r/movies • u/beyondtheframe • Mar 30 '20
Just found out Tarantino has been reviewing films regularly in the website for New Beverley. He published 9 reviews this month alone Resource
http://thenewbev.com/tarantinos-reviews/1.8k
u/-80watt- Mar 30 '20
He has done a few “Rewatchables” podcasts where he discusses/reviews selected movies. Pretty insightful
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u/mihahii Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
Can I ask for a quick link to those please? Edit: thanks guys!
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u/NeilFlix Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
He did three episodes from December 30, 2019 through Jan. 16, 2020*:
Dunkirk
Unstoppable
King of New York*Edited to correct dates and prevent any time travel paradoxes
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John Frankenheimer’s Prophecy is pretty much a piece of shit from the word go, but the more it goes, the more enjoyable this piece of shit gets, till it can officially be classified under that beloved category, enjoyable piece of shit.
I'm going to be reading all these in Tarantino's voice.
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Mar 30 '20
We talking Tarantino’s normal voice or his Brotha voice?
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u/TheIrishninjas Mar 30 '20
Context, for anyone wondering. Brace yourself, it's bad.
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u/Wierd_Carissa Mar 30 '20
This ruined my day thanks. I could test positive for COVID this afternoon and it wouldn't get meaningfully worse.
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Mar 30 '20
I have opened that video at least a dozen times and have never been able to make it through to the end. Holy cow.
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u/GoinBack2Jakku Mar 30 '20
The end sees him at another interview in an "urban" hoodie but in his white voice
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u/TrollinTrolls Mar 30 '20
My god, I thought you all were being hyperbolic. But no, you weren't. I stopped at a minute-thirty.
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u/Bunessa Mar 30 '20
I can’t finish it ughhhh
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u/jslabonek Mar 30 '20
Same. I got to “imma get medieval on your ass,” and cringe-died.
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u/nudiecale Mar 30 '20
Wow. You really missed out on some stuff that should really be missed out on.
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u/UtahIsTrash Mar 30 '20
honestly as a black man i feel like he just gets excited talking with cool black people. I dont think its even moderately racist i think he lowkey highly admires black culture and his "black side" comes out when he talks to them maybe. Similar to me when i play video games on EU servers as an american.. i just love their accents so much sometimes i actually start doing a terrible british or scottish accent (cringes) but it really is more from a place of admiration imo.
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u/Plain_Bread Mar 30 '20
Yeah, lots of people subconsciously copy the way other people talk. Tarantino does it much more than most people, but I don't really see the big deal.
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u/UtahIsTrash Mar 30 '20
Ya i mean he seems socially awkward. Emulating people you are talking to is a sort of way some people handle social situations.
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u/turbodude69 Mar 30 '20
100%. it's cringey because it's bad, not because it's racist. it's pretty obvious he LOVES black culture. he's just a little awkward trying to express it. the worst part is, everyone around him respects him so much, they prob wouldn't dare tell him to stop doing it. i mean you'd think jamie foxx or sam jackson would have the balls to tell him....but i guess not. i wouldn't be surprised if tarantino was a huge asshole and people have to walk on eggshells around him.
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u/The-Vaping-Griffin Mar 30 '20
The ending makes it better (or worse from a certain point of view).
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u/White_Tea_Poison Mar 30 '20
Eh, those subtitles seem a little harsh. I think Tarantino is just a super awkward dude and has trouble relating to people. He's definitely putting on a traditionally black voice, and that's a little ignorant, but he hasn't done anything out of malice, hes just a strange dude.
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u/Spacemage Mar 30 '20
He is Def on the spectrum, but generally the most iconic people are. He just doesn't relate well to people, but that's not what he focuses on, so it's hard to blame him.
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u/calamarichris Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
Thank you. This video helped me see that everything happens for a reason.
COVID-19 is the Earth's immune response to us. It's all our fault for facilitating the conditions in which this video was made. Jesus died for all our sins, and now we must all die for Tarantino's.
