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Post by Old26 on Dec 10, 2015 10:26:39 GMT -6
In 70mm at the Director's Guild. If you like QT movies - and I do - it was great. Png movie with an intermission. Lots of fun and typically QT with 10x more "N" word and blood than Django Unchained. Too bad they're having so much trouble getting the 70mm stuff setup in the theaters like they had planned.
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Post by ickes on Dec 10, 2015 10:41:58 GMT -6
In 70mm at the Director's Guild. If you like QT movies - and I do - it was great. Png movie with an intermission. Lots of fun and typically QT with 10x more "N" word and blood than Django Unchained. Too bad they're having so much trouble getting the 70mm stuff setup in the theaters like they had planned. I LOVE Tarantino flicks. Looking forward to this one And I heard Channing Tatum is in this? Wtf???
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Post by Old26 on Dec 10, 2015 11:16:31 GMT -6
Yep, he comes in near the end. He's good.
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 12:04:41 GMT -6
In 70mm at the Director's Guild. If you like QT movies - and I do - it was great. Png movie with an intermission. Lots of fun and typically QT with 10x more "N" word and blood than Django Unchained. Too bad they're having so much trouble getting the 70mm stuff setup in the theaters like they had planned. I'm really bummed it went from dec 25 release to Dec 25 limited release with wide on Jan 8. Hopefully it'll show up here so I can see it before the end of the year, just hoping that he hasn't fallen back into the gory camp of inglourious basterds.
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Post by Old26 on Dec 10, 2015 12:08:55 GMT -6
In 70mm at the Director's Guild. If you like QT movies - and I do - it was great. Png movie with an intermission. Lots of fun and typically QT with 10x more "N" word and blood than Django Unchained. Too bad they're having so much trouble getting the 70mm stuff setup in the theaters like they had planned. I'm really bummed it went from dec 25 release to Dec 25 limited release with wide on Jan 8. Hopefully it'll show up here so I can see it before the end of the year, just hoping that he hasn't fallen back into the gory camp of inglourious basterds. Of course there's gore. And "N" words galore. It's QT, and that's his thing. It's amazing though. They're having more issues than planned for the 70mm in theaters. It's hard to do, setup and expensive. And it's not going well...
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Post by bentin on Dec 10, 2015 12:11:58 GMT -6
In 70mm at the Director's Guild. If you like QT movies - and I do - it was great. Png movie with an intermission. Lots of fun and typically QT with 10x more "N" word and blood than Django Unchained. Too bad they're having so much trouble getting the 70mm stuff setup in the theaters like they had planned. I'm really bummed it went from dec 25 release to Dec 25 limited release with wide on Jan 8. Hopefully it'll show up here so I can see it before the end of the year, just hoping that he hasn't fallen back into the gory camp of inglourious basterds. IB was gory? Seemed really reserved for QT and actually somewhat lacking in action and gore.
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Post by whiskeyriver on Dec 10, 2015 14:22:26 GMT -6
Hm, good to hear that it was good. I was curious about whether it would meet expectations. I loved every second of Django except for the over the top shootout. And IB was great, and definitely not as gory as other QT flicks.
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Post by ickes on Dec 10, 2015 14:38:57 GMT -6
Christoph Waltz is awesome
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 15:15:22 GMT -6
Hm, good to hear that it was good. I was curious about whether it would meet expectations. I loved every second of Django except for the over the top shootout. And IB was great, and definitely not as gory as other QT flicks. It's not the presence of gore, rather the campy presentation that I'm taking issue with. Django had a much more serious tone throughout, to where even the campy director cameo scene didn't pull the whole tone of the film the wrong way (in my opinion). There was more gore in, say, Kill Bill Vol 1 than IB, but the gore turn his films took around KBv1 is something I haven't been overly fond of. KBv2 was far more subdued, and one of his better recent films. I really like Inglourious Basterds, don't get me wrong, there were just some choices I didn't dig. I was happy to see that he didn't go the same way with Django, even though there was still some camp. I have to watch IB again for specific examples, but that'll have to be after next week's Star Wars marathon.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 15:18:15 GMT -6
...after next week's Star Wars marathon. machete order?
