It’s been hard to find much to get excited about for Oscars 2015 – though the season isn’t yet upon us. That starts in a few weeks with Venice and Telluride. Tarantino gives his fans what they want and rarely deviates from that formula, especially in the latter part of his career. Here is The Hateful Eight trailer.
Jesus Alonso, I don’t think you’re far off the mark. Tarantino played 7 minutes at comic con and straight up used The Thing score. Also, Carpenter always used those big lenses. I think you nailed it. Can’t wait for this movie.
Now that I’ve seen The Thing (1982), I hope I remember it when I’m watching The Hateful Eight come January.
Jesus, you were exactly right. 🙂
I’m watching The Thing (1982) right now.
“You’ve gotta be fucking kidding.”
https://twitter.com/filmystic/status/632041001507516416/photo/1
Even after all these years True Romance is still my all-time favorite Tarantino story. He was channeling Elmore Leonard when he wrote that screenplay. However, I must also give props to Tony Scott for giving us the happy ending to an all-time great film.
“Somehow it gave me an impression — about which I am hoping I am all wrong — that her role could possibly be a bit insubstantial and according to the script she was probably unable to speak.”
Tarantino has singled out her performance as a highlight, for whatever that’s worth, and she features very strongly in the film’s promotional materials thus far. I think she’ll figure in significantly.
The movie I anticipate this one to resemble is CUT-THROATS NINE. Believe that.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066939/
I want to crowdfund a movie made ABOUT Watermelons. Legendary.
Pete, where in QT’s movies (except Kill Bill Vol.1, was a woman in Django raped?) was a woman raped? Even then it’s not 3/4 of a movie. And I’d say the men get just as brutalized because it’s a QT movie, everyone gets brutalized. Let us not forget Ving Rhames got raped and then exacted his revenge. If anything I’d say his movies are more about empowerment (Kill Bill, Django, Basterds in Shoshanna’s case).
Al, watch The Thing! Somehow the score was nominated for a Razzie but it is truly amazing and sets the mood from the get go.
Tarantino’s trailers never do much for me but I always like the movies. So I’m in for this.
I’m glad that I’ve managed to read certain readers’ positive comments about Jennifer Jason Leigh to an extent — we’re talking about one of the relatively underrated actors here. Although we’re simply hoping for all the best for her without knowing any much more than what the trailer has revealed to us, at least it’s given me morale support of sort for the time being. (And more than often I also had the feeling that she’d deserved better […].)
Additionally, I have to admit that I was a bit disheartened when seeing her simply doing gestures and body language without saying anything (here in this trailer) especially when inside the old-fashioned saloon. Somehow it gave me an impression — about which I am hoping I am all wrong — that her role could possibly be a bit insubstantial and according to the script she was probably unable to speak.
All the best to Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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Oh . . . the trailer [lol] . . . .
Well, I usually liked Tarantinoian style; so, I could imagine myself more or less enjoying this latest effort of his, as well.
the digital/film thing. can any of you tell if this was done in analog for the entire process to get this theatre ready ?? wouldn’ t that be the real big deal and not that it was done in 70mm ??? the novice has spoken. 😉
Tarantino films always feel like an event, and this is no exception. Excluding Death Proof, I’ve yet to be disappointed. Everyone looks great in this. I’m glad that Walton Goggins seems to have a decent role. He didn’t really get to show off his skills in the small part he played in Django Unchained. I have a strong feeling that Jennifer Jason Leigh will steal the show and will be a strong contender for Best Supporting Actress.
I was rather disappointed by Django (Tarantino’s weakest, for sure), but I remain cautiously optimistic for this one. The trailer is nothing much to report on, honestly, but given what I understand about the film (never read the leaked screenplay), this seems like it will be a little pared down compared to his Tarantiniest works. I expect it to be especially dialogue driven, which doesn’t give you a whole lot to pack into a trailer. I wish we saw more of Demian Bichir though, I’m very curious about how his character comes through. JJL, too, of course, but I think they’re saving her for the film itself. Then again, it still looks VERY Django-y, even beyond the setting, so I’m trying not to get ahead of myself.