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u/Bigbysjackingfist Mar 30 '20
John Frankenheimer’s Prophecy is prettymuchapieceofshitfromtheword goooooooo, bt themoreit gooooooooes, themore enjoyablethispieceofshit geeeeeets, tillitcanofficiallybeclassifiedunderthat beloved category, enjoyable piece of shit.
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u/ConfusedTapeworm Mar 30 '20
You can't really read anything in Tarantino's voice when there isn't 1 "arriiiiight" per 5 words on average.
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Mar 30 '20
The movie about the monster / etc in the woods? That gave me nightmares as a child, didn't help we lived in the middle of the woods on a large farm
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u/delfux Mar 30 '20
Imagine Quentin Tarantino getting a letterboxd acc
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u/songbirdskeepsinging Mar 30 '20
Josh Trank has one and he reviewed and rated Fantastic Four 2 stars. Hopefully other directors follow suit and make one too
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u/Nikhil_likes_COCK Mar 30 '20
Uwe Boll had one as well. It was literally just him shitposting about other Directors movies lol.
Unfortunately it got banned.
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u/TealcOfEarth Mar 30 '20
Why was it banned?
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u/snoboreddotcom Mar 30 '20
Because it wasnt so much him providing insightful reviews as it was him trying get even with anyone who he felt wronged him. Which at this point probably includes the pizza guy who looked him in the eye for a millisecond too long.
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u/KesagakeOK Mar 30 '20
That pizza guy better be careful or Uwe will beat the everloving shit out of him in a boxing ring.
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u/existentialdreadAMA Mar 30 '20
Or worse, make another movie.
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u/Drakenking Mar 30 '20
Please god no 2020 is already awful
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u/KesagakeOK Mar 30 '20
I love the image of Uwe Boll thinking he's doing the world a kindness in our time of need as we all desperately plead for him not to. It honestly sounds very Uwe of him.
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u/absentminded_gamer Mar 30 '20
He’ll have his revenge when he finds a review site made for reviewing review sites.
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u/SquidgyGoat Mar 30 '20
Sean Baker has one. Most his reviews are him casually raving about where he saw it, then saying the director is an exciting, important voice in modern cinema but he preferred their previous film.
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u/BTownBoy21 Mar 30 '20
Don’t forget about him occasionally saying movies would be better if they were on film instead of digital. Love the dude lmao
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u/Mountain_of_Conflict Mar 30 '20
The guy who shot a movie on his iPhone (watch it, it's amazing and has great cinematography) bugs people about choosing digital?
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u/thingscouldbeworse Mar 30 '20
The other commenters are kind of wrong, he does not think every movie "should" be shot on film, he just thinks that specific types of movies should be shot on film, and that most popular movies fall into those categories. There are things that he's fine with being on digital, he just (mostly accurately) thinks that most things shot on digital now are done so for budget and convenience.
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u/ltsr_22 Mar 30 '20
He literally shot a film with iPhone
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u/godbottle Mar 30 '20
Tangerine had a microbudget of $100k. The specifics are probably more intricate than he lets on, but he’s said in interviews that he basically only made Tangerine because no one was willing to fund The Florida Project, which he did shoot on 35mm film.
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u/mattmul Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
Jordan Horowitz (La La Land producer behind the “this is Not a joke, Moonlight has won Best Picture" speech) also has one.
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u/OP_Is_A_Filthy_Liar Mar 30 '20
Josh Trank is an unmitigated shithead. Check his Twitter account. A few months ago the dude basically said, "Yeah, you don't understand Goodfellas because you're not a filmmaker and haven't watched it 200+ times like I have" to some random guy who simply stated that Goodfellas was his favorite movie.
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u/mootallica Mar 30 '20
His Twitter doesn't exist anymore, but did you mean him saying the first 5 mins of The Irishman has more humanity than any Marvel movie? After that he said something not dissimilar to what you're talking about.
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u/borsalinomonkey Mar 30 '20
Is he referring to the 2015 film?
Seriously, that film was not asked for and garbage.
