Showing posts with label Quentin Tarantino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quentin Tarantino. Show all posts

Friday, December 28, 2012

Review: Django Unchained


       Quentin Tarantino has never been one to play it safe. His movies are loud, big, violent, dirty, and smart (pay attention to that last part, Michael Bay). In his latest film, Django Unchained he's at it again. It's the rare film where you can actually hear and see studio notes being ignored. It's the first film in a long time that actually made me say “Holy Shit!” out loud. It's a love story to the old spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood, with a modern, ultraviolent twist. The film is overlong, but only because it is so stuffed full of ideas. There is a point when the film could've ended quite nicely, but then it continues for another forty minutes. But the way this movie is too long fits it just right, every moment that goes by is just as entertaining as the last. Tarantino has done it again.

Friday, June 22, 2012

Tarantino Explains Top Gun

Here's a video of Quentin Tarantino explaining the deeper meaning of Top Gun. Some NSFW language.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Are You Man Enough For Django Unchained?

The trailer for Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino's latest work was released tonight, and holy hell is it awesome. I'll just let the video do the talking.



Thursday, February 23, 2012

Review: Sin City


     I've never been a big fan of Frank Miller, so this review might come off slightly biased. Miller's stories are so extremely dark and overly masculine they almost reach the point of self-parody; I often struggle to get behind the motives of the characters. Miller doesn't mess around with moral grey areas (the way, in my opinion, superior comic author Alan Moore frequently does). I think great stories ought to deal with these grey areas because they make the audience more invested in the story. Instead, in Miller's universes morality is very black and white, much like this film based off his series of comics, Sin City. However, I don't think Sin City, tries to be a great movie. I think it means to be a fun movie, filled with sex and violence meant to attract viewers rather than acclaim or awards.