I edited my last post, adding that I liked Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction a lot. Also, that the appeal of THE is (so far) obviously based on the dialog, and he throws you the outdoor visuals bone now and again. I stopped before I started yawning...
I edited my last post, adding that I liked Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction a lot. Also, that the appeal of THE is (so far) obviously based on the dialog, and he throws you the outdoor visuals bone now and again. I stopped before I started yawning...Do you like Tarantino movies? He has a certain style and I love his movies...........BUT........I did not think this movie was great either. Tarantino is a master of dialogue, this movie's dialogue didn't grab me like his other movies.
The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015) ?/10
Saw info in a few places that made me think this was a movie I should see, that might be great. I watched about the first hour of this 168 minute 8th film by Tarantino just now and just had to hit the player's power button. I felt like I wanted to go to sleep. Nothing that happened entertained me, or interested me. It's sort of character driven but the characters are if anything merely caricatures. There's no plot development so far of any interest whatsoever. The only thing happening of any real interest potentially is the visuals, the gestalt of them being in cold blizzard conditions. However, a man presumably threatened with freezing to death, and bantering doesn't even shiver.
TBH, so far at least, I would call it LOUSY. It is dealing in the currency of Americans' fascination with the Old West, or rather a willingness to accept fantasizing about crude and cruel conditions from the comfort of an armchair. Bleh! Does it get better? One would think that an exceptionally long movie must have more going for it than the "average" movie or it's trying the movie watching public. To me, so far it doesn't. No blood and guts so far (except for a couple of men punching a woman in the mouth a couple of times. I just scanned some pithy one or two sentence professional reviews at rottentomatoes.com, so I know that B&G is coming in spades), but I'm not enticed to watch the rest by virtue of a promise of B&G... sex, maybe, B&G, nah.
The appeal so far, it seems, is the script and the visuals. Neither of them are doing much for me.
I've liked some Tarantino movies a lot... Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown. I watched the Kill Bill movies once, I have them on the shelf, have never revisited them. They didn't work for me the first time, intended to revisit them, but haven't.
Should I watch the rest of T.H.E.?
Can't argue with this ... at all. I think I'll save myself a couple of hours and any more disappointment.
OH CHRIST!
The End-Times are finally here:
http://movieweb.com/threes-company-movie-70s-setting/
I bet anyone a thousand dollars this sucks ass.
Risen. 8.5/10. Reminds me a lot of American troops stuck in Iraq and not giving a fig about the tribal rivalries.
People gotta eat, even in Hollywood.WTF how do you make Three's Company into a movie? That makes no sense.
NOW YOU SEE ME 2
Was this really necessary?
What was the point?
Did anyone that seen this stay awake thru the whole film?
Did anyone care to?
1/2 star at best, and thats only because the audience got a good nap.
But it is hard to sleep sitting up.
You include things Quentin Tarantino didn't direct.
Also Black Dynamite is not inspired by Quentin Tarantino, it's a spoof on Blaxploitation films.
It's come to a point where I look forward more to half in the bag reviews than upcoming movies. Sigh.
things is plural; i included dusk2dawn because it is widely known that QT shadow-directed the film. it's also important to see exactly how QT's influence contributed to making the film into what it is.
Black Dynamite is n.. i mean, it's ridiculous that i even have to say this. BD is not inspired by Blaxploitation, nobody cared about Blaxploitation until QT made it a thing. It's not only totally obvious, it's also totally obvious that the main character is inspired by Samuel L. Jackson.
Get A Job - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1468846/reference
good luck finding it. limited release, US only, and basically only available on screeners. so call that friend who works at the distribution company because he might have it.
The Whiplash kid and the Mr Right girl are a young couple who have just graduated and are looking to Get A Job; coming out of college you're always the smartest guy on the planet, then you meet the workforce and you are useless.
Miles Teller is pretty decent in this (comedy suits him) and Anna Kendrick is as adorable as always, the script is the same you've seen a dozen times before (group of friends turn mischief into genius as they hatch a plot to be happy without harming anyone), including the obvious happy ending for everyone. Well directed, funny, a nice feelgood film that should mildly entertain everyone.
Would recommend to anyone 7/10
I've got to a point where I don't read reviews or watch trailers (if I can help it). I find it's better to watch a movie knowing as little about it as possible. It's hard to avoid all the adverts, but it's doable.
also, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/cinema-tarantino-v-stone-1592900.htmlWriting Credits (WGA)
Quentin Tarantino ... (story)
David Veloz ... (screenplay) &
Richard Rutowski ... (screenplay) &
Oliver Stone ... (screenplay)
first thing, let's stop pretending to be shocked when a good director puts out a
bad film; it's not like it's never happened before.
Reservoir Dogs
i know this was loved by everyone but i am not too keen on it.
i applaud the fact that it's basically a stage play on film, but i find that the violence - both verbal and physical - is there to shock people, not to drive the story. It's basically a splatter-horror tool.
decent film.
