i have more thoughts about it, but 'awesome' will suffice for now (even though it isn't the confidant, complex movie that was inglorious basterds...easily his most mature work)

the first 3rd was weak by tarantino standards, but when dicaprio (great casting, he ate it up) and candieland arrive the movie takes off

he's brilliant at making movies that are both unquestionably fun entertainments and arguments about our relationship to those entertainments...(and i was never much of a fan until basterds)

fox was a bad ass..."the d is silent, hillbilly"


complete tangent: just walked in to the last 20 mins of phantom menace...absolutely one of the worst, most embarrassingly bad movies ever made...jaw droppingly, offensively bad

Well said.

what has brought me around on tarantino after the last two movies is his understanding and insistence that 'pulp fictions'/genres/low culture have complicated arguments and politics embedded in them...which is obvious, of course, but mostly only in retrospect (culturally); and this allows him to make powerfully fun/instigating movies simply in part by leveraging the already existing cultural arguments within genre (which at this point most in the audience at least sense, even if they couldn't articulate)

i used to think he was cynical in this appropriation...most people who hate him do, but now I think he was just an immature film maker showing off

basterds is a complex, moral work...as much as any made in the last decade...django isn't quite that, but it is more fun and exhilarating (as it deals with america's great wound, instead of europe's)

there was a palpable charge in the theatre at the end...hence my babbling

What? You never saw Kill Bill? If you like old kung fu movies AT ALL. I mean if you were ever entertained by them as a kid, or thought Bruce Lee was cool, you should go grab the first one. It is very well done.

That is exactly what I expected from the trailers. I do love the old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns though. I plan to go see it this Thursday and be entertained.

QT has been riffing on the Spaghetti Western thing since Kill Bill. Mainly Vol. 2. which had many Spaghetti Western elements.

Spaghetti Westerns are awesome, so I think I will like this one. I've got one more to watch in re watching the Dollars Trilogy again. A Few Dollars More is one of the more underrated Westerns, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly gets most of the credit in that trilogy, and yes it is the best but Few Dollars More is a great movie on its own as well. Cannot wait to see Django, I love Tarrantino and Spaghetti Westerns so this sounds like a great combo.

From what I read, Smith couldn't commit due to it not being exactly the right fit, but was open to talking to QT about it again if he couldn't find someone else.

I think I heard that Tarantino talked to Chris Tucker before finding Foxx. That would have been terrible.

heh, that would have been different, but he has worked with QT before. I think hes even done a few dramatic roles? Dead Presidents..Silver Linings Playbook

Yep.....you nailed it. Just got through watching it. Great flick. IMO not as good as Basterds or Kill Bill, but damn close. Maybe it will grow on me more over time. I thought it was a little overlong, probably could have used about 15 minutes trim. The QT cameo scene was a little unnecessary.

Interesting how hes empowering the traditionally exploited. What a charge. great fun.

I gotta say, Will Smith was barely even in this movie.

oh yea, it was fun trying to spot the cameo characters..

I saw Tom Wopat, Don Johnson, Amber Tamblyn, The dude from Breaking Away, Goggins, Franco Nero, Remar and about a dozen others that ive seen around in B movies from time to time.

But DiCaprio and Samual L Jackson ate this up. Great performances.

ROFLROFL

Tombstone rapes this film.

I loved the part Christoph Waltz played.