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Yeah, I know what it's called and it seems you've already made up your mind that Django (Not the original spaghetti western starring Franco Nero) Unchained is already going to be a great western despite his previous poor war time effort. Personally, I only think Dogs is his best movie and the rest fall some where around the C+ standard mark. But that's me, I'm a movie fan and not a geek worshipper.
Pulp Fiction is a good movie whether you are a geek or not. The rest (other than Dogs) are a mixed bag.
Agreed. Pulp Fiction is his masterpiece. Reservoir Dogs is a good film, but the rest are pretty average. Inglorious B******s, with the exception of the performance by the excellent Christoph Waltz, was one of the worst films I've ever seen. Speaking of which, Waltz for a Bond baddy, any one, with Tarantino as a henchman?
For me QT may have made an interesting Bond movie, but his love of trashy old films (and how he likes to pay tribute to them by working ideas and sequences into his own films) means that he would mess too much with the Bond formula and maybe end up with something potentially disasterous.
And he has a penchant for rescuing the careers of washed up stars - does he view PB the same way? Surely not.
And wasn't it Tarantino's intention for CR to be made as a follow up to OHMSS?
I love Kill Bill vol 1 and 2 as well, and IB is decent enough imo. One of the reason I think Django will be good is because Kill Bill had sort of a spaghetti western theme mixed in and that worked really well.
Personally, I think he's extremely creative, and always gives an exciting, different twist of a film. Granted, I'm not sure if I would want him to do a Bond film - he would request to write the script, and Bond would suddenly have a foot fetish - but he's one of my favorite directors around today. Bring on Django Unchained.
Pulp Fiction is an all time great movie and if you werent blown away the first time you saw it then you havent got a pulse.
Having said that I'm not sure QT is right for Bond, although if EON kept his self indulgence reined in then I'm sure it would be an exciting ride. Didnt like Kill Bill I have to say but Jackie Brown and IB are packed with great moments and check out the stuntwork in Death Proof to see how he can handle action.
Better to take a creative risk on QT than plod along with uninspired journeymen like Glen, Spottiswoode and Tamahori.
Hey, I've still got my Palme d'Or Pulp Fiction badge and Press Kit from a viewing an entire 2 months before the little people got to see it. Okay, that doesn't make me big or special but it sure proves that I'm not led by what others think and say... including you, Mr Wiz. b-(
I've still got my BFI ticket from seeing The Artist a full two months before anyone else saw it. Like the "little people" I loved it when I first saw it. In fact I thought it would be one of those films that would do better on DVD than in the cinema (how wrong I was!). When/where you saw it doesn't effect your overall opinion of the film.
I fail to see precisely what point youre trying to make here.
Very true. Mendes and Forster have probably been given more control than anyone but even they would have to be 'on message' at all times. But whos to say QT would want such total control. He may want to shake it up a bit but as long as EON made sure he did it with restraint then I wouldnt be against it. Maybe give it another 10 years and let him mature a bit more then I think he could deliver an exciting and fresh Bond film.
Now, I believe that he *could* have been a good choice for a Bond film. He's shown that he can adapt his style, is masterful at building tension through dialogue and performance (a huge plus for CR's story more so than any other), and has been known to pull great performances out of actors who were, up until that time, regarded as "limited". And of course the story would have been adapted in a much more suitable way for Brosnan at that point in his tenure. I would have liked to see the more moody, tension filled, and lower-key CR (I'm assuming that it would have been more character based and less action based than the CR we got, which by the way is the #1 Bond film in my rankings) that he would have brought. And I'd love to see if he could have made Brosnan bring his A-game a deliver a great performance rather than the obvious and perfunctory ones that he gave.
HOWEVER, if it was a choice between this potential CR and the CR that we got I'll stick with Campbell's CR. As I said, it currently sits at #1 Bond film for me.
I agree with you. I think Quentin would've have a painful job with Pierce, who seemed like been imprisoned by his ego after Goldeneye. On the other hand, Quentin's world and Bond's world walk in the same neighborhood of sex & violence, but on different streets.
Uma Thurman would probably be Vesper, and Sam a black Felix (QT would beat the 06 CR to it!).
Maybe he'd be better as Felix, yeah. Bruce Willis as Mathis then. Tim Roth as Gettler, and Steve Buscemi as Mr. White.
But I do think Buscemi would make a better Le Chiffre, and maybe Waltz as Mathis.
Steve got sick of being pink I guess. :P
I dunno, Waltz plays an amazing villain, and I think Le Chiffre would suit him to a tee. Buscemi as White works because he's a bit more behind the curtains, a bit more mysterious, and I think Buscemi's appearance suits that.
Haha, but only if the Casino in the film is located in Amsterdam! =))
I could imagine Brosnan with his gun out pointed at a terrified waiter screaming "say stirred again! I dare you, I double dare you say stirred one more goddam time!"