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Someone let that Tarantino guy direct another movie.

So yeah, after Kill Bill Vol. 2 and Inglourious Basterds were heavily influenced by spaghetti westerns, it looks like he finally decided, "you know what? **** it. I'm just going to make a full-on western." And that's what he did. It's his take on Sergio Corbucci's Django series. In fact, the guy who Jamie Foxx talks to at the end of the trailer is Franco Nero, the original actor who played Django.

This movie will be awesome or I will kick a donkey in the face.

This movie gets the Official Bomby Seal of Approval™.

Hollywood has been lacking a strong Western for years. Documentary-ish period stuff like The Assassination of Jesse James sit well with me, but it's no Tombstone. SD and I are going to see this one for sure. Tarantino does pulp characters well, which is ultimately the most important foundation of a strong Western.

What's your take on the Tarantino elements in this, Bomby? Lots of scene references like his usual stuff?

I only really enjoyed Pulp Fiction, and Resevoir Dogs was interesting. Kill Bill was okay. This movie is boring. He needs to not suck.

^ Did you like 3:10 to Yuma or No Country for Old Men? I don't even like the genre and I enjoy the former.

^^The Coens' remake of True Grit didn't disappoint me either.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

CaptHayfever wrote:^^The Coens' remake of True Grit didn't disappoint me either.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Might check that out. Westerns overall haven't gotten any publicity here, to be honest, but oftentimes people seem to think putting guys on horses and appropriate attire makes them interesting enough to sustain a movie, which isn't entirely true.

I personally didn't really care for 3:10 to Yuma, but it's also worth noting I have the unfortunate tendency to measure all westerns to the water mark of Leone's westerns, which it didn't resemble in the slightest. Perhaps if you they made the same movie in a different genre I would have judged it more fairly. :lol:

No Country For Old Men was fantastic on all fronts, though. I still haven't gotten around to watching True Grit.

Tunnel Snakes RULE! wrote:What's your take on the Tarantino elements in this, Bomby? Lots of scene references like his usual stuff?

The dialogue is the most recognizably Tarantino-Tarantino element. Characters go on entertaining tracts. Profanity is spewed relentlessly.

The implication of violence (more so than the violence you actually see if you pay close attention to the cuts) is perhaps the most disturbing in a Tarantino film. One word: Mandingo.

As far as the references, the whole thing is obviously based on the Django character from Sergio Corbucci's Django, but the only other reference I can remember off the dome right now is the snowy scenes which Tarantino himself said were an homage to Corbucci's The Great Silence. I'm sure there's plenty of references I didn't catch, mostly due to my admittedly deficiency of knowledge when it comes to western genre overall.

^ True Grit is slower than I'd like but pretty solid.

Bunraku was...interesting, and The Warrior's Way could have been great if it did not involve clowns.