embargo, shembargo
http://www.slashfilm.com/hateful-eight-early-buzz/
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 3 December 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
"Ridiculous 6 > Hateful 8" - Armond White, probably
― polyphonic, Thursday, 3 December 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
how excited are you when you get one of these wicked burns in on Tarantino?
almost as much as when i have a great BM.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
"boy-master"?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 December 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
"Brooklyn" style Manhattan:
Brooklyn Cocktailmakes one drink
2 ounces whiskey (rye or blended)1 ounce dry vermouthdash of maraschino liqueurdash of Amer Picon (A bitter, orange-flavored cordial. Torani Amer may also be substituted.)
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 December 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
my shits > everything after Jackie Brown :D
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
even the ones w/out caramel corn in them
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 December 2015 01:57 (eight years ago) link
70mm shits?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 4 December 2015 02:11 (eight years ago) link
Does twitter count for breaking embargoes?
― Nhex, Friday, 4 December 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
Oh ok, that letter shows yes
― Nhex, Friday, 4 December 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
BTW I would recommend avoiding any plot or character summaries, definitely the kind of movie that's better not knowing such things going in.
― Nhex, Friday, 4 December 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
I can't imagine the colon that would shit caramel corn.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 December 2015 02:22 (eight years ago) link
it's in boldface
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2015 02:24 (eight years ago) link
Hell on earth to some - Tarantino and Bret Easton Ellis in two hours of conversation on BEE's podcast today.
― my harp and me (Eazy), Monday, 7 December 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
it's a good conversation
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 December 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
@NickPinkerton The Revenant and The Hateful Eight offer two sharply-contrasted concepts of cinema, both of them dull and reductive.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
Who is Nick Pinkerton? Revenant does look pretty dull though.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
Nick Pinkerton is a freelance journalist and film programmer. He has written about films for Sight & Sound, ArtForum, the Village Voice, Moving Image Source and Reverseshot.com, among other publications. He is currently a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, lives in Brooklyn, NY, and has programmed at a variety of venues throughout the NYC area.
― polyphonic, Monday, 7 December 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Is it so hard to imagine he's totally right?
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Easy to imagine he's right for Nick Pinkerton.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
Pinkerton's a good writer - his blog Bombast (now defunct) was smart and funny.
http://www.filmcomment.com/author/nick-pinkerton/
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Yup, this one from about this time last year was a worthy sigh of contempt against Oscar-season biopic dross:
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/bombast-the-black-list/
These sorts of movies are popular for the same reason that fat tomes of historical fiction by the likes of James Clavell, James A. Michener, and Leon Uris used to be the only fiction that you’d find in houses otherwise devoid of books: there is a significant segment of the American public that thinks this business of making characters and stories up out of thin air is a little suspicious and possibly effeminate. Backers gravitate towards True Story film properties because, like superhero movies, franchise reboots, and genre work, they utilize recognizable icons and known quantities—though, unlike all of those examples, true-life stories of famous people triumphing over honest-to-God hardships are widely and erroneously considered to belong to a higher category of morally improving works.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Monday, 7 December 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
Pinkerton was the other person who voted for Blackhat in the S&S poll, so I guess his idea of dull and reductive cinema differs from mine.
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Monday, 7 December 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
I guess so.
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Monday, 7 December 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
my favorite recent Pinkerton bit (from a column about Revolutionary War flicks and TV):
I watched John Adams some time after its original airing, because I was curious to see any screen depiction of a period in American history that has always seemed to me insanely overlooked by Hollywood, and because a friend told me: “You get to see John and Abigail Adams fuck in it.” It did deliver on this front, as well as offering several instances of framing shots from unlikely and disadvantageous angles, meant to lend the affair some immediacy though it plays as though the movie was shot by paparazzi nervous to get a glimpse of the Second Continental Congress.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 December 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 December 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Hah Blackhat.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 7 December 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
i still get excited about a new QT movie, but i bet this one will just play on over familiar QT-isms, i.e. bravura but hollow cinema (i know QT is allowed to repeat certain tics and tropes as hes an Auteur etc but *most* of his interesting recurring stuff is stylistic rather than thematic). and i bet revenant will feel weighty but dull, as that is basically innaritu in general these days (birdman felt like someone trying to show they have a light touch and humour, without ever convincing). obv i have no clue and nothing to go on but am just lazily trying to figure out why that writer might think these new films are dullsville. also anything that is a big money western these days usually ends up a bit oversized, epic, and the inadvertently bloated (and to ageing academy voters obv).
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 11:06 (eight years ago) link
This was fucking endless, made doubly so by a decision to include a flashback (!) after a fifteen-minute intermission (!!). A couple of SLJ quips aside, the dialogue was flat, the performances nothing you haven't seen. And I hated especially the way it espouses vigilantism while paying lip service to justice.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link
and, yeah, the movie version of Murder on the Orient Express is a chore too.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 04:22 (eight years ago) link
i wouldn't be surprised if i wasn't into this, basically inglourious basterds was the only tarantino i've been 100% into post-jackie brown (kill bills are fun, death proof's first half is tight as hell and ends amazingly, second half is a drag till the chase, django was sloppy) and this one looks more akin to what i don't like abt him the more i see of it. i'll definitely give it a go, though.
― nomar, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 04:38 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I'm so unenthused by new movies these days that I'm not gonna let any word of mouth kill one of the very few upcoming things I'm actually excited about seeing.
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 04:46 (eight years ago) link
Skipping this one unless JJL somehow ends up nominated.
― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 05:29 (eight years ago) link
i tend to like tarantino's technical approach and his high points seem undeniable but the endings of both Django and Basterds were so spectacularly sadistically shitty and packed with self-indulgence that I'm a little shook to put myself in a theater with this. Like I don't wanna have to walk out if I hit a big enough speed bump; it will make me really angry and why put yourself in that position?
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 06:30 (eight years ago) link
maybe if he steps away from race and ethnicity as his core sacred cow to make hamburger from I'll be more inured? dunno.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 06:31 (eight years ago) link
i basically don't watch violent movies with other humans
i do think the ending where you sit in a movie theater being entertained by the massacre of a bunch of people sitting in a movie theater being entertained by a massacre, and then brad pitt carves a swastika into your face, has something to recommend it, though neither i nor quentin tarantino are probably sure what
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 07:00 (eight years ago) link
i tend to like tarantino's technical approach and his high points seem undeniable but the endings of both Django and Basterds were so spectacularly sadistically shitty and packed with self-indulgence that I'm a little shook to put myself in a theater with this.
Then you'll smack your lips at what he has in store for Jennifer Jason Leigh.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 11:44 (eight years ago) link
is the new one as infantile as the last (highly overrated) two?
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 11:59 (eight years ago) link
Worse. The advance word gives the impression that it's a Jackie Brown-type gabfest, but so much of it is exposition (the guy still doesn't trust his camera).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link
ill prob still check it out though the last two made me feel pretty disgusting afterwards.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 12:31 (eight years ago) link
Can't wait its gonna be awesome obv
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
you guys are making me worried
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
yeah, this one sounds emphatically not for you forks
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
no idea but surely her feet have to come into it at some point
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
I think an argument can be made that the only movie that doesn't indulge QT's foot fetish is his worst one, so I hope so
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
I loved Basterds & Django.
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Basterds is his best so ppl disparaging here in comparison to his new one I am happy to write off but idk Django doesn't bode well for QT doin Westerns (and I agree his views on Ford make it seem like he doesn't actually get the genre)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
the actors reminded me of the kids in Bugsy Malone
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
cool I love Bugsy Malone and am pissed it is not available on DVD
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link