Tarantino

[walkman]

Anybody see him on Leno last night?  Purple suit, silver cane and absolutely trashed off his arse.  Must have felt like the longest interview of Leno's life.  Even Kevin Bacon looked embarrassed on Tarantino's behalf.  And come on now...when Kevin Bacon finds you embarrassing, you KNOW you've gone off the deep end.
 
 That being said, anybody else excited for Kill Bill?

[Jaguär]

No. Too bad. Sounds like a barrel of laughs.
 
 Not really. Not my kind of flick.

[SPARX]

Originally posted by walkman:
  Anybody see him on Leno last night?  Purple suit, silver cane and absolutely trashed off his arse.  

I saw it.Leno asked him if his cane unscrewed to hide alcohol,to which Q replied,yeah Jagermeister.Man,he was smashed!

[markie]

Sounds like a perfect way to get publicity for his comeback......
 
 The trailer for it looked pretty cheesy. Anything with Lucy Liu in it and Samurai swords probably always will.

[walkman]

Originally posted by Bubba:
  Sounds like a perfect way to get publicity for his comeback......
 
 The trailer for it looked pretty cheesy. Anything with Lucy Liu in it and Samurai swords probably always will.

I'm yet to be disappointed by one of his directed efforts.  Pulp Fiction is just brilliant, and both Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown are very good.  It sort of amazes me, though, that an artistic genius like QT can be such an inarticulate burnout in person.

[markie]

do you remember seeing him on an episode of the golden girls where he played one of about 10 crap elvis impersonators?

[walkman]

Originally posted by Bubba:
  do you remember seeing him on an episode of the golden girls where he played one of about 10 crap elvis impersonators?

Playboy: You once appeared as an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls. Do you consider that a high point or the nadir of your acting career?
 
 Tarantino: Well, it was kind of a high point because it was one of the few times that I actually got hired for a job. I was one of 12 Elvis impersonators, really just a glorified extra. For some reason they had us sing Don Ho's Hawaiian Love Chant. All the other Elvis impersonators wore Vegas-style jumpsuits. But I wore my own clothes, because I was, like, the Sun Records Elvis. I was the hillbilly cat Elvis. I was the real Elvis; everyone else was Elvis after he sold out.
 
 
 A man with taste.

[poorlulu]

that's pretty funny..............i like that......
 
 but then again how did he talk his way out of the cable guy?

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by walkman:
   

Originally posted by Bubba:
  Sounds like a perfect way to get publicity for his comeback......
 
 The trailer for it looked pretty cheesy. Anything with Lucy Liu in it and Samurai swords probably always will.

I'm yet to be disappointed by one of his directed efforts.  Pulp Fiction is just brilliant, and both Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown are very good.  It sort of amazes me, though, that an artistic genius like QT can be such an inarticulate burnout in person. [/b]

Walkie, you're young yet. You'll find that is quite common among many brilliant artists. How they do it, I have no clue whatsoever.

[paige]

Originally posted by Jaguär:
  Walkie, you're young yet. You'll find that is quite common among many brilliant artists. How they do it, I have no clue whatsoever.

just like people you may know that are brilliant book-wise, and are just flat out genius, but have the worst common sense of all time. i don't know how you can be that smart but not be logical enough to understand simple things, but i guess that is how life is. or something.

bilge

[walkman]

Originally posted by Heywood Jablome:
  Jackie Brown was disappointing, and nowhere near as good as his earlier efforts..  Face it, he's lost it.  Warren Beatty turned down the Carradine role in Bill Kill, and that should tell you something.  But then again, Robert Blake turned down the Pacino role in the first Godfather!
 
 At least QT worked on 4 classic flicks.  How many has Kevin Smith worked on?

Disagree with you on Jackie Brown...I think it's wildly underappreciated.
 
 As for Kevin Smith, the answer is 1, but I thoroughly enjoyed the other 4 all the same.

[walkman]

Originally posted by paige:
   

Originally posted by Jaguär:
  Walkie, you're young yet. You'll find that is quite common among many brilliant artists. How they do it, I have no clue whatsoever.

just like people you may know that are brilliant book-wise, and are just flat out genius, but have the worst common sense of all time. i don't know how you can be that smart but not be logical enough to understand simple things, but i guess that is how life is. or something. [/b]

See, I think that's strangely common, but also quite different.  Book smart but life-stupid is pretty self-explanatory â?? spend all your time studying at the expense of living and you're bound to turn out silly and boring.  But a guy like Tarantino is a different story...totally uneducated, yet innately brilliant.  Not a logical way to approach an art-form, but awfully effective.

[Bags]

Originally posted by Heywood Jablome:
  At least QT worked on 4 classic flicks.  How many has Kevin Smith worked on?

Kevin Smith can shit on the sidewalk, and I'll worship it as genius.  I LOVE that man.  I'm not saying all his work is masterpiece material, but I LOVE it.  Cuz I LOVE him.  Seeing a trend here?
 
 
   

Originally posted by walkman:
 
 That being said, anybody else excited for Kill Bill?

Hath thou yet seen it?  Did anybody, but me, see it yet?
 
 I will say this:
 
 It was better than Jackie Brown, a return to Tarantino's film-school "geek chic" style.
 
 It was better than Matrix Regurgitated.  It was better than 28 Days Litter.  
 
 As per usual, the soundtrack was rather tuneful.   QT, always eschewing traditional background music, this time fancies Japanese rockabilly and Quincy Jones' Ironside theme.  Good choices!  Gonna hafta buy it.
 
 Bonus Points:  Pussy Wagon.