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Ellen counts down the Top 5 movie stoners.
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Great French movie (original title: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas) starring Melanie Laurent, currently known from Tarantino's latest hit "Inglourious Basterds", where she played Shoshanna Dreyfus. Melanie got her first Cesar Award for most promising actress (french equivalent of Oscar) for playing Lili in this movie. Check it out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lanie_Laurent
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5. Quentin Tarentino and Robert Rodriquez
The bromance between QT and RR is well documented. The cumulative of the two director’s bromance came in the supposedly ‘bad on purpose’ Grindhouse (2007) . This may be the most one sided bromance on this list for in terms of actual talent and industry currency in the shared field. What that means is that QT has tons, RR… eh, not so much. Rodriquez is well known for shooting messy along a pressure intense schedule while chopping movies together from rag-tag efforts of cliche that he then attempts to pass on as iconic. Sin City (2005) may be the one exception, however the movie was more pulled out due to Mickey Rourke’s performance, Tarantino’s directorial contributions, and the influence of co-director and creator Frank Miller.
None-the-less, Rodriquez is one of the busiest “in development” directors in Hollywood. His borrowed Tarantino reputation has netted him deals to reboot (probably badly) Predator, as well as hash out another paid-to-make-bad-movie in yet another faux grindhouse snooze-fest Machete. While RR unapologetically rips off Hollywood and fanboys alike with the great ‘bad on purpose’ con, his bro Tarantino continues to fortify their shared reputation with movies like Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds.
Get 8-6 and 4-1 at the link.Get 8-6 and 4-1 at the link.
5. Quentin Tarentino and Robert Rodriquez
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In his downtime from directing Brad Pitt to scalp nazis in Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has been exec producing Writer, Director, Producer and star Larry Bishop’s HELL RIDE. And we have 3 copies to give away on DVD!In his downtime from directing Brad Pitt to scalp nazis in Inglorious Basterds,... more
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With Bill undeniably killed, what dramatic possibilities remain for Quentin Tarantino if he comes good on a third instalment of his kung fu franchise?
Now that he's finally got Inglourious Basterds out of his system, Quentin Tarantino can set his sights on something new and exciting. Except not really very new. Or exciting. Tarantino, you see, wants to make Kill Bill 3.
According to an interview on Italian television, Tarantino is keen to have the next Kill Bill instalment in cinemas by 2014. That's worrying not only as a possible indication of creative bankrupcy, but also because such a project does seem remarkably pointless. Bill is dead. Bill is unquestionably dead. In the movies Bill died because of the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart technique. And in real life Bill (David Carradine) died, too, in slightly different circumstances. Bill is dead, which does seem to make any more Kill Bill films a touch redundant.
So, with the titular character long gone, how could Tarantino possibly go about making a Kill Bill 3? Here – out of a sense of nothing but pure philanthropy – are a few possible scenarios to help him along.
Option #1 - Bride on the Run. Remember in the first Kill Bill, where Uma Thurman murdered Vivica A Fox's character in front of her four-year-old daughter? The most obvious plotline for Kill Bill 3 would centre on the daughter's efforts to track down and kill Thurman in retaliation. She'd be 15 by 2014, so that would really tap into the key Hannah Montana demographic. In fact, why not go even further and make it a musical? Everyone could learn valuable life lessons about the importance of friendship and the littlest Jonas brother could play the love interest. Perfect.
Option #3 - Baby Bride. Kill Bill 3 centres around Thurman's training of her own daughter to become an assassin. It'd be just like Leon, only without the unsettling sexual undertones or the horrible Sting song at the end. Plus, because it's a Kill Bill movie, the story would be told in an impressive array of styles. Some of it would be in colour, some in black-and-white, some turned into an anime sequence, some recited by the cast of Button Moon, some from the viewpoint of a tap-dancing one-eyed mouse, that sort of thing.
Option #3 - Kill other Bills. Having dealt with Bill, Thurman becomes obsessed with killing other people who share his name. First on the list is lovely BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull, who is finished off after a highly stylised swordfight near Bill's beehive. Then she moves onto Bill Gates (suffocated with his own money), Bill O'Reilly (hacked to death in a needlessly gory threshing machine sequence), and will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, whose last album she hated enough to overcome slight worries about whether he's a proper Bill. The climax comes with Thurman repeatedly headbutting the bronze statue of long-deceased Liverpool manager Bill Shankly outside Anfield's visitor centre.