Pulp Fiction
his masterpiece; Orson Welles was always held up to his Citizen Kane and could never match it with later films, so no surprise that Tarantino's best film is also his first major production.
violence and vulgarity beyond anything ever seen before (Die Hard was considered a "rough" film when it aired), but they serve to drive forward the plot.
Zed's rape is why bruce willis comes back. the accidental killing of marvin is the introduction of wolf. etc.
fantastic editing of different plotlines, which are different viewpoints of the main plot, a revolutionary soundtrack, masterful production, this is one of the best films ever made.
Natural Born Killers
from my perspective, this film was a turning point. the story begins easy enough with a bonnie & clyde theme, yes they are bad, and extreme, yes they kill people, but it's bad people they kill and essentially, they just want to be left alone and live in peace; then there's the scene of the shamans and the characters are flipped into people who kill because they can't help themselves. we rooted for them, and then we start rooting against them.
now that might have been the whole point of the film, but in the script it's just the beginning, and there's another hour of them just killing everything which "i'm not sure why i should be watching this". it's no way to write a story.
- i didnt see four rooms, no idea -
from dusk till dawn
still angry i paid full price for this. it's basically " let's see if we can sneak this joke script past the executives", and while it might be an amusing joke, i'm pissed off that you want ME to pay for it.
Jackie Brown
finally a good QT film; teh story makes sense, the characters make sense, the plot makes sense. it's almost as if QT got told he had 1 last chance to make a "proper" film or he'd be banned from hollywood forever.
Kill Bill(s)
ok, i get it, you have a list of references. and while the first watch was mildly amusing, it doesn't have the flow of any of his previous films, including dusk2dawn. it's just a collection of scenes, of which many are rather bland. uma thurman really carries the films, but from both a direction, and writing PoV, it really lacks that something special, the inspiation. for example, the final scene with Bill is pathetic. ORen's death is horrible .. anticlimax is the word.
Grindhouse + Death Proof
absurdist films, to the limit of being comedy spoofs, but both reasonably fun to watch (i liked Grindhouse and not Death Proof). If we lose touch with reality, it's hard to know what we should take seriously and what not. Here he's clearly just writing anything weird that comes to his mind and then filming it, blowing everything out of proportion.
I suspect that, if rodriguez was not co-directing, it would have been a disaster.
Inglorious Basterds
to me, this is the uncanny valley; it looks almost human, but there's a touch of something wrong that makes me uneasy. i finally understand i'm supposed to just watch the specatcle and ignore the acting, because there is nothing realistic about this film - this film reminds me, of all thing, of Barton Fink.
At this point i'm convinced that QT has completely lost the ability to direct human emotions, he's only capable of doing caricatures, and when he tries unsuccessfully to do something "normal", this is what comes out.
"you owe me 100 scalps.."
you could have had telly savalas do this in a 1968 film, directed by Sydney Pollack, and it would be remembered as an epic, grim speech. QT does it and it's a joke only fit for youtube videos.
Django unchained
i just got bored here. if QT wanted to depict a character who becomes wild with bloodlust, what he came up with is a robot causing destruction. these characters have no aspect of their personality i can relate to, at all.
the real lead, christopher waltz, keeps the film interesting (if somewhat disjointed) for a while, but when he bows out it's time to walk out of the theater. i honestly think most real blaxploitation films did the Black Revenge films better, keeping the surrealism in check and bringing a touch of class that QT wishes he had.
H8
game over man, game over. QT has lost all sense of what it's like to sit in a theater and have to watch two hours of his garbage. nobody wants to see him chirp "and now i'm gonna ruin the script! and again! and even more!" because nobody thinks that joke's funny anymore.
at this point i'd rather watch a linear script rehash of something seen a million times before than watch QT amusing himself into thinking his scenes are great. he's thinking "and now, we're gonna shoot a huuuuge ass panoramic of snow with an armed black man staring in the middle, because that's totally awesome!!!" and we're just like" aww man, just tell me a story that makes sense, come on".
just consider that, modern stuff clearly inspired by QT, such as Black Dynamite, are actually better QT films than what QT can come up with these days.
I avoid trailers unless I've seen the film. I sometimes read reviews, maybe it's a mistake, but I need to have some motivation to see a film. Just someone saying it's great can give you a real bum steer. However, I get 90% of my films, maybe more, from the library and if it's in demand it can take months, over 1/2 a year even, and by the time I get it I've forgotten everything I've heard about it, generally. So I approach it as you (and I) prefer, knowing nothing! I don't read what it says on the DVD/BR case!I've got to a point where I don't read reviews or watch trailers (if I can help it). I find it's better to watch a movie knowing as little about it as possible. It's hard to avoid all the adverts, but it's doable.