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I’ll say it again, I am very excited for this one. But I don’t think Quentin has made the best Western of the decade. I’d give that distinction to the Coen brothers and True Grit.
Others I’m very excited about, assuming they come out this year for sure are: Icon, The Walk, Sicario, Black Mass, Snowden, and The Revenant.
Hey, hipsters — go watch SAINT LAURENT this weekend. It’s the best biopic since LINCOLN and one of last year’s very best.
@Joseph “I agree. At first, I was like, “Oh no, another Western…” but then I realized that this is Quentin, and that he has never disappointed me with a film.”
I feel that QT is the only major director to really put out western-like films on a consistent basis nowadays that someone saying “Oh no, another Western” for QT now is like saying the same thing for John Ford’s new films back in the day.
I’ll probably end up seeing this, but it does say something rather troubling about our culture that “Meanest, Grittiest and Deadliest” are used as selling points here.
Unless QT has come up with something new and revolutionary this time, I’m a pass.
100% hf Pete’s comment and also for Jennifer Jason Leigh natch. Otherwise nope.
My above comment was in response to Joseph’s.
Tarantino, Scorsese, Spielberg, PTA, W. Anderson, Nolan, Fincher, definitely.
Plus:
the Coen Brothers, Richard Linklater, Edgar Wright, Alfonso Cuaron, Kathryn Bigelow, Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodovar, Werner Herzog, David Cronenberg, Jeff Nichols, Todd Haynes, Todd Field (if he ever gets around to making another), the McDonagh brothers, Bong Joon Ho, Darren Aronofsky, Alexander Payne and Michael Haneke.
There are others that I still hold out hope for each time, but their careers have become spotty in recent years so enjoying a new one becomes less and less of a sure thing. A good example of that is Jason Reitman.
Kurt Russell’s mustache’s is the star of this film. Will it be better than Django? Could this film make it on this list? 10 best modern westerns? http://thefilmbox.org/top-10/ten-best-modern-westerns/
Hoping it was worth swallowing one’s pride and one’s own words.
(No hatred towards Tarantino — I love Pulp Fiction, and the director is also one of my favorite screenwriters [(no sarcasm) the man has got his own fascinating way of making a series of profanities relatively almost indispensable to some of his films; etc.].)
That said, it’s good to see Jennifer Jason Leigh (#really) back (#in the mainstream sense) in the game once again.
Hmmm…let’s see. It will be 8-10 Tarantino simulacrums sitting around talking at one another in long self satisfied monologues that mistake length for depth, lots of “spot the exploitation film homage”, the usual “look how the revenger is just as brutal and amoral as the avengee” pablum, the usual liberal use of the N word to maintain Q’s status as honorary 70’s black man, and of course thematically demonstrating that Q loves strong and empowered women characters so much he has them beaten and violated for most of the film.
Man, Jackie Brown seems like a thousand years ago.
Who, if any, of the performers in this movie will be Oscar-nominated? I’m guessing it’s going to be up for something since QT’s last two movies were much-loved by the Academy. Could Jennifer jason Leigh finally get her long overdue first nomination? Maybe Samuel L. Jackson will be up since he was so egregiously snubbed for Django Unchained, which he stole from everyone else in the cast. Or maybe Kurt Russell will be up for a career nod. Color me excited for 2015 and it’s upcoming slate of worthwhile movies.
Kurt Russell should look like this all the time
Kurt looks amazing, they all do.
I agree. At first, I was like, “Oh no, another Western…” but then I realized that this is Quentin, and that he has never disappointed me with a film. He’s one of the few filmmakers whose new film is considered an EVENT. Who else falls into that category? Maybe Scorsese and Spielberg still, maybe Paul Thomas and Wes Anderson, maybe Christopher Nolan, maybe Fincher. But QT is definitely number one on that list.
Probably one of only two or three mandatory motion pictures being released in 2015!