IN HONOUR OF LAST NIGHT…
Yes…
I finally saw INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS last night.
Hold on tight, kids. Review should be up by Monday at the very latest.
So I thought I would feature one of my all time favourite songs which, as you’re probably aware, is played in a pivotal scene in the film.
I’m talking about the theme from the 1982 version of CAT PEOPLE – DAVID BOWIE’S PUTTING OUT FIRE.
I have showcased this piece of music before on site. But sometimes once just isn’t enough.
Behave yourselves this weekend. Or at least try.
Remember. The attempt is what’s really important….
Even if you don’t succeed…
August 30, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Miranda…
I am eagerly looking forward to your review.
My initial reaction was decidedly mixed, but I am planning to see it again.
I have loved all the passionate debate and discussion on IB.
August 31, 2009 at 4:36 am
i’m not gonna see ib.
but i’m pure like that.
ha ha…
August 31, 2009 at 5:53 am
You’re missing out, glimby.
I won’t tell you twice, honey bear.
This is a supreme achievement that QUENTIN will be remembered for. Haven’t made up my mind if it’s the best film of the year YET. But it might very well be when all is said and done.
And I didn’t see it so I can’t state definitely. But I have a sneaking suspicion that INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is better than BANDSLAM.
You snooze, you lose, pal…
August 31, 2009 at 6:12 am
Patty, I am so thrilled to have you over here.
I like to be cutting edge and ahead of the curve regarding film, fashion and music. But we weren’t able to get in to see INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS on its opening weekend.
The theatre chain that handles the majority of the blockbusters and big films closed the sixplex downtown four years ago and replaced it with a nineplex several blocks over.
It’s awful. But that hellhole (pleasant as it is, it’s still a hellhole…) charges the most expensive admission in town – $12.75 all day every day – and its auditoriums are all much smaller than the sixplex.
So the hot stuff sells out all the time. A while back my opening Friday night screening of JULIE & JULIA over there (it was in two theatres) had 20 seats left when we bought our tickets.
The only reason I know was because I asked.
I’ve gotten used to heading over to the suburbs (where the traffic is lighter) if I absolutely must see something that a large audience is interested in opening weekend. Like a BOND movie, for example.
But who knew that IB would open at $38 million domestically??? I’m very happy for QUENTIN. But I didn’t have any idea.
So that’s why I’m uncharacteristically late to the party on this one. But I’ve finally seen it. Problem solved.
Yeah, I really wanted to post my opinion over on other people’s sites. But I not only had to be judicious due to spoilers and the fact that I wanted to retain my own POV with no influence from anyone else, I had nothing to contribute anyway.
And now I do…
That’s why I couldn’t waltz over to DOODAD KIND OF TOWN and say something. I saw that you had an IB post up. Now I at least have that option if I have anything substantial to discuss.
Like you, I am going to see it again. Likely many many MANY times over. Probably before this week is out.
I’ve missed you, girl. If you have anything to say regarding my review, please feel free to post.
You’re one of my very favourite people, Patty. I’m always ecstatic to be your host…
September 1, 2009 at 9:19 pm
DAVID BOWIE pops up (yes…) in the flesh for a segment in BANDSLAM.
it doesn’t matter is IB better than BANDSLAM. it’s just BANDSLAM deserved a lot more play/mentions/spotlight than it got. and if that sounds insane rememeber JUNO was everywhere in whatever award season it came out and even got a best pic nom.
but i guess if BANDSLAM had been written by an ex-stripper/had hip language or was pushed by FOX SEARCHLIGHT it would have been everywhere right???
i haven’t seen a QT film/aside from the snippets i saw of his part of GRINDHOUSE and about 20 seconds of KILL BILL – whichever BILL that was.
the whatever he does just doesn’t seem that interesting to me.
You snooze, you lose, pal…
considering the whatever barrage of critically acclaimed films i saw and had no postive impact for me, i should maybe snooze more.
i could just sleep forever…
don’t think there’s much chance of my giving IB a shot while it’s in theatre land and the barrage you heard me right barrage of hip kids i caught going to the 10 pm showing at ANGELIKA HOUSTON makes me sort of want to continue to avoid it. picture me talking to hip kid and then feeling worse than ever afterwards.
oh to be alive…
IB seems like someone’s else film and i’ve had more then enough.
i’d like to see my film (any film i’ve had any affection towards or affinity for) be the one to ride the whatever of ultracritical acclaim be the award potential phenom.
