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Also, very cool scene in the underground tavern.
I'd have cut it by at least 40 minutes. Seriously.
He makes films about films
Really? Pastiche, I can agree with but " about films"? He does rip off other films, but that's not the same thing.
It's about splicing, and surfaces. And, at the end of Inglourious Basterds, combustibility.
You've lost me there.
If you walk into Tarantino's 4th and 5th feature length film expecting substance I guess you have a greater belief in the human animal's capacity for change than I do.
Ha ha. Fair call.
On the plus side, he does of course write some cracking dialogue.
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Scuse.
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It's not a film about Germans, it's a film about genre. A genre. The American World War 2 film. Kill Bill isn't about substance, it's about film, which has no substance, being nitrates on celluloid.
IMO, Tarantino is to Leone and Scorsese -- his obvious models -- as Herman's Hermits are to the Beatles; ie an aping of the general style, done less competently and almost completely devoid of heart and brains.
Kill Bill may not be about substance, but does that mean that it shouldn't have any?
It's not a film about Germans, it's a film about genre. A genre. The American World War 2 film.
I didn't notice. Pray tell, what does IB have to say about that genre?
To me, QT always gets it ass-backwards. Instead of bringing epic granduer to visceral "street" material, he just ends up marrying Art-house wank to boring, pointless (and naff) retro style exercises.
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To the "art" thread with you..
Thanks, but no. I learned my lesson on Wallywood.
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It is better to die knowing you are a fool than to live thinking you are a genius.
Confucius probably said.
I imagine I'll do both.
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One of the biggest laughs I've had at the movies in recent times was the last line of Inglourious Basterds. As Brad Pitt's ridiculously mush-mouthed (and, curiously, largely absent) Lt. Aldo Raine again carves a swastika into the face of another hapless Nazi, Tarantino has him turn to his offsider and describes the wound -- in a clearly autobiographical move -- as "my masterpiece".
Ha. Dude, there was so much wrong with that film. You're delusional if you think that was a masterpiece.
His career has been essentially been an uninterrupted downward slide from the breath of fresh air -- ironic, I know -- that was Reservoir Dogs. The more success he achieves, the more bloated become his works, culminating in a two-part film that was a triumph of style over substance; that barely contained enough story for one feature. It's certainly no Novecento.
And then Inglorious Basterds, which, to my mind, contained one good scene followed by hours of badly structured and morally inexplicable rubbish.
Pah! Frankly, I thought it was so divorced from a coherent meaningfulness that I can't really feel that it even deserves much analysis. He's not fit to lick Scorcese's boots, nor to even suck on Leone's bootlaces.
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one day we'll probably meet and i will get up in your face and ask if you've got anything to say. I hope you remember to pack your balls.
please don't read a threat into that, i just hope you man up.
How could anyone possibly read a threat into that?
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in the best hip hop "tradition" someone has responded to dirty sesh....
If only they'd do the same for the RWC theme song.
Here's my own pathetic attempt:
(I apologise in advance)
[mid-tempo]1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Right Here, Right Now? You fuckin' kidding me, bro?
That shit was 20 thousand miles away and 20 years ago
How about some fuckin' elegance?
How about some relevance
to a culture?
Instead of acting like a vulture.Heyyyy!
It's the archetypal kings of bland
Yes, it's the number one band
with they dick in they hand
Universally panned
What a tired decision
Honing in on awfulness with surgical precision.So,
Hand the choice over to an ad agency
and ya gonna see
some weak-ass shit on ya TV.
With a song that's been played-out for years
Played-out for beers
Can't you see the country is sheddin' tears?At the predictability of it all
So just keep playin' with ya balls
if that's ya area of expertise
Instead of serving up some musical cheese
get up off ya knees
and pick the fleas out ya ideas!Uh!
Come on!
and so on!
___Don't worry; I won't give up my day job. :)
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I'm now extremely angry.
I'm glad you didn't make it to 00:30 then.
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Some good news in amongst the doom. Can-this-Brain-Eating-Zombie-get-more-fans-than-Roger-Douglas in Facebook is only a few fans away now.
I don't join that group because it's such an unsporting comparison...
Because the latter is merely a subset of the former?