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- Copperhe4d, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Reservoir Dogs is a ripp off from A Better Tomorrow II, The Killing, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, City on Fire etc.
Tarantino himself has been candid about his influences. In a 1994 interview with Empire magazine, he said, "I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_Dogs#Influences - TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15What happened to the WW2 flick he was supposed to be making?
- mult1task, on 10/12/2007, -13/+20Something original for once? Have you seen Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs?
- christopheles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Was "Inglorious Bastards" a joke? Or is this the joke?
Neither are funny. - sterntastic223, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10The original is pretty sick...I don't know if Tarantino can top it.
- Unclekoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6He has a point "Are we done yet?" has been one of the top movies for weeks, there's something wrong with that phrase.
Box Office Week of April 08, 2007
1 Blades of Glory $67.9M
2 Meet the Robinsons $51.9M
3 Are We Done Yet? $18.5M
4 Grindhouse $11.6M
5 The Reaping $10M - onidraky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Why is he getting dugg down when it's true? Good, smart, movies are rarely appreciated anymore in Hollywood. Just so they can fill theaters with more ***** Will Ferrel comedies, and dime-a-dozen romantic comedies. It's sick, it's gotten so bad I've gone to automatically saying a movie sucks before seeing it, and letting it, maybe, change my mind. On the other hand, I'm also getting tired of bad remakes of asian movies, especially horrors. The only thing is serves to do it make me aware of the original (if I haven't already seen it, which is largely the case these days), and how much better they 99% of the time are.
- michaelje0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Quentin Tarantino is a guy who has watched every movie ever made, and replicates his favorite scenes and integrates them into his own movies. I like his movies, but it is true that just about everything he does is a throwback or an homage to something that someone else has done. He has said this himself, and many times, his characters mention the actual movies that he's playing off of.
- wipis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It would be nice if he does this as a period film. A lot of his movies "borrow" from other movies but he changes the setting a lot. But he tends to do what makes him happy. He's said it many times. He is a movie fan. He's a huge fanboy. He doesn't make movies how critics or producers want he make s what he likes and hopefully his fans and the people who go to see it will like it too.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were both good movies, but you're kidding yourself if you think they're highly original films. Tarantino very much borrowed David Lynch's style and Barry Gifford's approach to story constructs to make those films. If you don't believe it, you need to read one of Gifford's "Sailor and Lula" books. He was doing that whole concept of vignettes where the lives of underground crime characters randomly intertwine. David Lynch's Wild At Heart was one episode of all that stretched out into a full-length film.
I'm not trying to put Tarantino down, but fans of his work really should recognize that, despite his ability to make entertaining and stylish films, he's not very original.
Bury me if you can't handle this news or you feel this is somehow and affront on Tarantino (which it's not intended to be) but it is true. - cocoamix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FYI, the actress who starred in "Come Drink With Me" was Jade Fox in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155607/ - stubadub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. Yes, he borrows heavily from all sorts of old films., but the way he combines all of these distinct elements feels different than what I've seen from any other filmmaker. There is a particular feel to a Tarantino movie that is easily identifiable as him.
- TheBigBad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Title is incorrect. Tarantino's next movie is the WWII flick Inglorious Bastards.
- danwallace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Did Kill Bill "fall right down the tubes?"
- Maccc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actual story from the Hollywood Reporter...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ia76075fe469ef9a48e8bb6c3e7732bf0
I don't buy it though. - kardonn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Snoop Dogg's "Hood of Horror" will probably be better
- antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6i loved the original. i hope he doesnt mess this up. i really dont like many remakes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Come Drink with Me was a great Shaw Brothers film, but it was a Shaw Brothers film. Even Cheng Pei-Pei, in the DVD extras, admits that they didn't know what they were doing. Those films just weren't expertly made by sophisticated filmmakers--they were more naive strokes of genius with bad acting and stylistic set designs. Besides, all of the good parts (except the singing) were already co-opted in Crouching Tiger.
Don't get me wrong--I love Shaw Brothers movies. I'm just saying they're ripe for remaking.
Now, whether Tarantino is the right person to remake Come Drink with Me...I don't know. I'd expect Hong Kong movie fans to riot in the streets.
Does anybody know if this will be a Cantonese-language production? He's said he wants to do one, so I would expect it to be this. - mkoby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2After reading the description, I just have thoughts of that scene from Entourage where Ari tells Eric "Tarantino is over in Hong Kong deciding who he's going to steal from next"
I guess there was truth to that.