Option #4 - The Death Proof Option. Kill Bill 3 opens with Thurman setting out to kill Bill, before realising that she's already killed Bill. So instead, she spends two and a half hours waffling aimlessly about nothing in an indulgent faux-hip way to the sound of the same tired old surf guitar records that everyone started getting sick of a decade ago. Something marginally exciting might happen at the end, but nobody notices because they've fallen asleep or left the cinema. This is the option most likely to reach fruition.With Bill undeniably killed, what dramatic possibilities remain for Quentin Tarantino... more
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Now that Inglourious Basterds is out of the way and headed for almost inevitable Oscar nominations, Quentin Tarantino is planning his next move. What is it? Kill Bill Vol. 3.
Bad Taste caught Tarantino on Italian television where he went out of his way to lure the interviewer into asking him about the possibility of a third Kill Bill and then announced that yes, it’s happening and “The Bride will fight again.”
Of course Tarantino projects never happen quickly and sometimes the stuff he talks about never happens at all. But he seems fairly adamant about getting Kill Bill Vol. 3 done, even if it takes time. He says, “Kill Bill 3 will probably come out, I gotta wait a couple of years, but I want ten years to pass from the second one to the third one.”
So why ten years? Tarantino explains, “Two reasons. One, I think me and Uma needed a ten year break…. And the second one, I loved the character a lot. I think she deserved ten years to relax. She deserved ten years of no fighting, she deserved ten years with her child Bebe, just of peace. I put her through a lot those first two movies, I want her to have a nice, peaceful life for ten years. I want her to set up her store, and have some peace. But after ten years we’ll make her fight again.”
The original Kill Bill Vol. 1 was released in 2003. That could mean Kill Bill Vol. 3 in 2013 except, even though he mentions needing a break from Uma, QT says he only has to wait a couple of years and the ten years he discussed seemed to be related more to the timeline taking place inside the film than the one taking place out here. Kill Bill Vol. 3 could show up at any time.
Watch the full interview on Italian television via the embed below. It’s long, in Italian, and for most of the interview Tarantino seems utterly confused by what’s going around him until, that is, he starts pimping the Bride’s next film.Now that Inglourious Basterds is out of the way and headed for almost inevitable Oscar... more
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Apparently I was amazingly naive when I wrote the first draft of this. Mr. Bernstein in the NYT “Letters From America” section is apparently one of the many idiots in this great and free country who feels the need to suck enjoyment out of every corner of life in hopes of furthering some esoteric political agenda which is fueling an unprecedented scourge of hate divided down party lines. Bravo, good people, bravo. While these politico firebrands die an early death due to stress and hate induced heart failure, I’m going watch some movies and have a little fun.
In my piece below I single out the letter writer, Mr. Bernstein, exclusively. While reading, please understand that I wish to include Mr. Bernstein as well as the rest of the self satisfied malcontents who work diligently to manufacture an issue out of thin air. Carry on.
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By matching the hyper sensitive martyrism of the current event climate in the country, this ax grinding ragamuffin hops aboard the hyper-reactive train usually reserved for the vapid fencing of television political pundits and chugs gloriously with the furnaces rocking into Zeus-FUCK are you kidding me? land. Ah, yes, that special idiot wind mostly attributed to the hated bloggers and party-whore tv talking heads
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Why does Bernstein and the fun hating political extremist whack jobs vocally raping this country feel the need to vacate their hate and fear filled bowels all over any item that is itself newsworthy? Talk about exploitation!
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NEW YORK — Am I being overly fastidious, or does Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, “Inglourious Basterds,” which earned $38 million in its first weekend in the United States — more than double the nearest competitor — provide a more unapologetic justification for torture than Dick Cheney has been articulating lately?
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Sure, let’s make the Holocaust fun.
That is what Mr. Tarantino has done, and he has been rewarded for it at the box office. The night I saw it at a theater on eastern Long Island among vacationing New Yorkers, the audience applauded enthusiastically at the end, apparently satisfied over the spectacle of Jews killing Nazis, even if the other way around is how things actually happened in history.
But even if nobody would take Mr. Tarantino’s movie very seriously as a political or moral comment, it seems worthwhile to examine why his concept — American commandos torturing and murdering Nazis in occupied France — couldn’t have happened, not least that they would have been tracked down and killed pretty quickly.
The historical fact is...
