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post #1 of 198
11/6/12 at 1:41pm
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So you may think I'm just creating this thread to brag that I've seen the first cut of this... And you'd be right. I can't really say anything else, but since the movie comes out in less than two months its time to start getting excited.
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post #2 of 198
11/6/12 at 1:46pm

should this be Post Release, then?

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post #3 of 198
11/6/12 at 1:49pm
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Just for me, but I won't be spoiling anything.
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post #4 of 198
11/6/12 at 4:40pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post

So you may think I'm just creating this thread to brag that I've seen the first cut of this... And you'd be right. I can't really say anything else, but since the movie comes out in less than two months its time to start getting excited.

 

I reckon that sounds awful positive, massah!! biggrin.gif

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post #5 of 198
11/6/12 at 5:08pm

Yeah, c'mon Shayne, spill something! Not spoilery or anything, but how's it looking?

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post #6 of 198
11/6/12 at 8:42pm

If it's even half as good as the script then it's a winner.

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post #7 of 198
11/7/12 at 1:36am

Asshole.

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post #8 of 198
11/7/12 at 8:21am
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It was great.  I didn't read the script so I can't say if it's any different.  I did feel like it was a bit long and there was some stuff I wouldn't miss, but even stuff that was completely unnecessary usually was funny.
 

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post #9 of 198
11/9/12 at 5:21am

Supposedly the current cut of the film is three hours long.  I'm envious you got to see this version before it inevitably gets cut down, even if the final cut is better for its omissions.

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post #10 of 198
11/9/12 at 1:42pm
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We'll see. I'm sure Tarantino has final cut, and we know from his past movies he doesn't have issue with going this long. I would say the movie grinds to a halt at a point in the 3rd act that there could probably be some stuff cut from. Other than that, there's some stuff before they meet Candie that also is a bit extraneous. But he's going for an epic spaghetti western, so I don't think he'll cut much.
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post #11 of 198
11/16/12 at 10:10am
Grrrrrgh.

In the meantime, Variety's best writer Mike Fleming interviews Tarantino for Playboy. Great read:

http://www.playboy.com/playground/view/interview-quentin-tarantino
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post #12 of 198
11/26/12 at 6:26pm
Mike Shayne, if you could say what the stand out performance was, in one word?
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post #13 of 198
11/27/12 at 8:02am

Apparently Tarantino and Fred Raskin are nipping and tucking up to the last second.  While I suspect this is fairly characteristic of post-production in general (and in fact all I remember hearing about the behind-the-scenes of the ultimately incredible INGLORIOUS BASTERDS was how rushed it all was), I sort of hate that decisions as fundamental as the ordering of scenes are being made under such high-pressure conditions.

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post #14 of 198
11/27/12 at 8:12am

Three hours and twelve minutes? Wow. This sounds like it could be an amazing, exhausting film. 

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post #15 of 198
11/27/12 at 8:33am

Hells yeah.  I'd sit through 10 hours of Tarantino without a bathroom break.

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post #16 of 198
11/27/12 at 12:42pm

Jesus. Three hours? 

 

I'm really looking forward to this and after Basterds Tarantino can take as long as he wants to tell me a story. But between this, The Hobbit, Zero Dark Thirty, and last night's Les Mis screening, I'm going to have to start bringing cushions with me to the theater. And lots of coffee. (Though maybe not the coffee if this engages me enough, which I'm sure it will.)

 

Also: Now that I've seen the Tarantino XX box set, I know what I want for Christmas. 

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post #17 of 198
11/27/12 at 1:03pm
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Originally Posted by FatherDude View Post

Apparently Tarantino and Fred Raskin are nipping and tucking up to the last second.  While I suspect this is fairly characteristic of post-production in general (and in fact all I remember hearing about the behind-the-scenes of the ultimately incredible INGLORIOUS BASTERDS was how rushed it all was), I sort of hate that decisions as fundamental as the ordering of scenes are being made under such high-pressure conditions.

 

Tarantino has always edited up until he couldn't any more; up until about a month before Kill Bill came out, the did not open with The Bride showing up outside Vernita Greene's house. He switched the chapters at almost the last second, and it was a brilliant move. Then there is, of course, Basterds getting a pretty good but not outstanding reaction at Cannes (Waltz got most of the attention), then with a few months of further tinkering he came back with a full blown masterpiece.

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post #18 of 198
11/27/12 at 1:21pm
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Originally Posted by Arjen Rudd View Post

Mike Shayne, if you could say what the stand out performance was, in one word?

 



One word?  No.

 

If I had more than one word Foxx, Waltz, DiCaprio and Jackson are of course all great.  Lots of the smaller and cameo parts are well played as well.  Don Johnson is delightful.  There's only one actor that really sticks out like a sore thumb.  He's in a bunch of Tarantino's movies, and he's really chewing the scenery in this one.