As for the film vs digital debate (always relevant in a Tarantino discussion), I’m very much a digital fan. I can see the difference, it’s certainly there, but is it better? If we’re talking 70mm, then probably, but beyond that it mostly boils down to snobbery, I think. Or maybe we have so many Great Films on celluloid compared to digital right now that the platonic ideal of “good cinema” still looks like it was shot on film. I think at this point the number of people who have really been able to squeeze greatness out of digital specifically is still so low – Mann, Fincher, Soderbergh, who else? Once that number starts to climb this will be less of a debate.
“This looks exactly as Tarantino’s love letter to John Carpenter’s The Thing.”
It also has echoes of Rene Clair’s 1945 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” –which was also a major influence on Carpenter’s “The Thing.”
“can we crowdfund a Watermelons-directed version of “Dr. KATELove, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the KATE”?”
This movie will star Kate Winslet’s real-life nemeses (Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Connelly, Hilary Swank, Helen Mirren) as different facets of the mythological cultural icon Kate ‘The GREAT’ Winslet (Iris, The Holiday) à la Haynes’ I’m Not There. I need ten dollars for catering and some more dollars for the moviemaking parts.
-Watermelons
“does anyone else here also see an IMMEDIATE difference in picture quality when something is actually shot on film nowadays?”
It’s not just you, Andre. It’s annoyingly noticeable and a fact that film still looks better than anything on the Alexa or whatever. Go and watch FURY, if for no other reason than it’s one of the four or five best looking films from last year (35mm) and as bonus it ends with Brad Pitt doing his best John Wayne. Take it from me, I actually dig digital –just wait and see how amazing SNOWDEN is going to look.
can we crowdfund a Watermelons-directed version of “Dr. KATELove, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the KATE”?
=P
I’d watch it!
I’ve watched a lot of random movies because Klaus Kinski is my all-time favorite movie face. Still.
“Also from 1980, YOGI’S FIRST CHRISTMAS. A December favorite at the Forestieri household.”
Well, if you love that, might I suggest a film that is apparently 3 days younger than me. “The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas”.
“Heck, the only way this could look more fun is if it had been made as the KATEful* Eight!”
I’d watch that. Assuming that she would be playing all eight roles.
this MAY come across as pretentious, but…
does anyone else here also see an IMMEDIATE difference in picture quality when something is actually shot on film nowadays?
maybe this is all in my head, but the difference between digital and film, especially on TV, has become extremely noticeable in my eyes.
the movie looks pretty good, too – both in terms of filmmaking and visuals (it was lensed by Bob Richardson, after all) – but the main source of excitement for me regarding this is that it was actually made with light exposed on celluloid. there’s just a kinetic response to that type of moving image that digital video has not yet been able to replicate. it might explain my giddy excitement towards the new “Star Wars”, too.
“But I was going for the obvious, thinking of THE GREAT SILENCE.”
Now you’re talking.
Also from 1980, YOGI’S FIRST CHRISTMAS. A December favorite at the Forestieri household.
Tim Roth as a one-man Charters & Caldicott and Jennifer Jason Leigh with an amazing comedy beat? Heck, the only way this could look more fun is it had been made as the KATEful* Eight!
– Watermelons
*: a reference to Oscar-winning screen icon Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sense & Sensibility), who is oddly not confirmed to appear in The Hateful Eight
Yes, Al. You must watch THE THING. It’s very good. I can see how Jesus got there. But I was going for the obvious, thinking of THE GREAT SILENCE.
I too am a fan of Tarantino but I’ve never understood the Tim Roth thing. I don’t think he’s even a decent actor. So his presence sort of throws cold water over everything for me. However, I intend to search out the 70mm. There’s nowhere close that has it. I might squeeze it into a trip to NYC. I don’t want to have to go to Rhode Island for cripes’ sake. I mean I’ll go through it, but I don’t want to stop there.
Oops. I meant to write 1980 for The Shining.
I think I’ll watch The Thing (1982) tomorrow night then. As of now my favorite film released in 1982 is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. As of now my favorite horror film is The Shining (1987).
Al, you must. It’s one of the best horror films of all time and as perfect as genre aspires to be in every possible way. Though I’m afraid “Morricone’s scoring” is as much of an overstatement as “Desplat’s scoring” is for THE TREE OF LIFE.
