https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scf8nIJCvs4
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I'm the opposite. I had more problems with Hateful Eight, mostly from a dragging standpoint. I'd hate to have seen the length of the original cut of that film.Epic Reine said:Django had its problems but I really enjoyed Hateful Eight.
AA484 said:Don't get me wrong, I love the dialogue in his movies but sometimes it seems like he has extended scenes that try to get too cute with it.
WORD ON THE STREET - "FLOP": Sony is exceedingly worried that Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood will significantly underperform at this month's box office. Latest tracking shows it opening much lower than the $50 million originally expected (and needed). As of now, it may not crack $100 million US total. A disaster that would leave egg on many faces. Only Pitt and DiCaprio would come out unscathed.
The movie cost $150 million, at least, and Sony has spent another $100-130 million on global marketing. The studio is in a jam because Tarantino will not allow his movie to be "spoiled" by marketing and press.Especially with younger audiences who don't understand the plot nor find the brief Manson subplot or Sharon Tate to be engaging.Problem is...there is no signature ultraviolence that audiences crave until the final 15 minutes. The lack of guns, blood, action, sex and even romance in the marketing isn't connecting.
The Hateful 8 disappointed but its stagey contained set tempered it. But this movie is supposed to be huge. His first without his mentor, infamous legend Harvey Weinstein. Sony needs QT to stay in their fold but he'll likely bail if this doesn't rack up Django grosses. Worldwide is a little better, but $350 million including US does not break even.
Cool said:The spoiler is kinda big...
WORD ON THE STREET - "FLOP": Sony is exceedingly worried that Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood will significantly underperform at this month's box office. Latest tracking shows it opening much lower than the $50 million originally expected (and needed). As of now, it may not crack $100 million US total. A disaster that would leave egg on many faces. Only Pitt and DiCaprio would come out unscathed.
The movie cost $150 million, at least, and Sony has spent another $100-130 million on global marketing. The studio is in a jam because Tarantino will not allow his movie to be "spoiled" by marketing and press. Especially with younger audiences who don't understand the plot nor find the brief Manson subplot or Sharon Tate to be engaging.
The Hateful 8 disappointed but its stagey contained set tempered it. But this movie is supposed to be huge. His first without his mentor, infamous legend Harvey Weinstein. Sony needs QT to stay in their fold but he'll likely bail if this doesn't rack up Django grosses. Worldwide is a little better, but $350 million including US does not break even.
Bladelock said:I said it in the chat yesterday, but it opened to higher than what I was expecting. I was thinking 25-28 mil or so. I don't know how the legs will hold up with Hobbs and Shaw, but it could make 100 mil domestic.
Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, says it was “disheartening” to see Quentin Tarantino depict her father in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” as “an arrogant a–hole who was full of hot air.”
After the release of Return of the Dragon...Mr. Wong wrote a little notice in his fan magazine saying that Bruce Lee had “not matured yet as a director.”...
No sooner did Lee read the notice than he summoned Wong to the office of the boss of the film company, Raymond Chow. The moment Wong walked through the door, he got an order from Lee to sit down...
“When you take a pen,” [Lee] enunciated with pedantic but terrifying precision, "it's exactly as if you took a knife or a gun. One slip and you’ve inflicted a deadly wound.” Then, just to make the point a little clearer, Lee grabbed his belt buckle and extracted from it one of those concealed knives...Laying the tip of the blade precisely on the carotid artery in the editor's neck, Lee drove home his point. “My knife is just like your pen. If you criticize, you hurt!”
To promote his school, the Jun Fan Gung Institute, in Oakland, Lee frequently gave demonstrations of his skills. Though he had not fully sculpted the action figure physique he would become known for, Lee had a series of theatrical displays that usually left audiences impressed.
The best known was Lee’s “one-inch punch,” a strike with no wind-up that was delivered from an incredibly short distance. While appearing at the Sun Sing Theatre in San Francisco that October, Lee invited a spectator to come and hold a pad. It was expected the man would be knocked backward, just as Lee had done dozens of times before.
Lee threw his punch, but the man was unmoved. Frustrated, Lee committed to a second, which sent the volunteer flying and complaining he wasn’t prepared for another strike.
It played like a comedy routine, and the audience began laughing. Lee, who had a tendency to lose his temper in record time, began seething. Some spectators flicked cigarette butts at his feet.
Annoyed, Lee invited anyone who thought they could do better to the stage. He was the best man there, he said, and the best fighter in San Francisco, and would welcome any challenges to be proven wrong.
treble said:I kinda didn't like this movie. It's not bad, but it just seemed like Tarantino wanted to make a movie set in 1969 and went from there.