Brad Pitt in Talks to Star in Quentin Tarantino’s Final Film ‘The Movie Critic’

I haven't cared about Tarantino's films since "Kill Bill: Vol 2.

FAG!

Does he promise this is his final one?

So after this, he won’t inflict yet another film upon us?

I don’t believe him.

I was hoping it would be about Rex Reed. Wasn't he in Hollywood in the late '60s and '70s annoying the living shit out of most everyone?

I can see Brad as Pauline.

I can think of a few other directors who should have put a cap on the number of films they would do.

I wonder if he'll really stick to this.

Hack

I doubt it has anything to do with Pauline Kael.

He’s so desperate to draft off of Brad’s hot-cool guy status. He’s such a dipshit.

[quote]He’s so desperate to draft off of Brad’s hot-cool guy status.

Don't most directors want to cast "hot cool guys"?

Didn’t Soderbergh claim he was done making movies a while back?

Yet he keeps releasing new movies…

Yes but they don’t hang off them like desperate girlfriends inphoto ops.

His poses in photos always look stupid.

He looked good in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Brad Pitt ruined Inglorious Basterds for me. You could tell he thought he was so cute doing that cartoon character accent.

[quote] I doubt it has anything to do with Pauline Kael.

Which is a pity, because we all deserve a film where Pauline Kael uses a bazooka to clear out a nest of Nazi stormtroopers.

How is this an interesting subject for a film? Is there some story there I am of aware of?

R16, if she just took out Renata Adler and Tina Brown, I'd be perfectly satisfied.

Welp! I guess this movie is dead now. Tarantino decided not to move forward with it.

I actually like almost all of Tarantino's films. I still believe the ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs was gratuitous, and basically gore porn, but that is my only true criticism. It would be nice to have one last film, if it is as good as the rest of them were.

What’s his reasoning for quitting being a director?

Too lazy to google

R21 I think he said something along the lines of he basically made films of all the stories he wanted to write and direct and didn't have the drive to make more.

He needs to let somebody else write a script, but we all know that’s not going to happen.

I believe he wrote all his film scripts himself, with the exception of one of his early film which was co-written. He's only 61, he may find new inspiration or change his mind yet.

He was known for his dialogue at one point, but I can’t say that I’ve heard it emphasized lately. It’s all about stunt casting now.

Once people realized that all of his characters talk exactly like him, his dialogue was no longer celebrated.

The one exception was Jackie Brown, an adaptation by the late Elmore Leonard, who could write intelligent, snappy dialogue in his sleep. I feel like Quentin writes better when he collaborates with someone rather than writing independently from scratch.

He has been critical of directors who keep working into old age, he says the quality of their work inevitably declines and he doesn't want to fall prey to that. He didn't name names but we could all name a few. Cough cough Scorsese cough Spielberg.

I am sorry we will not get to see Brad Pitt playing Pauline Kael after all.

[quote] Cough cough Scorsese cough Spielberg.

Cough cough *Eastwood* clears throat.

Margo Martindale for Pauline.

Here's an article where he explains it succinctly, r21. Basically he wants to go out on top and he doesn't want to make shitty, disappointing films in his dotage because those shitty films will cancel out his good ones.

So this is the last time we will hear from this egomaniac? Yeah, right.

His terminal decline started with Hateful Eight (when he started inserting voiceover plot explanations)….

R27 The problem with that argument is that both Scorsese and Spielberg still make critically acclaimed films.

Not anymore.

Spielberg's last two films, West Side Story and The Fabelmans, were both well received by film critics. Scorsese last two films, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon, we also well received.

Mind some of the ones they made not so long before were a mixed bag.

R8 - Hit Cool Guy HOMO status.

Damn.

It would have been hilarious to see Kael and Renata Adler fight each other Kill-Bill-style.

Kael (Uma Thurman) nearly bests Adler (Vivica Fox, in an inspired bit of color-blind casting) when Robert Gottlieb (Robert Downey Jr.) enters the room and wonders why the Xerox machine is on fire.

Cue big laffs.

I don't think critical acclaim is the best way to assess a movie's worth. Compared to Jurassic Park, Jaws and Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg's last two movies were forgettable pieces of crap. The fact that critics liked them is not a guarantee of cultural staying power. Are people going to be talking about his West Side Story remake in 30 years? Is his obituary going to mention The Fabelmans? It's possible but I doubt it. The same could said about Scorsese's two recent epics. There's an undeniable creative slump that both men have been in for the past 20+ years. I completely understand why Tarantino wants to retire. Tarantino also writes all of his movies so it would be extra hard for him to continue turning out decent work.

r33 He only used voice over for one part of The Hateful Eight, when he pointed out that someone poisoned the coffee. Maybe about 7 seconds in a 3.5 hour movie.

I think he peaked with Kill Bill Vol 1 but his decline has been uneven. Django was his worst movie and the stuff that came before and after that is varying levels of okay.

R39...."continue"?

His entire reputation rests on 4/5ths of one good movie - Jackie Brown. His first two were simply pyrotechnics with clever casting choices and everything after Jackie Brown was "Look at how many kung-fu movies I've seen." The Hateful Eight was perhaps the biggest piece of shit I have ever sat entirely through. I'd rather rewatch Cujo, which I walked out of.

I am not impressed by revenge fantasy as alternate history. Shooting Hitler feels good. So does shooting heroin.

R40, if he had used a VO throughout, it would have been consistent (a la Blade Runner). If he used it once, he realized that the fact would not be apparent through what he filmed and was too fucking lazy to fix it.

R40 there was voiceover at the VERY end of the Hollywood movie. I remember it clearly because I thought he had made a movie for adults and was furious that he fucked it all up 20 minutes before the end.

R40 I do agree with your account of his decline. But I am more likely to rewatch Django than the WWII movie because Sam Jackson is fun in that one.

His movies are depressing. They are a bring down. Why bother.

They are depressing. They used to have peppier music, which helped.