I'm sorry, but I do not see Tarantino as the god of film makers, there are people better than him even in his hayday. - ThePags, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If he does this I will watch it but I would prefer if he did Inglorious Bastards first.
- everslim101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I laughed my ass off when everyone started dancing and singing.
- Septuris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Good movies are appreciated. You just weren't mentioning any =D
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+9What's the point? People will just ignore it. It'll fall right down the tubes, just like "Grindhouse"
Why are good movies rarely appreciated?
:- - philhatesyou, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Does everyone remember that article that was on digg just the other day? Remember, where everyone was ripping Hollywood for doing nothing original and just cranking out the remakes? And now here you all are... talking about how bitchin a Tarantino remake of an HK film will be.
- VipeNess, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3waiting for someone to post on digg, about tarantino stealing their idea and thought....
- nemobushido, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Seems to be a trend now, making remakes of Asian cinema hits. I'm glad Scorsese could pull it off while putting his own original spin to it, but I don't know if Tarantino has it in him after Kill Bill.
On the other hand, at least he's not just buying a masterpiece and slapping "STUDIO GHIBLI from Walt Disney" on them. - JoE9o0o, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6Reservoir Dogs was a ripp of A Better Tomorrow II with Chow Yun Fat, and City on Fire.
- misterchanesaw, on 10/12/2007, -18/+17i wish he would do something original for once.
- peterlisanti, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I was going to say the same thing.
Uma's Kung Fu was terrible in Kill Bill 1&2, way too stiff and unnatural.
But it's not really fair to compare her to actual martial artists - she couldn't have trained for more than a year or so. - justinsimonin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Tarantino has a film out now... called Grindhouse... people should really see it :/
- DreamerZero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1tarantino is nothing but hype now a days, really if grindhouse DIDN'T have his name on it, it would have been on DVD by now.
you fanboys are worse than the PS3 fanboys....maybe the same? o_O - dewfish, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I have to agree with the sentiments so far. The more work I see of Tarintino, the more I am sure his so -called "genius" is all hype. Tarantino is completely overrated.
- Twisty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2So it's going to be a rival to The Departed?
- iamcitiz3n, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I wish he would start Inglorious Bastards and stop making these silly kid movies. I'm beginning to loath him more and more.
- knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1at copper fore head.
understood.
and then if you can still call reservoir dogs a copy of anything, then i guess i'll have to solute you because frankly, yes, his inspiration came from a piece of that, but the RD, that is his without any reservation from any other source.
believe it or not, that is your own soul's capacity to see originality.
even our very DNA borrows from what was before and creates utterly brand new life from it.
therein lies the mind of tarantino. - g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5I think Tarantino just helped to get Hero shown in the US, no writing or directing. And I didn't like the Kill Bills or his half of Grindhouse either.
Of course anyone who expresses their honest negative opinion of Tarantino will be Dugg down by the fanbois. Go ***** yourselves fanbois. Go jerk off on your ipod or something. - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -10/+7At least he's using the source material legally this time.
- michaelje0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Oh, you beat me to it. :) (see below)
- vishusdelishus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3As a very long time fan of kung fu flicks this is terrible news.
The only quality that made Kill Bill a decent movie is that it wasn't an actual kung fu movie - despite the ShawScope logo. The kung fu elements of that movie (except for pei mei and that was entirely due to Gordon Liu) were the worst parts. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Did you just compare Tarantino to DNA, i.e. God?
- Septuris, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Oh boy! Tarantino hasn't made a good movie since Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, but apparently those 2 movies have been enough to fuel the fanboy-ism through all his crappy flicks like the Kill Bill movies and his half of Grindhouse. What was his actual involvement in Hero? That movie seemed too good to be something he was involved in.
- knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6what the mother ***** flying god damn ***** what?
reservoir dogs, dude.
WTF?
that is *the* original upon all originals.
***** you with that thought, you're trying to glimmer in a ***** up holier than though attitude, and when it comes to the mindsight within the genius that has proven to be the tarintino, you're going to be ***** coming in on that approach.
alright then, with me anyway, 'cause that man, if i were asked, is genius. - MoBASS, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2He'll top it
- TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Accidental reply, bury
- papapushpush, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2tarantino is a god.
- hyankov, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2Another movie from Tarantino without action, just talks... talks ... talks...
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