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Quentin Tarantino casts Britney Spears in remake of Russ Meyer classic

August 7th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Separated at birth?

The only thing more disturbing than floozy Britney Spears appearing in another theatrical film is the fact that Quentin Tarantino has the nerve to remake Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

QT has cast the white trash paparazzi whore in the same role Tura Satana played in the 1965 soft-core masterwork. Tura is a tough, empowered, kick ass vixen while Spears is a dependent, out of shape nutjob that spends what little time she does with her children blowing cigarette smoke in their faces.

According to The Telegraph, a source said: “Quentin is convinced Britney will be brilliant. She’s delighted. She thinks it could turn her career around. It is perfect Tarantino material. He wanted to get Britney first. She’s playing the most important character.”

Ms. Spears is no stranger to performing before a camera and she’s been in a few movies, too. Those fortunate enough to witness Britney’s breakthrough picture Crossroads will never forget her somewhat believable performance as a high school graduate.

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Review: SIN CITY / Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez (2005)

July 30th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Sin City (2005)
Directed by: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and “Guest Director” Quentin Tarantino
Written by: Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Josh Hartnett, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, etc.
Running Time: 126 min.

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

Once again a Hollywood adaptation of a comic book looks great and goes nowhere. The long-awaited big screen version of Frank Miller’s Sin City presents a visually dazzling flipbook netherworld that should please only a comic book mentality.

Miller was soured on Hollywood after his experience writing the two RoboCop sequels and refused to relinquish the rights to any of his comic books. Rodriguez, a big fan of Miller’s work, filmed an “audition” scene between Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton, later used in the finished product. He presented Miller with the footage and told him, “If you like this, this will be the opening to the movie. If not, you’ll have your own short film to show your friends.”

Rodriguez deemed the comic book’s visual style so influential he insisted Miller receive a co-director credit. The Director’s Guild of America refused and Rodriguez politely ceased to belong saying, “It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I’d be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on.” This brave move cost Rodriguez a gig on Paramount’s upcoming John Carter of Mars.

Why a ‘Guest Director’ credit? In addition to pointlessly referencing episodic seventies television credits, Tarantino expressed interest in experimenting with HD cameras, a Rodriguez pet. In exchange for one dollar, Rodriguez agreed to compose the soundtrack to Kill Bill Vol. 2. With another exchange of Washington’s, Tarantino returned the favor. Frankly, they both overpaid. Long a film-over-digital proponent, when asked about his experience, Tarantino merely replied, “Mission Accomplished.” (Tarantino directed the overlong Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia homage between Clive Owen and Benicio Del Toro.)

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Tarantino Violence is how British Police Describe Murder of 2 French Students

July 4th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Brutally murdered students Laurent Bonomo (left) and Gabriel Ferez

A pair of gifted bio-engineering students were tied to chairs, tortured, stabbed almost 250 times in the head, chest and back and set on fire all in an attempt to get them to divulge their PIN numbers.

A detective on the scene described “the scale of the violence” as “extraordinary,” adding, “This was like a scene from a Tarantino gangster film, but these men were not criminals. These were two talented and innocent men who had no history of criminality.”

Police believe that the two French students, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, were murdered in a robbery that went terribly wrong. The pair, both 23, are believed to have been tortured for hours in order to obtain their bank details. According to thisislondon.co.uk, “The theory has gathered pace with the discovery by detectives that two mobile phones and two new Sony PSP games consoles had been stolen from Mr. Bonomo’s flat” in New Cross, south-east London.

The report continues,”Mr. Bonomo and Mr. Ferez, already marked out as the most gifted of their generation, were killed just eight weeks after arriving in Britain from their native France.” After being bound, gagged, stabbed and tortured, both men were coated with some type of combustible liquid and set ablaze, possibly to destroy evidence. The resulting fire causing a minor explosion.

Detectives are trying to establish whether Mr. Bonomo was already being tortured when Mr. Ferez, who lived several miles away in Thornton Heath, turned up at his friend’s flat.

Six days before the murders, Mr. Bonomo exited the shower and walked in on an intruder who stole a laptop. Police are examining the possibility that a drug-addicted burglar later returned and subjected the men to the unspeakable horrors.

Mr. Bonomo and Mr. Ferez had won three-month internships at Imperial College, London, following glittering academic careers. Both were graduates of colleges linked to the Cole Polytechnique, the state-run institution founded in 1794 which is viewed as the most prestigious engineering college in France.

They were due to return home later this month.

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GRINDHOUSE / Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino (2007)

April 9th, 2007 by Scott Marks

Rose McGowan in Robert Rodriguez’s PLANET TERROR (2007)

Grindhouse (2007)

Planet Terror

Written & Directed by: Robert Rodriguez

Cast: Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton, Freddy Rodriguez & Josh Brolin

Death Proof

Written & Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Cast: Kurt Russell, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Vanessa Ferlito & Jordan Ladd

Aspect Ratio: cinemascope5.jpg

Nowhere in the press notes does the normally verbose Quentin Tarantino properly define the term “grindhouse.” True, they were run down neighborhood picture palaces equipped with antique projectors that literally “grinded out” the prints.As soon as one film ended, the grindhouse would go straight to trailers and/or short subjects followed immediately by the second (or third, or forth) feature. The lack of an intermission is what put the grind in grindhouses.

The majority of the schlock that inspired Grindhouse is better than anything in the film If the goal of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino was to make a couple of bad movies, they win. If you spend three-plus hours watching this bore fest, you lose.
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