Jul 12, 2017

You do you, but I'd bet my left testicle Tarantino's trajectory isn't changing anytime soon. Ego doesn't humble people, it blinds them.

Wasn't Tarantino supposed to do a third western? I thought that was the plan.

 

Jul 13, 2017

IFC MIdnight bb. Leaking July 21st @Pinhead

 

Jul 13, 2017

Does anyone REALLY want a third western from Tarantino though? That sounds so tiresome, tbh. And I liked both of the last two.

I've always thought a brilliant film could be made of the whole Manson saga, it's a fascinating story. I'm very interested to see what QT could do with it

 

Jul 13, 2017

I don't want another movie from him period, but I was just curious considering he'd been saying that a true western director has at least three under their belt.

 

Jul 13, 2017

#ProtectTarantino

 

Jul 13, 2017

Should've retired after Inglorious Basterds

 

Jul 13, 2017

Such a weird thing to say, considering most people make their best work later in their career.

 

Jul 13, 2017

Tarantino doesn't think so. He's stated pretty plainly he doesn't want to be another Coppola or Carpenter making irrelevant stuff that nobody cares about.

 

Jul 13, 2017

I know and I think it's silly when he says that, but at least he wants to do 10 films.

He's completely misguided in that thought process though, people like Malick, Lynch and Scorsese are all in their 70s and doing the absolute best work of their careers.

 

Jul 13, 2017

Scorsese works as a comparison, but he's the exception more than the rule. I still don't understand how a 70 year old gets Wolf of Wall Street right in a way that speaks to millennials so effortlessly. Tarantino hasn't had that kind of awareness since the 90s. Dude is still watching s--- on VHS tape and riffing on the same exploitation genre films he's been riffing on since his first movie. He doesn't have the flexibility of those people. At least, he hasn't proven it to me yet.

 

Jul 13, 2017

On the one hand, Tarantino tackling True Crime sounds fascinating. (Or at least early 90s Tarantino.) I have a hard time seeing him have the discipline to write characters that aren't just, pulp approximations or QT surrogates. Jackie Brown maybe aside, it's sooo rare for one of his films to sound like they aren't 100% his voice. So while I agree with you, I'm mostly intrigued by how faithful or focused on the family itself will be.

like, if he goes the PT Anderson route and uses the Manson story as *inspiration*, like Anderson did with The Master or the drug heist scene in Boogie Nights, that's one thing. If it's Uma Thurman as Squeky Fromme talking about foot rubs, and Superman's alter ego... idk.

 

Jul 13, 2017

How is it the exception when the two best pieces of cinema in 2017 are both made by men in their 70s?

 

Jul 13, 2017

Don't even get me started on how Kiarostami was Super Saiyan until his dying day.

All my favorite filmmakers are old men

 

Jul 13, 2017

Malick and Lynch both have under 10 feature length movies, and they've been around for like 50 years. Scorsese is definitely the exception to pretty much anybody if you think about how much he's made and how consistently he's made it. I mean, there are certainly other directors who have, Polanski or Cronenberg for instance, but they're not like QT. They successfully reinvented themselves. Tarantino has regressed if anything.

 

Jul 13, 2017

We're we talking about how many films they've made or how good their recent films are? Cause I'm wholly talking about their outputs this decade. My point was that men in their old age often make their best work.

 

Jul 13, 2017

This is a valid point, hadn't really thought about it that way

I'm intrigued by this largely a) because of my own interest in the Manson story and b) a desire for QT to try something he hasn't tried before. But you're not wrong that his particular "voice" could be a strange fit

 

Jul 13, 2017

Sure, but you're picking out directors like Lynch and Malick who have a lot less in common with Tarantino than directors like Carpenter and Coppola do.

 

Jul 13, 2017

Definitely - kind of crazy no one has really tackled it besides maybe some random B or TV movies. Personally, could be an interesting docu-miniseries type project. Like OJ.

Historically this is... far from true. Plenty of counter examples etc....

its goin down... im yellin timbre....

 

Jul 13, 2017

All my favorite filmmakers are either dead or still making incredible work so for me I believe that great artists have a high chance of making great things into their old age as they become wiser. My point being that Tarantino is off base in saying that old men shouldn't make movies, because it's the old men who are still making the most daring and inventive cinema in 2017.

 

Jul 13, 2017

I know, he's being a little too blanketed, but I think he's seen enough great directors make 2-3 films they shouldn't have. Definitely plenty of cases of a great filmmaker losing some zip on the fastball. And so, while there's certainly exceptions, he's got a point. But, look, if he even does it. We saw what Soderbergh's "retirement" was like. Can you picture loudmouth Tarantino quietly writing criticism or whatever the last 20 years of his life?

@Vahn at home watching A Countess from Hong Kong, Family Plot and Buddy Buddy rn smh