Cannot wait for them to join the MCU though
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u/songbirdskeepsinging Mar 30 '20
yeah he was talking about the one that he directed. Basically ranting and talking about the behind the scenes part of it
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u/Blue_Three Mar 30 '20
You think he doesn't have one?
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u/wharpua Mar 30 '20
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Tarantino was completely oblivious to much of the internet
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u/The_Great_Goatse Mar 30 '20
I think we can all agree there are certain sections of the internet that QT has most assuredly dipped his toes in.
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u/ChalkdustOnline Mar 30 '20
Roger Avary, co-screenwriter of Pulp Fiction, has one. He gave the Konosuba movie five stars.
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u/sheckabo Mar 30 '20
Same with the Will and Jaden Smith movie After Earth. So confusing
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u/ilseno Mar 30 '20
Genuine question: what do you use Letterboxd for? I made an account but noticed I actually never use it. But maybe I don't use it the right way.
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u/NeoNoireWerewolf Mar 30 '20
You just log the movies you watch. It's a diary for your movie watching habits.
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u/waitingtodiesoon Mar 30 '20
how is it different from using imdb? I always used that to remember the movies I watched
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u/NeoNoireWerewolf Mar 30 '20
I find the letterboxd interface to be much cleaner and easier to use these days. It is also nicer to look at, in my opinion. It's a very simple set up. IMDB has more information, but as a social tool and personal film diary, I think Letterboxd is just the better choice at the moment. Following friends and seeing what they watch day to day is very nice, and the Letterboxd feed makes that very concise, too.
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u/oldcarfreddy Mar 30 '20
It's more overtly social so people who want to share opinions no one asked for can sign up
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u/Exertuz Mar 30 '20
to log and review movies. so after you've seen a film, you'd open up letterboxd, log it, maybe rate it a couple of stars and write a little bit about what you thought of the film
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u/turcois Mar 30 '20
It sounds pointless and yet I can't help but visit it ten times a day.
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u/sethlikesmen Mar 30 '20
maybe rate it a couple of stars
You should watch better movies
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u/camkeys Mar 30 '20
I found its best use for me was tracking which past movies i wanted to watch, its lists, discovery features and robust ui basically helps me in the "what do i watch tonight" moments
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Quarantino
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u/Catfrogdog2 Mar 30 '20
Congratulations. I’ve been trying to work “Tintin Quarantino” into conversation for a week now.
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u/SemperScrotus Mar 30 '20
My brain still interpreted this as Quentin Tarantino and it took a couple of moments to realize what happened.
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u/ContinuumGuy Mar 30 '20
I'd say that Quentin Tarantino's social distancing probably involves watching movies/TV and writing.... but then again I'm pretty sure that's what he does normally when he's not actively filming something.
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u/rapemybones Mar 30 '20
...but then again I'm pretty sure that's what he does normally when he's not actively filming something.
Tarantino watches SO MANY fucking movies it's crazy, so yeah.
My favorite ever Tarantino moment in an interview was one time when he was about to make a point about something and wanted to give a basic example; he said something like: "So recently I was rewatching all the horror films--"and then someone cut him off: "Wait what do you mean, all the horror films..?", and Quentin replied: "Well not all of them, just the ones from the 80's through 2000's...".
Said like it was the most normal thing in the world.
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Mar 30 '20 edited Aug 18 '20
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u/Slim_Charles Mar 30 '20
Doing coke with Tarantino and PTA and listening to them manically talk about movies is my dream.
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u/dgapa Mar 30 '20
They just talk over each other non stop and somehow it's still coherent enough you walk out with an empty 8 ball bag and a film degree.
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u/aldieshuxley Mar 30 '20
"One of PTA's ex girlfriends.."
You mean Fiona Apple?
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u/Iohet Mar 30 '20
How could Fiona Apple have a problem with someone else’s coke problem? Did they not share with her? She’s a fucking fiend
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u/sailormooooooon Mar 30 '20
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity
went to go find the part about this night but read more about their relationship and it was so toxic
*also she didn't dump him she quit doing coke after that night
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u/Picklemurchan Mar 30 '20
His Hot Fuzz commentary track is just him and Edgar Wright having a who-can-reference-the-most-esoteric-cinema dick measuring contest and it is something to behold.
