, Saturday, 14 July 2012 22:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
im really into silent memes
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Saturday, 14 July 2012 23:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
meme-en-scene
― max, Saturday, 14 July 2012 23:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
y'all need to watch mandingo in the next few weeks so we can have a thread about mandingo. the richard fleischer movie i mean.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
Tarantino's shirt sounds kind of awesome, tbh.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Asked about historical accuracy (i.e. will there be anything like killing Hitler,) Tarantino said there was no need: the pre-Civil War South can’t be depicted as any scarier or more surreal than it was in real life.
So glad he made Nazi Germany so much scarier and more surreal.
― pplains, Sunday, 15 July 2012 03:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha ya... that was one era that really needed a little help in the scary dept
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Sunday, 15 July 2012 15:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
i think tarantino was just being P.C. in making sure he was not apologizing for slavery. not that he was wrong to do so.
i do question his use of the word "surreal."
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 20 July 2012 06:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol Jonah Hill
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 11 October 2012 17:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
i laughed at "who knows what could happen"
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 11 October 2012 18:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
That looks awesome. I hope the lighter tone is honed to throughout.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 October 2012 18:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
"honed to"?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Not too sure how light a tone can be taken wrt buying and raping a slave.
― pandemic, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
think he means "hewed to" xp
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
It'll most likely be a seriocomedy, like every other film Tarantino has made.
― Old Lunch, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink