The Quentin Tarantino Thread

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Pulp Fiction is as close to a perfect film as can be made.
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Well said.

I think Kill Bill is really sloppy. I like both volumes equally, even though they're very different. Maybe if I watch them back-to-back I'll change my mind. Hattori Hanzo and the Crazy 88 fight scene were the best parts of volume 1, and I think the part where Elle
kills Budd
and the fight scene between Beatrix and Elle are my favorite parts of volume 2. I dunno, I haven't watched either in a long time and the only one I own on DVD is volume 1, which is actually on my PSP.

I think The Whole Bloody Affair will be cool, but I want a lot of extras on the DVD also (the original DVDs didn't really have a lot of extras....I've rented them before). My dream extra would be audio commentary by Tarantino (which is impossible, since Tarantino doesn't believe in satisfying his fans like that....). I'd rather have that on the Pulp DVD though. Or, reuniting the cast of Kill Bill with Uma, Tarantino, David Carradine, and Michael Madsen (I heard Uma and Darryl Hanna did not get along after KB) for video commentary, like they did with the director's cut of Hellboy (which had Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, and Rupert Evans on video commentary).

I know it's not going to happen, but I also want them to include like a half-an-hour animated short like the one in KB1, an anime thing. I heard they were going to make a feature-length anime spin-off of KB. Oh well, I can dream, can't I?
 
I saw Tarantino in Berlin.

I was just walking down Schonhauser Allee looking for a place that was said to serve pizza with horse meat in it. It was a pretty quiet weekday afternoon with almost no one around.

So there he was crossing the street with young twenty something woman with glasses and a slightly artsy fashion sense and he was yapping to her in his very distinctive Tarantino way.

Then I punched a truck and we became friends.
 
Langsta said:
My dream extra would be audio commentary by Tarantino (which is impossible, since Tarantino doesn't believe in satisfying his fans like that....).
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Terantino did audio commentary for From Dusk Till Dawn. He and Rodriguez. It was fairly entertaining, but not overly educational.
 
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I should find my Quentin Tarantino autograph.

My former boss's brother in law is Bob Weinstein, and he went to Bob's wedding a few years ago. Tarantino was there, and I asked my boss to get me an autograph. He took one of the dinner menus and drew a picture of himself, and on his shirt it says "Erik Is Cool".

Best autograph ever.
 
Reading through this thread and finding that people like Kill Bill more than Pulp Fiction makes me ill. For an acclaimed movie, Kill Bill had some seriously badly choreographed fight scenes. It was fairly obvious that no one quite knew what they were doing.
 
Wade_Wilson said:
Reading through this thread and finding that people like Kill Bill more than Pulp Fiction makes me ill. For an acclaimed movie, Kill Bill had some seriously badly choreographed fight scenes. It was fairly obvious that no one quite knew what they were doing.
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Yeah. . .I'm not quite sure how people could put Kill Bill past Pulp Fiction. Just the fact that the two volumes are so uneven hurts my head.
 
Wade_Wilson said:
Reading through this thread and finding that people like Kill Bill more than Pulp Fiction makes me ill. For an acclaimed movie, Kill Bill had some seriously badly choreographed fight scenes. It was fairly obvious that no one quite knew what they were doing.
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*cuts Wade in half with samurai sword*
 
Wade_Wilson said:
Seeing as how you're as familiar with Kenjutsu as whoever choreographed Kill Bill's fight sequences, I don't find this very frightening.
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You're just a martial arts snob. Those of us who aren't trained in the ways of the warrior can just be happy with how awesome the fight scenes look.
 
Wade_Wilson said:
Reading through this thread and finding that people like Kill Bill more than Pulp Fiction makes me ill. For an acclaimed movie, Kill Bill had some seriously badly choreographed fight scenes. It was fairly obvious that no one quite knew what they were doing.
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The Pulp Fiction rape scene wasn't believable enough for me. I'm sorry, but I've been in one of those situations, and it's a lot worse. It was fairly obvious that no one quite knew how to rape someone.
 
My point is, that if you want to make a movie with a lot of stylized Japanese swordfighting, you should at least make sure that the people involved know what they're doing. I could name countless action/marital arts movies with actors who clearly don't know martial arts that still manage to have fairly realistic fight sequences. No one's asking for Tony Jaa level stuff here, but I would have liked to have seen them stay within the realm of possibility.

I understand that the movie is about a woman in a yellow jumpsuit who goes on a killing frenzy with a samurai sword, and if you want to have a plot that ridiculous...great, but at least make sure that your fight scenes look the way they should.
 
Wade_Wilson said:
My point is, that if you want to make a movie with a lot of stylized Japanese swordfighting, you should at least make sure that the people involved know what they're doing. I could name countless action/marital arts movies with actors who clearly don't know martial arts that still manage to have fairly realistic fight sequences. No one's asking for Tony Jaa level stuff here, but I would have liked to have seen them stay within the realm of possibility.

I understand that the movie is about a woman in a yellow jumpsuit who goes on a killing frenzy with a samurai sword, and if you want to have a plot that ridiculous...great, but at least make sure that your fight scenes look the way they should.
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I didn't notice anything wrong with them, but if there is stuff, I think there's a good chance he did it intentionally as a throwback to some of the uneducated fight scenes in the old Kung Fu TV shows, like the Hatori Hanzo one, that the movie is the ultimate tribute to.
 
Planet-man said:
I didn't notice anything wrong with them, but if there is stuff, I think there's a good chance he did it intentionally as a throwback to some of the uneducated fight scenes in the old Kung Fu TV shows, like the Hatori Hanzo one, that the movie is the ultimate tribute to.
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There is no such thing as a Kenjutsu duel that Lasts this long.

Even when two opponents with very similar levels of skill fight, it's extremely rare for there to be more than one or two strikes. Kenjutsu is designed to be quick and efficient, complimenting the Katana, which is often argued to be the best sword ever designed. Not to mention the fact that both actresses clearly don't know what they're doing. They're very obviously aiming at each other's swords rather than their bodies. It bothers me.

I don't really know (or care) if it's a tribute, but bad fight scenes ruined the first film for me (I never went to see the second). I'm not a big fan of most female martial artists in films, not as a sexist thing, but more as a muscle thing. Girls without any real muscle whatsoever (like most actresses) would not be able to put enough force behind a blow to damage any serious martial artist. Of course, if it were more common for male actors to be breathtakingly skinny and lethal at the same time, I'd whine about that too.

Yeah; it's just a movie. But having the standard set so low for fight scenes bothers me, as I am a big fan of martial arts films.
 
Wade_Wilson said:
There is no such thing as a Kenjutsu duel that Lasts this long.

Even when two opponents with very similar levels of skill fight, it's extremely rare for there to be more than one or two strikes. Kenjutsu is designed to be quick and efficient, complimenting the Katana, which is often argued to be the best sword ever designed. Not to mention the fact that both actresses clearly don't know what they're doing. They're very obviously aiming at each other's swords rather than their bodies. It bothers me.
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And nobody noticed or cared.

Except for you.
I don't really know (or care) if it's a tribute, but bad fight scenes ruined the first film for me (I never went to see the second). I'm not a big fan of most female martial artists in films, not as a sexist thing, but more as a muscle thing. Girls without any real muscle whatsoever (like most actresses) would not be able to put enough force behind a blow to damage any serious martial artist. Of course, if it were more common for male actors to be breathtakingly skinny and lethal at the same time, I'd whine about that too.
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Uma Thurman has always seemed pretty muscular to me.
 
Glad this thread was on the sidebar or I might not have found it. I've had drinks and tacos with Quentin in Austin, while he was filming Death Proof. He is honestly a really funny and nice guy to be around, and doesn't seem to dislike having fans around him at all. He even bought a few rounds... at Guero's. Even though the Guero's in Death Proof looked a lot different from the actual Guero's on Congress in Austin.

He's a class act, that man, and especially loves it when you engage him in conversation about obscure 70's horror/blaxploitation/slasher/zombie films. He could fill volumes with his knowledge of movies that most people have forgotten/never seen, like Driller Killer or I Spit on Your Grave.

Seriously... if you ever meet him, bring those movies up.
 
Willverine said:
Glad this thread was on the sidebar or I might not have found it. I've had drinks and tacos with Quentin in Austin, while he was filming Death Proof. He is honestly a really funny and nice guy to be around, and doesn't seem to dislike having fans around him at all. He even bought a few rounds... at Guero's. Even though the Guero's in Death Proof looked a lot different from the actual Guero's on Congress in Austin.

He's a class act, that man, and especially loves it when you engage him in conversation about obscure 70's horror/blaxploitation/slasher/zombie films. He could fill volumes with his knowledge of movies that most people have forgotten/never seen, like Driller Killer or I Spit on Your Grave.

Seriously... if you ever meet him, bring those movies up.
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Best Day Ever?

but seriously your my new god

replacing my father who met Alice Cooper in a strip club, and Mike Meyers at a Toronto Maple Leafs Game, and Sandra Bullock in a bar

i think my dads a liar
 
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