Who cares what you like maestro?

Nobody cares what you like mouster

Have you got anything to say other than YOU like it?
Here mouseter, mouseter mouseter

IF i rote a colum and had you commenting i`D be REALLY embarrassed.
Ya Git

Bob duh barking Cat

Oops Bob duh Cat is angry...
Guess the date in the convertible didn't go well. Ran out of kitty litter again eh Bob?

southdeltawaler

Here we go again just another movie{s} to appeal to men. Burgess also put that Borat movie and Casino Royale on this best picks of 2006.

Yikes... with Woodends pick last week-a horror movie and now this, my list of movies to avoid just keeps growing longer.

So why is Steve Burgess still reviewing movies that are sexist and misognist? If comments were made akin to the way women are portrayed in these "films" I'm sure they would be removed as offensive. So why is it o.k. to review these movies in the Tyee?

There are other films that actually have merit, not a product of Hollywood hype and believe it or not can tell a story without becoming misoginist.

As I'm Southdeltawalker I'm going out for a walk to look at the eagles and get the images from reading this review out of head!

South Deta Walker ... too true

Burgess..If you dont like hollywood drivel movies, why do you keep reviewing them?

I think you secretly like mass produced cookie cutter pop culture movies.

You like them because you get to feel intellectual and it is good for your ego to be so condescending.

Or perhaps you are trying to work up to a position as a CBC movie critic.

You are like a wine reviewer that only reviews wine in boxes, but considers himself a gourmet.

thanks flattax

hopefully Burgess's "career" as a movie reviewer will end soon...cause i don't know how much longer i'm going to bother even reading them!

hmmm

A lot of bitching this Good Friday it would appear.

Perhaps reviewing a movie like Grindhouse is relevant because it is rather unique in comparison to most concurrent releases? A three hour homage to cheese that makes fun of hollywood.

Ah but who am I fooling? People like flattax and southdeltawalker bitch because they're too lazy to look elsewhere, and they like behaving like spoiled children when their particular desires aren't fulfilled.

james burns....

About being "too lazy to look elsewhere". I though reading The Tyee was looking elsewhere. Isn't The Tyee supposed to be an alternative to the mainstream media?

As for the rest of your comment...at least i can comment without resorting to verbally abusing someone.

Not resorting to verbally

Not resorting to verbally abusing someone? Please reread your comments above to Burgess your oh so high and mighty.

Jeez.

Today is Good Friday and from watching the TV News I now know that some devout Christians demonstrate their faith by getting themselves nailed to a cross, or self-flagellating, or hauling large pieces of timber down the street on their backs, or simply starving themselves.

So taken in that spirit of Christian self-loathing, I guess I can try to understand all the bitching and sniping going on here.

Sure is puzzling, though.

does anyone else out there

does anyone else out there think tarentino is one of the most over-rated directors on the scene today? as far as i'm concerned the fact that he's so popular proves you can sell just about anything if it's packaged to suit the letterman/leno/mtv crowd.

maaaybeee...

If no one else is taking a run at that Elliot, I'll have a go with a solid "maybe."

Tarantino certainly suffers from a case of hubris. It's hilarious but instructive to hear him talk about how he got the idea for Death Proof--once, he says, he felt he was indestructible because God put him here to do great things. Then after Pulp Fiction he worried and bought a Volvo--in case his great work was done.

But I generally enjoy his work. When he reins in his excesses he's an intelligent popular filmmaker. The popularity of some other directors makes my blood boil. But not Tarantino.

i liked jackie brown and

i liked jackie brown and rate pulp fiction at around 70%. decent but hugely overrated. i thought reservoir dogs was pure unadulterated garbage and kill bill made no sense whatsoever unless, i guess, you're quentin. i appreciate his passion and his sincerity, and he seems one of the least pretentious personalities in hollywood, but i really don't understand all the praise of his movies.

Self-referential and over derivative

Tarentino is one of Hollywood's most genuine stars and is sincerely affectionate about his craft and favourite genre of film. Unfortunately, his work is highly derivative and sub-referential. He does little to reinterpret the genre. Rather, he just throws up a collection of ripped off scenes from a genre of film.

In Kill Bill, Tarentino copies a slew of gore and fighting scenes from Chinese movies I used to see in Chinatown. After Pulp Fiction, his movies seem like they are scenes with the plot as an afterthought. And they all look and feel the same. Where's the freshness of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction?

We all know that he bought off the co-writer of Pulp Fiction, his friend who worked with him in the video store, so Tarentino could credit himself as 'Director and Writer'. And many of his video store colleagues contributed ideas to his first scripts. No wonder it just seems like Tarentino has run out of new ideas or can't adapt himself to anything else.

Now if you want to see original reinterpretation of a genre take a look at Altman's film, 'The Long Goodbye' with Elliot Gould. Altman places Raymond Chandler's idealistic detective Philip Marlowe in 70s LA without copying scenes from noire films. Rather, he blends the character's morality with the current society. Funny, but low keyed.

I read the Weinstein's are unhappy with Grindhouse and will recut it and release it as two separate films. No wonder, the US numbers were mediocre.

Saw Grindhouse Last night

If time is a factor, one certainly got one's money' worth. Over 3 hours long.

Overall, I'd also recommend it...especially the Planet Terror portion.

The phoney trailers were good, actually one hopes many of them get made...such as Machete.

Liked the loyalty Tarantino and Rodriguez show to a posse' of actors, seen many familiar faces from past movies . They also certainly don't hold back on the " eye candy ". Also enjoy seeing major stars like Nicholas Cage and Bruce Willis take more humble roles in these types of movies...no matter how minor the screen time.

Personally speaking, finding movies these days flatter than a slashed tire...the latest video releases tempt one to demand one's money back. However, I'll probably buy Grindhouse when it becomes available on DVD .

too long?

According to the Guardian, following a poor showing in its opening weekend and audiences leaving in droves after Rodriguez's film (apparently unaware that there was another to come), Miramax is going to release it as two separate movies elsewhere in the world. They may even re-release it in North America as two films.

I really enjoyed Jackie Brown. I loved Pulp Fiction when it was released, but I couldn't sit through it upon renting it ten years later. No "timeless classic" that one.

Tarantino should stop making movies and get a Siskel/Ebert type show - he's much more entertaining when he's talking about movies than when he's behind the camera.