If anyone is in Philly their going to have a screening of TWBA.

http://www.ticketfly.com/event/24229...-philadelphia/

TWO SCREENINGS:
Friday, June 21 at 8:00pm
Saturday, June 22 at 8:00pm

Still waiting for the BD release of it. A hopeless thing but I still hope.

For the millionth time IMO Kill Bill Is QT worst film. If you want a reason let me know and I will give it to you.

Sure. Spew it out. I've got time to read your reasons.

Tarantino was better with his crime saga. His cartoony movies since then have been , cartoony.

Kill Bill 1 and 2 are superb masterpieces, but I prefer Vol. 2 for the ace writing, personally.

I think that QT is a very talented filmmaker who can get carried away with some of his ideas and gets too full of himself. IMO Kill Bill is some kind of self congratulatory porn film. It is something he put together so that he can jerk off while repeating to himself "Quentin Jerome Tarantino you are the coolest mother fucker ever". A big giant "mixtape" of unrestrained style with very little substance.

what kind of a white guy has "Jerome" as his middle name?

Tried to get public tickets today and these sold out ridiculously fast. no dice for me.

I'm a big Tarantino fan, Kill Bill included. Volume 1 works much better for me, but Volume 2 is a slower one with a Western feel. It can be difficult to see after the excitement in the first one, but I think it's fine nonetheless..

As far as The Whole Bloody Affair, I agree that I can't see this as one movie. The two have their own feels and are tributes to different genres.

I'd initially skipped both because I was turned off by early reports that he split the movie into two volumes just for the sake of making money. I still really wanted to see them, so I eventually picked up both volumes used and watched them together.



And yes, I consider True Romance to be a Tarantino film. Watching Tony Scott's filmography, I think it's his best but it doesn't feel like a Scott film. Also consider the continuity Tarantino laces throughout all of his movies (the Vega brothers, etc.). The Bear Jew from Inglourious Basterds is the father of producer Lee Donowitz from TR, and in Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel mentions memories of a girl named Alabama.

IMO except for the dialogue, True Romance feels like a Tony Scott film.
And IMO it is Scott's second best film.

Here's some interesting stuff :

http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/True_Romance

True Romance was originally a script entitled Open Road written by QT along with Roger Avary back in their Video Archives days.
It was later adapted into two separate movies, the other being Natural Born Killers. Tarantino sold the True Romance script to
Tony Scott for $50,000 using the cash to fund his own directorial debut Reservoir Dogs. Tony Scott re-arranged the layout
of the film and had Roger Avary re-write the ending. Tarantino's original ending can now be seen on the Special Edition DVD.
Upon it's release in 1993 it was a box office flop, not finding true notoriety until the rise in popularity of Reservoir Dogs.

Question about TRUE ROMANCE, since it was brought up here and it's not worth starting a new thread for...

In the scene where James Gandolfini is looking for the two leads (Slater and Arquette) and he shows up at the house and only Floyd (Brad Pitt) is there, who tells him where to look for them and then asks him if he wants to smoke a bowl, this is followed by a cut to the next scene, so we don't know if Gandolfini takes him up on the offer, or kills Floyd, or simply walks away. I remember reading the script many years ago, but I don't recall if there was any more to that scene than what we see in the finished film. Does anybody have any idea what might have happened next in that scene if there hadn't been a cut?

No reason for asking except that I'm just curious.

Thanks.

It was definitely vague in the final film. They threaten Floyd with the shotgun (followed by his hilarious retort of simply "oh"), then he gives what he knows and it cuts away. They might have wanted to cover themselves by killing the witness, but I like to think they wouldn't consider Floyd to be a threat and leave him to smoke his bowl in peace.


One thing that bugs me about True Romance is that Clarence's father is killed and he never finds out about it. A major event there.

It's popular down south, I know 3 white guy country types that have that middle name.