Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Three Hr. "Quote" Trailer

Now we'll be sure to avoid this one like the plague. You may not want to bother w/ more than this opening paragraph. We didn't.
Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers. “Django Unchained” feels like a three-hour trailer for a movie that never happens, a slavery-revenge melodrama cum salt-‘n’-pepper action film that would be awesome if it actually existed. Like so many trailers, it’s packed with memorable scenes that don’t go anywhere, and keeps promising payoffs that remain theoretical. It’s got Western scenery on a grand scale and scenes of madcap comedy involving inept members of the Ku Klux Klan. It’s got veritable geysers and fountains and gushers of blood, an ocean of fake gore even by Tarantino’s standards. You could claim that he’s “quoting from Sam Peckinpah” with those slapsticky water balloons full of blood, except that that’s not quite it. It’s more like he’s quoting from crappy ‘70s drive-in movies that were quoting from “The Hills Have Eyes,” which was quoting from something else that was quoting from Peckinpah. (I may be missing an intermediate stage there, such as a cannibal film that was dubbed from Italian into Spanish and projected once, with the reels out of sequence, at a downtown Los Angeles theater in 1983.)

4 comments:

mikey said...

Meh. In a few months (after the DVD comes out) somebody will rip a nice, high quality 720p .mp4 and seed a torrent. At that point there will be zero cost and zero effort involved and no reason not to check it out. Alas, I have "Inglorious Bastards" sitting on a media server here and I've never watched more than about a fifth of it. But it's free, I've got plenty of storage, so I have it if I ever want it...

Substance McGravitas said...

I liked IG quite a bit despite the missteps: his failures have more life in them than the usual twaddle.

Substance McGravitas said...

So yes, I will steal his latest at some point.

bjkeefe said...

I quite liked IG (though not as much as RD, PF, and JB), and found the ads for Django compelling enough that I have actually contemplated (*gasp*) going to the actual movies for once.

Not sure what the hate for QT is all about, but in all fairness, I could easily be identified as a QT fanboi.