Hateful eight, no comment needed. Inglorious bastards, utterly shite, a mess, the only good parts are basically plagiarised, scenes lifted wholesale from old WWII movies. Kill bill, the two together might have been cut to make one decent movie, another sprawling mess. Django, an hour too long before you even look at any problematic aspects, unfortunate because parts were the best he’s done since pulp fiction. Once upon a time in Hollywood, a passable movie, two or three stars under the category of more tarantino shite.
Reservoir dogs and pulp fiction and to a slightly lesser extent true romance were vibrant, pulsating all time greats. Since then he’s fully bought into his own hype, he won’t cut anything, the self regard drips off every scene. All he produces nowadays is self indulgent drivel.
Amen. I will add thought his stuff is beautifully shot even if it’s schmaltzy shite. It’s ultimate style over substance. Id still probably watch his films if the were on. Inglorious bastardsand the kill bills were the ones that turned me to thinking the guy was smelling himself badly.
All I can say is that I think Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained in particular are two brilliant films.
One deals with war and one deals with slavery in a completely different way, never taking itself too seriously. He has never been interested in making normal films - he is as happy to destroy films than bring them to a satisfactory conclusion. Self indulgent? Maybe but he has always been that way I for one would never want him to change.
Hes had a fair few mediocre ones. The hateful 8 was just a hateful film, and a poor one to boot.
Trouble is, pulp fiction and reservoir dogs and true romance set the bar. Nearly everything was bound to fall short thereafter.
Went to Megalopolis there this evening. Went out of curiosity because Coppola has made some great films and he’d been working on this project for 40 years. Reviews had been poor but reviewers aren’t always right.
Well they were right this time. I couldn’t begin to explain what an unspeakable, self indulgent mess this film is. It’s not a film that’s so bad it’s good. It’s just bad. I was the only person in the cinema at the end.
Just out of Megalopolis. When I heard the big local cinemas were cutting showings from three an evening to just the single showing I knew time was of the essence.
I’d give it a 4.5/10. I’ve seen worse films and at least in my showing the comedic stuff seemed to land well. That being said there was only about 7 of us in the Pálás. I went in with no real expectation and it certainly didn’t exceed that. CGI is a bit ridiculous, Driver hams it up too much, it was very hard to take the silly political messaging too seriously and the ending is fairly shite. That being said Voight was decent in his role and Plaza was looking well.