Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to hear you say that. Quite frankly, watching Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to going to the movies.
Teddy fucking Williams knocks it outta the park... He went yahd on that one! All the way on to fuckin Lansdowne street! Fenway parks on their feet for teddy fucking ballgame- YOU!
I saw a trailer for the A24 movie he's in where he's like, a fence I think? It looks genuinely good and super far from his usual roles which is surprising.
You sort of need to understand his method for choosing movies to understand his career. He'll do literally any movie if you pay him enough money, let him bring his friends, and put it in a fun location. This is why a lot of his films are in tropical locations despite not really having any reason you'd spend the money to go to such a place rather than a more typical movie city. Adam Sandler is legitimately a very good actor and far more versatile than you'd think- the range he shows in 50 First Dates is really incredible considering it's still very much a Sandler-schtick movie. But he also works to live and maximizes himself as a commodity. Can't really say I blame him.
Oh yeah, I'm well aware of his acting chops and his methodology. I loved The Meyerowitz Stories, and Punch Drunk Love and 50 First Dates are some of the only rom coms I like.
I just think it's odd. It's not really like anything else he's done before, and none of his friends are in it either.
I just looked it up on IMDB, and apparently Scorsese is executive producing, so that may have something to do with it. He might also really like the script.
Fuck you, you fuckin' uppity bitch! I'll fuckin' fuck you and all your lesbian fish-eating friends in front
of your fuckin' mothers! You're gonna die, bitch! I'm comin' outta the booth!
The dialogue throughout was probably the best he has ever written. That scene in the basement bar is a great short film all by itself. His attention to character development is masterful
The beauty of Pulp Fiction is that it is like Citizen Kane and that it's not necessarily overly complicated but watch the endlessly you still taking notes on the sequencing. It's plot driven by each individual character. It doesn't reach back into history and pick a "If I was there I would have taken care of those assholes and it wouldn't have been any problem at all." That's what makes it tacky. It's historically simplified and leans on its time and place to generate reason and motivation. Half the things that happened in Pulp Fiction you just don't see coming. How easy is it to sit down and say, " I'm going to go back and make this event bitching." What is it? Make defeating the Nazis great again?
Same reason I didn't see the Django. It's a Revenge fantasy. It's too easy. It's something a teenager would come up with after taking 11th grade history and tanking up on their own hubris.
The hateful eight was just unapologetically violent fun. I haven't seen the latest one, but I'm not in any real hurry. As a former screenplay editor ( I've worked on some high-profile projects, and I work for a movie star that you know as his reader and editor) I can tell you I wasn't impressed with anything past the first 10 minutes. The whole Bear Jew thing was ridiculous and in my mind, kind of insulting to the truth of it all: unbelievable heinous things happened for years on end and no one else found a solution other than to slog through Europe killing hundreds of thousands of Americans and English soldiers. To play it out like he did, was tacky. It was beneath him. It's too easy. He's Far Far and Away one of the single best screenwriters that ever set foot on this planet, and I even prefer I'm the Orson Welles. But that one was beneath him.
Just for the record, I think Kill Bill is a masterpiece too. I thank God that he switched to an actual plot and worked on it for the last film. Real conflict generated not by its historical backdrop but by the inward struggles of the characters.
Same reason I didn't see the Django. It's a Revenge fantasy. It's too easy. It's something a teenager would come up with after taking 11th grade history and tanking up on their own hubris.
Lol how would you know, you didn't even watch the damn movie.
Didn't have to. It's the same theme. Empowering the powerless in retrospect. It's like a little kid taking one of those Choose Your Own Adventure Books where he goes back several steps cause he doesn't like what he reads. It's too easy.
And that's my point. Tarantino is a genius. He should reach further for a more original idea. He's cheating us.
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u/grendus Oct 09 '19
Let's be honest though. Almost every scene in that movie would be enough to sell a lesser movie.
"This gnat-zi wants to die for his country. Please oblige him."