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I mean this trend of a third wind of old action stars trying to still be tough guys and getting decent budget action movies. Ahnald and Sly's stuff hasn't been that good, but Banderas seems like he can still do it. Need to see if that carries over into something like Automata, which is up on Showtime now.
Some scenes were ok. The best scene was
Ah, fair enough. Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing Banderas get more action work.
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The only action star in Expendables who gets anything slightly interesting is Stallone. In the right hands the series is an exciting prospect; it's an embarrassment in Stallone's.
There's stuff about Hateful Eight (nothing spoilery) and the history of Westerns and his opinion on Oscarbait movies and all sorts of great stuff.
Johnny Depp
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Could not save a movie that felt like a b movie Robert Rodriguez. Camera angles were awful, it was jump cutty and suspiciously dark in some sections which lead to action being really hard to follow.
As a stand alone it would have been poor, as a follow up to desperado it was a crime.
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That is just an incredibly entertaining interview. He seemed like he'd be an fun guy to talk to.
It was delicious.
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Also, on a quasi related note I really like Tarantino's cameos in his movies, even though he seems to get a lot of flak for them. I think he's a good actor - and in general I like it when directors appear in their own movies (or other people's movies). I'm like, 'hey, it's that director I love! awesome!'
I think I get fanboyish about directors and writers way more than I do about actors - because the directors and writers are the real force behind the movies. I mean actors are kinda expendable, in comparison. John Travolta is great in Pulp Fiction, but if he turned the role down, Tarantino would've no doubt found someone else who would've been just, or nearly, as good. But you can't even speculate what Pulp Fiction might have been like if it was made by someone other than Tarantino - because it couldn't exist without Tarantino.
my agree is for Johnny Depp being awesome in that movie btw
so terribly awesome
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Scoresse does that for me.
edit: I'd love to talk to Scorsese about his music choices. "So when you used 'Then He Kissed Me' in Goodfellas, did you do that in response to it being used in the opening of Adventures in Babysitting?"
Not shitting where he lives, he probably wants to work with people who work with Russel and doesn't want to alienate them.
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Yeah I loved the interview, but that's the only real point where I was thinking "wait, really?"
edit: Preacher, I think Russel's famous reputation shows that the people he works with are pretty damned inalienable.
its a must see if you like film history.
Russel is infamous with some people, but people like Jennifer Lawerence keep working with him and lauding him. So if Tarantino wanted to work with her its best to not shit on the man so as to not burn a bridge.
Tarantino is a film student, he knows what happens to people when you shit on the craft. Call it a professional courtesy. He drops some buzzwords on Russel to keep options open.
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It's like the bit later about The Newsroom, he's like "why should I give a shit if other people dislike the thing I like"
Yeah, he doesn't seem like someone who'd blow smoke up someone else's arse if he didn't think much of their work. I don't personally see it, but I do figure that if he says he loves Russel's work, he means it.
Hmm. All too often I see QT utilise techniques that are an homage not to artistic choice, but technical limitations of genres past. I get tired of the winks to the restrictions on moviemakers in the 60's / 70's because we don't have those anymore and I'd rather he do something new.
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"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
For better or worse, that sort of shit can be insanely popular.
I do agree that Russel's work will age much better than the contemporary Oscar bait Tarantino was talking about. Nobody gives a shit about The King's Speech anymore. Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle are well crafted and have endearing or entertaining performances, though.
Will they be considered classics? Eh, probably not. But they'll be "that movie from the 2000s that was pretty good" as discussed by people who dog cinema.
We like to talk about Ronin. It was a good movie. It didn't quite make it into pop culture, but as movie guys, we know it and appreciate it. I think a lot of Russell's work will fall into that category.