IB feels like a lot of someone else’s film…. one more round.
and i so want to sit on the sidelines for the mania. really f*** it. you support it/that’s fine. i’ve more than had a damn enough and beyond.
enough.
it doesn’t matter if i snooze/lose. i’ve lost before. and i’m not even a winning loser. i guess IB is like that song you can’t escape/you here everywhere when you go outside.
what if i have no interest in that song???
or i’m singing something else or would prefer silence????
it doesn’t matter if IB is better than BANDSLAM.
considering the attention the films have gotten BANDSLAM would be very underrated and IB very overrated in comparison.
blah blah yeah…
BANDSLAM has got to be the contendor for most surprising good film of the year/and as such it desrves 15% (ok what would be good random number to use??? 3%???) of the press IB has gotten for QT getting back on top on whatever it was he got back on top of.
or at as deserving as being pushed down everyones throat as JUNO was.
oh forget i didn’t like JUNO. so JUNO had to win almost everything. i have no interest in ib so it’s everywhere. i joked about it here but you know it happens this way pretty much every time.
no IB/no talking animals/pixar/no super hero films.
yep it’s just me holding the flag for this insane artistic view.
break it down….
September 2, 2009 at 4:03 am
*sigh*
Look, my dear, sweet glim…
You’ve been a wonderful friend to me. You have done me a tremendous amount of good in a personal sense and you have supported this site from the beginning. I’m exceptionally loyal and those are things I do not forget.
Let me just say this.
I am SO SORRY if I offended you, hurt your feelings or made you upset. You and I have been on the same page regarding lots of movies. Plus we totally agree on overhyped and undeserving Hollywood product and how a lot of this stuff goes sky high when no one should be impressed.
At all.
I was only teasing, glim. I didn’t mean anything by it. I swear.
But while I’m here I need to throw some stuff out there…
Yeah, a lot of people are going crazy over IB. For an art film (and it is an artistic picture, glim – it’s not overheated Hollywood crap – the kind that we love to hate) it’s making a hell of a lot of money.
But a lot of people hate it too. Critics as well. And the people that loathe it are really, really choked.
Let me tell you something about QT.
The guy is brilliant and he’s very cute in his own infectious passionate mile a minute way. But he’s not a pretty boy or some dude that lines up for glamour shots.
I’ll just throw three of my all time favourite men out there. They’re certainly all substantial types who are cerebral and driven and known for far more than their looks. That’s as it should be. But they’re all so bloody gorgeous that they definitely had to prove themselves.
True. QUENTIN had to prove himself. But in a totally different way.
QT was raised by a single mom and he worked in a video store before he hit it big. He’s a film geek and his stuff is very unconventional. He turned his passion and his knowledge into a fabulous career.
Yeah, a lot of the cool kids dig QUENTIN. But he speaks just as fiercely to the disenfranchised film buff (like yourself) that’s really jaded about what’s happening out there.
The difference is that QUENTIN always knew he had the goods. He’s never been shy about admitting that and I personally think that that’s great. He knew how to sell himself and how to communicate his plans and opinions to important people. HARVEY WEINSTEIN has always been an avid supporter of QT. When you’re a young up and coming filmmaker, you want someone like HARVEY on your side.
I think you would like QT’S stuff if you gave it a chance. But that’s up to you.
glim, BANDSLAM got very good word of mouth. I heard some wonderful things about it. But I saw on BOX OFFICE MOJO that it had made around $5 million.
No one cares about that and it doesn’t make it any less fun or denigrates it as less of an artistic achievement. But Hollywood goes nuts when things hit big at the box office.
YOU KNOW THAT.
That’s what happened with JUNO. It made well over a hundred million domestically. Everyone was talking about it. DIABLO made a big deal about her stripper past. That was mostly a lot of blah blah blah. There are lots of horny old men in Hollywood (and elsewhere too for that matter…). She was playing the game.
So the film hit the zeitgeist and rode the wave at the perfect time. It just happens that way for some things.
Nothing against JUNO. Unlike you, I loved it. I saw it four times and it’s really truly not my kind of film. But it had a lot of heart and despite its hipness it was grounded in reality. Plus ELLEN PAGE was fantastic.
But this is the way it all shakes out….
The last person in the world I would want to hurt is you, honey. I was just joking.
I do apologize if I seemed like a wise ass. Never meant it that way or for you to take it as such.
I think that you’re thoroughly awesome.
September 3, 2009 at 4:24 am
uh, no i wasn’t offended.
i was just *arrrgh* over the issue and it seemed using your phrase again and again fit my ranting mode/hope got my frustration/mania across.
ha ha…
but uh no offended or hurt feeling on my end. sorry it read that way or that it may have been a potential option.
oops…
September 3, 2009 at 11:18 am
Uh, yeah…
You definitely got your frustration and your point effectively across with no difficulty whatsoever, my darling boy.
You just sounded very upset and angry. I’m glad to know that it was simply the situation and not me.
I’m very sensitive to other people’s feelings (individuals I care about at the very least) and I would NEVER do anything to hurt someone deliberately.
I never have in my entire life. I wouldn’t indulge in that behaviour now.
Plus you’ve been a great friend and you’ve also been an emormous help to me – especially since I began writing at the site.
Good to know, glim.
I’m glad that’s settled. You are a wonderful guy, you know…