Im sorry but it didn’t excite me at all, and this is coming from a big fan of his.
Jesus, I really need to see The Thing (1982). I have to know what you’re talking about. I’m interested.
Spoiler warning…
This looks exactly as Tarantino’s love letter to John Carpenter’s The Thing.
– Carpenter said all his films are westerns.
– Replace Samuel L. Jackson with Keith David, to more clearly see it.
– Ennio Morricone’s scoring
– “One of you is not who you say you are”
– Isolated in the snow setting.
It’s no secret, Tarantino is a HUGE John Carpenter fan.
1. One doesn’t have to be a genius to figure out the entire story arc of Jennifer Jason Leigh. The women in Q’s movies lately get brutalized and occasionally raped for about 3/4 of the movie, but because they kill a villain at the end, people mistake this for some kind of “feminist” theme. Expect nothing different here.
2. While it is BEYOND refreshing not to see Christoph Waltz here, I fully expect the exact same kind of approach we saw in IB and Django. Villain and good guy make banal chit chat that becomes increasingly more menacing culminating in a bit of extreme violence after a long pause.
3. The outdoor shots did look good, but apparently the Hateful Eight hide out in a run down shop literally the size of a small town on the inside.
4. Noone here resembles an actual human being. Man, Jackie Brown was a lonnnnnnng time ago.
It definetely looks good on a technical basis. However, this kinda reminds me of Reservoir Dogs. A bunch of badass dudes in a closed environment trying to find a rat.
i thought the shot in the arm comes if a film/performer wins pretty much every award going into the oscars.and then a bunch of in fighting happens on the site because several people faves basically got nothing.and at midnight they were left with that.nothing…
and then the people that supported the film/performer that beyond dominated the season sort of apologize to those that supported other things/that they don’t mean to come across as in your face.they’re just glad to see their fave win.(and keep winning).
and no,i have no real opinion on the trailer. 🙂
what happens when shots in the arm/make you want to sleep forever.ha ha…
My favorite thing I can infer from this trailer is that this movie seems to be “small scale” compared to QT’s recent fare.
I’ll like a The Hateful Eight trailer when QT shows us some blood. This one just shows us the cast. We’ve seen the cast from pictures leading up to this, so I’m not impressed. But I know, it’s only a teaser.
I agree that Trumbo trailer is solid also.
Trailer for Corbijn’s LIFE. I know reviews were lukewarm at best but with Anton that’s what I expect them to be anyways. Trailer looks great to me. This and Ferrara’s PASOLINI are the biopics I’m looking forward to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8uwcPKjfRY
For whatever reason I never truly feel excited about Tarantino films, but then when I see them (and I always do) I love them. This cast in particular most definitely does not excite me, but I think the trailer looks promising and I want badly for SLJ to be in contention for an Oscar to make up for the one he deserved 20 years ago.
That Trumbo trailer surprises me. Bleecker has a steep hill to climb to get it into the field, but it looks like promising stuff…. ish.
OT:
Trumbo Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0dZ_2ICpJE
Not just another entry in the crowded Best Actor race. That right there is a BP contender.
I’ve watched it twice now, will watch it at least 2 or 3 more times, but my initial reaction is that it looks good, but what we see isn’t enough to get me really excited the way I already am for it. Right now it’s 2nd on my top list of must-see, only behind The Revenant.
BTW, I think the 70mm print is what will be released on December 25, but only in limited release. Most of us will see it on a 35mm print when it goes wide in January.
I’ll probably have a good time at the theater with this one.
Fantastic trailer. High expectations.
Off-topic: Uggie the dog deserves a post today. My favorite dog in film history. The greatest non-human star in awards season history. A share of that BP statuette belongs to Uggie.
I wish there was more of Jennifer Jason Leigh in the trailer, but otherwise it looks fantastic and I’ll definitely see it (most likely not in 70mm, though). Django Unchained is Tarantino’s best since Pulp Fiction so I hope this is another gem.
The only trailers left now are The Danish Girl, Truth, Our Brand Is Crisis, Snowden, etc. Should be getting those sometime soon, I imagine.