Quentin Tarantino - Still got it or lost it?

[robstyle]

i always wondered why they didn't do exactly that with both films. shoot on old cheap stock with a small production kit, run the final cut through a scuzzy projector a few hundred times, strike four or five generations of cheap prints, damage the film, slice and dice a few scenes, rub in some dirt, etc. it seems they took the backwards way of going about it.

that's not to say that i dislike qt, though. i loved inglorious basterds.

Its simple, those old camera systems would never hold up to the abuse of filming much less lenses, lighting.... Cameras these days can basically be operated by anyone that knows how to work a home video camera. They are small, reliable and have less moving mechanical parts. You have instant playback, real time viewing and can rough edit on the fly as well as color correct and all that fun stuff.
For a great example of why not to do film with in camera "effects", look at Terminator Salvation. Everyone has super bright pearly whites due to the added chemicals in the film stock that was used to get the washed out look.

 

[HAL9000]

I think he is getting better with age. "Basterds" was an incredible piece of work.

 

[rundown]

Dude. Are you serious?!

Started great, but that ending...what a joke and cop out. I like his films for what they are...but damn that ending in Bastards :confused Never go full ******, Quentin....never, ever.

Wait a minute...****** is a no go now? Wow.

I actually thought it had great meaning the ending. The anger released that they never had been able to in real life. It's a revenge thing.

Like most movie critics say. It's a movie making the nazi's the jews with no power. and the jews the nazi's

Cameras these days can basically be operated by anyone that knows how to work a home video camera.

i'd like you to try out these new age badboy's RED camera's. I got the pleasure of seeing it and trying it out. Even when you studied camera techniques, this won't be easy.

 

[astroboy]

I love kill bill. It holds two places in my top 15.

That being said, I think that the screenplay to true romance is the most solid he's ever been

 

[Solo4114]

 

[rodneyfaile]

Tarantino is in my top 5 directors.

Django Unchained is a great movie, but it is not his best. Many directors/writers will never even come close to Django Unchained, much less his greater works.

Yes he still has it.

 

[CB2001]

Cameras these days can basically be operated by anyone that knows how to work a home video camera.

i'd like you to try out these new age badboy's RED camera's. I got the pleasure of seeing it and trying it out. Even when you studied camera techniques, this won't be easy.

Hell, I knew how to work a video camera and didn't know jack about how to use a professional digital film camera, let alone a professional 35mm camera. I had to learn that at film school. I'm sorry, Rob, but not everyone knows how to work a film camera, let alone how to load a film magazine and attach it to a film camera to be able to shoot on. Rundown is right, no one with the ability to just "work a video camera" can shoot on a professional camera, digital or film, without learning how to.

 

[rodneyfaile]

I know how to throw a football, but I haven't won any Superbowls.

 

[CB2001]

I know how to throw a football, but I haven't won any Superbowls.

That's the best analogy I've heard.