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 15:27:18 GMT -6
I'm really bummed it went from dec 25 release to Dec 25 limited release with wide on Jan 8. Hopefully it'll show up here so I can see it before the end of the year, just hoping that he hasn't fallen back into the gory camp of inglourious basterds. IB was gory? Seemed really reserved for QT and actually somewhat lacking in action and gore. after my last response, I'm actually wondering what movies you're basing this statement on. Right around (and a little bit in) Kill Bill is where QT started introducing a lot of camp tone into his films (even though Jackie Brown is an homage to exploitation films, it really doesn't get campy), and then Deathproof is severely campy with a couple gory scenes, and then every violent scene in IB is campy gore, which I felt worked against the overall tone of the overall film. I felt that he scaled back the camp in Django, and now we're onto H8. I don't know if these are popular opinions, though I have noticed a lot more people accuse him of being a hack after the Kill Bill shift in his style. I guess it's also worth mentioning I'm not a fan of From Dusk til Dawn, which, even though it's Robert Rodriguez, a lot of people equate as a QT film since he wrote the screenplay, and it does have a lot of gore and camp. This film isn't considered in my analysis.
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 15:29:54 GMT -6
...after next week's Star Wars marathon. machete order? Heck yeah. I watched Episode I a couple weeks ago so that I would mostly forget it before I run through Machete Order. I wanted to watch all of them for the completionist part of my brain, but couldn't ignore his points about it. Mostly, I just wanted to see Darth Maul swingin' sabers. I'll probably just start Sunday and watch one a day until I see the new one on Friday. Re: Machete Order, though, I kind of worry about watching Empire then three other movies, since Empire is undoubtedly the high point of the series, but I'll be okay.
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 15:33:13 GMT -6
I'm really bummed it went from dec 25 release to Dec 25 limited release with wide on Jan 8. Hopefully it'll show up here so I can see it before the end of the year, just hoping that he hasn't fallen back into the gory camp of inglourious basterds. Of course there's gore. And "N" words galore. It's QT, and that's his thing. It's amazing though. They're having more issues than planned for the 70mm in theaters. It's hard to do, setup and expensive. And it's not going well... I'm gonna try to see it in 70mm, but I think the Alamo near me only has 35mm (saw Interstellar projected from film which was pretty cool -- my digital accustomed eyes had totally forgotten the film experience). I saw Branagh's Hamlet projected in 70mm back in the day, but I doubt they still have the equipment at that theater since it's been so long.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 15:35:03 GMT -6
exophobe my g/f and i re-watched in machete order (sans ep.I) over T.giving weekend. i have to agree that it makes the most sense and flows the best when looking at it as luke's story-arc. ii is a complete turd, but it must be suffered through. (you're right about the high point of the series...uncontested)
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 15:40:30 GMT -6
exophobe my g/f and i re-watched in machete order (sans ep.I) over T.giving weekend. i have to agree that it makes the most sense and flows the best when looking at it as luke's story-arc. ii is a complete turd, but it must be suffered through. (you're right about the high point of the series...uncontested) Here's hoping that having Kasdan involved gives Empire a run for it's money. The last time I watched Episode II I skipped over most of the stuff on Naboo, made it about 30 minutes shorter and 50% more enjoyable. I actually liked III up until the point where Lucas decided it needed to be an homage to the original Universal Frankenstein. Fingers crossed that, even if we can't get a non-special edition remastered in 4k for Blu-ray (which would make me so happy), we can at least get the pre-Episode III version of Jedi out of Disney at some point. Adding NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to Jedi takes a major dramatic point in the series and makes it a silly joke. I'm so mad at George Lucas sometimes.
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Post by whiskeyriver on Dec 10, 2015 16:00:53 GMT -6
exophobe my g/f and i re-watched in machete order (sans ep.I) over T.giving weekend. i have to agree that it makes the most sense and flows the best when looking at it as luke's story-arc. ii is a complete turd, but it must be suffered through. (you're right about the high point of the series...uncontested) Here's hoping that having Kasdan involved gives Empire a run for it's money. The last time I watched Episode II I skipped over most of the stuff on Naboo, made it about 30 minutes shorter and 50% more enjoyable. I actually liked III up until the point where Lucas decided it needed to be an homage to the original Universal Frankenstein. Fingers crossed that, even if we can't get a non-special edition remastered in 4k for Blu-ray (which would make me so happy), we can at least get the pre-Episode III version of Jedi out of Disney at some point. Adding NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to Jedi takes a major dramatic point in the series and makes it a silly joke. I'm so mad at George Lucas sometimes. Just seek out and watch the Depecialized Editions of the OT. Worth it, totally.
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Post by bentin on Dec 10, 2015 16:04:48 GMT -6
Yeah, the campy gore aspect clears it up. KB certainty had more and From Dusk til Dawn was all camp all the time.
Of course Natural Born Killers being mostly camp and Reservoir Dogs, Killing Zoe, Pulp Fiction and True Romance being more straight, less camp.
