Ash Ketchum

Don't lend anything to a film shoot. Don't ever let a film crew shoot in your home or on your property. I've done the latter and...never again.

TomOpus

As the museum has stated, it's not the money.

Why So Blu?

Yeah, Daisy's character is like "woah, woah, woah" in the film. Obviously she knew they weren't supposed to break it. I guess QT told Kurt to smash it without telling anyone else.

slop101

Yeah, check out JJL's final "whoa!", where she's looking not at any of the actors, but obviously at someone behind the camera.

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Groucho

Now I want to know what movie was shot in your house.

Mabuse

Probably an episode of Hoarders.

Ash Ketchum

An indie feature that never got released. One of the characters rifles through the desk drawers in my bedroom and I had no idea they did that until I saw the finished film. Luckily, there was nothing of a personal nature in the drawers, if you get my drift, but what if...?

And they shot in my brother's bedroom in my mother's house and he's got all these political stickers over everything (e.g. "Global Hegemony") and the character who lives there in the film is a low-level thief involved in a robbery. And they shot in my mother's living room against a backdrop of bookshelves filled with musty old encyclopedias and literary classics--as if this thief would have such a library. It was pretty hilarious.

Why So Blu?

I listened to my copy of the score on vinyl and there seems to be a deleted scene/dialogue in which Maybe that scene will be restored?

Crocker Jarmen

I heard that scene on the soundtrack too and thought it was a bad cut. When I saw the movie, I thought it was odd that Mannix, who was fawning all over the General earlier, didn't seem to care the General was sitting by himself during dinner and that the "n-word" was the one to bring him a bowl of stew, when I would have thought Mannix would have been making sure the General was being taken care of.

islandclaws

Django had some deleted scenes in the dialogue bits, too. I like that about some QT soundtracks - you get additional bits from the film that didn't make it to the screen.

TomOpus

Saw the movie last weekend, finally. I agree with those that mentioned pacing issues. I would place it in the middle of his filmography. It was still very enjoyable and I will grab the blu-disc. I wonder if there will be a separate roadhouse version.

musick

aww yah

Why So Blu?

Nice one but I'd rather have the bonus disc of extras. Now if Mondo created a steel book….

Mabuse

Cool poster, but notice it's like a chuck wagon, not the stagecoach in the actual film. Poster must have been done back in the conceptual phase before they had solid design decisions.

inri222

Watched it again last night, and besides it not being the 70mm projection of the roadshow version, it was even better the second time.
QT's best film since Jackie Brown.

4.5/5

OldBoy

i have to see this again and put in queue. fucking loved it. so masterful. say what you want, but i think QT is a genius. incredible dialogue that you hang on every word. incredible mind and stories...

Crocker Jarmen

I've watched it again since theatres, and revisited certain scenes dozens of times on their own, and the appreciation of my initial viewing not only holds up but has probably strengthened. It's an absorbing movie, full of unsettling atmosphere, great performances, a brutal winter. It's a grand film.

Yet at the same time, I feel like this is the first movie that works because of Tarantino the director, not Tarantino the writer. I wish he'd been a little more ambitious with the screenplay and actually built the "Agatha Christie mystery" he compared the film to in many interviews.

Warren doesn't really piece together clues and intelligently figure out what's been happening behind the scenes. All he does is line everyone up against the wall. Who's guilty? Turns out all of them. So they attack and Daisy blurt out all their plans like a James Bond villain.

Watching the film a second time, I was disappointed there were no moments enhanced by now knowing the full story. Finding out the door was busted because it got winged in the shootout, I found myself thinking, "Okay, that's logical" rather than being shocked or surprised. The smashed jelly bean jar also falls flat.

I wonder if the film would have been more interesting if all the bad guys weren't working together. What if two of them were Daisy's gang members, and two more were the rouge bounty hunters John Ruth was afraid of? You'd have the gang members pretending to be other people, unaware two of those people they are pretending for also aren't who they say they are. Now you have two factions trying to reach the same goal (kill Ruth and take Daisy) but adversarial to each other because they want her for different reasons.

What if the General had been trying to warn them something was up instead of just yelling at Warren? Imagine on second viewing, realizing he'd been trying to focus their attention on something that should have clued them into the danger they were in, which now makes his shooting by Warren a tragic decision, as it winds up sealing his own doom.

I'm not saying I wished the movie used these specific suggestions, just somethings that would have enhanced the drama and mystery, breaking up the very simple A to B path the story took.

TLDR: wonderful movie but I wish it had been more clever

TheMovieman

Haven't seen this since its release but for some reason forgot to vote in the poll. I gave it a 2.5/5, far too long and as others have said, the first half dragged way too long and the dialogue wasn't that great. By the time things picked up, I was ready to just let be over.

One day I might revisit but haven't had the desire.

JZ1276

This movie is so great. Every time I'm channel surfing & catch it I end up watching the entire thing. One thing about it bugs me though...

When Sam Jackson tells Bob that Minnie hated Mexicans & didn't allow them in her Haberdashery we see Bob & Minnie getting along fine in the flashback. I know Sam J does a lot of bullshitting in this film but I don't think he was here, I think Quentin actually fkd up.

Why So Blu?

Walton Goggins should have gotten an Oscar nomination.

As far as the Mexican bit and Minnie being able to identify him as one, Bob is one of them white Mexicans. He doesn't look like your "typical" Mexican, which is why I think they let that go. Demian Bechir is Mexican, but his name and looks does not sound like one.

JZ1276

He definitely sounded Mexican to me when he spoke.

Thrush

He couldn't be anymore Mexican if he was wearing a Pancho and a Sombrero. The dude sounded like Speedy Gonzalez when he talked.

inri222

I don't think Minnie hated anyone, Marquis was lying to trick him into confessing.

Why So Blu?

Thrush

Thats an interesting point. But he only announced that to Senior Bob after he had already discovered Sweet Dave's blood soaked chair. Not to mention the stew. So he pretty much already knew Bob was lying about Minnie and Dave being alive.