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Everybody knows all that.

[JackofDiamonds]

Haha, I was just being a dick, but that was nice of you. I think a novel written in 1862 has passed the statute of spoileration.

[JL21]

Yeah, me and a friend were discussing where he'd go next if he kept up this theme - assuming that he'd stick to historical events related to Americans, and that it's unlikely he'd go back in time further than the Civil War, since anything further back tends to be hifalutin period pieces. A Vietnam film would be interesting, albeit doing another war film might feel like a retread given how much he switches up genres (war, western, blaxploitation, kung-fu/samurai, slasher, heist films, and obviously revenge - and he's touched plenty on organized crime).

I'd love to see him do a real horror film as opposed to the wink-and-a-nod Death Proof. Or a straight-up John Woo-style bullet opera. I have no doubt he's familiar with heroic bloodshed in general, especially since Reservoir Dog takes several elements from a Chow Yun-Fat flick called City on Fire.

I just saw this article earlier today:

http://www.slashfilm.com/quentin-tarant ... y-trilogy/

I can only imagine how much Spike Lee is going to [expletive] his pants over that if it ever gets made.

[Freed Roger]

Parental Guidance. Maybe a naked Marisa Tomei could have saved this movie. But if that were the case, I wouldn't have been forced to go see it with the family.

[Freed Roger]

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.

Yeah, me and a friend were discussing where he'd go next if he kept up this theme - assuming that he'd stick to historical events related to Americans, and that it's unlikely he'd go back in time further than the Civil War, since anything further back tends to be hifalutin period pieces. A Vietnam film would be interesting, albeit doing another war film might feel like a retread given how much he switches up genres (war, western, blaxploitation, kung-fu/samurai, slasher, heist films, and obviously revenge - and he's touched plenty on organized crime).

I'd love to see him do a real horror film as opposed to the wink-and-a-nod Death Proof. Or a straight-up John Woo-style bullet opera. I have no doubt he's familiar with heroic bloodshed in general, especially since Reservoir Dog takes several elements from a Chow Yun-Fat flick called City on Fire.

Heard a pretty good interview with Tarnatino on NPR today. It should be up on their website soon.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/28/168193823 ... -catharsis

[Cole Burns]

Parental Guidance. Maybe a naked Marisa Tomei could have saved this movie. But if that were the case, I wouldn't have been forced to go see it with the family.

>ahem<

[Cole Burns]

Yeah, me and a friend were discussing where he'd go next if he kept up this theme - assuming that he'd stick to historical events related to Americans, and that it's unlikely he'd go back in time further than the Civil War, since anything further back tends to be hifalutin period pieces. A Vietnam film would be interesting, albeit doing another war film might feel like a retread given how much he switches up genres (war, western, blaxploitation, kung-fu/samurai, slasher, heist films, and obviously revenge - and he's touched plenty on organized crime).

I'd love to see him do a real horror film as opposed to the wink-and-a-nod Death Proof. Or a straight-up John Woo-style bullet opera. I have no doubt he's familiar with heroic bloodshed in general, especially since Reservoir Dog takes several elements from a Chow Yun-Fat flick called City on Fire.

I just saw this article earlier today:

http://www.slashfilm.com/quentin-tarant ... y-trilogy/

I can only imagine how much Spike Lee is going to [expletive] his pants over that if it ever gets made.

Sounds like that will be his last "period piece." But I read an interview recently where he just destroys John Ford. I'd love for him to rework some of Ford's stuff - in that early Western style - but have the Indians just outright destroy the cowboys.

[Vidor]

That said, there's been some good commentaries on the movie's narrow focus allowing it to portray emancipation as a gift given by great white men, and on theme of compromise versus principled radicalism. See, for example this New York Times op-ed and this essay for Jacobin.

It's a movie about the passage of the 13th Amendment. The President at the time was a white guy, his cabinet consisted exclusively of white guys, and the Congress was 100% white guys.

[Vidor]

Saw "Rise of the Guardians". Didn't care for it. Precious few movies that you can take your kids to while enjoying yourself.

[JL21]

I'm about to see Django for the 2nd time, which means that after today, I will have seen Jamie Foxx's taint two times too many.