Tarantino's next film.

Sounds good.

WTF?  Did he honestly write the cover page in crayon??

Now he is just showing off....

He can afford to show off!!!  


I LOVE him!!

Ahh, good ol' Quentin. Irony is that if Tarantino was an 'unproduced' nobody submitting his scripts to SS, he'd be called a hack by some of the more short-sighted members of the community.

I have a love/hate relationship with the guy's work.  It always annoys me when I'm watching an old film and I see something that he "paid homage to", that most people give him credit for.  But still, his films are usually entertaining; when it's not four people sitting around a table as the camera spins for ten minutes ( ::coughdeathproofcough:: ) .

At the time I found his first two movies really refreshing. His more recent output, not so much.

Personally, I would rather watch the films he has encyclopediac knowledge of rather than the 'homages' he puts together.

One of the things I didn’t like about Deathproof (and I can probably put Inglorious Bastards in here as well) was that they were multi-million dollar movies trying to be Exploitation B-movies. I don't get that aspect of it. I prefer watching successful B-movie makers try to make something good with nothing, rather than successful Hollywood types trying to make something knowingly bad with everything.

I watched Hobo with a Shotgun recently, and while I'm fully aware that the young filmakers got their opportunity due to Grindhouse -- it was a much better example of an entertaining Exploitation riff.

Quoted from B.C. Personally, I would rather watch the films he has encyclopediac knowledge of rather than the 'homages' he puts together.

Clearly you haven't seen City on Fire.  

Quoted from B.C. At the time I found his first two movies really refreshing. His more recent output, not so much. Personally, I would rather watch the films he has encyclopediac knowledge of rather than the 'homages' he puts together. One of the things I didn’t like about Deathproof (and I can probably put Inglorious Bastards in here as well) was that they were multi-million dollar movies trying to be Exploitation B-movies. I don't get that aspect of it. I prefer watching successful B-movie makers try to make something good with nothing, rather than successful Hollywood types trying to make something knowingly bad with everything. I watched Hobo with a Shotgun recently, and while I'm fully aware that the young filmakers got their opportunity due to Grindhouse -- it was a much better example of an entertaining Exploitation riff.

I deleted an earlier post from myself because I decided that it's a bot rich for someone like me to criticise Tarantino at my stage of career. That said, I agre with everything you're saying.

There's a certain "fakeness" that's crept into his work since Jackie Brown. The films he's paying homage to were cheap affairs. Maybe they couldn't afford the best actors, or whatever. The little things like stroking the beard that he copies in Kill Bill..they are charming in films where the actors aren't at the top of the game, when it's a world famous star there's just an element of sheer naffness that's hard to overlook.

I've enjoyed all his films on some level, but his last few films feel like they should be accompaniements to a more serious body of work, when in actual fact they are his main body of work.

Meh. I'm looking forward to this. I think I have reasonable expectations for Tarantino films at this point. They're always going to have annoying things in them. Tarantino's personality is annoying. It's only natural. I also think it's laughable to suggest Tarantino's got anything genuine to say about racism. His Achille's heel is his inability to produce anything of real substance. Even if he gets close, he'll spin it around and turn it into a joke. Even in Bastards, he did.

Nevertheless, I'm sure it'll be entertaining. I'm excited to see Waltz back and to see what Tarantino pulls out of his hat as far as racist Southern slave owners.

real quick, did i see somewhere that Will Smith might be cast for this role? i know it came up somewhere on some news feed, but i can't quite recall...

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films I've enjoyed all his films on some level, but his last few films feel like they should be accompaniements to a more serious body of work, when in actual fact they are his main body of work.

This. I've quoted this to about six people over the last two days. Best thing I've read here in a bit.

It's Tarantino, so I'm in.

Quoted from albinopenguin real quick, did i see somewhere that Will Smith might be cast for this role? i know it came up somewhere on some news feed, but i can't quite recall...

Indeed, he might.

I don't know. He's a good actor but might be a little too wholesome for a Tarantino film. Tarantino's casting has always featured some element of unexpected but this feels just a little too left field to me. It's also way early in the game and both Death Proof and Basterds had some serious casting shake-ups over the course of their development.

If Will Smith does get cast, I'd expect Tarantino to be able to retire in style. A project like that would rake in the cash.

Tarantino has proved he can work with actors of varying skills and reputations. Smith proved he's got some chops with excellent performances in Pursuit and Seven Pounds. Both of these guys have the talent and adaptability to do something good on this project, if they do pair up. Perhaps it'll lead to QT and Cruise finally getting together.

I have to disagree with your comment there Rick (from what JB quoted) - QT, while yet to put something out with true heart (and I mentioned that in my IB review), has moved onto another level with IB. In a revealing interview, he said how IB was his response to PTA who had raised the bar with There Will Be Blood. QT's body of work can stand up to any of the top directors from the last 20 or so years. It has its own distinct flavour and has rightly achieved acclaim from both critics and audiences. Criticism of QT is fair enough but my own opinion is that it often comes from artistic jealousy - he's an enclyopedia of film and he uses this to craft marvellous films that stand apart. The lazy criticism that he simply rehashes others' work and lacks the raw talent to develop his own ideas is flimsy at best, IMO.

hey James, just looked it up and apparently QT wants Smith

http://www.slashfilm.com/sony-international-distribution-rights-tarantinos-django-unchained/