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Tarantino's next film: Inglorious Basterds

Whooohooooo, I want my 100 scalps:rofl

Looks to be a good flick!!

who wants to be my date for that movie??
 
greener said:
YOU SIR HAVE EXCELLENT TASTE!

PB is a total gem yet even most movie buffs have rarely heard of it.


Also, for the QT haters, for the most part he makes movies for movie fans. He does indeed homage other movies but he consistently picks ones that aren't that well known, yet deserve to be. Him 'ripping off' another movie to make Res Dogs is undeniable, and yet RD stands on its own even after seeing the source movie. If he made homage/ripoff movies that sucked I would hate him, but his movies are great. If you doubt me, go rewatch Jackie Browne it is a great movie, excellent music and camera work, photography, and not all that violent, just a great caper flick.

PS
Sit back and realize that RD is super intense yet it all takes place with a bunch of dudes standing around talking in a warehouse. The action of the robbery is implied and only shown in small doses all of which are after they've fled the store. Quite simple minded to call it a rip off its a perfect example of an homage.
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Greener/Dave:

Thank you for the compliment :thumbup

Unfortunately, I think it will be short-lived as I believe it is me that has been the most critical of Tarantino and his purported homages in this thread. This is not to say that I don't like QT's films, quite the opposite actually, but the one film that I have a long-standing problem with him about is Reservoir Dogs. I was young when it was theatrically-released but I was enough of a cinephile to follow the magazines and read all of the interviews he gave to know that the story about "...Dogs" changed drastically from interview-to-interview, yet he never acknowledged the source material. The fact that he did that still drives me insanely mad.

I wholly believe that it was The Brothers Weinstein that came up with this "homage" stuff as a mere deflection/defense against the mounting outcry from an initially-large number of members of the film community.

After Reservoir Dogs, however, QT's homaginess seemed genuine. Especially the Kill Bill saga being a very direct homage to Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black. That was a great homage.

This all being said, I don't think that Jackie Brown was a great homage, rather, it was an amazing translation of an Elmore Leonard novel to the cinema-screen. The only other film to accomplish translating Leonard's work as effectively was Get Shorty. Jackie Brown is actually my favorite Tarantino film because it is pure in its intent and QT let the whole world know from the get-go that he was a huge Elmore Leonard fan. In fact, he often describes his first produced screenplay -- True Romance -- as an Elmore Leonard screenplay that Elmore never wrote.

Anyhow, I'm geeking-out here, so i should end the reply.

As for Lee Marvin, did you see him in Don Siegel's version of The Killers (1964)?
 
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