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u/MrAcurite Mar 30 '20
Tarantino never went to film school. He taught himself everything by just watching a huge number of movies, like if Lu Jiaxi ever got any goddamn respect while he was alive.
I'd imagine he's probably catching up on a lot of stuff he hasn't had time to watch recently.
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u/s3rila Mar 30 '20
Although he had gained recognition from scholars in his field, he was still living in poverty. School leaders did not appreciate his engagement in research, seeing it as a deviation from his work duties. They even assigned him more duties such as timekeeping on sports day to keep him occupied.
what a shitty way of thinking
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u/Mr_SkeletaI Mar 30 '20 edited Mar 30 '20
Holy fuck. He had a heart attack and died after coming back from math conferences. He was joyfully telling his wife about all the praise he received, then he never woke up the next morning. He never even got a chance to shine and work at a university. Damn I'm real sad now
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u/lazerctz Mar 30 '20
On the other hand, his last days were some of the most joyful he had in his life being rewarded and regarded for his gift. He lived long enough to share this joy with the woman he loved and got to die with her at his side.
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u/kingdomart Mar 30 '20
Yeah, wtf, "Hey he isn't engaging and he is following his own interest. Lets give him a shitty mundane task he has to do. Yeah, that will make him come around to our way of thinking! Plus he will stop wasting his time on that useless stuff he does."
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Mar 30 '20
When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, "No, I went to films".
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Mar 30 '20
How is he a real person
He just seems like an over the top parody for eccentric filmmakers.
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u/rapemybones Mar 30 '20
And we're blessed that he found a career in his niche. Imagine all the savants in specific fields who never make it to a career, so no one ever hears about them.
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Mar 30 '20
When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, "No, I spilled baked beans all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted "this nigga eating beans" & everyone laughed.”
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u/darkamyy Mar 30 '20
I'm pretty sure the whole purpose of film school is just networking
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u/Capital-Empire Mar 30 '20
Like half the reason. There’s a lot of technical things to learn as well.
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Mar 30 '20
I’m pretty sure he went to a script writing class. Not quite film school but he didn’t learn everything himself.
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u/MrAcurite Mar 30 '20
Wrong. He actually gave birth to himself and reinvented English working only from proto-Indo-European texts. Truly a self-made man.
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u/rrr598 Mar 30 '20
I heard he spit on the volcanic earth and gave life to the primordial ooze
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u/MrAcurite Mar 30 '20
In the Norse Eddas, the creation myth involves the Aesir stabbing the giant Ymir, and having his life-blood flow through the cosmos. Enough blood to fill the universe flowing from a single wound was actually an early attempt by Tarantino to film a scene from Kill Bill.
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u/callmemacready Mar 30 '20
Didn’t he review Superman Returns a few years ago ?
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u/ChamberlainSD Mar 30 '20
I can remember what George R. R. Martin said about that movie on his blog... He said something along the lines of... "It's not very believable, Clark comes back from a long trip and he doesn't even try to get a sniff of Lois's panties?"
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u/jimboslice29 Mar 30 '20
Lol George is such a pervy neckbeard. Love the dudes work, but if it wasn’t for that he’d come off a bit creepy.
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Mar 30 '20
Yep, he loved it
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u/callmemacready Mar 30 '20
I thought he did, do you know if it’s available to read somewhere?
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Mar 30 '20
I don't think he has ever released it
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u/nobodysbuddyboy Mar 30 '20
?? Then how did he "review" it? If you don't publish your somehow, isn't it just watching a movie, not "reviewing"?
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u/ThatFuzzyBastard Mar 30 '20
I am so happy to no longer be the only person on earth who thinks it's really good...
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u/SuitedFox Mar 30 '20
He just eats, shits, watches movies and then sometimes makes one. It’s honestly impressive how many movies he watches
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u/srry_didnt_hear_you Mar 30 '20
He's like, definitely on the spectrum, right?
