Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

On the other hand, if not for my inadvertently following this guy, how else could I have learned about the ass-pummelling I've clearly been setting myself up for?

i'm about as big a fan of Pulp/Dogs /Romance as you can get but got to agree with all the Inglorious Basterds yea sayers; IB all by itself woulda made me excited for Django.

xxpost; re the ear-scene yeah it was a very much more intense straight chop off at first; its on the DVD on the 'extras' with a big warning that flashes up beforehand. i think people woulda fainted. interestingly in the (rubbish) book about the indie movie scene of the 90s, Peter Biskind describes an argument between QT and Harvey Weinstein in the foyer after an early Dogs screening whereby HW was pretty insistent that the ear scene had to go; even in its current form with the cut away, and QT wasn't having it.

I find nothing terribly special about the way Tarantino's films look.

Not seen IB - certainly wouldn't defend them on that score though.

Thing about the ear-cutting is not so much about how violent or not it actually is, more that its tied to not much of a narrative or people you might care about. Hate doing this but contrast that to the offscreen torture in Rome, Open City.

Or Oedipus Rex!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEBJVqG4rps

TS: Quentin Tarantino vs. Sophocles

Man, this was...a bit of a disappointment, I gotta say. Funny, fast, effective first hour, steady downhill progression after that for me.

Easily his most problematic movie in terms of pacing. I guess Menke helped reign him in after all.

apparently QT is saying this is his last movie...?

Nah, he said he has only five movies left or something along those lines.

Fact check: two more movies after this one

ah I must have miscounted

Tarantino and Soderbergh should swapped unproduced scripts.

Aren't most of his movies twofers?

From the recent Hollywood Reporter directors' roundtable:

I'm really well versed on a lot of directors' careers, you know, and when you look at those last five films when they were past it, when they were too old, and they're really out of touch with the times, whether it be William Wyler and 'The Liberation of L.B. Jones' or Billy Wilder with 'Fedora' and then 'Buddy Buddy' or whatever the hell. To me, it's all about my filmography, and I want to go out with a terrific filmography. ''Death Proof' has got to be the worst movie I ever make. And for a left-handed movie, that wasn't so bad, all right? -- so if that's the worst I ever get, I'm good. But I do think one of those out-of-touch, old, limp, flaccid-dick movies costs you three good movies as far as your rating is concerned.

I'd take Death Proof over Kill Bill any day, fwiw.

Death Proof is way underrated

death proof is rad, QT u mad

Watched both Kill Bills a few weeks ago, they're so fucking boring. Death Proof is amazing.

Death Proof and Kill Bills are both horrible. I'd pretty much given up on QT after that run

Stoked

this is gonna be a gooood Christmas imo

not in the same league as Inglourious Basterds sadly

http://philly.barstoolsports.com/files/2012/12/YES-e1355377004177.jpg

I will never understand why film directors tend to be among the worst dressed people in the world.

It's easier if you're a moronic fatass fan of racist '70s movies.

def the trio of fundraisers I laughed the hardest at

Aternate cast for Miami Vice.

L-R: Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady, Greg Proops

Movie people in general seem to pay less attention to their own appearance than other creative industries

it's true, and i don't really understand why this is so. isn't hollywood an extremely image-conscious environment? why doesn't this image-consciousness extend to quentin tarantino and ron howard?

because no one gives a shit what they look like?

i guess so, but still, why don't they care? maybe it has to do with the voyeurism of cinema: the idea that the director is essentially this detached gaze with no real being of his own. maybe also this isn't actually a fruitful avenue of inquiry to follow.

i would go see this on christmas day but i hate leo so much. he ruins every movie. so i'm torn...

every character he plays is like watching greg brady play george washington in the school play.

directors used to look great. everything's gone to hell.

bring back jodhpurs

Nolan directs in a topcoat and suit, but doesn't do benefits,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxKHQPPF7Q

man he really does dress like a 12yo

i think his saying he wants 2 be a talk show host made it click in my mind how much his head looks like charlie roses

ok guys i know QT is an annoying turdbag that dresses like a toddler but i really think that inglourious basterds deserves more credit, if any any other filmmaker made a huge budget tentpole oscarwinning film with movie stars that was 1)mostly subtitled 2)mostly people talking while sitting/standing still 3)ended with hitler and goebbles getting shot in the face, more people would recognize IB for what it is: one of the most formally daring major studio movies ever made, and a bold move for any filmmaker, no matter how powerful they are, and even if you hate it i think you have to tip your hat to it and acknowledge that QT really went out on a limb with it.

i think most people like it?

they do, but he could've very very easily just coasted and adapted elmore leonard for the rest of his life and it's weird to me when ppl dismiss it as the flailings of an attention whore or mindless grindhouse enthusiast when its clearly to me a carefully measured artistic statement

I like it too but he doesn't get credit for intentions.

oh i generally think that, its just that the tone of the criticisms of IB bug me. i don't think "bamboozled" a film by spike lee is an actually good film but i do respect that making such an angry and polemical movie shot on consumer-grade digital camcorders at that stage in his career is a pretty brazen move, and i would criticize it for its artistic failings and wouldn't be like "another dick yank by spike...zzzzzz"

a huge budget tentpole oscarwinning film

you don't know what a tentpole is

or a formally daring major studio movie

fine tentpole was overstepping but c'mon man that movie was formally daring, i know you are number one QT hater on here but you have to admit that it's a weird movie.