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post #19 of 198
11/27/12 at 4:48pm

You know, I was wondering what role Michael Parks had in this movie.

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post #20 of 198
11/27/12 at 4:57pm
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He's in the scene/sequence I'm talking about,  but not the actor I'm talking about.

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post #21 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:28pm

I'm assuming either Eli Roth or Michael Madsen. Also can you confirm if Michael Fassbender appears in the film?

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post #22 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:33pm
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Tarantino has always edited up until he couldn't any more; up until about a month before Kill Bill came out, the did not open with The Bride showing up outside Vernita Greene's house. He switched the chapters at almost the last second, and it was a brilliant move. Then there is, of course, Basterds getting a pretty good but not outstanding reaction at Cannes (Waltz got most of the attention), then with a few months of further tinkering he came back with a full blown masterpiece.

 

Really? The script that was leaked more than a year before the movie came out has the Vernita Greene sequence first. Where did you hear this story?

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post #23 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:34pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post

He's in the scene/sequence I'm talking about,  but not the actor I'm talking about.

 

Are you talking about Tarantino? 

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post #24 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:35pm
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Originally Posted by Buchinsky24 View Post

I'm assuming either Eli Roth or Michael Madsen. Also can you confirm if Michael Fassbender appears in the film?

 

 

No, no and no.
 


Edited by MikeShaynePI - 11/27/12 at 5:54pm
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post #25 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:36pm
It's gotta be Eli Roth as one of the Austrailian hicks...called in at last minute with Michael Parks as Joseph Gordon Levitt and Anthony LaPaglia dropped out...right?
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post #26 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:39pm

Is Tarantino in the movie? (Please say no, please say no, please say no...)

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post #27 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:41pm

Michael Bowen?

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post #28 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:44pm
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Michael Bowen?

 

Yeah, this was going to be my next guess. 

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post #29 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:55pm
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Sorry,  I was referring only to Buchinsky's post.  I hit reply instead of quote.  Fixed now.

 

I don't remember Eli Roth being in the movie and I don't remember who Michael Bowen played.

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post #30 of 198
11/27/12 at 5:56pm

We talkin Pulp Fiction great?  Inglourious great?  Kill Bill Vol. 1 great?  

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post #31 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:06pm
Mike Shayne, did Walton Goggins deliver a strong performance and did he have a big enough part?
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post #32 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:12pm

Michael Bowen plays a tracker. Are you saying it's not Bowen, then?
 

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post #33 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:21pm
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Michael Bowen plays a tracker. Are you saying it's not Bowen, then?

 

I think I know what scene he's in now.
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post #34 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:25pm

Is the actor bigger than a breadbox? 

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post #35 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:26pm

So, I'm guessing it is Tarantino then. Fuck.

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post #36 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:29pm

My understanding is Tarantino is in the movie but plays one of the regulators with Jonah Hill. He wouldn't be in the scene being discussed with Michael Parks and John Jarratt.

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post #37 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:39pm

Sammy Jackson??

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post #38 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:48pm
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Sam Jackson has a prominent role in the movie. I don't think that's a secret. As I already said I didn't see Tarantino in the Jonah Hill scenes.
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post #39 of 198
11/27/12 at 6:58pm

Who the hell is left? Keitel? Tim Roth???

Edit: Maybe Sid Haig? 

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post #40 of 198
11/27/12 at 7:10pm
Omar Doom?
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post #41 of 198
11/27/12 at 7:45pm
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Pretty sure none of them are in the movie.
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post #42 of 198
11/27/12 at 7:54pm

Willis? Buscemi? I feel like we're running out of people...

I'm assuming it's a male. Is it a woman? Zoe Bell? Uma? 

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post #43 of 198
11/27/12 at 11:21pm
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I didn't say all of them were wrong before.

I'm pretty sure Zoe Bell is in it also though.
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post #44 of 198
11/28/12 at 3:57am

So it sounds like Michael Parks, John Jarratt and Tarantino are the 3 "transporters" toward the end of the film.

 

Can you comment on Leo's intro. Is there still a card game involved?

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post #45 of 198
11/28/12 at 8:17am
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You see his intro in the trailers. There's no card game that I recall.
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post #46 of 198
11/28/12 at 8:44am

How graphic was the violence? Did anything make you go, "ahhhhhh, jaysus" or was it all over the top like Kill Bill?

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post #47 of 198
11/28/12 at 8:49am
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A little bit of both.
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post #48 of 198
11/28/12 at 9:25am

What about the tone?  More comedic/ironic like Kill Bill or more serious with dark humour throughout like Pulp Fiction? 

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post #49 of 198
11/28/12 at 9:50am
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Seriously, are you not going to see the movie one way or the other?
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post #50 of 198
11/28/12 at 9:52am

Tired of playing 20 questions yet, Mike?

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