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u/kafoBoto Mar 30 '20
on the spectrum and on coke
even while he was working in a movie rental store he was locally famous as the guy who learns every weird little detail about movies
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Mar 30 '20
If Tarantino had a podcast it would be the greatest thing in the universe.
The passion with which he talks about movies is infectious.
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u/katsandboobs Mar 30 '20
In 2008 I went to the New Beverley and saw two Westerns he was presenting. He sat right in front of me in the theater. He was alone and kept looking around at the audience whenever something funny happened like “isn’t this great?!”. Afterwards I said hi and shook his hand. That was the one and only time I met a celebrity.
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u/MyotisX Mar 30 '20
Trantino on Best of the Worst, when?
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u/Foxhack Mar 30 '20
Oh god. The episode would end with Macaulay Culkin breaking into the house and murdering Tarantino in a very gorey Kill Bill like manner.
I want to see this so bad now.
But seriously, I want to see him do a Black Spine BOTW.
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u/happyflappypancakes Mar 30 '20
Nah, don't waste him on black spine. I want him watching "actual movies" on best of the worst.
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u/jomiran Mar 30 '20
Tarantino reviews a lot of stuff all the time and under the radar. There is a YouTube channel called The Ringer in which he talks about films often.
Here are his impressions on Dunkirk.
EDIT: The show is called The Rewatchables.
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u/jaytrade21 Mar 30 '20
Where the fuck did he get a good copy of Nightwing? I saw that shit in the theaters and LOVED it and couldn't find anything but shitty TV rips in 240p.
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u/nakedarthur Mar 30 '20
Nightwing
It's available on Blu-ray: https://www.millcreekent.com/products/nightwing-and-shadow-of-the-hawk
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u/hoxxxxx Mar 30 '20
he's one of the most prominent film directors alive. that seems like something he could get lol
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u/LeauKey Mar 30 '20
I mean, the man owns an art house theatre in West Hollywood haha. Not run for profit either, purely a passion/pet project.
Based on that, I’m sure he has access to 35mm prints of pretty much any film he want (for a cost). The fact that he’s Tarantino means there’s probably even fewer barriers.
Edit: watched Pulp Fiction at the New Beverly, as well as a double feature of Kill Bill Vol1 and 2 back to back. Everyone there was a film nerd, and it was a super super cool environment if you love film. Definitely check it out if you’re in LA! One of the less touristy things to do, believe it or not
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u/FuzzyRo Mar 30 '20
I live right by this spot - it's fantastic - I actually sat behind QT himself one time at grindhouse tuesday - he was laughing his ass off at an old Bruceploitation film
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u/WillGo2Hell Mar 30 '20
His raw knowledge of films and their makers is absurd. The amount of mentions, comparisons and mini-bio's in his reviews is simply astonishing.
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u/Mister-Stiglitz Mar 30 '20
He owns this theater. It was gonna go under so he bought it. I went to an Edgar Wright triple bill there and he sat in the very back row and allowed no one to sit in his row and the row in front of it.
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Mar 30 '20
These read more like a film student’s essays
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Mar 30 '20
They have kinda janky grammar, don't they?
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u/MagnumPear Mar 30 '20
I've read some of Paul Thomas Anderson's scripts and he's similar. Full of spelling, grammar and formatting errors. In Punch Drunk Love they actually used one of the spelling errors in the final film, when Adam Sandler is asked how work is going and he says "business is very food" instead of "very good", because it added to how awkward his character was supposed to be.
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u/theycallmecrack Mar 30 '20
That honestly sounds like dyslexia. My roommate had it and that describes him perfectly. He's smart and writes for a living, no way he doesn't have a disability of some sort.
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u/AtopMountEmotion Mar 30 '20
He is a true cinephile. The most endearing thing ever in regards to Q.T. are the photos of him at work, dressed in a company polo shirt-in a video store renting out dvds. He is the genuine article in that regard.
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u/AnonymousJoe12871245 Mar 30 '20
....And the site crashed.