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“This might come across as egotistical, but I don’t really feel in competition with anybody anymore.”
That is a quote from Quentin Tarantino, one of the strangest and most brilliant directors of the modern era. He’s been known to be a bit of a prick in public life, but I honestly can’t blame the guy because most eccentric geniuses come off as dickheads to regular folks like you and I.
He went after the NYPD last year, calling them “murderers,” which unsurprisingly did not sit well with the rich and powerful of The Big Apple. He exaggerates things. It’s in his blood. That’s what he does. Tarantino is Hollywood to the bone.
So when I read that he told an audience at the Jerusalem Film Festival that he was only going to make two more movies, I took it with a grain of salt.
This is a classic Jay-Z move. Remember after The Black Album when Jay told everyone that he was done rapping and he was going to focus on other endeavors? That whole thing lasted a little more than a year, and then Jay-Z was back at it collaborating with Kanye West and making an entire soundtrack for American Gangster.
Tarantino is doing the same thing. He’s getting buzz around his name again by saying he’s only making two more movies because The Hateful Eight wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be. I’ll be shocked if Q.T. isn’t making movies well into his 70s. The guy is a natural-born film maker — I refuse to believe he’s just going to hang up the cleats two movies from now..
[via Vice]
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I thought The Hateful Eight was a good movie. Is it as good as Pulp Fiction, Res Dogs, Basterds, Django? Nah… But it’s still an A- to me. Samuel L getting shot in the nuts was perfect.
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One of the best parts of Django was when I heard Samuel Jackson putting blackface on to look even blacker.
Role commitment. What happened to actors giving a shit?
spoiler alert much?
The movie came out last year. You don’t get to bitch about spoilers if you’ve chosen not to see it for months….
Sorry about that. If you wait a few months to see it maybe you can forget you saw that? Idk man.
I agree, Tarantino is far from done. But if Hollywood studios want to keep him around they’re going to need to reevaluate their standards and stop pushing the greats to pull out quantity over quality (here’s looking at you Spielberg & The BFG). The reason people go the movies less isn’t because there aren’t enough movies being produced, it’s because no one wants to spend the money on a mediocre film-especially when you can just torrent it and feel better about not wasting the money.
Guys, I’m giving up the comment section to focus on writing columns that are publish worthy and also so that I don’t get fired from my job. Also also, I’m sorry if I have come across as a dick but like John said, most eccentric geniuses do.
Good for you man, I’d definitely look forward to reading your articles. I actually tried that once, it was fun. Spending nights writing grant applications and organizing all the thoughts I had about whatever funny thing happened to me. It gets hard though. Writing and rewriting all the struggles of your postgrad life while the rejections keep coming. Reliving all your awful and unsuccessful experiences flirting at a bar while you desperately try to word it in a way that doesn’t make you look like an incompetent fool but realizing that you can’t, because you are. Suddenly you start losing sleep from the combination of staring at your screen late into the night and wondering whether or not your daily mishaps are funny and relatable or a sign of more serious failings on a personal and professional level. So your articles stay unsubmitted, your dreams unfulfilled, and your life unrewarding. You’ll be back to these comment sections Nived. They all come back.
jk jk go get ’em champ.
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Lmao, this is actually very true. Thanks for the support.
Damn I sure as hell hope he makes more than two more. I’m still holding out for a Kill Bill 3
Apparently he’s planning on making it. I read online somewhere that it’s supposed to be a revenge movie between Vernita Green’s daughter and The Bride.
I heard that too. I’m sure Uma would definitely be on board. Might have to change the title to Kill The Bride though….
“Kill Bill Vol. 3: Kill The Bride”?
I heard at one point he wanted to remake Plan 9 from outer space, aka the worst movie ever made.