Beaks from AICN says:
I still don't have all the pieces of the story (my Tarantino sources have been much more tight-lipped regarding this project than they were on INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS), but here are three things I can confirm: 1) Quentin Tarantino's next film is a spaghetti western, 2) Christoph Waltz is "one of the stars", and 3) that title is completely wrong (even if it got completely mangled by Google Translate, it's still not even close). I cannot confirm plot details at present (though I think I've got the premise).
It was ok but far from how awesome it should have been.
Were we watching the same movies? I'm not going to go into a whole conversation in explaining why those 3 films are great but you might be the first person that I've ever seen say that they hated Kill Bill. Seriously the only person.
Basterds has gotten some flak but for reasons I do not understand. Maybe people thought reading was too much of a chore or something. I guess you just don't like Tarantino's style.
Basterds had some decent fun moments but by and large it wasn't a very good movie and most people just got swept up in the media hype of it all. Kill Bill .... Well.....What can I say about Kill Bill without people thinking I'm a total dick with a potty mouth?
Uma Thurman is a talentless halfwit. I tolerated her for the 25ish minutes she was in Fiction only because for half her screen time her mouth was shut and she was unconscious. Kill Bill was just dumb dumb dumb and this is coming from someone who LOVES EVERYTHING Jackass related.
And Pulp Fiction is still on a short list of movies that I can watch any time and not be bored, no matter how many times I've seen it.
Like his favorite movie ever, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
That and inglorious bastards was broing and stupid as hell.
FInally someone on FW that actually agree with me on Tarantino.
I thoroughly enjoyed Inglorious Basterds as well.
The one thing people tell me they hate about any of his films is there is too much talking. I like him, but thats one perk i could live without.
Exactly. I know everyone says this about his movies, but I rewatch his movies for the "boring" dialog more than I rewatch another movie for some cool action scene.
Thank you. Glad someone agrees. His dialog can be absolutely brilliant most of the time. Some of the conversations of monologues I could listen to all the time.
For example, what would Pulp Fiction be without the whole apartment "Allow me to retort" scene. Or the back and forth between Jackson and Roth in the diner. Or the little speech about "that's pride f*cking with you" by Ving. Or the different parts of dialog at Tarantino's house when trying to dispose of the body. That entire movie hinges on brilliant dialog.
I could also listen to that whole dialog between Beatrice and Bill at the end of Kill Bill 2 any time. Especially Bill's whole Superman speech. Or Tarantino's part in Four Rooms, some more great dialog.
That's the stuff I tune into Tarantino's movies for in large part.
Not the first person I've known to not like Kill Bill though. But I think both were fun movies. Death Proof was enjoyable as well.
What's with the picture in the article though? They must have a strong dudebro relationship to let him bite his ear.
I loved both Reservior Dogs and Pulp Fiction and would say both were two of the best and most inspirational films of the 90s. I enjoyed True Romance and From Dusk Till Dawn was entertaining enough. Jackie Brown was a bit of a let down and I think it was the start of Tarantinos ego taking over. Four Rooms was awful (although his story was the best of the 4 it was still pretty bad). I hated the Kill Bill films, the dialogue was embarrassing and the characters were terrible - considering these were the two elements that made Dogs and Pulp such great movies, it's hard to believe the same guy wrote and directed them.
I think Tarantino is just a major movie geek that took his obsession to a new level. Good on him, but we've seen the best Tarantino has to offer we'll never see another Pulp Fiction from him.
Would also like to say that I don't like the way Tarantino gets away with ripping off other film makers. He's the biggest rip off artist in the business yet he seems to get away with it because he is "paying homage" - bulls**t, he's ripping off, plain and simple anybody who has seen any of the films that he "pays homage" to knows this. It will be interesting to see how many close up shots of eyes we get in this spaghetti western as he pays homage to Sergio Leone.
I understand though, he's a movie geek and movies are where he draws his inspiration, but it means that all we get from him are his rehashed/remixed visions of old cult movies. It was a relatively new approach to movie making back in the 90s but it's rather old and transparent now.