Did that dude just drop "This historical fact...?" *Head-desk.* Be sure to read the rest...NEW YORK — Am I being overly fastidious, or does Quentin Tarantino’s new movie,... more
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Inglorious Bastards skyrocketed to the top of the German charts and even charmed the country’s most discerning film critics. The public’s reaction tells us a lot about Germany today, about the Germans’ earnest attempts to atone for their past.Inglorious Bastards skyrocketed to the top of the German charts and even charmed the... more
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television, courtesy of Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox.
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INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is a multi-leveled, mirrored masterpiece - this podcast goes in depth into the many meanings of the pic.INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is a multi-leveled, mirrored masterpiece - this podcast goes in... more
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Compare and contrast. Tarantino seems to have cast a Stanley Kubrick look-a-like for the opening scene in 'Inglorious Basterds'.
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "Inglourious Basterds."
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Former FBI Language Specialist Sibel Edmonds finally gets to testify under oath, after being hit with a gag order.
Bombshells Under Oath: INCLUDE: CONGRESS MEMBERS NAMED IN ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY, SEXUAL BLACKMAIL SCHEMES; NEW BREWSTER JENNINGS / VALERIE PLAME DISCLOSURE...
Long gagged under the "state secrets" privilege by the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration's DoJ chose not to re-invoke privilege, paving the way for this information to finally make its way on to the unclassified public record.
LINK TO ARTICLE: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7348.
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Check out this awesome poster that was never released as an official one for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds..
Designed by James Goodridge, the poster shows Shosanna running from the Nazis with the rest of the cast and many storylines all within her body. It really is a great poster. Shame it wasnt released but I think it makes more sense once you've seen the movie.
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Surely, the question has occurred to you: Why isn't Oscar-mad Harvey Weinstein releasing "Inglourious Basterds" in Oscar-friendly November or December? Doesn't he have faith that "Inglourious Basterds" can run the derby? Hey, Quentin Tarantino proved himself in 1994 when "Pulp Fiction" was nominated for best picture and Tarantino won best screenplay.
Last year, Harvey held back "The Reader" to the last possible stretch, giving it a limited opening in Los Angeles and New York in December, then wide release in January. The strategy paid off with five Academy Award nominations -- including a surprise bid (to some, not us) for best picture -- resulting in the Big Win at Long Last for Kate Winslet as best actress.
Answer: Harvey plans to reserve that last-minute, ambush strategy he employed for "The Reader" for his other major Oscar pony, "Nine," Rob Marshall's adaptation of the Tony-winning musical starring Penelope Cruz, Daniel Day-Lewis and Marion Cotillard. For "Inglourious Basterds," he plans to use the "Crash" campaign model.
By releasing "Inglourious Basterds" in theaters now, Harvey can give the flick a second wave of ballyhoo when the DVD comes out late this year. Because the DVD will be a mass release, it won't need to be watermarked with numerals identifying each disc with the name of an academy member or other award voter. That's one of the sneaky ways "Crash" beat front-runner "Brokeback Mountain" for best picture of 2005 -- Lionsgate blitzed Hollywood with more than 120,000 cheap DVDs.
To manufacture and ship a watermarked DVD costs about $20. The cost for a non-watermarked equivalent: $5.
Beware, Hollywood. Given how red rivers flow in Tarantino pix, the town will be engulfed in a blood tide this December when Harvey unleashes his "Inglourious Basterds" DVD campaign. It will probably pay off with two Academy Award nominations: best screenplay (Tarantino) and supporting actor (Christoph Waltz). Maybe more. "Pulp Fiction" got nommed for best picture when there were only five slots; this year there will be twice as many.Surely, the question has occurred to you: Why isn't Oscar-mad Harvey Weinstein... more
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Maybe I'm of a different though, but can Inglourious Basterd's weekend box office be accurately attributed to Twitter? So says The Hollywood Reporter:
Finally, a Twitter effect that benefits a movie instead of hurts it.
After lukewarm tweets from Friday screenings caused weekend drops for pics like "Bruno" and "Funny People" earlier this summer, "Inglourious Basterds" came along this weekend and rode a crest of tweeting goodwill.
The movie held fast after its $14 million Friday to finish at $37.6 million for Quentin Tarantino (it was his biggest opening ever, though "Pulp Fiction" came out in an earlier, slower-rollout time) and, to the delight of media everywhere, provide plenty of fodder for a Harvey victory lap.
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Honestly, I would mark it more up there with marketing and Tarantino's return. But if you saw it, did Twitter sway you?Maybe I'm of a different though, but can Inglourious Basterd's weekend box office be... more
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