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Les Miserables is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

[lukethedrifter]

Went to see It's A Wonderful Life at the Hi Pointe a couple of weeks back. I just loved that the climax, the real turning point was ....

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[Vidor]

Went to see It's A Wonderful Life at the Hi Pointe a couple of weeks back.

"To my big brother George, the richest man in town."

[Vidor]

Paul Thomas Anderson is going to adapt a Thomas Pynchon novel. This seems like an appropriate pairing.

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/27/paul_th ... cretarial/

Of course, given how long it took to secure funding for "The Master" and how poorly that movie did at the box office, hard to say when this one will hit theaters.

[The Third Man]

Django was fun as hell. I was almost in tears laughing during the baghead scene.

Tarantino has matured in his last two films. He's no longer making Tarantino films, so much as he's making genre films with a Tarantino flair. With all due respect to everything pre-Basterds, I no longer feel like he's spending 2-3 hours screaming "HEY, LOOK AT WHAT I CAN DO!" in his movies.

I love his previous films but I do think that Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained are his most interesting and - particularly in the case of Inglorious Basterds - complex films. It helps that I adore historical fiction, so seeing him tackle real-world atrocities without sacrificing his flair for pop culture reappropriation, humor or style is awesome. I really can't wait to see what he does next. It's especially interesting because as long as I've been around the internet, there's been some long-gestating Tarantino project floating around - Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained were all available to read as scripts in some form long before they ever materialized. (Not that I ever read them - [expletive] that.) But there's nothing (visible) on the horizon right now, which makes me deeply curious.

[Maclowery]

As much as I enjoy keeping up with upcoming movies, and seeing new trailers, - one of my absolute biggest online hobbies - I am very happy that I never jumped over to reading early scripts for film. Maybe it's my bookworminess that doesn't enjoy how scripts 'read' compared to a novel or a movie. I've tried several times to read a movie script for entertainment, both for movies I know and movies I haven't seen (or movies that don't exist) and I'm not unsatisfied that it doesn't appeal to me. I'll stick with reading novels and watching movies.

No disrespect to screenwriters or lovers of screenplays.

Back to the movie: Man o man, did I enjoy Christopher Waltz. I liked Django enough, but maybe I identifed too much with hip-hop, modern, sex-bomb Jamie Foxx and not enough with his character. I really, really enjoyed this film, but without Waltz, I would have said "Hey this film was pretty cool. I might watch it again in a few years."

One of my much smarter film-snob friends posited that his role served as purposeful contrast to Tarantino's total non-sympathetic German characters from Inglourious Basterds. In that Waltz' character was so utterly awesome in Django simply to balance the scales against all the German douchers in Basterds. An interesting theory. But, like Third Man said, as far as I know Tarantino had basically written both scripts without knowledge that Basterds would be so well-received.

[JoeMcKim]

As much as I enjoy keeping up with upcoming movies, and seeing new trailers, - one of my absolute biggest online hobbies - I am very happy that I never jumped over to reading early scripts for film. Maybe it's my bookworminess that doesn't enjoy how scripts 'read' compared to a novel or a movie. I've tried several times to read a movie script for entertainment, both for movies I know and movies I haven't seen (or movies that don't exist) and I'm not unsatisfied that it doesn't appeal to me. I'll stick with reading novels and watching movies.

That's about the last thing I'd ever want to do, I don't want to know the whole story before I see a movie. I want to know the basic premise of a movie and that's it. I'd rather be surprised at what happens in the story as I watch it.

[JL21]

I have no interest in reading them in advance of the film- why spoil the film before it even comes out?- but I do enjoy reading them AFTER I see a film. I like seeing what a cinematographer added, what a foley artist added, where a director may have taken liberties, and ultimately, what the screenwriter's vision was.

That's not to say I do it often. Hell, I almost never do it. But it's a fun exercise that'll teach you a lot about filmmaking.

And along those lines, if you want to learn about some of the most underappreciated people in Hollywood, I recommend Tales from the Script.

As for Waltz's German character, Vulture posits that he's a tip of the cap to Klaus Kinski in "The Great Silence".

Did y'all notice that Broomhilda's last name was "Von Schaft"? As in... Shaft?

(and yes, Broomhilda is spelled that way for this character)

[JL21]

I love his previous films but I do think that Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained are his most interesting and - particularly in the case of Inglorious Basterds - complex films. It helps that I adore historical fiction, so seeing him tackle real-world atrocities without sacrificing his flair for pop culture reappropriation, humor or style is awesome. I really can't wait to see what he does next. It's especially interesting because as long as I've been around the internet, there's been some long-gestating Tarantino project floating around - Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained were all available to read as scripts in some form long before they ever materialized. (Not that I ever read them - [expletive] that.) But there's nothing (visible) on the horizon right now, which makes me deeply curious.

Heh... I kind of think of it as "Who will he use movies to get revenge on next?" He used film to reverse the history of the Holocaust in Basterds, and now he's struck a blow for slavery with Django.

There have been rumors about a third Kill Bill film- it's even listed on his IMDb page- but there's no telling how interested he really is in making that movie.

[MrSaigon]

Django was fun as hell. I was almost in tears laughing during the baghead scene.

Tarantino has matured in his last two films. He's no longer making Tarantino films, so much as he's making genre films with a Tarantino flair. With all due respect to everything pre-Basterds, I no longer feel like he's spending 2-3 hours screaming "HEY, LOOK AT WHAT I CAN DO!" in his movies.

Like 35 minutes of anime for a tertiary character?
I don't know if 'pretentious' is exactly the right word for his pre-terds work but it's not far off imo.