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Post by Old26 on Dec 10, 2015 16:30:38 GMT -6
"Camp" is hard to sometimes define with QT. It's almost like OK, here's this serious shit going down and everyone is tense, so let's f*ck up someone in a really bad way and get them to (nervously) laugh about it. SOB if every QT movie we screen, we're not sitting next to a couple Black guys and it's like f*ck, should we be laughing at this? It's hard, but thankfully, last night the cats next to us were a freakin' riot and we had a lot fo fun with it. I think QT loves that aspect of his films. Squirm bitches! Success.
We loved it - I would in no way ever recommend a movie really as I know everyone is different. I just know that QT makes movies that we dig.
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Post by Old26 on Dec 10, 2015 16:32:03 GMT -6
Christoph Waltz is awesome He is. One of my fave's for sure. I can't help but think that the role Tim Roth got was made for CW. But Roth did a great job and frankly, it's probably good to have CW not there as to keep too much Django from entering your mind... Both are great actors.
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 16:41:29 GMT -6
Yeah, the campy gore aspect clears it up. KB certainty had more and From Dusk til Dawn was all camp all the time. Of course Natural Born Killers being mostly camp and Reservoir Dogs, Killing Zoe, Pulp Fiction and True Romance being more straight, less camp. I tend to leave out the stuff he didn't direct, though it's easy to make arguments against doing that because what would Tim Burton be without Nightmare Before Christmas (more importantly, what would it be without him -- an Oingo Boingo video with fewer father issues). I had forgotten NBK (and Killing Zoe, honestly), but they don't count. Either way, regardless of how much homage you want to hate him for, I love that QT's voice is out there and that he's making the movies he wants to make. There doesn't seem to be much space allowed for that, especially at the budgets he gets. That they're fun to watch is a bonus, and worth dealing the gore for.
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 16:47:26 GMT -6
Here's hoping that having Kasdan involved gives Empire a run for it's money. The last time I watched Episode II I skipped over most of the stuff on Naboo, made it about 30 minutes shorter and 50% more enjoyable. I actually liked III up until the point where Lucas decided it needed to be an homage to the original Universal Frankenstein. Fingers crossed that, even if we can't get a non-special edition remastered in 4k for Blu-ray (which would make me so happy), we can at least get the pre-Episode III version of Jedi out of Disney at some point. Adding NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to Jedi takes a major dramatic point in the series and makes it a silly joke. I'm so mad at George Lucas sometimes. Just seek out and watch the Depecialized Editions of the OT. Worth it, totally. Yeah, I get that, but it's sort of outside of my point, which I'm sure you understand. I'd just like to see something officially sanctioned that acknowledges constant revision is not a sound policy. If you can't make your story fit without adding shit to the original, then you're doing a poor job of writing your prequel or sequel story. I'm glad Spielberg never got in this habit, but the dude is too busy to really consider going backwards. I don't want a version of Indiana Jones where the guy is doing fancy shit with the swords and then has to pull out a gun before Indy can draw on him. It's not a matter of preserving my childhood so much as it shows how weak Lucas got as a filmmaker through lack of practice. You can't go back and say that's always what you intended when it was never in your script.
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 16:50:30 GMT -6
He is. One of my fave's for sure. I can't help but think that the role Tim Roth got was made for CW. But Roth did a great job and frankly, it's probably good to have CW not there as to keep too much Django from entering your mind... Both are great actors. I loved Tim Roth in that show that got canceled in the middle of a cliffhanger (consequently, hated him in Incredible Hulk and Planet of the Apes, but those are certainly "you're going to pay me how much?" roles). I'm looking forward to seeing him in H8. Christoph Waltz is pretty good in Spectre, too (likely the reason he wouldn't have been able to do H8), if the weird review hate happened to scare you off and you like James Bond I recommend it. Edit: that show is Lie to Me. Also, what the hell was he doing in that FIFA masturbation biopic?
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Post by brentkuz on Dec 10, 2015 18:20:33 GMT -6
I'm boycotting that turd. I'll watch it boot legged or free but I won't pay for his stuff.
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Post by exophobe on Dec 10, 2015 18:47:04 GMT -6
I'm boycotting that turd. I'll watch it boot legged or free but I won't pay for his stuff. There's always one, but would I be correct to assume this isn't related to his work?
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Post by brentkuz on Dec 10, 2015 18:48:18 GMT -6
I'm boycotting that turd. I'll watch it boot legged or free but I won't pay for his stuff. There's always one, but would I be correct to assume this isn't related to his work? I like his flicks but he's an epic moron. I'll watch them but won't pay the movie theater prices to buy it. Can't fund that.
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